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Koch-roach Universities.
Additional thoughts. (I knew I'd forget something.) If you check out Center for Political Responsivenes, you will know that almost all Republicans get generous campaign contributions from big oil. You'll get the same information on the Lowdown by Jim Hightower. The Koch Brothers are funding the Tea Party. In addition, if you've been following MoveOn, you know that the Koch Brothers held a secret meeting at Rancho Cucamonga last January with various CEO's, the US Chamber of Commerce, and Republican Congressmen.
The prices you are paying at the pump are the result of this secret meeting. People need to spread the word, and keep on spreading the word.
During the show today, I heard Thom Hartmann ask for sources about the price gouging by oil companies. I'd urge everyone to read the lead article of the Los Angeles Times, April 29, 2011 by Ron White. According to this article, oil refineries are lowering the amount of gasoline and diesel they produce. They are exporting from 10 to 20 % of the diesel and gasoline that they do produce. This is done to jack up the price of oil
So, you do have a source of information proving the statements about diesel fuel made on today's show.
Again read the article. Perhaps Thom Hartmann could interview Tom White. I'd urge everyone reading this to do the following. First of all write to your Congressional representatives and let them know. Secondly, write to WhiteHouse.gov. Urge Eric Holder to begin investigations. Obama needs to know that we want action done. He also needs to know that we've got his back.
6 ppm sulphur AKA Ultra Low Sulphur Diesel is one reason the price is so high. The refiners call it "Boutique Blend" I think. US now requires ULSD across the country (not just Ca) Refiners probably drug their feet increasing the sulphur reducing equipment to cause scarcity. Peak Oil Is The Elephant in the Room
Perhaps we should change the name Universities to Conservative Incubators
In reference to the caller that was talking about the diesel problem we face in this country, I would like to let everyone know to visit:
http://www.revolutiongreen.com
Biodiesel is a wonderful solution to our diesel issues...
Thom, why don't you Hope in one hand and crap in the other, see which one fills up first.
Obama is smart enough to know how the game is played and his biggest donors are Corporate America. So, of course he didn't do The People's bidding. There is also Nothing to suggest Obama will Magically do it in his second term.
You've got to stop this Cognitive Dissidence that you have because of the importance of SCOTUS. You are essentially telling people that ‘Obama will save us in his next term of office.’ In doing so you are creating magical thinking that allows people to be passive. You are, in fact, defeating your own argument for “Getting out there and getting active.” All, we have to do is re-elect Obama and everything will be alright.
MOVEMENTS and RESISTANCE are HISTORICALLY the ONLY WAY. Not Elections. As a historian, you know that. So, please stop saying "Let's Hope Obama figures that out" etc. etc....
If Barack Obama is on the ticket, I will vote for him. I cannot vote for a fascist or a Nazi.
Election of 2012
Barack Obama will not be re-elected in 2012!!!
Here is some information for my prediction.
I believe that at least ten million plus voters will be removed from the voting rolls in 2012 and beyond. The lines for voting in urban areas will be long with fewer voting machines in urban precincts. The electronic voting machines are rigged to include more Republicans receiving the majority of votes.
Our electronic voting machines are rigged to keep Satan’s disciples in the majority forever. Florida’s law will also keep Satan’s disciples in the majority forever.
Florida has passed into law the ability to curtail voter registrations and making it next to impossible for low-income persons, students, and racial minorities from voting. Florida is definitely a Nazi-controlled state where Satan’s disciples prevail over the citizens. There should be minimal doubt that Nazi America has more disciples wearing brown shirts and jackboots. These devils are truly Nazis who prowl the fifty states seeking the ruin of souls.
My wife has a knitting class one day per week. In the class is a woman whose aunt is approaching ninety. She lives in Florida. Her driver’s license needs to be renewed. Plus, she needs to re-register to vote. The aunt needs the original birth certificate, the original marriage license, her husband’s death certificate to prove she is a widow, and proof of permanent residency for Florida, such as a home, townhouse, or condominium. I do not know if an apartment, senior citizen home, or trailer qualifies for permanent residency. Florida is harassing the elderly, taking away their freedoms and rights, and removing them from the voting booth and polls. The conservatives seek to always be in the majority. Our Supreme Court really runs Nazi America and the Court will vote in Florida’s favor that its law is constitutionally sound. The Catholic Mafia on the Supreme Court is anti-poor and anti-working class. The U.S. Supreme Court is an extension of our Anti-Christ nation.
I believe that most people who make comments on Thom’s blog will admit that they have learned much from listening to his radio show. We know that Thom is intelligent and in his early school years he was placed in a gifted program. Gifted students can learn more quickly than average students. Thom was able to learn quickly. He is a progressive person and he believes that America has a future. I am twelve years older than Thom and no way close to his gifted intelligence. Age does have some value. I must disagree with Thom and say that the United States of Mortal Sin does not have a future.
Even Einstein is no way near as intelligent as Satan’s disciples, the conservative crazies, the GOP, the Republicans, the Libertarians, the Tea Baggers, the Lobbyists, the rich, and American corporations. These groups are brilliant.
You have only to know and read Florida’s law to see other states following and modeling their laws to be similar to Florida’s law.
I am not a psychiatrist. I am only an average person who can offer an opinion. I would have to say that the United States of Mortal Sin, aka an Anti-Christ nation, is certifiably crazy where most Americans are psychotic. People may disagree with me but there can be no doubt that most Americans are sociopaths, the lunatic fringe. Believe it or not!!!
Progressives are grasping to be excited at anything. Here is an example. The polls reveal that Nazi governors’ numbers are low in the polls. Polls do not excite me because the Nazis will always remain in the majority. Here are my reasons. Our electronic voting machines are rigged. Factual! The Nazis will eliminate from voting – low income people, students, and racial minorities. Factual! In heavy Democratic districts voting booths will be scarce so that the voting lines are long. Factual! The lobbyist party with the money will pay off politicians to vote a certain way. Factual!
I was asked what I would do if I had the power to improve our election process, such as having our citizens being able to vote. Here are some of my words.
I would like to see ACORN return to have citizens register to vote. Since I am over 60, I can vote by an absentee ballot. Voting by mail may require more scrutiny of qualified voters but voting by mail should be part of the voting process. I believe that the voting booths should open on a Tuesday at the scheduled time and date, such as 7:00 AM and the voting booths will close at 11:00 PM on Wednesday. That would mean the polls would be open for forty hours. More voting machines in urban areas! A treasonous act for rigged electronic voting machines must be definite! Companies rigging the election or any state and federal person as well as American citizens who rig or elections will need to be prosecuted as traitors against the United States. We must welcome into the voting process more low income voters, the aged population voters, and racial minority voters! We need to be a true democracy in our country before we preach, kill, and maim human populations in other countries to embrace our democracy! I am definitely for having all AMERICANS vote and all AMERICANS should be encouraged to vote by making all AMERICANS feel like they are AMERICANS!!!
The Democrats lack the courage to take a stand. The Republicans are crazy and Democrats are gutless and spineless freaks.
I must send a repeat copy of why Obama will not be reelected.
The conservative crazies will never again lose a national election. With rigged electronic voting machines and with the mysteriously finding of lost voting ballots there is no way the conservative crazies will ever lose an election.
The Republican Party’s DNA matches perfectly with Germany’s Nazi Party’s DNA. The Nazis infiltrated the universities with crazy college professors. The Anti-Christ is modeling herself after Nazi Germany. Now, our local police are being militarized to kill Americans who speak out in a non-violent way. We are the new Nazis. America is definitely The Anti-Christ that is seeking to ruin human souls all over our planet. The Anti-Christ has made a great start in ruining American souls first and now seeks other souls on our planet. The Anti-Christ embraces money, nuclear weaponry, and false prophets.
American brains function closely like Numb Nuts. When a person has a Numb Nut brain, there is no way a person can assess and think clearly on important issues. Stupid does as stupid is. Satan’s disciples are more commonly known as KKKhristians.
Thom, I believe you mean well but I disagree with you on our future. The Anti-Christ does not have a future. We have dug a hole so deep that we can never get out of this hole.
SUBSIDIES ARE SOCIALISM IN ACTION!!!
This sounds a lot like how Milton Friedman and his Chicago School boys spread their free market ideology across Latin America in the 70's and 80's and later Iraq. It appears that they are bringing a similar strategy home to roost.
Attached is a link which is marginally related to this topic:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wj5x2FoVKaM&feature=related
They have money, so in our conservative utopia, where he who has the gold rules (with no other rules/laws), they can re-write history all they want to.
Mitch Daniels for Indiana Governor http://www.bakerdaniels.com/aboutus/aboutus.aspx
22 Lots of Fairfield Ter. Sec. A in Fort Wayne owned in full by Clarence and Minnie Kryder were deeded to Alexander N. Pursley, Trustee in 1942. Pursley was Indiana Governor M. Clifford Townsend's personal and closest adviser. There is a break in the chain of title of these Fairfield Lots and the mortgage securities were never acccounted for.
Frank Kryder's lawyer and Minnie Kryder's estate lawyer, Thomas M. Moorhead, retired from Baker & Daniels, 2400 Fort Wayne Bank Building and is now deceased. It must make it safer for Mitch, although Walter Paul Helmke is still alive and is officially documented as knowing many details of the TRUE Frank Kryder story, though he lies about it. The last address of The Kryder Company, Inc. c/o Thomas Moorhead was 807 Fort Wayne Bank Building. The last designated meeting of the Kryder Company shareholders, Thomas Moorhead, Vice-president, Frank Kryder, dead President, was 7/1/1968 the day that KOCH FUELS consolidated.
In 1970 when Walter Paul Helmke was State Senator and William N. Salin (Secretary of State-Salin Bank) were in the State House, countless corporation files of the Indiana Secretary of State became lost, including the Kryders' Suburban Building Company of Fort Wayne Indiana, Inc., Rm 225 215 East Berry Street, the former Lincoln National Life Building, now the offfices of estate specialists Barrett & McNagny.
Evan Bayh of Baker and Daniels, as Indiana Secretary of State in 1987 allowed the entity "Far West Mortgage Company of Colorado, Inc." to be entered as a foreign corporation domiciled in Colorado to do business in Indiana. The entity however IS NOT incorporated in Colorado where no Certificate of Incorporation is on file. Therefore, the required Certificate of Incorporation stamped by the Colorado Secretary is not contained in the Indiana Secretary records for foreign corporations. The corporate entity, in other words, exists nowhere, though there are numerous "Far West" entities in California and the west which have been developing real estate since the Kryder real estate securities disappeared.
In 1989 Fort Wayne Baker & Daniels lawyer Richard Blaich convinced an elderly childless couple to leave their property under his management in a charitable trust. After the trustors were deceased, Blaich moved to One Summit Square and proceeded to dissolve it in Indiana and incorporate it in Nevada. With trust funds and through CENTEX the trustee enjoyed a luxury second home and many benefits to outfit his junkets. Finally, but only through pressure from the public, the Indiana Securities Commission joined Indiana Secretary of State Todd Rokita in a suit to have the trust re-domiciled in Indiana.
Although most of the mess was cleared up quickly, Blaich, in typical North American style, was found dead of suicide in his Fort Wayne garage.
The trouble with Todd Rokita is that he went on to allow Casino Aztar in Evansville to also file and use the fictitious name City of Evansville.
This replication of names is beyond confusing and against Indiana corporation law. It is the job of the Secretary of State to keep the files straight. Especially when municipalities are having problems with GHOST POSTING.
xxxxx
as legally appointed Personal Representative for the Estate of Frank H. Kryder
opened April 2, 1995 in the Superior Court of Allen County, Indiana
Hi Mark,
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He mentioned two, " Attention Deficit Disorder : A Different Perception" and " The Edison Gene: ADHD and the Gift of the Hunter Child". You can also watch the video of his talk at "Thom Hartmann: Are we drugging our kids into stupidity?".
You MUST see this video!
http://healthypets.mercola.com/sites/healthypets/archive/2011/05/13/useful-dog-tricks.aspx
We need to trust in God.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7FbycDXxXk
Catholics speaking out against John Boner's anti-life agenda are Sacramental Moments in action.
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal/2011_05/boehner_slammed_by_catholics_f029522.php
Huge corporate subsidies are actually corporate welfare. These subsidies are necessary because American transnational corporations are in poverty.
public schools should not be allowed to propagandize education. teaching people how to continually pollute and destroy our planet for profit should be considered a crime since it adversely affects everyone living everywhere(i.e.; poison water, acid rain, poor air quality, global warming, etc...). it is a crime against humanity. greed is certainly the biggest problem with our world today. these people, the koch brothers, et al, are like one whom has a big hole in his head and never seems to be able to fill it to his satisfaction; no amount is ever enough. i'm surprized they haven't paid off our 'trusted leaders' to put this in all public school curriculum-yet.
I got one of the Kock brothers' books, and because I'm a basically fair guy, I gave it a thorough checkout. The results? Well, it's not the worst toilet paper that I have used in my entire life. I mean, there was that time when I was 800 miles up the Amazon river and I had to paddle my canoe over to shore to answer the call of nature, and I had been out there so long that I didn't have any supplies left, so I was "going native" when it came to that sort of activity. Anyway, I picked this big leaf that looked like it would work ok, but boy-howdy, I am here to tell you that you have not experienced pain until you have had 50 billion fire ants crawling around and chewing up that particular region of your physiology! I got religion real quick, I can tell you that. And that's not all, because... .
Wait a minute- were you talking about READING the Koch brothers' books? Yeah, right, like anyone would do that.
The Kock Brothers - Their Daddy Built Oil Refineries for Stalin!
Now there's Pair! As stated above, these 2 are VERMIN and we need the RAID!
And the UOF need to have their collective heads examined! Take donation from Donors who then are the ones to select and approve the Professors??? Are they NUTS!
Palindromedary
Well I read all your posts. On Obama, I think you are missing one crucial fact - reality. It is one thing to say what you are going to do, another thing to actually do it.
Obama met that brick wall, Reality", and kind of figured out he had his work cut out for him. There were, and still are, way too many obstructions to do frontal assaults. So he compromised.
I've seen this "Big Guns Blazing Macho Take-No-Prisoners”" tactic in action before, and most of the time they are big disasters! Remember Bush and his 2 Wars! Obama quickly saw that he would never get anything done doing frontal assaults, as your enemy can see you coming and can plan to defeat you or bog you down. So his tactics are more cerebral and less intrusive - a tactic well suited to defeat the Right, as they have no concept of cerebral anyway!
What I am trying to say is that Obama is NOT an ordinary politician! When all is said and done, he may very well be one of our greatest presidents. I read somewhere he admired Lincoln, and Lincoln was no ordinary mortal either! They may very well be similar personalities.
And you make statements, such as he has sold liberals out by filling his office with Right wing people who are influencing him to sell out to the Corporations and the Super Rich.
I have a different viewpoint. He is a great Strategist, but an even greater Tactician! You don’t want “Yes Men” who kiss your behind 20 times a day! With Bush that is all he had and they even had to have lower I.Qs! A smart leader wants SMART people, of all political and religious and Economic persuasions around him, the better to get the lay of the land, mount an offensive and get the job done. You can’t fight Wall Street if you have people who don’t know Wall Street – the why for Geitner. You can’t tackle the Pentagon if you have none Pentagon people – the why for Gates. I could go on and on. He uses people wisely and he makes decisions based on the input he gets. And very successfully may I add. Just imagine what could get accomplished if he didn’t have all these obstructions from the Right!
There was a time during the Health Care era that I thought as you do. I was very depressed and angry at Obama. But since then I’ve changed my mind. It is just amazing what he and his people have accomplished in the face of all that strident opposition from the Right. And with the killing of OBL, it is very clear what Obama is doing – he is fighting and he is winning, a bit at a time. Hopefully, better things are in the offing. The Right is doing pretty stupid things right now – on Medicare – Tax Breaks for the Rich – restricting Voting Rights – Union Busting – trying to kill Collective Bargaining – Siding with Big Oil – Mandatory drug Testing to get Food Stamps – Doing away with Child Labor Laws – on and on! This will be their waterloo and Obama and Democracy will win in the end. Gotta keep the faith or we all die in our foxholes!