On How to argue with a conservative if you have to

There is an old saying, do not argue with an idiot, you will win! Speaking of idiotic conservatives, did you hear about the Republican Presumptive Presidential Nominee (and Senior Senator from Arizona) John McCain? He was asked a few weeks ago what income a person needed to be rich, he replied five million dollars a year. You know you are dealing with a fool when they give a hard number to a question that ambiguous, I would have responded, “if you have job security, your health, and a loving family you are as rich as you should ever really need to be… blah blah blah” (repeat lines from stump to do something to improve quality of life). Someone from the Obama camp responded to McCain by asking, ‘so a person who only makes three million a year is only middle class?’ Well today McCain was asked how many homes he owns, I swear you cannot make this stuff up, his response “I’ll have my staff get to you”. So far the count is an even ten. From The Huffington Post, specifically, McCain Doesn't Remember How Many Houses He Owns:

John and Cindy McCain own a plethora of houses spread throughout the United
States, including: two beachfront condos in Coronado, California, condo in La
Jolla, California, a two-unit condominium complex in Phoenix, Arizona, three
ranch houses located outside of Sedona, Arizona, a high-rise condo in Arlington,
Virginia, a rental loft, and, according to GQ, a loft they bought for their
daughter, Meghan.

Damn I wish I knew McCain on a first name basis, I’d have no mortgage!

Just wait for McCain to defend himself by pointing out how crappy his transportation is, after all you know how bad private jets are on fuel economy?

Back to transportation. I was riding in to work today, and another SUV driving moron nearly killed me, what else is new? but it brings up the subject of driving in general. According to a study, the substance of which was reprinted in the Saturday August 16 Globe and Mail, a driver doing 30mph (50km/h) had to pay attention to an average of 1320 separate events every single minutes, that is 22 events per second. The human brain cannot cope with that sort of multitasking – no that wasn’t stated explicitly, I just know that from my experience. We all think we are good drivers because we do not get into accidents and we do not get busted by the cops but the fact is, we suck. Face it, if everyone else on the road is such an idiot what makes you so special? We don’t get busted because there aren’t enough cops to bust all the idiotic drivers out there, heck if the cops work an eight hour shift you’d need three times as many police as there are drivers just to stop all the lunacy. We don’t get into accidents because of pure dumb luck, or since I have a degree in math, statistical probabilities. By rights we should be smashing up the car every chance the key gets to meet the ignition.

Well I concede, behind the wheel of the car, I am bad driver, but at least I keep my eyes open for cyclists and pedestrians, on the other hand, I do so little driving these days anyway it hardly matters. A challenge, go an entire week without driving, or using fossil fuels. Electricity is allowed, use of public transit is also allowed even though that uses fossil fuels and if it is cold home heating is allowed if you keep your thermostat cooler in the winter than the summer. But walk or ride to the supermarket and ride or take the bus to work. I do it (walk to supermarket, ride to the office), besides feeling good you can save some money so that one day you too can afford ten homes!