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Very interesting interview and LOL at McCain

US election: Questioning the candidates

Barack Obama accepted Nature’s invitation to answer 18 science-related questions in writing; John McCain’s campaign declined. Obama’s answers to many of the questions are printed here; answers to additional questions (on topics including biosecurity, the nuclear weapons laboratories and US participation in international projects) can be found at Wherever possible, Nature has noted what McCain has said at other times on these topics.
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Georgia was tricked, but by Russia or US?
Ian Bell on the new cold war

LET’S RUN through this again. Vladimir Putin is not a nice man. The KGB, with whom the young Vlad earned his reputation as a people person, was not Russia’s answer to the Rotary Club. As a direct consequence, Russian traditions of democracy remain wafer thin, a cracked veneer that fails utterly to conceal thuggery, rigged votes, oligarchic mafias, corruption, and the corpses of journalists. Are we clear?
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Absolutely no new drilling (even though EVERY other country in the world does it).
No new nuclear plants.
His answer to high gas prices is windfall profits tax. Whatever the fuck that is…sounds like something that will just result in higher prices at the pump.

….and now his most brilliant new solution to the energy problems yet!

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Rush Limbaugh is talking on his show like normal, suddenly you get someone on the phone who yells yeehaw or something, it’s George fuckin Bush, LOL! I thought it was a satire at first, but no it’s the real thing
I read that it was some type of big anniversary or something.
I heard that, it was awesome. 20th anniversary of his show or something.

You forgot Jeb. Jeb was on too.
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