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Opposition treasury spokesman Joe Hockey said Mr Swan's comments criticising the Tea Party movement and in turn, the opposition, amounted to little more than ''peddling hatred''.
Swan and Gillard are the Labor Party. Australian Donks. Just some Australians think that way.
It is good if people think we are cranky and crazy. Maybe they won't screw with us.
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Swan is now joined by another moonbat, Trade Minister Craig Emerson.
"The US Tea Party movement could cause an American recession which would have worldwide consequences"
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Even better, we could do mass deportations of demonrats and their ilk to their communist paradise North Korea and the world economy would shoot up like a rocket.
Meanwhile, they could live their utopian dreams as worker ants in hell I mean paradise.
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Emerson has never been the same since he broke up his sexual relationship with the present Prime Minister Julia Gillard in 2004 and who backs every thing he says.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has mandated that all consumers in the United States must purchase at least 4 gallons of gasoline when they go to the gas station, if they are getting fuel from a pump that also offers a new E15 ethanol-gasoline blend.
Don't worry; they'll soon impose a maximum as well. And you'll need special coupon books...
The Obama administration wants consumers to use more of the E15 fuel -- a blend that contains 15 percent ethanol -- but the problem is that many gas stations use blender pumps, which offer several types of fuel and, after pumping, there always is a residual amount of fuel in the hose. E15 fuel can potentially damage engines made prior to 2000 and it cannot be used in motorcycles, ATVs, and many other engines, such as lawn mowers and boat engines.
So, to circumvent the potential problems, the EPA is requiring a 4-gallon minimum from blender pumps to ensure that any E15 fuel residue is diluted. (Stations that provide a completely separate, single hose for E15 only are exempt from the rule.)
But many lawmakers, as well as motorcycle and off-road specialists, say the EPA rule is not a viable solution and that requiring people to buy a minimum of 4 gallons of gasoline is not acceptable.
The Obama administration announced in April that it had begun issuing waivers to allow for the sale of gasoline that contains 15 percent volume ethanol (E15), a product previously not approved for the market.
One of Champ's favorite activities (after golf) is issuing waivers...
"To enable widespread use of E15, the Obama Administration has set a goal to help fueling station owners install 10,000 blender pumps over the next 5 years," stated an EPA press release on April 2.
The American Motorcyclist Association (AMA), which represents 225,000 members across the country, has reached out to the EPA over their concern over E15.
"At the current time we're not aware of any manufacturer of motorcycles that has approved E15 for the use in motorcycle engines," said AMA Spokesperson Pete terHorst. "So, the AMA has been asking the EPA what it will do to prevent the inadvertent fueling of motorcycles with E15 fuel. That's a big concern to our members."
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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has mandated
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E15 fuel can potentially damage engines made prior to 2000
Article neglects to mention that some manufacturers of 2012 models (e.g. Hyundai) FORBID use of anything more alcoholic than E10.
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Some of us know it from computer programming, but one of the sure signs that You're Doing It Wrong(tm) is your rule sets become more and more complicated, with all sorts of tweaks and exceptions and special cases. At some point, the only sane thing to do is pitch the whole mess and start over.
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I'll agree to this if every time I fill up, an EPA official has to drink 4 gallons of the same fuel. And they have to do there, at the gas station in front of us.
Why no, that's not a sparkler in my hand, it's a combustion fueled signalling device.
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What do you do about fueling your lawnmower or other gasoline powered tools, chainsaws, weedeaters, generators? I guess they will be mandating that 1, 2, 2.5 gal containers are gone. How much do fuel tanks on motorcycles hold? It seems that some of them don't hold 4 gallons. EPA needs to be cut back seriously; they have become a radical left organization.
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first wave of EPA firings in a Romney Admin. Get your "hire me now, ___________________ (substitute name of Progressive Institute!" boilerplate at my newsletter..oh, wait...
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First lady Michelle Obama told the Democratic National Convention that "Barack and I were both raised by families who didn't have much in the way of money or material possessions."
By his account, he grew up in a broken home with a single mom, struggled for years as a child in an impoverished Third World country and then was raised by his grandparents in difficult circumstances.
The facts aren't nearly so clear-cut. Imagine that.
Tellingly, Obama has never lived in a black neighborhood.
Maraniss reported in his book that when leftist activist Jerry Kellman interviewed Obama for a community organizing job in Chicago, he asked Obama how he felt about living and working in the black community for the first time in his life.
Obama accepted the job but chose not to live among those he would be organizing. Instead, he commuted 90 minutes each way daily from his apartment in Chicago's famous Hyde Park to the Altgeld Gardens housing project where he worked.
Next: Chapter II: The myth of the rock-star professor
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Hyde Park to the Altgeld Gardens is a 90 minute commute -- if you're Obama on a girls bike.
Otherwise it's a straight shot down Stony Island Boulevard to the Bishop Ford, and that to 130th street. Forty minutes tops in traffic and less in off-peak driving.
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...if you're Obama on a girls bike.
LOL. Doc, I can easily picture that. Probably had shoes on that were too big with holes in them and carrying his lunch.
President Obama has learned something during his presidency: You can't change Washington from the inside.
"The most important lesson I've learned is that you can't change Washington from the inside," he told a Univision forum Thursday. "You can only change it from the outside." He failed at that, too...
The remark immediately set off the political media on Twitter.
"(This) is perhaps Obama's worst gaffe since he met Joe the Plumber?" BuzzFeed editor Ben Smith asked on Twitter Thursday afternoon
Will you please leave Sir ... You are embarrassing yourself.
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Ripley: I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
Spots will target Jewish voters in swing states between now and the election
(JTA) -- The Republican Jewish Coalition has launched a $5 million television advertising campaign aimed at Jewish voters in swing states.
The campaign started Wednesday and runs through Nov. 5 in cable and broadcast TV markets with sizable Jewish populations in Florida, Nevada, Ohio and Pennsylvania. The first RJC ad is a shortened version of one of the group's "buyer's remorse" videos, which featured disillusioned Obama voters.
"This ad highlights the 'buyer's remorse' felt by many in the Jewish community, who voted for Obama four years ago, but are now disillusioned with his economic policies and his policies toward Israel," the RJC's executive director, Matt Brooks, said in a statement Wednesday. "These ads, and the stories of the people in them, give voice to the nagging doubts that many Jewish voters feel about President B.O.. To underscore that point, numerous polls have shown an erosion in Jewish support for the President."
Unreleased Gallup survey data found 70 percent of Jewish voters saying they would support Obama to 25 percent for Republican nominee Willard Mitt Romney ...former governor of Massachussetts, currently the Publican nominee for president. He is the son of the former governor of Michigan, George Romney, who himself ran for president after saving American Motors from failure, though not permanently. Romney has a record as a successful businessman, heading Bain Capital, and he rescued the 2002 Winter Olympics from the midst of bribery and mismanagement scandals. More to the point, he isn't President B.O... . The data, which were reported by Buzzfeed, is from Gallup's daily tracking polls from July 1 through Sept. 10 and is based on a sample size of 828 registered Jewish voters. The margin of error is plus or minus 4 percentage points.
In July it was reported that casino magnate Sheldon Adelson and other RJC board members would be funding a $6.5 million effort by the group to woo Jewish voters, including the TV ad campaign. Earlier this month, the RJC began a voter outreach effort in Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania, and launched a new billboard campaign in South Florida featuring the slogan "Obama ... Oy Vey!!"
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The Obama You Don't Know made mention of Obama's chumminess with U.S. Palestinians who had links to the Mideast while he was in Chicago. It helps explain his present day sympathies with Palestine rather than supporting our only real ally in the ME, Israel. O threw them under the bus.
The Obama campaign has launched its "For All" campaign, encouraging supporters to take pictures of themselves with their hands on their hearts and a note explaining why they support President Obama.
Actress Jessica Alba uses the Pledge of Allegiance as an example of the campaign in an email to supporters.
"Growing up, my classmates and I started every day with a ritual: We'd stand up, put our right hand over our hearts, and say the Pledge of Allegiance," explains Alba. "To me, that gesture was a promise. A promise to be involved and engaged in this country's future. A promise to work for liberty and justice -- and for affordable education, health care, and equality -- for all."
Alba joins Hollywood actresses Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson by photographing herself with her hand on her heart pledging to vote for Obama.
"That's why all across the country, people like you and I are proudly writing down our reasons for getting involved, and then taking the pledge -- to vote."
Obama campaign staffers have also begun posting photos of themselves with the pledge.
"Make sure you're ready to vote this fall," Alba writes. "Putting your hand over your heart is making a promise. Casting your ballot is keeping it."
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"For All", huh? I guess "Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuhrer" was already taken. (and where's my damn umlaut key?)
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Apropos this and O's anti-colonialism, what I've figured out is that O wants to be an African "Big Man" (tribal Chief). They always go for the personal cult stuff. His real model is Robert "Zim-Bob-Me" Mugabe, and he's just as competent.
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I guess Miss Alba and others of her "cult" forgot about this:
Posted: February 7, 2010 12:24 AM at Huff Post:
Closer inspection of a photo of Sarah Palin, during a speech in which she mocked President Obama for his use of a teleprompter, reveals several notes written on her left hand. The words "Energy", "Tax" and "Lift American Spirits" are clearly visible. There's also what appears to read as "Budget cuts" with the word Budget crossed out.
U.S. President Barack Obama's middle name, Hussein, makes Israelis -- both Jewish and Arab -- perceive him as less pro-Israeli, a U.S.-Israeli study found.
"Even though the Israeli public has extensive information about the American president and his positions, their opinions can still be swayed by cultural cues, such as a name that in this case is perceived as Arabic," co-author Israel Waismel-Manor said in a release from the University of Haifa.
In a study conducted with researchers at the University of Texas, a news clip of Obama speaking at an official meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and President of the Palestinian Authority Abu Mazen about the peace talks between the sides was shown to study participants.
They included Israeli Jewish students, Israeli Arab students, American students who sympathize with Israel and American students who sympathize with Palestinians.
A random half of each group was shown the clip with a reference caption that read "President Barack Obama," and the other half saw the clip with the caption "President Barack Hussein Obama."
Following the clip, the participants were asked whether Obama favors Israelis or Palestinians.
The study found the president's middle name makes Israelis -- both Jews and Arabs -- perceive him as less pro-Israel, ultimately shaping an opinion among the Jews that he is less fair and among the Arabs that he is more fair, the researchers said.
For the American participants in the study, their president's middle name apparently had no effect on their opinion of him, they said.
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Do they know that "Barack" was Mohammed's horse?
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has mandated that all consumers in the United States must purchase at least 4 gallons of gasoline when they go to the gas station, if they are getting fuel from a pump that also offers a new E15 ethanol-gasoline blend.
The Obama campaign has launched its "For All" campaign, encouraging supporters to take pictures of themselves with their hands on their hearts and a note explaining why they support President Obama. 
U.S. President Barack Obama's middle name, Hussein, makes Israelis -- both Jewish and Arab -- perceive him as less pro-Israeli, a U.S.-Israeli study found.
