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now there’s a thought.

let’s send all the vets to the private sector health industry, and then use the VA to provide “government” health care for the welfare population...

at the time, George Washington’s America was not involved in extracting oil from the middle east and propping up half the governments over there with billions of dollars a year in foreign aid.

and George Washington DID NOT permit sodomists in his army. and neither should we, but it seems America as a whole is “ok with that”. perhaps this is another example where America itself is the one that needs some reforming of it’s current degraded definition of virtue, before we continue blaming the leaders we choose...

unbelieveable comments.

my respect for fellow “Free Republic”ans, has suddenly dropped through the floor. Romney and Gingrich are both globalists. Period. Socialist lights.

Paul is and has been a Constitutionalist. as in, the U.S. Constitution. sort of like the way George Washington was. that guy that strongly URGED the nation to stay out of foreign wars. but what the hell did he know, right?

and because we have allowed the globalists/ Federal Reserve to rule us for the last 100 years (read Rothschild...), we are now BROKE. so we are borrowing against our children’s children’s future to pay for “Foreign Aid”. stupid is about to become TOO painful for words...

and don’t forget it was the GLOBALISTS Bush/Clinton that sent all our manufacturing overseas. NAFTA. GATT. and all the Congress went along for the ride.

well those roosters have come home to roost. and you goobers haven’t figured out why.

how about we just send them a bill for twice the amount for all “our” blood and treasure we’ve spent liberating them from their sadistic dictator...

i remember that article.
i bet the russians and chicoms have a couple of copies...

26 Nov 10 - “One of the disconnects the Church of Al Gore/IPCC has yet to address regarding so-called Global Warming is why is it the Arctic ice extent is receding while the Antarctic ice extent is growing at historic rates,” says this great article on strata-sphere.com.

[img]http://www.iceagenow.com/Arctic_Ocean_floor.jpg[/img]

“Given the fact CO2 levels are ubiquitous across the Earth, if this was really a global climate driver we should see higher temperatures (and less ice) across the globe, adjusted for latitude and the amount of land vs. sea surface area.”

“Well it seems we may have an answer to why the Arctic water temperatures were rising and the ice was melting – massive undersea volcanoes. (This article, Volcanic eruptions reshape Arctic ocean floor, says it well.)
“Recent massive volcanoes have risen from the ocean floor deep under the Arctic ice cap, spewing plumes of fragmented magma into the sea, scientists who filmed the aftermath reported Wednesday.

“The eruptions — as big as the one that buried Pompei — took place in 1999 along the Gakkel Ridge, an underwater mountain chain snaking 1,800 kilometres (1,100 miles) from the northern tip of Greenland to Siberia.

“Scientists suspected even at the time that a simultaneous series of earthquakes were linked to these volcanic spasms.
“But when a team led of scientists led by Robert Sohn of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts finally got a first-ever glimpse of the ocean floor 4,000 meters (13,000 feet) beneath the Arctic pack ice, they were astonished.

“What they saw was unmistakable evidence of explosive eruptions rather than the gradual secretion of lava bubbling up from Earth’s mantle onto the ocean floor.
Previous research had concluded that this kind of so-called pyroclastic eruption could not happen at such depths due to the crushing pressure of the water.

1. “On land, explosive volcanic eruptions are nothing exceptional, although they present a major threat,” said Vera Schlindwein, a geologist with Germany’s Alfred Wegener Institute for Sea and Polar Research, which took part in the study.

But the new findings, published in Nature, showed that “large-scale pyroclastic activity is possible along even the deepest portions of the global mid-ocean ridge volcanic system.”

The mid-ocean ridge runs 84,000 kilometres (52,000 miles) beneath all the world’s major seas except the Southern Ocean, and marks the boundary between many of the tectonic plates that make up the surface of the Earth.

When continental plates collide into each other, they can thrust up mountain ranges such as the Himalayas.

But along most of the mid-ocean ridge — including the Gakkal Ridge — the plates are pulling apart, allowing molten magna and gases trapped beneath the crust to escape.
Sohn and his colleagues gathered their data in July last year aboard the ice breaker Oden, using state-of-the-art instruments including a mutlibeam echo sounder, two autonomous underwater vehicles and a sub-ice camera designed for the mission.

Both sonar and visual images showed an ocean valley filled with flat-topped volcanos up to two kilometres (1.2 miles) wide and several hundred metres high.”

“The natural basin that is the Arctic Ocean is possibly the reason why Arctic water temperatures were rising because the warming caused by these massive underwater explosions couldn’t really circulate out of the basin.

“Is it simply coincidence that the regions of the Arctic Ocean experiencing thin ice ... is the same region that is right over these massive undersea volcanoes just discovered?
See entire great article, including graphs:
http://strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/5589

[the above found at IceAgeNow.com – http://www.iceagenow.com/Eruptions_as_big_as_Pompeii_under_Arctic_ice.htm ]

i was there. this came completely out of nowhere for the majority of us. there were no where enough copies for each of us to read, and so we demanded that it be read to us. the motion passed. it was read. naysayers tried to shut it down. they were defeated. the delegates on the floor, close to 3/4s of the crowd were obviously impressed with the text and DEMANDED that it be accepted as the new platform. the chairwoman was obviously taken aback at the thought, but true to her trust, she soldiered on and a vote was taken. it passed. but immediately - for some reason not clear to me- she insisted that we vote on it again. again it was passed by at least 3/4 of the assembled delegates. on its first reading, completely unknown heretofor. it was a great GREAT victory for freedom and Constitution lovers in Maine. and it was clearly the hand of God, for those who recognize such things...

only the elect - and just barely - would NOT be deceived by the anti-Christ. so of course, particularly in materialistic, humanistic northeast states, most would think Obama NOT the anti-Christ.

and the US is mentioned Plenty of times in the Book of Revelation. Babylon the Great is the spitting image of the present mulatto nation known as America.

read it and weep.

““mass roundups?” Bet you $100 Chertoff, it’ll never happen. In fact, it doesn’t even have to happen. Start prosecuting those who HIRE illegals, and guess what, they’ll self-deport,””

electrocuting those who HIRE illegals might work a little faster.

“Thompson voted to expand NAFTA, and to relax limits on migrant farm workers.”

would you care to dispute the above factoid?

so does the listing of Fred Thompson as a member of CFR not eliminate him from consideration as a true American?

"and (this is a kicker!) an unmilitarized border."

just read the treaty myself. couldn't find any such concept.

must be running for President of the Association of Dog Catchers of America. that's all she's qualified for.
voted against the Ban on Partial Birth Abortion. she gives me the creeps.

"When will we finally get a christian "crusader" to give muslims back what they dish out?"

heh. Pres. G.W. "Islam-is-a-religion-of-Peace" Bush, has several hundred thousand US service and police personnel mobilized doing that very thing...

somebody bit you in the face this morning?

in the ages to come, if any name from this time period manages to survive the coming changes, i'd bet ALL my money that McCartney's name and music, including AFTER the Beatle's, will be one of the very few that persist through time. ageless and classic. love songs that connect and beautiful melodies, and fascinating rythms...

yeah, my first thought looking at the front end was "butt ugly" but friend, your version isn't much of an improvement, beauty-wise, but no doubt more practical in most cases...

thanks for posting this. it isn't just that abortion is staining the integrity of our national character with a reputation for murdering the innocent, and it isn't just that easy sex leads to venereal disease and staining the inner integrity of all who practice it, what is important here is that, apart from these official abstinence education programs, the main effort of government funded, Planned Parenthood-designed sex education programs are in fact literally destroying our culture from the inside by attacking the very roots of community: the family created and nurtured by two married, committed people whose relationship of faithfulness and exclusiveness is fundamental for the success of their family. Such families are not being encouraged and fostered because of the very existence of Planned Parenthood's programs designed to inculcate sex appreciation - without a solemn, lifetime commitment to one's partner- into children's minds.

"The article said -- "Why the U.S. should shut down Hezbollah Live."
It should say this instead --

Why the U.S. should destroy and obliterate the religion of Islam!

This is not a statement of hyperbole or exagerration. This is exactly what the U.S. should do. The United States should go and destroy every last single artifact that the relgion of Islam thinks gives it any credibility.

If anyone tries to reconstruct any previously-destroyed artifact, symbol or holy object of Islam, it should be immediately destroyed again. Keep destroying all objects again and again. The Islamics will see the total powerlessness of the false and evil religion of Islam. "

ah, except for the one billion highly exciteable islamic suicide bombers that will quickly respond to your approach, i do heartily agree with your intent and method.

the largest source of untapped energy in the world sits unused except for a pilot project in Hawaii a number of years back. when we start building very large floating islands capable of tapping this souce, we will wonder why we never thought of it before...

OTEC Description
The technology for generating electricity from different ocean temperatures is known as "ocean thermal energy conversion," or OTEC. OTEC makes use of the difference in temperature between the warm surface water of the ocean and the cold water in depths below 2,000 feet to generate electricity. As long as a sufficient temperature difference (about 40 degrees Fahrenheit) exists between the warm upper layer of water and the cold deep water, net power can be generated.

Advantages

OTEC uses clean, abundant, renewable, natural resources. Warm surface sea water and cold water from the ocean depths replace fossil fuels to produce electricity.
Suitably designed OTEC plants will produce little or no carbon dioxide or other polluting chemicals which contribute to acid rain or global warming (the "greenhouse effect"). Extensive research indicates little or no adverse environmental effects from discharging the used OTEC water back into the ocean at prescribed depths.

OTEC systems can produce fresh water as well as electricity. This is a significant advantage in island areas where fresh water is limited.

There is enough solar energy received and stored in the warm tropical ocean surface layer to provide most, if not all, of present human energy needs.
The use of OTEC as a source of electricity will help reduce the state's almost complete dependence on imported fossil fuels.

The cold sea water from the OTEC process has many additional uses, including air-conditioning buildings, assisting agriculture, and growing fish, shellfish, kelp and other sea plants which thrive in the cold, nutrient-rich, pathogen-free water.

Disadvantages

OTEC-produced electricity at present would cost more than electricity generated from fossil fuels at their current costs. The electricity cost could be reduced significantly if the plant operated without major overhaul for 30 years or more, but there are no data on possible plant life cycles.

OTEC plants must be located where a difference of about 40° Fahrenheit (F) occurs year round. Ocean depths must be available fairly close to shore-based facilities for economic operation. Floating plant ships could provide more flexibility.

Although extensive and successful testing of OTEC has occurred in experiments on component parts or small scale plants, a pilot or demonstration plant of commercial size needs to be built to further document economic feasibility.
Construction of OTEC plants and laying of pipes in coastal waters may cause localized damage to reefs and near-shore marine ecosystems.

Some additional development of key components is essential to the success of future OTEC plants (e.g., less-costly large diameter, deep sea water pipelines; low-pressure turbines and condensers for open-cycle systems; etc.).

The Basic Process

There are basically three types of OTEC processes: closed-cycle, open-cycle, and hybrid-cycle.

In the closed-cycle system, heat transferred from the warm surface sea water causes a working fluid (such as ammonia, which boils at a temperature of about -28°F at atmospheric pressure), to turn to vapor. The expanding vapor drives a turbine attached to a generator which produces electricity. Cold sea water passing through a condenser containing the vaporized working fluid turns the vapor back into a liquid which is then recycled through the system.

Open-cycle OTEC uses the warm surface water itself as the working fluid. The water vaporizes in a near vacuum at surface water temperatures. The expanding vapor drives a low-pressure turbine attached to a generator which produces electricity. The vapor, which has lost its salt and is almost pure fresh water, is condensed back into a liquid by exposure to cold temperatures from deep ocean water. If the condenser keeps the vapor from direct contact with sea water, the condensed water can be used for drinking water, irrigation or aquaculture. A "direct contact" condenser produces more electricity, but the vapor is mixed with cold sea water and the discharge water is salty. That mixture is returned to the ocean. The process is repeated with a continuous supply of warm surface sea water.

Hybrid systems use parts of both open- and closed-cycle systems to optimize production of electricity and fresh water. See the Natural Energy Lab's OTEC Fact Sheet.

http://www.hawaii.gov/dbedt/ert/otec_hi.html

how to open a simplex lock...

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