Aug 28, 2008 | 8:13 PM
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If you never go to any other site you should really go to this one. Then you need to ask yourselfs why the Democrats do not want us to drill here and drill now for our own oil.
http://www.energyandcapital.com/articles/bakken-oil
-formation/578
By Keith Kohl
Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
"This thing is absolutely huge!"
That's what I was told after asking about the Bakken formation. And trust me, the oil boom in North Dakota is far from over.
On April 10, 2008, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) released their field report about the Bakken. The formation stretches across North Dakota, Montana and Saskatchewan. The report estimates that 3.65 billion barrels of oil can be recovered from the Bakken formation.
According to the USGS, "This is the largest oil accumulation in the lower 48 states. It is also the largest continuous type of oil accumulation ever assessed by the USGS."
Put it this way: The last time the USGS released an assessment was in 1995 and announced that only 151 million barrels of oil can be recovered.
In other words, the latest assessment is 25 times greater than previous estimates!
Let's break down the April 10th report for a second.
Based on the report, the Bakken holds between 3 billion and 4.3 billion barrels of "undiscovered, technically recoverable" oil. To put that into perspective, that's less than half of the amount of recoverable oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Reserves (ANWR) in Alaska. Naturally, the Bakken is in a much better location. Drilling is only one obstacle. Just imagine the amount of infrastructure (pipelines, etc) needed to exploit the ANWR oil reserves.
Remember, the USGS was only counting on "undiscovered, technically recoverable" reserves. That doesn't include the oil reserves already found by companies. That's also assuming that oil companies don't improve their drilling technology. Once producers begin drilling, they'll continually improve their extraction techniques. After all, technological advancements like horizontal drilling are one of the reasons this resource is accessible.
The USGS report also failed to factor in the record oil prices. Ever since oil broke the $100 a barrel mark, we've repeatedly seen it hit new highs. Recently, prices came just eight cents from breaking $120 a barrel.
So why should we care about how high oil goes this summer?
For starters, the more expensive oil is, the more money producers can invest. It was only a few years ago that oil cost about $20 a barrel. And if things keep going the way they have been, we could be seeing $140 a barrel in 2008.
Okay, perhaps it's difficult to imagine $140 a barrel peaking this summer, but don't forget where oil prices were a year ago. When oil cost a mere $63 a barrel, how skeptical were you that prices would reach $100 a barrel?
Be honest.
Personally, I can't even picture oil under $100 a barrel, especially after its price jump this past winter.
Investing in the Bakken Formation
Let's get back to the Bakken.
It doesn't matter if oil prices experience a slight pullback, however unlikely. But if the North Dakota and USGS reports proved anything, it's that we can expect a huge amount of investment.
Believe me, this play isn't going to fade out. Lynn Helms, the director of North Dakota's department of mineral resources, put it best, "It's going to be slow, sustained oil production that can last a century or more."
Go to the site and read then google it for you self and see just how much oil we actually have outside of ANWR. Also there are a few more sites to cross check with.
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http://geology.com/usgs/bakken-formation-oil.shtml<
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http://www.nextenergynews.com/news1/next-energy-new
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Now ask yourselfs why Pelosi and the others don't want us to drill here knowing this same informaton. Why they are bent on buying from other countries? Why they want us to invest in solar panels and wind machines? Better yet ask Al Gore, he's already making millions off the go green and buy from my investments.
Aug 27, 2008 | 7:41 PM
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As some of you know I own a pound puppy named Mouse. Well he is hyper active and both my husband and I thought he needed a play mate as Mouse just could not get the squirrels to cooperate. Out of pity for our pup we lost our minds and got a new puppy just 5 and 1/2 wks old. Not sure what breed he is but he is cute and a royal pain. I forgot all the work it takes to house break a puppy as most of our dogs were older and house broken when we got them or it was at least 20 years ago when we last had a puppy.
We now own Mickey. Mickey makes strange noises that resemble something a duck might make if caught by a fox and seems to think it is a bark. He makes this sound then he crickles his brow as if wanting to know who did it. He chews on everything from metal to our shoes, which I never had to deal with but do know some puppies do this. He constantly wants food and he gets rid of it just as often if you know what I mean. So we now have a puppy that eats, poops, and chews on everything.
Now none of this would be too bad except he wears out Mouse and Mouse has taken to hiding from the puppy. So the playmate for our pound puppy is too active for him. They do play and they are really roudy and they seem to like each other but now I have two hyper active dogs with one more so than the other and both are smart. So when Mouse hides We are stuck intertaining his playmate and the puppy wears us both out. Now we all have to take naps just to survive the new guy.
I would not have taken on a puppy if it hadn't been for the fact that he was on death row and now I wonder where my mind was. For the few minutes it took for puppy breath, which smells like skunk, and sad brown eyes, with a funny bark and a wigglely body hadn't gotten to my soft side. I just wonder now which of all of us will survive puppyhood. Mickey, Mouse or us? Getting up twice a nite to walk him is exsausting and it would be nice if my shoes were not chewed on and he didn't like pulling my hair.
I am quickly forgetting how it felt to get coffee without a puppy chewing my anckles as I try to walk and my toes when I sit. I am wondering if I will ever get to sleep past 5 a.m. and not have to get up at 12 a.m. and 2 a.m. to take him out. I want my king size bed to myself and not have two dogs vying for the best place closet to me to the point I can't move. After all it is a huge bed with plenty of room only with a dog at the back of my knees and one at my gut I can't hardly move because of my mutts.
I do have to admit when Mickey has to go at night he grabs a chunk of my hair and pulls till it hurts and if that doesn't work he just bites my ear and I get up and out we go so that part is easy for him but kinda hard on me. I do own a shampooer so I can keep the oopsies cleaned up. But I do want to make it clear at some point I lost my mind to think I would want a puppy. Now I have one and if I make it past his six month b-day then we all will have made it. Just say a prayer because like it or not the puppy will stay because I do not believe in dumping a small pain on some one else. I made the choise while out of my mind but now that I have Mickey has a permanent home. I will post pics of Mickey and Mouse together as soon as I get some.
Take care and God Bless.
Aug 25, 2008 | 8:17 PM
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It never ends.
By Bill Sammon
Racial infighting among Democrats, which marred the presidential primaries, has flared up again at the party’s convention in Denver, where a black Hillary Clinton delegate is accusing a black Barack Obama delegate of calling her an “Uncle Tom.”
Delmarie Cobb of Chicago told FOX News Monday that Illinois Senate President Emil Jones, whom Obama called his “political godfather,” hurled the racially charged insult against her late Saturday for speaking out in support of Clinton. Although Democrats at the convention are trying to project an image of unity, there is lingering bitterness between the Clinton and Obama camps, in part because each side accused the other of playing the race card during the primaries.
On Monday, Illinois’ National Organization for Women President Bonnie Grabenhofer reportedly called on Jones to resign immediately from the Illinois state Senate for using the racial slur.
“That was a pretty horrible comment,” Grabenhofer, also a Clinton delegate, told The Sun-Times.
Cobb said Jones called her “Uncle Tom” in front of a group of Chicago aldermen in a hotel lobby after the two began a playful conversation that turned edgy as Cobb accused Jones of gloating over Obama’s victory. Jones then insinuated that Clintons played “gutter politics,” according to Cobb, who ended the conversation by announcing it was “time for me to go.”
“I walked away and said good night and walked over across the hall to the elevators,” she recalled. “And he shouted across the lobby, ‘Uncle Tom!’
“And I came back over and said, ‘Excuse me, what did you just say?’ And he grabbed me by my arms and started laughing. And I said, ‘No, no. What did you just say?’ And he didn’t repeat it. And I said, ‘Did you call me an Uncle Tom?’ And then I came back with a barrage of things that I won’t repeat publicly.”
The epithet comes from the title character of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s 19th century anti-slavery novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” and typically it is construed as an insult meaning a black person who acts passively or submissively toward whites.
Initially, Jones denied calling Cobb an “Uncle Tom” and refused to elaborate. However, he is now telling reporters that he called her a “doubting Thomas” and that Cobb must have misheard the remark.
“She was spouting things about Barack,” Jones said. “What I said was, ‘Come on board, he’s a nice, clean cut guy and everything.’ I said, ‘We’ve got to stop all this. We’ve got too many doubting Thomases and we’ve got to get together.’
“And she was walking away and therefore she heard the last part of the word; she didn’t hear the whole part,” Jones added. “I cannot apologize for one misinterpreting what I said.”
Cobb questioned why the “doubting Thomas” explanation never came up when she first confronted Jones and he refused to repeat his remark.
“If he had said ‘doubting Thomas,’ he should have said it right then and there, said, ‘No, I did not say Uncle Tom, I said doubting Thomas.’ And it would have been over with,” Cobb said.
The Chicago Sun-Times quoted several aldermen who witnessed the exchange and confirmed that Jones called Cobb an “Uncle Tom.”
“I am firm in my convictions,” Cobb told FOX News. “Supporting Hillary Clinton is not a litmus test for being black.”
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/08/25/chicago-cli
nton-supporter-obama-mentor-called-me-uncle-tom/
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Aug 25, 2008 | 11:53 AM
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When I vote my vote says I want a person who I believe I can place some if not all my trust in. One who has not lied about the issues I expect my President, Senator or Represenative to have. I want honest answer to where they stand on issues as I can look up their voting history unless they are new.
So I have decided Obama is out. He has voted no on issues I feel are against America's best intrest yet said he was for them, I looked it up and posted it, he has friends that are terrorist, as in Ayers and I looked that up, radical anti-America and whites as with his last minister Rev. Wright, and his some of his backers as with the Moveon.org, and his consistan lies as with his party crossing more when he does least. Then we come to the choices he made with Russia and Georgia, three tries before he came to the right one.
I also can not vote for a man who refuses to admit when he is wrong and some one else is right as with the Surge in Iraq. It tells alot about a man who can not say,"I was wrong", when he is wrong at a time when he needs to be right will he keep going the wrong path or say he made a mistake and reverse his path. I find myself wondering just when does he tell the truth and when is he lying?
I find it hard to except his wanting us to find McCain out of touch because he owns property and has money while stating how wise and experianced his good friend Kennedy is who is richer and there fore more out of touch and his friend Kerry who is married to the woman who owns Heinz and is richer than McCain. Then we have Al Gore who is making millions off his go green and global warming theory, which is bunk as the Ice Bergs are expanding not shrinking and the earth go threw cycles of warmth then cold, but Al is not above using it to become wealthy. So more democrats are rich than republicans so they have to be more out of touch.
I find a man who needs his granny and wife to advise him on issues concerning the running of our country as wierd, I would think he would use people who have been there and done that first. His choice of VP is just as far left as he is and is old school and votes for more taxes and bigger spending and uses more pork than Obama at a time our nation is deeply in debt.
But most of all I find it offensive that he stands idally by while congress is on vacation and not doing their jobs in hopes he and more dems are elected so they can spend more on pork and goverment waste. I find it a slap in the face that the majority wants to drill for our own oil and the democrats are blocking it while our government spend 800+ billion buying it out of our country and jobs we need here are going to those same countries which most of them hate us.
Out of the three candidates left I still have to decide on one. But I find that my vote, which is just one of millions is one that will not go to a man who can not admit when he is wrong, lies, and his choices are so wrong in friends and on issues. This same man who wants a civil army to control Americans has made me sure he is not who I want as a President. And I looked it up.
Aug 24, 2008 | 12:08 PM
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Just how well did he know Ayers? Maybe you should read the whole story to realize you can not trust anything that comes out of his mouth.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/08/bill_baracks
_excellent_adventu.html
William Ayers, unrepentant terrorist and education professor, is once again being tied to Barack Obama in the public mind. Controversy builds over the withholding of the archives of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, an expensive failed school reform effort headed by Obama and effectively run by Ayers, held by the library of the University of Illinois Chicago. Researchers who have gained access to a few documents recording the history of the project have found strong evidence of a very important working relationship between the two men on the project, Obama's sole claim to executive experience
Oddly enough, even though the project produced no measurable improvement in student performance according to its own final report, educators and administrators -- participants and grantees of the CAC -- were reported by outside monitors to be often "ebullient" about the activities. For insiders, it was an excellent adventure. For the pupils stuck in the failing public schools of Chicago, an ongoing, unrelieved disaster.
Obama and his campaign long have gone out of their way to downplay, in fact distort, the long and evidently deep relationship between Ayers and Obama. In the Philadelphia Democratic debate last April, George Stephanopoulos asked Obama about his relationship with Ayers, and the candidate responded:
"This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood, who's a professor of English in Chicago, who I know and who I have not received some official endorsement from. He's not somebody who I exchange ideas from on a regular basis.
"And the notion that somehow as a consequence of me knowing somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago when I was 8 years old, somehow reflects on me and my values, doesn't make much sense, George. [....]
"So this kind of game, in which anybody who I know, regardless of how flimsy the relationship is, is somehow -- somehow their ideas could be attributed to me -- I think the American people are smarter than that. They're not going to suggest somehow that that is reflective of my views, because it obviously isn't."
Almost two months earlier, the "neighbor" talking point campaign manager David Axelrod introduced the notion that Obama and Ayers were mostly just neighbors, telling The Politico's Ben Smith,
"Bill Ayers lives in his neighborhood. Their kids attend the same school," he said. "They're certainly friendly, they know each other, as anyone whose kids go to school together."
Ayers and his wife are in their sixties, while the Obamas are in their mid-forties. Ayers' children are all adults, while Obama's children are currently 10 and 7. Axelrod's prevarication is telling, bespeaking confidence that nobody in the media will bother to dispute an obvious falsehood.
"Flimsy" turns out to be a completely misleading word when it comes to characterizing the Obama-Ayers relationship.
Aug 22, 2008 | 7:02 PM
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I was opened minded about Obama until he started the dening every fact that came out about him and then was proven as truth. He even denied that by calling it a smear campaign. When he does it or his backers it is just politics. He blames McCain for bills he voted yes on and McCain voted no on in the hope no one will notice. Well I looked up both their votes.
Now he really torked me off by sending me an e-mail about McCain and his wifes houses. I don't care if the McCain's own a house in every state and country in the world. It is their right to spend their money on what they want. Is he jealous that McCain's wife has money and his does not?
Every man and woman out there has the right to spend their money on what they want. If you can buy it do so. At least McCain is spending money and helping the ecconomy with his spending. But the point is McCain's property does not have a thing to do with his qualifications to be president. So bug off Obama.
Aug 22, 2008 | 6:36 PM
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CAGW Names Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader Reid
Porkers of the Month
Washington, D.C. - Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) today named Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) its August Porkers of the Month for leading a do-nothing Congress into a five week vacation.
Congress left for its traditional August recess after accomplishing nothing. Of the 106 bills enacted since January, 94, or 89 percent were to name government buildings or lands, extend or make technical corrections to existing laws, or passed either by unanimous consent or with less than 10 dissenting votes. The accomplishments included “Frank Sinatra Day,” National Plumbing Industry Week,” and “National Day of the Cowboy.”
The deadline for passing the 12 annual appropriations bills has been deliberately ignored. Only one of the bills has passed the House, and only four others have been approved by the House Appropriations Committee. In the Senate, nine have been approved by the Appropriations Committee but none have reached the floor. There are two reasons for this failure to act. First, the Speaker and Majority Leader appear to be waiting for the presidential election to decide what to do with these bills, hoping that the winner in November would favor higher spending and more earmarks.
Second, the moratorium on offshore drilling expires on September 30, and it is usually renewed through the appropriations process. However, both Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader Reid are opposed to lifting the moratorium. Rather than allowing a vote, they shut down Congress. House Republicans took to the darkened House floor, demanding that Congress go back into session and hold an up-or-down vote to lift the drilling ban.
The Speaker’s first response was to continue her taxpayer-financed vacation to promote her new book. She has since indicated some willingness to consider a vote, but only tied to a larger (and costly) energy package. Majority Leader Reid’s response has been to threaten to shut down the government by refusing to allow any appropriations bills to reach the Senate floor, including a continuing resolution that would allow agencies to operate at the fiscal year 2008 spending levels.
For leaving town after Congress has spent nearly all of its time on frivolous legislation, failing to address critical issues, and threatening a government shutdown, CAGW names Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid its August 2008 Porkers of the Month.
Citizens Against Government Waste is the nation’s largest nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to eliminating waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement in government. Porker of the Month is a dubious honor given to lawmakers, government officials, and political candidates who have shown a blatant disregard for the interests of taxpayers.
Aug 21, 2008 | 5:11 PM
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Political
I love how Politicians say they want to give the people of our country this and that free. Well seeing as not a one of them plans to pay out of pocket for one single thing they are promising someone else will be paying it. So I think we need to look at who is paying what.
First we look at who does not get their taxes all back and some who pay even more than what is deducted, mind you if you get your federal taxes back plus some you are excluded because taxes actually pay for everything on this list. The higher incomes and businesses foot the bill for the list below and more.
1. Federal Pell Grant for lower incomes to go to college
2. All politicians paychecks
3. Welfare Checks
4. Food Stamps
5. Medicade
6. Military Paychecks
7. All utilities for govenment buildings
8. Government Parks
9. Aid to foriegn countries
10. Aid to our states during a disaster
11. Medicade
12. 300+ billion on illegals
13. 800+ billion to buy foriegn oil
14. 17.5 billion on pork
15. Low income housing
16. Retirement for all government officals
17. Insurance for all government officals
18. Business meals for govenment officials
20. F.B.I.
21. CIA
22. All business trips for government officials
23. Gas for all government vehicals
24. Vacation pay for all Politians
25. Veteran Benifits
And the list goes on and on. All these things and more a small group of Americans pay for and now some of us feel no shame in asking them to pay out even more. When did we, as a nation, begin the taxation without representation? We fought the British to become free of unfair taxes yet we want to do the same thing to our own people.
These added taxes, some politicians want the higher income and businesses to pay, are for things some of us feel we are owed. When did anyone owe something to some one for nothing? Will you give 36.5% to 39.5% of your income to federal taxes, then your state taxes, then your soical security and medicare taxes? It comes to half or better of your income every paycheck. Will you give half of what you earn so some one else can have?
If you are willing to give up half your pay then so you can but it will be your choice not some one else forcing you to give to charities you do not want to give to. Why not drill here and save that 800 billion, stop supporting illegals save that 300+ billion, stop the pork and save that 17.5 billion and use it to fund some of these programs. Why not pay for their own gas, meals, and medical like the rest of us do?
Just my thoughts on the matter.
Aug 19, 2008 | 8:04 PM
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My daughter called me today, her husband is serious about leaving the U.S. if Obama wins the election. He wants to move to another country as most of the people he works for are doing just that. Seems they are buying homes over seas because they, like him, feel they did not go to college and pay for a higher education just to have our government take half of what they earn. The truth is they will. 36% to 39.5% in fed taxes added to social security, med, and state taxes adds up to half of what they earn and in some cases more.
The thing with charity, and that is what it is when a person pays for benifits for others, is that it should be given because you want to not because the government says you have to. If you want to give to the food bank that is your choice and not the governments, just as any other charity. All those freebies Obama has promised are just charities and should not be manditory for some to pay for while others do not. Why should one group pay for the health insurance and food and housing of most of the families in the U.S. plus the illegals?
$300 billion to illegals, paid for by businesses and higher incomes, $800 billion for oil fom forign companies, paid for by the same people, $17.5 billion in pork, paid for by the same people, every pay check of ever political job and their retirements, health insurances, body gaurds and even the military, paid for by the same groups. Middle and lower incomes get their fed taxes back so it is these two groups paying the way now and what are they getting for their money? More taxes for more benifits for more people they do not want to support.
Has anyone thought about the group of people now paying for welfare checks, foodstamps, low income housing, medicade, and every other government funded thing may feel when they hear how their expected to pay for more? If you get your taxes back at the end of the year you are not footing these bills it is the very people whose taxes will be going up who do.
Now I never fit in that income where I did not get my taxes or most of them back so I can not whine but when I watched my daughter write a check for $14,000.00 over what the government already took out I finally saw just what is going on. That check you get for each child at the end of the year over what you paid in, they helped send you, and you want to steal more from them, when is enough enough? Better yet when did any one owe you for work you did not do and they did? How did you earn their money? By voting for some one who makes it sound good. Charity is charity and ever person out there who wants to have the higher incomes pay for them without earning it is taking charity and it isn't the government giving it to you it is my daughter and others like her.
It is people not the government, people who want to work a farm so their husband works over seas to earn enough to keep their land. It is the men and women who got that education to get a job that would pay well. It is the businesses, small and large. They pay for the government to rip them off. It is these people who pay for the government and all its' benifits to the poor and aid to other countries. It is their hard work and incomes that keeps this country going now so instead of thinking up ways to take more maybe it is time to stop tring to take more and be grateful for what they already do before too many of them get up and move to another country that will.
Aug 15, 2008 | 7:24 PM
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Political
Once upon a time the democratic party was for the working class people but here recently I am wondering what is up with the democrats. I have been listening to them and watching their actions and I am wondering what has happened to the democratic party.
They freed up the social security so it could be wasted knowing it was a retirement plan for the lower income working class. They added taxes to it and voted to keep them. When their candidate lost they devolped the super delegates. Super deligates were started to make sure that the voters did not pick someone the DNC did not want. By doing this they have nulled the Americans vote.
They have decided we do not need to drill for our own oil despite the over whelming majority of voters who want just that. Now we have reach a time in the world where we have created a monster named Russia, because they have developed their oil industry while we buy from them and so do other nations. We can not afford to go to war because we are too poor to afford it.
Still no vote on oil. Do they not realize that we as a nation need to be self sufficant. Can we allow the state of our nation to continue down this path of self destruction? Russia is what it is from it's great wealth gained by oil and has slowly grown into a threat to not only Georgia but our nation as well.
Democrats have become more of an insane parent thinking they know what is best for everyone and have forgotten who they are suppose to represent. They ignore the peoples choices in favor of what they think is best for us. We need to halt the insanity and remind them they are not our parents but are suppose to be working for us.
They have taken to kicking out delegates that do not back them, they threaten democrats and dictate what media stations a politican who is a democrat can and can not go on. They have radicals that threaten people who write about their candidate unfavorably and the list goes on. They harbor hatred for republicans, even encourage people to despise and hate our own president.
What is up with them? They have a bias media that goes out of its way to edit republican politians to the point of fiction and people believe it. They want to shut down any media that does not always report pro-democratic. They refuse to admit the surge worked and they keep pushing we lost. I do not understand how the democratic party has gone so far down the hill. They do not see how much damage they are doing.
The most offensive thing I have heard them do was make the statement they would never work with a republican President. They were not elected to choose who they would or would not work with but to help keep our courty a great and powerfully safe one. Sitting on your bums and slinging words of world peace and love is not my idea of running a country. The world is not going to be filled with joy and love as long as there are men who want to rule every nation.
So what is up with the DNC?
Aug 14, 2008 | 6:45 PM
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The union now wants a federal investigation into WalMart for blocking them from taking it over. Yeap, that's what we need, unions in WalMart so the prices go way up, we can no longer buy cheap, and they go belly up or cut way back.
When did we get to the point that if you don't get what you want you sic the feds on the other company? Look at the steel mills, unions sure helped them, look at the factories that have left the U.S., the unions sure helped them. I have watched over the years unions help the working class then they became a politican and got greedy and look what has happened.
It is one thing to protect people from being over worked, abused and used but it is another to make demands for and expect to get the highest pay, the best health care, the most vaction time. When you take a job for a certain amount you know when you start that is what it pays and what you get is laid out before you start. So why take the job if it is not what you want? Move on.
I forgot, WalMart is getting bigger and bigger and the union wants a peace of the pie. They did not start it, they have not invested in it, they did not do a thing to help it grow but they want a cut of the pie.
If you work at WalMart you can buy stock and expand your income, many have. You just have to watch and buy. Invest in the company. But unions do not invest, they take the peoples money that joins then go about taking the companies money. They do not hear when a company says we can not afford that if they want it. Just go on strike.
Unions helped at one time but now they have gone over board with their demands on many companies. We have higher prices on many products because of higher output for all the demands made for benifits and for wages. A company that wants to expand can not if they make very little profits. WalMart has grown and expanded and we now have Sam's Club. Say good bye to it all if the union gets in. Another one bites the dust.
Aug 13, 2008 | 6:59 PM
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Warms our hearts that they can spend our taxes on such worthy causes. So let's just vote more in before they forget how to spend.

The French Kiss Off Award
to Representative Mike Thompson (D-Calif.) for $211,509 in olive fruit fly research in Paris, France.

The Taxpayers Get Teed Off Award
to House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) for $3 million for The First Tee in the defense appropriations bill.

The Cold Hard Cash Award
to Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) for $165.7 million in defense pork.

The Tax Dollars on Drugs Award
to Representative John Murtha (D-Pa.) for $23 million for the National Drug Intelligence Center.

The Pantheon of Pork Award
to Senator Robert Byrd (D-W.VA) for $386 million in pork.

The Narcissist Award
to Representative Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) for $1,950,000 for the Charles B. Rangel Center for
Public Service.

The Pig in Sheep's Clothing Award
to Montana Senators Max Baucaus (D) and Jon Tester (D) for $148,950 for the
Montana Sheep Institute.

The Unidentified Fiscal Object Award
to Representative Ann Esshoo (D-Calif.) for $1.6 million for the Allen Telescope Array.

The Money Doesn't Grow on Trees Award
to Senator Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) for $344,540 for the city of Chicago
GreenStreets Tree Planting Program.

The Porky and Bess Award
for $7.9 million for 36 theaters in 21 states.

The Pacific Fleeced Award
to Senator Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii) for $173.2 million in defense pork.

The Taxpayers Get Steamed Award
to Maine Senators Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe (R), and Rep. Thomas Allen (D-Maine) for $188,000 for the Lobster Institute.

This Pork Was Made for Walking Award
to Representative Virgil Goode (R-Va.) for $98,000 to develop a walking tour of Boydton, Virginia.

The Return to Sender Award
to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) for $196,000 for the renovation and transformation of the historic downtown Post Office in Las Vegas.
Aug 11, 2008 | 6:45 PM
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It seems that Palosi is still on her vaction as we sit here with our oil problems growing. We rely on other countries to supply most of our needs so what goes on in oil countries concen our country, where as if we were drilling now and here it would not be so pressing.
Yet our little speaker of the House and female Hitler believes she knows what is best for our country. The problem with waiting is if our supplies are cut off we are in deep trouble simply because of the time it will take to drill later and build refineries.
Some things need to be seriously considered such as a world war or an attack on our nation. Without a source of oil that we do not have to ship, as ships can be blown up, we would be in dire straights. We, as a nation, should be self sufficient and not relying on foriegn oil. We need to be secure in our own right.
If the world were a stable place with a Barney theme of I love you and you love me, we would have no need to worry, but as we have seen from Russia, it is not. It is a world of unknown violence and very unstable. The problem is we have Palosi and the far left blocking our very security in the name of animals that do not seem to mind the oil rigs nor the pipe lines. Not to mention they are animals and not humans.
Giving the reality of the real world as versus the one that some politicians would like to believe it is, it is time Palosi gets off the pot or goes. But this sitting back and doing what she wants and the DNC wants has got to come to an end. Our country is being put at risk for petty in house fighting. It is like two sets of children crying , "I win, I win nana nana dodo" , when in reality it is a dangerous and insane game to play.
If the majority of the country wants us to drill here and now and everywhere, where does the speaker of the house get off blocking the vote? Where is her brain in wanting to use our reserves when we can not replace them? Is she mentally insane or just power hungry and a threat to our very safety?
Think about it, If we ship our oil and the sources are blocked what happens to our country? Alternatives are great but they are not here yet and from the looks of it will take longer than drilling now. What is going on in our country that we as a people no longer have a voice in it's running but a few elected people who are suppose to represent us do as they please and not what we want?
I am very concerned with the reality of the world we live in and what might, or might not happen. We need to stop relying on others to do what we should be doing. We are able to and so we should. I know it seems unreal but, just for a moment give it a thought, suppose it did and we were attacked and our oil supply blocked, what then? Has congress thought of this? Well they should because I have. The time to play power games has come to a head and we as a people need to send a sharp and vocal message out that we want it to end now.
Aug 6, 2008 | 7:41 PM
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Political
3/13/08
Vote 61: On the Motion: Motion to Waive C.B.A. Cornyn Amdt. No. 4242; To protect the family budget by providing for a budget point of order against legislation that increases income taxes on taxpayers, including hard-working middle-income families, entrepreneurs, and college students. No
3/13/08 Vote 65: S CON RES 70: DeMint Amdt. No. 4328; To provide for a deficit-neutral reserve fund for Social Security reform. No
3/13/08 Vote 60: S CON RES 70: Sessions Amdt. No. 4231; To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund for border security, immigration enforcement, and criminal alien removal programs. No
3/13/08
Vote 56: S CON RES 70: Alexander Amdt. No. 4207 as Modified; To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund to improve energy efficiency and production. No
3/13/08 Vote 52: S CON RES 70: Bunning Amdt. No. 4192 as Modified; To repeal the tax increase on Social Security benefits imposed by the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993. No
Vote 66: S CON RES 70: Allard Amdt. No. 4232; To pay down the Federal debt and eliminate government waste by reducing spending 5 percent on programs rated (as mandated under the Government Performance and Results Act (Public Law 103-62)) ineffective by the Office of Management and Budget Program Assessment Rating Tool.No
3/13/08 Vote 71: S CON RES 70: Ensign Amdt. No. 4335; To increase funding for the Department of Justice for the vigorous enforcement of a prohibition against taking minors across State lines in circumvention of laws requiring the involvement of parents in abortion decisions consistent with the Child Custody Protection Act, which passed the Senate by a bipartisan vote of 65-34, with an offset. No No
Get the point? To get his full voting history go to:
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members
/o000167/votes/page2/
Aug 5, 2008 | 4:55 PM
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News
It seems Nancy Palosi has a great plan in action, it entails keeping the vote for drilling off the floor until after the election when she believes there will be enough democrats elected to prevent drilling for our own oil. She does not care what the people of the United States Of American want. It boils down to what she and her party wants. We do not matter in the grand scheme of the democratic party. It is a great plan and it is working so far.
Even if President Bush called an emergancy congress back she could just close it right back down without a vote ever going before the congress. Palosi not only is against the Iraq war but she wants us out of Afganistan and she wants us all to sit down and put on a happy face on as we get disarmed and destroyed. She has behaved in a mannor unbecoming to a lady much less the speaker of the house with her temper tantrums and her refusal to allow votes on anything she does not approve of.
Bush may not be the best president in our history but Palosi is the worse person to run congress in the history of mankind or womankind. She has made sure our nation will come to a stand still when she dictates it as it has done now. She has broken the rules laid out for the speaker of the house and she flat does not care, she is a democrat so she is entitled to act and do anything she so chooses and to heck with what is best for our nation.
Palosi's idea is to save the world but destroy us while doing it. Al Gore dismantled our nuclear plants programs which would of freed up our natural gas for other uses and the dems plan on keeping it that way. They want us to invest trillions on so called "clean" energy programs but do not tell you that ethinal is just as polutant as oil products, that the hybreds will cost thousands to keep on the road by the owners, and to install solar panels will cost over $6,000 a panel and you need several per home to actually save on electric. And Al gore will make more millions off us.
In the mean time they keep tooting the thousands of acres the oil companies have to drill on but omited that the oil companies spent $1.25 trillion trying to find oil there and gave it up. So we have the facts and they democrats do too yet they do not care. As Obama and Nancy think that $10.00 a gallon for gas is a great idea and will bring our country to it's knees. That also explains why they want to create a civil army to control the citizens of our country. They fear we might just go after them.
I do not want to hear it was republicans that got us here as the democrats are now in power and have done nothing, not a thing to correct the mess we are in. In fact they have contributed to the mess and plan on creating a bigger one.
So just impeach Palosi and DO NOT vote another insane democrat into congress.