I just received an attack email from the DNC press office, and it seems to be attacking Obamacare.
It's a link to a MarketWatch news story tying Mitt Romney to the Obama health-care plan. It quotes an academic who calls Mitt Romney the intellectual father of national health reform.'
And since Obamacare is a good thing, that would be a compliment, right? Except they're attacking Mitt Romney, so they must think that being associated with the Democrats' health-care fiasco is a bad thing. Except the Democrats passed it. So they know that we know that Romney knows that Obama knows that "You say you are lying, but if everything you say is a lie, then you are telling the truth, but you cannot tell the truth because you always lie... illogical! Illogical! Please explain!"
Well, now my head hurts.
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Where, oh where, will the jobs come from; oh where or where can they be?
Optimistic investors and economists promised jobs would be materializing by now. But, instead, 23,000 more private sector jobs evaporated in March. How .. unexpected ...
The figures released today in the so-called ADP report, "call into question the growing presumption that private-sector firms have turned the corner from job shedding to net hiring," said Goldman Sachs economist Jan Hatzius.
Employment fell at large and small firms, although the decline was slightly worse at small firms. Smaller companies, of course, continue to have trouble borrowing money. They lost 12,000 jobs, while medium companies lost 4,000 and large corporations 7,000.
The worst losses were among goods producers and manufacturers.
The disappointment spurred a decline in the stock market, but not a huge dive on the last day of the quarter. The Dow finished down about 50 points but climbed 4.1 percent for the quarter -- a nice climb for a single quarter. Still, investors are a little on edge as they await Friday's unemployment report.
Hatzius, who was a little discouraged by today's ADP report, did not amend his outlook. He is expecting a 275,000 improvement in employment in Friday's numbers. Employment should get a boost from government hiring for the census. Hatzius estimates 125,000 new census taker jobs will show up Friday.
So watch the numbers closely. A jolt from census takers doesn't mean businesses are bringing people back to work. Still, a paycheck is a paycheck. So census hiring should help the economy somewhat.
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It's understandable that people don't want oil wells in sight of their beaches. I really don't want it either. Did you ever step in oil while you were walking on the beach? I have. You see little globules of it floating in the water when you're out surfing. You get ugly brown splotches on your surfboard and then it gets all over you and it's hard to wash off. I don't even want to think about the Exxon Valdez.
We had to get desperate enough before we could do this and after 9/11 it became apparent that we had reached that point. I can't wait to see the Soddies being forced to lower their prices. Maybe they'll even have to use a higher percentage of their profits to buy food instead of exporting their perverted ideas about religion. But then the Chicoms will just buy more. And it may well be that we had to have a commie like Obama in the White House to get it done because if Bush had tried this there would have been one hell of an outrage.
I'd still like to see more trains and buses instead of cars. Cars can be handy to have around but driving one to work every day is for the birds. I still think solar panels on top of every roof should be part of every municipality's building code just like plumbing and wiring. Does that mean I'm not macho? Does that mean I'm a Californian? I dunno. I just think it makes sense.
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Solar Panels are too expensive, I looked into putting a farm up for my own use and to power My home would cost a Hundred Grand in Solar Panels alone, can't do it.
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This is probably a place for Glenmore to contribute. He seems to be familiar with the oil industry.
My 2 cents. I am jaundiced and suspicious about just about anything that comes out of Washington--either party. They don't seem to do much well. That said, if the government could be more business/industry friendly instead regarding them as the enemy, some good things might get done. The Department of Energy is worthless in getting much done in the 30 + years since creation--maybe it should be abolished. However, tax incentives could be given to industry to do research that would push oil replacements if oil drilling is a problem. Bush pushed quite a few inititives in powering autos, e.g hydrogen fuel cell technology. The MSM never reported much good that he did. And yes, I do miss him. I don't know why we don't mount a "Man on the Moon- like effort for more oil independence. I think we could get there fairly fast.
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Anything this President promises is the exact opposite in what you shall get. Even if this guy makes more signing statements to drill, his EPA will NOT let it happen.
The $500 Billion a year we send to the middle east will only become more. And the price of petrol shall become more further hurting our economy.
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EU6305, I understand your point. The arguement as far as I pin it is not some biological rejection of energy other than oil etc. The arguement is not theoretical or idealogical, but practical. To completely oversimplify the situation, its not letting go of the vine ya swinging by until ya got another vine to hold onto. An individual Tarzan could do it most of the time, but whoa the consequences of missing just once. To make all the USA do it all at once and suddenly our Tarzan becomes a blindfolded Ted Kennedy - the odds of a successful transit becomes below an acceptable level of risk.
For example: us prarie folk enjoy our sunsets and stars probably as much as nantucket folk enjoy their dingys, but we get to tilt at windmills while they bask in their view.
Believe it or not, the wind does not blow here all the time. Snowy or dusty environments hinder solar collection. Geothermal or hydroelectric is very dependant upon the location. Those energy efficient LED light sensing street lights are great on paper but don't cut fog and ironically do not put off enough heat to prevent them from frosting over. The electric or hybrid engine is far from replacing combustion in work vehicle apparatus. In a word, unreliable. I would not drive a car which the brakes didn't work one time out of a hundred.
Quite simply, one cannot climb from the foot to the crown of the Statue of Liberty in one step. Not being dependant upon foreign countries for energy - and that includes solar and wind generators built out of country as well as Saud and Hugoil - gives us some good step climbing footgear.
And there is this notion we will all grab the reigns of our unicorns and fly off into some utopian neverworld where mermaids sing and tuxedoed dolphins deliver the newspaper every morning.
I say make sure you have food enough for today before counting on the apple tree you have not even planted tomorrow.
Even if you had the magnificient "alternative" energy run car today, it would take 50 years for the world to be able to adapt it. Drill the ocean and damn the beach. You may walk on the beach for a few years and die of starvation, or drill now and live. Besides, our technology has improved so well in the last few decades that it is very possible that you may have the best of both worlds.
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I've heard quotes for solar panels on my roof for $15,000. That still sounds like a lot and it might not provide all the power I need. But if they were built into all new buildings just like the codes now require electrical wiring and plumbing it wouldn't add that much to your monthly mortgage payment. Cost of doing business. Then consider the savings in utility bills over the lifetime of the house/building and extrapolate that across the country. Your results may vary especially if you live in Minnesota. But it seems to me that over time there would be net savings.
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Tarzan swings,
Tarzan falls,
Tarzan breaks
his might balls.
I learned that little rhyme in second grade and I don't want to fall. I'm not saying don't drill and I don't drive a Prius. I am saying that oil is messy and that if we were a truly advanced and civilized society we might be able to find a better way. Keep drilling until we find that way but don't let moneyed interests keep us from trying to find it.
I'm very, very suspicious that moneyed interests have killing viable alternatives for quite some time. Everybody in Southern California has heard the fable of how in the 1920's GM, Firestone and Standard Oil conspired to bribe/talk the powers that be in Los Angeles out of developing light rail in favor of freeways and far flung suburbs. So now we have suburban sprawl as far as the eye can see, gridlocked freeways and smog.
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Choo choos do not work because Americans like independence. They like to be afforded the oppertunity to be late for work on their own merit, not have to carry bags full of work stuff, and drink coffee while listening to AM radio during their morning commute. They do not like living in stacks of building surrounded by other people. They do not like to be told how or where to live. They, WE like to determine our own destinies. So while you may think New York is ideal, many would rather live away from the carnage that will ensue when the nation collapses because of the ideal policies that you control freaks set up.
Country or suburbs will be a far better place to be when that happens. At least there, you may defend your turf, or get in a car and move elsewhere.
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Control freak? Who? Me? I just want a choice. I don't like being a slave to an automobile or a utility company or an oil company. How much are your car payments? How much are your car insurance payments? How much do you pay each month for gas? How much time do you spend stuck in traffic? Have you worn out your CD's yet or do you just listen to talk radio? Doesn't it get a little tiresome? How far do you drive to work? How much does it cost each year to maintain your car? I just had to pay $1000 for maintenance on my car. That hurt. I can think of a lot of other things I'd rather spend my money on. And I own four cars so you can have your car too. You can have as many cars as you want and have fun paying for them too.
I don't know when was the last time you were stuck in traffic on the I-5 in Los Angeles but I'm here to tell you it ain't fun. For me, this is the typical southern California experience: late for an important appointment, stuck in traffic, can't find a place to park when I get there and, to top it all off, gotta pee real bad.
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Whoop, before we caw fowl, robin us of discussion and duck the issue:
I dream of the day *Made in the USA* highly efficient SIPS panels with built-in photoelectric outside coating are used to build new structures. Looks like the point is that the challenges differ from region to region so a blanket cure-all is just does not do it.
I don't know a danged thing about LA except I was glad to be flying over it. Light rail system looks like it would be great there. Now, how long to design and build the thing, and who will pay? We must have the economy/purchasing power so that when these new technologies come market online we as a society have that option. But it ain't happening anytime soon - there seems to be an underlying notion that the humanity can get there in 5 years if we just throw enough money at it. The buses in Lawrence KS do a fine job getting people to and from campus and a horrible job getting people to and from downtown, grocery stores - if public transport was going to work in Kansas it would work there. Electric cars may work in SoCal, maybe not so much in Minnesota.
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James Taranto, in today's Best of the Web, raises an interesting point about the American response to the Moscow bombings:
[Bay Area Rapid Transit] officials urged passengers to be alert for passengers acting strangely--dressed oddly, carrying strange objects, lingering for long periods of time or standing in strange places--and report them to station agents or train operators. Hartwig admitted, however, that such behavior is not uncommon at BART, and doesn't necessarily signal a security threat.
That's helpful, isn't it? It's another reason Americans are right to love their cars.
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We do get some colorful characters on our transit systems and some of them come with some strange aromas. But cars are also subject to terrorism. Somebody drives a truck bomb onto a bridge at rush hour and you could have a lot of dead people not to mention an expensive repair job for the bridge. Well, you could always drive a few more miles to avoid bridges, etc., etc., etc. Depends on how much you love that car.
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You want to get of ME oil, you have to have a plan. To have a plan you need to know where the energy comes from and how you use it. Once you know that, you can start incremental planning on how to get to energy independence. It is somewhat of a moving target, with new resources and technologies coming into play and old ones phasing out.
Washington, DC does not have a clue, because there are few scientists and engineers at the top who know the science to make intelligent decisions.
Here is what is happening now:
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Neat chart AP. Agreed, one needs to know such things in order to set policy that makes sense.
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I remember a few years ago when everyone was crazy over oil prices and there was talk about drilling in Alaska and people said it wouldn't produce oil for four years.
Jon Stewert in one of his best bits said something like: "that's what they said four years ago. That oil sure would be nice about now."
Hydrogen power is always 20 years out. Nuclear plants are ten years out if we even build them. I'm not a fan of oil but at least oil helps us in the short term.
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Ebbang Uluque6305| you didn't add in the cost of maintenance and repair. What happens in a hailstorm? What happens when there are 3 straight weeks of clouds? You still have to have a conventional back-up system meaning you have to pay for 2 separate systems and try to integrate them. At this point solar panels are not practical for the vast majority.
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I'm reminded of the statement that everything is easy to the person who doesn't have to do it.
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Here is how I would analyze our energy situation by using the above chart.
1. Our biggest vulnerability is our dependence on imported oil. Where does the oil go to? The main thing it goes to is light duty vehicles. Cars pickups, etc. Next biggest load is industrial. Sure. Feedstocks for industrial processes. Then you have freight uses, like trucks. Then aircraft.
2. How do we get off our dependence on foreign oil? We drill domestically, we utilize natural gas as much as we can for domestic light vehicle fleets, buses, etc. Drilling domestically will buy us time while we work on the problem. Higher efficiencies will buy us more time, IF we continue to develop technologies.
3. We have lots of coal. We could always go Fischer Tropsch and make diesel fuel. That uses 30% of the feedstock for energy. Combine with heat recovery to make it more efficient.
4. Natural gas is a great resource. We have more than we figured. Utilize it any way you can.
5. Utilize biomass. Make it a renewable resource. Not just wood, but grasses, cellulose waste. That will create jobs real jobs.
6. Do not turn you back on coal. It provides electricity. It will hold us over while we retool for the future. Energy losses in power generation are mainly thermodynamic losses. Capture low level heat from power plants for district heating.
7. Make the power grid more distributed to make it more robust.
8. Nuke plants are good with recovered heat. We ought to burn plutonium. We have more than we need. Security issues.
9. Wind and solar have a place, but not the mainstream. Energy storage is hard. It is not easy to compete with the compact energy storage of a gallon of gasoline or diesel fuel. There still needs some more maturity with these technologies, though progress is being made.
The main thing is that we PRIORITIZE our needs. Then form follows function in our solution.
This Washington DC pie in the sky crap does nothing but cost us time and resources, and our national security. We cannot wait for DC to solve our problems. I wrote letters to congress critters since the oil embargo of 1973 1974 and have not accomplished jack sh*t. DC can go to hell.
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Someone mentioned the issue of oil spills being a concern. Can anyone remember the last time we had an oil spill from offshore drilling rigs. I can't.
I'd say drill. Good analysis AP but makes sense and is altogether to practical for many in Washington. There are some good people in Congress and you can be heard--but there are also a lot of fools that are more interested in poltical correctness than survival of the country.
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Today marks the 20th anniversary of our moving into our current home. In that 20 years, we've had to replace the shingles on our roof three times, due to hail. I've had two cars that the insurance companies have totaled due to hail damage. Most solar panels will survive most average hailstorms. The problem is, we don't HAVE "average" hailstorms. Golf-ball size and larger hailstones are NORMAL. One storm about 10 years ago wiped out half the roofs in Colorado Springs, and damaged a third of the solar panels that were installed at that time.
I walked on the beach at Rimini in Italy in the 1970's. There were thousands of cuttlefish "bones" on the beach, and each had a glob of tar sticking to it. It's not pretty. I've also been to Galveston several times. You can see six or seven oil rigs from the beach. There hasn't been a major incident in the last ten or twelve years.
We've come a long way in cleaning up coal waste gasses. We trap the soot, remove sulfur, and remove a dozen other pollutants. There have been new discoveries made almost yearly to reduce emissions of toxic waste. We have coal reserves that will last us several thousand years. That's plenty of time to do the research, develop the processes, and expand the infrastructure for other energy production.
The first nuclear-powered ship in the US Navy was launched about 1954. Since then, we've built dozens more. There has been ONE accident involving a nuclear propulsion system aboard a Navy ship. The technology has improved significantly since 1954. Nuclear power plants can help relieve some of our dependence on coal-fired power generation.
There's plenty of oil in the United States and its territories. Alaska (supposedly) has more oil than Saudi Arabia. Sure, it's hard to get to, and it's a long way to anywhere it's needed, but it's even farther to Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf nations. One of the problems in our becoming energy independent is that a small majority do everything possible to keep us from getting that oil, shipping or piping it where it's needed, and building/expanding our refinery capability to use that oil. A couple of very small changes to existing legal rules would put an end to that, but our "elected officials" are bought and paid for by the same group of do-gooders that keep us from drilling.
I won't believe anything has changed until the first barrel of oil actually reaches a refinery, or the first million cubic feet of natural gas reaches a distribution point.
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So your answer is to stick it to the taxpayer, Ebbang Uluque?
You think thats an answer?
I could afford more were it not for that Damn Government standing in MY WAY.
A new Gallup poll shows that a majority of Americans believes Democrats abused their power by using procedural shortcuts and controversial parliamentary tactics to pass the new national health care makeover. But what do their opinions count for? Buncha racist jerks.
And in a striking finding, slightly more people blame the Democrats' tactics than Republican criticism for the threats of violence and vandalism that were reported after the bill's passage.
The poll asked, "Regardless of whether you favored or opposed the health care legislation Congress passed this past week, do you think the methods the Democratic leaders in Congress used to get enough votes to pass this legislation were an abuse of power or were an appropriate use of power by the party that controls the majority in Congress?" The results: 53 percent say the Democrats' methods were an abuse of power, while 40 percent say they were appropriate.
Breaking down the results by party, 86 percent of Republicans say the Democrats abused their power, while 58 percent of independents agree. Nineteen percent of Democrats say their own leaders abused their power, while 70 percent say Democratic methods were appropriate.
Next, the poll asked, "Do you think each of the following is a major reason, a minor reason, or not a reason these threats and acts of vandalism occurred?" Respondents were asked to consider three possibilities: "controversial political maneuvers by Democratic leaders to get the votes needed to pass the health care legislation," "harsh criticism of the health care bill from conservative commentators on radio and television," and "harsh criticism of the health care bill from Republican leaders." Forty-nine percent said the Democrats' maneuvering was a major reason, while 25 percent said it was a minor reason and 22 percent said it was not a reason. Forty-six percent said conservative commentary was a major reason, versus 26 percent who said it was a minor reason and 23 percent said it was not a reason. And 43 percent said Republican leaders were a major reason, versus 29 percent who said they were a minor reason and 23 percent who said they were not a reason.
The new numbers suggest that the public remains troubled by the tactics used to pass the unpopular health care measure. And they suggest that Rep. David Dreier, the ranking Republican on the House Rules Committee, was right when he said, at the time of the bill's passage, "The American people have gotten the message that process is substance." The usual conventional wisdom says process is simply not important, but the health care debate seems to be an exception.
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Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio) canceled a town hall on the new healthcare law Tuesday because of concerns about the security of the event. Scared to meet his constituents, is he?
The congressman's office cited safety issues at the facility where the meeting was to take place and threats to his office, according to a report by News21. "The last time I tried a town hall meeting they pelted me with dog turds. This time it could be worse! The circus is in town!
"We just thought it best to cancel it for safety concerns. This was not meant to be a place where we're going to talk partisan politics," Pat Lowry, a member of Ryan's staff, told News21. "Don't get me wrong, Congressman Ryan will debate anyone, anytime." "He just won't talk partisan politix."
The cancelation comes a week after many lawmakers received threats because of their votes on the healthcare measure. "We're gonna vote your fat ass out" is a threat, I guess...
Democrats and Republicans spent the end of last week sparring over which party bore the blame for the attacks. "I'm going into hiding because Sarah Palin called for my assassination!"
Some Democrats, such as DNC Chairman Tim Kaine, accused Republicans of stoking the anger of Tea Party protesters, who Democrats say threatened members of their party. "Maybe you'll be able to find a rewarding career in the food service industry, Congressman!"
"Help! Help! I'm being threatened!"
Some Republicans, such as House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (Va.), blamed Democrats for using the attacks as a political weapon against them. "I'm the one with the bullet hole in my window!"
"Yeah, but that was just random!"
"They arrested a guy who was gonna murder me!"
"That was random, too. He coulda murdered anybody."
A number of demonstrators who both supported and opposed the healthcare overhaul showed up at the event, which was to be held at the Youngstown Community Health Center. "Arrrrr! Lemme at him!"
According to the Warren Tribune Chronicle, a threatening letter was mailed to Ryan after he voted in favor of the healthcare reform bill a week and a half ago. Ryan's office told the news outlets that it plans to reschedule the event and hold it at a venue that has adequate security.
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Ryan's office told the news outlets that it plans to reschedule the event and hold it at a venue that has adequate security
ie a dark union hall populated by truncheon-wielding SEIU goons
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This was not meant to be a place where we're going to talk partisan politics
In other words, he only wants to talk to people who slavishly agree with him.
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I was at a Cao Town Hall, and to his credit he showed up, allowed anyone in, and accepted questions from anyone - though of course weaseled around answering a lot of them. But he's a Republican, kind of.
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"Don't get me wrong, Congressman Ryan will debate anyone that agrees with him, anytime." There fixed it for them. "A threatening letter" Like one? What pussies. I dare them to walk a half mile in Glen Beck's, Ann Coulter's, or Sean Hanniy's shoes. I say half cause they would curl up in a ball weeping after that. What I take away from the article is that they (donks) do not want accountability for votes.
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These individuals are refusing to come to there performance review. If someone was supposed to be working for me, but was actually being coached in how to rip me off, acting as though they OWN me instead, I would fire them IMMEDIATELY and go after them what they took from me. Recall now. Recall is a viable, All American, internal process. Don't wait until November to remove "some of them" or these coniving thieves will make it harder to do then.
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I didn't think there was a provision in the U.S. Constitution for recall. However, I thought I read that some States have a kind of provision for recall. If recall is viable, I am all for it when representatives are arrogant, ignore the will of the people--in other words don't do their job and don't think they are accountable to anyone but party (or collective if you prefer).
To read the news, you might assume that there is a militiaman under every rock and that every tea party is a front for the Aryan Nation.
Will Sarah Palin's "targeting" of House Democrats incite assassins? Is "kill the bill" really a call to violence? Are there links between the Republican Party and nine nuts shooting guns outside a southern Michigan doublewide?
It is usually those out of power who are drawn to paranoid conspiracies, but Democrats sound like a pack of John Birchers talking about a shadowy conspiracy that is plotting against them.
Certainly the Right has seen its share of black helicopters since the dawning of the age of Obama.
There are still the fringey few who hope that Barack Obama isn't really the president because he isn't really a citizen. More common is the wild-eyed notion that Obama is trying to fail on purpose in order to precipitate a crisis that will give him even greater power.
But as they said about the Black Sox scandal, you have to be pretty good to play that bad. This administration is making it up as it goes along. Suggesting that presidential advisers Valerie Jarrett and David Axelrod have the skills to fail on purpose gives them far too much credit.
The mistakes of the Obama administration stem from good intentions, inexperience, and excessive self-confidence. The president desperately wants to succeed and believes he is doing so.
But it's not surprising that some conservatives would be driven to distraction. Going from a Republican majority and a conservative ascendancy to a Democratic supermajority and the revival of an agenda more liberal than any in modern times has left a lot of heads spinning.
What's unusual is for the party in power to so deeply embrace conspiratorial thinking. Democrats control both houses of Congress and the presidency, which brings in all of the spooky stuff -- the military, the FBI, the CIA.
But you wouldn't know it from listening to the leaders of the party.
Democrats in Congress have tried to link their passage of the president's health care plan with the protection of black equal rights in 1964. By extension, those who resist what they've done are no better than segregationists.
And when Democrats claimed that ugly racial epithets were hurled at members walking into the Capitol or that one member was spit on, establishment media outlets gobbled up the story.
The video from that walk has been pored over like the Zapruder film. There is some spittle flying from the lips of a shouting protester, but no spitting in disdain. And no one has found any evidence to corroborate the claim that the n-word was flying.
But it appeals to Democrats to think that while what they've done is unpopular, it is morally right. Half of the country may be telling them to stop, but it's only because their minds have been poisoned by racism and intolerance.
White House health care spokeswoman Linda Douglass has been on a crusade against "disinformation" and "so-called analysis" for months.
It's part of the unified media theory at the White House: Nutters say bad things about the president and his policies on the Internet and then Fox News takes on the case. Soon, establishment media outlets are reporting the story.
It's seen as a perpetual motion conspiracy that keeps more Americans from understanding what's good for them.
Obama talks about the "loose amalgam of forces" arrayed against him and says that the "core group" of the tea party movement isn't "sure whether [he] was born in the United States, whether [he] was a socialist."
Rather breezy of the president to equate thinking him a socialist with thinking that he is an impostor. You don't have to be someone who stays up late looking through Kenyan birth announcements to think what's going on here looks an awful lot like socialism.
Obama is trying to delegitimize dissent by lashing his all his critics in the same boat.
It's a strategy that deepens the political chasm in America, but one that hints at significant peril for the president's ambitions.
It's paranoia when people without power imagine that an elite group is conspiring against them. But when the ruling classes think that the masses are out to get them, that means there's revolution in the air.
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Maybe they could get some pointers from their buddy Yugo Chavez on how to deal with problem people.
Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) is afraid that the U.S. Territory of Guam is going to "tip over and capsize" due to overpopulation. Fergawdsake, Joe! What're you doing out there?
Johnson expressed his worries during a House Armed Services Committee hearing on the defense budget Friday.
Addressing Adm. Robert Willard, who commands the Navy's Pacific Fleet, Johnson made a tippy motion with his hands and said sternly, "My fear is that the whole island will become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize."
Willard paused and said: "We don't anticipate that." ...you friggin moron.
Like other islands, Guam is attached to the sea floor, which makes it extremely unlikely that it will tip over, even if there are lots and lots of people on it. Geez. Thanks for clearing that up. I was worried...
Guam is 30 miles long and up to 9 miles wide in certain spots, with a population of 175,000 civilians. The military is proposing the addition of 8,000 U.S. servicememebers and their families.
Reached for comment, a spokesman for Johnson said the lawmaker had visited Guam, and his concern was that the influx of military personnel would overwhelm the island's infrastructure and ecosystem.
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This guy is on drugs or mentally challenged, IMHO. Watch the video and weep. This guy votes for trillions of your dollars, as well as similarly challenged house members. Are we doomed? I hope not.
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A mind is a terrible thing to waste.
The admiral should have told him it's safe so long as the folks don't all run to the same side.
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The admiral should have told him it's safe so long as the folks don't all run to the same side.
Not that we need anyone to actually TRY that, just in case.
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From what I've read, he has Hepatitis C, which "affects" him.
Maybe he got it from the water in his district, which might also be his predecessor's excuse...
#8
My God, the dictionary definition of "Moron" illustrated live.
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Hepatitis C
Wrong organ. I would have guessed late stage syphilis.
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"BATTLESHIP OKLAHOMA", HUGO CHAVEZ's COUNTRY/ISLANDS-DESTROYING, US-MADE "EARTHQUAKE BOMBS" ABOARD NAVAL/MARITIME VESSELS AS US RETREATS/WITHDRAWS FROM TASIA-PACIFIC NOT HWITSHANDING.
* "Guam is attached to the sea floor" > Are the Perts sure of that? When I returned to Guam in the 1990's I heard new geologic Theories about how the underwater mountain = Mountain range of which Guam-CNMI is zenith is akin to a GEOLOGIC VERSION OF A MASSIVE UNDERWATER CORAL/ROCK POLYP, HEAVY OR FAT ON TOP BUT HELD UP AT ITS BASE BY THIN OR WEAK STEM OR OTHER CONNECTIVE FUSE TO THE SEA FLOOR.
Think MUSHROOM, LILYPAD, or UPSIDE DOWN SPADE [Cards].
Just sayin.
Iff there is disagreement or lack of consensus by US-World Perts as per GLOBAL WARMING, CAUSES AND EFFECTS, WHY NOT SAME FOR "SAFE/ACADEMIC" GEOLOGY AND OTHER MAJOR SCIENCES?
Anuther test for "GLOBALISM" + so-called "OWG-NWO",
For those of you who have never traveled to the West or Southwest, cattle guards are horizontal steel rails placed at fence openings, in dug-out places in the roads adjacent to highways (sometimes across highways), to prevent cattle from crossing over that area. For some reason the cattle will not step on the "guards," probably because they fear getting their feet caught between the rails.
A few months ago, President Obama received a report that there were over 100,000 cattle guards in Colorado. Because Colorado ranchers had protested his proposed changes in grazing policies, he ordered the Secretary of the Interior to fire half of the guards immediately.
Before the Interior Secretary could respond and presumably straighten him out, Vice-President, Joe Biden, intervened with a request that before any guards were fired, they be given six months reetraining.
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One of the legendary stories of the "Old Navy" claimed that a frontier congressman emerged from a below decks tour of a wooden navy vessel exclaiming, "Why, it's all hollow down there!"
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Atomic Conspiracy----If you are referring to my comment (#1), I was deadly serious. The Admiral must have felt that he was visiting an asylum when he went to the hearings.
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As long as they don't hold any liberal rallies off of the island's center of mass, they ought to be OK.
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About the Admiral and a bit more That Naval officer is ADM Willard, Commander USPACOM. Of course, I can call him Rat as that was his callsign when I met him as the CO of VF-51, the Screaming Eagles.
Hes a pretty cool guy with a good sense of humor. He was one of the advisors on Topgun and also was one of the MiG pilots in the movie.
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Mojo, there were MIG's in "Top Gun"- remember the 4G inverted dive that Tom Cruise did - the plane directly under him was a MIG. They were in the beginning and the end of the movie.
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Maybe she shouldn't laugh. How would anyone's brain be after spending an evening with this guy. He probably got his info on good authority from him.
Iff my various personal dreams/visions are correct, DITTO FOR GUAM-CNMI-MICRON,ETC. IN A FUTURE TIME.
AND FYI, this kind of GLOBAL WARMING effect throughout ASIA-PACIFIC is exclusive of BANGLADESH, PAKISTAN, MALAYSIA-INDONESIA, ....@etc SOUTH ASIA REPLACING THE PHILIPPINES + OTHER ASIAN AS SOURCE OF CHEAP INTERNATIONAL LABOR [read, CULTURAL, POPULATION DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGES].
AFAIS Contractors are already bringing in batches of MUSLIM WORKERS from SOUTH/SE ASIA for the MARINE BUILDUP, NOT FILIPINOS,ETC. whom are now deemed as too expensive relative to the Banglas Pakis,Malays-Indons, etc.
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GLOBAL WARMING WAR-induced DIAPORAS = COMING POPULATION, CULTURAL SHIFTS = ............CLUSTERS OF FLOATING HOMES/HOUSEBOATS/VILLAGES along future Guam coast lines.
An Arizona House committee advanced a bill Wednesday that would criminalize the presence of illegal immigrants in the state. The House Military Affairs and Public Safety Committee advanced the legislation on an 8-3 vote. The committee changed key provisions, but critics said the changes still leave many questions unanswered.
The bill, sponsored by Rep. Russell Pearce, R-Mesa, would ban soft immigration policies in police agencies and prohibit people from blocking traffic when they seek or offer day-labor services on street corners.
Some 460,000 illegal immigrants live in Arizona, according to recent federal estimates.
"I'm tired of those folks who simply advocate we don't enforce our laws, Pearce said. "I'm tired of those folks who ignore the damage to our nation."
As originally introduced, the bill would have criminalized the presence of illegal immigrants under state law through an expansion of the trespassing statute. Under the changes adopted Wednesday, the measure would instead create the new crime of willful failure to complete or carry an alien registration document. It would allow officers to arrest immigrants who are unable to show documents proving they're legally in the country.
But critics said the provision could cause legal immigrants and U.S. citizens to be detained. Federal law requires legal immigrants to carry identification at all times, but citizens are not required to have ID.
Pearce dismissed the criticism, saying police officers routinely verify the identity of people they stop.
The bill also seeks to draw local police deeper into the fight against illegal immigration by allowing people to sue police agencies if they believe the agency has a policy that restricts the enforcement of federal immigration laws.
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Dumb approach. Go after the employers. Drain the (employment) swamp.
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Go after both sides. Use prison labor to build a wall, and then leave them on the Mexican side when they're done. So sick of our politicos not doing shit about this.
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McCain, facing a tough reelection campaign, has deflected questions about this bill saying "It's a state issue."
Similar bills were vetoed three times by former Democratic Gov. Janet Napolitano, but current Gov. Jan Brewer has signaled she will sign the bill once it reaches her desk.
Ima fearing for Joe M first, then the collective IQ curve in Congress next HT WeaselZipper
Tell me that admiral ain't wondering, "What has this guy been smoking?"
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"Tis a THREE-WAY looming between US + CHINA + [creeping/gradual]RADICAL ISLAM, KAMALEN [Guam] + COMET APOPHIS [Moon = World] + GLOBAL WARMING + GAMMA RAY BURSTIES + NIBIRU/PLANET X, etc. notwithstanding.
The 1990's GUANTANAMO MODEL/SCENARIO, aka US SOVEREIGN, LOCAL ECON-VITAL US MILBASE(or more] located on a HOSTILE = ENEMY?, ANTI-DEMOCRATIC, ANTI-US? ISLAND NATION OF CUBA/QUBA = GUAM???
Year 2012 + PAN-ISLAMIST NUCLEARIZATION, or NOT?, will determine the strategic direction of both the ISLAMIST UNIVERSAL JIHAD + ANY DESIRED OWG-NWO [PRO-US versus ANTI-US, America vs Amerika, OWG Mighty USSA versus PWG Weak USRoAmerika SSR, etc.]
WE MISSED 1960's = 1980's MADONNA SAYING SHE WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD, DIDN'T WE?
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CF - maybe sea level isn't rising due to global warming - the land is sinking due to overpopulation! And the most populated places will be going under first, which explains why they are the most supportive of the cap & trade stuff.
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
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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.
A new Gallup poll shows that a majority of Americans believes Democrats abused their power by using procedural shortcuts and controversial parliamentary tactics to pass the new national health care makeover. 
