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False Science of Climate Change
I don’t know about you but I am just about fed up with this whole man is destroying the earth mantra from the left wing whackos. Lately we have been making jokes and poking fun at them by showing all these snow storms and asking them where the global warming was. These people have swallowed the pill and are so caught up in this fraud that they are actually arguing with us on this point. They are saying that we are just missing the big picture and short sided to think that any cold snap would be relevant. To them global warming is something that is measured over decades and cannot be compared with one winter. To them it is easy to say that all these record snow falls are another example of global warming.
These people refer to people like myself as deniers. They see us as those who ignore the factual evidence and say that global warming is not true. I say show us the proof. They blindly follow this global warming argument with zero evidence. Some guy produces a hockey stick chart that is never proven and they just soak it up. They think that this one leaked email scandal in England has convinced us that it is bad science. They are wrong again. We never believed in man made global warming, global cooling, or climate change even for one minute. The leaked email scandal was just one more piece of evidence to validate something that we already believed. Let us clarify something right here. There is no man made climate change at all. Zero! This movement is created by those that have a socialist agenda. You have heard the saying “follow the money”. This applies in this case as well.
Please do not listen to me. Pay attention to those making this argument and look at the common denominator. The ones that are advocating global warming are the same ones that are advocating the governmental takeover of industries, healthcare, and the economy as a whole. The people that were protesting in the streets against the establishment in the 1960’s are those that are in control. These people were crazy then and they continue to be crazy. These people are so caught up in this save the world mantra that they cannot even see common sense. They see capitalism as evil and unfair. They fail to see that power has the potential to corrupt anyone whether they work for a corporation or the government. They do not see that government has just as much corruption as those in corporations except that the government has more power over them. Their blinded hatred toward capitalism has kept them from seeing that their beloved government is even worse. Look at history and you will see that every government that has tried socialism has either failed or failing. They use global warming as a tool to scare those skeptics of socialism to believe that corporations are destroying the earth. They want to convince people to give up their rights to the government so that evil corporations can be punished.
Global warming is 100% fabrications and has no evidence whatsoever. They prey on the conspiracy theorists that hang out at Roswell, New Mexico and Area 51. I know you have seen them. They are the UFO believers and Elvis is still alive groups. They are Big Foot and Locknesse Monster types. They are in your neighborhood and mine. They like to point out crazies that shoot abortion doctors and say this is how Christians are. They use these crazies to label the whole group. They are bullies that try to label you as a hate monger if you dare disagree with them at all. In the 1960’s they were bullies and they still are. They are now media executives and school administrators. They are idiots pure and simple.
Weather forecasting on a global scale has not even been possible until two decades ago so there is no way they could get long term forecasts and historic temperatures to measure against even if they wanted to. Since climate change is not a legitimate science but rather a fabricated left wing tool, it cannot be taken seriously anyway. They try to bully people by saying “The debate is over” in an attempt to silence the debate. One thing that the email scandal did validate with me is that these groups that are in charge actively suppress any scientist that would dare question this false science. I can think of an example of this. A couple years ago there was a guy that was actually advocating taking away the credentials of any meteorologist that would not preach global warming. If you follow the link http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=650, you can read about it. These global warming people are actively fabricating a lie and threatening to take away the credentials of anyone who dare disagree with them. This is more evidence of their disdain for freedom. Let us not forget that their beloved socialism was the title given to the former Soviet Union. You may remember the biggest bullies of them all called the Union of Soviet Socialists Republics (USSR).
Just as I posted a few months ago, these people are opposed to the true Democratic free market society and this is the motivation behind their lies. Also as I pointed out in that post, that they forget that many of us are old enough to remember the 1970’s when the same crowd was talking about global cooling. They manipulate natural weather patterns to scare people that are too young to remember that a severe weather event is not the first time it has happened. I know many of you have watched the national news in the United States after any natural disaster. They find people in the streets that have no clue and ask them what they think about this event that has never happened before. They talk about how the frequency of heavy rains, heavy snows, hurricanes, or even earth quakes are a result of man made climate change. They have discovered something about human nature that works for them. That human nature is to be lazy and not question those in authority. The media places themselves as authority figures and repeat the same lie over and over again. If they say it enough times, people are lazy and just accept it as truth. The real truth is that there is no such thing as man made climate change whether it be cooling, or warming.
The world is being duped and the media follows right along. This is because those crazies you saw at Woodstock of the 1960’s are now in control. They are just as crazy now as they were then. They are just as much a bully now as they were then. Wake up people and stop listening to anyone at face value. Do some research from both sides of any argument and understand that people are self driven. It is human nature to do things for one’s self and those that are in power are no different. They know that in any society you are going to have self starters, workers, and lazy people. It is easier to fall into the lazy category. They drive people there by inundating us with negative stories on the news every single day to a point that people become numb to it. Eventually people become so overwhelmed that they do not feel they have time to research things. They just sit there and listen to what the media tells them not questioning it for a moment. Stop being lazy and get off your lazy butts and learn something. Learning is not just listening to someone else. Learning is listening to an argument with a critical mind. Learning is questioning what you hear and finding out the truth. Learning is finding out from many sources and not just one. You cannot just listen to broadcast media and be educated. You have to listen to them and listen to those disagreeing. You have to listen to many sides to the argument and come to your own conclusions. Do not just listen to me, ABC, CBS, or NBC. I am biased and I will tell you so. These guys are biased and will not tell you so. That is why you have to question both of us. Learn the truth and not be ignorant. If you believe this global warming scare then you are not truly learning because I can assure you that there is zero true evidence to back this theory up. Thanks for listening to my rant this morning.
Happy Valentines Day!
Cox Did Help Me
My Internet problems may be fixed and I owe it all to the employees of Cox communications. I have posted about my Internet connectivity issues on many occasions so much so that I am sure people are getting tired of hearing about it. I am still not for sure why things turned out the way they did but I am very happy. I signed up for Cox High Speed Internet about three months ago and have been plagued with dropped connections every few minutes. Those of you that know my family also know that we are heavy Internet users. When this started out we were using a Belkin F5D7230-4 router that we had purchased from Wal-Mart a couple years ago.
This router cost about $39.99 and was clearly on the low end of the spectrum. The Internet was dropping about every 30 to 40 minutes on this router and the only way to get it back was to reboot the modem and the router. I lived with this for about two months before finally getting so mad. I thought I should change routers before calling Cox just to make sure that it is not my equipment. In January my wife and I went to Office Depot in Moore, Oklahoma and spent $180.00 for what we thought was going to be a good router.
This router is a D-Link DIR-825 and is an “N” router with dual band 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz capability. I did some research to see if it was a good product before buying it. This router had some very good reviews and seemed to be liked by many. I thought with all the positive reviews, this router would be a good choice because one of the advertised features was heavy use on multiple computers. We came home and hooked up this new router and it worked wonderfully for about two days. I was amazed at how good it worked when it was working. After about two days the drop outs started again. This time they would fix themselves after about five minutes. The dropouts became so bad that at one point it was down five minutes and came back on for about 40 seconds before going back down.
I was becoming more angry by the minute. I reluctantly called Cox technical support just knowing they were going to say it was my router. I have found that many times when you call tech support for any organization they always blame it on your equipment. Well just as I thought, they went through the troubleshooting process and within minutes came to the conclusion that it was my router. Of course I did not believe them and thought they were just “passing the buck” so they would not have to take responsibility for my issues. In my mind there was no way it could be my router because after all, I just bought a brand new $180.00 router with hundreds of positive reviews. At this point I was not only angry but indignant. In my frustration I started posting on Twitter about my persistent Internet problems. I made a point to mention Cox by name because in my mind it was their poor infrastructure that was causing my issues.
To my surprise, my Twitter posts were recognized by several Cox employees. The couple that I remember off the top of my head were Cox_Will, CoxNicky, and DonaldOhse. These employees went out of their way to contact me directly to help come to a resolution. It was Cox_Will that called me on the phone, did some tests, and had a local Cox representative contact me. I posted a story on my blog that listed my symptoms. I then sent this link to Cox_Will over Twitter. The person he put me in contact with was Debbie Chaffee from Oklahoma. They had a couple technical support people come out to my house and spent over four hours on a cold rainy evening. I really wish I could remember their names so they could get the credit they deserved. They replaced the drop line to the box on the back of my house. They installed a new cable coming from the box into the house.
They even installed a brand new white wall plate that better matched the paint in the house. They went up on the pole with some sort of tester to see if the line was good coming to our home.
They even communicated with some tech support people at a remote site using their Nextel phones.
In the end, they discovered that by pinging various servers both of my routers the latency was terrible and inconsistent. They were showing me the results going from 7 ms all the way up to 184 ms. When connected directly to my computer they were consistently less than 10 ms. It was hard for me to argue with that. Then they brought in a cheaper Linksys WRT54G2 router to try on a temporary basis.
With this router installed my Internet was working very nicely but I was still skeptical. Like I told the two gentlemen, my other router worked great for two days before dropping out again. The guy told me that he would leave their router at our house over the weekend with the instructions to give it a real workout. He said that he wanted us to put it under as much stress as we could to force a malfunction so we would have peace that it is indeed the router that was the problem. I grudgingly agreed to the terms convinced that it was going to fail before long.
Well it has been three days and I have been running multiple video streams simultaneously 24 hours a day. The Internet has not dropped even one time leaving me to admit that it was my brand new $180.00 router that was failing. I guess it is possible that I could have purchased a lemon. I am sure these routers are mass produced and there are bound to be a few that fail. This post is an attempt to fulfill a promise I made to all parties involved. That promise was to post a glowing review of Cox Communications if they could get my persistent problem resolved. I am not only doing this because I gave my word but also because they really do deserve the praise.
This company had the foresight to to put employees on Twitter and other social networking sites to monitor the keyword “Cox”. None of these people were contacts of min so they had to be searching for the word “Cox” to have stumbled on my posts of frustration. These individuals did not sit there and ignore my please but took the initiative to contact me directly. They stayed with me until the problem was fixed. I never thought that Cox was doing me wrong before, but was convinced that because I live in an older neighborhood that the infrastructure was old and frail. I knew that Cox was capable of delivering a quality service because I have many family and friends that are customers and they were very satisfied. I just wanted to give credit to them and tell them that I am very loyal to those that treat me right. I will stay with Cox and tell others how they were patient and just as persistent to get this intermittent problem resolved. Every one of them deserve a pat on the back in my eyes. Thanks Cox!
Cox, Help Me!
We had Cox High Speed Internet installed a couple months ago and at first the performance was outstanding. After about a month my Internet started dropping constantly to a point that it was really getting on my nerves. It was very strange because it was not losing connection completely but only the web. I could still use Skype, Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo Messenger etc. but the web would be off. Every time I would reset the modem and router, I would get my service back but only for a short time. I would find myself resetting them four or five times a day. What I was using was…
Motorola SBV5222 Cable modem with phone service.
Two desktops hard wired to the router and up to three laptops on the wireless portion of the router.
The router was set to clone the MAC code of the primary PC. The router had wireless security set to WPA. As I said before, the Internet worked very well for a while. After several weeks of dealing with this, Two weeks ago I bought a new, higher quality router with the hopes that it may fix the problem. This new router is a D-Link DIR-825 Extreme "N" and was set up in the same configuration as the Belkin was. After this change, the service was once again very reliable for a couple days. Once again I started losing connection again and again to the point that I was losing connection every five minutes. This time it is not just the web but all Internet on all computers. The good thing is that with this new router, it would start the Internet back up without any intervention from me after about a minute. Today I became so fed up that I began to believe that it was the wiring coming into the house. I stood out in the pouring snow today installing a new cable from the gray box into the house. This change made no difference. The dropping out was consistently about every three minutes.
I was about to scream I was so mad. I finally broke down and called Cox and followed their automated system. It had me go through the reset process again and then asked me if I was able to load my web site and I said yes. It came to the conclusion that it was my router just as I thought they would. I finally gave up and reinstalled the old Belkin router after that. I have now had a non stop streaming video playing for more than two hours of http://www.twitlive.tvand it has not dropped yet. I am still very skeptical that my problem is fixed because I have not done anything to fix it. I am using the same router that I was fed up with a few weeks ago that was losing web connection resulting in me buying the new router. I am also very skeptical the problem is ONLY my router. I know it is easy for those to jump to conclusions that my service issues are related to the ice/snow storm but this has been happening long before that.
One important piece of information that may be of help. The photo below shows the cable line behind my house during the ice storm of 2007. Since this was taken, several branches were broken off the tree to the right breaking this cable line in two. Cox came out and replaced the stretch of cable between the two power poles with a black cable. The older wire on both sides of this patch are silver cable. This patch is still there today. I have since had this massive tree cut down because these ice storms are becoming a regular occurrence.
Another thing to point out is that OG&E came out and replaced this power pole with another one right beside it. They cut off the top portion of the old pole that you see in this picture. They left the bottom half of the pole in my yard with the Cox cable still attached. You can see this in the photo below. If you look to at the short pole on the left you can barely see the Cox line still attached to the old pole. This was taken September 2008. The cable is still in this configuration to this day. The new pole has a brand new transformer on it.
This neighborhood was built around 1948 so we have issues with other utilities as well.
I have many friends and family that have Cox Internet and are very satisfied. They all tell me they are using multiple computers also but not having the problems that I am having. They say they are using multiple computers but I wonder if they are really using them the way we are. We use them simultaneously with streaming video on a regular basis. It is a completely different thing to have two computers on a network while only using one at a time. I am convinced that my service will drop again and that it is only a matter of time. I am at a total loss as to what the problem is. I am not a total novice with computers but I am willing to concede that I am lost.
I am very loyal to people that treat me right as I have been a T-Mobile customer since 2000. If you can help me fix this problem I will see to it that I spread the word far and wide what a great company Cox is. I just want reliable service, that is all. If you can help me fix this nagging issue, I would be grateful.
Thanks,
Paul
UPDATE: The Internet lasted until the next morning when I started uploading six pictures that I took of the icicles this morning to Flickr. I managed to get two of the six uploaded before I lost connection. I reset the modem and router six more times before getting the remaining four pictures uploaded. This is very irritating though I do know this time it was triggered by my uploading pictures.
Internet Driving Me Crazy
Man! I am so fed up with these Internet issues. I have had DSL and Cable service, four routers, wired and wireless, new modems and my Internet continues to drop out again and again and again. We have two desktops and three laptops and we have dropouts on both wired and wireless. Every piece of hardware in our network has been replaced, even computers. This problem has been going on for several years. Tonight is a particularly bad night with my Internet struggling to stay on for five minutes at a time. The only thing that I can think of is that my old house and power lines are flaky. Our wires are above ground and have been through countless thunderstorms and ice storms. I have a power transformer on the power pole in my backyard. I just noticed this evening that my cable Internet line coming from the pole has no ground on it.
I am so tired of this ongoing problem. Last week we bought a brand new expensive router and the dropouts continued. At least with the new router, the dropouts are able to fix themselves after a few minutes. Before I had to reboot the router and the modem just to get it to come back on. I can tell you I just want to scream like a little girl. When we pay $50.00 a month for ten years for service, you would hope that we could have decent service. It looks like moving out of here is the only way we are going to get it fixed. I just needed to vent some more.
Thanks for listening.
Pit Bull People
Have you ever noticed how people that have pit bulls always have huge ego issues and then tie there dogs to heavy weights? These people remind me of the macho types from high school that walk around holding their arms out strutting. These are the guys you see that like to tell you how someone looked at them the wrong way and they straightened them out. If there are any people that get on my nerves worse than liberals it is these kind. My neighbor is the typical pit bull dog owner. They leave their dog outside in the cold rain and snow. They chain the dogs to a heavy tire, transmission or something else heavy. I am convinced these kind of people get the dog for the sole purpose to protect their drugs or other illegal activities they are doing.
The poor dog next door comes and jumps at the fence at me when I go out into the backyard but then calms down almost begging for attention. I am not a dog person but I can see the loneliness in his eyes. He is left out in the cold, virtually abandoned just so the losers in the house can get a warning when the police or any other concerned citizen approaches the neighborhood. These people want a dog that will protect their sorry rear ends while they ignore them. I hate to rant about them but I see it again and again. These rent houses are just new faces with the same type of people. If you are not going to spend any time with the dog, then why have him or her?
Back in high school I had a friend that had a pit bull dragging around a huge tire rim in the backyard. I asked him why he had the dog dragging the rim around and he told me that he was trying to make the dog stronger. I have often asked myself why would someone want to make the dog stronger. People do not want a strong dog to be a pet. A watch dog that is ignored and abandoned out in the yard is just wrong as far as I am concerned. If you need a watch dog, you could use a Chihuahua. A watch dog will make noise to alert you to the presence of an unwanted person so that you can take action. Having a large dog out in the yard that is abused like this is not only mean to the dog but is also a liability. If the dog ever gets out and bites someone, they are putting themselves at risk of a lawsuit. Okay, I have complained long enough. I just had to vent.
Twenty Ten or Two Thousand Ten?
Honestly I never gave it much thought but I have seen a movement on the Internet advocating calling the new year “Twenty Ten” instead of “Two Thousand Ten”. I have been in the habit using two thousand through two thousand nine so I never really thought of it. Those that advocate using twenty ten point out that it is only three syllables instead of four. They also point out that in years past you would never say one thousand nine hundred and ninety nine but rather use nineteen ninety nine. Apparently these people are pretty determined to the point of even creating a Facebook page. There is even a web site called twentynot200.com dedicated to this movement. Even Techcrunch, Huffing Post, and Digg.com are talking about it.
This really does not matter to me and I can say it either way. I think they do make a point but the only obstacle that I could think is that eighteen, nineteen, etc. end in a consonant while twenty ends in a vowel “y” in this case. I have no problem saying twenty ten though it sounds strange to me after saying two thousand for the last ten years. I will pay attention to see which one takes off. Many times I laugh at people that try to push others to use some arbitrary convention. In this case I have no problem because I was use to saying nineteen eighty four etc. I am curious how many people have even given this any thought. Where I work, we often refer to years in terms of fiscal year (FY). We often use FY10 or FY11. I think 2010 is a good year to get back into the twenty ten format the way we use to. Of all the web sites that I have been to on this topic, I have not seen one that opposed using twenty ten. It will be interesting to see if this movement catches on. I sort of hope that it does because that is how we have always done it and familiar things are always easier to do.
Never Reboot While Blogging
I had a blog post typed up and was within a sentence or two of being ready to post when I decided to click “YES” on a request to reboot to complete a security update installation. Wow! That was not very smart because just as you probably guessed, the post was lost. This should be common sense and I must be lacking any. 
Well to sum up the post that was lost, it was just a year in review post. I was telling how 2009 was a year of milestones in our family. Many things happened that made it a very memorable year. For example my wife and I celebrated our 20th anniversary. I graduate the University of Oklahoma. I completed ten years of service at my current employer. My oldest son turned 18 years old. My family and I was able to visit my mom’s side of the family in New Mexico for the first time since 1989. My wife and kids had never met them and so this was a huge moment for us. I lost my mom in 2005 and as much as I miss her, I do not want to lose touch with her side of the family. Also my sister moved back to Oklahoma for the first time in 31 years. This was a rough transition but things are going very well for her as well. On a sad note, I lost my grandmother in March when she died at 90 years old. This was the last grandparent that I had.
Two of these events, namely my graduation and our trip to New Mexico was a little tainted because I was suffering from the worst case of poison ivy that I have ever had. I helped my dad clean up some vines and brush that was growing on his fence line and three days later I found myself itching out of control. Five weeks, three trips to my doctor and one visit to the emergency room later and I finally overcame this breakout. My doctor gave me some medication that I was allergic to that made it even worse eventually resulting in my going to the emergency room in Las Cruces, New Mexico. This was in May and June when this happened and to this day I still have some discoloration on my legs. For this reason my wife ordered me to never go into my dad’s backyard again . My graduation was supposed to be a glorious event though I could not enjoy it at the moment.
The National Weather Service reported that we had 14.1 inches of snow, later revised to 13.5 inches on Christmas eve. Even after the estimated snow fall was scaled back it was the most snow we have ever recorded in Oklahoma City. Here it is eight days later and we still have some snow on the ground. This year has been very eventful and happy for the most part. This year we have decided that we want to move away from my childhood neighborhood because the crime has reached a point that we want to have a restart. We will not be moving until 2011 but we are currently restoring the house to make it sellable. We are trying to go the extra mile so that we can get the most from our home when the time comes. We are hopeful for 2010 to be a wonderful year for our family. It will be difficult to match 2009 as far as impacting our family in a dramatic way. I will keep you up to date and see if it lives up to the previous year. I would like to thank all of you for your making my blog a place to stop. I really enjoy sharing our lives with the rest of you. I wish you all a very happy 2010.
Love For Limbaugh
On this December 30th, 2009 Rush Limbaugh was taken to a hospital in Honolulu for chest pains. I discovered this on Twitter as I discover many things. Many times I hear people that are politically left of center refer to Conservatives as being bigots and filled with hate. This coming from the people that are concerned for the welfare of the ‘little guy’. They profess themselves to be the solution to all the hatred coming from those that are on the right. Strangely enough, on this night as Rush Limbaugh suffers in the hospital these same people are professing their hatred and hopes of bad things to happen to Rush. Their compassion is akin to that of Adolph Hitler. Below are a few of the comments that I found on Twitter that are representative of their love and compassion. Just a note of caution, some of these posts are inappropriate.
Twitter Douchebag Alert: RT @amazingatheist: Ruch Limbaugh hospitalized with chest pains. Let’s all hope he dies.
RT @owillis: wait, is rush limbaugh dead? Not dead enough
Rush Limbaugh on Death Bed? Taken to Hospital in Hawaii: Would we really miss this fat, sloppy racist, pill popping…
Rush Limbaugh is a prodigious waste of food and I will be happy when he dies. There, I said it. #tcot #p2
Dufus @JenJen_623 What the f**k do you expect? Rush Limbaugh is evil
There are so many others that are even worse but you get the picture. This does not surprise me because I have dealt with their compassion for a long time. I think you can disagree with someone without wishing death upon them. I do believe you can have crazies on both sides but the sheer number of these posts are truly sad. Rush Limbaugh as of the time of this posting is listed as the second most commented words used on Twitter at the moment. Literally thousands if not millions of these are being posted online.
I think that despite your political slant, this type of behavior is completely inappropriate. I do remember seeing similar posts when Ted Kennedy died. I will be honest, as a Conservative, I strongly disagreed with his policies. I do not agree with wishing death upon him or anyone else. I would hope that people will come to their senses and not be so hostile to the point of wishing death upon people. For those of you that can actually disagree with someone without hating them, I would like to thank you. It is hard for me to imagine the mindset that you must hate someone that disagrees with you. If I were to take that attitude I would hate half of my own family. People come from different backgrounds and see the world differently. One person may see something as being unjust and feel strongly that something is wrong. This person may perceive this action as being unfair when the so called perpetrator had no malice whatsoever.
For this reason I believe that it is okay to have a difference of opinion. We can agree to disagree and still maintain a relationship. Can you imagine having such strong feelings about something that you would be willing to throw away a relationship with your own family? If the offense is something that I just cannot get past, I would at least try to be civil and avoid those topics to the best of my ability. I have met some people that just cannot let things go and desire to argue. In those cases all you can do is agree to disagree and refuse to discuss these issues.
The idea that people would disagree with someone so strongly that they would wish death on someone really saddens me. If I ever get this way, I would hope that my loved ones would bring this to my attention so I can wake up.
Am I Upset About Healthcare?
No I am not. I expected nothing less from these left wing, integrity challenged people in Washington. Since it is clear that I do not like them, you may be asking yourself why I am not upset. The reason is that if the people had not voted for the most liberal Congress and President in history, there would not be an issue. The American people made their bed and now they can sleep in it. The writing is on the wall about how this is going to end up. Anyone who has been awake over the last decade can see it. The Republicans that also do not represent their constituency will win the 2010 election in a land slide vote. The American people will hear a barrage of news stories about how the Republicans are out to throw grandma out on the street while enriching their wealthy buddies for the next two years. The American people in their ignorance will swallow the whole pill and re-elect Obama for a second term.
It is sad how people have become so loyal to their party that we never get anyone in office with integrity. People will vote for their party just to keep the other side out of office and before you know it, both parties are exactly the same. That is what is happening and has been happening for some time. The media will portray the Republicans in a way that is completely false. If they portrayed them accurately, then they would show you that the Republicans and Democrats are exactly alike.
So the answer is no I am not upset but rather I expect everything I get out of Washington. The Republicans, I mean Democrats nominated the left wing John McCain, assuring that Obama would win the presidency. Until both parties close the door on the opposing party being allowed to vote in their primary elections, then this sort of thing will continue. You have the liberal people on the coasts voting in the Republican primary picking the candidate that no conservative would ever vote for. They not only need to close the primaries to only the party being voted for but they need to make it where once you vote in a primary, you cannot change your party affiliation on the general election once you have voted in the primary. In other words, if you are a Democrat trying to subvert the election by voting in the Republican party primary then you must vote Republican in the general election.
That is how John McCain was elected in the first place. No conservative in his or her right mind would ever vote for John McCain. When you add to this that the American people are ignorant and do not have a clue what their candidate stands for, you pretty much expect to have corruption. The very people that cry voter fraud when they lose an election are the ones that cry foul when an attempt is made to enforce that a photo identification be required to vote. I would suggest it go even further. I think that if you cannot pass a basic Constitution test you should not be allowed to vote. If the people do not have enough initiative to learn the basics of what our country was founded upon then I think they should forfeit their opportunity to vote. The ignorant Americans will listen to the national media and allow felons to vote because they have so much integrity.
Don’t ask my opinion on healthcare because I have no respect for either of the parties. Ultimately I place the blame on a lazy population that will not educate themselves and will take opinion of a non objective media. The way I see it, you can have healthcare because you voted for them.