Posted on 04/30/2010 1:42:05 PM PDT by historyrepeatz
Q: Who does our current, anti-capitalist government hate? A: Coal, Big Oil, Wall Street, and the Military to name a few..
Does anyone in their right mind truly believe that the COAL mine disaster and OIL rig disaster are mere coincidences? Obama has essentially halted all new mine and oil rig development as a result of these incidents.
OIL RIGS DON’T SINK, even in fires. PLAIN AND SIMPLE. THEY ARE BUILT TO WITHSTAND CAT 5 HURRICANES and not ONE sank or leaked during KATRINA.
What about Goldman Sachs “on trial” while the Financial reform Bill makes its way through Congress? Are these hearings “show trials” designed to rally an anti-Wall Street, anti-capitalist sediment on behalf of the American people? The hearings and The Bill. Coincidence?
Puerto Rico is about to become our 51st state so the leftists can have a LOCK on their power with 4-5 million newly registered DEMOCRAT VOTERS and Representatives in our Senate., which ensures a filibuster-proof majority (Even the Republicans support this Bill out of fear of being labeled “racist”). Hmmm.. Isn’t that the word we’re hearing a lot lately with the coincidental top news story concerning illegal immigration?
Do you really believe that gays, females in submarines, smoking bans, and even FAST FOOD bans in the U.S. Military are all coincidences? Could it be that our so-called Government is actively working to emasculate our military with regulations intended to soften them? Hmmm..
Where is the outrage?
WITHOUT FEAR, our Forefathers risked losing their lives to create the United States of America. WE FEAR losing our jobs or being called names for merely voicing concern as we witness the outright destruction of it.
“Whenever the legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience.” ~ John Locke
Wow, that thread is like a cold shower! Maybe Obama was behind the Ash Cloud and air traffic stoppage over Iceland!
I can't vouch for the soundness of my mind, but I don't believe the Obama Administration actually blew up a coal mine and an oil rig.
He won't let those disasters pass without using them to advance his agenda, but he didn't cause them.
Once is bad luck,
Twice is coincidence,
Three times is enemy action.
Actually I’m for the forcing of PR to either be a State or go Independent; with the sole exception of DC the Federal government is supposed to be comprised of individual STATES. {Commonwealths fit the description.} The reason DC was not to be in any state was so that no state would have disproportionate control of the seat of the federal government; naturally granting DC statehood {and even Senators} would be a violation of that idea...
Representatives, not so much; the revolutionary war was, in part, due to taxation without representation, and it can therefore be reasoned that any people taxed should have its representatives in federal government. However they are not, strictly speaking, needed for even DC; DC could be zoned such that there are no residences therein and therefore has no population to represent and it would be more of a place where various federal functions take place than a city.
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As for Puerto Rico, it's a tar baby. We can't let it go, lest it get taken over by someone like Castro or Chavez, and we can't make it a state, because it really doesn't fit with the rest of American culture. We'd be stuck with a permanent problem like the Canadians are with Quebec.
>We can’t let it go, lest it get taken over by someone like Castro or Chavez, and we can’t make it a state, because it really doesn’t fit with the rest of American culture. We’d be stuck with a permanent problem like the Canadians are with Quebec.
Doesn’t that make it, right now, a permanent problem? Perhaps of the sort that the national debt is: hidden until it explodes with disastrous consequence. Allowing it to become a State may be what is needed to push over an Official Language at the federal level; though, technically, I think it should be a matter for Constitutional amendment rather than federal decree it could be something like this:
“All federally recognized documents will be written in English.” — This means that states could have their own official language [or two] but, like the dollar would be the common currency across state-borders, English would be the common language across those borders.
New Mexico’s Constitution, at the time of adoption, mandated for twenty years that laws me published in English and Spanish, thereby giving it a sort of two “official languages.” [Article XX, Sec 12]
You realize it was a floating rig? I agree that the timing is cosmically strange, kind of like the financial meltdown blowing out McCain's legs in '08. Still, don't go Rosie on us.
Maybe Republicans should propose we pull in a counter balance state like the lead up to the war between the states. Someplace with a bunch of rabid anticommunists. Eastern bloc? Czech Republic? Putin would like that one.
Three banks failed in Puerto Rica this afternoon. Coincidence??
"OIL RIGS DON’T SINK, even in fires. PLAIN AND SIMPLE. THEY ARE BUILT TO WITHSTAND CAT 5 HURRICANES and not ONE sank or leaked during KATRINA."
is not quite accurate. As a former roughneck who spent time on a similar type of drilling rig, I know there is some misunderstanding of what is being seen on TV. The Deepwater Horizon was a semi-submersible rig and can handle wind and high seas well. The problem is it was a floater. In fact it floated remarkably well- in water. When a blowout occurs, gas escapes from the well in addition to oil. As a result, the water supporting the rig becomes aerated, sometimes catching fire, and the rig sinks. Google "Ocean Ranger". That being said, the recent disasters do seem to present a "perfect storm" of trouble.
I posted this on another thread today but it’s worth repeating here. There are 58 Republican co-sponsors of the Puerto Rico bill. There some good guys on this list (Pence, Poe, Culberson) that would have to be in on this. I for the life of me don’t know whey they’re promoting this but I can’t imagine it’s so the Democrats have a lock on all future elections. If anyone has an idea, let me know.
Rep. Aaron Schock [R, IL-18]
Rep. Adam Putnam [R, FL-12]
Rep. Addison Wilson [R, SC-2]
Rep. Bill Cassidy [R, LA-6]
Rep. Bill Posey [R, FL-15]
Rep. Candice Miller [R, MI-10]
Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers [R, WA-5]
Rep. Charles Boustany [R, LA-7]
Rep. Charles Dent [R, PA-15]
Rep. Christopher Smith [R, NJ-4]
Rep. Connie Mack [R, FL-14]
Rep. Dan Burton [R, IN-5]
Rep. Daniel Lungren [R, CA-3]
Rep. Darrell Issa [R, CA-49]
Rep. David Camp [R, MI-4]
Rep. Devin Nunes [R, CA-21]
Rep. Donald Young [R, AK-0]
Rep. Glenn Thompson [R, PA-5]
Rep. Greg Walden [R, OR-2]
Rep. Gus Bilirakis [R, FL-9]
Rep. Henry Brown [R, SC-1]
Rep. Howard McKeon [R, CA-25]
Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen [R, FL-18]
Rep. Jeb Hensarling [R, TX-5]
Rep. Jeff Flake [R, AZ-6]
Rep. Jim Gerlach [R, PA-6]
Rep. John Carter [R, TX-31]
Rep. John Culberson [R, TX-7]
Rep. John Fleming [R, LA-4]
Rep. John Kline [R, MN-2]
Rep. John Mica [R, FL-7]
Rep. John Shadegg [R, AZ-3]
Rep. Ken Calvert [R, CA-44]
Rep. Kenny Marchant [R, TX-24]
Rep. Kevin McCarthy [R, CA-22]
Rep. Lee Terry [R, NE-2]
Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart [R, FL-21]
Rep. Lynn Westmoreland [R, GA-3]
Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart [R, FL-25]
Rep. Marsha Blackburn [R, TN-7]
Rep. Mary Fallin [R, OK-5]
Rep. Michael Castle [R, DE-0]
Rep. Michael Conaway [R, TX-11]
Rep. Michael McCaul [R, TX-10]
Rep. Michael Rogers [R, AL-3]
Rep. Mike Pence [R, IN-6]
Rep. Rob Bishop [R, UT-1]
Rep. Rob Wittman [R, VA-1]
Rep. Ronald Paul [R, TX-14]
Rep. Steven LaTourette [R, OH-14]
Rep. Ted Poe [R, TX-2]
Rep. Thaddeus McCotter [R, MI-11]
Rep. Thomas Rooney [R, FL-16]
Rep. Todd Akin [R, MO-2]
Rep. Trent Franks [R, AZ-2]
Rep. Vern Buchanan [R, FL-13]
Rep. Virginia Brown-Waite [R, FL-5]
Rep. Zach Wamp [R, TN-3]
The Association of European Airlines has warned that “probably 100 to 150 airlines in Europe” face bankruptcy as a consequence of the flight ban, most of which will be small regional carriers . But US airlines that rely on lucrative transatlantic traffic are also expected to be hit hard.
It was unnecessary to cancel all those flights. Millions
of Euros was lost, thousands stranded, based on faulty
computer models.
Obama and men in his corner have the same motive. Destroy
western civilization.
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