Yet another reason why we should listen to our elites and let them pick winners and losers in our economy. After all, just because a businessperson won't invest in a boondoggle doesn't mean that government shouldn't...
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Iff anything, IMO it should've been a WIND-SEA COMBO, not just Wind.
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The greenies never want to mention that wind or solar require the equivalent gas or coal power plant to pick up the load when the government supported green power systems go offline (no wind, too much wind, overcast or no daylight).
Windmills are also really great bird killers (ignored by EPA while prosecuting for 28 birds by oil and powerlines). Wonder what critters solar collectors fry?
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One of the weirder, more "unexpected" things I've come across in recent years was an abandoned wind farm at the southernmost point in the USA (not Key West, but on the big island of Hawaii). Buncha giant, rusting hulks. This scam has been going on for a long time.
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Those rusting hulks have been at south point on big island have been replaced with NEW turbines bound to get a winner one of these days.
With solar farms I just thought of something most likely heavy herbicide use to keep those areas squeaky clean of plants, sort of like railroad right of ways.
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Choluse Graling8806 Yep. On our mountain ridges where they put these things they have trails of rock roads. No trespassing signs. As you said nothing is growing just like the power lines. Like the Blue Water guys know gets into the drinking water system. Oh, it might timeout. Then no one has told us that. Most are on state land so they collect all the booty. On private land an owner can collect $3000/month. Microwave tower $700/month. Gas well is right up there also for as long as it produces, also monthly income.
He is losing much of his 2008 base of voters with one notable exception: Muslim-Americans. They remain exceedingly loyal to the president. In fact, their enthusiasm for Obama has swelled.
Last month, Pew Research Center released a survey of U.S. Muslims that was almost universally overlooked. It found that Muslims overwhelmingly approve of the way Obama is handling his job as president. Fully three-quarters (76%) favor him, compared with just 46% of the general public.
President Bush, in contrast, garnered a lowly 15% approval rating among Muslim-Americans. "Muslim-Americans clearly see a friend in Obama," Pew said in its report.
Obama came into office pledging to improve relations with the Muslim world, and he's more than delivered on that promise. Almost two-thirds of U.S. Muslims say Obama is generally friendly toward them, Pew found. Just 4% see him as unfriendly.
And many see him as one of their own. One in 10 say they think the president is a Muslim, while a third say they don't know or refused to answer.
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Interesting numbers. So the black vote likes him cause he is black and the Muslim like him because they think he is Muslim. I can hear it now. We haven't given him a chance. Things were bad when he got into office. This is why he can go back to the well time after time and get more money. Don't bother reading the small print. We have got to pass this now to save the world and our country.Now with so many out of work. Should anything happen to the welfare system we will see the devils work of idle hands. Who will they go after?. The ones they have been told are the evil ones. Brainwashed robots controlled by the same people who have caused this mess. We have heard the call to march. The numbers will swell. Most of the people they claim to support will be the worst to suffer. We have seen the pink clouds of the morning.The dark clouds of a storm approach on the horizon. Sailors warning.
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Dale, according to the polls President Obama is losing Black voter approval, too. And people are not opening their wallets like they did last time around, nor are as many opening their wallets. This may well not translate into votes for the Republican candidate, but it will certainly make things more difficult for the Democrats. A quick thought, in a different direction: last time there were an awful lot of small donations from abroad...this time those people out there are feeling both a certain tightness in their own finances and disappointment in what they didn't get for the money last time.
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TW well said. I agree with what you have said. Either they will vote for him or stay at home.
They will never vote Republican. They may not like what has happened but many will vote for him for a variety of reasons. He will always get a pass. Many people vote for their own so that person can get for them at the expense of others. I have seen this before. Many move to DC because they believe this is where you get power for your people. I have been told this directly by blacks,and Iraqi specifically.
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And anyone who doesn't like him is a racist Islamophe!
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10/03/2011 11:12 Comments ||
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But he's not Muslim, any more than he's Christian, for all he was baptized and went to the Reverend Jeremiah Wright's Black Theology church every Sunday for all those years. There is no indication that his interest in religion is a anything more than choices to advance his political career. I've read nothing to suggest he worshipped anywhere when he was a school boy, a college student, or as a young community organizer in Chicago. From what I've seen, when he went back to Chicago to become a politician, he had to ask about the church possibilities because had never bothered to find out before.
Being the favoured president of the Muslims is not at all the same thing as being a believer. However, I will grant that under Muslim law as the son of a Muslim, and having sometimes joined his stepfather in worship at the village mosque in Indonesia, he is by definition a Muslim, albeit most definitely not a pious one.
Likewise, the strong suggestion that just two months after the DOJ dismissed voter intimidation charges against members of the NBP, Obama met a NBP leader in the White House.
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The New Black Panthers are thugs, Anonymoose -- quite fitting for this particular president -- but I'm not aware they were Muslim, unlike the Black Muslim bunch, who are also thugs.
Being Muslim is not something you get at birth, it is an idea. If we were in WWII I would not mind about a German American (both Eisenhower and P51 Mustang's main designer were) or Japanese American president but I would mind about any hint of a president having any fondness at all for the country of his ancestors if this were unfriendly to America let alone at war with it. And that is what, Muslim or not Muslim, Obama has shown both on his book and on his appearance at the Muslim conference.
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Once this presidency is long over, the MSM will admit they knew all along that Bammo was/is Muslim, but that they withheld the information based on the public's inability to handle such things. Just like FDR in his wheelchair, Kennedy and his whores, etc.
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The New Black Panthers are thugs, Anonymoose -- quite fitting for this particular president -- but I'm not aware they were Muslim, unlike the Black Muslim bunch, who are also thugs.
The NBP are Muslims. Most members are from the Nation of Islam. It is a gang of racist NoIs who appropriated the Black Panther name.
New photographs obtained exclusively by BigGovernment.com reveal that Barack Obama appeared and marched with members of the New Black Panther Party as he campaigned for president in Selma, Alabama in March 2007.
The photographs, captured from a Flickr photo-sharing account before it was scrubbed, are the latest evidence of the mainstream media's failure to examine Obama's extremist ties and radical roots.
In addition, the new images raise questions about the possible motives of the Obama administration in its infamous decision to drop the prosecution of the Panthers for voter intimidation.
The images, presented below, also renew doubts about the transparency of the White House's guest logs--in particular, whether Panther National Chief Malik Zulu Shabazz is the same "Malik Shabazz" listed among the Obama administration's early visitors.
Tomorrow, J. Christian Adams, the Department of Justice whistleblower in the New Black Panther Party case, will release his new book, Injustice: Exposing the Racial Agenda of the Obama Justice Department (Regnery).
The book exposes Obama administration corruption far beyond the Panther dismissal, and reveals how the institutional Left has turned the power of the DOJ into an ideological weapon.
Adams's book also describes, in detail, the Selma march at which then-Senator Obama was joined by a group of Panthers who had come to support his candidacy.
Among those appearing with Obama was Shabazz, the Panther leader who was one of the defendants in the voter intimidation case that Attorney General Eric Holder dismissed. Also present was the Panthers' "Minister of War," Najee Muhammed, who had called for murdering Dekalb County, Georgia, police officers with AK-47's and then mocking their widows in this video (7:20 -- 8:29).
Injustice includes a disturbing photo of Shabazz and the Panthers marching behind Obama with raised fists in the "Black Power" salute.
There are even more photographs.
I have learned that Regnery initially received approval from a person who took pictures of the events in Selma to publish these additional photographs in Injustice.
After the photographer wrote Regnery reversing his permission to include the photographs in Injustice, the images were removed from the photographer's Flickr account. Yet we were able to capture them before they disappeared.
The photographs show Obama sharing the same podium at the event with the Panthers.
In the first image, Shabazz stands at the podium, surrounded by uniformed Panthers, including Muhammed. In the second photograph, Obama commands the same podium.
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Tomorrow, J. Christian Adams, the Department of Justice whistleblower in the New Black Panther Party case, will release his new book, Injustice: Exposing the Racial Agenda of the Obama Justice Department (Regnery).
The book exposes Obama administration corruption far beyond the Panther dismissal, and reveals how the institutional Left has turned the power of the DOJ into an ideological weapon.
Adamss book also describes, in detail, the Selma march at which then-Senator Obama was joined by a group of Panthers who had come to support his candidacy.
Among those appearing with Obama was Shabazz, the Panther leader who was one of the defendants in the voter intimidation case that Attorney General Eric Holder dismissed. Also present was the Panthers Minister of War, Najee Muhammed, who had called for murdering Dekalb County, Georgia, police officers with AK-47s and then mocking their widows in this video (7:20 8:29).
Injustice includes a disturbing photo of Shabazz and the Panthers marching behind Obama with raised fists in the Black Power salute.
Wow! More turds for the crap pile--this admin can single-handedly power America with all the methane being generated in DC!
#3
If true, he's FUCKED, he'll be lucky to finish his term unimpeached.
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10/03/2011 15:57 Comments ||
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This won't impeach him. The Gunwalker scandal might. With all the corruption, it will be hard for him to walk away with charges being filed against him. People laughed when I wondered a couple years ago if he would finish his first term before he was impeached.
#5
Do you really want the Donks to drop him for another candidate who won't have this baggage of hypocrisy & economic failure, and and will have the sympathy/revenge factor over impeachment from the left and left center?
#6
Do you really want the Donks to drop him for another candidate who won't have this baggage of hypocrisy & economic failure, and and will have the sympathy/revenge factor over impeachment from the left and left center?
Posted by Procopius2k
An enthusiastic YES! He and his ilk will be stripped of their executive cover and the knives will come out for the lot! Let's get on with it and get it done.
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These Photo's and the videos of Obama's best buddy Shabazz calling for the murder of 'crackers' should make an interesting video. And no - it would not be racist. Well the content of the video calling for the murder and slaughter of white people would be racist - but not the video itself revealing the truth.
Not that the MSM, Congressional Racist Black Caucus, and the democrats wouldn't try to pull the race card.
Posted by: Bobby ||
10/03/2011 19:30 Comments ||
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it would be fun to watch WH Staffers' heads explode when President Slow Joe said: "I'm gonna deviate a bit from my prepared remarks..."
Posted by: Frank G ||
10/03/2011 19:37 Comments ||
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An enthusiastic YES!
Just remember Rush's Operation Chaos, aka anyone but Hillary, helped a lot to get us the present occupant of the WH. Of course the RINOs did their bit as well and that apparently haven't changed much either.
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I am under the theory that much of this legislation was mapped out even before the '08 election took place, and that the dems knew it would be unpopular but unstoppable, all they had to do was sell it, pass it, glamorize it in an orderly fashion so not to get blown out in '10. Obama tend not tend hearth as Hillary! may have plus the beer summit embarassments and demonizing of private citizens actually created and rallied grassroots opposition; in '09 there was no such official WH recognition of a TEA Party, and now the TEA party attracts all sorts of base accusations and they do not stick. In fact, rallies.
Under the bus, Eric. No pardon for you!
New documents obtained by CBS News show Attorney General Eric Holder was sent briefings on the controversial Fast and Furious operation as far back as July 2010. That directly contradicts his statement to Congress.
On May 3, 2011, Holder told a Judiciary Committee hearing, "I'm not sure of the exact date, but I probably heard about Fast and Furious for the first time over the last few weeks."
Yet internal Justice Department documents show that at least ten months before that hearing, Holder began receiving frequent memos discussing Fast and Furious.
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10/03/2011 19:44 ||
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The joke goes that anything named "Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms" ought to be a convenience store instead of an arm of the federal government, but what's going on in Washington these days with the embattled agency is no laughing matter.
Hardly a week passes now without some revelation about the Obama administration's complicity in what may yet turn out to be one of the worst and most lethal scandals in American history: Operation Fast and Furious.
In a classic Friday document dump -- a sure sign of an administration with something to hide -- the feds released to congressional investigators a month's worth of e-mail correspondence in the summer of 2010 between Bill Newell, then head ATF agent in Phoenix, and his friend Kevin O'Reilly, a former White House national-security staffer for North American affairs.
What do you know? Among the e-mails was a photograph of a powerful Barrett .50-caliber rifle that had been illegally purchased in Tucson and recovered in Sonora, Mexico, raising the possibility of a second "gunwalking" program, this one called "Wide Receiver."
Like Fast and Furious, the ATF-supervised scheme that saw thousands of weapons "walk" across the Mexican border for reasons no one in the Justice Department has yet satisfactorily explained, Wide Receiver was apparently a joint operation that also included the Drug Enforcement Administration, the FBI, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the IRS and the US Attorney's office.
It's likely there have been others, in such states as Florida and Indiana.
While the back-channel e-mails don't explicitly discuss Fast and Furious, they do show the White House's intense interest in the ATF's and other federal agencies' activities in Arizona. In one message, O'Reilly asks Newell whether he can share some information with other officials. "Sure, just don't want ATF HQ to find out, especially since this is what they should be doing (briefing you)!" comes the reply.
Despite whistle-blower testimony, Newell denies that his agents deliberately facilitated weapons transfers to Mexican drug lords, although he recently admitted in a supplemental statement to Rep. Darrell Issa's House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight that his July testimony "lacked clarity."
We've also just learned from documents that guns linked to Fast and Furious turned up in El Paso last year -- the first time such weapons have surfaced outside Arizona, where the guns were "released." A convicted drug felon was allowed to buy 40 AK-47-type rifles, which eventually wound up in Texas.
It's time for politicians on both sides of the aisle to demand answers from Justice and the White House. Issa and his colleague in the Senate, Chuck Grassley, have been doing yeoman's work, but there's only so much they can do without the wind at their backs.
A White House under investigation can delay, slow-walk documents, redact them in the name of national or operational security, and simply refuse to make witnesses available to investigators -- all of which the administration has done. Issa and Grassley had asked to interview O'Reilly before the end September, but the White House says he's on assignment in the Mideast and thus unavailable.
Short of a special prosecutor -- a move floated by Issa but one that the Justice Department, which is leading its own probe, would likely block -- the only hope we have that the truth will come out is public pressure.
So where are the GOP candidates? Where is a critical mass of journalists and commentators, who should be asking sharp, tough, pertinent questions in the national interest?
By now, it's clear that the US government is in Fast and Furious up to its ears -- with two, possibly three dead agents and more than 200 dead Mexicans to show for an operation that never had the slightest chance of success.
The only real question is: Why? The only things I can think of is that one gang was getting to strong so they wanted to even the odds, and to add to the narrative that US gun store owners were selling arms to the drug lords to push for further erosion of our 2nd Amendment rights.
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One possibly lesser question that may have NOT been asked; what monies and budgets were used to buy these weapons, and where has the money from these cross-border guns sales gone? Where is the accountability.
And proof from the WH itself that the ATF is lying its ass off.
This map, revealed in the White House document dump I reported about earlier today,shows the path of guns sent by ATF into Mexico from Arizona. Former Special Agent in Charge of the Phoenix Field Office has said over and over again under oath, that at no point didn't ATF allow guns to be trafficked into Mexico.
July 26, 2011:
At no time in our strategy was it to allow guns to be taken to Mexico, Newell said, adding that at no time did his agency allow guns to walk.
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with two, possibly three dead agents and more than 200 dead Mexicans to show for an operation that never had the slightest chance of success.
Seems like there is a lot of "splainin" to do that has not been forthcoming. Seems like there is a lot of criminal activity going on by those sworn to uphold the Constitution and the law. I guess this is one of those nuanced things where you have to break the law to uphold the law? But I fail to even see the upholding of the law part of this--not even a faint hint.
anything named Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms ought to be a convenience store instead of an arm of the federal government
Convenience store? Convenient for whom? The cartels and convicted felons. The administration?
A convicted drug felon was allowed to buy 40 AK-47-type rifles, which eventually wound up in Texas.
Thought there was a 10 year jail term for knowingly selling firearms to convicted felons?
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Saw an article a few days ago saying there was a while paper floating around DOJ proposing eliminating AFT and assigning legislative-mandated duties to DEA & FBI. Sounds like a firewall to protect Holder & Zero.
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And this doesn't include the weapons that went to MS-13 in Honduras out of South Florida and Texas....http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2011/07/rep-bilirakis-r-fl-demands-answers-from-attorney-general-holder-on-project-castaway/
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This is starting to smell more and more like the Bay of Pigs: a program started by a Republican with certain VERY specific requirements or it was to be cancelled; taken over by a Democrat and all of the stops and protections removed, and then gone ahead with without any of the redline conditions being paid attention; and it turns into an utter fiasco with hundreds of dead, and a political disaster for the US. Eisenhower's Bay of Pigs plan specifically stated that the only way to send in the Cubans was under American air cover so that they would have a chance at success. Guess what Kennedy killed, the air cover.
Bush's admin started a program that tracked a few limited straw man sales to learn the identities of the gun-runners operating in the Southwest, with NO guns being allowed to leave the country. Zero turns it into what it has become for his own domestic political agenda of banning the private ownership of firearms through the 'example of Mexico' and has turned it into a nightmare.
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Zero had better hope that the Mexicans never decide to indict him for aiding and abetting terrorism in Mexico, because the US and confirmed treaty gun export laws were not just ignored in this, they were actively and intentionally ignored and subverted.
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Fox Special Report today:
Holder is named twice in contemporary emails as having been briefed last summer on F&F. He testified this year he only learned of it this March. The lies are catching up to them
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That's raaaaaacist, #5 Mercutio. ;-p
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The joke goes that anything named "Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms" ought to be a convenience store instead of an arm of the federal government, but what's going on in Washington these days with the embattled agency is no laughing matter.
