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		<description><![CDATA[These people want you to not only prevent your ownership of a nice car or pickup truck, SUV or recreational vehicle or boat, they not only want you to have to walk to where you work or to where you need or want to go, they not only want to make sure you do not have the means to enjoy the countryside and nature for fear that you, as a human, will harm it, they not only want us all to live in caves or if not those, at least round us up, as cattle, to place us in enormous one and two bedroom welfare apartments where we can be better controlled and manipulated so that our “carbon footprint” is lessened, they not only want you to go completely broke and in poverty so you can’t purchase anything including heat, light and food, they not only believe that the U.S. Government should have total and absolute control of every single step and breath you take in life, they want Billions of us DEAD.  That is a fact and I believe that CptCannabis actually has the audacity to tell you that specifically.  And, additionally, what all Environmentalists always state at the end of many a discussion, “Just think how wonderful this world would be if there weren’t any humans on it!” Can’t you hear it, as I, in his writing?  I can’t tell you how many CptCannabis types disgustingly replied to me repeating that statement; “Well it’s true, isn’t it?”  

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="color: #00ffff">CptCannibus (I have reason to suspect he was smoking something) made the following comment elsewhere on this blog:</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #383024;font-family: Verdana">CptCannabis stated:</span></p>
<p><em><span style="color: #383024;font-family: Verdana">And you right wing neocons have the grapes to call me a kool-aid drinker? WHEN you destroy this country I’ll be laughing it up in a land far, far away. Yes, I’ll be laughing. Because you’ll finally…FIANLLY get what you deserve oh so much. Your all of the above energy plan is a “me too” ploy at confusing the already simple minded people of this country into voting for a man who means to provoke another middle eastern country into conflict. Your precious oil will run out…soon. Then you’ll be left with nothing but your dick in your hand and a sour look on your face. I don’t care if this comment doesn’t make it past moderation…if one of you complete and utter fools reads it then I’ll feel completely justified. I know that logic and sensible minded arguments have no place in your scare tactics, so i’ll sum this up rather easily for you. I hate you all, every last one of you neocon, chest thumping retards. I will not go down with you bunch of psychotic apes. I will not go down with you. Yes I meant to put that twice, here it is again. I WILL NOT GO DOWN WITH YOU. George Bush is not my president….and John McCain never will be regardless of what comes November. When you fill up your precious F150 remember that it was your martyr George Bush who raised the prices this high to begin with. I have no pity for you, and neither will God. Ignorance is forgiveable…stupidity is not.</span></em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="color: #383024;font-family: Verdana"><a href="http://captkarl.blogivists.com/2008/08/04/handful-of-congressmen-are-fighting-in-our-stead/#comment-175#comment-175"><span style="color: #b98a3f">August 6th, 2008 at 2:54 am</span></a> <a title="Edit comment" href="http://captkarl.blogivists.com/wp-admin/comment.php?action=editcomment&amp;c=175"><span style="color: #b98a3f">e</span></a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="color: #00ffff">CptCannabis:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="color: #00ffff">I leave your comment for all Americans to see and understand the thinking and philosophy of the people who are behind Socialism and the sacrilegious religion of Environmentalism and “Global Warming”. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="color: #00ffff"><span> </span>Folks, I ask you; are these types of people who you wish to support and associate with?  Do you see how these people are against our American culture, our way of life and even our prosperity and are, above all, direct enemies of everything we believe in and the very essence of our prosperity and even freedom itself?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="color: #00ffff">These people want to not only prevent your ownership of a nice car or pickup truck, SUV or recreational vehicle or boat, they not only want you to have to walk to where you work or to where you need or want to go, they not only want to make sure you do not have the means to enjoy the countryside and nature for fear that you, as a human, will harm it, they not only want us all to live in caves or if not those, at least round us up, as cattle, to place us in enormous one and two bedroom welfare apartments where we can be better controlled and manipulated so that our “carbon footprint” is lessened, they not only want you to go completely broke and in poverty so you can’t purchase anything including heat, light and food, they not only believe that the U.S. Government should have total and absolute control of every single step and breath you take in life,</span><span style="color: #000000"> </span><strong><span style="color: #ff0000">they want Billions of us DEAD.</span></strong><span style="color: #000000">  </span><span style="color: #00ffff">That is a fact and I believe that CptCannabis actually has the audacity to tell you that specifically.<span>  </span>And, additionally, what all Environmentalists always state at the end of many a discussion, “Just think how wonderful this world would be if there weren’t any humans on it!” Can’t you hear it, as I, in his writing?<span>  </span>I can’t tell you how many CptCannabis types disgustingly replied to me repeating that statement; “Well it’s true, isn’t it?”  </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><strong><span style="color: #ff0000">They want us dead, folks.  They honestly believe that we, especially the “evil Americans”, are the scourge of the Earth.  </span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="color: #00ffff">They do not believe in any other God then the God of &#8220;Global Warming&#8221; as they deficiently think is created by mankind and carbon dioxide despite the fact that over</span><span style="color: #000000"> <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline"><a href="http://captkarl.blogivists.com/2008/06/19/people-in-local-communities-will-not-be-able-to-afford-gasoline-or-energy/"><span style="text-decoration: underline"><span style="color: #0000ff">31,000 American Scientists</span></span></a></span></strong> (&lt; Click link for info) </span><span style="color: #00ffff">in the specific field or associated field of weather and environment have formally signed and delivered a petition to the U.S. Government stating that Global Warming, if it actually exists,</span><span style="color: #000000"> </span><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline"><span style="color: #ff0000">is not caused by mankind.</span></span></strong><span style="color: #000000">  </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="color: #00ffff">They do not believe that God created the entire Universe and Earth and all its resources specifically for man&#8217;s use and not for any other animal or plant on this planet.  This is not to say that we must be reasonable stewards of our blessings, but that these things have been specifically provided for us by our creator.<span>  </span>That with care and due but not expensive unreasonable diligence these are not only ours to use but the Earth has been specifically designed for us to do so. On a distant but related matter to this commentary with regards to biblical facts; This is not to say that there can not be extra-terrestrial life on other planets nor whether such life existed before or after us.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="color: #00ffff">I can not help but wonder if such people who do not believe in God, have the right to proclaim the unalienable rights of liberty bestowed on the rest of us by divine blessing as written in The Declaration of Independence?  Of what morality can such men possess?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="color: #00ffff">Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports.<span>  </span>In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of man and citizens…<span>  </span>Let it simply be asked, where is this sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigations in the courts of justice? And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without true and devoted religion to God.  Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education… reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in the exclusion of religious principle.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="color: #00ffff">We must realize the immoral philosophy and diminutive mindedness from which they derive their thoughts.  And we must forgive and take pity on them, but in like proportion we must realize the danger that such people pose on our prosperity, our liberty and our posterity should these immoral philosophies, devoid of soundness, take root amongst our population or God forbid, our young..</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="color: #00ffff">In the meantime we must for the sake of morality and mankind harvest what our divine creator blessed us with.  We must Drill here, Drill now, and pay less.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="color: #00ffff">Thank you, greatly CptCannabis, for the practical application of educational process you have provided for the readership of The Liberty Tree Lantern.  This “cowboy” as I know your type prefers to call real Americans who live with in our own unique culture, who is a direct product of such unique AMERICAN Culture and great heritage of INDIVIDUAL power and freedom to not only do what we wish when we wish, but whom control our SERVANT government, forgives you, pities you and has prayed for you.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="color: #00ffff">I wonder if your sort even understands what freedom means.  Do you even realize that freedom, according to our founding fathers and those who fought and bled for it, means </span><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline"><span style="color: #ffff00">freedom from</span></span></strong><span style="text-decoration: underline"><span style="color: #00ffff"> and</span></span><span style="color: #00ffff">, in fact, </span><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline"><span style="color: #ffff00">over Government</span></span><span style="color: #ffff00">?</span></strong><span style="color: #00ffff">  Or is it, perhaps, that you “hate” freedom?  </span></p>
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		<title>Does lowest congressional approval mean trouble for Democrats?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 11:10:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A majority of Americans (52%) say House and Senate members are doing a poor job, which ties the record high for that dubious rating.

A whopping 72% believe members of Congress are more interested in furthering their own careers than doing public good. And only 14 of every 100 Americans think senators or representatives are genuinely interested in helping real people.]]></description>
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<p>Good thing America&#8217;s dissatisfied voters threw that other crowd out of control of Congress two years ago. Because since the new party took over, approval ratings have plummeted even further to tie an historical low.</p>
<p>Say what?</p>
<p>Weren&#8217;t the outs supposed to fix things on Capitol Hill once they became the ins? And controlled all the investigations? And the agenda? And the committees?</p>
<p>A new poll shows that the percentage of U.S. voters <a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2008/07/08/capitolhill.jpg"><img style="float: right;margin: 9px" src="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/images/2008/07/08/capitolhill.jpg" border="0" alt="Capitol Hill about which a majority of American voters are very dissatisfied" width="320" height="240" /></a>who say Congress is doing an excellent or good job has fallen to single digits for the first time in the tracking history of <a href="http://rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/mood_of_america/congressional_performance/congressional_performance" target="_blank">Rasmussen Reports</a>.</p>
<p>Nine percent say that.</p>
<p>Which is down from 11% in May.</p>
<p>Only three percent of independents say Congress is doing a good or excellent job, half the previous month&#8217;s rating.</p>
<p>A majority of Americans (52%) say House and Senate members are doing a poor job, which ties the record high for that dubious rating.</p>
<p>A whopping 72% believe members of Congress are more interested in furthering their own careers than doing public good. And only 14 of every 100 Americans think senators or representatives are genuinely interested in helping real people.</p>
<p>Not exactly a ringing endorsement of their public service.</p>
<p>The big unanswered question:</p>
<p>If such an overwhelming percentage of voters are so dissatisfied with the congressional work of a Democratic majority they elected just two years ago, a worse rating than even the scandal-plagued Republicans had in 2006, what does this do to the conventional wisdom that 2008 is a year for substantial gains by Democrats in both houses?</p>
<p>Will voters buy the argument that the 2006 majority led by House Speaker <strong><a href="http://topics.latimes.com/politics/people/nancy-pelosi" target="_blank">Nancy Pelosi</a></strong> and Senate Majority Leader <strong><a href="http://topics.latimes.com/politics/people/harry-reid" target="_blank">Harry Reid</a></strong> didn&#8217;t work. So maybe another one will?</p>
<p>Do GOP members appear so disspirited they don&#8217;t present a realistic alternative?</p>
<p>Or will dissatisfied voters, for once, turn on incumbents from both party?           What do you think?</p>
<p>&#8211;Andrew Malcolm</p>
<p>In light of the dubous rating for Congress, WHY do they keep on making legislation that actually harms Americans like cap and trade and other legislation that causes the cost of gasoline, heat, light, electricity and food to skyrocket?  Who are they &#8220;really&#8221; working for?  It certainly isn&#8217;t for us.  If they produce anymore legislation that harms the economy it seems likely that we might well go into a Depression which could literally kill Americans for the lack of financial ability to purchase heat, light, electricity and food.  Certainly our Representatives and Senators must know this?</p>
<p>So if they, especially the Democrats, are producing legislation that is bringing us down to our knees, what is their motive?  Perhaps to give us &#8220;THE FINAL ULTIMATUM&#8221;.  Give up FREEDOM (from Government) and The Constitution for the chains and bondage of the soup kitchens of the Socialist welfare state, food on the table and a roof over our heads.  How can you explain how they can keep purposely causing the cost of energy to go up and destroying our economy and our jobs?  Especially when there are over 31,000 American Scientists that state and have petitioned the U.S. Government testifying to the fact that mankind has nothing to do with Global Warming (see article elsewhere on this blog.).</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[We Conservatives, which are simply nothing more than people who strongly advocate and believe in FREEDOM (from Government, Government "help", and Government meddling in our INDIVIDUAL daily lives and from Government telling us what we can and can not spend our money on, where we can or can not drill for oil and gas, where we can live (Our Government is trying to force us back into the cities into little tiny apartments where we can be "monitored" and forced to comply with "The Law" (who the hell are they anyway.  All they are is the Government - THAT MAKES THEM OUR SERVANTS not OUR MASTERS.  When We The People tell them to jump, they better damn well ask "how high".  They are NOTHING, absolutely NOTHING, compared to our level of status, because we are FREE (from Government). ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-family: Verdana"><span style="font-size: small">I have, <span> </span>just a couple of weeks ago, switched to The Constitution Party and Chuck Baldwin for President, from being LARGELY a Republican, because I am fed up with RINOs.  McCain, at least, admits and stands on his liberal tendencies and environmental BS &#8220;Carbon Footprint&#8221; issues which will destroy our FREEDOM (from Government).</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana"><span style="font-size: small">We Conservatives, which are simply nothing more than people who strongly advocate and believe in FREEDOM (from Government, Government &#8220;help&#8221;, and Government meddling in our INDIVIDUAL daily lives and from Government telling us what we can and can not spend our money on, where we can or can not drill for oil and gas, where we can live (Our Government is trying to force us back into the cities into little tiny apartments where we can be &#8220;monitored&#8221; and forced to comply with &#8220;The Law&#8221; (who the hell are they anyway.  All they are is the Government &#8211; THAT MAKES THEM OUR SERVANTS not OUR MASTERS.  When We The People tell them to jump, they better damn well ask &#8220;how high&#8221;.  They are NOTHING, absolutely NOTHING, compared to our level of status, because we are FREE (from Government).  This is what our Patriots fought, and many paying the ultimate price for, against our Government, back during the Revolutionary War when we won our FREEDOM (from Government) at great cost.  Our policemen and army soldiers in the Red Coats, burned down a lot of our homes and killed many of our men, women and children doing anything they could to prevent us from having FREEDOM (from Government).  But we farmers, common working men, and some regulars (trained and regular army, trained by our Government of the time) gave everything for us to be FREE.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana"><span style="font-size: small">Conservatives are the embodiment of those of the land of the FREE who fought for our FREEDOM (which means freedom FROM GOVERNMENT).  Conservatives KNOW that we are in charge, through NATURAL LAW, which in its essence means the Ten Commandments of God.  We have been given certain inalienable rights by God himself.  Of what right does our mere SERVANT Government have to take away our rights and usurp our power bestowed upon us by the one Supreme Being who created every single atom of every single thing you can see, taste, touch or feel?  The U.S. Government, but most especially both houses of Congress, are fools, idiots, blasphemers that they think they can go against the will of God himself.  I believe the sequence of unrighteousness that Congress has done in utter contempt for The Constitution of The United States of America, causing run away gasoline, diesel, heat, light, electricity, food and other costs, taking away our Freedoms, forcing Socialist programs upon us which mathematically never could work and  of which has never worked the several times tried in the history of our planet, will result in the wrath of God that will befall upon the officials in Government and especially Congress, through us.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana"><span style="font-size: small">Just wait for a while.  I am telling you folks that energy prices will keep going up until Congress decides to make the exploration for oil and gas, where it is, legal.  Also our Government has no choice but to take 80+ percent of our earnings out of our paychecks to pay for Social Security and Medicare.  Now when gasoline costs so much and our paychecks go down, and down and down and down to the point that we can&#8217;t afford heat, light, gasoline and we start to lose our cars and homes because we can&#8217;t afford the payments anymore, DUE TO OUR LOSS OF FREEDOM (from Government), and people start &#8220;walking&#8221; by the hundreds and thousands to the city to live in &#8220;Government Provided&#8221; one and two bedroom apartments and we all start living in the equal distribution of misery and poverty, than even the idiot Liberals will start to ask questions and actually do research to find out what happened.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana"><span style="font-size: small">You see Government is never the solution to a problem, GOVERNMENT IS THE PROBLEM.  Our Founding Fathers knew this.  That is why they created The Constitution to protect us from our Government.  They have stated in many of their writings that it is up to you and me to police our Government to ensure that they obey the Law.  But we have not been doing our job or taking care of our responsibility.  Government officials are NOTHING.  They are our Servants to do OUR bidding.  We all have to understand that we are FREE by the blessings of God himself.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana"><span style="font-size: small">Socialism and/or Communism (which is &#8220;help&#8221; from government, who literally steals money and assets from living people by force, and gives it to others.  This is diametrically against NATURAL LAW, the law of God.  It is sinful at best.  It also turns man against man.  Freedom (from Government) on the other hand, is of God.  It causes man to Love one another and to help one another just like days of old when neighbors would come from miles around to help a new farmer and family build a home and a barn.  That wasn&#8217;t done by government.  It was done by us, a loving community of people who treated each other as we would like to be treated.  We cared about each other back then, because if somebody was down on his luck, there was no government to help.  We had to care then and you know what?  We did CARE then.  And, we helped our neighbors.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana"><span style="font-size: small">Now, because of &#8220;Government&#8221; we don&#8217;t care about anybody but ourselves.  Why? Because &#8220;That is Government&#8217;s&#8221; responsibility to help those people&#8221;.  See how horrible Socialism is?  See how absolutely heinous &#8220;Government help&#8221; is?  It takes away our right to help our neighbor.  Idiots and fools say, &#8220;What do you mean it takes away our &#8220;right&#8221; to help our neighbors?  We can still pitch in and help.&#8221;   Yeah right, a whole bunch of government or commercial trucks and contractors come in at &#8220;Government&#8221; expense to rebuild a home for somebody and you are going to go over there with your tool box and help them right?  Yeah, sure.  You will say government has so much more money than I have it is best that I just let them handle it.  &#8220;Besides&#8221; you will say; &#8220;I have enough of my own matters to worry about, I don&#8217;t have anytime, I need all the money and time I have to take care of myself and my family.&#8221;  And, therefore, you will do nothing to help your neighbor in need.   That is a big reason why Government is disgusting.  It is taking our rights away to really do something important for our neighbors who are down on their luck and broke or poor or sick.  Personally I think this is just horrible.  When the need for us to love and care for one another is taken away from us by Government eventually it gets to the point where we don&#8217;t even say hi to each other anymore.  Why in my younger days I lived in little apartment complexes and there were neighbors who lived in the same building that I didn&#8217;t even know and they wouldn&#8217;t even say hi to me.  Is this how we all want to live?  Is this what we have become?  Is this the future we want for our children?</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana"><span style="font-size: small">We have to stop Socialism and/or Communism in its tracks, before it destroys our FREEDOM (from Government) forever.<span>  </span>Maybe, we might need to start sharpening our pitchforks for that Concord moment at the bridge.<span>  </span>While we may have exchanged one tyrant 3000 miles across the sea for 3000 tyrants a few miles away and their enforcers may wear different colored uniforms or the dark suits and glasses of the IRS Agents, they are certainly, none-the-less tyrants.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small"><span style="font-family: Verdana">I see a whole army of my countrymen, here in defiance of tyranny. You&#8217;ve come to fight as free men&#8230; and free men you are. What will you do with that freedom? Will you fight?</span><span style="font-family: Arial"><span>  </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana"><span style="font-size: small;color: #00ccff">You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on Earth, or we will sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness under the Slave Masters of Socialism or Communism. <span>  </span>Doing nothing but living your lives with your head in the sand and not wanting to even talk about these things is even more cowardly than standing up for the chains and bondage slavery of the Socialist Welfare State. Are you going to do nothing while Government “helps” us to Socialism under the One World Government advocated by the Trilateral Commission, </span><a href="http://www.trilateral.org/"><span style="font-size: small;color: #00ccff">www.trilateral.org</span></a><span style="font-size: small"><span><span style="color: #00ccff"> , whose leaders are the same people who own the privately held company called THE FEDERAL RESERVE, who collects and OWNS every penny of our income taxes, according to the Grace Commission Report.<span>  </span>Think how much money they collect and make from every taxpaying American.<span>  </span>How can you accept the fact that your “forced” by the end of a gun, income taxes are going to a private company?<span>  </span>How can you take the fact that your money is not only making interest payments, paid by you, but also your tax money is getting borrowed at more interest to entities all over the world by THE FEDERAL RESERVE?<span>  </span>How can you accept the fact that the FEDERAL RESERVE is printing money that isn’t even real money but rather a FEDERAL RESERVE “NOTE”, which means that it is NOT MONEY but ONLY THE PROMISE to pay with real money sometime in the future, this time it is a future that never comes.<span>  </span>So if all Dollars are Notes, than have you ever been truly paid for all your labor?<span>  </span>The honest answer is no, YOU HAVE NEVER BEEN PAID.<span>  </span>If all Dollars are only “NOTES” then have you ever bought and paid for anything?<span>  </span>The answer is NO!<span>  </span>If neither you nor anyone else has paid for anything we see or touch, than who really owns our vehicles and homes.<span>  </span>You better hope and pray you never find out.<span>  </span>Because all I know for sure is that all the things you ‘think’ you own, you do not.<span>  </span>How can you truly own anything you have never paid for – because Dollars ARE NOT MONEY!<span>  </span>This is one of the major reasons why the Dollar is falling in international exchange price.<span>  </span>It should fall to around four cents to the Dollar.<span>  </span>That means that everything you buy should go up in price by as much as twenty five times in the near future.<span>  </span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="color: #00ccff">I would suggest you calculate that out to see if you can afford that, ask yourself where the U.S. Government is going to come up with the 90 TRILLION Dollars, to pay for Social Security and Medicare ALONE, which will exist in UNFUNDED Liabilities, over the infinite horizon, by January (hint: it can only come out of your paycheck in “withholding”) and then ask yourself if you still want to keep your head in the sand and do nothing but wait for the Government to deliver to us the “final ultimatum”;<span>  </span>To give up The Constitution and our FREEDOM for the chains and bondage of the soup kitchens of the Socialist Welfare State.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="color: #00ccff">We tackle a lot of discussions here on FS.<span>  </span>But none is as important as these matters of Freedom, prosperity, and war as this matter.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="color: #00ccff">I leave you with one last question:<span>  </span>Why is the U.S. Congress doing absolutely NOTHING, to bring down the price of oil and gas?<span>  </span>In fact, why do they seem to fight to keep the price high?<span>  </span>In fact, why does it seem that they are fighting to make it go even higher by not allowing us to drill for oil and gas WHERE IT IS?<span>  </span>I’ll tell you why – It is because it will force us into the major cities where they can manage, control, oppress and tyrannized us easier.<span>  </span>Big Brother and his TV cameras will be all over the “Government” built apartments they will have for us, to “help us” in our time of need.<span>  </span>Well I have the tools I need to “help ourselves” from the cause of the problem.<span>  </span>And those tools stem from the Second Amendment from which is its purpose as stated.<span>  </span>I leave you with four quotes from Thomas Jefferson:</span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.5in"><span class="body1"><span style="color: #333333;font-family: Symbol"><span><span style="font-size: small">·</span><span style="font: 7pt">        </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small"><span style="font-family: Verdana"><span class="body1"><span>Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.<span>  </span><span style="color: #000080">(Are our Congressmen, with freezers stuffed full of cash money, angels and not men?<span>  </span>Are these “angels” influenced by others of questionable self-serving motives?<span>  </span>Do you really believe they are well representing us, or do you rather believe that they are pushing the interests of a few with power, or using the excuses afforded them by environmentalists to usurp even more power from us and herd us, by the shear force of economics, back into the major cities and into small apartment units (with little “carbon” footprint)?</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.5in"><span class="body1"><span style="color: #333333;font-family: Symbol"><span><span style="font-size: small">·</span><span style="font: 7pt">        </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small"><span style="font-family: Verdana"><span class="body1"><span>To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.5in"><span class="body1"><span style="color: #333333;font-family: Symbol"><span><span style="font-size: small">·</span><span style="font: 7pt">        </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small"><span style="font-family: Verdana"><span class="body1"><span>For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.<span>  </span><span style="color: #000080">(Humm, Why did Thomas Jefferson and other founding fathers just as much so, after years of advanced study on the various historical facts of all the forms of government of history, state this?<span>  </span>Perhaps it would behoove us to come up with the answer to this question, and if wise to protect our freedom (from Government “help”), employ the Second Amendment and militia for it’s intended purpose which is quoted next:</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.5in"><span class="body1"><span style="color: #333333;font-family: Symbol"><span><span style="font-size: small">·</span><span style="font: 7pt">        </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small"><span style="font-family: Verdana"><span class="body1"><span>The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to <span style="text-decoration: underline">protect themselves against tyranny in government.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.5in"><span style="color: #333333;font-family: Symbol"><span><span style="font-size: small">·</span><span style="font: 7pt">        </span></span></span><span style="font-size: small"><span style="font-family: Verdana"><span class="body1"><span style="color: #000080">And last but not least for the fools amongst us who just don’t get it: </span></span><span class="body1"><span>I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.</span></span></span></span></p>
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		<title>What Americans Have To Look Forward To</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:14:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If we Americans do not take the initiative to take back our power from the U.S. Government, by forcing it to comport to the LAW of The Constitution of the United States of America, that We The People wrote for the express purpose to make sure these sorts of things didn&#8217;t happen, we are all [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="color: #000080">If we Americans do not take the initiative to take back our power from the U.S. Government, by forcing it to comport to the LAW of The Constitution of the United States of America, that We The People wrote for the express purpose to make sure these sorts of things didn&#8217;t happen, we are all going to end up like the people written about below.  We shall all have the &#8220;equal&#8221; distribution of misery and poverty at the hands of the Socialists in the U.S. Congress.  How much more damage can we afford to our cost of living which is entirely caused by their legislation, such as with our energy and gasoline costs?  If we don&#8217;t get the U.S. Government completely out of our daily lives, our work and our businesses this is what we all have to look forward to.  This is the ultimate result of socialism as a result of the lack of FREEDOM (from Government &#8220;helping us&#8221;)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080">I don&#8217;t want to live like that; I am sure none of us do.  But what are we going to do about a U.S. Congress who wants us to live in Socialism or Communism?  Through out history this is what has happened to countries that employ Socialist legislation.  Our Founding Fathers knew this and that is why they, well representing us, wrote the Constitutional Laws on Government, so that they would be subservant to us and not our masters.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080">Now the only question is are we willing to fight for our FREEDOM.  What does FREEDOM mean?  According to the Founding Fathers, FREEDOM means freedom FROM Govenment.  Freedom (from Government &#8220;helping&#8221; us) is the greatest wealth generator ever created amongst man.  With FREEDOM comes prosperity, wealth, and happiness for the far greatest number of people.  </span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080">Thomas Jefferson wrote the following quotes:</span></p>
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<li><span class="body"><span style="font-size: x-small;font-family: Verdana">A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor and bread it has earned &#8211; this is the sum of good government.</span></span></li>
<li><span class="body"><span class="body"><span style="font-size: x-small;font-family: Verdana">Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.</span></span> </span></li>
<li><span class="body"><span class="body"><span style="font-size: x-small;font-family: Verdana">Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.</span></span> </span></li>
<li><span class="body"><span style="color: #00ccff"><span class="body"><span style="font-size: x-small;font-family: Verdana">I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline">taking care of them.</span></strong></span></span> </span></span></li>
<li><span class="body"><span style="color: #00ccff"><span style="color: #000000"><span class="body"><span style="font-size: x-small;font-family: Verdana">Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add &#8216;within the limits of the law&#8217; because law is often but the tyrant&#8217;s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.</span></span> </span></span></span></li>
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<p>L.A. Sees More People Living Out of Their Cars<br />
Monday, June 23, 2008</p>
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<p>June 4, 2008: Darlene Knoll, 53, in the sleeping area of the 1978 motor home where she lives in L.A. after losing her job and home.<br />
LOS ANGELES — Having lost her job and her three-bedroom house, Darlene Knoll has joined the legions of downwardly mobile who are four wheels away from homelessness.</p>
<p>She is living out of her shabby 1978 RV, and every night she has to look for a place to park where she won&#8217;t get hassled by the cops or insulted by residents.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.foxnews.com/images/383943/0_61_062308_mobile.jpg" alt="Living out of Cars / Campers" width="320" height="240" />&#8220;I&#8217;m not a piece of trash,&#8221; the former home health-care aide said as she stroked one of five dogs in her cramped quarters parked in the waterfront community of Marina del Rey.</p>
<p>Amid the foreclosure crisis and the shaky economy, some California cities are seeing an increase in the number of people living out of their cars, vans or RVs.</p>
<p>Acting on complaints from homeowners, the Los Angeles City Council got tough earlier this year by forbidding nearly all overnight parking in residential neighborhoods such as South Brentwood.</p>
<p>But some people are just crowding into other parts of the city, including the seaside community of Venice, where dozens of rusty, dilapidated campers can be seen lined up outside neat single-family homes. The stench of urine emanates from a few of the vehicles, and some residents say they have seen human waste left behind.</p>
<p>&#8220;They&#8217;re nasty and gnarly,&#8221; said Venice resident Jeff Scharlin. &#8220;We&#8217;ve heard about drug dealing and prostitution in them. I&#8217;ve never seen it, but visually they&#8217;re a blight and they take up parking space.&#8221;</p>
<p>In Los Angeles, as in many other cities, it is illegal to live in vehicles on public streets. But the law is not easy to enforce. Police have to enter a vehicle to find signs that people are living there, such as cooking or sleeping, and occupants often refuse to answer when cops knock.</p>
<p>An easier way is to restrict overnight parking. In L.A., a first offense carries a $50 fine, and subsequent violations can cost as much as $100.</p>
<p>Parking-enforcement officers often give vehicle owners a warning and tell them to move on before issuing a ticket, and that usually solves the problem, said Alan Willis, a city transportation engineer. But other cities in the area are not as lenient.</p>
<p>&#8220;I had my motor home towed in Culver City. It cost me $500 to get it out,&#8221; said Desiri Hawkins, who lives in a small RV in Venice. &#8220;I got ticketed in Santa Monica and had to go to court.&#8221;</p>
<p>Tourist states with temperate climates, such as California and Florida, have long been magnets for the homeless. Los Angeles is the nation&#8217;s homelessness capital, with an estimated 73,000 people on the streets. A survey of 3,230 homeless people last year in Los Angeles County found nearly 7 percent living in vehicles, according to the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority.</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s trending toward an increase,&#8221; said Michael Stoop, acting executive director of the National Coalition for the Homeless. &#8220;People would rather live in a vehicle than wind up in a shelter, and you can&#8217;t stay on a friend&#8217;s couch forever.&#8221;</p>
<p>People living out of their cars or campers tend to be more well-off than the homeless on the street. They usually have jobs or disability checks that enable them to maintain an old camper but do not allow them to afford rent.</p>
<p>&#8220;For more working-class and lower-middle-class people, the car is the first stop of being homeless, and sometimes it turns out to be a long stop,&#8221; said Gary Blasi, a University of California, Los Angeles, law professor and activist on homeless issues.</p>
<p>Some Venice residents are clamoring for overnight parking restrictions. But parking limits in oceanfront neighborhoods are problematic because the California Coastal Commission requires communities to accommodate surfers, fishermen and other early-morning beachgoers.</p>
<p>&#8220;The complaints are getting louder and louder,&#8221; said Los Angeles City Councilman Bill Rosendahl.</p>
<p>For years, some cities such as Santa Barbara, Calif., and Eugene, Ore., have accommodated people who live out of their vehicles. Activists in Venice are looking at some of those ideas. Santa Barbara, for example, allows vehicles to stay from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. in church and city parking lots.</p>
<p>Knoll said she can barely afford to drive around with the rising price of gasoline eating away at the $950 monthly disability check she receives because of mental illness.</p>
<p>She said she is also sick of police waking her up in the wee hours by pounding on her vehicle with their nightsticks, and she is tired of fighting with residents who call her &#8220;lowlife scum&#8221; and hurl other insults.</p>
<p>&#8220;We need somewhere we can have a safe haven, where we won&#8217;t be harassed,&#8221; Knoll said as the wind from a passing car rocked her RV. &#8220;I never thought I&#8217;d be living like this, but I&#8217;m stuck. This is it for me.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Dems want control over U.S. oil flow</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:37:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Capt. Karl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sure, we can trust the U.S. BIG GOVERNMENT.  Let's see, what do they call that when "The State" owns the companies.  Let's see, I believe they call that COMMUNISM.  Sure, we can "trust" them. ]]></description>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #00ffff"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman"><span style="color: #000000">Well I guess the U.S. Government, Congress and THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM banker / owners (all forty of them) who controls and owns the U.S. Government and us American citizens need a few more assets paid for by stealing even more money in “withholding” from our paychecks.  Sure the idea that the Democrats in Congress have is great.  Yeah, they, BIG GOVERNMENT, already charges us over 15% profit on a gallon of gasoline, far more if you include your State tax, while the “big oil” Companies only charge 4 – 8% in profit per gallon.  That is half or less of what the BIG GOVERNMENT take is.  Never mind that the shareholders of “big oil” are the general American public, you know, We The (peon) People who have pension programs, 401ks, and general investments in “big oil” so we can actually retire with some money we can count on.  </span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #00ffff"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman"><span style="color: #000000">Oh, but,  yeah, we have Social Security and Medicare we can depend on because it is from “The Government”; yeah right!  We can “no doubt” <span style="text-decoration: underline">trust</span> BIG Government, hey?  </span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman"><span style="color: #000000">Sure Social Security and Medicare (ALONE) are only in the hole by $90,000,000,000,000.00 DOLLARS, in UNFUNDED liabilities, over the infinite horizon, as reported by The Washington Times.  (I wonder where that money is going to come from.  Are any of you able to take a stab at where the money for that $90 TRILLION, is going to come from?  Any guess at all?  </span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #00ffff"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman"><span style="color: #000000">Sure, good idea, let’s let the U.S. Government “Directly” control our oil and gas supply!  I trust BIG Government that they won’t ration out gasoline and diesel to who “they think” deserves it.  Don’t you?  You trust them that if you are not paying “your fair share” of taxes that they won’t shut off your heat and light, don’t you?  No, they would never do anything like that to you, would they?  Heck they don’t raid your business and homes with guns and SWAT teams if you don’t pay “your fair share” of income taxes now do they?  Sure, we can all trust BIG GOVERNMENT.   They won’t even demand more in taxes for the “services” they do for us in getting out the oil, will they?</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #00ffff"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman"><span style="color: #000000"> Maybe our country can get even more in debt to THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM so they can take all of our cars, trucks and homes away from our families, so that we can sit on the street corner holding the hands of our children and look at the pretty trees lining the street and wondering how wonderful the leaves would be to eat.  Gee wouldn’t that be special!</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #00ffff"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman"><span style="color: #000000">Sure, we can trust the U.S. BIG GOVERNMENT.  Let&#8217;s see, what do they call that when &#8220;The State&#8221; owns the companies.  Let&#8217;s see, I believe they call that</span> <span style="color: #ff0000">COMMUNISM</span>.  <span style="color: #000000">Sure, we can &#8220;trust&#8221; them.  We voted for them to represent us, right?  And Communism MURDERED how many people on our planet?</span>  <span style="color: #ff0000">OVER ONE HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE!</span>  <span style="color: #000000">Good Idea!  Let&#8217;s trust Government, so we don&#8217;t have anything to worry about.  I will be able to sleep better now.  And, who knows, the way it&#8217;s going maybe BIG GOVERNMENT will help me to</span> <span style="color: #ff0000">Rest In Peace.</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;color: #000000;font-family: Verdana">House Democrats responded to President&#8217;s Bush&#8217;s call for Congress to lift the moratorium on offshore drilling. This was at an on-camera press conference fed back live. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;color: #000000;font-family: Verdana">Among other things, the Democrats called for the government to own refineries so it could better control the flow of the oil supply.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;color: #000000;font-family: Verdana">They also reasserted that the reason the Appropriations Committee markup (where the vote on the amendment to lift the ban) was cancelled so they could focus on preparing the supplemental Iraq spending bill for tomorrow.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;color: #000000;font-family: Verdana">At an off-camera briefing, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) said the same. And a senior Republican House Appropriations Committee aide adds that &#8220;there were multiple reasons for the postponement&#8221; including discussion on the supplemental. But the aide said there was the thought that Democrats may wish to avoid a debate today on energy amendments.</span></p>
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		<title>Top Oil Executives &#8220;Try&#8221; to Teach Congress Linear Thinking 101 in Attempt to Provide America Lower Prices</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:18:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Capt. Karl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am going to check into the veracity of some of these statements, and if correct, I shall post this on my blog, Skip.  http://captkarl.blogivists.com/
 I am so mad about the FACT that Congress doesn’t care about We The People who not only are they supposed to 
represent, but they are supposed to be OUR PUBLIC [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;color: #000080;font-family: Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt;color: #000080;font-family: Arial">I am going to check into the veracity of some of these statements, and if correct, I shall post this on my blog, Skip.  <a title="http://captkarl.blogivists.com/" href="http://captkarl.blogivists.com/"><span style="color: #0000ff">http://captkarl.blogivists.com/</span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;color: #000080;font-family: Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt;color: #000080;font-family: Arial"> </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;color: #000080;font-family: Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt;color: #000080;font-family: Arial">I am so mad about the FACT that Congress doesn’t care about We The People who not only are they supposed to </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;color: #000080;font-family: Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt;color: #000080;font-family: Arial">represent, but </span></span><span style="font-size: large;color: #ff0000;font-family: Arial"><span style="font-size: 16pt;color: #ff0000;font-family: Arial">they are supposed to be </span></span><span style="font-size: large;color: #ff0000;font-family: Arial"><span style="font-size: 20pt;color: #ff0000;font-family: Arial">OUR <span style="text-decoration: underline">PUBLIC SERVANTS</span>!</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;color: #000080;font-family: Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt;color: #000080;font-family: Arial">Skip, We can not afford to let these tyrants get away with this!  We have to “e pluribus Unum” their arses!   The American people must rise up!  If we lose our prosperity to these despots, we may very well lose our Constitution, our FREEDOM, our American Culture and our prosperity, forever.  </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;color: #000080;font-family: Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt;color: #000080;font-family: Arial">I HAVE strong evidence that THE FEDERAL RESERVE, and their “good old boys Club of cronies” called The Trilateral Commission <a title="http://www.trilateral.org/" href="http://www.trilateral.org/">www.trilateral.org</a> are behind <span style="text-decoration: underline">all of this.  </span> Their primary mission is to develop a One World Government with the forty guys who own The Federal Reserve completely in charge of the world wide Socialist “Matrix”  where they tax every breath taking human being and redistribute wealth according to their own dictates.  There are things going on in the world right now and in The United States that is absolutely so insane and what we would believe to be impossible in the “real” world that it is hard to fully grasp or comprehend.   For example the NAFTA </span></span><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline"><span style="color: #000080;font-family: Arial"><span style="font-weight: bold;color: #000080;font-family: Arial">Super Secret</span></span></span></strong><span style="font-size: x-small;color: #000080;font-family: Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt;color: #000080;font-family: Arial"> Highway, which is up to 4 Football Fields – <span style="text-decoration: underline">end to end wide</span> (1200 yards wide) that is being built by </span></span><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline"><span style="font-size: x-small;color: #ff0000;font-family: Arial"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size: 10pt;color: #ff0000;font-family: Arial">confiscating Thousands of Square MILES</span></span></span></strong><span style="font-size: x-small;color: #000080;font-family: Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt;color: #000080;font-family: Arial"> of private land through the “Eminent Domain” process – land being stolen from private INDIVIDUAL citizens all the way from Mexico to Canada, by the U.S. Government operating under orders by THE FEDERAL RESERVE who, according to The Grace Commission Report, by a Blue Ribbon panel setup by President Reagan, collects and owns for their own private company use, every last nickel of American Income Tax Dollars!  Why the hell are we paying a PRIVATE COMPANY income taxes?  They can all go to hell as far as I am concerned!  What are we, as a FREE people, doing to ourselves by allowing this?  All we have to do, AS A FREE people, is put our feet down and say NO!  The U.S. Government and both houses of Congress are our SERVANTS not our Masters!</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;color: #000080;font-family: Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt;color: #000080;font-family: Arial"> </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;color: #000080;font-family: Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt;color: #000080;font-family: Arial">Now, let me get this straight, as to the implications of what we know to be true from the Grace Commission Report:</span></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;color: #000080;font-family: Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt;font-family: Arial">The U.S. Government doesn’t get a single nickel of Taxpayer Income Taxes, for the services we believe they are supposed to do, because it is primarily sucked up by interest payments owed to The Federal Reserve and used for income tranfer payments.  So,</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;color: #000080;font-family: Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt;font-family: Arial">They don’t get any money from us American Citizens, what-so-ever, that is used for the operations of the U.S. Government.</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;color: #000080;font-family: Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt;font-family: Arial">The U.S. Government needs TRILLIONS of Dollars to function as it does with the size of it.</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;color: #000080;font-family: Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt;font-family: Arial">The only entity that The U.S. Government can get ANY money is from the PRIVATE banker of THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM, a cartel of 12 PRIVATE banks which is owned and “closely held” by only forty mega-powerful people.</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;color: #000080;font-family: Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt;font-family: Arial">The U.S. Government has to get </span></span><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline"><span style="font-size: medium;font-family: Arial"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial">every penny they exist on</span></span></span></strong><span style="font-size: x-small;font-family: Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt;font-family: Arial"> from THE FEDERAL RESERVE which is a PRIVATE company that is as “Federal” as Federal Express, and without that money they would be instantly and factually shut down.</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;color: #000080;font-family: Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt;font-family: Arial">Because the Federal Reserve is a “private” company they have the right to refuse lending to anybody or entity they don’t want to or feel is too risky, including the U.S. Government.</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;color: #000080;font-family: Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt;font-family: Arial">What happens to the U.S. Government, considering the above facts as reported by The Grace Commission which is publically available from several sources (here is one: <a title="http://www.uhuh.com/taxstuff/gracecom.htm" href="http://www.uhuh.com/taxstuff/gracecom.htm"><span style="color: #0000ff">http://www.uhuh.com/taxstuff/gracecom.htm</span></a> , if the FEDERAL RESERVE decides not to fund it for whatever reason they want?</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;color: #000080;font-family: Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt;font-family: Arial">What if the U.S. Government doesn’t do what THE FEDERAL RESERVE “advises”?  Do they stop funding the U.S. Government?  They can!</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;color: #000080;font-family: Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt;font-family: Arial">So who is in control of The U.S. Government if they don’t get a single nickel of our tax dollars, but rather, solely receives money funded by THE FEDERAL RESERVE (a private company)?</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;color: #000080;font-family: Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt;font-family: Arial">How much interest profits does THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM make from this arrangement, unconstitutionally setup, by the U.S. Congress as a direct cost to all American taxpayers, get anyway?  Wouldn’t it be nice if we could keep OUR OWN MONEY from our EARNINGS?  What the heck is the matter with us?  Why are we putting up with this insanity?</span></span></li>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;color: #000080;font-family: Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt;color: #000080;font-family: Arial">I will post your article, Skip, as soon as I am done with confirmation.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;color: #000080;font-family: Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt;color: #000080;font-family: Arial">Thanks for the info, Skip, and check out my blog.  Man, </span></span><strong><span style="color: #000080;font-family: Arial"><span style="font-weight: bold;color: #000080;font-family: Arial">I can’t tell you how mad I am with both houses of Congress.</span></span></strong><span style="font-size: x-small;color: #000080;font-family: Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt;color: #000080;font-family: Arial">  And the level of temper raises with each time I fill my fuel tank!  I think Congress and the rest of the U.S. Government are trying to weaken us financially and spiritually to prepare to give us “The Final Ultimatum”.  With what Congress is doing to us with the price of gasoline and all energy, under the TOTAL B.S. of “Global Warming” being caused by mankind, I honestly believe they are out to get us and place us in the chains and bondage of “The Matrix” taxation vats of a Socialist One World Government, where they, THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM draws super financial energy from us, program us, where we have NO WHERE to run, no place to escape, and where resistance is futile.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;color: #000080;font-family: Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt;color: #000080;font-family: Arial"> </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;color: #000080;font-family: Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt;color: #000080;font-family: Arial">Why, you need to ask yourself, are they building a colossal super wide super NAFTA highway, secretly behind our backs?  See my blog for more info and video reports:  <a title="http://captkarl.blogivists.com/" href="http://captkarl.blogivists.com/"><span style="color: #0000ff">http://captkarl.blogivists.com/</span></a></span></span></p>
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<div><strong><span style="font-size: large;color: #000080;font-family: Verdana"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size: 16.5pt;color: #000080;font-family: Verdana">Earlier today, the Senate Judiciary Committee summoned top executives from the petroleum industry for what Chairman Pat Leahy thought would be a politically profitable inquisition. Leahy and his comrades showed up ready to blame American oil companies for the high price of gasoline, but the event wasn&#8217;t as satisfactory as the Democrats had hoped.</span></span></strong></div>
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<p></span></span></strong><strong><span style="font-size: large;color: #000080;font-family: Verdana"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size: 16.5pt;color: #000080;font-family: Verdana">The industry lineup was formidable:<br />
• Robert Malone, Chairman and President of BP America, Inc.;<br />
• John Hofmeister, President, Shell Oil Company;<br />
• Peter Robertson, Vice Chairman of the Board, Chevron Corporation;<br />
• John Lowe, Executive Vice President, Conoco Philips Company; and<br />
• Stephen Simon, Senior Vice President, Exxon Mobil Corporation.</p>
<p>Not surprisingly, the petroleum executives stole the show, as they were far smarter, infinitely better informed, and much more public-spirited than the Senate Democrats.<br />
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One theme that emerged from the hearing was the surprisingly small role played by American oil companies in the global petroleum market.</p>
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<p></span></span></strong><strong><span style="font-size: x-large;color: #000080;font-family: Verdana"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size: 21pt;color: #000080;font-family: Verdana">John Lowe pointed out:</p>
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I cannot overemphasize the access issue. Access to resources is severely restricted in the United States and abroad, and the American oil industry must compete with national oil companies who are often much larger and have the support of their governments.</span></span></strong></div>
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<p></span></span></strong><strong><span style="font-size: large;color: #000080;font-family: Verdana"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size: 16.5pt;color: #000080;font-family: Verdana">We can only compete directly for 7 percent of the world&#8217;s available reserves while about 75 percent is completely controlled by national oil companies and is not accessible.</p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size: x-large;color: #000080;font-family: Verdana"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size: 21pt;color: #000080;font-family: Verdana">Stephen Simon amplified:<br />
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Exxon Mobil is the largest U.S. oil and gas company, but we account for only 2 percent of global energy production, only 3 percent of global oil production, only 6 percent of global refining capacity, and only 1 percent of global petroleum reserves. With respect to petroleum reserves, we rank 14th. Government-owned national oil companies dominate the top spots. For an American company to succeed in this competitive landscape and go head to head with huge government-backed national oil companies, it needs financial strength and scale to execute massive complex energy projects requiring enormous long-term investments.</span></span></strong></div>
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<p></span></span></strong><strong><span style="font-size: large;color: #000080;font-family: Verdana"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size: 16.5pt;color: #000080;font-family: Verdana">To simply maintain our current operations and make needed capital investments, Exxon Mobil spends nearly $1 billion each day.</p>
<p>Because foreign companies and governments control the overwhelming majority of the world&#8217;s oil, most of the price you pay at the pump is the cost paid by the American oil company to acquire crude oil from someone else.</p>
<p>Last year, the average price in the United States of a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline was around $2.80. On average in 2007, approximately 58 percent of the price reflected the amount paid for crude oil. Consumers pay for that crude oil, and so do we.<br />
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Of the 2 million barrels per day Exxon Mobil refined in 2007 here in the United States, 90 percent were purchased from others.</p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size: x-large;color: #000080;font-family: Verdana"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size: 21pt;color: #000080;font-family: Verdana">Another theme of the day&#8217;s testimony</span></span></strong></p>
<div><strong><span style="font-size: large;color: #000080;font-family: Verdana"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size: 16.5pt;color: #000080;font-family: Verdana">was that, if anyone is &#8216;gouging&#8217; consumers through the high price of gasoline, it is federal and state governments, not American oil companies. On the average, 15% percent of the cost of gasoline at the pump goes for taxes, while only 4% represents oil company profits. These figures were repeated several times, but, strangely, not a single Democratic Senator proposed relieving consumers&#8217; anxieties about gas prices by reducing taxes.</span></span></strong></div>
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<p></span></span></strong><strong><span style="font-size: large;color: #000080;font-family: Verdana"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size: 16.5pt;color: #000080;font-family: Verdana">The last theme that was sounded repeatedly was Congress&#8217;s responsibility for the fact that American companies have access to so little petroleum.</p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size: x-large;color: #000080;font-family: Verdana"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size: 21pt;color: #000080;font-family: Verdana">Shell&#8217;s John Hofmeister explained, eloquently:<br />
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<div><strong><span style="font-size: large;color: #000080;font-family: Verdana"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size: 16.5pt;color: #000080;font-family: Verdana">While all oil-importing nations buy oil at global prices, some, notably India and China, subsidize the cost of oil products to their nation&#8217;s consumers, feeding the demand for more oil despite record prices. They do this to speed economic growth and to ensure a competitive advantage relative to other nations.</span></span></strong></div>
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<p></span></span></strong><strong><span style="font-size: large;color: #000080;font-family: Verdana"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size: 16.5pt;color: #000080;font-family: Verdana">Meanwhile, in the United States, access to our own oil and gas resources has been limited for the last 30 years, prohibiting companies such as Shell from exploring and developing resources for the benefit of the American people.</p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size: x-large;color: #000080;font-family: Verdana"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size: 21pt;color: #000080;font-family: Verdana">Senator Sessions, I agree, it is not a free market.<br />
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According to the Department of the Interior, 62 percent of all on-shore federal lands are off limits to oil and gas developments, with restrictions applying to 92 percent of all federal lands. We have an outer continental shelf moratorium on the Atlantic Ocean, an outer continental shelf moratorium on the Pacific Ocean, an outer continental shelf moratorium on the eastern Gulf of Mexico, congressional bans on on-shore oil and gas activities in specific areas of the Rockies and Alaska, and even a congressional ban on doing an analysis of the resource potential for oil and gas in the Atlantic, Pacific and eastern Gulf of Mexico.</span></span></strong></div>
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<p></span></span></strong><strong><span style="font-size: large;color: #000080;font-family: Verdana"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size: 16.5pt;color: #000080;font-family: Verdana">The Argonne National Laboratory did a report in 2004 that identified 40 specific federal policy areas that halt, limit, delay or restrict natural gas projects. I urge you to review it. It is a long list. If I may, I offer it today if you would like to include it in the record.</p>
<p>When many of these policies were implemented, oil was selling in the single digits, not the triple digits we see now. The cumulative effect of these policies has been to discourage U.S. investment and send U.S. companies outside the United States to produce new supplies.</p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size: large;color: #ff0000;font-family: Verdana"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size: 16.5pt;color: #ff0000;font-family: Verdana">As a result, U.S. production has declined so much that nearly 60 percent of daily consumption comes from foreign sources.<br />
The problem of access can be solved in this country by the same government that has prohibited it. Congress could have chosen to lift some or all of the current restrictions on exploration and production of oil and gas. Congress could provide national policy to reverse the persistent decline of domestically secure natural resource development.<br />
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Later in the hearing, Senator Orrin Hatch walked Hofmeister through the Democrats&#8217; latest efforts to block energy independence:</span></span></strong></div>
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<p></span></span></strong><strong><span style="font-size: large;color: #000080;font-family: Verdana"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size: 16.5pt;color: #000080;font-family: Verdana">HATCH: I want to get into that. In other words, we&#8217;re talking about Utah, Colorado and Wyoming. It&#8217;s fair to say that they&#8217;re not considered part of America&#8217;s $22 billion of proven reserves.</p>
<p>HOFMEISTER: Not at all.</p>
<p>HATCH: No, but experts agree that there&#8217;s between 800 billion to almost 2 trillion barrels of oil that could be recoverable there, and that&#8217;s good oil, isn&#8217;t it?</p>
<p>HOFMEISTER: That&#8217;s correct.</p>
<p>HATCH: It could be recovered at somewhere between $30 and $40 a barrel?</p>
<p>HOFMEISTER: I think those costs are probably a bit dated now, based upon what we&#8217;ve seen in the inflation&#8230;</p>
<p>HATCH: Well, somewhere in that area.</p>
<p>HOFMEISTER: I don&#8217;t know what the exact cost would be, but, you know, if there is more supply, I think inflation in the oil industry would be cracked. And we are facing severe inflation because of the limited amount of supply against the demand.</p>
<p>HATCH: I guess what I&#8217;m saying, though, is that if we started to develop the oil shale in those three states we could do it within this framework of over $100 a barrel and make a profit.</p>
<p>HOFMEISTER: I believe we could.</p>
<p>HATCH: And we could help our country alleviate its oil pressures.</p>
<p>HOFMEISTER: Yes.</p>
<p>HATCH: But they&#8217;re stopping us from doing that right here, as we sit here. We just had a hearing last week where Democrats had stopped the ability to do that, in at least Colorado.</p>
<p>HOFMEISTER: Well, as I said in my opening statement, I think the public policy constraints on the supply side in this country are a disservice to the American consumer.</p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size: large;color: #ff0000;font-family: Verdana"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size: 16.5pt;color: #ff0000;font-family: Verdana">The committee&#8217;s Democrats attempted no response. They know that they are largely responsible for the current high price of gasoline, and they want the price to rise even further. Consequently, they have no intention of permitting the development of domestic oil and gas reserves that would both increase this country&#8217;s energy independence and give consumers a break from constantly increasing energy costs.<br />
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		<description><![CDATA[GOP Rep. John Peterson of Pennsylvania offered an amendment a year ago to permit offshore natural gas drilling. It was defeated 196-233 by do-nothing Democrats now panicked over high gas prices and forecasts of declining energy supplies from non-OPEC nations. 

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2> <span style="color: #ff0000">Update</span>: McCain. Ugh.</h2>
<div class="author">By Michelle Malkin  •  June 11, 2008 02:41 PM</div>
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<p>GOP Rep. John Peterson of Pennsylvania offered an amendment a year ago to permit offshore natural gas drilling. It was <a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/D?d110:6:./temp/~bdwol5::"><strong><span style="color: #72123b">defeated</span></strong></a> 196-233 by do-nothing Democrats now panicked over high gas prices and forecasts of declining energy supplies from non-OPEC nations.</p>
<p>Peterson is <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/energy/2008-06-10-house-drilling_N.htm"><strong><span style="color: #72123b">pushing</span></strong></a> his amendment again today before a House Appropriations subcommittee, but it’s another uphill battle. For the Dems, you see, <em>doing</em> something about energy independence ain’t as fun as whining about it:</p>
<blockquote><p>Supporters of a proposal to allow drilling for oil and gas off the U.S. coastline are expected to make their case to a House panel Wednesday.</p>
<p>Offshore oil and gas production has been banned off most of the U.S. coastline since Congress approved the Outer Continental Shelf moratorium in 1981, which prevented the leasing of coastal waters for fossil fuel development.</p>
<p>Rep. John Peterson, R-Pa., wants to change that with an amendment to the Interior Department spending bill to be considered by a House Appropriations subcommittee. The amendment would lift the prohibition on exploration 50 to 200 miles offshore but continue to ban drilling within 50 miles of the coastline.</p>
<p>“For 27 years, Congress has deliberately locked-up vast offshore oil and natural gas reserves,” Peterson said. “With the price at the pump increasing daily — with no end in sight — and the cost of natural gas trading at record levels, Congress needs to unlock these reserves.”</p>
<p>He cites estimates from the Minerals Management Service that there are 86 billion barrels of oil and 420 trillion cubic feet of natural gas located offshore.</p></blockquote>
<p>The Senate and the White House, kowtowing to California and Florida electoral interests, actually oppose the measure. So does Barack Obama. McCain is straddling with a “let the states decide whether to drill…unless it’s too ‘ecologically sensitive’” response and is more comfortable peddling Hillary/Edwards-style <a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp?Page=/Politics/archive/200806/POL20080611d.html"><strong><span style="color: #72123b">demagoguing</span></strong></a> of the oil industry’s <a href="http://michellemalkin.com/2008/05/22/gaseous-bipartisan-demagoguery-from-the-dems-and-mccain/"><strong><span style="color: #72123b">“obscene profits.”</span></strong></a></p>
<p>Promising on-shore areas also remain untouchable. Background via the <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121149858423815755.html?mod=googlenews_wsj"><strong><span style="color: #72123b">WSJ</span></strong></a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>A century and a half after oil production began, there is ample evidence that a lot of oil — and natural gas — remains to be found in the U.S. and its territorial waters. Some of those areas are wide open to oil companies, including most of the Gulf of Mexico where deep-water floating rigs now routinely drill wells hundreds of miles from shore. Even in the gulf, areas are off limits, including most of the waters off the Florida coast. The entire East and West Coasts are off limits for new drilling.</p>
<p>Last week, Exxon Mobil Corp. Chief Executive Rex Tillerson chided President Bush for asking Saudi Arabia to boost its production, while not doing more to increase production at home in the U.S., particularly off the coasts of Florida and California.</p>
<p>“There is no question in my mind that there is significant conventional resources available,” Mr. Tillerson said in an interview last week. “If you are looking for larger fields, they will probably be found in the offshore areas that are currently off limits.”</p>
<p>Those offshore areas are closed to exploration and drilling under congressional moratoriums and presidential executive orders that command broad support among elected officials in the politically powerful states of California and Florida. Opening these areas up could prove nettlesome.</p>
<p>Little data exist about how much oil and gas might be found under the waters now closed for exploration. Federal agencies are prevented from doing rudimentary geological surveys in most areas to pinpoint areas of interest. The last time the industry shot seismic imagery was in the 1970s when this widely used search technology was in its infancy.</p>
<p>Other promising areas onshore also are off-limits. In a report last week, the federal Bureau of Land Management stated that at current U.S. consumption levels there are four years worth of oil and 10 years worth of natural gas under federal lands. However, more than 90% of that energy was under lands either closed to development or open with significant environmental restrictions. The federal Minerals Management Service said an additional three years worth of oil and gas is in offshore areas where drilling isn’t allowed.</p></blockquote>
<p>See also: <a href="http://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/2008/05/20/energy-lesson-drilling-vs-production/"><strong><span style="color: #72123b">Energy Lesson in drilling vs. production.</span></strong></a></p>
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<p>Latest from the Energy Department: Oil and gas prices are staying <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080611/ap_on_bi_ge/congress_oil_prices"><strong><span style="color: #72123b">up</span></strong></a>.</p>
<p><strong>Update</strong>: <a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2008/06/11/mccain-why-drilling-in-anwr-would-be-like-drilling-in-the-grand-canyon/"><strong><span style="color: #72123b">McCain. Ugh.</span></strong></a></p>
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		<title>Energy crisis &#8211; The price of nearly everything will be going up</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dow Chemical Co. Sunday raised the price of all its products 20 percent, reflecting the steep climb in the cost of crude oil, gasoline, natural gas and electricity. Blaming irresponsible politicians, Dow Chairman and CEO Andrew Liveris stated, "The country now faces a true energy crisis, one that is causing serious harm to America's manufacturing sector and all consumers of energy."

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<div class="bodycopy"><!--  rbox goes here -->Dow Chemical Co. Sunday raised the price of all its products 20 percent, reflecting the steep climb in the cost of crude oil, gasoline, natural gas and electricity. Blaming irresponsible politicians, Dow Chairman and CEO Andrew Liveris stated, &#8220;The country now faces a true energy crisis, one that is causing serious harm to America&#8217;s manufacturing sector and all consumers of energy.&#8221;</p>
<p>Consumers, already hit by $4 gasoline and rising food prices, now will see rises in the price of almost every product and many services, including essential government services such as education and police protection.</p>
<p>Across the nation, school districts are limiting field trips and, in some cases, canceling classes one day a week because they can&#8217;t pay the doubled cost of operating school buses. In Texas, the Legislature is going to have to revisit the subject of school finance, again, because the Rube Goldberg system won&#8217;t let school districts increase revenues to pay for higher fuel costs, threatening some districts with teacher layoffs, even bankruptcy.</p>
<p>Gasoline at $4 a gallon is burdening most consumers and changing behavior in a way that $3 gasoline did not. Before, Americans could afford to pay more for gasoline by spending less on recreation and other discretionary activities and goods. But the sharp rise in the price of basic food items and, to come, almost everything else means many families just can&#8217;t buy the gas they once did.</p>
<p>An added hardship inflicted by high fuel prices is the rise in crime: Thieves are driving off from gas stations without paying and siphoning gasoline from other cars. Some crooks, defeated by locked gas tanks, dangerously drill holes in gas tanks, risking fire and explosion that could destroy property and take life.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s unlikely, but perhaps now the U.S. government will adopt a sane energy policy that will provide the nation with more fuel — both hydrocarbons and alternatives — and place downward pressure on price.</p>
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		<title>Offshore drilling bill killed by Dave Obey (D-WI) and Dems</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2>Offshore drilling bill killed</h2>
<div class="author">By Michelle Malkin  •  June 11, 2008 06:29 PM</div>
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<p>GOP Rep. John Peterson’s latest bid to lift domestic offshore drilling restrictions, which I blogged earlier today <a href="http://michellemalkin.com/2008/06/11/drill-bits-the-uphill-battle-to-lift-domestic-restrictions/">here</a>, was killed this afternoon by the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior and the Environment. It was a straight, party line vote.</p>
<p>Dems against:</p>
<p>Chair: Norman D. Dicks (WA)<br />
James P. Moran (VA)<br />
Maurice D. Hinchey (NY)<br />
John W. Olver (MA)<br />
Alan B. Mollohan (WV)<br />
Tom Udall (NM)<br />
Ben Chandler (KY)<br />
Ed Pastor (AZ)<br />
Dave Obey (WI), Ex Officio</p>
<p>Republicans for:</p>
<p>Ranking Member:<br />
Todd Tiahrt (KS)<br />
John E. Peterson (PA)<br />
Jo Ann Emerson (MO)<br />
Virgil H. Goode, Jr. (VA)<br />
Ken Calvert (CA)<br />
Jerry Lewis (CA), Ex Officio</p>
<p>The Republicans on the subcommittee <a href="http://www.dailypress.com/news/dp-local_drill_onlinejun12,0,6418121.story">vow</a> to keep pressing the issue:</p>
<blockquote><p>A 27-year-old federal moratorium has prevented offshore drilling in most coastal waters except parts of the Gulf of Mexico.</p>
<p>Virginia lawmakers have expressed interest in pursuing drilling, particularly for natural gas.</p>
<p>Peterson, who is retiring next year, said offshore drilling could provide enough oil to replace Middle East oil imports for 35 years. He said the plan would also yield an 18-year supply of natural gas.</p>
<p>“There is no valid reason for Congress to continue keeping Americans from the offshore resources they own,” Peterson said.</p>
<p>But Democrats, who control Congress, said offshore drilling would have no immediate effect on the price of gasoline and would do little to lower the world price of oil.</p>
<p>“We are kidding ourselves, as we routinely do in this town, if we think we can drill our way out of this problem,” said Rep. Dave Obey, D-Wis.</p>
<p>…”The American people are going to have a lot to say about this,” said Rep. Jerry Lewis, R-Calif., the ranking Republican on the full House Appropriations Committee.</p></blockquote>
<p>Have your say. The Congressional switchboard number: 202-224-3121.</p>
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