Is anyone listening to WJ? These callers are nuts!

[amyrose2712]

I haven't listened to WJ in a while. Now, I remember why I stopped. Stupidity just pissed me off!

[flakey_foont]

1. Details?

[amyrose2712]

10. One caller made mention of BO and Jill Bidens kiss and ..

how he was mixing his DNA with hers. I was getting too enraged to listen to anything more.

[Bolo Boffin]

12. You are KIDDING ME!!!

:rofl:

I know, I know, some people are likely obsessing over it right now.

But, damn! Some people are just batshit crazy.

[LynneSin]

13. OMG you have to be fucking kidding me

I mean it's not like they were shoving their tongues down each others throats and if they did WTF is with this "DNA exchanging". Reminds me of an episode of MASH where an injured soldier insisted the doctors not give him any of that 'black blood'.

[Debi]

14. Joe started it!

[Freddie Stubbs]

2. Keep in mind that these nuts are likely voters

[amyrose2712]

11. That is what scares me. n/t

[Jackpine Radical]

15. Yeah, but they aren't likely Dem voters under any circumstances.

Except for the ones who can't read well enough to avoid accidentally voting for Obama.

[Peacetrain]

3. I have a hard time listening to them because

there are times, that it just depresses me to think the average American is that gullible. But then we did get Bush re-elected in 2004, so I guess they are. But it is still depressing

[DangerousRhythm]

4. Ugh, I was hearing some of them.

My brain exploded several times. I don't even think I could explain why if I tried, it was THAT stupid. There was one guy who was nearly completely incoherent. I had NO CLUE what he was on about. All I remember, before one of the bigger explosions, was some dumb lady calling in saying that Obama won't put his hand on his heart during the Pledge, he keeps saying we have 57 states, blah blah. I don't even know what else she said.

:argh:

[MiniMe]

5. One caller said that doctors and nurses will leave medicine because

they won't get enough money. No honey, the insurance companies won't be getting obscene profits and making life and death decisions based on the bottom line.

She went on to using all forms of energy, like shale. It's actually shale oil, not shale. Plus it isn't high grade crude and it is expensive as hell to extract.

The ignorance is staggering.

[TornadoTN]

8. It's astounding, isn't it?

I work in a field that works in the shale oil industry and the misinformation about it just never ceases to amaze me. The people in charge of extracting oil from shale and the "oil-sands" don't make any qualms about it - it's not a fix to the energy crisis. Yet somehow the GOP "drilling" nuts have turned it into an overnight cure. People just don't have a clue when people suggest this as an option, they think it's just a simple matter of finding some "oily rock" and pouring oil into a gas can.

As you said, it's expensive. Very expensive. Part of the expense is that it takes so much equipment and time to refine the stuff to anywhere near a usable quality. Then there's the fact that it isn't of the same grade that makes life so easy for us to make gasoline with. Oh, and a great deal of this stuff is in that communist bastion to the north, Canada - so unless we plan on invading them, its not ours. (just to be sure, that was sarcastic)

We're working on technology that will help in this process and may eventually make this part of our medium to long term energy plan, but it won't happen overnight. Plus, it's not the best solution to our problems - truly green energy is.

[MiniMe]

9. Thanks for the information. A lot of good stuff there

I knew it wasd expensive and that it was low quality crude. And I obviously know that drilling isn't a solution. I thought there was some in the northern states, maybe Montana? You are right though, green energy and research on the technology are the only things that will help. The reich wingers aren't really after a solution, they don't necessarily want do do anything, they just want to repeat a catch phrase. I hate the Rovian politics!

[TornadoTN]

17. There are some deposits in the midwest and northern states

But they are far from the quality that the Canadians have and they are light years beyond us in terms of being able to actually use the stuff. It's just not economically viable at the current time to make use of the stuff here in the US, it's quite simply a black hole of expenses based on what we would have to due to set up operations to work here stateside with major losses even at full production. Eventually it will become profitable and the resources here will need to be used but I doubt it will be anytime in the next 10 years, barring a major crisis.

The Athabasca Oil Sands, on the other hand, are starting to come on-line and showing some major promise. It's estimated that the amount of crude contained in them put them second in the world behind Saudi Arabia - and we've barely begun to tap it. The trade-off here is that while the oil is somewhat close in quality to Saudi crude, it still takes an amazing amount of money, power, and resources to process it. It still requires a lot of natural gas to run the facilities and the effect on the environment can be devastating if its not done correctly, efficiently, and safely.

Again, there's not a good solution to our energy needs if we are still looking at carbon based fuels. Time, economics, and environmental aspects just aren't on our side in the present environment. Don't get me wrong - we have to look at all options including these, but too many people think there's a magic answer that will fix it all overnight.

[WinkyDink]

6. I don't listen to morans.

[bdamomma]

7. me either to close minded for me.

[Overseas]

16. RNC talkers probably phone in as directed. Work the free comment lines.

Especially after a successful convention day.

They can say all kinds of off the wall things pretending they are just regular folks.