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    And we want the government in charge of our health care because......?????


    http://abcnews.go.com/WN/bp-oil-spil...0946379&page=1

    "These barges work. You've seen them work. You've seen them suck oil out of the water," said Jindal.


    But the Coast Guard ordered the stoppage because of reasons that Jindal found frustrating. The Coast Guard needed to confirm that there were fire extinguishers and life vests on board, and then it had trouble contacting the people who built the barges.

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      June 18, 2010 12:00 A.M.

      Barack Obama, Dreamer in Chief
      Vision is Obama’s thing. It sure beats cleaning up beaches.


      Pres. Barack Obama doesn’t do the mundane. He was sent to us to do larger things. You could see that plainly in his Oval Office address on the Gulf oil spill. He could barely get himself through the pedestrian first half: a bit of BP-bashing, a bit of faux-Clintonian “I feel your pain,” a bit of recovery and economic-mitigation accounting. It wasn’t until the end of the speech — the let-no-crisis-go-to-waste part that tried to leverage the Gulf Coast devastation to advance his cap-and-trade climate-change agenda — that Obama warmed to his task.

      Pedestrian is beneath Obama. Mr. Fix-It he is not. He is world-historical, the visionary, come to make the oceans recede and the planet heal.

      How? By creating a glorious, new clean-green economy. And how exactly to do that? From Washington, by presidential command, and with tens of billions of dollars thrown around. With the liberal (and professorial) conceit that scientific breakthroughs can be legislated into existence, Obama proposes to give us a new industrial economy.

      But is this not what we’ve been trying to do for decades with ethanol — which remains a monumental boondoggle, economically unviable and environmentally damaging to boot — as with yesterday’s panacea, synfuels, into which Jimmy Carter poured billions?

      Notice that Obama no longer talks about Spain, which until recently he repeatedly cited for its visionary subsidies of a blossoming new clean-energy industry. That’s because Spain, now on the verge of bankruptcy, is pledged to reverse its disastrously bloated public spending, including radical cuts in subsidies to its uneconomical photovoltaic industry.

      There’s a reason petroleum is such a durable fuel. It’s not, as Obama fatuously suggested, because of oil-company lobbying, but because it is very portable, energy-dense, and easy to use.

      But this doesn’t stop Obama from thinking that he can mandate a superior substitute into being. His argument: Well, if we can put a man on the moon, why not this?

      Aside from the irony that this most tiresome of clichés comes from a president who is canceling our program to return to the moon, it is utterly meaningless. The wars on cancer and on poverty have been similarly sold. They remain unwon. Why? Because we knew how to land on the moon. We had the physics to do it. Cancer cells, on the other hand, are far more complex than the Newtonian equations that govern a moon landing. Equally daunting are the laws of social interaction — even assuming there are any — that sustain a culture of poverty.

      Similarly, we don’t know how to make renewables that match the efficiency of fossil fuels. In the interim, it is Obama and his Democratic allies who, as they dream of such scientific leaps, are unwilling to use existing technologies to reduce our dependence on foreign (i.e., imported) and risky (i.e., deepwater) sources of oil — twin dependencies that Obama decried in Tuesday’s speech.

      “Part of the reason oil companies are drilling a mile beneath the surface of the ocean,” said Obama, is “because we’re running out of places to drill on land and in shallow water.”

      Running out of places on land? What about the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge or the less-known National Petroleum Reserve — 23 million acres of Alaska’s North Slope, near the existing pipeline and designated nearly a century ago for petroleum development — that have been shut down by the federal government?

      Running out of shallow-water sources? How about the Pacific Ocean, a not-inconsiderable body of water, and its vast U.S. coastline? That’s been off-limits to new drilling for three decades.

      We haven’t run out of safer and more easily accessible sources of oil. We’ve been run off them by environmentalists. They prefer to dream green instead.

      Obama is dreamer in chief: He wants to take us to this green future “even if we’re unsure exactly what that looks like. Even if we don’t yet precisely know how we’re going to get there.” Here’s the offer: Tax carbon, spend trillions, and put government in control of the energy economy — and he will take you he knows not where, by way of a road he knows not which.

      That’s why Tuesday’s speech was received with such consternation. It was so untethered from reality. The Gulf is gushing, and the president is talking mystery roads to unknown destinations. That passes for vision, and vision is Obama’s thing. It sure beats cleaning up beaches.

      — Charles Krauthammer is a nationally syndicated columnist. © 2010, The Washington Post Writers Group.

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        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yr7odFUARg

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          2ftram

          The area's in which the games and opening ceromonies are a mess, the president of the USA is flying into WV today for the WV senators funeral. Aiports and roads are all shut down. Players and coaches flying in are stuck in layover airports.

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            Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
            The area's in which the games and opening ceromonies are a mess, the president of the USA is flying into WV today for the WV senators funeral. Aiports and roads are all shut down. Players and coaches flying in are stuck in layover airports.
            I guess that's just one more thing this president has screwed up.

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              Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
              I guess that's just one more thing this president has screwed up.
              hahaha...LOVE IT!!!

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                Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                hahaha...LOVE IT!!!
                What's really funny is that he's attending the funeral of a former KKK officer. He makes Teddy look like a saint.

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                  Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                  What's really funny is that he's attending the funeral of a former KKK officer. He makes Teddy look like a saint.
                  No that's really sad!!! If that were a republican president attending a former KKK officer's funeral he would be considered a racist...

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                    Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                    No that's really sad!!! If that were a republican president attending a former KKK officer's funeral he would be considered a racist...
                    I stand corrected. You are right.

                    One of Byrd's more memorable quotes:

                    "I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side ... Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds."

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                      Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                      I stand corrected. You are right.

                      One of Byrd's more memorable quotes:

                      "I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side ... Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds."
                      And then during the next 70 or so years of his life, Senator Bird grew spiritually, politically and intellectually, much as did his beautiful state of West Virginia. He changed and grew from a staunch segregationist to a champion of the Civil Rights movement, from a war hawk to one of the ONLY senators of either party who railed against the invasion of Iraq, from a racist of the first degree to a dear friend and warm supporter of his country's first African American president.
                      And throughout this journey, West Virginia reelected him to the senate for more years than most of the posters on this silly forum have been alive.
                      Senator Bird was a great man. Of course our President belongs at his funeral.
                      Senator Bird was a great man. Our president should indeed be at his furneral.

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                        Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                        And then during the next 70 or so years of his life, Senator Bird grew spiritually, politically and intellectually, much as did his beautiful state of West Virginia. He changed and grew from a staunch segregationist to a champion of the Civil Rights movement, from a war hawk to one of the ONLY senators of either party who railed against the invasion of Iraq, from a racist of the first degree to a dear friend and warm supporter of his country's first African American president.
                        And throughout this journey, West Virginia reelected him to the senate for more years than most of the posters on this silly forum have been alive.
                        Senator Bird was a great man. Of course our President belongs at his funeral.
                        Senator Bird was a great man. Our president should indeed be at his furneral.
                        I respect your opinion, although I disagree. He was a smart politician who knew what it took to get reelected. In his heart he was a racist. Teddy was one of those champions too. The people loved him, called him a great man, even though he killed someone and got away with it. Doesn't make them great in my book.

                        BTW - it's "Byrd", not "Bird". But I'll bet you knew that.

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                          Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                          And then during the next 70 or so years of his life, Senator Bird grew spiritually, politically and intellectually, much as did his beautiful state of West Virginia. He changed and grew from a staunch segregationist to a champion of the Civil Rights movement, from a war hawk to one of the ONLY senators of either party who railed against the invasion of Iraq, from a racist of the first degree to a dear friend and warm supporter of his country's first African American president.
                          And throughout this journey, West Virginia reelected him to the senate for more years than most of the posters on this silly forum have been alive.
                          Senator Bird was a great man. Of course our President belongs at his funeral.
                          Senator Bird was a great man. Our president should indeed be at his furneral.
                          Re-write history go on - spin it the way you want - problem is we know the truth!

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                            Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                            I respect your opinion, although I disagree. He was a smart politician who knew what it took to get reelected. In his heart he was a racist. Teddy was one of those champions too. The people loved him, called him a great man, even though he killed someone and got away with it. Doesn't make them great in my book.

                            BTW - it's "Byrd", not "Bird". But I'll bet you knew that.
                            The man who wrote Amazing Grace was an ex slave trader who became a minister who preached passionatly against slavery. To do some morally wrong, realize it, and then spend the rest of your life atoning for it is about as admirable as human behavior gets.
                            But given the petty, judgemental, small mindedness of most of the posts on this forum, I wouldn't except you to agree.
                            By the way, since this is supposedly a thread about Regionals, the weather down here is perfect and I think 1 or two of the 100's of the teams here had to switch hotels because of the President's visit tomorrow. The parade was great, the weather's great, and the games start tomorrow.
                            Glad you're not here.

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                              Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                              The man who wrote Amazing Grace was an ex slave trader who became a minister who preached passionatly against slavery. To do some morally wrong, realize it, and then spend the rest of your life atoning for it is about as admirable as human behavior gets.
                              But given the petty, judgemental, small mindedness of most of the posts on this forum, I wouldn't except you to agree.
                              By the way, since this is supposedly a thread about Regionals, the weather down here is perfect and I think 1 or two of the 100's of the teams here had to switch hotels because of the President's visit tomorrow. The parade was great, the weather's great, and the games start tomorrow.
                              Glad you're not here.
                              It's nice to know that you will forgive someone for murder (albeit 2nd degree), as long as it's for the greater good.

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                                Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                                It's nice to know that you will forgive someone for murder (albeit 2nd degree), as long as it's for the greater good.
                                One of the things I find impossible to forgive is being a judgemental, mean spirited trolling _sshole. Poeple like you ruin every thread on this forum. As a matter of fact, people like you eventually ruin every thread on every forum. Endless nasty, stupid, ugly posts. Unforgivable.

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