Déjà Vu - $1/bbl=2.5 cents/gal. e.g. NB $/gal. Today!

     Since o'tax'n spend / o'cap'n trade has been in office, gasoline prices have, on average, doubled from $1.79/gal. to $3.91+/gal. nationally.

     In the last month alone gasoline prices averaged a 6.8% per gallon increase.

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Gas Prices Double Under Obama
March 31, 2011, By James S. Robbins, Washington Times

You figure, for yourself: in  terms of your wallet/purse dollars ...right now!

"..under my plan, energy prices will necessarily skyrocket!" -- o'Déjà Vu
Current price of gas/gal @ price per/barrel crude=$113.00 which equals:
$4.25/gal of gas (local)
Prediction:  Low = $152/bbl of crude equals:
$ 5.24/gal gas.
Prediction: High = $182/bbl = $1.73/gal gas more than today will equal:
$5.98/gal gas!

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Nebraska Gasoline and Diesel Prices

Motor Gasoline

For the week of April 18, 2011, Nebraska's average gasoline price rose 1 cent from the last report to $3.84, which was 95 cents higher than the price at this time last year. Weekly averages in the surveyed cities ranged from $3.81 in Omaha to $3.89 in Lincoln. As of April 15, total inventory of all grades of gasoline in the Midwest region was below the normal range.

Diesel Fuel

The average price of diesel fuel in the state had increased 3 cents from the last report to $4.09. According to the weekly price report, this week's state average was $1.03 higher than the price at this time last year. Weekly averages in the surveyed cities ranged from $4.05 in Norfolk to $4.12 in Kearney. On the supply side, the Midwest distillate fuel inventory level was in the normal range with 27 million barrels of ultra-low sulfur diesel fuel and 1.5 million barrels of low sulfur diesel fuel as of April 15.

Notes

Regular unleaded gasoline is regular unleaded motor gasoline with an 87 to 88 octane. Diesel fuel is fuel used for internal combustion in diesel engines. Ultra-low sulfur diesel fuel has sulfur levels of 15 ppm and less while low sulfur diesel fuel ranges from more-than-15 ppm to 500 ppm sulfur.

An archive of this report, average gasoline prices for each month, average diesel prices for each month, and historical weekly prices are available for diesel and three grades of motor gasoline.
A general rule of thumb:  A dollar increase in the West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil price per barrel will result in a 2.5-cent increase in the gasoline price per gallon and the diesel fuel price per gallon.  Likewise, a dollar decrease in the WTI crude oil price per barrel will result in a 2.5-cent decrease in the gasoline price per gallon and the diesel fuel price per gallon.

Regular Unleaded Gasoline Prices for the Week of April 18, 2011 (Price per Gallon)

	Columbus	Grand Island	Kearney	Lincoln	Norfolk	North Platte	Omaha	State
Notes:The average may not equal the average of the components due to independent rounding. NA = Not Available.
Weekly Average	$3.86	$3.84	$3.87	$3.89	$3.84	$3.84	$3.81	$3.84

Diesel Prices for the Week of April 18, 2011 (Price per Gallon)

	Columbus	Grand Island	Kearney	Lincoln	Norfolk	North Platte	Omaha	State
Notes:The average may not equal the average of the components due to independent rounding. NA = Not Available.
Weekly Average	$4.11	$4.09	$4.12	$4.07	$4.05	$4.09	$4.08	$4.09

Source:Nebraska Energy Office, Lincoln, NE.

This report was updated on April 22, 2011. Typically, there is one week between updates.

This report was updated on April 22, 2011. Typically, there is one week between updates.

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bcc'd "red-diaper babies"

 (Remember in 'Nov 2012, Vote American)

related, gas prices: http://harrold.org/gas

related: http://harrolds.blogspot.com/2011/04/deja-vu-elc-gas-prices-fr29apr11-from.html

Déjà vu - Gas Prices

related, gas: http://harrold.org/gas/

Making Sense by Michael Reagan, Tu.26Apr11
  Obama: Running on an Empty Tank

     Halfway through his term in office, President Barack Obama faces a crisis that could most probably doom his chances of being re-elected — he's running out of gas.

     According to press reports, the respected Lundberg survey showed that the average price for a gallon of unleaded regular gasoline in Chicago, for example, now stands at $4.27 — a 12 cent increase in just the past two weeks.   And that, the reports note, is just the average. Several gas stations in Chicago have been selling gasoline for between $4.60 and $4.70 a gallon, according to chicagogasprices.com.

     The rest of America is in a similar fix. According to press reports, per-gallon gas prices are more than $2 higher than when Obama took office Jan. 20, 2009.

     Up until now the president has been nearly exempt from criticism on this issue of rising prices, despite his punitive and inexplicable six-month drilling moratorium, and many of the regulatory hurdles over which the petroleum industry must jump to stay in business.

     With the price of a gallon of gasoline shooting up into the stratosphere, the president's incompetence is now becoming plain for all to see.   He simply can't or won't deal with it, so he goes looking for straw men, upon whom he can pin the blame. With Barack Obama, it's always someone else's fault.

     That approach, however, cannot cut rising gas prices, and reducing the cost of a gallon of gas is what the people desperately need and want.

     The price of the fuel that powers America's family cars, now heading towards an eventual $5 a gallon, has become the price America is now paying for having given Obama the nation's highest office. And the voters are beginning to realize it.

     As long as the majority of the voters were more or less out of the line of fire, thanks to the worshipful media Obama was free to appear wise and presidential as he stumbled along his quasi-Marxist way.

     His complicated health care plan, filled with hidden booby traps, has yet to be implemented. Its serious flaws thus remain largely unseen by the voters.   That time bomb is yet to explode.   When it does, the aftermath won't be pretty.

     His feeble foreign policy, which has him tiptoeing into foreign conflicts that are really none of our business, has become sufficiently confusing to the public to shield him from the inevitable consequences of his makeshift approach to the affairs of the world around us.

     None of these matters have yet hit home with the voters, giving him some immunity in his conduct of foreign affairs.   That immunity, however, does not exist in matters that hit Americans where they live — and the price they pay for gasoline hits home and hits hard.

     Because the president seems to believe that the United States must somehow remain dependent on foreign sources of oil, the vast supplies of crude oil beneath the U.S. mainland and in Alaska — and the waters north of that state — remain untapped.

     Incredibly, Obama is giving Brazil a fortune to finance offshore drilling — and wants to buy Brazil's oil — while refusing to allow our own oil companies to do their own drilling in the area.

     None of this makes any sense.  But it all spells trouble for Obama's chances of hanging on to the White House in 2012.

     He's running on an empty tank.   And he can't say, "Fill 'er up!"

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Michael Reagan is the son of President Ronald Reagan, a political consultant, and the author of "The New Reagan Revolution" (St. Martin's Press, 2011). He is the founder and chairman of The Reagan Group and president of The Reagan Legacy Foundation. Visit his website at http://www.reagan.com/, or e-mail comments to Reagan@caglecartoons.com.

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article source:  http://blog.cagle.com/2011/04/obama-running-on-an-empty-tank/

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o'tax'n spend - Paper Debt May Destroy America (Stansberry)

article source: http://www.stansberryresearch.com/pro/1103PSIEOAVD/LPSIM678/PR WARNING: THE FOLLOWING PRESENTATION IS CONTROVERSIAL AND MAY BE OFFENSIVE TO SOME AUDIENCES. Viewer discretion is advised. LEGAL DISCLAIMER: This work is based on SEC filings, current events, interviews, corporate press releases, and what we've learned as financial journalists.  It may contain errors and you shouldn't make any investment decision based solely on what you read here.  It's your money and your responsibility.  Stansberry & Associates Investment Research expressly forbids its writers from having a financial interest in any security they recommend to our subscribers.  And all Stansberry & Associates Investment Research (and affiliated companies), employees, and agents must wait 24 hours after an initial trade recommendation is published on the Internet, or 72 hours after a direct mail publication is sent, before acting on that recommendation.  Stansberry & Associates Investment Research, LLC. 1217 Saint Paul Street, Baltimore MD 21202

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o'boondoggle - Derail and Curtail: California's $66B High Speed Rail

Ca. Assemblywoman Harkey, We.27Apr11: http://arc.asm.ca.gov/member/73/?p=media&sid=217&id=10671

In this video, Ca. Assemblywoman Harkey discusses California's controversial high-speed rail project.

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o'who? - Trust But Verify (ATLAH)

video source:  http://atlahmedianetwork.org/?p=14658

Hon. James David Manning, PhD gives a response to the White House releasing Barack Hussein “The Long Legged Mack Daddy” Obama’s long form birth certificate. Recorded on 27 April 2011.

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o'who? - Comparison: President Obama's birth certificates (USA Today)

source: http://www.scribd.com/doc/54085812/Comparison-President-Obama-s-birth-certificates

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o'amnesty - Border Agents Told to Reduce Arrests + candidate map (Vote American)

From: Minuteman PAC  Sent: Friday, April 01, 2011 Subject: Federal Agents Told to Reduce Border Arrests

Federal Agents Told to Reduce Border Arrests This is no April Fool's joke!      An Arizona sheriff will be testifying under oath next month that U.S. Border Patrol officials have repeatedly told him to reduce - at times even stop - arrests of illegal immigrants caught trying to cross the U.S. border.      Just today, Minuteman PAC heard of this outrageous deception put forth by the Obama Administration in a desperate attempt to make Sec. of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano's claim that the border was more secure than ever, match with the statistics.      Cochise County Sheriff Larry Dever revealed that a supervisor with the U.S. Border Patrol told him as recently as this month that the federal agency's office on Arizona's southern border was under orders to keep apprehension numbers down during specific reporting periods.      The senior supervisor with the U.S. Border Patrol then went on to explain about how their mission is not to 'scare people back' and that the supervisor had to go back to his guys and "tell them not to catch anybody, that their job is to chase people away?" "They were not to catch anyone, arrest anyone. Their job was to set up posture, to intimidate people, to get them to go back."       Sheriff Dever plans to relay the substance of these conversations when he testifies under oath next month before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.      Dever's charges were vigorously denied by a commander with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection saying "the mission of Border Patrol - does not waiver based on political climate."   Sure it doesn't.      The Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Border Patrol have already come under fire for the methodology used and conclusions drawn 'showing' that the U.S.-Mexico border is more secure.      Regardless of methodology, Sheriff Dever said the numbers Sec. Napolitano is basing her claim of increased border security on do not accurately describe what is happening on the ground.       We all know that anyone who wants to cross into the United States from the Mexican side of the border can do so with ease.  We also know that the Obama Administration is solely focused on Election 2012 - not to mention depending on Amnesty for 12 million new voters to win - to listen to the majority of Americans when it comes to securing our border and enforcing immigration law.      But conservatives are back in control of the House.  And in 2012, we can flood the Senate and the Oval Office with Border Security Patriots.      But to demand change in Washington and to keep the immigration crisis from deteriorating America's economy and putting our families in danger, we need your help.      We need your support for Border Security Patriots running for office and we need your help making our demand for secure borders heard in Washington.      As you well know, Minuteman PAC is an independent Political Action Committee of the Minuteman civilian border security movement, supported by many volunteers of the nation's oldest, largest and most-effective citizen's border vigilance group, the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps.      Our mission is clear: Help elect candidates who carry out their constitutional duty to defend our borders and oust those who do not.      Illegal immigration is as serious as a threat can get to a nation- and it's pushed America to the brink of poverty at the state and federal levels.  The related drug- and gang-violence is invading our neighborhoods and schools hurting our families, our friends, and our future.      So please, help us defend America from President Obama's Open Borders/Pro-Amnesty agenda.      Help elect Anti-Amnesty Patriots like Sheriff Joe in 2012 to do the job Washington WON'T DO.      Thank you for reading our message, and for taking the time to forward our message to friends and family. For America, Minuteman PAC      P.S. Fellow Patriot, please help us fight alongside the Patriots in Congress as they wage war to SECURE OUR BORDERS in 2011! Your much-needed gift will help us rally patriot Americans do the job that Washington WON'T DO. So please, act now -- TODAY! This much needed gift of $35, $60, $100 or even $250 will help us rally patriot Americans to hold Congress -- both establishment RINOs and pro-"illegal alien" leftists -- accountable for SECURING THE BORDERS!

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o'illegal - USBP: o'Pander's 'no-arrest' ILLEGAL Aliens' Vote Tactic

U.S. Border Agents Confirm Orders Not to Arrest Illegal Immigrants

sources:  http://www.FoxNews.com & http://PatriotPost.us

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o'mam - 1400 Years of Muslim Inbreeding!

From: gg Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 Subject: 1400 Years of Muslim Inbreeding!

Nor was I and it is indeed interesting and note worthy. gg

I DID NOT WRITE THIS ARTICLE AND WAS NOT LOOKING FOR IT AS IT CAME TO ME FROM A FRIEND.  I FIND THE ARTICLE VERY INTERESTING AND I CERTAINLY WAS NOT AWARE OF THIS.

An interesting perspective...
A Huge Muslim Problem: Inbreeding 

By Bryan Fischer
     Nicolai Sennels is a Danish psychologist who has done extensive research into a little-known problem in the Muslim world:  the disastrous results of Muslim inbreeding brought about by the marriage of first-cousins.
     This practice, which has been prohibited in the Judeo-Christian tradition since the days of Moses, was sanctioned by Muhammad and has been going on now for 50 generations (1,400 years) in the Muslim world.
     This practice of inbreeding will never go away in the Muslim world, since Muhammad is the ultimate example and authority on all matters, including marriage.
     The massive inbreeding in Muslim culture may well have done virtually irreversible damage to the Muslim gene pool, including extensive damage to its intelligence, sanity, and health.
     According to Sennels, close to half of all Muslims in the world are inbred.  In Pakistan, the numbers approach 70%.  Even in England, more than half of Pakistani immigrants are married to their first cousins, and in Denmark the number of inbred Pakistani immigrants is around 40%.
     The numbers are equally devastating in other important Muslim countries: 67% in Saudi Arabia, 64% in Jordan, and Kuwait, 63% in Sudan, 60% in Iraq, and 54% in the United Arab Emirates and Qatar ...
     According to the BBC, this Pakistani, Muslim-inspired inbreeding is thought to explain the probability that a British Pakistani family is more than 13 times as likely to have children with recessive  genetic disorders.  While Pakistanis are responsible for three percent of the births in the UK, they account for 33% of children with genetic birth defects.
     The risk of what are called autosomal recessive disorders such as cystic fibrosis and spinal muscular atrophy is 18 times higher and the risk of death due to malformations is 10 times higher.
     Other negative consequences of inbreeding include a 100 percent increase in the risk of stillbirths and a 50% increase in the possibility that a child will die during labor.
     Lowered intellectual capacity is another devastating consequence of Muslim marriage patterns. According to Sennels, research shows that  children of consanguineous marriages lose 10-16 points off their IQ and that social abilities develop much slower in inbred babies.
     The risk of having an IQ lower than 70, the official demarcation for being classified as "retarded," increases by an astonishing 400 percent among children of cousin marriages.
     (Similar effects were seen in the Pharaonic dynasties in ancient Egypt and in the British royal family, where inbreeding was the norm for a significant period of time.)
     In Denmark, non-Western immigrants are more than 300 percent more likely to fail the intelligence test required for entrance into the Danish army.
     Sennels says that "the ability to enjoy and produce knowledge and abstract thinking is simply lower in the Islamic world."  He points out that the Arab world translates just 330 books every year, about  20% of what Greece alone does.
     In the last 1,200 years of Islam, just 100,000 books have been translated into Arabic, about what Spain does in a single year.
     Seven out of 10 Turks have never even read a book.
     Sennels points out the difficulties this creates for Muslims seeking to succeed in the West.  "A lower IQ, together with a religion that denounces critical thinking, surely makes it harder for many Muslims to have success in our high-tech knowledge societies."
     Only nine Muslims have ever won the Nobel Prize, and five of those were for the "Peace Prize."  According to Nature magazine, Muslim countries produce just 10 percent of the world average when it comes to scientific research (measured by articles per million inhabitants).
     In Denmark, Sennels' native country, Muslim children are grossly overrepresented among children with special needs.  One-third of the budget for Danish schools is consumed by special education, and anywhere from 51% to 70% of retarded children with physical handicaps in Copenhagen have an immigrant background.
     Learning ability is severely affected as well.  Studies indicated  that 64% of school children with Arabic parents are still illiterate after 10 years in the Danish school system.  The immigrant drop-out rate in Danish high schools is twice that of the native-born.
     Mental illness is also a product. The closer the blood relative, the higher the risk of schizophrenic illness.  The increased risk of insanity may explain why more than 40% of patients in Denmark's biggest ward for clinically insane criminals have an immigrant  background.
     The U.S. is not immune.  According to Sennels, "One study based on  300,000 Americans shows that the majority of Muslims in the USA have a lower income, are less educated, and have worse jobs than the population as a whole."
Sennels concludes:
     There is no doubt that the wide spread tradition of first cousin marriages among Muslims has harmed the gene pool among Muslims.
     Because Muslims' religious beliefs prohibit marrying non-Muslims and thus prevents them from adding fresh genetic material to their population, the genetic damage done to their gene pool since their prophet allowed first cousin marriages 1,400 years ago are most likely massive.  This has produced overwhelming direct and indirect human and societal consequences.
     Bottom line: Islam is not simply a benign and morally equivalent  alternative to the Judeo-Christian tradition.  As Sennels points out, the first and biggest victims of Islam are Muslims. Simple Christian compassion for Muslims and a common-sense desire to protect Western civilization from the ravages of Islam dictate a vigorous opposition to the spread of this dark and dangerous religion.  These stark realities must be taken into account when we establish public policies dealing with immigration from Muslim countries and the building of mosques in the U.S.
     Let's hope America wakes up before a blind naivete about the reality of Islam destroys what remains of our Judeo-Christian culture and our domestic tranquility.

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o'deficit - Foreign Aid $ (Rep. Ted Poe, R-TX, video 5m47)

From: guerra Sent: Saturday, April 16, 2011 Subject:  Only from Texas

"There's 192 Countries That Exist In The World & We Give Foreign Aid To Over 150 Of Them!" -- Rep. Poe (R-Tx, 2nd District, Humble/Beaumont) 

video source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ocVj6UWiDI 

Uploaded by MOXNEWSd0tCOM to Youtube on Feb 9, 2011

You selfish capitalist American pigs should be ashamed of yourselves.  You're not doing enough for the world, therefore I suggest we stop 'half-assing it' go all the way.      I say we start demanding that our politicians start taking 50% of our salaries and donate it to the United Nations.      Now we can have a big Commie group hug, sing Kumbaya and absolve ourselves of our national guilt as we just have to be engaged in the world.      I love the flowers..... It takes a Texan to slap Congress in the face. "Your character is not really tested until someone does something wrong to you.  Character is not only about making right choices; it's about making right choices when someone else makes the wrong choices."  -- Anonymous

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o'who? - Alan Keyes on Eligibility Cases, Dangerous AG, American Marxism (Western Journalism, video)

From: Western Journalism Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 Subject: Video: Alan Keyes on News in Eligibility Cases

Dr. Alan Keyes Speaks About Obama's Eligibility Question (29Mar11)  and role to be played by law enforcement & military vis-à-vis o'who?'s questioned authority.  article source: http://www.westernjournalism.com/dr-alan-keyes-speaks-about-obamas-eligibility-question/) related: Oathkeepers http://oathkeepers.org/ related:  CPNLive.com & Donald Trump videos on Youtube video source: http://www.youtube.com/embed/BUTvCiNduv8 Related posts: Alan Keyes On CNN questioning Obama’s eligibility President’s lawyers say eligibility question over No vacation for Obama from eligibility question Obama Blasts Those Who Question his Eligibility, Religion Chrysler bankruptcy lawyers raise eligibility question Our Dangerous Attorney General by Human Events            Eric Holder should've never been confirmed as attorney general. Any man who would, as he did, urge President Bill Clinton to grant clemency to 16 members of the Puerto Rican domestic terrorist outfit FALN (a Spanish acronym for Armed Forces of National Liberation) was not only unfit to be America's lawyer, but he himself should have been investigated.      Yet Holder is, indeed, our attorney general, and his priorities are exactly where we'd expect them to be: dangerous.       Consider that righteous retribution against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his 9/11 cohorts remains in limbo as Holder's Justice Department continues to seek out ways to try them in civilian courts.      Moreover, Holder refuses to defend the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act, a bipartisan bill passed by Congress and signed into law by a Democratic President.      What's more, under congressional questioning, he declined even to suggest that there are radical elements within Islam that contribute to anti-Americanism and terrorist activity around the world.      Read The Full Story: America's Marxist Media by David B. Jenkins, Pajamas Media       It has by now become glaringly apparent to all but the most obtuse or thoroughly indoctrinated among us that a majority of the members of the mainstream media (I call them cockroach media, but we'll come back to that later) are socialists in outlook and practice. As Kyle-Anne Shiver wrote in an article for Pajamas Media on August 28, 2010, "We now know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that our formerly august mainstream media is replete with socialists."      Well, excuse me. Not at all to diss Kyle-Anne, who does good work, but that information has been around for a long time and has been readily available to anyone who cares to look.      In the interest of clarity, though, let's not use the word "socialists," a term that has become somewhat socially acceptable in certain quarters and to that extent masks the radicalism of their ideas. Socialists are Marxists, so let's call them what they are: Marxists.      How did the mainstream media get to be the way they are? To find the answer, let's turn to an old source.      Helen MacInnes was a Scottish-born novelist whose writing career spanned nearly four and a half decades. Most of her 21 novels dealt with the struggle against totalitarianism. During World War II, she wrote stirring novels of the fight against Nazi Germany. After the conclusion of that war, while other writers were busily plotting stories of the threat of a reincarnated Nazism, she was among the first to understand that communism, with its subversive hooks already well set in the upper levels of many governments, including ours, represented a far greater threat to human freedom. Read The Full Story: George Soros' New Plan for Global Financial Regulation by Arlen Williams, Big Government       What would you think if George Soros were organizing his fellow anti-American, globalist, neo-Marxist "thought leaders," in pursuit of globally governed banking and finance, in a second Bretton Woods conference?      Would you consider that their goals include dragging American influence and incomes down, while confiscating much of our personal finances and giving them to other nations (and yes, the age-old financier network behind them) in the name of "communitarianism?"      Would you find their goal is to replace the bad influences of the IMF and the World Bank, with a much worse, more powerfully controlling, post-American global apparatus?      What would you think, if that meeting were being held this April 8th through 11th?       I got an email, last week; it was Tuesday the 22nd. It was from George Soros. To hear as straight from the dragon's mouth as feasible, I had subscribed. In this emailed article, he lamented the inequities of wealth among the nation-states of Europe, under the strains of their continuing insolvency crisis. He warned of the dangers of national interest. Rather, he proposed, not surprisingly, a further blowing of the global insolvency bubble, so the more indebted European nations may get along owing, while their lending nations get along being owed, all the while, blending and worsening the financial and monetary crises and spreading this yeasty recipe further throughout the world, especially to America. Read The Full Story:

o'mam - Suggestion: Best I've Heard So Far ....

From: baja Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2011 Subject: Best Idea I've Heard So Far ....

Solution to the problem in Libya:

They want a new Muslim leader, I say give them ours.  Solves 2 problems.

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o'reckless - "The Special Relationship is Over" (UK)

Obama has refused to support British sovereignty in the Falklands (Photo: Reuters)

By Alex Singleton, 

     The special relationship is over. We gave America years of unwavering support after September 11. And now we see how Barack Obama’s administration repays us.

     First, Obama declared that America was “neutral” over the sovereignty of the Falklands, ignoring the clear wishes of the islands’ population. And, second, his Assistant Secretary of State, Philip Crowley, snubbed Britain by failing to use their proper name and instead calling them the “Malvinas”.

     I don’t know where Obama learned about diplomacy, but his stinks. I’m normally pro-American, but Mr Obama’s seeming support for Argentinian aggressors, who have no legitimate claim over the Falklands, is gratuitously offensive. So from today, I’m boycotting America as a tourist destination. This summer, I’ll be going to France, not California.

     Let me be clear: I’m not normally in favour of boycotts, and I love the American people.  I holiday in their country regularly, and hate the tedious snobby sneers against the United States. But the American people chose to elect an idiot who seems hell bent on insulting their allies, and something must be done to stop Obama’s reckless foreign policy, before he does the dirty on his allies on every issue.

     If our American friends want to stop Obama shredding the respect the rest of the planet has towards America, they need to stop Obama’s destructive policies – and fast.
article source: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/alexsingleton/100029555/why-barack-obama-has-made-me-boycott-america/

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o'who?'s 2012 Election Chances (Cagle Post)

From: newsletter@caglepost.com  Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 Subject: Cagle Post | Obama's 2012 Election Chances
Doctrine 'toon source: http://patriotupdate.com/cartoons/the-obama-doctrine

Cartoon by Bob Englehart, Hartford Courant (View more cartoons by Englehart)

Barack Obama's 2012 Election Chances by Joe Gandelman

Independent's Eye by Joe Gandelman

article source: http://blog.cagle.com/2011/04/obama's-2012-election-chances/

    President Barack Obama in the biggest "Duh!" this side of Charlie Sheen announced he's going to run for re-election. The conventional wisdom: he's in better shape going into 2011 than the Republicans. Is the conventional wisdom correct? Is it wrong?
     If you consider where Barack Obama is politically, and where he could be given his overflowing plate of problems, the conclusion is: as of April 2011 it looks like Barack Obama will be re-elected since the Republicans are gravitas-candidate challenged. But beware: there are as many "on the other hands" in this political picture as hands on the Hindu Goddess Kali.
    In just one day you can read that: a)a sitting President is almost never defeated unless he faces a challenge for the Presidential nomination from within his own party b)Franklin Roosevelt and Bill Clinton were the only Democratic Presidents in the past 90 years who were re-elected. History suggests Obama's chances look good. Wait! History suggests Obama's chances look BAD.
Here's a thumbnail guide of "yes he's ahead" and "no he can lose." Hold onto it going into election year.
Seven factors that put Obama in a good position for re-election:
1. Independent Voters: Polls now show Obama gaining back some lost independent voter support as he takes some stands upsetting his party's liberal base. Reports suggest he is consciously playing to the middle. It worked for Bill Clinton.
2. By Default His Coalition Stands Behind Him: He'll likely again get support from the increasingly growing block of Hispanic voters, plus African-Americans, young voters and seniors.
3. The New Republican Party: The National Journal's Charlie Cook writes that "talking with Republican pollsters, strategists and veteran campaign professionals recently, I now hear sounds of concern that haven't been heard in almost two years." Cook echoes what I've often noted: there is a big gap between the GOP base's attitudes and demands and independent voters.
4. A Rebounding Economy: Job numbers are (for now) going up.
5. No Serious Democratic Challenger: Sorry, liberals. Dennis Kucinch would NOT qualify.
6. Organized Labor's Rebirth: Republican Governors have done more to revitalize the American labor movement than the American labor movement. 2012 will be labor payback time.
7. The GOP's Seniors Problem: Fine tuning Medicare is courageous but with no tax increases or sacrifices for the rich trying to touch it would be a gift to Democrats.
    But Barack Obama and the Democrats shouldn't start planning his post-election party yet..
    Conservative talk hosts continue to have enormous influence in motivating listeners to vote and pressuring Republicans in Congress. Fox News and the Internet give wide publicity to often inaccurate anti-Obama narratives which are picked up by the mainstream media — then covered more by Fox News and the Internet.
     The Obama team is a reactive-mode political "B team" that hasn't produced a Karl Rove or a James Carville.   And Obama? This legendary orator often comes across as boring and operates in defensive mode. Obama's political foes don't fear him. And then there's the economy, the economy and…the economy. The website 270toWin finds13 scenarios for a 2011 electoral vote tie.
    CNN's John Avlon points to an overlooked Obama flaw. "The fact that Obama has so far failed to build on his 2008 coalition is a significant hurdle to clear on his way to re-election. Reagan-Democrats carried the Gipper to a landslide re-election in 1984 — there are few, if any, Obama-Republicans today."
     Is Obama poised for re-election? Or will be become yet one more Democratic President who goes down in history as someone who ironically cleared the way for policies he and his followers mistakenly assumed would be impossible on that giddy night seemingly a lifetime ago when he was first elected President?
—–  Copyright 2011 Joe Gandelman
Joe Gandelman is a veteran journalist who wrote for newspapers overseas and in the United States. He has appeared on cable news show political panels and is Editor-in-Chief of The Moderate Voice, an Internet hub for independents, centrists and moderates. CNN's John Avlon named him as one of the top 25 Centrists Columnists and Commentators. He can be reached at jgandelman@themoderatevoice.com and can be booked to speak at your event atwww.mavenproductions.com.  Follow Joe Gandelman on Twitter @joegandelman.

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o'manchurian - New Jobs For Americans

Buy American!

From: thy Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2011 Subject:  New Jobs For Americans

THE USA WAS ONCE THE WORLDS LARGEST PRODUCER OF GOODS.   LETS MAKE AN EFFORT TO GET BACK TO THOSE DAYS.   DO NOT BUY FOREIGN MADE GOODS IF YOU CAN HELP IT.  PUT THIS COUNTRY BACK TO WORK.  

     I didn't see the Sawyer special but what's said below makes a lot of sense.  Lets all take the extra minutes to read labels and help our "home boys" in their business'.  -- C.

This says March 4th to April 4th !  Lets continue a little bit longer, starting today!!

     Did you all see that Diane Sawyer has a special report coming up this week on this very subject.  They removed ALL items from a typical, middleclass family's home, that were not made in the USA.  There was hardly anything left besides the kitchen sink. Literally.  During the special they are going to show truckloads of items "USA made" being brought in to replace everything. And will be talking about how to find these items and the difference in price etc.  
     It was interesting that Diane said that if every American spent just $64 (more than normal) on USA made items this year, it would create something like 200,000 new jobs.  Made ME think!  - B. 

Check the Can
     I WAS BUYING FOOD THE OTHER DAY AT WALMART..
ON THE LABEL OF SOME PRODUCTS IT SAID 'FROM CHINA'.
     FOR EXAMPLE THE "OUR FAMILY" BRAND OF THE MANDARIN ORANGES SAYS RIGHT ON THE CAN 'FROM CHINA'.
     I WAS SHOCKED!!  SO FOR A FEW MORE CENTS I BOUGHT THE LIBERTY GOLD BRAND OR THE DOLE SINCE IT'S FROM CALIF.
     TAKES FOREVER JUST TO BUY FOOD AND DO LABEL READING ! !
     Are we Americans as dumb as we appear --- or --- is it that we just do not think? While the Chinese, knowingly and intentionally, export inferior and even toxic products and dangerous toys and goods to be sold in American markets.
     Yet 70% of Americans believe that the trading privileges afforded to the Chinese should be suspended.
     Well, duh..why do you need the government to suspend trading privileges?
     SIMPLY DO IT YOURSELF, AMERICA!!
     Simply look on the bottom of every product you buy, and if it says 'Made in China ' or 'PRC' (and that now includes Hong Kong), simply choose another product, or none at all. You will be amazed at how dependent you are on Chinese products, and you will be equally amazed at what you can do without.
     Who needs plastic eggs to celebrate Easter? If you must have eggs, use real ones and benefit some American farmer. Easter is just an example, the point is do not wait for the government to act. Just go ahead and assume control on your own.
     THINK ABOUT THIS:   If 200 million Americans refuse to buy just $20 each of Chinese goods, that's a billion dollar trade imbalance resolved in our favor...fast!!
     The downside? Some American businesses will feel a temporary pinch from having foreign stockpiles of inventory. Wahhhhhhhhhhhh!!!
     The solution?  Let's give them fair warning and send our own message. Most of the people who have been reading about this matter are planning on implementing this on March. 4th and continue it until April. 4th  That is only one month of trading losses, but it will hit the Chinese for 1/12th of the total, or 8%, of their American exports. Then they will at least have to ask themselves if the benefits of their arrogance and lawlessness were worth it.
     Remember, March. 4th to April. 4th
     START NOW.
     Send this to everybody you know. Let's show them that we are Americans and NOBODY can take us for granted.
     If we can't live without cheap Chinese goods for one month out of our lives, WE DESERVE WHAT WE GET!
     Pass it on, America.
     A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his Fathers but borrowed from his children. -- John James Audubon

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o'money - Where does the Union money go?

"I'm still waiting for my o'stash check!" -- rfh 

From: joeb Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2011 Subject:  Where does the Union money go?

Let's stop letting people "buy" our votes!  Let's pay better attention to who's funding whom! Some of you to whom I'm sending this already are aware of the general numbers, but maybe not the specific.  I thought maybe you'd like to have this chart for your resource files.  - G     Just in case anyone wonders why Obama and his friends are so hot to support labor unions particularly government employee unions, check out the contributions. Leading Union Political Campaign Contributors 1990-2010 Democrats Republicans American Fed. Of State, County, & Municipal Employees $40,281,900 $547,700 Intel Brotherhood of Electrical Workers 29,705,600 679,000 National Education Association 27,679,300 2,005,200 Service Employees International Union 26,368,470 98,700 Communication Workers of America 26,305,500 125,300 Service Employees International Union 26,252,000 1,086,200 Laborers Union 25,734,000 2,138,000 American Federation of Teachers 25,682,800 200,000 United Auto Workers 25,082,200 182,700 Teamsters Union 24,926,400 1,822,000 Carpenters and Joiners Union 24,094,100 2,658,000 Machinists & Aerospace Workers Union 23,875,600 226,300 United Food and Commercial Workers Union 23,182,000 334,200 AFL-CIO 17,124,300 713,500 Sheet Metal Workers Union 16,347,200 342,800 Plumbers & Pipefitters Union 14,790,000 818,500 Operating Engineers Union 13,840,000 2,309,500 Airline Pilots Association 12,806,600 2,398,300 International Association of Firefighters 12,421,700 2,685,400 United Transportation Workers 11,807,000 1,459,300 Ironworkers Union 11,638,900 936,000 American Postal Workers Union 11,633,100 544,300 Nat'l Active & Retired Fed. Employees Association 8,135,400 2,294,600 Seafarers International Union 6,726,800 1,281,300 Source: Center for Responsive Politics, Washington, D

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