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One more thing......
Why do left-wingers like Hartmann spend 80% of their time on the air to talk about Republicans?
I thought Republicans were irrelevant?
Answer?
Big Foot & Belly Dancing - wow - there's a visual.
Time for another hour of Hartmann bashing Reagan for every negative thing that has happened in this country for the last 30 years.........ugh
Hartmann needs to get a new shitck. It's getting very very old.
Also, why have Dan Gainor on 2 times a week just to fight with him? Point ?
Thom,
I feel like I must be totally out to lunch here, but I thought I should at least mention this, just in case. This more than likely means I need a bit more medication, but while I was meditating this evening, both a Big Foot like creature and a Belly dancer sort of goddess told me to tell you that congress is too inefficient to save us with all of their gentle woman please come to the podium etc, etc, and that you have to start using your influence with progressives to start leading a more radical non-violent revolution against corporations.
It seems to me that you are already doing this, and I do not have the political background to even begin to understand what these "spirits" mean, but I thought I should give you this wild message, just in case.
Hi Thom,
My dad sent this to me. It doesn't jive with what is being said here in regards to peak oil, etc. I'm confused!
Ed, about 6 months ago I was watching a news program on oil and one of the Forbes Bros. was the guest. This is out of context, but this is the actual question as asked. The host said to Forbes, "I am going to ask you a direct question and I would like a direct answer, how much oil does the U.S. have in the ground." Forbes did not miss a beat, he said, "more than all the Middle East put together." Please read below.
The U. S. Geological Service issued a report in April ('08) that only scientists and oil men knew was coming, but man was it big. It was a revised report (hadn't been updated since '95) on how much oil was in this area of the western 2/3 of North Dakota ; western South Dakota ; and extreme eastern Montana .... check THIS out:
The Bakken is the largest domestic oil discovery since Alaska 's Prudhoe Bay , and has the potential to eliminate all American dependence on foreign oil. The Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimates it at 503 billion barrels. Even if just 10% of the oil is recoverable... at $107 a barrel, we're looking at a resource base worth more than $5.3 trillion.
'When I first briefed legislators on this, you could practically see their jaws hit the floor They had no idea..' says Terry Johnson, the Montana Legislature's financial analyst.
'This sizable find is now the highest-producing onshore oil field found in the past 56 years' reports, The Pittsburgh Post Gazette. It's a formation known as the Williston Basin , but is more commonly referred to as the 'Bakken.' And it stretches from Northern Montana, through North Dakota and into Canada . For years, U. S. oil exploration has been considered a dead end. Even the 'Big Oil' companies gave up searching for major oil wells decades ago. However, a recent technological breakthrough has opened up the Bakken's massive reserves... and we now have access of up to 500 billion barrels. And because this is light, sweet oil, those billions of barrels will cost Americans just $16 PER BARREL!
That's enough crude to fully fuel the American economy for 2041 years straight.
2. And if THAT didn't throw you on the floor, then this next one should - because it's from TWO YEARS AGO!
U. S. Oil Discovery- Largest Reserve in the World!
Stansberry Report Online - 4/20/2006
Hidden 1,000 feet beneath the surface of the Rocky Mountains lies the largest untapped oil reserve in the world. It is more than 2 TRILLION barrels. On August 8, 2005 President Bush mandated its extraction. In three and a half years of high oil prices none has been extracted. With this motherload of oil why are we still fighting over off-shore drilling?
They reported this stunning news: We have more oil inside our borders, than all the other proven reserves on earth. Here are the official estimates:
- 8-times as much oil as Saudi Arabia
- 18-times as much oil as Iraq
- 21-times as much oil as Kuwait
- 22-times as much oil as Iran
- 500-times as much oil as Yemen
- and it's all right here in the Western United States .
HOW can this BE? HOW can we NOT BE extracting this? Because the environmentalists and others have blocked all efforts to help America become independent of foreign oil! Again, we are letting a small group of people dictate our lives and our economy.....WHY?
James Bartis, lead researcher with the study says we've got more oil in this very compact area than the entire Middle East -more than 2 TRILLION barrels untapped. That's more than all the proven oil reserves of crude oil in the world today, reports The Denver Post.
Don't think 'OPEC' will drop its price - even with this find? Think again! It's all about the competitive marketplace, - it has to. Think OPEC just might be funding the environmentalists?
Got your attention/ire up yet? Hope so!
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By the way...this is all true. Check it out at the link below!!!
GOOGLE it or follow this link. It will blow your mind.
http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=1911
Quark, hugs to you. (we'll get those rat..bas,,,)
The other night I listened to Oprah Winfrey boasting on CNN about the Leadership School for Girls she established in South Africa, which was subject of some scandal a few years ago. Winfrey opened this school in South Africa one suspects because it is a “safe” place to make a gender political statement, and not necessarily to massage her bloated ego. While it is indeed true that sub-Sahara Africa has low literacy rates for females (but only marginally worse than males, it is always failed to be pointed out by the activists), South Africa is not necessarily the best place to make her “point.” According some activist organization called the Gender Initiative Institute, South Africa has “the highest levels of female education at all levels”—in fact 99 percent of girls compared to 95 percent of boys attend primary school—as well as a high percentage of women active in the economy, and “well positioned” to take leadership roles. So why do they need Winfrey’s help--other than the graduates being shipped to U.S. colleges, as she claims to want to do, presumably on her dime?
Anderson Cooper asked Winfrey about concerns made in some circles about why she was engaged in this activity when so many children in this country were being failed by the education system, and with it, a dim future. Winfrey, utterly oblivious to the fact that her victim fantasies in this case run counter to reality, stumbled about before mumbling something or other that in America, children had a choice about whether they wanted to go to school or not, and in South Africa this was not true for girls, which, of course, is demonstrably false. The fact remains that funding limitations hurt minorities more than any other group, and there are more black males incarcerated than attending college. It always fascinates me how activists have little interest in the challenges that face this country, where doing something of actual worth requires some labor, but can always be counted on to assail cultures they don’t understand, and typically have little knowledge of the reality.
Frankly, I’m tired of Joe Lieberman’s pompous, deceitful shtick, but it is clear that as long as the Democrats think they need him, they will leave him sitting on the bench. But like any disgruntled player, he tends to sound off to anyone who will listen, complaining that he isn’t getting enough playing time, or getting the ball. Now, of course, he says that his “conscious” will not allow him to vote for a public option. Lieberman is too self-obsessed to be troubled overmuch with “conscious,” so it is clear that he just wants to be a “player.” And since Lieberman doesn’t honestly care about anything or anyone but himself, one wonders what he wants in exchange for his support. Maybe he should be told that if he votes against a public option, then he’s out of the caucus. All he has done up to this point is take up space to no purpose.
Hi Solo - please post a photo of your kitty at our community site - Louise
Omg, this is just TOO Cute!!!! I NEVER used to be a "cat" person. Although I've been a cert. Vet. Tech. for over 30yrs, the only cats I ever had were "barn" cats who lived mainly outside. Squirrels, rats, kangaroos, baby bears, white Siberian tiger pups, snakes, etc YES, (i worked at a small zoo for a few years :), but NO house cats in my homes. Until 2yrs ago, I was pulling out of a long, deep depression, triggered by losing my fiancé in an accident, losing a baby, and being diagnosed with cancer. A relative of a neighbor showed up with a 3wk old orphaned kitten. Sita turned into a rather unusual cat and all I can say is we are completly inseperable. She can be seen on my facebook pics and I WAS keeping up with her on Twitter and a blog-Twitty-Kat. Haven't been able to lately-but she still browses on my laptop, switches tv channels, radio channels, and sleeps on her pillow next to me, stealing the covers every night.. ;)
loretta,
:)
Quark, thank you so very much for your post and sharing your experience. We are going to have to keep speaking up. My experiences with abortion occurred because I was not with men who loved me, and I was not in a financial position to have the child. They have re-ignited a sisterhood by endangering the lives of our very-beloved, child-bearing age daughters, a sisterhood that will defeat them in many many other ways. I thank you for that vote against abortion, conservative, women-hating blue dogs in the House of Representatives, because I am more than fired up to defeat you. You are going down!
Thom, you solved the problem today... No fed abortions... no viagra. Start making protest signs. .It's a quick fix.
http://www.opednews.com/articles/A-National-Insanity-by-martinweiss-0911...
Thom, when Bush was in office, there was a psychiatrist who wrote an article or book with the title, "Bush on the Couch." I cannot remember the writers name. Maybe you or someone can write a book, "A Nation on the Couch." The path that our nation is on is insanity. I believe that we are becoming a certifiably crazy nation.
I know that psychiatrists are reluctant to voice their professional diagnosis of a person or a nation but we need someone to reveal how crazy we are as a nation. Would it be possible to find a person who is willing to talk about our nation's insanity.
My country and its people really frightens me!!!
"Jesus speaks sanity to a world of lunatics." - G.K. Chesterton
Thom invites conservatives on his show. My only suggestion to Thom is to please not let these conservatives fillibuster the question or a response with their babble and rambling of nonsense.
People! Celebrate with this lovely cartoon Pirates of the Health Care a bean http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNuCfD5bICQ
In the healthcare debate Republicans have been hysterical about government bureaucrats dictating what healthcare procedures Americans can receive. Now before legislation is even enacted they are doing that very thing with abortion coverage. The Republicans must have been warning us about themselves.
Thanks Adam.
In regard to the conversation with Bryan Fisher, if the Army should be concerned with Muslims in its ranks and expelling them, why stop there? After all, Timothy McVeigh served in the first Gulf War, and that wasn't even a real "war." I remember a soldier who posted his gang colors on the wall of his barracks' room, and no one told him to take it down; I recall that "respect" was an issue with him, and there was always the suggestion of menace and violence if he thought you were "disrespecting" him. More recently, it has been noted that the Army was relaxed its standards in regard to "moral" character, meaning that recruits with Nazi tattoos are not questioned about their beliefs; the SPLCenter has reported the infiltration of the military by white supremacists, especially on the airborne bases like Bragg and Benning.
Re: Kucinich & Massa's "No" votes on the House Reform Bill -
I'm fairly sure that both of them held their votes until they were certain that those votes would NOT defeat the measure.
Actually, I was trying to be sarcastic.
It seems fairly obvious to me that what happenned at Fort Hood is that a soldier who was somewhat unstable in the first place went over the edge. If this man were a Christian or a Jew (or a Hindu, Bhuddist or Druid, for that matter) I doubt there would be ANY discussion of his religion at this time.
Perhaps, some of us DO see the "War on Terrorism" as a war against Islam, eh?
@ AZAFVET - Let’s reinstate the draft and make those of the Muslim faith exempt.
Seems to me that might incentivize conversion to Islam. That's not really your goal, is it?
Another Idea. Let's reinstate the draft and make those of the Muslim faith exempt.
Dr. Hasan wrote about suicide is never allowed in the Muslim faith. I believe that Dr. Hasan was so distressed about the possibility of being required to become active in a war against people of his faith that he wanted to end his life. To justify an act that was repugnant to him and against his beliefs the only out was to declare a Jihad against his own comrades in the name is Islam and thus die by being shot by the police. This would allow him to enter heaven as a martyr.