Mike, there is also a voice on the other side who knows the same things, would do the same things, and has the brain power to make a damned good presodent, but he wasn’t allowed to appear. Both parties are doing their damnedest to suppress any voice of dissent. “Gotta get back to the middle of the road, even if it means drafting Bloomberg!” We’re toast!

Mike - I was recently reading a study by the University of Oregon which concludes that “ An acute , but subtle and unrecognizable problem in society today is a slow move away from the idea that we live in a “rational” world, to an idea that the world can act arbitrarily. This can largely be attributed to the following:
• Science has been tremendously devalued - it is not understood as a process. Science fiction often substitutes for reality.
• People are losing the skill to distinguish between credible and incredible information sources.
• People think we are a lot smarter than we really are and that problems have therefore been solved

I am not convinced that the movement referenced above is moving so slow, but it seems today, all a person (or news caster) has to do, is say something (like Obama is an extremist muslin) or (Romney spends $500 a day for booze) and most people will just believe that. It appears that numbers have no meaning to us anymore. It also appears we have lost our desire to question authority and ask to see the data which goes right back to what I have referenced above; anyone can sell the public anything these days with little or no effort. And that is huge!!! The situation is serious and a priority to make scientific literacy a national priority is paramount. As the study I mentioned above indicated, an uninformed public is both dangerous and largely useless. And this has occurred at a time when intelligent public participation regarding economic and environmental decisions has become extremely important. There is nothing like good data to illuminate a problem and no data or bad data to make a problem worse (take a look at our economy and how we are selecting candidates as an example for today).

Like you say, Mike, sustainable growth may be a myth but managing resources in an intelligent, responsible and long term way is not a myth. So why are we pushing to elect candidates who do not explain to us how they intend to do this? Why are we not asking the candidates and demanding answers, and documentation on how we can keep our economy and country in tact and free using basically uncontrolled growth and ever increasing consumption of resources as the plan? You should never believe what anyone says. You should always require that they back up their assertions with the real data – not political here say or mythology, which is all I have heard from the candidates to date (with exception of Dr. Paul). If our elected officials cannot explain and document these basics to us, we should not even consider voting them into a higher public office than the one they hold at this time. If they were sincere in the political mythology we hear from them everyday, they would have already made strides in their purported quest for a better America in the positons they hold today (senate/congress/govenor). Take a look at their records and see how many have a clue for correcting or improving any issue raised during this campaign. It is a very depressing read. -bb

Hey Mike! If Barrack and Hillary bring us together it will be in the poor house. That, of course, goes for pretty much the rest of the usual suspects. Paul and Gravel are the best chances we have and so far the other candidates and the media are trying as hard as they can to block both of them from the debates. That is real American of them, ain’t it. Most of our so-called candidates are all trying to find problems to pin on each other without any real substance to make a sane person want to vote on them. Why on earth don’t they attack the primary instigators of most of our problems? Bush and Cheney would have to be the easiest targets to ever grace an election. I suppose we cannot expect the candidates to be against treason and treachery if Congress will not take a stand against it. I do not think any of the candidates that are in Congress now should be allowed to run for the presidency until they remove the scum that is infecting the Whitehouse now. Dennis should be allowed because he, at least, is trying to start the much needed removal.
Did you happen to see the article about Sly Stallone and his thoughts on Op-Ed? Rambo makes more sense than the great majority of our politicians. Maybe he should run for the office. Have a good one Mike!

Greetings Mike and gang,

It is the system that is broke and it is going to take grassroot leadership first in the form of creative and dynamic individuals like our revolutionary leaders of 232+ yrs ago. If you think anyone playing by the current system, Bloomburg included, is going to change a damn thing, I am afraid you are going to be disapointed. Bloomburg is one of the richest of the rich living and in essence owning New York City since a few short months after 9/11. Most people have not followed closely the rebuilding of Ground Zero but I have and I can tell you it is a bunch of rich old boys back-slapping their way way to the bank. One little-big example…this latest credit crisis with mortgage comes straight from where…Wall Street, located where…a couple of stinking blocks from where…Ground Zero, located where…downtown New York City is where. Like the old saying goes..”follow the money”. Do you know that our current United States Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson was the CEO of the investment firm Goldman Sachs just before becoming U.S. Tres. Sec. and was responsible for getting the sweetest of the sweet deals for rebuilding G.Z. at U.S. taxpayer expense. I can go on and on and on but I challenge all you Ron Paul supporters especially but really all you red blooded Americans specifically to look into 9/11 a bit deeper than what the main media is feeding the masses and see for yourselves. For example google 9/11 mysteries/demolitions and spend a little time watching another view. But back to Ron Paul and Mike Gravel and Bloomburg. Even if they tried they can’t do anything to help us because they are going to be working with a system that at present is set up to divide and conquer with the spoils going to the money men. Pessamistic, no. Realistic, yes! Can we make the changes (now there is a work) we need to make for our future, damn right we can. Are the puppets and their money men out there going to make those needed changes for us? Get real. Are we going to do it? Only if we get beyond these keyboards and make it happen. Congratulations to you Mike for all you do. Now all of us need to start coming up with solutions and see where we can fix this thing. More on that in the coming days…