SodaHead - Jackie G's Questions

Not a poll, but a quick note to my Soda Heads

2008-05-18T19:55:22Z

Not a poll, but a quick note to my Soda Heads

45 answers, +25 raves

It has been great fun debating and discussing with so many of you. I find that I can no longer be part of the fun. Some have taken the hate to a level I can not be a part of and will not be part of. See the comments which include my picture by Nameless GenXer in this poll: http://www.sodahead.com/question/88866/?page=1&new=1&scroll=1... Thanks to all who made me feel welcome, it has been great. Take care and God bless.

No	78% (35 answers)
Yes	22% (10 answers)

Was Sen Obama just tired again?

2008-05-17T03:46:12Z

Was Sen Obama just tired again?

19 answers, +7 raves

Friday, May 16, 2008 "When Kennedy Met With Khrushchev, We Were On The Brink Of Nuclear War." That is Sen. Barack Obama from today's incredible press conference where the Illinois senator combined petulance and ignorance in an unnerving display of just how unqualified he is to be Commander-in-Chief For the record, Kennedy and Khrushchev met in Vienna in June of 1961. We were not on the brink of nuclear war. The Cuban Missile Crisis was 15 months in the future.

He scares me with his lack of knowledge.	47% (9 answers)
None of the above	26% (5 answers)
No, he just doesn't know history.	16% (3 answers)
Yes, he was tired again.	11% (2 answers)
Oh stop, he is perfect for the leader of the free world.	0% (0 answers)

What is the best movie you have seen in the last three months?

2008-05-17T02:56:21Z

What is the best movie you have seen in the last three months?

19 answers, +6 raves

None of the above	42% (8 answers)
Comedy - You must see..............	21% (4 answers)
Action - You must see.............	21% (4 answers)
Musical - You must see...........	11% (2 answers)
Drama - You must see...........	5% (1 answers)

Do homeopathic treatments work?

2008-05-15T20:13:54Z

Do homeopathic treatments work?

2 answers, +3 raves

Just finished reading an article about the benefits of honey and cinnamon; sounded good but do these things work? All ideas, recipes, and warnings accepted.

Yes, try this one........	100% (2 answers)
No, they are all dangerous. Here is my story.......	0% (0 answers)
Some do and some don't. Here is an example of both..........	0% (0 answers)
What's homeopathic?	0% (0 answers)
None of the above	0% (0 answers)

What is your favorite homemade quick meal?

2008-05-12T20:47:23Z

What is your favorite homemade quick meal?

30 answers, +6 raves

Sandwich - what kind?	40% (12 answers)
None of the above	37% (11 answers)
Soup - what kind?	17% (5 answers)
Salad - what kind?	7% (2 answers)
Snacks - what kind?	0% (0 answers)

Sen. Clinton was interview by Bill O'Reilly, Did you watch? What did you think?

2008-05-01T03:11:28Z

Sen. Clinton was interview by Bill O'Reilly, Did you watch? What did you think?

41 answers, +8 raves

Yes, I watched and I think...........................	83% (34 answers)
No, I didn't watch and .............................	15% (6 answers)
None of the above	2% (1 answers)
I refuse to watch anything that might change my mind.	0% (0 answers)
I will watch the rest of the interview tomorrow, missed tonight	0% (0 answers)

When being considered for President, is judgement a valid issue?

2008-04-25T21:00:59Z

When being considered for President, is judgement a valid issue?

18 answers, +8 raves

Some of My Best Friends Are Liberals. None of Them Are Terrorists. By Hugh Hewitt Thursday, April 24, 2008 When George Stephanopoulos asked Barack Obama about the presidential candidate’s friendship with William Ayers, the Clinton staffer-turned-ABC-talking-head touched off a storm of protest on the left. While no one could deny that Ayers and his wife had been part of the terrorist group The Weathermen, many rushed forward to assert that both were now well-respected members of the Chicago mainstream. The controversy looked likely to die out at least within the MSM after a few days of focus because of the general theory that even hard core and violent revolutionaries like Ayers and Dohrn can atone and make amends, and that their friends of today ought not to be tarred with their sins of 30 years ago. This was Obama’s defense –“when I was 8 years old!—and it was working. Then Guy Benson, a young journalist friend of mine who works for Chicago’s Sandy Rios Show in my network and hosts his own weekend radio show, went digging, and what he found was the tape from a 2007 reunion of the SDS, on which both Ayers and Dohrn talk at length about how they view America today –or at least six months ago when they gathered to celebrate the good old days of revolutionary sparkle. Rios and I both played excerpts from the tap earlier this week, and Powerline posted the audio to make listening and distribution easy. The MSM hadn’t looked very hard into the background of Ayers and Dohrn, and hadn’t looked at all at their current political opinions, but the new media, led by a recent product of journalism school, scooped them again. Reactions to the tapes cross the spectrum, from the usual pointed observations by Mark Steyn –“This is the pool that Obama swims in.” to the usual incoherent denunciations by Andrew Sullivan of the critics of Obama's friends as a "Freak Show" that will eventually accuse Obama of being a terrorist. HughHewitt.com alum and all-around brilliant essayist Dean Barnett has put out a thoughtful essay on what Obama’s interesting list of friends might mean, and I want to confirm what he says: Everone that I know who knows Obama –including Townhall.com blogger and columnist Carol Platt Liebau who knew Obama fairly well while on the Harvard Law Review—are quick to declare that he is a wonderful person, smart, charming, and, crucially, a good man. All of which is wholly beside the point. Some of my best friends are very liberal. Some are hard left. My closest friend is a former senior Clinton White House aide. Their liberalism doesn’t affect my friendship with them at all, other than to provoke endless, good-natured arguments. But none of them have ever been terrorists. All of them have always been patriots. None have ever hated America. All would agree that this is best government that has ever been on the earth, and our Constitution the best ever crafted. They have, of course, completely rejected many excellent candidates and policies I have favored over the years. And they have been incredibly wrong on occasion, and from positions of power and influence in which their errors had significant and in my judgment very negative consequences. But their intentions were and remain good. There’s a difference between rotten and wrong, I like to say. The Ayers-Dohrn rhetoric of late last year was rotten. Some of the Jeremiah Wright sermon excerpts have been rotten. Dohrn referred to America as a “monster” last year. Ayes accuses the country as it exists today of a litany of terrible sins. Pastor Wright said G-D America. Barack Obama seems like a very nice guy with a good heart and a wonderful family. He is obviously bright and extremely well spoken. He's a down-the-line leftist with the most left-leaning voting record in the Senate from 2005-2006. But of even more concern than his ideas is the fact that his judgment about people and ideas is terribly flawed. It had to have been not to have been able to see the quite obvious anti-American extremism of Ayers and Dohrn or to have objected not just to a handful of Pastor Wright’s sermons but to much of the material published in his church’s bulletin. Courage matters most in a president, for as Thucydides wrote, “The secret to happiness is freedom, and the secret to freedom is courage.” But immediately after courage comes judgment, and after that the ideological agenda that will inform that judgment. If Barack Obama did not see the problem in befriending and accepting the support of Ayers and Dohrn --and he didn’t—and if Obama really thinks Senator Tom Coburn can fairly be compared with Ayers and Dohrn –and he did make that comparison-- then Senator Obama lacks the judgment necessary to be president. If he understood what this rhetoric meant, then he lacked the courage to separate himself from the extremism from which it emanated. Whom will Obama believe and trust if he is the president? How will he judge an ally and an enemy? How will he staff a vast Executive Branch? Whom will he appoint to the Supreme Court and how will he judge their characters and their personal histories? Those are judgment questions. If he even figures out who the radicals are, will he have the courage to refuse them office or influence? The Democratic voters of Pennsylvania, like those of Ohio, are the core of the old Democratic Party, the party of Roosevelt, Truman and JFK. I am from Warren, Ohio, seven miles from the PA border, and spent a dozen years in parochial schools surrounded by Dems with a lifelong union man for a beloved grandfather, and two W.W. 2 combat vet uncles who were also Dems. I know the Democrats of the Midwest and industrial east. They aren’t going to buy the Obama package, no matter how wonderfully wrapped. These folks went with Reagan in 1980, and they will go with McCain in 2008. It has nothing to do with race, and it isn’t because they question Obama’s patriotism. But they don't and won’t trust his judgment. And they will never be friends with his friends. Hugh Hewitt is a law professor, broadcast journalist, and author of several books http://www.townhall.com/Columnists/HughHewitt/2008/04/24/some...

Yes, because................	94% (17 answers)
I think ....................	6% (1 answers)
No because.................	0% (0 answers)
Undecided	0% (0 answers)

Sorry to ruin the fun but an ice age cometh Is it possible? Read this article and see what you think.

2008-04-23T21:47:43Z

Sorry to ruin the fun but an ice age cometh Is it possible? Read this article and see what you think.

2 answers, 0 raves

Sorry to ruin the fun, but an ice age cometh Phil Chapman | April 23, 2008 THE scariest photo I have seen on the internet is www.spaceweather.com, where you will find a real-time image of the sun from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, located in deep space at the equilibrium point between solar and terrestrial gravity. What is scary about the picture is that there is only one tiny sunspot. Disconcerting as it may be to true believers in global warming, the average temperature on Earth has remained steady or slowly declined during the past decade, despite the continued increase in the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide, and now the global temperature is falling precipitously. All four agencies that track Earth's temperature (the Hadley Climate Research Unit in Britain, the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, the Christy group at the University of Alabama, and Remote Sensing Systems Inc in California) report that it cooled by about 0.7C in 2007. This is the fastest temperature change in the instrumental record and it puts us back where we were in 1930. If the temperature does not soon recover, we will have to conclude that global warming is over. There is also plenty of anecdotal evidence that 2007 was exceptionally cold. It snowed in Baghdad for the first time in centuries, the winter in China was simply terrible and the extent of Antarctic sea ice in the austral winter was the greatest on record since James Cook discovered the place in 1770. It is generally not possible to draw conclusions about climatic trends from events in a single year, so I would normally dismiss this cold snap as transient, pending what happens in the next few years. This is where SOHO comes in. The sunspot number follows a cycle of somewhat variable length, averaging 11 years. The most recent minimum was in March last year. The new cycle, No.24, was supposed to start soon after that, with a gradual build-up in sunspot numbers. It didn't happen. The first sunspot appeared in January this year and lasted only two days. A tiny spot appeared last Monday but vanished within 24 hours. Another little spot appeared this Monday. Pray that there will be many more, and soon. The reason this matters is that there is a close correlation between variations in the sunspot cycle and Earth's climate. The previous time a cycle was delayed like this was in the Dalton Minimum, an especially cold period that lasted several decades from 1790. Northern winters became ferocious: in particular, the rout of Napoleon's Grand Army during the retreat from Moscow in 1812 was at least partly due to the lack of sunspots. That the rapid temperature decline in 2007 coincided with the failure of cycle No.24 to begin on schedule is not proof of a causal connection but it is cause for concern. It is time to put aside the global warming dogma, at least to begin contingency planning about what to do if we are moving into another little ice age, similar to the one that lasted from 1100 to 1850. There is no doubt that the next little ice age would be much worse than the previous one and much more harmful than anything warming may do. There are many more people now and we have become dependent on a few temperate agricultural areas, especially in the US and Canada. Global warming would increase agricultural output, but global cooling will decrease it. Millions will starve if we do nothing to prepare for it (such as planning changes in agriculture to compensate), and millions more will die from cold-related diseases. There is also another possibility, remote but much more serious. The Greenland and Antarctic ice cores and other evidence show that for the past several million years, severe glaciation has almost always afflicted our planet. The bleak truth is that, under normal conditions, most of North America and Europe are buried under about 1.5km of ice. This bitterly frigid climate is interrupted occasionally by brief warm interglacials, typically lasting less than 10,000 years. The interglacial we have enjoyed throughout recorded human history, called the Holocene, began 11,000 years ago, so the ice is overdue. We also know that glaciation can occur quickly: the required decline in global temperature is about 12C and it can happen in 20 years. The next descent into an ice age is inevitable but may not happen for another 1000 years. On the other hand, it must be noted that the cooling in 2007 was even faster than in typical glacial transitions. If it continued for 20 years, the temperature would be 14C cooler in 2027. By then, most of the advanced nations would have ceased to exist, vanishing under the ice, and the rest of the world would be faced with a catastrophe beyond imagining. Australia may escape total annihilation but would surely be overrun by millions of refugees. Once the glaciation starts, it will last 1000 centuries, an incomprehensible stretch of time. If the ice age is coming, there is a small chance that we could prevent or at least delay the transition, if we are prepared to take action soon enough and on a large enough scale. For example: We could gather all the bulldozers in the world and use them to dirty the snow in Canada and Siberia in the hope of reducing the reflectance so as to absorb more warmth from the sun. We also may be able to release enormous floods of methane (a potent greenhouse gas) from the hydrates under the Arctic permafrost and on the continental shelves, perhaps using nuclear weapons to destabilise the deposits. We cannot really know, but my guess is that the odds are at least 50-50 that we will see significant cooling rather than warming in coming decades. The probability that we are witnessing the onset of a real ice age is much less, perhaps one in 500, but not totally negligible. All those urging action to curb global warming need to take off the blinkers and give some thought to what we should do if we are facing global cooling instead. It will be difficult for people to face the truth when their reputations, careers, government grants or hopes for social change depend on global warming, but the fate of civilisation may be at stake. In the famous words of Oliver Cromwell, "I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken." Phil Chapman is a geophysicist and astronautical engineer who lives in San Francisco. He was the first Australian to become a NASA astronaut. http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23583376-7...

Yes, These seems factual. I think.................	50% (1 answers)
None of the above	50% (1 answers)
No, Everyone knows it is Global Warming. I think............	0% (0 answers)
Undecided	0% (0 answers)

Sen. John McCain's Finances: Are they different than you expected?

2008-04-19T01:38:27Z

Sen. John McCain's Finances: Are they different than you expected?

22 answers, +5 raves

McCain Gets $45,000 in Social Security By Amanda Carpenter Friday, April 18, 2008 GOP presidential candidate John McCain released his 2006 and 2007 tax returns Friday, showing he earned more than $740,396 in the last two years combined---$45,261 of which comes from Social Security. The forms are available to the public HERE. The Arizona senator also received $114,854 for his Navy pension. During those two years McCain paid $157,231 in federal taxes. McCain donates his royalties from books and Senate pay increases to charity, most of which has gone to the John and Cindy McCain Family Foundation. The royalties from his books have totaled more than $1.8 million since 1998 and those from his pay increase more than $450,000. A statement from the campaign about the tax form release states “Beginning in 1991, Senator McCain has also donated the increase in his Senate salary for that year and each subsequent year to charity because he opposed the Congressional pay increase at that time and pledged not to accept the pay raises.” In 2006 the John and Cindy McCain Family Foundation dispersed $187,639 to various charities which supported education programs, animal welfare and rehabilitation for craniofacial abnormalities. In 2007, the foundation dispersed $78,250 to many of the same groups. McCain’s wife, Cindy, is a millionairess, but she does not file jointly with her husband. The McCain campaign notes “Senator and Mrs. McCain have kept their personal finances separate throughout their 27-year marriage.” Cindy McCain’s estimated worth is $100 million. Amanda Carpenter is National Political Reporter http://www.townhall.com/Columnists/AmandaCarpenter/2008/04/18...

Yes, He donates his pay raises and royalties to charity. I think........	55% (12 answers)
No, I think..............	18% (4 answers)
Undecided	18% (4 answers)
Yes, He makes a good income, I think.............	5% (1 answers)
None of the above	5% (1 answers)

Politics: Is everything really okay?

2008-04-11T00:05:53Z

Politics: Is everything really okay?

11 answers, +2 raves

George Soros the "liberal megadonor" is at it again. He and his group of billionaire left-wing Democrats have pledged $40 million dollars of soft money to smear John McCain in a national television ad campaign. Further information suggests numbers as high as $250 million + via other Soros funded organizations. In an article published in Politico, it was reported that Paul Begala and David Brock met with a gang of Manhattan liberals at the home of George Soros to outline their plans for a $40 million dollar ad campaign against Senator McCain.

I am voting McCain; smear away! I think......	36% (4 answers)
None of the above	36% (4 answers)
Of course not, smear campaigns hurt the entire process. I think...	27% (3 answers)
Of course it is okay, not my candidate. I think....	0% (0 answers)
I approve of any tactics that any candidate or their supporters use. It is politics! I think......!	0% (0 answers)
Undecided	0% (0 answers)