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Cold Fusion would be great, the answer to all energy needs.... Of course, in an industrial sense, we already have the answer to any conceivable current or future demand for electricity...it's called Nuclear Power. Did you know that Nuclear Power is the safest form of energy ever used in the United States? Safer than Wind or Solar... There is an excellent book on the matter "The Health Hazards of Not Going Nuclear"... As for transportation (cars), there is no viable alternative to petrol (the pie-in-the-sky ideas currently floating around are not viable)... The Earth is creating, by some estimates, more crude oil everyday than we consume...we just need to drill for it...same with natural gas... Solar is a good solution for homes / buildings that receive a lot of sun-light, like here in Central Coast California... The energy crunch is an artificial construct of a relatively small group of people who are manipulating the market to their advantage... If we had real money, and a free market (we have neither), there would never be an energy problem...

You do know where oil comes from? Obviously it would be a mess to clean up if everyone poured used oil on the ground...but it does come from the ground...so in the long run, no harm...

"And again, the Lord has said that: Ye shall adefend your families even unto bbloodshed. Therefore for this cause were the Nephites contending with the Lamanites, to defend themselves, and their families, and their lands, their country, and their rights, and their religion." -Alma 43:47 "Yea, and he was a man who was firm in the faith of Christ, and he had asworn with an oath to defend his people, his rights, and his country, and his religion, even to the loss of his blood. Now the Nephites were taught to defend themselves against their enemies, even to the shedding of blood if it were necessary; yea, and they were also taught anever to give an offense, yea, and never to raise the sword except it were against an enemy, except it were to preserve their lives" -Alma 48:13-14 Simply put, communism and communists are a great enemy to our very existence. I applaud Sen. McCarthy for standing up to them and being very blunt and brutal in condemning them. I will give no quarter to those who would enslave me and my family and nation. They must be fought at all costs. So, hmmm, we have a scriptural contradiction, it would seem....(not really, if you understand what is being said)... We ought not seek offense, but we are justified, when it comes to life and liberty, in attacking our enemies and working for their defeat. In the case of communism and communists that probably means their death, rather than ours. Sen. McCarthy did nothing wrong.

Friends, no good fruit can come from a bad tree. The concept of Public Education comes from the tree of Marxist communism and is bad. No amount of money will improve it. We need to return to a free market educational system which made this nation great.

I've no clue why you've responded this way. We must be good stewards of all we have. The way to do that is through liberty, not supra-national unelected elitists telling us how to live. In no way to I condone irresponsible, dangerous, greed.

Absent total nuclear war, there is no human mechanism that would approach a global scale. CO(2)? Nope, the amount we contribute to the total atmospheric volume is so insignificant as to not be worth measuring. A single volcano spews more in a brief eruption than we do in a year, not to mention natural ocean emissions of such things as methane in proportions that we have no means of matching. Ozone depletion? Nope, the energy from the SUN combined with oxygen creates ozone, there is no means available to man to interrupt that process, absent the removal of oxygen from the system (which we are not capable of doing). Deforestation? Mmmm, certainly a problem in some locations. Globally? Nope. And especially in the US, where we have more trees now than we did 200 years ago. Temperature increases? Nope, no significant heating detectable. In fact, cooling has occurred in the past 4 years. Glacial melting? Nope, despite the lying of people such as Gore, Antartica has more ice now than in the recent past. Ocean Temperature increases? Nope. The Pacific Ocean temperatures have decreased as much as 4 degrees since last year. Oil spills? Nope, remember Exxon Valdez? All cleaned up. Remember the oil fields Sadamm destroyed? Recapped... And so the list goes on. There are no human caused global climate change mechanisms. It is all natural, and there is nothing we can do about it. I applaud conservation. I applaud reuse. I applaud use. I applaud exploiting of natural resources (responsibly, of course) to fuel human prosperity and civilization. There is no need for a global approach. For a moment, I'll suppose that there is a global problem. How will the failures of totalitarianism and collectivism solve those problems? How do systems that have shown themselves to be despotic, solve global crisis? Certainly not the communist dominated UN? The solution to the local / regional problems of our time is freedom. When man is left to act with liberty, great things occur. Certainly such a system is not perfect (Pittsburgh DID have bad air, but really due to the free market, but rather due to monopolistic greed that bought government favor)... We should be good stewards of all we have. By the way, communism is a very large threat to us all. The largest nation on earth is devoutly communist, and our avowed enemy, and nuclear capable. Communism is not dead. Putin is a communist butcher. And now we're going to have the Olympics in Communist China and celebrate their "greatness" in the opening ceremony? I wonder if they are going to portray the 61,000,000 people that Chairman Mao had murdered? We protest Carter meeting with the Hamas terrorists, yet we barely notice our current President meeting on a consistent basis with the largest sponsorers of terrorism in the world. Communist China. I don't fear it though. I loath it. Liberty will prevail. The price will be great, but liberty will prevail.

I've followed George Washington my whole adult life in teaching that political parties, coupled with entangling foreign alliances, will destroy us. There has never been a substantial difference between the parties. In the long run, each will lead to our destruction.

The only solution is a return to real money.

What smear tactics? Are we to be nice to communists? I wasn't aware of that mandate? He was right, there were (and are) communists in high places in Government. Even the Church teaches this. Thanks for the compliment.

I'm greatly troubled by that statement, since most LDS people haven't a clue what the Constitution says. Are y'all up for a quiz on the basics?

Friend, monumental climate change has occurred throughout history, with no human intervention. And, it will continue to occur, with no respect to what we try to do about it. I suppose in a sense my deep skepticism of the "Earth Day" movement / paradigm comes from examining what the vast majority of such activists propose for "solutions". Essentially, it is communism wrapped in fear driven pseudo-science. Therefore, I reject the premise. Example of communism disguised as "environmentalism": I live on the central coast of CA. One of the long time members of my ward (his family goes back at least 4 generations here), owns a large ranch outside of town (probably around 5,000 acres). It just so happens that this ranch has probably the highest concentration of California Salamanders in the world. This type of critter has been give endangered status. So, what did the environmentalists attempt to do? Shut down the ranch from operating? Why, well, to protect the critters from harm... NOW, think! If his land has the highest concentration of such critters in the area or even perhaps the world, don't you think he is doing something right? Shouldn't the environmentalist applaud? See, the global movement (and you aren't part of it, I can tell) isn't about the environment, it is about collectivism / communism. It is this same collectivism / communism in the name of the "environment" that is at this very moment causing a REAL global problem "food shortages" of monumental scale, because the largest producer of food in the world (USA) is now burning said food for fuel...It is this same communism that made farmers go under in the Klamath River range because of a fish...and on and on... So, I'm all for individual choice. I'm all for choosing renewable materials and reusing what we have (by voluntary free market motivations). I'm all for having cleaner air in Pittsburgh from steel mills. I'm all for stopping paper mills from pumping mercury byproducts into local water supplies...etc...These are all local problems, with local solutions. Government is best that is local. Where there are problems, we, as responsible citizens must act. There are no global environmental problems caused by the activity of man. We are merely participants in natural global cycles of climate change. And communism disguised as "environmentalism" is not the answer to anything.

A walking whale? That's a good one...lol.... Friend, what you point to is a record of species now extinct. It isn't a record of trans-species mutation. The fossil "evidence" backs the proposition that GOD created all creatures, and many, through time, have become extinct. Futhermore, if we follow your premise, then where is the "almost-walking-whale" fossil record? There are no intermediary fossil records anywhere that are "in-between-species". Each species was created by GOD. Then the environment caused great variations with those species. There simply is no record of single cells becoming anything other than single cells.

The problem is that these cycles have occurred throughout time, with no input from man. This is a demonstrated fact. There is no evidence that we are accelerating this trend. There is no scientific demonstration that any human activity can impact global weather / climate. Yet we can demonstrate without question that the SUN and orbit of the Earth around it has, throughout known time, generate "climate change". The problem with "Earth Day" is the trend towards globalizing of government to "deal with" these "problems". I've no problem with recycling that is viable in a free market. I've no problem with buying vehicles that get better mileage because that's the cost effective thing to do. The free market will resolve these regional issues. Lack of one, quite frankly, contributes to regional environmental problems. It is interesting to me that Al Gore, et al, needed to lie in his documentary to support his paradigm of "we're going to die in seven years if we don't introduce globally inforceable governmental solutions to global warming". If the case was so rock solid, there should be plenty of facts to back it up. There isn't. We don't need global government. What we need is freedom. Free markets. Free Enterprise. What we need in the USA is to return to limited, constitutional government. We don't need to abdicate our soveriegnty to unelected supra-national / communist groups like the UN... "Less Government, More Individual Responsibility, and, with GOD's help, a Better World" That is the appropriate means to prosperity for all.

Why wouldn't he just tell him...

Fortunately, a lot of LDS folk haven't fallen for the globalist montra that is "Earth Day"... There certainly are regional environmental issues (mainly in nations / areas where there exists no free market)...Those should be resolved by the nations involved... There exists no human caused, global environmental issue. In fact, I doubt, speaking scientifically, that absent all-out nuclear war, we could, even if we wanted to, have a global climate impact. Did you know the SUN puts out 3,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Watts of power per SECOND? Thankfully only a small portion of that gets to us (or we'd fry like KFC extra crispy). Did you also know that in less than a minute the SUN expels more energy than all of humankind, throughout history has used / created? Did you know that in the US there are more trees now than there were 200 years ago, by nearly all accounts? Have any of you ever flown in the day over the USA and looked down? More trees / vegetation than we can count... My friends, not only do we have absolutely nothing to do with global weather / climate, we can't do a darn thing about it. It is the SUN, plus the "wobble" over time of the Earth's axis / rotation / orbit around the SUN, which causes cyclical patterns of change. We are in one right now. And there is nothing to be done about it. Earth Day is a means to use fear to enslave people into globalist, socialist / communistic anti-private property systems, ruled by the elite few who are "informed" (AKA Al Gore Zombies)... Fortunately we have scripture that tells us how absurd the "earth day" paradigm is. "17 For the earth is full, and there is enough and to spare; yea, I prepared all things, and have given unto the children of men to be agents unto themselves." Doctrine and Covenants 104:17

Mmmmm, not quite... I'm not exactly saying that because we can't grasp the complexity of a single cell it must have come from "God"... I'm saying that there are no "evolution failures" in the fossil record to date. I'm saying that the chances of humans arriving on the scene from inanimate material, with input or design, are probably incalculable. Therefore, it is reasonable to state, at the least, that "evolution" does not adequately address these glaring issues. Scientifically, there is a more rational explanation. Intelligent Design.

"Similar DNA does not evolution make..." -Yoda Living things have DNA, that there are similarities doesn't indicate trans-species formation over eons. Bacteria mutates based upon its' surroundings, yet it never ceases to be bacteria. It doesn't become another species. All species were created by GOD. The variation within species is not evidence for trans-species formation. Think it through friend. Think of the complexity of mutation, etc., necessary to go from simple organisms to even the simplest of creatures, the gnat. If, anyway along the way the mutation was "wrong" the organism would cease to promulgate. What you asking me to believe is akin to giving a person an immensely complex map (with quintillions of paths) and telling them they need to get "there" without telling them where "there" was, and if they make one wrong turn they're dead. And you expect that over time someone would get "there". And you find this theory more rational than saying that the Creator made us as is, and we (each species) can adapt with that species.... The enormous complexity of just a single cell is beyond the understanding of all of the fields of science combined, to date. Yet you'd have me believe that from inanimate material arose these immensely complex systems that continued to develop in even more unfathomably complex ways, until voila, here we are... Another hole in the evolution swiss cheese is that no in-between-a-species has ever been found....and this is BIG....you expect me to believe that not a trace exists of the "failures" anywhere in the world, after billions of years of such things going on? Why have we only found the successes in the fossil records? And on and on we go.... I shy from the (in my opinion) overly simplistic analogy of dropping the parts for a watch from the top of a building and having them assemble and begin to function when they hit the ground, but it is a simple means of showing the utter absurdity of "evolution"... Our bodies are trillions, if not multidudes of trillions of times more comples than a simple watch, yet we are to believe we got here by happenstance? NO!

Hmmmm..... Would you be willing to show me a single piece of evidence for evolution? I would LOVE to see some. As to "Creationist", I think you're missing their point. Scientific observation leads to me thinking that the premise of "Evolution" (trans-species) is absurd. I think that science actually shows that the reasonable conclusion based upon the evidence is that there was an initial, intelligent design behind the appearance of Man / Earth in the Universe. But, again, if you'd be so kind as to show me any evidence whatsoever for evolution, I'd be happy to re-evaluate my position. When we remove GOD from the equation of life, then we are teaching our children that we don't have God-given rights (because God had nothing to do with our creation, etc). And we are teaching the ultimate in relativism, where there is no actual source for what is right and what is wrong. This is the danger behind "evolution" and "darwinism" in general. The scientific danger is great as well. It is such trumped up "science" that results in the absurdity of "Global Warming" etc... I eagerly await your response.

"Profanity is the attempt of a feeble mind to communicate effectively"

Again, sir, it is really telling that your insistence on "GOD was once man" is wholly absent from the accepted scripture of our Church. The Standard Works don't say anything other than GOD has always, fully, completely, been GOD. They never say that he became GOD. Furthermore, since you keep referring to non-scriptural statements, I'll refer to scripture itself. GOD created time for man's benefit, and therefore GOD simply IS. Time is for man only, not GOD, who created all things. (Alma 40:8) So, if we are going to speak of doctrine, and if you insist on condemning me as if I don't follow Church doctrine, you might want to show support of your position (and any Church leader's position) from the STANDARD Works (they are, after all the STANDARD)... GOD has always been GOD. GOD IS. GOD is the creator of all things. GOD was not created. GOD did not become GOD. So, the challenge remains, if this "GOD was a man" concept is so valid, why is it absent from the Standard Works? HINT: It is not valid for two reasons. One, it absent from the Standard Works. Two, it hasn't been added to the Standard Works. Certainly if it was so central a doctrine, it would at least be mentioned in the Standard Works?

Absolutely. Going on 30 years. Served a mission in Europe, etc... Again, is it not telling that such a very important statement from Joseph Smith on GOD is completely absent from the context of the Standard Works? If the King Follett Discourse was authoritative at all, it would probably stand as one of the central teachings ever spoken. Fortunately, we have the Standards Works and the Holy Ghost for protection. GOD never became GOD. The Standard Works leave no question on this.

Joseph Smith was wrong on this point. It is very telling that no such statements occur anywhere in the standard works.

He can be none of those things if ever he was not GOD. GOD has always been GOD. He is not an exalted man. He is GOD. He didn't become GOD. All things exist because of him. He doesn't exist because of something...He is the first cause....being eternally so.... The scriptures absolutely refute any idea of an anthropomorphic "God"....

God the Eternal Father has always been God the Eternal Father. He was never "man". He is the creator of all. All things come from his creative will. It is almost sickening to observe otherwise, given the absolute nature of scriptural statements that state that GOD has always been GOD. President Snow and anyone else who thinks otherwise is simply wrong. I'll stand with the scriptures on this.

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