Hoarding is exactly what the government is doing right now by filling the SPR, and frankly it's the best thing that could happen. It drives prices up. High prices encourage demand destruction. They also finance new well development. The hoarded oil gives us a buffer to fall back on once shortages become more prevalent. High prices are what we need in order to adapt to what's coming, and the sooner they happen, the better.
Hopefully she won't start crying when all the taxpayers R sucked dry. _________________ People first, then things, then dollars.
There will be enslavement & cannibalism.
Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2008 1:38 pm Post subject: Re: Clinton, McCain Win In New Hampshire
alokin wrote:
Obama, I don't know I can't see an extraordinary record, especially his Irak politics weren't very convincing.
i'm just thinking obama is more likely to pick edwards as a running mate and present a more united ticket. i'd guess hillary will pick neither obama nor edwards and won't be able to round our her deficiencies with a strong running mate, at least not in a convincing way.
none of their iraq policies make any sense. but i blame bushco for the whole thing. you will recall at the time, the flat out lies the administration was telling, and who knows what other bullying was going on behind the scenes. hell, when O'connor retired I started wondering if she hadn't received death threats or something. i mean, she couldn't hold out for a couple more years?
so, i pretty much just want the ticket that will get the repugnicans out of office. it's the best i can muster. those weasels need to be out on their asses.
what i'm mostly afraid of is that some non-criminal will win the white house only to find that all the legitimate functions of government have been privatized and outsourced in the last 8 years and there's nothing left but an oval office and a pen to sign the checks with.
The head clerk of the New Hampshire town of Sutton has been forced to admit that Ron Paul received 31 votes yet when the final amount was transferred to a summary sheet and sent out to the media, the total was listed as zero. The fiasco throws the entire primary into doubt and could lead to a re-count.
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Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 10:19 pm Post subject: Kucinich asks for New Hampshire recount in the interest of..
Kucinich asks for New Hampshire recount in the interest of election integrity
Quote:
DETROIT, MI – Democratic Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich, the most outspoken advocate in the Presidential field and in Congress for election integrity, paper-ballot elections, and campaign finance reform, has sent a letter to the New Hampshire Secretary of State asking for a recount of Tuesday’s election because of “unexplained disparities between hand-counted ballots and machine-counted ballots.”
“I am not making this request in the expectation that a recount will significantly affect the number of votes that were cast on my behalf,” Kucinich stressed in a letter to Secretary of State William M. Gardner. But, “Serious and credible reports, allegations, and rumors have surfaced in the past few days…It is imperative that these questions be addressed in the interest of public confidence in the integrity of the election process and the election machinery – not just in New Hampshire, but in every other state that conducts a primary election.”
Also, the reports, allegations, and rumors regarding possible vote-count irregularities have been further fueled by the stunning disparities between various “independent” pre-election polls and the actual election results," Kucinich wrote. "The integrity, credibility, and value of independent polling are separate issues, but they appear to be relevant in the context of New Hampshire’s votes."
He added, “Ever since the 2000 election – and even before – the American people have been losing faith in the belief that their votes were actually counted. This recount isn’t about who won 39% of 36% or even 1%. It’s about establishing whether 100% of the voters had 100% of their votes counted exactly the way they cast them.”
Kucinich, who drew about 1.4% of the New Hampshire Democratic primary vote, wrote, “This is not about my candidacy or any other individual candidacy. It is about the integrity of the election process.” No other Democratic candidate, he noted, has stepped forward to question or pursue the claims being made.
“New Hampshire is in the unique position to address – and, if so determined, rectify – these issues before they escalate into a massive, nationwide suspicion of the process by which Americans elect their President. Based on the controversies surrounding the Presidential elections in 2004 and 2000, New Hampshire is in a prime position to investigate possible irregularities and to issue findings for the benefit of the entire nation,” Kucinich wrote in his letter.
“Without an official recount, the voters of New Hampshire and the rest of the nation will never know whether there are flaws in our electoral system that need to be identified and addressed at this relatively early point in the Presidential nominating process,” said Kucinich, who is campaigning in Michigan this week in advance of next Tuesday’s Presidential primary in that state.
Link _________________ "It is no measure of health to be deemed sane in an insane society" J. Krishnamurti
Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 12:59 am Post subject: Re: Arguments AGAINST Ron Paul?
Isn't he the guy who the libertarians think will end taxation? In a nutshell?
They like everythihng about Paul except that he 'says' that he will end the war. He knows he won't get a chance to have to live up to his silliness. I think the people who support him call themselves 'supply my siders'.
A series of newsletters in the name of GOP presidential hopeful Ron Paul contain several racist remarks -- including one that says order was restored to Los Angeles after the 1992 riots when blacks went "to pick up their welfare checks."
CNN recently obtained the newsletters -- written in the 1990s and one from the late 1980s -- after a report was published about their existence in The New Republic.
None of the newsletters CNN found says who wrote them, but each was published under Paul's name between his stints as a U.S. congressman from Texas.
Paul told CNN's "The Situation Room" Thursday that he didn't write any of the offensive articles and has "no idea" who did. Watch Paul's full interview with CNN »
"When you bring this question up, you're really saying, 'You're a racist' or 'Are you a racist?' And the answer is, 'No, I'm not a racist,'" he said.
Paul said he had never even read the articles with the racist comments. See the newsletter excerpts for yourself »
"I do repudiate everything that is written along those lines," he said, adding he wanted to "make sure everybody knew where I stood on this position because it's obviously wrong."
But that's not good enough, says one political veteran.
"These stories may be very old in Ron Paul's life, but they're very new to the American public and they deserve to be totally ventilated," said David Gergen, a CNN senior political analyst. "I must say I don't think there's an excuse in politics to have something go out under your name and say, 'Oh by the way, I didn't write that.'"
Paul, who is not considered a front-runner, has become an Internet phenomenon in the current race, raising tens of millions of dollars from a devoted online base, many of them young people drawn to his libertarian straight talk.
The controversial newsletters include rants against the Israeli lobby, gays, AIDS victims and Martin Luther King Jr. -- described as a "pro-Communist philanderer." One newsletter, from June 1992, right after the LA riots, says "order was only restored in L.A. when it came time for the blacks to pick up their welfare checks."
Another says, "The criminals who terrorize our cities -- in riots and on every non-riot day -- are not exclusively young black males, but they largely are. As children, they are trained to hate whites, to believe that white oppression is responsible for all black ills, to 'fight the power,' to steal and loot as much money from the white enemy as possible."
_________________ "Thank you for attending the oil age. We're going to scrape what we can out of these tar pits in Alberta and then shut down the machines and turn out the lights. Goodnight." - seldom_seen
Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 11:51 am Post subject: Re: Kucinich asks for New Hampshire recount in the interest
For you conspiracy theory people:
1. Kucinich questions voting irregularities
2. Irregularities are confirmed through recount
3. Voting machines deemed defective or tampered with
4. George W. Bush suspends election until HIS independent investigators determines voting machines are operable or another method is substituted.
<sarcasm> It's okay we all would have voted him another term if we could right? </sarcasm>
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Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 8:29 pm Post subject: Re: Even Conservative Media Chorus Sings Obama's Praises
Zardoz wrote:
......hysteria ....
There are entirely rational reasons to support Obama.
He's by far the best orator of this year's candidates, he's the most likable, he's very bright, he's new, he seems less corrupt and compromised then the other politicians.
The Clinton campaigns' arrogance and barely veiled racism in dealing with Obama is also provoking a backlash against Hillary.
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Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 8:31 pm Post subject: Re: Kucinich asks for New Hampshire recount in the interest
AZpeaker wrote:
For you conspiracy theory people:
1. Kucinich questions voting irregularities
2. Irregularities are confirmed through recount
3. Voting machines deemed defective or tampered with
4. George W. Bush suspends election until HIS independent investigators determines voting machines are operable or another method is substituted.
<sarcasm> It's okay we all would have voted him another term if we could right? </sarcasm>
Don't worry. Its more likely that Kucinich will be the next president then Bush.
Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 8:53 pm Post subject: Re: Even Conservative Media Chorus Sings Obama's Praises
xarkz wrote:
But Obama is against the iraq war. Will the military industry accept that?
Heh, this guy IS war and has mastered the art of doublespeak. Iraq is mission accomplished, permanent bases sitting on top of the oil fields, the green zone fortress - a pull out of troops is natural at this point, only to be redeployed in Afghanistan and Pakistan or wherever else the corporate rape of third world resources is required. He is a big supporter of the War on Terror, a.k.a the War on YOU and your Bill of Rights.
All you need to do is examine the national security and foreign policy advisers behind each of the puppets trotted before you, the more you look the more you realize they are all the same.
The War Over the Wonks
But of course they have already told you a thousand times, the War on Terror will never end - that is the beauty of declaring a war against an ideology.
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