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V: "People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people."
Welcome Back The Spotlight 'O Terror
Green - Low: This setting is here just as a reference point. DHS will never use it because it would mean we didn’t need them anymore.
Blue - Guarded: This rarely used setting on the Stoplight ‘O Terror could indicate things like an undocumented worker within 3 square miles of the president.
Yellow - Elevated: This is the standard level of fear. Don’t expect to see anything lower than this as long as the Regressives are in office. Be scared, but not too scared to vote Republican.
Orange - High: Chertoff heard that someone in the CIA’s brother’s boss’ nephew’s sister-in-law heard about a plan to blow up Amish Country Popcorn Factory in Berne Indiana. It’s ok to pee your pants at this level.
Red - Severe: A terror attack was recently narrowly averted. We can’t release any details but just be thankful we saved your asses. Used frequently before midterm elections. See October Surprise. (Oh My God, Take Away My Freedoms and Protect Me From Them There Terrorists, Like Osama Hussein!!!)
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Congressman Ron Paul, MD - We've Been NeoConned
1984 radio broadcast:
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Get ready for Congress to solve the energy problem just as it has previously solved the illegal immigration problem. A bill being debated in the Senate this week is described by some of its supporters as “far from perfect” but “a good start.”
A good start, yes, to higher gas and food prices, to new taxes and to forcing consumers to pay for high-cost “renewable” energy sources — solar and wind, for example — that are to energy independence what bicycle trails are to traffic-congestion relief.
The Senate bill, grandiosely and falsely dubbed the Renewable Fuels, Consumer Protection and Energy Efficiency Act of 2007, should come with a section prohibiting price gouging — by Congress. The legislation “could result in significantly higher prices for gasoline consumers,” according to Heritage Foundation researchers. “A review of S. 1419, including the just-completed section on tax changes, reveals that the bill could increase the price of regular unleaded gasoline from $3.14 per gallon (the early May national average) to $6.40 in 2016 — a 104 percent increase,” write Heritage Foundation researchers William W. Beach and Shanea Watkins.
“Gas consumers can expect to pay between $3.16 and $3.79 a gallon for gas in 2008 after adding in the estimated impact of the Senate energy bill. By 2016, all states can expect gas prices in excess of $6. As a result of S. 1419, consumers would spend an average of $1445 more per year on gasoline in 2016 than in 2008,” they write.
With the the concurrence of the ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, Charles Grassley of Iowa, and others (Gordon Smith of Oregon, Olympia Snowe of Maine and Pat Roberts of Kansas, all Republican), the committee is proposing $29 billion in new taxes on oil companies. The tax is to subsidize wind and solar power, hybrid vehicles and biofuel. The bill calls for a sharp increase in the use “renewables,” including heavily-subsidized ethanol, up from 8.5 billion gallons next year to 36 billion gallons by 2022. And it requires, too, that utilities would be required to buy at least 15 percent of their energy from wind, solar and other “renewable” sources.
Ethanol requires more energy to produce than it generates as fuel, to say nothing of the water required for irrigation in areas like drought-stricken South Georgia. It’s subsidized by taxpayers with a 51-cents per gallon tax credit, and it’s subsidized again at the pump with a 54-cents-a-gallon tariff on imported ethanol. Go figure.
The provision, too, that would “protect” consumers from “price gouging” is an invitation to price controls. And that’s an invitation to economic disaster. This comes, incidentally, despite the fact that no reputable studies establish that price gouging has occurred.
Borders were made secure and the illegal immigration problem was solved in 1986. And now the energy problem is about to be solved, too.
NEW YORK A new Gallup Poll will only reinforce those who claim that while the rich get richer most Americans don't feel they are sharing in the growth in our economy. The stock market may be climbing and the unemployment remains relatively low, but 7 in 10 Americans believe the economy is getting worse -- the most negative reading in nearly six years.
Only one in three Americans rate the economy today as either excellent or good, while the percentage saying the economy is getting better fell from 28% to 23% in one month.
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Gallup adds: "For the first time this year, a majority of Americans are negative about the employment market, saying it is a bad time to find a quality job."
The 70% negative rating is up 10 points since April. Also, just in the past month, there has been a significant five-point drop, from 28% to 23%, in the percentage saying conditions are getting better.
"When asked about the most pressing financial problems their family faces today, Americans mention healthcare costs, lack of money or low wages, and oil and gas prices," Gallup reports. "Healthcare costs are mentioned by 16% of Americans while 13% say low wages and 11% say oil and gas prices. These percentages are virtually unchanged from last month."
The survey of 1,007 adults was taken June 11 to 14.
There were four segments about the presidential campaign on Hannity & Colmes last night (6/20/07), including one about Hillary Clinton getting booed at the Take Back America conference but there has yet to be a discussion of any of Rudy Giuliani’s notable troubles in the past few days, including the indictment of the South Carolina chairman of his campaign on federal cocaine charges.
As CNN reports, "South Carolina Treasurer Thomas Ravenel, a former real estate developer who became a rising political star after his election last year, was indicted Tuesday on federal cocaine charges… Ravenel, 44, is charged with distribution of cocaine, which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison." As Crooks and Liars wrote, This “bad boy buddy getting in trouble” is becoming a regular thing with Rudy…
But Giuliani’s recent headaches didn’t end there.
On June 18, 2007, Newsday reported that Giuliani’s fundraising activities took priority over participating in the blue-ribbon Baker-Hamilton Commission, also known as the Iraq Study Group. Newsday said:
Rudolph Giuliani's membership on an elite Iraq study panel came to an abrupt end last spring after he failed to show up for a single official meeting of the group, causing the panel's top Republican to give him a stark choice: either attend the meetings or quit, several sources said.Giuliani left the Iraq Study Group last May after just two months, walking away from a chance to make up for his lack of foreign policy credentials on the top issue in the 2008 race, the Iraq war.
He cited "previous time commitments" in a letter explaining his decision to quit, and a look at his schedule suggests why -- the sessions at times conflicted with Giuliani's lucrative speaking tour that garnered him $11.4 million in 14 months.
…Giuliani's campaign said that the former New York mayor did participate in Iraq Study Group activities but refused Newsday's repeated requests to explain how.
…By giving up his seat on the panel, Giuliani has opened himself up to charges that he chose private-sector paydays and politics over unpaid service on a critical issue facing the nation.
Not only that, but the 10-member group -- also called the Baker-Hamilton commission -- was no ordinary blue-ribbon panel, instead chartered by Congress and encouraged by the president to find a way forward in Iraq.
And earlier in the week, The New York Times published an account of NYC firefighters who have been actively campaigning against Giuliani and his image as a 9/11 hero.
So much for "We report, you decide."
If George Bush were a Patriot....
By Basil Harrington
If Bush were a patriot, he would end the third-world invasion of the U.S. He would secure the U.S.-Mexico border with troops, and build a fence across the entire U.S.-Mexico border.
If Bush were a patriot, he would support attrition, not amnesty, and he would oppose any guest-worker scheme or path to citizenship for illegals.
If Bush were a patriot, he would end all legal immigration from the third world, which big business is using to drive down American wages.
If Bush were a patriot, he'd stop telling lies like "jobs Americans won't do."
If Bush were a patriot, he would support legislation to end birthright citizenship.
If Bush were a patriot, he would call upon Americans to form militias and repel the third-world invaders.
If Bush were a patriot, he would read Camp of the Saints and learn the true (non-left-wing-proposition-nation) meaning of the word 'patriotism'.
If Bush were a patriot, he would end all outsourcing, and would keep jobs in the United States.
If Bush were a patriot, he would support fair trade, not free trade, which is destroying our economy and undermining our sovereignty.
If Bush were a patriot, he would oppose the Wilsonian transformation of the Middle East to liberal democracy.
If Bush were a patriot, he would care more about guarding the U.S. borders than guarding the borders of Iraq.
If Bush were a patriot, he would care more about deporting illegals from the U.S. rather than deporting illegals from Iraq.
If Bush were a patriot, he would have deported Seung-Hui Cho, the Sept. 11 terrorists, the East Indian JFK Airport terrorists, and the Fort Dix terrorists before they were able to scheme or commit violent acts.
If Bush were a patriot, we would not be in half the trouble we are in now.
Wake up, "conservatives." Bush is no patriot.
http://newsblaze.com/story/20070620190934nnnn.nb/newsblaze/OPINIONS/Opinions.html
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