The Roanoke Slant
This "blog" is intended to be a very brief "diary" of some examples of the Roanoke Times slant. Comments to: lbhagen@roanokeslant.orgThursday, November 26, 2009
Global Warming Alarmist: Evil and Wrong
A current movie-video by Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney gives Al Gore and his alarmist associates the benefit of the doubt about their intentions and integrity by naming their movie “Not Evil Just Wrong”.
The recent release of thousands of emails from the inner circle of Consensus-Alarmists now makes it clear that they are both Evil and Wrong!
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Would you buy a used car from two PHD’s that explain their fraudulent work as follows:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/21/science/earth/21climate.html
In a 1999 e-mail exchange about charts showing climate patterns over the last two millenniums, Phil Jones, a longtime climate researcher at the East Anglia Climate Research Unit, said he had used a “trick” employed by another scientist, Michael Mann, to “hide the decline” in temperatures.
Dr. Mann, a professor at Penn State, confirmed in an interview that the e-mail message was real. He said the choice of words by his colleague was poor but noted that scientists often used the word “trick” to refer to a good way to solve a problem, “and not something secret.”
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The US Congress and other governments are using the data from these Consensus-Alarmists to impose energy rationing and massive taxes and spending upon the American people. Congress should immediately call hearings into the content of these Emails and demand formal release of all documentation by all the groups upon which our national energy policy is being redirected.
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http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/11/24/taking_liberties/entry5761180.shtml
Sen. James Inhofe, an Oklahoma Republican, said on Monday the leaked correspondence suggested researchers "cooked the science to make this thing look as if the science was settled, when all the time of course we knew it was not,"
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Instead of going to Copenhagen to participate in the Global Warming Alarmist Convention, Obama should be calling a summit to bring ALL the scientists together to review the real and valid data that clearly belies the Gore-Hypothesis that humans have caused our 250 years of natural global warming that began in 1750, at the end of the little ice age.
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One degree warming in the last 100 years and no warming in the past 10 years does not represent a global warming crisis that is clearly not man-made.
Our energy dependence on our enemies is the crisis and our government has not implemented plans for any change to that dependence.
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A summary of valid global warming facts and references may be found at:
http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/
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The recent release of thousands of emails from the inner circle of Consensus-Alarmists now makes it clear that they are both Evil and Wrong!
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Would you buy a used car from two PHD’s that explain their fraudulent work as follows:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/21/science/earth/21climate.html
In a 1999 e-mail exchange about charts showing climate patterns over the last two millenniums, Phil Jones, a longtime climate researcher at the East Anglia Climate Research Unit, said he had used a “trick” employed by another scientist, Michael Mann, to “hide the decline” in temperatures.
Dr. Mann, a professor at Penn State, confirmed in an interview that the e-mail message was real. He said the choice of words by his colleague was poor but noted that scientists often used the word “trick” to refer to a good way to solve a problem, “and not something secret.”
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The US Congress and other governments are using the data from these Consensus-Alarmists to impose energy rationing and massive taxes and spending upon the American people. Congress should immediately call hearings into the content of these Emails and demand formal release of all documentation by all the groups upon which our national energy policy is being redirected.
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http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/11/24/taking_liberties/entry5761180.shtml
Sen. James Inhofe, an Oklahoma Republican, said on Monday the leaked correspondence suggested researchers "cooked the science to make this thing look as if the science was settled, when all the time of course we knew it was not,"
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Instead of going to Copenhagen to participate in the Global Warming Alarmist Convention, Obama should be calling a summit to bring ALL the scientists together to review the real and valid data that clearly belies the Gore-Hypothesis that humans have caused our 250 years of natural global warming that began in 1750, at the end of the little ice age.
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One degree warming in the last 100 years and no warming in the past 10 years does not represent a global warming crisis that is clearly not man-made.
Our energy dependence on our enemies is the crisis and our government has not implemented plans for any change to that dependence.
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A summary of valid global warming facts and references may be found at:
http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/
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Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Obama: et tu Matthews
At long last the major media is starting to have ObamaRemorse!
The major media hand picked Obama and refused to acknowledge any negative aspects of his character, accomplishments, associates or proposals.
They didn’t need facts – their minds were made up!
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Now, after just 10 months in office Obama has yet to book any significant accomplishment:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/11/virginia-election-validating-obama.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/10/obama-our-nobel-prize-winner.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/09/obama-commander-of-unilateral.html
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His approval ratings are now below 50%:
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2009/11/gallup-obama-approval-rating-d.html?wprss=44
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56% of the American people now reject the ObamaCare plan.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/healthcare/september_2009/health_care_reform
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/11/obamacare-part-2.html
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But the major new news is that those who supported Obama through the 2008 campaign and his first 9 months in office are now starting to have ObamaRemorse and apparently are starting to see what Republicans and Conservatives have known all along!
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SEE MR. HARDBALL’S (CHRIS MATTHEWS) COMMENTARY ON YOUTUBE:
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http://www.youtube.com:80/watch?v=xlmQgW_uvNQ&feature=popular
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What took Matthews so long and when will the rest of the liberal and left-wing media wake up and smell the coffee?
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/obama-abc-and-new-pravda.html
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The major media hand picked Obama and refused to acknowledge any negative aspects of his character, accomplishments, associates or proposals.
They didn’t need facts – their minds were made up!
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Now, after just 10 months in office Obama has yet to book any significant accomplishment:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/11/virginia-election-validating-obama.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/10/obama-our-nobel-prize-winner.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/09/obama-commander-of-unilateral.html
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His approval ratings are now below 50%:
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2009/11/gallup-obama-approval-rating-d.html?wprss=44
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56% of the American people now reject the ObamaCare plan.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/healthcare/september_2009/health_care_reform
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/11/obamacare-part-2.html
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But the major new news is that those who supported Obama through the 2008 campaign and his first 9 months in office are now starting to have ObamaRemorse and apparently are starting to see what Republicans and Conservatives have known all along!
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SEE MR. HARDBALL’S (CHRIS MATTHEWS) COMMENTARY ON YOUTUBE:
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http://www.youtube.com:80/watch?v=xlmQgW_uvNQ&feature=popular
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What took Matthews so long and when will the rest of the liberal and left-wing media wake up and smell the coffee?
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/obama-abc-and-new-pravda.html
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Sunday, November 22, 2009
ObamaCare Part 2
Roanoke Times, 11-21-09, Pg 1 & 18: GOP: Health test recommendations could affect care.
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ObamaCare Part 0: Take a Pain Pill
There is the Presidents direct statement at a recorded public meeting to a lady that her mother should have a pain pill instead of a heart defibrillator because senior care is taking up to much of the Medicare budget.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWJrlFnM5jo
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/08/perriello-defends-pelosi-read-obamacare.html
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ObamaCare Part 1: Total malfeasance of responsibilities for H1N1 vaccine.
Over 1000 Americans including 100 children have died from H1N1.The government now HOPES to have 50 million does of vaccine by mid-November(A FRACTION OF THE REQUIRED AND PROMISED AMOUNT).
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/10/obamacare-part-1-obama-in-charge-while.html
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ObamaCare Part 2: Delay Mammograms and Pap smears to “later” (perhaps too late!)
The white house denies that their medical panels will determine covered and paid procedures. More white house and democrat lies. The legislation specifically states that medical coverage will be determined by just exactly such panels.
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I personally asked Congressman Pierriello at his Rocky Mount, Va town meeting:Where is the list of Medicare service reductions and eliminations that will result from the $500 Billion reduction in the Medicare budget at the very time millions of baby-boomers are entering the system.His answer: “That will not be published until after the law is passed and determined by medical panels.”What a gross and obscene process and procedure and insult to all Americans!
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The personal-best democrat obscene comment on the government health panels:
“Insurance companies may use this new recommendation as yet another reason to deny women coverage for mammograms” Democrat Sen Barbara Mikulski, D-Md.
Hello! It’s a federal government panel!
They are setting the service standard for the United States of America!
This is not being done by insurance companies!
And by the way, health insurance company’s profits are at the 2% level!
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Coming Attractions in the ObamaCare, PelosiCare, ReidCare Bills
Massive new government spending and debt
Massive new personal spending on premiums and co-pay and bills
Major reductions and elimination of medical service
Coverage of over 12 million illegal immigrants
Tax paid elective abortions
Prohibition for individuals to purchase medical services with their own assets.
(That's why Canadian snow-birds have major health care procedures done using their own money while they are in Florida)
Fines and penalties for businesses and individual deemed not to be in-compliance.
This is progress? This is the hope and change we voted for?
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/09/stop-obamacare-mess-and-start-fresh.html
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ObamaCare Part 0: Take a Pain Pill
There is the Presidents direct statement at a recorded public meeting to a lady that her mother should have a pain pill instead of a heart defibrillator because senior care is taking up to much of the Medicare budget.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWJrlFnM5jo
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/08/perriello-defends-pelosi-read-obamacare.html
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ObamaCare Part 1: Total malfeasance of responsibilities for H1N1 vaccine.
Over 1000 Americans including 100 children have died from H1N1.The government now HOPES to have 50 million does of vaccine by mid-November(A FRACTION OF THE REQUIRED AND PROMISED AMOUNT).
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/10/obamacare-part-1-obama-in-charge-while.html
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ObamaCare Part 2: Delay Mammograms and Pap smears to “later” (perhaps too late!)
The white house denies that their medical panels will determine covered and paid procedures. More white house and democrat lies. The legislation specifically states that medical coverage will be determined by just exactly such panels.
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I personally asked Congressman Pierriello at his Rocky Mount, Va town meeting:Where is the list of Medicare service reductions and eliminations that will result from the $500 Billion reduction in the Medicare budget at the very time millions of baby-boomers are entering the system.His answer: “That will not be published until after the law is passed and determined by medical panels.”What a gross and obscene process and procedure and insult to all Americans!
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The personal-best democrat obscene comment on the government health panels:
“Insurance companies may use this new recommendation as yet another reason to deny women coverage for mammograms” Democrat Sen Barbara Mikulski, D-Md.
Hello! It’s a federal government panel!
They are setting the service standard for the United States of America!
This is not being done by insurance companies!
And by the way, health insurance company’s profits are at the 2% level!
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Coming Attractions in the ObamaCare, PelosiCare, ReidCare Bills
Massive new government spending and debt
Massive new personal spending on premiums and co-pay and bills
Major reductions and elimination of medical service
Coverage of over 12 million illegal immigrants
Tax paid elective abortions
Prohibition for individuals to purchase medical services with their own assets.
(That's why Canadian snow-birds have major health care procedures done using their own money while they are in Florida)
Fines and penalties for businesses and individual deemed not to be in-compliance.
This is progress? This is the hope and change we voted for?
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/09/stop-obamacare-mess-and-start-fresh.html
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Sunday, November 15, 2009
Purple Hearts for Wounded Veterans at Fort Hood
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PURPLE HEARTS FOR ALL THOSE
COMBAT-WOUNDED VETERANS
SHOT AT FT. HOOD
THE SHOOTING AT FT HOOD WAS A TERRORIST MILITARY
ACTION IN A TERRORIST WAR.
DEMAND THAT ALL THOSE WOUNDED RECEIVE A
COMBAT PURPLE HEART
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Terrorism & Heroism at Ft Hood
THE SHOOTING AT FT HOOD WAS A TERRORIST MILITARY ACTION IN A TERRORIST WAR.
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DEMAND THAT ALL THOSE WOUNDED RECEIVE A COMBAT PURPLE HEART
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AND QUESTION WHY ALL THE GOOD GUYS AND GALS WERE UNARMED
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CLICK-ON:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/11/purple-hearts-for-wounded-veterans-at.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/11/radical-muslim-terrorists-in-us.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/11/veterans-day.html
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DEMAND THAT ALL THOSE WOUNDED RECEIVE A COMBAT PURPLE HEART
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AND QUESTION WHY ALL THE GOOD GUYS AND GALS WERE UNARMED
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CLICK-ON:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/11/purple-hearts-for-wounded-veterans-at.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/11/radical-muslim-terrorists-in-us.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/11/veterans-day.html
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009
VETERANS DAY
A day dedicated for reflection upon all those who have served in the US Military.
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Of special importance is recognition of all those who have given their health and those who have given their lives and to all their loved ones.
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Today, as in many days past, we are at war yet again.
It is difficult for many to focus on this reality because our damage and loss in the homeland has been selective and intermittent and our forces are not locked in highly visible battles of historic proportions.
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Most Americans go about their daily lives as if the war doesn’t exist.
There are also those who would marginalize our conflict and some would even apologize for our actions in defense of our people, beliefs and way of life and our desire for other people to be free and live in dignity.
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Veterans Day is an excellent opportunity to rededicate ourselves to the ideals of our Founding Fathers and to the principles and ideals upon which America is based and to the bravery and fidelity and sacrifice of all who have served and to their creed:
DUTY, HONOR, COUNTRY!
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Here in Franklin County Virginia it would be fitting and proper to specifically recognize Army Cpl. Jared William Kubasak, a native son of Franklin County, who was killed in combat on Dec 12, 2005 while on patrol near Baghdad, Iraq.
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God Bless America and to all those who have served her.
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http://www.lars1.com/Kubasak/0Intro/Intro.htm
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/09/9-11-america-at-war-two-days-that-live.html
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http://www.dday.org/
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Of special importance is recognition of all those who have given their health and those who have given their lives and to all their loved ones.
-
Today, as in many days past, we are at war yet again.
It is difficult for many to focus on this reality because our damage and loss in the homeland has been selective and intermittent and our forces are not locked in highly visible battles of historic proportions.
-
Most Americans go about their daily lives as if the war doesn’t exist.
There are also those who would marginalize our conflict and some would even apologize for our actions in defense of our people, beliefs and way of life and our desire for other people to be free and live in dignity.
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Veterans Day is an excellent opportunity to rededicate ourselves to the ideals of our Founding Fathers and to the principles and ideals upon which America is based and to the bravery and fidelity and sacrifice of all who have served and to their creed:
DUTY, HONOR, COUNTRY!
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Here in Franklin County Virginia it would be fitting and proper to specifically recognize Army Cpl. Jared William Kubasak, a native son of Franklin County, who was killed in combat on Dec 12, 2005 while on patrol near Baghdad, Iraq.
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God Bless America and to all those who have served her.
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http://www.lars1.com/Kubasak/0Intro/Intro.htm
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/09/9-11-america-at-war-two-days-that-live.html
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http://www.dday.org/
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Monday, November 09, 2009
Berlin Wall, JFK, Reagan, Obama
Roanoke Times, 11-9-09, Pg 1 & 7: The day the wall came down
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Today is the anniversary of the removal of the Berlin Wall. Obama is not going to Berlin to honor this historic event. Apparently the-Appeaser-in-Chief doesn’t want to honor all those who confronted evil and won the peace and freed 50 Million Eastern Europeans from 50s years of Soviet slavery. Perhaps it’s good he’s not going. He surly would find this yet another opportunity to apologize for our leadership and actions.
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JFK committed millions of American service members to man the line in the defense of liberty with his commitment from the wall: “I will leave, but America will stay”.
I was one of many who stayed and served in Germany in a nuclear missile artillery unit from 1961 to 1964 during the building of the wall, the Cuban missile crisis and the assassination of our President by our enemies.
For video of JFK’s view of the fruits of Karl Marx’s socialist philosophy as expressed at the Berlin Wall: click-on:
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/JFKBerlinWall
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And this would be a good time to reflect on JFK’s inaugural address Jan 1961:“And so my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."
We don’t have JFK anymore; we now have Obama, what a sad substitution for America!
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President Reagan recognized the evil described by JFK at the wall and continued and enhanced a policy of the containment of communism. His most public and pointed positions were stated in his visit to the wall:
Click to view: Reagan - Tear Down This Wall
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjWDrTXMgF8
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Today we are again fighting a war launched against us by evil determined enemies of our values, our system of governing and our way of life. Their strikes against us for many years culminated in the 9-11 attack which was more devastating than Pearl Harbor.
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/09/9-11-america-at-war-two-days-that-live.html
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Today we have Obama! He is busy converting America into a socialist state and making it subservient to a world order system. Apparently he has determined that this requires establishing internally a dominant centralized government and externally denigrating America and appeasing all those who criticize us.
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Click-on for a Brief Summary of Obama’s Sad Accomplishments:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/09/obama-commander-of-unilateral.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/11/virginia-election-validating-obama.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/11/obama-nero.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/10/obama-our-nobel-prize-winner.html
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Today is the anniversary of the removal of the Berlin Wall. Obama is not going to Berlin to honor this historic event. Apparently the-Appeaser-in-Chief doesn’t want to honor all those who confronted evil and won the peace and freed 50 Million Eastern Europeans from 50s years of Soviet slavery. Perhaps it’s good he’s not going. He surly would find this yet another opportunity to apologize for our leadership and actions.
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JFK committed millions of American service members to man the line in the defense of liberty with his commitment from the wall: “I will leave, but America will stay”.
I was one of many who stayed and served in Germany in a nuclear missile artillery unit from 1961 to 1964 during the building of the wall, the Cuban missile crisis and the assassination of our President by our enemies.
For video of JFK’s view of the fruits of Karl Marx’s socialist philosophy as expressed at the Berlin Wall: click-on:
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/JFKBerlinWall
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And this would be a good time to reflect on JFK’s inaugural address Jan 1961:“And so my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."
We don’t have JFK anymore; we now have Obama, what a sad substitution for America!
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President Reagan recognized the evil described by JFK at the wall and continued and enhanced a policy of the containment of communism. His most public and pointed positions were stated in his visit to the wall:
Click to view: Reagan - Tear Down This Wall
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjWDrTXMgF8
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Today we are again fighting a war launched against us by evil determined enemies of our values, our system of governing and our way of life. Their strikes against us for many years culminated in the 9-11 attack which was more devastating than Pearl Harbor.
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/09/9-11-america-at-war-two-days-that-live.html
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Today we have Obama! He is busy converting America into a socialist state and making it subservient to a world order system. Apparently he has determined that this requires establishing internally a dominant centralized government and externally denigrating America and appeasing all those who criticize us.
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Click-on for a Brief Summary of Obama’s Sad Accomplishments:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/09/obama-commander-of-unilateral.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/11/virginia-election-validating-obama.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/11/obama-nero.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/10/obama-our-nobel-prize-winner.html
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Saturday, November 07, 2009
Radical Muslim Terrorists in US Military
Roanoke Times, 11-6-09, Pg 1: Social awkwardness kept with him into adulthood.
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This is one of the front page heading of the Roanoke Times regarding Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan the US Army major who shot and killed 12 and wounded 31 fellow soldiers at Ft. Hood Texas.
Social awkwardness! What are they smoking up there at the Roanoke Times?
Why not headline what Major Hasan shouted as he shot 43 fellow soldiers:
"Allahu Akbar!" — an Arabic phrase for "God is great!"
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This is the latest in a significant series of radical Muslims in the US Military following the directions of Radical Imams and committing acts of terrorism against their fellow soldiers. Attached (following) are some of the most public examples.
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Key to this case, as in the Va. Tech massacre, is that authorities are afraid to act on information about high risk people out of fear of being labeled raciest or biased.
This is clearly a gross and deadly result of our political correctness Jihad that the left-wing and liberal community has thrust upon us.
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In the case of radical Muslims we now also have to contend with Obama’s lectures and speeches and positions that cloud the issue of where he stands.
Click-on the youtube link to see a compilation of Obama’s public Pro-Muslim statements:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=tCAffMSWSzY#t=28
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Some UK media coverage of the Hasan Fort Hood attack that the Roanoke Times chose to ignore.
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Colonel Terry Lee, who worked with Hasan in Fort Hood’s psychiatric unit, said that his colleague had begun making “outlandish” comments about the American presence in Iraq and Afghanistan.
“He said, precisely, that maybe the Muslims should stand up and fight against the aggressor,”
After the shooting in Little Rock, Colonel Lee added: “He seemed happy about it. He said ... maybe we should get out [of Iraq and Afghanistan]. He said maybe we should have more of these — people should strap bombs on themselves and go into Times Square.” Six months ago, the FBI was alerted to a posting on a website, Scribd.com, under the username “NadalHasan”,
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6511591/Fort-Hood-shooting-Nidal-Malik-Hasan-said-Muslims-should-rise-up.html
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From The Times (UK): November 7, 2009
Fort Hood killer was devout Muslim who suffered inner conflict
His name appears above radical internet postings praising Islamic suicide bombers — something that the FBI was alerted to six months ago.
He had frequent arguments with soldiers at Fort Hood because of his declarations that fellow Muslims “should stand up and fight against the aggressor”, and his vocal opposition to US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.
He even appeared to celebrate the shooting dead of a soldier at an army recruiting centre in Arkansas in June, carried out by a Muslim convert. He said at the time that Muslims should strap on suicide bombs and detonate them in Times Square.
These were the extraordinarily provocative statements and actions of the army psychiatrist Major Nidal Malik Hasan in the months before his deadly shootings at Fort Hood — a massacre that began with him shouting “God is Great” in Arabic.
The apparently clear signs of Hasan’s growing anti-Americanism prompted questions and anger yesterday over why he was never investigated — an action that could have prevented the tragedy at the Texas Army base on Thursday.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6907137.ece
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Soldiers reported that the gunman shouted "Allahu Akbar!" — an Arabic phrase for "God is great!" — before opening fire Thursday, said Lt. Gen. Robert Cone, the post commander. He said officials had not confirmed Hasan made the comment.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,572827,00.html
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Kuwait Desert Storm:
After a long period of silence, some news about Sgt. Hasan Akbar, the Muslim soldier who attacked his own commanding officers in Kuwait last year. From FoxNews, with thanks to Jeffrey Imm:
The U.S. Army intends to court martial a sergeant accused of tossing grenades into the tents of his superiors while stationed in Kuwait, an attack that killed two Army officers. The trial, which is expected to take place this summer, could bring the death penalty for Sgt. Hasan Akbar, 32. Akbar faces two counts of premeditated murder and three counts of attempted murder for the attack on 101st Airborne Division soldiers at Camp Pennsylvania in Kuwait on March 23, 2003, during the early days of the Iraq war.
In addition to the two officers killed, 14 people were injured. http://www.jihadwatch.org/2004/03/army-sergeant-to-be-tried-in-grenade-attack.html
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Stars and Stripes European Edition By Rick Emert, BAMBERG, Germany — A 1st Infantry Division Engineer Brigade soldier who refused to deploy to Iraq citing religious beliefs was sentenced Thursday to 14 months’ confinement and given a bad-conduct discharge. -During his court-martial, Sgt. 1st Class Abdullah Webster, 38, pleaded guilty to two counts of disobeying a lawful order from a superior commissioned officer and one count of missing movement. -When his unit was deploying on Feb. 8, Webster — the battalion security noncommissioned officer — told his leaders he would not deploy based on guidance he received from Muslim clerics.
http://www.military.com/NewContent/0,13190,SS_060404_Army,00.html
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Selected Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/09/obama-commander-of-unilateral.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/09/obama-to-generals-dont-ask-dont-tell-me.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/09/oppose-obama-and-youre-racist.html
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This is one of the front page heading of the Roanoke Times regarding Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan the US Army major who shot and killed 12 and wounded 31 fellow soldiers at Ft. Hood Texas.
Social awkwardness! What are they smoking up there at the Roanoke Times?
Why not headline what Major Hasan shouted as he shot 43 fellow soldiers:
"Allahu Akbar!" — an Arabic phrase for "God is great!"
-
This is the latest in a significant series of radical Muslims in the US Military following the directions of Radical Imams and committing acts of terrorism against their fellow soldiers. Attached (following) are some of the most public examples.
-
Key to this case, as in the Va. Tech massacre, is that authorities are afraid to act on information about high risk people out of fear of being labeled raciest or biased.
This is clearly a gross and deadly result of our political correctness Jihad that the left-wing and liberal community has thrust upon us.
-
In the case of radical Muslims we now also have to contend with Obama’s lectures and speeches and positions that cloud the issue of where he stands.
Click-on the youtube link to see a compilation of Obama’s public Pro-Muslim statements:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=tCAffMSWSzY#t=28
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Some UK media coverage of the Hasan Fort Hood attack that the Roanoke Times chose to ignore.
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Colonel Terry Lee, who worked with Hasan in Fort Hood’s psychiatric unit, said that his colleague had begun making “outlandish” comments about the American presence in Iraq and Afghanistan.
“He said, precisely, that maybe the Muslims should stand up and fight against the aggressor,”
After the shooting in Little Rock, Colonel Lee added: “He seemed happy about it. He said ... maybe we should get out [of Iraq and Afghanistan]. He said maybe we should have more of these — people should strap bombs on themselves and go into Times Square.” Six months ago, the FBI was alerted to a posting on a website, Scribd.com, under the username “NadalHasan”,
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6511591/Fort-Hood-shooting-Nidal-Malik-Hasan-said-Muslims-should-rise-up.html
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From The Times (UK): November 7, 2009
Fort Hood killer was devout Muslim who suffered inner conflict
His name appears above radical internet postings praising Islamic suicide bombers — something that the FBI was alerted to six months ago.
He had frequent arguments with soldiers at Fort Hood because of his declarations that fellow Muslims “should stand up and fight against the aggressor”, and his vocal opposition to US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.
He even appeared to celebrate the shooting dead of a soldier at an army recruiting centre in Arkansas in June, carried out by a Muslim convert. He said at the time that Muslims should strap on suicide bombs and detonate them in Times Square.
These were the extraordinarily provocative statements and actions of the army psychiatrist Major Nidal Malik Hasan in the months before his deadly shootings at Fort Hood — a massacre that began with him shouting “God is Great” in Arabic.
The apparently clear signs of Hasan’s growing anti-Americanism prompted questions and anger yesterday over why he was never investigated — an action that could have prevented the tragedy at the Texas Army base on Thursday.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6907137.ece
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Soldiers reported that the gunman shouted "Allahu Akbar!" — an Arabic phrase for "God is great!" — before opening fire Thursday, said Lt. Gen. Robert Cone, the post commander. He said officials had not confirmed Hasan made the comment.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,572827,00.html
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Kuwait Desert Storm:
After a long period of silence, some news about Sgt. Hasan Akbar, the Muslim soldier who attacked his own commanding officers in Kuwait last year. From FoxNews, with thanks to Jeffrey Imm:
The U.S. Army intends to court martial a sergeant accused of tossing grenades into the tents of his superiors while stationed in Kuwait, an attack that killed two Army officers. The trial, which is expected to take place this summer, could bring the death penalty for Sgt. Hasan Akbar, 32. Akbar faces two counts of premeditated murder and three counts of attempted murder for the attack on 101st Airborne Division soldiers at Camp Pennsylvania in Kuwait on March 23, 2003, during the early days of the Iraq war.
In addition to the two officers killed, 14 people were injured. http://www.jihadwatch.org/2004/03/army-sergeant-to-be-tried-in-grenade-attack.html
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Stars and Stripes European Edition By Rick Emert, BAMBERG, Germany — A 1st Infantry Division Engineer Brigade soldier who refused to deploy to Iraq citing religious beliefs was sentenced Thursday to 14 months’ confinement and given a bad-conduct discharge. -During his court-martial, Sgt. 1st Class Abdullah Webster, 38, pleaded guilty to two counts of disobeying a lawful order from a superior commissioned officer and one count of missing movement. -When his unit was deploying on Feb. 8, Webster — the battalion security noncommissioned officer — told his leaders he would not deploy based on guidance he received from Muslim clerics.
http://www.military.com/NewContent/0,13190,SS_060404_Army,00.html
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Selected Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/09/obama-commander-of-unilateral.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/09/obama-to-generals-dont-ask-dont-tell-me.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/09/oppose-obama-and-youre-racist.html
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Wednesday, November 04, 2009
Fake ID Concerns
Roanoke Times, 11-3-09, Pg 1 & 12: Big print, big article, big picture of doorman checking ID so folks under 21 will not be allowed into a bar to drink.
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There are two major things wrong with this Roanoke Times message:
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1. On Election Day, the number one fake-ID issue should be about validating people to vote at the polls! The Democrats, Editors of the Roanoke Times and their friends at the ACLU oppose at every opportunity the requirement for voter validation with a government issued ID. Their friends at ACORN have submitted thousands of bogus voters into the voter registration system. The best way to “weed them out” is with a good voter ID card.
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2. Are these rules really about maturity and responsibility? Any military active service member should be able to order a beer in any bar anyplace in the world! If they are old enough to serve at 18, then they clearly are old enough to drink a “legal” beer! NY State allowed drinking starting at age 18 through the 1960’s and it appears the abuse of alcohol back then was less than the illegal usage today.
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Prior Voter ID items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/no-real-vote-recount.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/04/voter-id-required.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/11/id-not-required.html
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There are two major things wrong with this Roanoke Times message:
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1. On Election Day, the number one fake-ID issue should be about validating people to vote at the polls! The Democrats, Editors of the Roanoke Times and their friends at the ACLU oppose at every opportunity the requirement for voter validation with a government issued ID. Their friends at ACORN have submitted thousands of bogus voters into the voter registration system. The best way to “weed them out” is with a good voter ID card.
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2. Are these rules really about maturity and responsibility? Any military active service member should be able to order a beer in any bar anyplace in the world! If they are old enough to serve at 18, then they clearly are old enough to drink a “legal” beer! NY State allowed drinking starting at age 18 through the 1960’s and it appears the abuse of alcohol back then was less than the illegal usage today.
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Prior Voter ID items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/no-real-vote-recount.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/04/voter-id-required.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/11/id-not-required.html
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Nov 09 Election Results: Obama-Pelosi-Reid-Webb Lose Big
After spending many days of time and millions of tax-payers dollars electioneering in Virginia and NJ, the bloom blew off the Obama-rose!
One year ago Obama handily won Va and NJ and now his star-power has dimmed to a twinkle as both Va and NJ elected Republican candidates into high office.
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Apparently the White House Spin Machine was not ready to explain these results Tuesday evening so “the muller-in-chief” went quietly to his bedroom to sulk. What a nice touch to not have to listen to yet another Obama lecture about how wonderful and bright he is and how dull we are.
“As if hoping to avoid the outcome, the White House issued a statement after the GOP win in Virginia saying the president was not watching election returns and would not be making any remarks on the results.”
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/11/03/gop-gains-hurt-obama-capital-agenda/
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The key question now is: how are the “Blue-Dog Democrats” going to view this big new political news? This was the first real poll of public sentiment about big government, big tax and spend, and the Obama-Pelosi-Reid drive to socialize America as fast as possible. Blue-Dogs now know that having Obama join them on the 2010 Congressional election circuit may cause more harm than good and the vision of Obama throwing Deeds under the bus a week “before” the election will be a lasting memory!
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/10/obama-junps-on-deeds-band-wagon-and.html
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The White House staff and all their associates in the major liberal media are now busy telling us why the voters did what they did. Their condescending arrogance from their lofty perches will not be effective because the facts are evident for all to see.
What a difference a year makes!
What a great time to be a Republican Virginian!
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A RoanokeSlant Blog Observation: Apparently getting endorsed by the editors of the Roanoke Times is a kiss of death! Certainly validates their position of being a liberal left-wing extension of the DNC media machine. So much for fair and balanced!
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Prior Campaign Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/11/obama-campaigning-in-nj-for-higher.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/11/virginia-election-validating-obama.html
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One year ago Obama handily won Va and NJ and now his star-power has dimmed to a twinkle as both Va and NJ elected Republican candidates into high office.
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Apparently the White House Spin Machine was not ready to explain these results Tuesday evening so “the muller-in-chief” went quietly to his bedroom to sulk. What a nice touch to not have to listen to yet another Obama lecture about how wonderful and bright he is and how dull we are.
“As if hoping to avoid the outcome, the White House issued a statement after the GOP win in Virginia saying the president was not watching election returns and would not be making any remarks on the results.”
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/11/03/gop-gains-hurt-obama-capital-agenda/
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The key question now is: how are the “Blue-Dog Democrats” going to view this big new political news? This was the first real poll of public sentiment about big government, big tax and spend, and the Obama-Pelosi-Reid drive to socialize America as fast as possible. Blue-Dogs now know that having Obama join them on the 2010 Congressional election circuit may cause more harm than good and the vision of Obama throwing Deeds under the bus a week “before” the election will be a lasting memory!
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/10/obama-junps-on-deeds-band-wagon-and.html
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The White House staff and all their associates in the major liberal media are now busy telling us why the voters did what they did. Their condescending arrogance from their lofty perches will not be effective because the facts are evident for all to see.
What a difference a year makes!
What a great time to be a Republican Virginian!
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A RoanokeSlant Blog Observation: Apparently getting endorsed by the editors of the Roanoke Times is a kiss of death! Certainly validates their position of being a liberal left-wing extension of the DNC media machine. So much for fair and balanced!
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Prior Campaign Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/11/obama-campaigning-in-nj-for-higher.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/11/virginia-election-validating-obama.html
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Sunday, November 01, 2009
UAW Ford worker reject contract
Roanoke Times, 11-1-09, Pg 15: Ford had sought to bring its labor costs in line with rivals Chrysler and GM.
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Why would a UAW auto worker accept a reduction in their company-breaking contract?
They know that Obama-Pelosi-Reid will bail them out with massive tax-payer stimulus and clunker money.
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The unions and the trial lawyers have the Democrat party in their pockets and with Omama-Pelosi-Reid in-charge-of the entire government, they’re in the driver’s seat!
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The Union position is that negotiating is for losers and making demands is for winners, and based on the 2008 election -- they're the BIG winners to do whatever they want to do!
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/11/deunionize-gm-ford.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/02/happy-uaw-strikers.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/name-new-american-system.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/04/gm-sinking-with-our-tax-money.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/bailout-bridge-to-nowhere.html
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Why would a UAW auto worker accept a reduction in their company-breaking contract?
They know that Obama-Pelosi-Reid will bail them out with massive tax-payer stimulus and clunker money.
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The unions and the trial lawyers have the Democrat party in their pockets and with Omama-Pelosi-Reid in-charge-of the entire government, they’re in the driver’s seat!
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The Union position is that negotiating is for losers and making demands is for winners, and based on the 2008 election -- they're the BIG winners to do whatever they want to do!
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/11/deunionize-gm-ford.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/02/happy-uaw-strikers.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/name-new-american-system.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/04/gm-sinking-with-our-tax-money.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/bailout-bridge-to-nowhere.html
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Obama Campaigning in NJ for Higher Taxes
Roanoke Times, 11-1-09, Pg 8: Scorn for property taxes driving NJ governor’s race
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Obama back in NJ again hyping Democrat Corzine for reelection to continue to tax and spend NJ into bankruptcy!
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Not to worry -- Obama-Pelosi-Reid will send your tax dollars to NJ to “help them out” just as they’ve done to the other “big blue states” like California, NY and Mass.
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As in all socialistic systems, having your affairs in order and being responsible with your money will we rewarded by having “Big Bro” tax it away and “help out” others who are irresponsible, reckless and negligent spenders.
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/10/obama-junps-on-deeds-band-wagon-and.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/obama-economics.html
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Obama back in NJ again hyping Democrat Corzine for reelection to continue to tax and spend NJ into bankruptcy!
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Not to worry -- Obama-Pelosi-Reid will send your tax dollars to NJ to “help them out” just as they’ve done to the other “big blue states” like California, NY and Mass.
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As in all socialistic systems, having your affairs in order and being responsible with your money will we rewarded by having “Big Bro” tax it away and “help out” others who are irresponsible, reckless and negligent spenders.
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/10/obama-junps-on-deeds-band-wagon-and.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/obama-economics.html
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Virginia Election Validating Obama-Pelosi-Reid-Webb?
Roanoke Times, 11-1-09, Pg 1: Jim Webb at Christiansburg.
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“Voting in Democrats is important to make sure the rest of the county understands we believe in the validity of what we’re doing.” Webb told supporters.
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Some examples of what Jim Webb wants Virginians to Validate:
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Massive Debt:$1 Million tax dollars per job he says he created while 10+% unemployed
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/10/one-million-tax-dollars-per-job.html
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$24,000 tax dollars per clunker car sold
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/driveon/post/2009/10/620000657/1
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Mismanagement and malfeasance of the H1N1 public health program
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/10/obamacare-part-1-obama-in-charge-while.html
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Intimidation and manipulation of the US media
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/10/kudos-to-abc-cbs-cnn-nbc.html
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Ignoring public rejection of a government take-over of healthcare
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/10/obamacare-in-closet.html
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/10/roanoke-times-editors-fail-economics.html
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Incompetent direction of our national defense:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/11/obama-nero.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/10/obama-muller-in-chief.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/07/thank-you-president-reagan-for-our.html
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Increasing racial tensions and animosity
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/09/oppose-obama-and-youre-racist.html
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Policy of personalized political indoctrination of the Presidency
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/09/new-obama-presidential-seal.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/09/obama-in-classroom.html
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Killing (not capturing) those on the Obama hit list
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/10/why-obama-doesnt-need-gitmo-or-patriot.html
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And the list goes on and on!
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“Voting in Democrats is important to make sure the rest of the county understands we believe in the validity of what we’re doing.” Webb told supporters.
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Some examples of what Jim Webb wants Virginians to Validate:
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Massive Debt:$1 Million tax dollars per job he says he created while 10+% unemployed
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/10/one-million-tax-dollars-per-job.html
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$24,000 tax dollars per clunker car sold
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/driveon/post/2009/10/620000657/1
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Mismanagement and malfeasance of the H1N1 public health program
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/10/obamacare-part-1-obama-in-charge-while.html
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Intimidation and manipulation of the US media
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/10/kudos-to-abc-cbs-cnn-nbc.html
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Ignoring public rejection of a government take-over of healthcare
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/10/obamacare-in-closet.html
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/10/roanoke-times-editors-fail-economics.html
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Incompetent direction of our national defense:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/11/obama-nero.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/10/obama-muller-in-chief.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/07/thank-you-president-reagan-for-our.html
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Increasing racial tensions and animosity
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/09/oppose-obama-and-youre-racist.html
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Policy of personalized political indoctrination of the Presidency
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/09/new-obama-presidential-seal.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/09/obama-in-classroom.html
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Killing (not capturing) those on the Obama hit list
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/10/why-obama-doesnt-need-gitmo-or-patriot.html
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And the list goes on and on!
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Obama & Nero
Roanoke Times, 11-1-09, Pg 3: Afgan election issues drag on; runner-up withdrawing from election do-over and may call for boycott.
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Obama likes to compare himself to Lincoln.
What a gigantic stretch and metamorphosis
A more reasonable comparison is
Obama and Nero
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Obama The Muller-in-chief (mulls while our troops die)
Nero the Fiddler-in-chief (plays while Rome burned)
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Our troops are fighting and bleeding and dieing in a war Obama has recently declared has no strategy (he had one in March but apparently he lost it). He mulls away the months confounded and confused, asking everyone he meets for help and looking for a political cover-strategy and NOT for a winning-strategy.
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If I add more troops than Bush had planned – my left-wing liberal base will have Michael Moore make nasty movies about me.
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If I don’t add more troops than Bush had planned – it will appear that Bush had the right plan and I’ll look stupid and incompetent. For this option it’s important that Biden be identified as the architect of the plan.
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What to do? What to do? Things were so much easier as a Community Organizer.
I know! Let’s declare the Afgan elections no good and we need a do-over. That will fool everyone into agreeing that I should continue to fiddle while our troops are fighting and dieing. Everyone will be fooled except the enemy.
And, let’s blame everything on Karzi! No one likes him anyway and making him the goat will ensure that no one can say I didn’t do everything possible to save Afghanistan! To add creditability to the story let’s make Karzi’s brother a bad guy too! Two villains are better than one! I’ll have Panetta’s CIA leak a story today to the NYT! Leon’s just a Clinton political hack, he’ll do whatever.
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Just more hope and change we can believe in!
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/10/obama-white-house-advisors-conclude.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/10/obama-muller-in-chief.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/10/obama-war-mess-jive-talkin.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/01/obama-declares-end-of-war-on-terror.html
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Obama likes to compare himself to Lincoln.
What a gigantic stretch and metamorphosis
A more reasonable comparison is
Obama and Nero
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Obama The Muller-in-chief (mulls while our troops die)
Nero the Fiddler-in-chief (plays while Rome burned)
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Our troops are fighting and bleeding and dieing in a war Obama has recently declared has no strategy (he had one in March but apparently he lost it). He mulls away the months confounded and confused, asking everyone he meets for help and looking for a political cover-strategy and NOT for a winning-strategy.
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If I add more troops than Bush had planned – my left-wing liberal base will have Michael Moore make nasty movies about me.
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If I don’t add more troops than Bush had planned – it will appear that Bush had the right plan and I’ll look stupid and incompetent. For this option it’s important that Biden be identified as the architect of the plan.
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What to do? What to do? Things were so much easier as a Community Organizer.
I know! Let’s declare the Afgan elections no good and we need a do-over. That will fool everyone into agreeing that I should continue to fiddle while our troops are fighting and dieing. Everyone will be fooled except the enemy.
And, let’s blame everything on Karzi! No one likes him anyway and making him the goat will ensure that no one can say I didn’t do everything possible to save Afghanistan! To add creditability to the story let’s make Karzi’s brother a bad guy too! Two villains are better than one! I’ll have Panetta’s CIA leak a story today to the NYT! Leon’s just a Clinton political hack, he’ll do whatever.
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Just more hope and change we can believe in!
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/10/obama-white-house-advisors-conclude.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/10/obama-muller-in-chief.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/10/obama-war-mess-jive-talkin.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/01/obama-declares-end-of-war-on-terror.html
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Saturday, October 31, 2009
One Million Tax Dollars Per Job
Roanoke Times, 10-29-09, Pg 16: Number of jobs saved by federal contracts overstated.
The White House says it is working to fix errors in the report on stimulus-funded jobs.
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Roanoke Times, 10-31-09, Pg 12: Report credits 650,000 jobs to stimulus.
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What ever happened to the Jan 09 Obama 3-Million jobs promise?
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1208/16774.html
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$767 BILLION (that’s 767 times ten to the ninth power) tax dollars resulting in what? Clearly no one can account for 650K jobs added when we have lost millions of jobs and are at 10+% unemployed!
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And IF these numbers were valid, this would represent $1,000,000 of tax money spent to get each job! Why would the White House want to brag about that?
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Not to be left out, Va Gov Kaine (also the national Democrat party chairman) reports that Va got 5,900 jobs for over $5 BILLION taxpayers money.
That’s also $1,000,000 of tax money spent for each job! Nice job Timmy!
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Obama, his White House team and his associates in the liberal media are avoiding at all costs the publication of the 16.8% unemployment U-6 number!
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“But another more comprehensive gauge of unemployment ticked up even more. The government’s broader measure, known as the “U-6″ for its data classification, hit 16.8% in August, 0.5 percentage points higher than July. The comprehensive measure of labor under utilization accounts for people who have stopped looking for work or who can’t find full-time jobs.”
http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2009/09/04/broader-unemployment-rate-hits-168-in-august/
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Yet another Obama economic achievement is the new clunker news:
USA Today published that the cash for clunkers program costs taxpayers $24,000 per car!
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/driveon/post/2009/10/620000657/1
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Prior clunkers item:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/08/uaw-for-clunkers-program.html
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At what point are the major news media going to start reporting the real news about Obama, his administration, the truth about his programs and the dismal track-record to date? Ever Pravda was more honest than today’s major US media!
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/obama-abc-and-new-pravda.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/10/kaine-and-vdot-not-shovel-ready.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/economic-reflections-revisionism.html
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The White House says it is working to fix errors in the report on stimulus-funded jobs.
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Roanoke Times, 10-31-09, Pg 12: Report credits 650,000 jobs to stimulus.
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What ever happened to the Jan 09 Obama 3-Million jobs promise?
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1208/16774.html
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$767 BILLION (that’s 767 times ten to the ninth power) tax dollars resulting in what? Clearly no one can account for 650K jobs added when we have lost millions of jobs and are at 10+% unemployed!
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And IF these numbers were valid, this would represent $1,000,000 of tax money spent to get each job! Why would the White House want to brag about that?
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Not to be left out, Va Gov Kaine (also the national Democrat party chairman) reports that Va got 5,900 jobs for over $5 BILLION taxpayers money.
That’s also $1,000,000 of tax money spent for each job! Nice job Timmy!
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Obama, his White House team and his associates in the liberal media are avoiding at all costs the publication of the 16.8% unemployment U-6 number!
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“But another more comprehensive gauge of unemployment ticked up even more. The government’s broader measure, known as the “U-6″ for its data classification, hit 16.8% in August, 0.5 percentage points higher than July. The comprehensive measure of labor under utilization accounts for people who have stopped looking for work or who can’t find full-time jobs.”
http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2009/09/04/broader-unemployment-rate-hits-168-in-august/
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Yet another Obama economic achievement is the new clunker news:
USA Today published that the cash for clunkers program costs taxpayers $24,000 per car!
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/driveon/post/2009/10/620000657/1
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Prior clunkers item:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/08/uaw-for-clunkers-program.html
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At what point are the major news media going to start reporting the real news about Obama, his administration, the truth about his programs and the dismal track-record to date? Ever Pravda was more honest than today’s major US media!
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/obama-abc-and-new-pravda.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/10/kaine-and-vdot-not-shovel-ready.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/economic-reflections-revisionism.html
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Federal Hate Crime Laws Discriminatory & Redundant
Roanoke Times, 10-29-09, New law adds protection for gays.
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Federal hate-crime laws, including this expansion for homosexuals, are themselves inherently discriminatory and redundant with existing state laws.
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Why is someone who is included in the definition of hate-crimes more important or has more value than others? Where in the Constitution does it say we have classes of people more valuable than others that deserve or require special laws.
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Since ALL states and US territories have severe laws dealing with battery and violence against any and all persons, why do we need to federalize these crimes? And how do these redundant laws “add protection for gays” against violent lawless persons? A major risk of our personal freedoms is that the police cannot stop a crime; they can only intervene after a crime is committed and this is already being done by the states.
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Doesn’t the 17th Amendment and Thomas Jefferson’s positions on states rights make federal laws like this, that totally overlap existing state laws, not only discriminatory and redundant but unconstitutional?
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Apparently Obama-Pelosi-Reid understood all the above issues with this law and therefore included it as an addendum to a military funding law so that it would not receive the visibility and debate it deserved.
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Perhaps the real reasons these laws are enacted are to buy the political support of particular groups of people and therefore are not enacted for the public good.
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Federal hate-crime laws, including this expansion for homosexuals, are themselves inherently discriminatory and redundant with existing state laws.
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Why is someone who is included in the definition of hate-crimes more important or has more value than others? Where in the Constitution does it say we have classes of people more valuable than others that deserve or require special laws.
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Since ALL states and US territories have severe laws dealing with battery and violence against any and all persons, why do we need to federalize these crimes? And how do these redundant laws “add protection for gays” against violent lawless persons? A major risk of our personal freedoms is that the police cannot stop a crime; they can only intervene after a crime is committed and this is already being done by the states.
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Doesn’t the 17th Amendment and Thomas Jefferson’s positions on states rights make federal laws like this, that totally overlap existing state laws, not only discriminatory and redundant but unconstitutional?
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Apparently Obama-Pelosi-Reid understood all the above issues with this law and therefore included it as an addendum to a military funding law so that it would not receive the visibility and debate it deserved.
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Perhaps the real reasons these laws are enacted are to buy the political support of particular groups of people and therefore are not enacted for the public good.
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009
A Smart Power Grid Needs Supply
Roanoke Times, 10-28-09, Pg 20: Editorial: Obama to spend $3.4 BILLION to upgrade the national power grid with money from the stimulus package.
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The money comes from the stimulus package?
HELLO!!! THE MONEY COMES FROM THE TAXPAYERS!
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Apparently the new energy policy is to use a “smart Grid” to be invented by Virginia Tech to ensure energy supplies when the sun doesn’t shine and the wind doesn’t blow. “Editor: A smart grid can compensate for that”
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Good choice VT! Should work in well with the VT Smart Road project!
A better start would be for Virginia Tech. to do a comprehensive Energy Change Assessment outlined in:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/04/vt-energy-assessment-challenge.html
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The national electric grid (already quite smart) is sets of wires and switches connected to electric sources as inputs and to electric users as outputs. The amount of power moved each day is beyond the comprehension of most people (like the $2 TRILLION debt that Obama-Pelosi-Reid just committed us to).
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The Obama/Gore plan is to eliminate all fossil-fuel generators and replace them with wind and solar systems that are very expensive and are intermittent supply systems
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This conversion will probably take a lifetime based on the Virginia Highlands wind project that has been in the Virginia bureaucratic swamp for 5 years and is now still on hold because it is visible from a West Va. civil war cemetery.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/03/no-new-energy-jihad_23.html
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The key to system design of intermittent supply systems is storage. This is similar to squirrels storing nuts or computers utilizing cache memory or a car battery.
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The Smith Mountain Dam System is perhaps the only example in Virginia of a utility-size energy storage system. It has very limited capacity and is used only for limited “peak power” grid demand that is integrated into the current electric grid.
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Most of the peak-power systems in the country are jet-engines (modified aircraft jet engines) that burn natural gas and are located within cities. NYC has hundreds of these facilities sited on vacant lots and in abandoned commercial buildings. These are switched into and out of the grid as required.
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So when one says glibly: “A smart grid can compensate for that”; one must ask where and what are the energy storage systems that can carry the absence of sun-power for 18 hours a day ( 4 PM to 10 AM )?
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The cost to the taxpayers and electric customers for this energy substitution will be incalculable and the reasons driving these changes are hypothesis and not facts.
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Energy independence is our crisis and the truly “green” solution for utility power is nuclear not wind or sun.
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Prior Items:
http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/07/virginia-below-national-average-cost-of.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/05/for-climate-change-fashion-go-white.html
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The money comes from the stimulus package?
HELLO!!! THE MONEY COMES FROM THE TAXPAYERS!
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Apparently the new energy policy is to use a “smart Grid” to be invented by Virginia Tech to ensure energy supplies when the sun doesn’t shine and the wind doesn’t blow. “Editor: A smart grid can compensate for that”
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Good choice VT! Should work in well with the VT Smart Road project!
A better start would be for Virginia Tech. to do a comprehensive Energy Change Assessment outlined in:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/04/vt-energy-assessment-challenge.html
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The national electric grid (already quite smart) is sets of wires and switches connected to electric sources as inputs and to electric users as outputs. The amount of power moved each day is beyond the comprehension of most people (like the $2 TRILLION debt that Obama-Pelosi-Reid just committed us to).
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The Obama/Gore plan is to eliminate all fossil-fuel generators and replace them with wind and solar systems that are very expensive and are intermittent supply systems
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This conversion will probably take a lifetime based on the Virginia Highlands wind project that has been in the Virginia bureaucratic swamp for 5 years and is now still on hold because it is visible from a West Va. civil war cemetery.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/03/no-new-energy-jihad_23.html
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The key to system design of intermittent supply systems is storage. This is similar to squirrels storing nuts or computers utilizing cache memory or a car battery.
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The Smith Mountain Dam System is perhaps the only example in Virginia of a utility-size energy storage system. It has very limited capacity and is used only for limited “peak power” grid demand that is integrated into the current electric grid.
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Most of the peak-power systems in the country are jet-engines (modified aircraft jet engines) that burn natural gas and are located within cities. NYC has hundreds of these facilities sited on vacant lots and in abandoned commercial buildings. These are switched into and out of the grid as required.
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So when one says glibly: “A smart grid can compensate for that”; one must ask where and what are the energy storage systems that can carry the absence of sun-power for 18 hours a day ( 4 PM to 10 AM )?
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The cost to the taxpayers and electric customers for this energy substitution will be incalculable and the reasons driving these changes are hypothesis and not facts.
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Energy independence is our crisis and the truly “green” solution for utility power is nuclear not wind or sun.
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Prior Items:
http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/07/virginia-below-national-average-cost-of.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/05/for-climate-change-fashion-go-white.html
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Why Obama Doesn’t Need GITMO or Patriot Act
Roanoke Times, 10-25-09, Pg 8: Hit list of drug kingpins worries Afghan officials.
Obama has a hit-list of Afgans to target with drone-missiles strikes. He refuses to share the list with Afgan government or military.
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Afgan officials are worried that Obama will “act on his own to kill suspected drug lords, based on secret evidence, instead of handing them over for trial”!
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What a stroke of genius. - Why didn’t Bush and Cheney think of this?
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ADVANTAGES:
No chance of our troops getting hurt capturing terrorists for intelligence gathering (who cares about what they know anyway?)
No camps to hold terrorists.
No complex transportation requirements.
No GITMO facilities.
No Military tribunal issues.
No conflicts with Constitutional issues.
No CIA briefings required.
Nobody accused of abusing prisoners.
No human-rights issues.
No turn-them-loose issues!
Pelosi & Reid happy and satisfied.
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Only a Chicago Community Organizer could come up with this brain-storm!
The liberals and left-wingers must be elated!
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Yet more hope and change we can believe in!
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/08/turn-them-loose-justice-for-terrorists.html
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Obama has a hit-list of Afgans to target with drone-missiles strikes. He refuses to share the list with Afgan government or military.
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Afgan officials are worried that Obama will “act on his own to kill suspected drug lords, based on secret evidence, instead of handing them over for trial”!
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What a stroke of genius. - Why didn’t Bush and Cheney think of this?
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ADVANTAGES:
No chance of our troops getting hurt capturing terrorists for intelligence gathering (who cares about what they know anyway?)
No camps to hold terrorists.
No complex transportation requirements.
No GITMO facilities.
No Military tribunal issues.
No conflicts with Constitutional issues.
No CIA briefings required.
Nobody accused of abusing prisoners.
No human-rights issues.
No turn-them-loose issues!
Pelosi & Reid happy and satisfied.
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Only a Chicago Community Organizer could come up with this brain-storm!
The liberals and left-wingers must be elated!
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Yet more hope and change we can believe in!
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/08/turn-them-loose-justice-for-terrorists.html
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Obama & Hillary Embracing Anti-Christ Obscenities
Roanoke Times, 10-27-09, Pg 3:Obama & Hillary Clinton opposed a UN resolution that would condemn religious defamation.
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What are some examples of what Obama and Hillary are embracing with their family-friendly first amendment rights policy; and it's this the administration that proclaimed it's embracing what the world and UN want?
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Comedian Larry David’s mocking of religion and Christian belief in miracles in the latest episode of his HBO series "Curb Your Enthusiasm." On the show's most recent installment, which aired Sunday night, David's character urinates on a painting of Jesus Christ, causing a woman to believe the painting shows Jesus crying.
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2009/10/28/catholic-league-blasts-larry-david-curb-episode-urinates-jesus/
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"Christ on Campus" comic strip in Radford's Whim Internet Magazine included gross representations of Christ that the liberal media and Radford administrators thought were just fine examples of “free speech”.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/02/jesus-at-radford.html
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William & Mary president, Gene Nichol’s major accomplishments is that he has established himself as a hero to the left-wing community by arrogantly and unilaterally removing the Christian Cross from the W&M Chapel that had been there in the Chapel for 314 years. Apparently Nichol concluded: that’s long enough, times up; and anyway, who cares?
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/02/goodbye-dont-let-door-hit-you-on-way.html
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Andres Serrano who collected $15,000 of taxpayer-funded money from the National Endowment for the Arts for his photographs of Jesus submerged in a container of urine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piss_Christ-http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DE4D61F3BF930A25754C0A96F948260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1
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HOWEVER – have you noticed that every government and every media world-wide have refused to publish even a “likeness” of Mohammed? What a touch of sensitivity!
Based on the Salman Rushdie experience and the fate of Daniel Pearl, all the “creative artists” and writers and cartoonists and editors seem to focus on Jesus and shun Mohammed.
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Not clear how that relates to or supports the first amendment and free-speech! Perhaps the editors of the Roanoke Times can explain that in their next editorial including a picture of their vision of Mohammed’s face.
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What are some examples of what Obama and Hillary are embracing with their family-friendly first amendment rights policy; and it's this the administration that proclaimed it's embracing what the world and UN want?
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Comedian Larry David’s mocking of religion and Christian belief in miracles in the latest episode of his HBO series "Curb Your Enthusiasm." On the show's most recent installment, which aired Sunday night, David's character urinates on a painting of Jesus Christ, causing a woman to believe the painting shows Jesus crying.
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2009/10/28/catholic-league-blasts-larry-david-curb-episode-urinates-jesus/
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"Christ on Campus" comic strip in Radford's Whim Internet Magazine included gross representations of Christ that the liberal media and Radford administrators thought were just fine examples of “free speech”.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/02/jesus-at-radford.html
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William & Mary president, Gene Nichol’s major accomplishments is that he has established himself as a hero to the left-wing community by arrogantly and unilaterally removing the Christian Cross from the W&M Chapel that had been there in the Chapel for 314 years. Apparently Nichol concluded: that’s long enough, times up; and anyway, who cares?
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/02/goodbye-dont-let-door-hit-you-on-way.html
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Andres Serrano who collected $15,000 of taxpayer-funded money from the National Endowment for the Arts for his photographs of Jesus submerged in a container of urine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piss_Christ-http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DE4D61F3BF930A25754C0A96F948260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1
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HOWEVER – have you noticed that every government and every media world-wide have refused to publish even a “likeness” of Mohammed? What a touch of sensitivity!
Based on the Salman Rushdie experience and the fate of Daniel Pearl, all the “creative artists” and writers and cartoonists and editors seem to focus on Jesus and shun Mohammed.
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Not clear how that relates to or supports the first amendment and free-speech! Perhaps the editors of the Roanoke Times can explain that in their next editorial including a picture of their vision of Mohammed’s face.
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ObamaCare Part 1: Obama In-charge While Children Die From H1N1
Roanoke Times, 10/25/09, Pg 1 & 3: H1N1 get priority
Over 1000 Americans including 100 children have died from H1N1.
The government now HOPES to have 50 million does of vaccine by mid-November
(A FRACTION OF THE REQUIRED AND PROMISED AMOUNT).
More hope and change we can believe in?
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Obama took charge of the H1N1 vaccine plan in January, declaring it a crisis and directed his administration to be in charge of the drug approval, selection of suppliers, distribution management and tracking and reporting.
So – what happened?
People are dying and the liberal left-wing media totally ignore the ObamaCare Part 1 accountability, responsibility and liability!
Not a word holding Obama to account for this major failure!
Note to media: Hope is NOT a plan!
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Back in Oct. 20, 2004 the media ferociously attacked Pres Bush when there was a shortage of the plain-old-ordinary flue shots, now, not a word, what a difference five years makes!
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Complicit in this failure is Obama’s new CDC Chief Thomas Frieden who has a history of failure to protect the public health in NY.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/dr-thomas-frieden-and-health.html
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Yet another example of the slant and bias and gross lack of fairness of the liberal left-wing media that Obama has Pravdazitized.
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/10/kudos-to-abc-cbs-cnn-nbc.html
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NEW H1N1 NEWS JUST IN
Roanoke Times, 12/28/09, (small print buried back on pg 9): supply starting to increase
ObamaCare Part 1:
14 Million doses of the 150 million planned now available!
And not one Roanoke Times negative word about this administration’s major failure to protect the American public!
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Roanoke Times, 12/28/09, (small print buried back on pg 8): Obama kids get theirs
Not to worry about the Royal Family!
The Obama kids just got their shots out of the first available batch of vaccine; apparently not so much for the 100 kids that have died and the thousands that are ill!
“It’s good to be the King” - Blazing Saddles
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Over 1000 Americans including 100 children have died from H1N1.
The government now HOPES to have 50 million does of vaccine by mid-November
(A FRACTION OF THE REQUIRED AND PROMISED AMOUNT).
More hope and change we can believe in?
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Obama took charge of the H1N1 vaccine plan in January, declaring it a crisis and directed his administration to be in charge of the drug approval, selection of suppliers, distribution management and tracking and reporting.
So – what happened?
People are dying and the liberal left-wing media totally ignore the ObamaCare Part 1 accountability, responsibility and liability!
Not a word holding Obama to account for this major failure!
Note to media: Hope is NOT a plan!
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Back in Oct. 20, 2004 the media ferociously attacked Pres Bush when there was a shortage of the plain-old-ordinary flue shots, now, not a word, what a difference five years makes!
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Complicit in this failure is Obama’s new CDC Chief Thomas Frieden who has a history of failure to protect the public health in NY.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/dr-thomas-frieden-and-health.html
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Yet another example of the slant and bias and gross lack of fairness of the liberal left-wing media that Obama has Pravdazitized.
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/10/kudos-to-abc-cbs-cnn-nbc.html
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NEW H1N1 NEWS JUST IN
Roanoke Times, 12/28/09, (small print buried back on pg 9): supply starting to increase
ObamaCare Part 1:
14 Million doses of the 150 million planned now available!
And not one Roanoke Times negative word about this administration’s major failure to protect the American public!
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Roanoke Times, 12/28/09, (small print buried back on pg 8): Obama kids get theirs
Not to worry about the Royal Family!
The Obama kids just got their shots out of the first available batch of vaccine; apparently not so much for the 100 kids that have died and the thousands that are ill!
“It’s good to be the King” - Blazing Saddles
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Saturday, October 24, 2009
Obama Jumps on Deeds’ Band Wagon and Then Throws Deeds Under The Bus
Roanoke Times, Sat. 10/24/09, Pg 9: Democrats bailing on Deeds?
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On Thurs Obama got on Deeds’ Band Wagon for Gov. of Va.!
On Friday Obama Threw Deeds under the Bus with a White House rebuke of Deeds and his campaign content and style.
Apparently Obama realizes that a hundred Blue-Dogs are watching Va very carefully and his conflicts with them are just beginning!
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Deed’s should have seen this coming. We all saw how Obama handled his loyalty to the Rev. Wright, his minister, mentor and personal friend for 20 years.
Apparently Community Organizers from Chicago are quick to "cut" their losses.
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"He's become a double-edged sword in Virginia," said Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. "The overall impression is that he's trying to do too much too quickly, and he's becoming identified with big spending and big government. "That doesn't sell well in Virginia," he said.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/08/06/obamas-campaign-efforts-double-edged-sword-virginia-governor-race/
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On Thurs Obama got on Deeds’ Band Wagon for Gov. of Va.!
On Friday Obama Threw Deeds under the Bus with a White House rebuke of Deeds and his campaign content and style.
Apparently Obama realizes that a hundred Blue-Dogs are watching Va very carefully and his conflicts with them are just beginning!
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Deed’s should have seen this coming. We all saw how Obama handled his loyalty to the Rev. Wright, his minister, mentor and personal friend for 20 years.
Apparently Community Organizers from Chicago are quick to "cut" their losses.
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"He's become a double-edged sword in Virginia," said Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. "The overall impression is that he's trying to do too much too quickly, and he's becoming identified with big spending and big government. "That doesn't sell well in Virginia," he said.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/08/06/obamas-campaign-efforts-double-edged-sword-virginia-governor-race/
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Thursday, October 22, 2009
Kudos To ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC
Not found in the Roanoke Times (for obvious reasons)
Obama made his Pay-Czar available to the White House Press Pool but excluded the FOX representative.
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Fortunately ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC refused to participate without FOX!
(Very unlikely position if Roanoke Times Editors were involved!)
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Then Obama limited his Czar to a 2-minute interview instead of 5.
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Exactly how small and petty is this Community Organizer?
Or is this just another Example of The Obama Pravdazation of Our Media!
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/10/obamacare-in-closet.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/10/obama-accomplishments-jive-talkin.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/09/more-obama-lies-and-intimidation.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/obama-abc-and-new-pravda.html
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The Article the Roanoke Times should have printed:
http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2009/10/obama-administration-tries-to-ban-fox.html
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Unprecedented: White House Tries to Ban Fox from Press Pool
Today the White House stepped up its attack on Fox News, announcing that the network would no longer be able to conduct interviews with officials as a member of the Press Pool. The Pool is a five-member group consisting of ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox News and NBC organized by the White House Correspondents Association. Its membership is not subject to oversight by the government.-Before an interview with "Pay Czar" Kenneth Feinberg, the administration announced that Fox News would be banned from the press pool. This marks the first time in history that an administration had attempted to ban an entire network from the press pool.-To their credit, the other networks objected. They told the White House that if Fox were banned, none of the other networks would participate. The White House relented, but in an apparent act of petulant retaliation, it restricted each network to a two-minute interview instead of the standard five.
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Obama made his Pay-Czar available to the White House Press Pool but excluded the FOX representative.
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Fortunately ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC refused to participate without FOX!
(Very unlikely position if Roanoke Times Editors were involved!)
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Then Obama limited his Czar to a 2-minute interview instead of 5.
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Exactly how small and petty is this Community Organizer?
Or is this just another Example of The Obama Pravdazation of Our Media!
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/10/obamacare-in-closet.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/10/obama-accomplishments-jive-talkin.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/09/more-obama-lies-and-intimidation.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/obama-abc-and-new-pravda.html
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The Article the Roanoke Times should have printed:
http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2009/10/obama-administration-tries-to-ban-fox.html
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Unprecedented: White House Tries to Ban Fox from Press Pool
Today the White House stepped up its attack on Fox News, announcing that the network would no longer be able to conduct interviews with officials as a member of the Press Pool. The Pool is a five-member group consisting of ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox News and NBC organized by the White House Correspondents Association. Its membership is not subject to oversight by the government.-Before an interview with "Pay Czar" Kenneth Feinberg, the administration announced that Fox News would be banned from the press pool. This marks the first time in history that an administration had attempted to ban an entire network from the press pool.-To their credit, the other networks objected. They told the White House that if Fox were banned, none of the other networks would participate. The White House relented, but in an apparent act of petulant retaliation, it restricted each network to a two-minute interview instead of the standard five.
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Thursday, October 15, 2009
ObamaCare in The Closet
Roanoke Times, 10-15-09, Pg 1 & 3:
Headline: Hurdles remain for health care bill.
Fine print: “the next steps will proceed in secret”
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ObamaCare, just like HillaryCare before it, has now retreated into the closet where the American people are barred from knowing anything about the writing of these most important life-impacting laws. This will be followed by the Obama-Pelosi-Reid process of voting on these laws before even the members of Congress have read them.
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The Roanoke Times and their liberal media associates have just rolled over for the Democrats yet again and abandoned the American people’s right to an open and representative government.
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Aren’t these left-wing media the watch-dogs of open government and leaders of the open government juggernaut? What happened to their applications and demands for the Freedom of Information Act?
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Click for the Obama White House Open Government Declaration (Jan 21, 2009):
As Valerie Jarrett, Senior Advisor to the President says in the video below, we are proud "to announce an important next step in this historic call to action – one that will help us achieve a new foundation for our government – a foundation built on the values of transparency, accountability and responsibility."
http://www.whitehouse.gov/Open/
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Just More Jive Talkin You Can’t Believe In!
BeeGees: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W42rMjYWlk
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Headline: Hurdles remain for health care bill.
Fine print: “the next steps will proceed in secret”
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ObamaCare, just like HillaryCare before it, has now retreated into the closet where the American people are barred from knowing anything about the writing of these most important life-impacting laws. This will be followed by the Obama-Pelosi-Reid process of voting on these laws before even the members of Congress have read them.
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The Roanoke Times and their liberal media associates have just rolled over for the Democrats yet again and abandoned the American people’s right to an open and representative government.
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Aren’t these left-wing media the watch-dogs of open government and leaders of the open government juggernaut? What happened to their applications and demands for the Freedom of Information Act?
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Click for the Obama White House Open Government Declaration (Jan 21, 2009):
As Valerie Jarrett, Senior Advisor to the President says in the video below, we are proud "to announce an important next step in this historic call to action – one that will help us achieve a new foundation for our government – a foundation built on the values of transparency, accountability and responsibility."
http://www.whitehouse.gov/Open/
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Just More Jive Talkin You Can’t Believe In!
BeeGees: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W42rMjYWlk
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Blog Action Day
Today, 10-15-09 is Blog action day: www.blogactionday.org
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Good News! Our 250 Years of Natural Global Warming is NOT Your Fault!
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All bloggers are encouraged to write a blog item about our 250 Years of Natural Global Warming which began in 1750 at the end of the little ice age and has now moderated to only one degree warming in the last 100 years and no warming in the past 10 years.
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For details about this good news please click-on and browse the following links:
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/GlacierHistory250Years/index.htm
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/NASA100Yr&10YrGlobalTemp.jpg
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/10yr-temp-co2.jpg
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/100yr-temp-co2.jpg
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For a realistic view of both the science and politics of Global Warming and Climate Change be sure to see the video: “Not Evil Just Wrong” introduced this week by:
Lou Dobbs – CNN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2ujzfnC7cI
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bFAjssuJ2s
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Additional blog items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/07/we-could-use-little-global-warming.html
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Critical Thinkers are by nature – Skeptics
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Politicians and Charlatans are by nature – Alarmists
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LBHagen@roanokeslant.org
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Good News! Our 250 Years of Natural Global Warming is NOT Your Fault!
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All bloggers are encouraged to write a blog item about our 250 Years of Natural Global Warming which began in 1750 at the end of the little ice age and has now moderated to only one degree warming in the last 100 years and no warming in the past 10 years.
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For details about this good news please click-on and browse the following links:
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/GlacierHistory250Years/index.htm
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/NASA100Yr&10YrGlobalTemp.jpg
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/10yr-temp-co2.jpg
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/100yr-temp-co2.jpg
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For a realistic view of both the science and politics of Global Warming and Climate Change be sure to see the video: “Not Evil Just Wrong” introduced this week by:
Lou Dobbs – CNN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2ujzfnC7cI
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bFAjssuJ2s
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Additional blog items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/07/we-could-use-little-global-warming.html
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Critical Thinkers are by nature – Skeptics
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Politicians and Charlatans are by nature – Alarmists
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LBHagen@roanokeslant.org
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Sunday, October 11, 2009
Roanoke Times Editors Fail Economics 101 Again
Roanoke Times, 10/11/09, Pg Horiz 2: Editorial: Virginia’s stingy Medicaid program leaves private plans picking up a big part of the health care tab.
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It’s now clear that the Roanoke Times Editors need a basic course in the most simple of all economics concepts: “There are no free lunches”!
This editorial laments the state of Va Medicaid stating:
“Someone, though, has to pay the bill when government programs don’t”.
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Hello! When government pays the bills someone pays big-time and it’s the taxpayers! There is no free medical care, anywhere!
How can supposedly educated folks write such tripe?
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Virginia’s “stingy” Medicaid program is intended to help folks who do not have the resources to help themselves. It is a medical safety net. It is also a partially funded Federal mandate that currently places great financial burden on the state taxpayers.
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ObamaCare will greatly increase the number of Medicaid recipients and therefore will result in a very big increase in state taxes. Obama, Pelosi & Reid have not even begun to document the TOTAL increases in taxes and fees and premiums that their proposals will impose on America’s working families without any assurance of improved care.
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We need health care reform, but right now we need intellectual honesty reform from our government and media even more!
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/09/stop-obamacare-mess-and-start-fresh.html
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It’s now clear that the Roanoke Times Editors need a basic course in the most simple of all economics concepts: “There are no free lunches”!
This editorial laments the state of Va Medicaid stating:
“Someone, though, has to pay the bill when government programs don’t”.
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Hello! When government pays the bills someone pays big-time and it’s the taxpayers! There is no free medical care, anywhere!
How can supposedly educated folks write such tripe?
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Virginia’s “stingy” Medicaid program is intended to help folks who do not have the resources to help themselves. It is a medical safety net. It is also a partially funded Federal mandate that currently places great financial burden on the state taxpayers.
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ObamaCare will greatly increase the number of Medicaid recipients and therefore will result in a very big increase in state taxes. Obama, Pelosi & Reid have not even begun to document the TOTAL increases in taxes and fees and premiums that their proposals will impose on America’s working families without any assurance of improved care.
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We need health care reform, but right now we need intellectual honesty reform from our government and media even more!
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/09/stop-obamacare-mess-and-start-fresh.html
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Friday, October 09, 2009
Obama Our Nobel Prize Winner
Who says that we’re not proud of Obama and that some of us are raciest, bitter and too political?
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We’re all proud that the Nobel Prize Committee picked our guy to add to the list of high achievers like Al Alarmist Gore and Jimmy Malaise Carter.
We're sure that Mr. Nobel, inventor of dynamite, is pleased with this choice.
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The Award reads:
Awarded for your personal achievements for World Peace including:
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Ridding North Korea of Nuclear Weapons
Ridding Iran of Nuclear Weapons
Single handily bringing peace to the Palestinians and Israelis
Rebuking China for its human rights violations and changing their policies
Embraced the Dalai Lama and forcing China to change it’s Tibet policies
Forced Russia to retreat from Georgia, apologize and pay reparations
Forced Russia to NOT turn off winter fuel to Eastern European countries
Cleaned-out and cleaned-up the UN’s Commission on Human Rights
Installed liberty and freedom in Afghanistan without firing another shot
And a list too long to fit on this humble well deserved Award.
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To be fair, since Obama has only been in office seven months, the Committee has decided to present an addendum to the award each of the next seven years.
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Note: the BeeGees have been invited to sing their award winning biggest hit song of 1987 at the awards ceremony:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W42rMjYWlk
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An award symbol will soon be added to the distinctive Obama Presidential Seal:
http://www.roanokeslant.org/ObamaSeal.jpg
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Some Prior Nobel Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/07/preparing-for-oil-war-in-artic.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/10/250-years-of-global-warming-with-al.html
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We’re all proud that the Nobel Prize Committee picked our guy to add to the list of high achievers like Al Alarmist Gore and Jimmy Malaise Carter.
We're sure that Mr. Nobel, inventor of dynamite, is pleased with this choice.
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The Award reads:
Awarded for your personal achievements for World Peace including:
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Ridding North Korea of Nuclear Weapons
Ridding Iran of Nuclear Weapons
Single handily bringing peace to the Palestinians and Israelis
Rebuking China for its human rights violations and changing their policies
Embraced the Dalai Lama and forcing China to change it’s Tibet policies
Forced Russia to retreat from Georgia, apologize and pay reparations
Forced Russia to NOT turn off winter fuel to Eastern European countries
Cleaned-out and cleaned-up the UN’s Commission on Human Rights
Installed liberty and freedom in Afghanistan without firing another shot
And a list too long to fit on this humble well deserved Award.
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To be fair, since Obama has only been in office seven months, the Committee has decided to present an addendum to the award each of the next seven years.
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Note: the BeeGees have been invited to sing their award winning biggest hit song of 1987 at the awards ceremony:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W42rMjYWlk
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An award symbol will soon be added to the distinctive Obama Presidential Seal:
http://www.roanokeslant.org/ObamaSeal.jpg
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Some Prior Nobel Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/07/preparing-for-oil-war-in-artic.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/10/250-years-of-global-warming-with-al.html
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Obama White House Advisors Conclude Bush Won Afgan War
Roanoke Times, 10/8/09, Pg 6: AP Article: Obama, war council weigh options.
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New breaking news: AP’s net of the White House’s current assessment:
“When President Bush launched the US invasion of Afghanistan less than a month after the Sep 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the country’s Taliban government was providing safe haven for Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida. Eight years later, the Taliban regime is no more and al-Qaida is scattered and weakened.”
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So, apparently Obama inherited a not-so-bad Afgan War situation after all and now his mission is to not loose what Bush gained!
Sort of like the Hippocratic Oath – Do No Harm!
Apparently even the Code Pink Girls now think the Afgan War has been OK!
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Six months after Obama’s March 09 declaration of a new improved war strategy and changing generals to his liking he’s now telling the troops and the world that he doesn’t have a strategy and that things in Afghanistan aren’t so bad after all. It’s now all about those bad actors in Pakistan where we’re not allowed to trespass but are obliged to send lots of our tax dollars.
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Just more hope and change we can believe in!
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/10/obama-war-mess-jive-talkin.html
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New breaking news: AP’s net of the White House’s current assessment:
“When President Bush launched the US invasion of Afghanistan less than a month after the Sep 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the country’s Taliban government was providing safe haven for Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida. Eight years later, the Taliban regime is no more and al-Qaida is scattered and weakened.”
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So, apparently Obama inherited a not-so-bad Afgan War situation after all and now his mission is to not loose what Bush gained!
Sort of like the Hippocratic Oath – Do No Harm!
Apparently even the Code Pink Girls now think the Afgan War has been OK!
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Six months after Obama’s March 09 declaration of a new improved war strategy and changing generals to his liking he’s now telling the troops and the world that he doesn’t have a strategy and that things in Afghanistan aren’t so bad after all. It’s now all about those bad actors in Pakistan where we’re not allowed to trespass but are obliged to send lots of our tax dollars.
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Just more hope and change we can believe in!
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/10/obama-war-mess-jive-talkin.html
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Wednesday, October 07, 2009
Obama Accomplishments & Jive Talkin
Saturday Night Live appears to be the only major media outlet that has finally started to address the Obama reality situation, all be it in a very delicate and PC manner.
Jay is still stuck on stupid with old Bush stuff and Letterman is too busy capitalizing on his sexual harassment of his employees and devastating his wife on national TV. Tells us something about his clientele and audience and hollywood mentality and morality.
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http://www.opposingviews.com/articles/video-saturday-night-live-rightly-says-obama-hasn-t-done-anything-yet
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Could the Roanoke Times be next to get real? ----- Nah! No Way!
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Obama: Just More Jive Talkin You Can’t Believe In!
BeeGees:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W42rMjYWlk
Lyrics:
http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/saturdaynightfever/jivetalkin.htmIt's just your jive talkin'you're telling me lies, yeahJive talkin'you wear a disguiseJive talkin'so misunderstood, yeahJive talkin'You really no good
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/10/obama-war-mess-jive-talkin.html
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Jay is still stuck on stupid with old Bush stuff and Letterman is too busy capitalizing on his sexual harassment of his employees and devastating his wife on national TV. Tells us something about his clientele and audience and hollywood mentality and morality.
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http://www.opposingviews.com/articles/video-saturday-night-live-rightly-says-obama-hasn-t-done-anything-yet
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Could the Roanoke Times be next to get real? ----- Nah! No Way!
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Obama: Just More Jive Talkin You Can’t Believe In!
BeeGees:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W42rMjYWlk
Lyrics:
http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/saturdaynightfever/jivetalkin.htmIt's just your jive talkin'you're telling me lies, yeahJive talkin'you wear a disguiseJive talkin'so misunderstood, yeahJive talkin'You really no good
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/10/obama-war-mess-jive-talkin.html
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Tuesday, October 06, 2009
Obama War Mess & Jive Talkin
Roanoke Times, 10/5/09, Pg 1 & 14: Eight US troops die in fierce gun battle.
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In compliance with Obama’s March 09 new war strategy: An infantry platoon (approx. 30 troops) assigned to an Afgan village, were attacked by a larger force of Taliban. In addition to the 8 US troops lost, 40 Afgan police were taken captive by the Taliban. One can only reflect on Daniel Pearl to imagine their fate. Certainly doesn’t instill confidence in one to “join” the Obama war effort!
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Prior item addressing the fallacy of Obama’s plan:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/09/obama-to-generals-dont-ask-dont-tell-me.html
“Another challenge with this approach is that by splitting up our troops into small village groups they are vulnerable to attack by small groups of terrorists that indeed will infiltrate the village people isolate and cutoff our troops and be immune to our artillery and bomb attack and reinforcement. This is a strategy for success? This only has a chance to work after the terrorists are defeated as a coordinated fighting force.”
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/10/obama-muller-in-chief.html
In the meantime, Obama, The Muller-In-Chief, has announced “HE” doesn’t have a war strategy and is searching for one! This just six months after announcing HIS new and improved strategy!
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He also has refused to accept the requirements to execute his strategy by the general he placed in charge of the war! To add insult to injury: Obama likes to compare himself to Lincoln!
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Obama: Just More Jive Talkin You Can’t Believe In!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W42rMjYWlk
http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/saturdaynightfever/jivetalkin.htm
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/09/obama-commander-of-unilateral.html
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In compliance with Obama’s March 09 new war strategy: An infantry platoon (approx. 30 troops) assigned to an Afgan village, were attacked by a larger force of Taliban. In addition to the 8 US troops lost, 40 Afgan police were taken captive by the Taliban. One can only reflect on Daniel Pearl to imagine their fate. Certainly doesn’t instill confidence in one to “join” the Obama war effort!
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Prior item addressing the fallacy of Obama’s plan:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/09/obama-to-generals-dont-ask-dont-tell-me.html
“Another challenge with this approach is that by splitting up our troops into small village groups they are vulnerable to attack by small groups of terrorists that indeed will infiltrate the village people isolate and cutoff our troops and be immune to our artillery and bomb attack and reinforcement. This is a strategy for success? This only has a chance to work after the terrorists are defeated as a coordinated fighting force.”
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/10/obama-muller-in-chief.html
In the meantime, Obama, The Muller-In-Chief, has announced “HE” doesn’t have a war strategy and is searching for one! This just six months after announcing HIS new and improved strategy!
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He also has refused to accept the requirements to execute his strategy by the general he placed in charge of the war! To add insult to injury: Obama likes to compare himself to Lincoln!
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Obama: Just More Jive Talkin You Can’t Believe In!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W42rMjYWlk
http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/saturdaynightfever/jivetalkin.htm
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/09/obama-commander-of-unilateral.html
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Sunday, October 04, 2009
Kaine and VDOT not Shovel-ready
Roanoke Times, 10/3/09, Pg 1 & 14: Virginiaa last in nation at spending stimulus funds.
Roanoke Times, 10/4/09, Pg 1 & 11: Candidates’ disagree on paying for highway costs.
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The editors of the Roanoke Times have spent years and hundreds of square feet of news print lamenting that those bad GOP guys are keeping Virginia from having better roads.
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The first thing Kaine did when taking office was to totally Kaineize VDOT to his liking.
Now it turns out that Kaine’s VDOT can’t even spend available stimulus funds no less increased tax funds from Virginia taxpayers to improve our roads.
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Perhaps if Kaine were focused on the needs of Virginia instead of his primary job as head of the Va Democrat Party, Va wouldn’t be LAST in the nation being shovel-ready!
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Prior items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/more-kaine-green-hypocrisy.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/kaine-steers-va-into-green-something.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/07/roanoke-times-zero-creditability.html
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Roanoke Times, 10/4/09, Pg 1 & 11: Candidates’ disagree on paying for highway costs.
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The editors of the Roanoke Times have spent years and hundreds of square feet of news print lamenting that those bad GOP guys are keeping Virginia from having better roads.
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The first thing Kaine did when taking office was to totally Kaineize VDOT to his liking.
Now it turns out that Kaine’s VDOT can’t even spend available stimulus funds no less increased tax funds from Virginia taxpayers to improve our roads.
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Perhaps if Kaine were focused on the needs of Virginia instead of his primary job as head of the Va Democrat Party, Va wouldn’t be LAST in the nation being shovel-ready!
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Prior items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/more-kaine-green-hypocrisy.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/kaine-steers-va-into-green-something.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/07/roanoke-times-zero-creditability.html
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Obama The Muller-In-Chief
Roanoke Times, 10/3/09, Pg 1, 3: White house considers narrower war effort.
Roanoke Times, 10/4/09, Pg 1, 10: US strategy at a crossroads in Afghanistan as Obama mulls what to do.
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Apparently Obama is trying to vote “present” on his responsibilities as commander-in-chief as our troops fight and die in a war he declared is the “right war”.
In March Obama replaced the army commander in Afghanistan with his choice and declared that Bush had low-balled that war and his (Obama’s) new strategy would fix yet another Bush mess!
Now, six months later, he proclaims to our troops and the world that “we don’t have a strategy in Afghanistan” and he is trying to find one. His key in-putter is none other than Joe Biden. He’s the guy who demanded two years ago, that we break Iraq into three separate countries! Now he wants to fight the Afghanistan war with drone missiles and much fewer troops than Bush deployed!
This Biden brain-storm was publicly shot-down and discredited by Gen. McChrystal, Obama’s general choice, from whom Obama now refuses to accept his input for the requirements to fight Obama’s March-strategy War!
Can you imagine the Democrat and left-wing media rant if this mess were being done by Bush? Instead, the liberal media tells us this mulling-mess is a good thing! Good for who – our enemies?
What if your son were killed in Afghanistan in a war the president says has no strategy and “will not have a defined mission accomplished”; how would you feel then about our new:
CHANGE YOU CAN BELIEVE IN!
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/09/new-obama-presidential-seal.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/09/obama-commander-of-unilateral.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/09/obama-to-generals-dont-ask-dont-tell-me.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/09/9-11-america-at-war-two-days-that-live.html
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Roanoke Times, 10/4/09, Pg 1, 10: US strategy at a crossroads in Afghanistan as Obama mulls what to do.
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Apparently Obama is trying to vote “present” on his responsibilities as commander-in-chief as our troops fight and die in a war he declared is the “right war”.
In March Obama replaced the army commander in Afghanistan with his choice and declared that Bush had low-balled that war and his (Obama’s) new strategy would fix yet another Bush mess!
Now, six months later, he proclaims to our troops and the world that “we don’t have a strategy in Afghanistan” and he is trying to find one. His key in-putter is none other than Joe Biden. He’s the guy who demanded two years ago, that we break Iraq into three separate countries! Now he wants to fight the Afghanistan war with drone missiles and much fewer troops than Bush deployed!
This Biden brain-storm was publicly shot-down and discredited by Gen. McChrystal, Obama’s general choice, from whom Obama now refuses to accept his input for the requirements to fight Obama’s March-strategy War!
Can you imagine the Democrat and left-wing media rant if this mess were being done by Bush? Instead, the liberal media tells us this mulling-mess is a good thing! Good for who – our enemies?
What if your son were killed in Afghanistan in a war the president says has no strategy and “will not have a defined mission accomplished”; how would you feel then about our new:
CHANGE YOU CAN BELIEVE IN!
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/09/new-obama-presidential-seal.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/09/obama-commander-of-unilateral.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/09/obama-to-generals-dont-ask-dont-tell-me.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/09/9-11-america-at-war-two-days-that-live.html
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Friday, September 25, 2009
Obama in the Classroom
There has been considerable discussion about Obama’s address to children in public school classrooms. The project started off badly when it was revealed that the White House had sent lesson plans to DOE to be distributed to all schools as part of Obama’s address.
Included in the lesson plans were activities to write papers on “How I can help Obama succeed”. This revelation caused many folks to conclude the talk was more “Obama Narcissism” and even political indoctrination of very young children.
After much early negative public reaction and White House defensive rhetoric and reaction, Obama delivered what appeared to be a very acceptable talk.
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However we now see that the “Obama in the Classroom” concerns had significant validity.
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A YouTube Video shows little kids allegedly at B. Bernice Young Elementary School in Burlington, N.J., appearing to be taught a song that praises President Obama personally and included lyrics borrowed from 'Jesus Loves the Little Children.'
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/09/24/elementary-school-students-reportedly-taught-songs-praising-president-obama/
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The administrators at the school deny this activity took place and indicate
They will take action against whoever took and distributed the video.
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It’s not clear if this activity was one of the lesson plans the White House
Sent to DOE in preparation for Obama’s talk to American school children.
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Regardless of your political preferences and or ethnic background, it is clearly inappropriate for public school children to be the subject of personalized political indoctrination!
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To view a summary of this incident turn sound ON and click-on:
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http://www.roanokeslant.org:80/HoorayObama/
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Included in the lesson plans were activities to write papers on “How I can help Obama succeed”. This revelation caused many folks to conclude the talk was more “Obama Narcissism” and even political indoctrination of very young children.
After much early negative public reaction and White House defensive rhetoric and reaction, Obama delivered what appeared to be a very acceptable talk.
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However we now see that the “Obama in the Classroom” concerns had significant validity.
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A YouTube Video shows little kids allegedly at B. Bernice Young Elementary School in Burlington, N.J., appearing to be taught a song that praises President Obama personally and included lyrics borrowed from 'Jesus Loves the Little Children.'
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/09/24/elementary-school-students-reportedly-taught-songs-praising-president-obama/
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The administrators at the school deny this activity took place and indicate
They will take action against whoever took and distributed the video.
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It’s not clear if this activity was one of the lesson plans the White House
Sent to DOE in preparation for Obama’s talk to American school children.
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Regardless of your political preferences and or ethnic background, it is clearly inappropriate for public school children to be the subject of personalized political indoctrination!
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To view a summary of this incident turn sound ON and click-on:
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http://www.roanokeslant.org:80/HoorayObama/
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Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Stop The ObamaCare Mess And Start Fresh!
Roanoke Times, 1/23/09, Pg 5: 564 Senate Finance Committee amendments for Baucus ObamaCare Bill.
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The ObamaCare Bill that was mandated to be completed by Congress and sent to Obama before the August recess now is a Baucus Senate DRAFT with 564 amendments!
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Does anyone anywhere not understand that it’s not just the Republicans or the crowds at the town hall meetings or the folks that marched on Washington that have serious objections to the ObamaCare plans. And having Obama flying all over the country and appearing on every talk show telling conflicting stories and lies at every turn is not helping to develop appropriate changes to American Healthcare.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/09/more-obama-lies-and-intimidation.html
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Obama’s first problem is that he has never written down and shared “his documented plan” with anybody and making it up on the run has caused him to totally loose his creditability.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/07/whose-health-plan-is-it-anyway.html
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Obama’s second problem is that cutting medical services from Medicare, adding hundreds of thousands of clients to Medicaid, forcing enrolment of millions of people into ObamaCare under the threat of fines and penalties penalizing those who have health insurance they earned by working a life-time and increasing the overall healthcare costs by $900 BILLION is not an acceptable plan for the American people.
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In addition, the Obama Social Security financial fix, that is not yet visable, is probably going to be even bigger than fixing healthcare with total tax increases that will drive our standard of living back to a third world country level. And on top of that, Obama and associates want to CAP&TAX and retool our energy supply systems by trillions of dollars thereby destroying our ability to grow jobs in this country and compete in the world.
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What part of stop and start fresh doesn’t Obama and his associates understand?
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/09/more-obama-lies-and-intimidation.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/09/why-apologize-for-truth.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/08/democrat-tort-reform-not.html
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The ObamaCare Bill that was mandated to be completed by Congress and sent to Obama before the August recess now is a Baucus Senate DRAFT with 564 amendments!
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Does anyone anywhere not understand that it’s not just the Republicans or the crowds at the town hall meetings or the folks that marched on Washington that have serious objections to the ObamaCare plans. And having Obama flying all over the country and appearing on every talk show telling conflicting stories and lies at every turn is not helping to develop appropriate changes to American Healthcare.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/09/more-obama-lies-and-intimidation.html
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Obama’s first problem is that he has never written down and shared “his documented plan” with anybody and making it up on the run has caused him to totally loose his creditability.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/07/whose-health-plan-is-it-anyway.html
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Obama’s second problem is that cutting medical services from Medicare, adding hundreds of thousands of clients to Medicaid, forcing enrolment of millions of people into ObamaCare under the threat of fines and penalties penalizing those who have health insurance they earned by working a life-time and increasing the overall healthcare costs by $900 BILLION is not an acceptable plan for the American people.
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In addition, the Obama Social Security financial fix, that is not yet visable, is probably going to be even bigger than fixing healthcare with total tax increases that will drive our standard of living back to a third world country level. And on top of that, Obama and associates want to CAP&TAX and retool our energy supply systems by trillions of dollars thereby destroying our ability to grow jobs in this country and compete in the world.
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What part of stop and start fresh doesn’t Obama and his associates understand?
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/09/more-obama-lies-and-intimidation.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/09/why-apologize-for-truth.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/08/democrat-tort-reform-not.html
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009
More Obama Lies and Intimidation
Roanoke Times, 9/22/09, Pg 5: Buried in tiny print back on page 5:
Obama says fine isn’t tax; actual bill says it is!
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President Obama lied yet again when he gave ABC News' George Stephanopoulos a stern talking-to Sunday for suggesting that a mandate to buy health insurance would amount to a tax.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/09/21/health-insurance-mandate-includes-tax-despite-obama-denial/
The truth is that clearly Senator Baucus includes in his Bill a proposed 35% excise tax on non-government health plans and he says so himself.
It also requires citizens to buy a health care policy even if they don’t want to do so. Clearly this is also a tax.
And one of the biggest taxes is the expansion of Medicaid that will result in huge state tax increases to cover a flood of new clients.
Why is Obama having so much difficulty telling the truth and why doesn’t the major media require him to do so?
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/09/why-apologize-for-truth.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/09/more-roanoke-times-political-amnesia.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/obama-abc-and-new-pravda.html
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Roanoke Times, 9/22/09, Pg 3: The Obama administration warned insurance companies Monday they face possible legal action for sending out information about the potential for lost benefits under health care legislation in Congress.
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What a gross act of malfeasance and censorship by our new open and transparent Obama!
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I personally asked Congressman Pierriello at his Rocky Mount town meeting:
Where is the list of Medicare service reductions and eliminations that will result from the $900 Million reduction in the Medicare budget at the very time millions of baby-boomers are entering the system.
His answer: That will not be published until after the law is passed!
What a gross and obscene process and procedure and insult to all Americans!
Talk about un-American health care activities and behavior!
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/08/perriello-defends-pelosi-read-obamacare.html
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/09/government-health-care-john-stossel-abc.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/08/realistic-and-sober-view-of-obama.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/07/whose-health-plan-is-it-anyway.html
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Obama says fine isn’t tax; actual bill says it is!
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President Obama lied yet again when he gave ABC News' George Stephanopoulos a stern talking-to Sunday for suggesting that a mandate to buy health insurance would amount to a tax.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/09/21/health-insurance-mandate-includes-tax-despite-obama-denial/
The truth is that clearly Senator Baucus includes in his Bill a proposed 35% excise tax on non-government health plans and he says so himself.
It also requires citizens to buy a health care policy even if they don’t want to do so. Clearly this is also a tax.
And one of the biggest taxes is the expansion of Medicaid that will result in huge state tax increases to cover a flood of new clients.
Why is Obama having so much difficulty telling the truth and why doesn’t the major media require him to do so?
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/09/why-apologize-for-truth.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/09/more-roanoke-times-political-amnesia.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/obama-abc-and-new-pravda.html
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Roanoke Times, 9/22/09, Pg 3: The Obama administration warned insurance companies Monday they face possible legal action for sending out information about the potential for lost benefits under health care legislation in Congress.
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What a gross act of malfeasance and censorship by our new open and transparent Obama!
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I personally asked Congressman Pierriello at his Rocky Mount town meeting:
Where is the list of Medicare service reductions and eliminations that will result from the $900 Million reduction in the Medicare budget at the very time millions of baby-boomers are entering the system.
His answer: That will not be published until after the law is passed!
What a gross and obscene process and procedure and insult to all Americans!
Talk about un-American health care activities and behavior!
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/08/perriello-defends-pelosi-read-obamacare.html
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/09/government-health-care-john-stossel-abc.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/08/realistic-and-sober-view-of-obama.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/07/whose-health-plan-is-it-anyway.html
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Monday, September 21, 2009
Obama: Commander of Unilateral Disarmament
Roanoke Times, 9/18/09, Pg 1 & 3: Obama canceled missile shield for Eastern Europe
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Apparently Obama is continuing his ignorant and naïve program of unilateral disarmament!
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/06/obama-commander-of-unilateral.html
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Perhaps the chatty Yale Professor should consult his dictionary:
Negotiation: cooperation, compromise, concession, conciliation, finding the middle ground, give and take!
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Apparently none of this “negotiation” occurred. What did the Russians concede?
They're supplying Iran with a nuclear power plant and anti-aircraft missiles. They also are supplying Chavez in Venezuela with anti-aircraft missiles. These are concessions?
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Our East European friends who we freed from 50 years of Russian slavery are now under threat of the Red Tide again. Osama’s total lack of response to the Russian invasion and occupation of Georgia certainly set the stage for this totally one-sided capitulation.
So much for Obama's much ballyhooed “smart diplomacy”!
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Roanoke Times, 9/19/09, Pg 3: Obama revamps missile defense plans. The new missile defense plan is SM-3 missiles on Aegis destroyers.
The operational range of the missiles are 310 miles. Has Obama looked at a map of the Middle East and Europe?
How much of these land masses and borders are protected by a hand-full of ships with a 300 mile missile range? Obama --- click on Google-Maps and start drawing 300 mile radius circles.
Clearly Obama is back to insulting not only our intelligence but also that of all our allies!
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While you’re at it Obama – look at a map of the United States and draw the same 300 mile radius circles from where our ships could be. Who and what is protected and how many ships will be required?
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Oh excuse me! That’s right! Not to worry! Obama has declared we’re not at war anymore and the prior Muslim-extremist-terrorists are no longer a threat because Obama has apologized to them and explained the new world order to them.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/05/audacity-of-appeasement.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/04/audacity-of-groveling.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/obama-ich-bin-ein-muslim.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/inconvenient-terrorist-attack.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/07/terrorists-are-still-waging-war.html
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MORE HOPE & CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN!
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Apparently Obama is continuing his ignorant and naïve program of unilateral disarmament!
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/06/obama-commander-of-unilateral.html
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Perhaps the chatty Yale Professor should consult his dictionary:
Negotiation: cooperation, compromise, concession, conciliation, finding the middle ground, give and take!
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Apparently none of this “negotiation” occurred. What did the Russians concede?
They're supplying Iran with a nuclear power plant and anti-aircraft missiles. They also are supplying Chavez in Venezuela with anti-aircraft missiles. These are concessions?
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Our East European friends who we freed from 50 years of Russian slavery are now under threat of the Red Tide again. Osama’s total lack of response to the Russian invasion and occupation of Georgia certainly set the stage for this totally one-sided capitulation.
So much for Obama's much ballyhooed “smart diplomacy”!
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Roanoke Times, 9/19/09, Pg 3: Obama revamps missile defense plans. The new missile defense plan is SM-3 missiles on Aegis destroyers.
The operational range of the missiles are 310 miles. Has Obama looked at a map of the Middle East and Europe?
How much of these land masses and borders are protected by a hand-full of ships with a 300 mile missile range? Obama --- click on Google-Maps and start drawing 300 mile radius circles.
Clearly Obama is back to insulting not only our intelligence but also that of all our allies!
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While you’re at it Obama – look at a map of the United States and draw the same 300 mile radius circles from where our ships could be. Who and what is protected and how many ships will be required?
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Oh excuse me! That’s right! Not to worry! Obama has declared we’re not at war anymore and the prior Muslim-extremist-terrorists are no longer a threat because Obama has apologized to them and explained the new world order to them.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/05/audacity-of-appeasement.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/04/audacity-of-groveling.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/obama-ich-bin-ein-muslim.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/inconvenient-terrorist-attack.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/07/terrorists-are-still-waging-war.html
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MORE HOPE & CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN!
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Obama to Generals: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Me The Truth, I’m Not Ready
Roanoke Times, 9/19/09, Pg 6: Delays (by Obama) in deciding future troop strength are hampering operational planning, officials say.
General McChrystal, the top US commander in Afghanistan, told NOT to submit request for additional troops because “the administration isn’t ready for it”!
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090921/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_us_afghanistan
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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/09/21/mcchrystal-failure-forces-afghanistan/
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Our Commander-in-Chief of unilateral disarmament
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/06/obama-commander-of-unilateral.html
has instructed the military NOT to send him the requirements to execute HIS strategy for the Afghanistan War! Obama has stated that this is a war of necessity and that HIS strategy is to place troops in each village as friends of the people. Kind of like being “community organizers” in Chicago.
The troops have been told not to disturb the poppy fields because it upsets the farmers.
The troops have been told not to fire on enemy if they are located close to people in civilian clothes. The enemy is in civilian clothes!
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Another challenge with this approach is that by splitting up our troops into small village groups they are vulnerable to attack by small groups of terrorists that indeed will infiltrate the village people isolate and cutoff our troops and be immune to our artillery and bomb attack and reinforcement. This is a strategy for success? This only has a chance to work after the terrorists are defeated as a coordinated fighting force.
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There are 850 cities, towns and villages in Afghanistan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Cities,_towns_and_villages_in_Afghanistan
Given that an infantry company of 150 men each is the smallest independent operational unit deployed, a minimum of 125,000 dispersed troops would be deployed in the “hoods”. That would require at least twice that number for support, logistics and convoy protection for a total of 375,000 troops.
There are now 60,000 US troops in Afghanistan a far stretch from 375,000.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,552708,00.html
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And where are the coalition of NATO troops that were committed to “combat roles” in Afghanistan?
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/05/nato-responsible-for-afghanistan.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/04/obamas-afghanistan-war.html
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And where is the left-wing and Democrat hue and cry for measured checkpoints and a defined exit strategy? Apparently that only applied to George Bush!
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/07/wheres-exit-strategy-and-checkpoints.html
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MORE HOPE AND CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN!
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General McChrystal, the top US commander in Afghanistan, told NOT to submit request for additional troops because “the administration isn’t ready for it”!
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090921/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_us_afghanistan
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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/09/21/mcchrystal-failure-forces-afghanistan/
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Our Commander-in-Chief of unilateral disarmament
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/06/obama-commander-of-unilateral.html
has instructed the military NOT to send him the requirements to execute HIS strategy for the Afghanistan War! Obama has stated that this is a war of necessity and that HIS strategy is to place troops in each village as friends of the people. Kind of like being “community organizers” in Chicago.
The troops have been told not to disturb the poppy fields because it upsets the farmers.
The troops have been told not to fire on enemy if they are located close to people in civilian clothes. The enemy is in civilian clothes!
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Another challenge with this approach is that by splitting up our troops into small village groups they are vulnerable to attack by small groups of terrorists that indeed will infiltrate the village people isolate and cutoff our troops and be immune to our artillery and bomb attack and reinforcement. This is a strategy for success? This only has a chance to work after the terrorists are defeated as a coordinated fighting force.
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There are 850 cities, towns and villages in Afghanistan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Cities,_towns_and_villages_in_Afghanistan
Given that an infantry company of 150 men each is the smallest independent operational unit deployed, a minimum of 125,000 dispersed troops would be deployed in the “hoods”. That would require at least twice that number for support, logistics and convoy protection for a total of 375,000 troops.
There are now 60,000 US troops in Afghanistan a far stretch from 375,000.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,552708,00.html
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And where are the coalition of NATO troops that were committed to “combat roles” in Afghanistan?
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/05/nato-responsible-for-afghanistan.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/04/obamas-afghanistan-war.html
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And where is the left-wing and Democrat hue and cry for measured checkpoints and a defined exit strategy? Apparently that only applied to George Bush!
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/07/wheres-exit-strategy-and-checkpoints.html
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MORE HOPE AND CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN!
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Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Oppose Obama and You’re Racist
Roanoke Times, 9/16/09, Pg 5: Rep. Joe Wilson made the House look bad, Democrats say.
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Maureen Dowd labeled Joe Wilson a racist for his outburst stating Obama lied about illegal immigrants taking advantage of Omaba care.
She even managed to throw-in her imagined “Boy” word just in case folks weren’t fired up enough to meet her satisfaction!
(Actually Obama did lie and now the Democrats have been forced to specifically address this issue!) “Sen. Kent Conrad (D-N.D.), the chairman of the Budget Committee and another negotiator, also said that illegal immigrants had been a focus of the senators' discussions. He said the group worked on "further refinements on how we make certain that no one who is here illegally would benefit from these additions."”
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/09/why-apologize-for-truth.html
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Not to be left out of the mud-slinging, Jimmy Malaise Carter jumped in and confirmed that Joe Wilson and all others opposing Obama are in fact racists.
Since polling shows that at least half of Americans oppose Obama policies, which means according to Dowd and Carter, there’s at least 150 million racists roaming around.
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Just in case we still don’t get it – Rep. Hank Johnson, D-Ga went on national TV to advise us to be very afraid -- the KKK is coming back because white folks oppose Obama!
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/09/15/congressman-people-don-white-hoods-wilson-rebuked/
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In the middle of all this racial intimidation, a big nasty man attacked a young frail white girl on the MTV stage, but apparently Kanye West attacking Taylor Swift was not racial – not even criminal. Don’t they have security for these things and hasn’t the local DA heard of the crime of Battery? Was this girl not terrorized? Who cares - she’s white!
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Prior Like Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/09/yet-another-nasty-obama-friend.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/nation-of-white-cowards.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/07/life-is-all-about-choices.html
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Maureen Dowd labeled Joe Wilson a racist for his outburst stating Obama lied about illegal immigrants taking advantage of Omaba care.
She even managed to throw-in her imagined “Boy” word just in case folks weren’t fired up enough to meet her satisfaction!
(Actually Obama did lie and now the Democrats have been forced to specifically address this issue!) “Sen. Kent Conrad (D-N.D.), the chairman of the Budget Committee and another negotiator, also said that illegal immigrants had been a focus of the senators' discussions. He said the group worked on "further refinements on how we make certain that no one who is here illegally would benefit from these additions."”
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/09/why-apologize-for-truth.html
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Not to be left out of the mud-slinging, Jimmy Malaise Carter jumped in and confirmed that Joe Wilson and all others opposing Obama are in fact racists.
Since polling shows that at least half of Americans oppose Obama policies, which means according to Dowd and Carter, there’s at least 150 million racists roaming around.
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Just in case we still don’t get it – Rep. Hank Johnson, D-Ga went on national TV to advise us to be very afraid -- the KKK is coming back because white folks oppose Obama!
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/09/15/congressman-people-don-white-hoods-wilson-rebuked/
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In the middle of all this racial intimidation, a big nasty man attacked a young frail white girl on the MTV stage, but apparently Kanye West attacking Taylor Swift was not racial – not even criminal. Don’t they have security for these things and hasn’t the local DA heard of the crime of Battery? Was this girl not terrorized? Who cares - she’s white!
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Prior Like Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/09/yet-another-nasty-obama-friend.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/nation-of-white-cowards.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/07/life-is-all-about-choices.html
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Sunday, September 13, 2009
Get Roanoke Times For Latest Political Slant and Bias
Roanoke Times, 9/13/09, Pg Horiz 1 & 4: Will deep pockets always win?
Pg 2: Editorial: Opening the floodgate for corporate cash.
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The deep pockets certainly worked for Obama against McCain didn’t they!
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Extensive lamenting about how the American way of life will be destroyed if the Supreme Court rules that corporations can fund candidate based ads during national elections. The specific case is the pro-Obama movie “Hillary” that was intended to ensure Obama would win the Democrat nomination.
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As yes, those awful and dangerous corporations. You know, the ones who create real jobs, create real wealth, pay real taxes and must compete in the real wide-wide-world without printing money or placing the American taxpayers in trillions of dollars of debt.
Surely they would favor conservative views at the expense of socialist views and therein lays the rub! Of course there was an impressive army of pro-Obama executives that showed-up during the last election, so apparently all executives are not Republican.
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Not mentioned is the massive amount of money and in-kind contributions supporting left-wing and Democrat candidates by: unions, George Soros, Hollywood moguls, movie makers like Moore, and the massive overwhelming support by the major media including print and television whose one-sided coverage of “news” is worth hundreds of millions of dollars to liberal candidates.
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Also not mentioned is the quid-pro-quo of the Obama-Pelosi-Reid team relative to the unions and Acorn and George Soros’ Brazilian oil investments that were just super-enhanced by the Obama-Pelosi-Reid subsidies for Brazilian off-shore oil drilling. Somehow none of this was mentioned in this article. Just those big bad Republicans and Corporations!
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Some Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/09/more-roanoke-times-political-amnesia.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/obama-abc-and-new-pravda.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/08/uaw-for-clunkers-program.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/10/whining-that-theres-second-view.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/10/yet-more-gross-bias-and-slant.html
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Pg 2: Editorial: Opening the floodgate for corporate cash.
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The deep pockets certainly worked for Obama against McCain didn’t they!
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Extensive lamenting about how the American way of life will be destroyed if the Supreme Court rules that corporations can fund candidate based ads during national elections. The specific case is the pro-Obama movie “Hillary” that was intended to ensure Obama would win the Democrat nomination.
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As yes, those awful and dangerous corporations. You know, the ones who create real jobs, create real wealth, pay real taxes and must compete in the real wide-wide-world without printing money or placing the American taxpayers in trillions of dollars of debt.
Surely they would favor conservative views at the expense of socialist views and therein lays the rub! Of course there was an impressive army of pro-Obama executives that showed-up during the last election, so apparently all executives are not Republican.
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Not mentioned is the massive amount of money and in-kind contributions supporting left-wing and Democrat candidates by: unions, George Soros, Hollywood moguls, movie makers like Moore, and the massive overwhelming support by the major media including print and television whose one-sided coverage of “news” is worth hundreds of millions of dollars to liberal candidates.
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Also not mentioned is the quid-pro-quo of the Obama-Pelosi-Reid team relative to the unions and Acorn and George Soros’ Brazilian oil investments that were just super-enhanced by the Obama-Pelosi-Reid subsidies for Brazilian off-shore oil drilling. Somehow none of this was mentioned in this article. Just those big bad Republicans and Corporations!
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Some Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/09/more-roanoke-times-political-amnesia.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/obama-abc-and-new-pravda.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/08/uaw-for-clunkers-program.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/10/whining-that-theres-second-view.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/10/yet-more-gross-bias-and-slant.html
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Saturday, September 12, 2009
More Roanoke Times Political Amnesia & Hypocrisy
Roanoke Times, 9/12/09, Pg 7: Civil discourse vanishing from politics
Picture of Congressional Republicans holding up the Pelosi-ObamaCare Bill during Obama’s speech to Congress.
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Yet more liberal lamenting about the really bad Republican and Conservative behavior relative to Obama’s socialistic programs.
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Let’s look at the Democrat bad behavior during Bush’s 2005 State of the Union in which Democrats booed when Bush simply outlined the dire state of under-funding of the Social Security System and its future issues:
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http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2009/09/10/flashback_democrats_boo_bush_at_2005_state_of_the_union.html
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This article is just another clear example of Roanoke Times hypocrisy!
Click for some prior examples, it’s not an accident, it’s a character flaw!
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/09/why-apologize-for-truth.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/09/tale-of-two-theses.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/11/roanoke-times-awash-in-hypocrisy.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/12/yet-more-hypocrisy.html
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Picture of Congressional Republicans holding up the Pelosi-ObamaCare Bill during Obama’s speech to Congress.
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Yet more liberal lamenting about the really bad Republican and Conservative behavior relative to Obama’s socialistic programs.
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Let’s look at the Democrat bad behavior during Bush’s 2005 State of the Union in which Democrats booed when Bush simply outlined the dire state of under-funding of the Social Security System and its future issues:
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http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2009/09/10/flashback_democrats_boo_bush_at_2005_state_of_the_union.html
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This article is just another clear example of Roanoke Times hypocrisy!
Click for some prior examples, it’s not an accident, it’s a character flaw!
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/09/why-apologize-for-truth.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/09/tale-of-two-theses.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/11/roanoke-times-awash-in-hypocrisy.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/12/yet-more-hypocrisy.html
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Friday, September 11, 2009
Why Apologize for the Truth?
Roanoke Times, 9/11/09, Pg 5: Apology doesn’t end flap over outburst
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The outburst was the result of Obama lying about illegal immigrants getting access to ObamaCare (whatever that is – Obama has not submitted a plan or Bill defining whatever it is he supports today – apparently his plan is whatever he just said to somebody somewhere)!
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The truth is that Republicans have twice entered amendments to the House Bill specifically stating that illegals will not be eligible for the program.
Both amendments were rejected by the Pelosites.
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The Bill as it stands contains no requirement to demonstrate that one is a legal resident of the US and also does not require a US resident ID to apply.
Therefore, clearly there will be lots of illegals entering ObamaCare and therefore clearly Obama was lying when he stated this was not the case!
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The apology should be coming from Obama who in last Saturday’s radio address called those who disagree with him – liars (didn’t find that in the Roanoke Times!).
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/09/government-health-care-john-stossel-abc.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/08/democrat-tort-reform-not.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/08/perriello-defends-pelosi-read-obamacare.html
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The outburst was the result of Obama lying about illegal immigrants getting access to ObamaCare (whatever that is – Obama has not submitted a plan or Bill defining whatever it is he supports today – apparently his plan is whatever he just said to somebody somewhere)!
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The truth is that Republicans have twice entered amendments to the House Bill specifically stating that illegals will not be eligible for the program.
Both amendments were rejected by the Pelosites.
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The Bill as it stands contains no requirement to demonstrate that one is a legal resident of the US and also does not require a US resident ID to apply.
Therefore, clearly there will be lots of illegals entering ObamaCare and therefore clearly Obama was lying when he stated this was not the case!
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The apology should be coming from Obama who in last Saturday’s radio address called those who disagree with him – liars (didn’t find that in the Roanoke Times!).
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/09/government-health-care-john-stossel-abc.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/08/democrat-tort-reform-not.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/08/perriello-defends-pelosi-read-obamacare.html
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9-11 America At War - Two Days That Live in Infamy
Wednesday, September 09, 2009
New Obama Presidential Seal
Click to view the New Obama Presidential Seal
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/ObamaSeal.jpg
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The new seal is consistent with the Obama Campaign Plane
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/ObamaPlane.jpg
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Just more hope and change we can believe in!
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/ObamaSeal.jpg
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The new seal is consistent with the Obama Campaign Plane
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/ObamaPlane.jpg
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Just more hope and change we can believe in!
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Government Health Care John Stossel ABC 20-20
Click for an interesting view of Government Health Care
By John Stossel ABC 20-20
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9GMKK_fWKg
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/08/democrat-tort-reform-not.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/08/roanoke-times-peddling-social.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/08/perriello-defends-pelosi-read-obamacare.html
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By John Stossel ABC 20-20
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9GMKK_fWKg
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/08/democrat-tort-reform-not.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/08/roanoke-times-peddling-social.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/08/perriello-defends-pelosi-read-obamacare.html
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Monday, September 07, 2009
Yet Another Nasty Obama Friend
Roanoke Times, 9/6/09, Pg 10: Obama’s approval rating drops among whites.
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What a gross racist headline in a paper that portends to be so PC and immediately jumps upon others who would write that headline.
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But that’s not the key part. Buried in fine print is a small almost transparent paragraph that says those mean conservative talk shows are reporting on Van Jones, Obama’s Green Jobs Czar, his past negative activities and his recent nasty public statements.
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What are some of the issues with Obama’s Nasty Friends:
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Rev Wright and his church of the God Damn America culture.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/03/obamas-rev-wright-very-wrong.html
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Bill Ayres and his police killing connections with the WeatherUnderground.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/09/obama-ayres-team-teaching.html
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Yale Prof Gates and his gross racist behavior when asked for his ID.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/07/another-nasty-obama-friend.html
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And now Van Jones – The Green-jobs Czar – and his nasty behavior.
http://www.youtube.com:80/watch?v=yt66eWnjoTo
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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/elections/2009/09/06/obama-green-jobs-adviser-van-jones-resigns-amid-controversy/
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Good News -- Van Jones resigned as Obama’s Green-Jobs Czar today! The question remaining is how did this totally unqualified nasty person get appointed to this job in the first place considering all the people in this country with experience and a proven track-record in green-energy management and development?
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And more importantly, what's with these czars? Our constitution is based on constitutional-officers, cabinet officers, who are vetted by the Senate to be in-charge of our departments of government and held accountable for their actions.
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Who are the czars? How do they relate to our form of government? Who are they accountable to? Whose budget is paying for them? A good example of how far a-field Obama has gone is Hillery. Everywhere she goes, everything she tries to do is already being done by a "czar" Is she the Secy of State or not? And who is personally responsible for foreign policy and action today?
If she has any common sense she'll resign before she gets hammered for adverse things she has had no control over but Obama will surely lay the blame at her feet.
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All this is great fodder for the paranoia of serious doubters and with two dozen czars, doing whatever they want to do; one might start wondering if it's really paranoia! It just keeps going! A union insider who has never run a manufacturing facility was just appointed Manufacturing-Czar today! More election pay-back for the union votes for Obama!
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/08/uaw-for-clunkers-program.html
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The bottom line is our "Populist President" performs and acts and behaves an awful lot like Evita Peron, and he has just gotten started!
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Prior Items
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/07/another-nasty-obama-friend.html
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What a gross racist headline in a paper that portends to be so PC and immediately jumps upon others who would write that headline.
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But that’s not the key part. Buried in fine print is a small almost transparent paragraph that says those mean conservative talk shows are reporting on Van Jones, Obama’s Green Jobs Czar, his past negative activities and his recent nasty public statements.
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What are some of the issues with Obama’s Nasty Friends:
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Rev Wright and his church of the God Damn America culture.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/03/obamas-rev-wright-very-wrong.html
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Bill Ayres and his police killing connections with the WeatherUnderground.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/09/obama-ayres-team-teaching.html
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Yale Prof Gates and his gross racist behavior when asked for his ID.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/07/another-nasty-obama-friend.html
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And now Van Jones – The Green-jobs Czar – and his nasty behavior.
http://www.youtube.com:80/watch?v=yt66eWnjoTo
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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/elections/2009/09/06/obama-green-jobs-adviser-van-jones-resigns-amid-controversy/
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Good News -- Van Jones resigned as Obama’s Green-Jobs Czar today! The question remaining is how did this totally unqualified nasty person get appointed to this job in the first place considering all the people in this country with experience and a proven track-record in green-energy management and development?
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And more importantly, what's with these czars? Our constitution is based on constitutional-officers, cabinet officers, who are vetted by the Senate to be in-charge of our departments of government and held accountable for their actions.
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Who are the czars? How do they relate to our form of government? Who are they accountable to? Whose budget is paying for them? A good example of how far a-field Obama has gone is Hillery. Everywhere she goes, everything she tries to do is already being done by a "czar" Is she the Secy of State or not? And who is personally responsible for foreign policy and action today?
If she has any common sense she'll resign before she gets hammered for adverse things she has had no control over but Obama will surely lay the blame at her feet.
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All this is great fodder for the paranoia of serious doubters and with two dozen czars, doing whatever they want to do; one might start wondering if it's really paranoia! It just keeps going! A union insider who has never run a manufacturing facility was just appointed Manufacturing-Czar today! More election pay-back for the union votes for Obama!
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/08/uaw-for-clunkers-program.html
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The bottom line is our "Populist President" performs and acts and behaves an awful lot like Evita Peron, and he has just gotten started!
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Prior Items
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/07/another-nasty-obama-friend.html
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Tuesday, September 01, 2009
A Tale of Two Theses
Roanoke Times, 9/1/09, Pg 1 & 6: McDonnell defends writings from past.
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What a difference a year makes!
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A year ago the graduate thesis written by Michelle Obama was removed from the files at Princeton and hidden until after the election. The Democrat-Obama-Media story was that it was “just a thesis” written long ago by a student and didn’t reflect any real or permanent views and if made available, would just be used for negative purposes! The folks at Princeton who hid the thesis were so gracious and thoughtful but so displaced from the full and open disclosure and exchange of ideas consistent with Universities and the liberal media who somehow lacked the heart to obtain this document.
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Fast forward to this year. The Democrat party, Democrat governor Kaine and the liberal media have a whole new view of a graduate thesis when it’s Bob McDonnell’s. Let’s do a literature 101 analysis of what he meant, what he thought and most of all what horrible negative and dark flaws are harbored in his mind today. Oooooh be afraid Virginians!
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This Democrat-Media hypocrisy would be funny if not so serious a distortion of the electoral process and media responsibility.
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It’s indeed ironic that the Democrat’s and their media associates find it necessary to join the bottom-feeders in the swamp of personal attacks instead of focusing on the accomplishments, platforms and policy of their opponents.
These are the acts of desperate political hacks that will do anything to continue to stay in power.
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1974896/posts
The thesis, titled "Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community" and written under her maiden name, Michelle LaVaughn Robinson, in 1985, has been the subject of much conjecture on the blogosphere and elsewhere in recent weeks, as it has been "temporarily withdrawn" from Princeton's library until after this year's presidential election in November.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/31/AR2009083103855.html
Governor's Race Erupts Over McDonnell's Past Views
Washington Post, Tuesday, September 1, 2009
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/08/yet-another-big-free-roanoke-times.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/obama-abc-and-new-pravda.html
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What a difference a year makes!
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A year ago the graduate thesis written by Michelle Obama was removed from the files at Princeton and hidden until after the election. The Democrat-Obama-Media story was that it was “just a thesis” written long ago by a student and didn’t reflect any real or permanent views and if made available, would just be used for negative purposes! The folks at Princeton who hid the thesis were so gracious and thoughtful but so displaced from the full and open disclosure and exchange of ideas consistent with Universities and the liberal media who somehow lacked the heart to obtain this document.
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Fast forward to this year. The Democrat party, Democrat governor Kaine and the liberal media have a whole new view of a graduate thesis when it’s Bob McDonnell’s. Let’s do a literature 101 analysis of what he meant, what he thought and most of all what horrible negative and dark flaws are harbored in his mind today. Oooooh be afraid Virginians!
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This Democrat-Media hypocrisy would be funny if not so serious a distortion of the electoral process and media responsibility.
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It’s indeed ironic that the Democrat’s and their media associates find it necessary to join the bottom-feeders in the swamp of personal attacks instead of focusing on the accomplishments, platforms and policy of their opponents.
These are the acts of desperate political hacks that will do anything to continue to stay in power.
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1974896/posts
The thesis, titled "Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community" and written under her maiden name, Michelle LaVaughn Robinson, in 1985, has been the subject of much conjecture on the blogosphere and elsewhere in recent weeks, as it has been "temporarily withdrawn" from Princeton's library until after this year's presidential election in November.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/31/AR2009083103855.html
Governor's Race Erupts Over McDonnell's Past Views
Washington Post, Tuesday, September 1, 2009
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/08/yet-another-big-free-roanoke-times.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/obama-abc-and-new-pravda.html
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Monday, August 31, 2009
Yet Another Big Free Roanoke Times Democrat Ad
Roanoke Times, 9/1/09, Pg 15, free political ad:
Think local, vote for Democrats
Half-inch high title and nine by eight inch article with heartwarming accolades about Creigh Deeds including a most flattering picture and lots of negatives for those really bad GOP guys.
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What does a political ad like this cost? And does this donation by the Roanoke Time to the Deeds for Governor Committee have to be claimed as a campaign contribution and if not, why not?
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/07/political-ads-replace-news.html
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We can hardly wait for the Editorial Staff of the RT to tell us that they’re not endorsing anyone for Governor because they want to be fair and balanced!
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/08/editors-of-roanoke-times-hostile-at.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/07/roanoke-times-zero-creditability.html
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Think local, vote for Democrats
Half-inch high title and nine by eight inch article with heartwarming accolades about Creigh Deeds including a most flattering picture and lots of negatives for those really bad GOP guys.
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What does a political ad like this cost? And does this donation by the Roanoke Time to the Deeds for Governor Committee have to be claimed as a campaign contribution and if not, why not?
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/07/political-ads-replace-news.html
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We can hardly wait for the Editorial Staff of the RT to tell us that they’re not endorsing anyone for Governor because they want to be fair and balanced!
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/08/editors-of-roanoke-times-hostile-at.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/07/roanoke-times-zero-creditability.html
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Friday, August 28, 2009
Democrat Tort Reform NOT
Amazing straight-talk from Howard Dean prior Chairman of the DNC:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMdBcSdmE4c
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/08/perriello-defends-pelosi-read-obamacare.html
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMdBcSdmE4c
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/08/perriello-defends-pelosi-read-obamacare.html
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Obama Mourns Teddy
Obama, vacationing at Martha's Vineyard off the Massachusetts coast, said Wednesday that the nation lost a "singular figure in American history" with the death of Sen. Ted Kennedy, but that his "extraordinary" accomplishments will live on.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/elections/2009/08/26/obama-reacts-death-sen-ted-kennedy/
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One of their (Obama, Kennedy, Pelosi-Reid) extraordinary accomplishments is highlighted on page 1 of the 8/26/09 Roanoke Times: The deficit is now targeted to be larger than the SUM OF ALL PREVIOUS DEFICITS SINCE 1776. This is the imposition of tax-slavery for our children and grandchildren.
What an accomplishment! This truly qualifies as “socialist mission accomplished”.
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Some might say that the legacy of Kennedy is: lying and cheating his way through Harvard, felony manslaughter at Chappaquiddick, binge drinking and womanizing his entire life, and pursuing an insatiable desire to convert America into a socialist state.
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Since the Obama’s are already at Martha’s Vineyard, it would be fitting and proper for this solemn occasion to drive over to Chappaquiddick and place a wreath on the bridge in memory of Mary Jo Kopechne who paid an awful price to be a “Kennedy boiler room girl”.
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When the final words are written about Teddy it may be that you can’t get someone into heaven by writing a good obituary or by delivering a moving eulogy.
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A realistic view of current events can easily be summed up by:
Taxes and debt are like anchors nailing our people and our ship of state to the bottom where socialism and stagnation hold us securely to mediocrity.
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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/elections/2009/08/26/obama-reacts-death-sen-ted-kennedy/
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One of their (Obama, Kennedy, Pelosi-Reid) extraordinary accomplishments is highlighted on page 1 of the 8/26/09 Roanoke Times: The deficit is now targeted to be larger than the SUM OF ALL PREVIOUS DEFICITS SINCE 1776. This is the imposition of tax-slavery for our children and grandchildren.
What an accomplishment! This truly qualifies as “socialist mission accomplished”.
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Some might say that the legacy of Kennedy is: lying and cheating his way through Harvard, felony manslaughter at Chappaquiddick, binge drinking and womanizing his entire life, and pursuing an insatiable desire to convert America into a socialist state.
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Since the Obama’s are already at Martha’s Vineyard, it would be fitting and proper for this solemn occasion to drive over to Chappaquiddick and place a wreath on the bridge in memory of Mary Jo Kopechne who paid an awful price to be a “Kennedy boiler room girl”.
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When the final words are written about Teddy it may be that you can’t get someone into heaven by writing a good obituary or by delivering a moving eulogy.
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A realistic view of current events can easily be summed up by:
Taxes and debt are like anchors nailing our people and our ship of state to the bottom where socialism and stagnation hold us securely to mediocrity.
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Monday, August 24, 2009
Roanoke Times Peddling Social Insecurity Claptrap
Roanoke Times, 8/24/09, Pg 1 & 14: Headlines: Social Security benefits won’t rise; “Recipients could end up with smaller check next year if Medicare drug premiums increase.
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Ah yes! Those dreaded huge drug premium increases!
But diligent readers found that buried on the back page, page 14, in very fine print the projected increase is $2 per month!
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Who writes these gross and misleading headlines of mis&disinformation? Do the editors of the Roanoke Times not know that Obama has czars scouring the country trying to put down purveyors of such misdirection about health care? In compliance with government direction, I have forwarded the RT web site to the white house “fishey data base” for action by Osama’s thought-police.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/08/05/white-house-draws-requesting-fishy-information-supporters-health-reform/
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The Medicare drug program is called Part-D, it is a very successful and helpful program, and was a George Bush initiative that he made happen in spite of Democrat and liberal press naysayers and obstructionists.It fits that the editors of the Roanoke Times would disparage this program based on the public reaction to the Pelosi, Reid, Obamacare mess.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/07/george-bush-healthcare-medicare-part-d.html
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The simple solution to fixing this senior budgeting problem is to stop getting the Roanoke Times! At $0.75 per day and $1.75 for Sunday, folks could save $26.50 per month which almost covers the entire monthly Part-D premium of $28.
Why wasn't this solution included in the article?
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/07/roanoke-times-zero-creditability.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/08/perriello-defends-pelosi-read-obamacare.html
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Ah yes! Those dreaded huge drug premium increases!
But diligent readers found that buried on the back page, page 14, in very fine print the projected increase is $2 per month!
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Who writes these gross and misleading headlines of mis&disinformation? Do the editors of the Roanoke Times not know that Obama has czars scouring the country trying to put down purveyors of such misdirection about health care? In compliance with government direction, I have forwarded the RT web site to the white house “fishey data base” for action by Osama’s thought-police.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/08/05/white-house-draws-requesting-fishy-information-supporters-health-reform/
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The Medicare drug program is called Part-D, it is a very successful and helpful program, and was a George Bush initiative that he made happen in spite of Democrat and liberal press naysayers and obstructionists.It fits that the editors of the Roanoke Times would disparage this program based on the public reaction to the Pelosi, Reid, Obamacare mess.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/07/george-bush-healthcare-medicare-part-d.html
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The simple solution to fixing this senior budgeting problem is to stop getting the Roanoke Times! At $0.75 per day and $1.75 for Sunday, folks could save $26.50 per month which almost covers the entire monthly Part-D premium of $28.
Why wasn't this solution included in the article?
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/07/roanoke-times-zero-creditability.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/08/perriello-defends-pelosi-read-obamacare.html
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Friday, August 21, 2009
Turn Them Loose Justice for Terrorists
There is a major uproar over Scotland releasing the Libyan responsible for the Pan Am 103 bombing that killed 270 people. The Scottish government is touting their “compassion” for a dying man as their motivation.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/08/20/lockerbie.bomber.reaction/index.html
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Perhaps calls for a boycott of Scottish travel and goods should be tempered by the actions of Obama and the liberal American judges who have “quietly” turned loose 28 of the GITMO prisoners.
U.S. District Judge Ellen S. Huvelle recently admonished the government that Mohammed Jawad was very young! Apparently the judge didn’t mention in her decision that the US soldier and the two Iraqi interpreters that were killed by Jawad’s hand-grenade were also “young” and were forever denied life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/30/AR2009073000155.html
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The Scotland action and Judge Huvelle’s actions form a very convenient cover for Obama’s position to shutdown GITMO and send everyone home. After all, the war on terror is over (it was just a Bush thing anyway!) and we have been so nasty to all those folks who were killing our people.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/01/movinonup-from-gitmo-to-san-quentin.html
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It’s interesting that the terrorists don’t have any problems with prisoners they take. For example their handling of newsman Daniel Pearl certainly was swift and free of complicated legal maneuvers. Daniel was also “young”.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/03/gitmo-bad-guy.html
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/07/terrorists-are-still-waging-war.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/inconvenient-terrorist-attack.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/05/audacity-of-moral-reprimanding.html
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http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/08/20/lockerbie.bomber.reaction/index.html
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Perhaps calls for a boycott of Scottish travel and goods should be tempered by the actions of Obama and the liberal American judges who have “quietly” turned loose 28 of the GITMO prisoners.
U.S. District Judge Ellen S. Huvelle recently admonished the government that Mohammed Jawad was very young! Apparently the judge didn’t mention in her decision that the US soldier and the two Iraqi interpreters that were killed by Jawad’s hand-grenade were also “young” and were forever denied life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/30/AR2009073000155.html
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The Scotland action and Judge Huvelle’s actions form a very convenient cover for Obama’s position to shutdown GITMO and send everyone home. After all, the war on terror is over (it was just a Bush thing anyway!) and we have been so nasty to all those folks who were killing our people.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/01/movinonup-from-gitmo-to-san-quentin.html
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It’s interesting that the terrorists don’t have any problems with prisoners they take. For example their handling of newsman Daniel Pearl certainly was swift and free of complicated legal maneuvers. Daniel was also “young”.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/03/gitmo-bad-guy.html
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/07/terrorists-are-still-waging-war.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/inconvenient-terrorist-attack.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/05/audacity-of-moral-reprimanding.html
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Thursday, August 13, 2009
Perriello Defends Pelosi, Read, Obamacare
Comments in response to 8/12/09 SML Eagle Commentary by Democrat Congressman Tom Perriello: The Health care proposal addresses senior’s concerns
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As a senior I wish to state that “The Proposals” whatever they are at this point in time, apparently there’s at least four of them, do not satisfy my senior concerns.
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First: There is the $500 BILLION (that’s half a trillion dollars) of proposed and undefined Medicare cuts in services at a time when the baby-boom generation will become eligible.
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Second: There is the Presidents direct statement at a recorded public meeting to a lady that her mother should have a pain pill instead of a heart defibrillator because senior care is taking up to much of the Medicare budget. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWJrlFnM5jo)
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Third: There have been ongoing public statements by the President and his leaders in Congress that the healthcare reform process is to ultimately result in a single-payer system that means a total federal government take-over of the system.
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Forth: There is still no plan for a cap on medical liability that is resulting in massive insurance premiums that are passed-on to patients, excessive liability-preventive tests and procedures and the exodus of doctors especially those in Ob-Gyn, trauma care and neurology.
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Fifth: There is no meaningful effort to include minority party input into the proposals that are in process as articulated by Congressman and surgeon Tom Price. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qumccdsdYgE)
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Sixth: The Democrat Congresses’ own budget office has estimated the current proposals will increase the federal budget by one trillion dollars! Where’s that money coming from? And that’s on top of the current two trillion dollar debt they just spent! Apparently this includes major funding for programs for 15 million illegal aliens that shouldn’t be here.
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Seventh: Where is the plan? Obama has not submitted a healthcare plan! Pelosi and Reid are conducting secret meetings trying to mimic a Canadian-look-alike thing. If Canadian health care is so good and ours is so bad why isn’t Teddy Kennedy up there right now?
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Eight: The President and Congress’ labeling of public reaction to these proposals as “un-American mob-action” is shameful and disgusting. Especially when coming from a “Chicago Community Organizer”. Obama lied to the country and his staged town hall meeting in New Hampshire on Tuesday that “the AARP has endorsed whatever the current proposal is”. These are not the acts of a public servant who is acting in good faith and in the public interest!
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Ninth: We do not need new laws to enable doctors and patients to have detailed discussions about end of life issues and plans and we certainly do not need or want to have a government bureaucrat in the middle of that conversation on a conference call!
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Finally: There are real valid and positive changes that need to be made to our healthcare system. The current processes and leadership are clearly not focused on achieving their objectives within our system of free enterprise, competition and personal freedom of choice.
Taxes and debt are like anchors nailing our people and our ship of state to the bottom where socialism and stagnation hold us securely to mediocrity.
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/08/editors-of-roanoke-times-hostile-at.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/08/obamas-senior-health-care-just-take.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/08/tom-perriello-changes-his-petigree.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/08/obamas-street-army-in-action.html
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As a senior I wish to state that “The Proposals” whatever they are at this point in time, apparently there’s at least four of them, do not satisfy my senior concerns.
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First: There is the $500 BILLION (that’s half a trillion dollars) of proposed and undefined Medicare cuts in services at a time when the baby-boom generation will become eligible.
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Second: There is the Presidents direct statement at a recorded public meeting to a lady that her mother should have a pain pill instead of a heart defibrillator because senior care is taking up to much of the Medicare budget. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWJrlFnM5jo)
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Third: There have been ongoing public statements by the President and his leaders in Congress that the healthcare reform process is to ultimately result in a single-payer system that means a total federal government take-over of the system.
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Forth: There is still no plan for a cap on medical liability that is resulting in massive insurance premiums that are passed-on to patients, excessive liability-preventive tests and procedures and the exodus of doctors especially those in Ob-Gyn, trauma care and neurology.
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Fifth: There is no meaningful effort to include minority party input into the proposals that are in process as articulated by Congressman and surgeon Tom Price. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qumccdsdYgE)
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Sixth: The Democrat Congresses’ own budget office has estimated the current proposals will increase the federal budget by one trillion dollars! Where’s that money coming from? And that’s on top of the current two trillion dollar debt they just spent! Apparently this includes major funding for programs for 15 million illegal aliens that shouldn’t be here.
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Seventh: Where is the plan? Obama has not submitted a healthcare plan! Pelosi and Reid are conducting secret meetings trying to mimic a Canadian-look-alike thing. If Canadian health care is so good and ours is so bad why isn’t Teddy Kennedy up there right now?
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Eight: The President and Congress’ labeling of public reaction to these proposals as “un-American mob-action” is shameful and disgusting. Especially when coming from a “Chicago Community Organizer”. Obama lied to the country and his staged town hall meeting in New Hampshire on Tuesday that “the AARP has endorsed whatever the current proposal is”. These are not the acts of a public servant who is acting in good faith and in the public interest!
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Ninth: We do not need new laws to enable doctors and patients to have detailed discussions about end of life issues and plans and we certainly do not need or want to have a government bureaucrat in the middle of that conversation on a conference call!
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Finally: There are real valid and positive changes that need to be made to our healthcare system. The current processes and leadership are clearly not focused on achieving their objectives within our system of free enterprise, competition and personal freedom of choice.
Taxes and debt are like anchors nailing our people and our ship of state to the bottom where socialism and stagnation hold us securely to mediocrity.
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/08/editors-of-roanoke-times-hostile-at.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/08/obamas-senior-health-care-just-take.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/08/tom-perriello-changes-his-petigree.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/08/obamas-street-army-in-action.html
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Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Editors of Roanoke Times Hostile At ObamaCare concerns.
Roanoke Times, 8/10/09, Pg 12: Editorial: Misinformation and angry mobs shouting down rational discussion prevent a reasonable national discourse on an urgent and vial issue.
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The Roanoke Times editors had no such hostile and negative words for the Cindy Sheehan's of the past eight years. Instead they were in the grandstands for every such group that showed up for anti-Bush “angry mob” activities. No problem with being anti-American then!
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So what are some of the “rational discussion” items folks are focused upon?
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$500 BILLION (one-half $TRILLION in Medicare Cuts to fund benefits for 12 million illegal immigrants.
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Federal agencies (bureaucrats, yes, like the folks at the DMV) who are to decide if procedures for us are “worth the cost”.
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A president who states at a Public health-care meeting that a senior citizen should just take a pain pill instead of getting a heart pace-maker.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/08/obamas-senior-health-care-just-take.html
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A president and his leaders of The Congress who have publicly Stated that their goal is one socialized Government-run healthcare system.
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A president and his leaders who publicly state that those who object to these massive and destructive changes are un-American mobs.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/08/obamas-street-army-in-action.html
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A president and his leaders who are recklessly driving to immediately gin-up and pass massive bad laws that affect every person without due process, review or public participation.
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A president and his leaders who refuse to pass laws to reasonably limit liability claims, medical insurance costs and associated reduction of massive defensive medial tests and procedures.
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A president and his leaders who refuse to accept minority-party participation in the most important legislation in the past 100 years.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/08/realistic-and-sober-view-of-obama.html
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One might wonder why the editors of the Roanoke Times have such a biased, slanted, and socialist-ideologue position on this most important subject.
Perhaps that’s typical of the editors of Pravda-type media outlets!
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/obama-abc-and-new-pravda.html
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There are lots of valid healthcare changes that should be made. The Obama-Pelosi-Reid proposals, processes and behaviors are NOT THE WAY to do them and in fact are UNAMERICAN!
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JUST MORE HOPE AND CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN!
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/07/whose-health-plan-is-it-anyway.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/07/roanoke-times-zero-creditability.html
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The Roanoke Times editors had no such hostile and negative words for the Cindy Sheehan's of the past eight years. Instead they were in the grandstands for every such group that showed up for anti-Bush “angry mob” activities. No problem with being anti-American then!
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So what are some of the “rational discussion” items folks are focused upon?
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$500 BILLION (one-half $TRILLION in Medicare Cuts to fund benefits for 12 million illegal immigrants.
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Federal agencies (bureaucrats, yes, like the folks at the DMV) who are to decide if procedures for us are “worth the cost”.
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A president who states at a Public health-care meeting that a senior citizen should just take a pain pill instead of getting a heart pace-maker.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/08/obamas-senior-health-care-just-take.html
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A president and his leaders of The Congress who have publicly Stated that their goal is one socialized Government-run healthcare system.
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A president and his leaders who publicly state that those who object to these massive and destructive changes are un-American mobs.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/08/obamas-street-army-in-action.html
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A president and his leaders who are recklessly driving to immediately gin-up and pass massive bad laws that affect every person without due process, review or public participation.
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A president and his leaders who refuse to pass laws to reasonably limit liability claims, medical insurance costs and associated reduction of massive defensive medial tests and procedures.
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A president and his leaders who refuse to accept minority-party participation in the most important legislation in the past 100 years.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/08/realistic-and-sober-view-of-obama.html
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One might wonder why the editors of the Roanoke Times have such a biased, slanted, and socialist-ideologue position on this most important subject.
Perhaps that’s typical of the editors of Pravda-type media outlets!
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/obama-abc-and-new-pravda.html
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There are lots of valid healthcare changes that should be made. The Obama-Pelosi-Reid proposals, processes and behaviors are NOT THE WAY to do them and in fact are UNAMERICAN!
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JUST MORE HOPE AND CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN!
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/07/whose-health-plan-is-it-anyway.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/07/roanoke-times-zero-creditability.html
Saturday, August 08, 2009
Obama’s Street Army in Action
Current events have now demonstrated that Obama’s Chicago history, friends and tactics have come out of the closet and onto main street in a very disturbing manner.
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Where are the major media and their righteous indignation? Where is the Washington Post, The Roanoke Times and CNN? One can only imagine the uproar if the Bush administration were involved in these offensive and illegal activities.
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1. “The white house” is soliciting information about persons or organizations who are opposing Obama-Pelosi-Reid health care laws. Talk about your domestic intelligence gathering actions!
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/08/05/white-house-draws-requesting-fishy-information-supporters-health-reform/
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2. “The white house” is describing persons who are opposing, at public meetings, the Obama-Pelosi-Reid health care laws as “mob people”. This from a president who brags about his Chicago activities as a “community organizer”.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/08/05/pr-war-erupts-dems-gop-health-reform/
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3. “The white house” is directly initiating having union thugs to “police” town hall meetings to ensure opponents of the Obama-Pelosi-Reid health care laws are suppressed.
Apparently they’re getting warmed up for the Card Check party!
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/08/07/health-punch-back/
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4. “The “white house” has directly intervened to squash the prosecution of Phila black panther members with weapons who participated in voter intimidation directly in front of a voting place door:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/may/29/career-lawyers-overruled-on-voting-case/
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View the video to see how you would react to entering that voting place:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neGbKHyGuHU
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5. Union Thugs Beat Up Black Man, Kenneth Gladney, at Anti-Obamacare Meeting in St. Louis: (apparently this was not a hate crime!)
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/13509
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View the video to see how Obama union thugs handle nonbelievers:
http://vodpod.com/watch/2022353-kenneth-gladney-is-black-conservative-attacked-cavuto-videos
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Just more hope and change we can believe in!
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/03/obamas-street-army.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/07/another-nasty-obama-friend.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/08/realistic-and-sober-view-of-obama.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/10/tale-of-two-bad-guys.html
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Where are the major media and their righteous indignation? Where is the Washington Post, The Roanoke Times and CNN? One can only imagine the uproar if the Bush administration were involved in these offensive and illegal activities.
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1. “The white house” is soliciting information about persons or organizations who are opposing Obama-Pelosi-Reid health care laws. Talk about your domestic intelligence gathering actions!
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/08/05/white-house-draws-requesting-fishy-information-supporters-health-reform/
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2. “The white house” is describing persons who are opposing, at public meetings, the Obama-Pelosi-Reid health care laws as “mob people”. This from a president who brags about his Chicago activities as a “community organizer”.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/08/05/pr-war-erupts-dems-gop-health-reform/
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3. “The white house” is directly initiating having union thugs to “police” town hall meetings to ensure opponents of the Obama-Pelosi-Reid health care laws are suppressed.
Apparently they’re getting warmed up for the Card Check party!
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/08/07/health-punch-back/
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4. “The “white house” has directly intervened to squash the prosecution of Phila black panther members with weapons who participated in voter intimidation directly in front of a voting place door:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/may/29/career-lawyers-overruled-on-voting-case/
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View the video to see how you would react to entering that voting place:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neGbKHyGuHU
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5. Union Thugs Beat Up Black Man, Kenneth Gladney, at Anti-Obamacare Meeting in St. Louis: (apparently this was not a hate crime!)
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/13509
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View the video to see how Obama union thugs handle nonbelievers:
http://vodpod.com/watch/2022353-kenneth-gladney-is-black-conservative-attacked-cavuto-videos
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Just more hope and change we can believe in!
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/03/obamas-street-army.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/07/another-nasty-obama-friend.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/08/realistic-and-sober-view-of-obama.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/10/tale-of-two-bad-guys.html
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Wednesday, August 05, 2009
UAW For Clunkers Program
$4500 dollars of taxpayer’s money is offered if you trade in your functional vehicle, registered and inspected by the state, for a new vehicle.
Your trade-in vehicle must be totally scrapped! Cannot be resold to someone needing a good modest functional car and cannot be used for repair parts. And who came up with this “clunker” name. Talk about your 1984-doublespeak!
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Why would otherwise intelligent legislators vote for something this dull? The destruction of good running vehicles with $4500 of taxpayer money for a vehicle that gets an additional 4 MPG!
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The answer is payback!
The government now owns GM and therefore the UAW is now the biggest government union and they must be repaid for their support for the Democrat candidates in the last election! Apparently the $50 BILLION of taxpayer money already sunk into GM-UAW wasn’t enough already!
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Don’t you just love all this hope and change we can believe in!
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/economic-reflections-revisionism.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/07/economic-reality.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/obamas-gm-new-amtrack.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/04/gm-sinking-with-our-tax-money.html
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Your trade-in vehicle must be totally scrapped! Cannot be resold to someone needing a good modest functional car and cannot be used for repair parts. And who came up with this “clunker” name. Talk about your 1984-doublespeak!
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Why would otherwise intelligent legislators vote for something this dull? The destruction of good running vehicles with $4500 of taxpayer money for a vehicle that gets an additional 4 MPG!
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The answer is payback!
The government now owns GM and therefore the UAW is now the biggest government union and they must be repaid for their support for the Democrat candidates in the last election! Apparently the $50 BILLION of taxpayer money already sunk into GM-UAW wasn’t enough already!
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Don’t you just love all this hope and change we can believe in!
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/economic-reflections-revisionism.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/07/economic-reality.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/obamas-gm-new-amtrack.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/04/gm-sinking-with-our-tax-money.html
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Tom Perriello Changes His Pedigree
Leopards change their spots
Bucks change their antlers
and Tom Perriello changes his pedigree
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/PerrielloPelosi.jpg
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/07/perriello-boucher-pelosi-vote-for-cap.html
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Bucks change their antlers
and Tom Perriello changes his pedigree
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/PerrielloPelosi.jpg
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/07/perriello-boucher-pelosi-vote-for-cap.html
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A Realistic and Sober View of Obama, Pelosi, Reid Health Care
Click to View:
http://www.youtube.com:80/watch?v=qumccdsdYgE
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This Congressional statement made by Rep. Tom Price of Georgia who is chairman of the Republican Study Committee. Before being elected to Congress, he practiced orthopedic surgery for nearly 25 years
http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=C82098FB-18FE-70B2-A82A43414953CAAA
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/08/obamas-senior-health-care-just-take.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/07/whose-health-plan-is-it-anyway.html
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http://www.youtube.com:80/watch?v=qumccdsdYgE
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This Congressional statement made by Rep. Tom Price of Georgia who is chairman of the Republican Study Committee. Before being elected to Congress, he practiced orthopedic surgery for nearly 25 years
http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=C82098FB-18FE-70B2-A82A43414953CAAA
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/08/obamas-senior-health-care-just-take.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/07/whose-health-plan-is-it-anyway.html
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Sunday, August 02, 2009
Franking The Banks And The Taxpayers
Roanoke Times, 8/2/09, Pg 11: Foreclosures: Lawmaker tells banks to help homeowners.
Democrat Rep. Barney Frank, chairman of the House Financial Services Comm. said that rising foreclosure rates will increase Congress’ appetite for legislation that would let bankruptcy judges write down a person’s monthly mortgage payment.
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Congress was the primary cause and instigator and enabler of the banking collapse and Barney Frank was at the epicenter of that disaster driving congressional demands and laws forcing Fannie-May and Freddy-Mac to loan billions of dollars in mortgages to people who couldn’t afford them.
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These “toxic assets” are still “on the books” with no resolution in sight and now Barney is determined to magnify the destruction of the banks by mandating that people should just “pay what they can” on these properties they couldn’t afford to buy in the first place!
Karl Heinrich Marx couldn’t have said it better!
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To alleviate any doubt about the veracity of this situation, visit the timeline and highlights of congressional hearings going back to 2001: click-on:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMnSp4qEXNM&NR=1
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For a view of JFK’s view of the fruits of Karl Marx’s socialist philosophy as expressed at the Berlin Wall: click-on:
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/JFKBerlinWall
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And this would be a good time to reflect on JFK’s inaugural address Jan 1961:
“And so my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you
ask what you can do for your country.”
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We don’t have JFK, we now have Obama, what a sad substitution for America!
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/07/economic-reality.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/economic-reflections-revisionism.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/09/financial-domino-effect.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/11/democrats-at-wheel-in-subprime-crash.html
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Democrat Rep. Barney Frank, chairman of the House Financial Services Comm. said that rising foreclosure rates will increase Congress’ appetite for legislation that would let bankruptcy judges write down a person’s monthly mortgage payment.
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Congress was the primary cause and instigator and enabler of the banking collapse and Barney Frank was at the epicenter of that disaster driving congressional demands and laws forcing Fannie-May and Freddy-Mac to loan billions of dollars in mortgages to people who couldn’t afford them.
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These “toxic assets” are still “on the books” with no resolution in sight and now Barney is determined to magnify the destruction of the banks by mandating that people should just “pay what they can” on these properties they couldn’t afford to buy in the first place!
Karl Heinrich Marx couldn’t have said it better!
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To alleviate any doubt about the veracity of this situation, visit the timeline and highlights of congressional hearings going back to 2001: click-on:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMnSp4qEXNM&NR=1
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For a view of JFK’s view of the fruits of Karl Marx’s socialist philosophy as expressed at the Berlin Wall: click-on:
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/JFKBerlinWall
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And this would be a good time to reflect on JFK’s inaugural address Jan 1961:
“And so my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you
ask what you can do for your country.”
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We don’t have JFK, we now have Obama, what a sad substitution for America!
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/07/economic-reality.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/economic-reflections-revisionism.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/09/financial-domino-effect.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/11/democrats-at-wheel-in-subprime-crash.html
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Saturday, August 01, 2009
Obama’s Senior Health Care – “Just Take a Pain Pill”!
Roanoke Times, 8/11/09, Pg 1 & 4: Misinformation (about the Obama, Pelosi, Reid Health Care proposals) fuels fears among seniors.
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First it was God Damn America, now its God Damn those old sickies, without them we could easily give free health care to 12 million illegal aliens who are sure to vote Democrat!
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Obama tells the elderly they are a big waste of medical care and they should just take a pain pill and die.
He really didn’t say anything like that, did he?
Watch and listen to the video and decide for yourself what he said and what he meant and you determine who is practicing “misinformation”.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWJrlFnM5jo
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Maybe instead of having the surgery or the pain pill Obama, Pelosi & Reid should cap medical liability judgments to a reasonable level so that health care entities do not have to practice defensive medicine with the associated huge liability insurance costs and unnecessary procedures.
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How is the medical team of Obama, Pelosi & Reid limiting Democrat Teddy Kennedy‘s health care options – and why is Democrat Chris Dodd having a prostate operation at his age? Why not just have him take a pain pill! After all, he’s just an old senior citizen isn’t he?
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Prior Items:
Palliative Care - The New Euthanasia
Obama and Mark Warner – fix the senior citizen health care situation
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/palliative-care-new-euthanasia.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/07/whose-health-plan-is-it-anyway.html
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First it was God Damn America, now its God Damn those old sickies, without them we could easily give free health care to 12 million illegal aliens who are sure to vote Democrat!
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Obama tells the elderly they are a big waste of medical care and they should just take a pain pill and die.
He really didn’t say anything like that, did he?
Watch and listen to the video and decide for yourself what he said and what he meant and you determine who is practicing “misinformation”.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWJrlFnM5jo
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Maybe instead of having the surgery or the pain pill Obama, Pelosi & Reid should cap medical liability judgments to a reasonable level so that health care entities do not have to practice defensive medicine with the associated huge liability insurance costs and unnecessary procedures.
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How is the medical team of Obama, Pelosi & Reid limiting Democrat Teddy Kennedy‘s health care options – and why is Democrat Chris Dodd having a prostate operation at his age? Why not just have him take a pain pill! After all, he’s just an old senior citizen isn’t he?
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Prior Items:
Palliative Care - The New Euthanasia
Obama and Mark Warner – fix the senior citizen health care situation
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/palliative-care-new-euthanasia.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/07/whose-health-plan-is-it-anyway.html
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Friday, July 31, 2009
Moon Still Shines on the Moonshine Still
Roanoke Times, 7/30/09, Pg 10: Man gets 4 years for moonshine. Woman convicted of helping gets a year and a day in prison.
http://www.roanoke.com/news/roanoke/wb/177290
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http://www.roanoke.com/news/roanoke/wb/213560
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Defense attorney Gil Davis apparently was unhappy with the verdict and the sentencing and said: “this is a culture that is probably not going to be knocked out by one case.”
That’s probably an understatement based on moonshines legal conflicts that go back to the Whiskey Rebellion and George Washington’s army of over 10,000 troops attacking the farmers of Western Pennsylvania who rebelled in 1794 against a Federal tax on whiskey.
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There are numerous documentaries about the moonshine history of Franklin County and great pictures of stills at Ippy's Restaurant in Rocky Mount.
http://www.virginiaplaces.org/alcohol/moonshine.html
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Click for Flash-Music: The Moon Still Shines on the Moonshine Still
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/FranklinCountyShine
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http://www.roanoke.com/news/roanoke/wb/177290
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http://www.roanoke.com/news/roanoke/wb/213560
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Defense attorney Gil Davis apparently was unhappy with the verdict and the sentencing and said: “this is a culture that is probably not going to be knocked out by one case.”
That’s probably an understatement based on moonshines legal conflicts that go back to the Whiskey Rebellion and George Washington’s army of over 10,000 troops attacking the farmers of Western Pennsylvania who rebelled in 1794 against a Federal tax on whiskey.
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There are numerous documentaries about the moonshine history of Franklin County and great pictures of stills at Ippy's Restaurant in Rocky Mount.
http://www.virginiaplaces.org/alcohol/moonshine.html
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Click for Flash-Music: The Moon Still Shines on the Moonshine Still
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/FranklinCountyShine
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Whose Health Plan is it Anyway?
Roanoke Times, 7/30/09, Pg 1 & 3: Health care reform still alive. Bristol grills Obama.
“Obama took on skeptics of his plans to overhaul the nation’s health care system”.
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And what plan would that be? Obama has not submitted to Congress plans for anything! Instead he has called upon Pelosi and Reid to scrape together their proposals for a European-style Socialist government run system! He can’t explain the plan because there is no plan! There are at least four proposals none of which he drafted and none are close to a bill that anyone can honestly vote for.
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Apparently a Kroger employee naively asked Obama if his children would be enrolled in whatever the new socialized medical plan turns out to be. Obama answered yes! Get real! He’ll enroll his kids in the new public medical plan just like he has enrolled his kids in the public school system! Why does he keep insulting our intelligence? At some point is that not defined as arrogance?
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Roanoke Times, 7/31/09, Pg 1 & Full Page 3: GOP tries to slow talks on health care proposals. Heading one inch high! Apparently the Roanoke Times editors wanted to ensure that even the seeing-challenged get the message about those bad GOP guys!
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How can the GOP guys slow up anything? Did the Democrats not win the House and Senate in Nov 2006? Have Reid and Pelosi not been in-charge of the US finances and law-making for the last two and a-half years?
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/hiding-pelosi-reid-again.html
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Clearly there are many Democrats who now realize that if left unchecked the team of Obama, Pelosi & Reid are going to run the country into the swamp of debt and socialism and the resulting public reaction will be overwhelming voter remorse and retaliation.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/07/economic-reality.html
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/07/roanoke-times-zero-creditability.html
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“Obama took on skeptics of his plans to overhaul the nation’s health care system”.
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And what plan would that be? Obama has not submitted to Congress plans for anything! Instead he has called upon Pelosi and Reid to scrape together their proposals for a European-style Socialist government run system! He can’t explain the plan because there is no plan! There are at least four proposals none of which he drafted and none are close to a bill that anyone can honestly vote for.
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Apparently a Kroger employee naively asked Obama if his children would be enrolled in whatever the new socialized medical plan turns out to be. Obama answered yes! Get real! He’ll enroll his kids in the new public medical plan just like he has enrolled his kids in the public school system! Why does he keep insulting our intelligence? At some point is that not defined as arrogance?
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Roanoke Times, 7/31/09, Pg 1 & Full Page 3: GOP tries to slow talks on health care proposals. Heading one inch high! Apparently the Roanoke Times editors wanted to ensure that even the seeing-challenged get the message about those bad GOP guys!
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How can the GOP guys slow up anything? Did the Democrats not win the House and Senate in Nov 2006? Have Reid and Pelosi not been in-charge of the US finances and law-making for the last two and a-half years?
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/hiding-pelosi-reid-again.html
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Clearly there are many Democrats who now realize that if left unchecked the team of Obama, Pelosi & Reid are going to run the country into the swamp of debt and socialism and the resulting public reaction will be overwhelming voter remorse and retaliation.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/07/economic-reality.html
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/07/roanoke-times-zero-creditability.html
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Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Domestic Terrorism Label Politically Correct Again
Roanoke Times, 7/28/09, Pg 8: Seven NC men charged with plotting ‘jihad’.
“These charges hammer home the point that terrorists and their supporters are not confined to the remote regions of some far away land but can grow and fester right here at home” US Attorney George Holding said.
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,535288,00.html?test=latestnews
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Wow! Just how politically incorrect is that!
Hey Holding: tell all this to Obama, Homeland security chief Napolitano, the Democrats in Congress, and the liberal left-wing media (especially the Roanoke Times) who have spent the last eight years demonizing Bush and Cheney for focusing on the domestic radical Muslim terrorist threat and trying hard to neutralize them.
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You don't think the Patriot Act had anything to do with all these bad guys being caught do you?
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/08/court-spying-on-terrorists-ok.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/08/democrats-spying-on-you.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/06/yet-more-violent-religious-terrorists.html
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Napolitano hasn’t mentioned the words terrorist or war on terror since becoming Obama’s Home Land Security chief – however - now, after several active and dangerous radical Muslim terrorists cells have been “busted” this year she sounds like VP Cheney!
Perhaps VP Chaney wasn’t paranoid after all!
Perhaps domestic radical Muslim terrorist cells like the ones that did the first World Trade Center bombing, the seven guys who planned to blowup the Sears Tower, the guys who planned to blowup the NY City train tunnels and the guys who planned to machine-gun and bomb our soldiers at Ft. Dix really exist and represent a clear and present danger to Americans.
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/07/terrorists-are-still-waging-war.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/06/yet-more-violent-religious-terrorists.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/08/yet-another-mohamed.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/01/obama-declares-end-of-war-on-terror.html
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“These charges hammer home the point that terrorists and their supporters are not confined to the remote regions of some far away land but can grow and fester right here at home” US Attorney George Holding said.
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,535288,00.html?test=latestnews
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Wow! Just how politically incorrect is that!
Hey Holding: tell all this to Obama, Homeland security chief Napolitano, the Democrats in Congress, and the liberal left-wing media (especially the Roanoke Times) who have spent the last eight years demonizing Bush and Cheney for focusing on the domestic radical Muslim terrorist threat and trying hard to neutralize them.
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You don't think the Patriot Act had anything to do with all these bad guys being caught do you?
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/08/court-spying-on-terrorists-ok.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/08/democrats-spying-on-you.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/06/yet-more-violent-religious-terrorists.html
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Napolitano hasn’t mentioned the words terrorist or war on terror since becoming Obama’s Home Land Security chief – however - now, after several active and dangerous radical Muslim terrorists cells have been “busted” this year she sounds like VP Cheney!
Perhaps VP Chaney wasn’t paranoid after all!
Perhaps domestic radical Muslim terrorist cells like the ones that did the first World Trade Center bombing, the seven guys who planned to blowup the Sears Tower, the guys who planned to blowup the NY City train tunnels and the guys who planned to machine-gun and bomb our soldiers at Ft. Dix really exist and represent a clear and present danger to Americans.
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/07/terrorists-are-still-waging-war.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/06/yet-more-violent-religious-terrorists.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/08/yet-another-mohamed.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/01/obama-declares-end-of-war-on-terror.html
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Preparing For Oil War in The Artic
The Norwegian Barents Observer reports that on 8/1/09 The Norwegian Operational Command Headquarters will open in Reitan, outside Bodo in extreme northern Norway.
This makes Norway the first country to move its military command leadership to the Artic.
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The Norwegian Government has given the approval for the Goliat Oil Project in the Barents Sea. The field is estimated to have 173 million barrels of oil and is expected to reach a peak production of about 100,000 barrels of oil plus natural gas per day. Eni plans to start production in 2013, and keep the field running for at least 15 years.It will be the second offshore development in the icy waters of the Barents Sea that Norway shares with its neighbor Russia.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Norway-goverment-1st-Barents-apf-15179458.html?x=1&.v=1
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The Norwegians are also major players in Cuba’s oil exploration within 70 miles of the Florida Keys coast.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/06/boogeyman-drilling-for-oil-near-florida.html
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So while Obama, Pelosi, and Reid are busy taxing and throttling our development of our domestic oil and gas facilities Norway, who is currently the third largest exporter of oil, is busy developing and expanding their massive facilities for the 21st century.
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In addition to the Barents Sea development, Norway has claimed the vast oil reserves under the Northwest Passage of the Artic based on the explorations of Roald Amundsen.
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Isn’t Norway a hoot! They gave Al Gore the Nobel Prize for convincing the world that burning oil is destroying the world. Isn’t that a gigantic piece of hypocrisy and bait-and-switch that most of the world has swallowed.
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Reminds one of the medals they (the same folks) bestowed on Jimmy Carter for establishing peace between Israel and the Arabs.
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/07/we-could-use-little-global-warming.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/10/250-years-of-global-warming-with-al.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/07/oil-problem-cant-be-fixed.html
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/
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This makes Norway the first country to move its military command leadership to the Artic.
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The Norwegian Government has given the approval for the Goliat Oil Project in the Barents Sea. The field is estimated to have 173 million barrels of oil and is expected to reach a peak production of about 100,000 barrels of oil plus natural gas per day. Eni plans to start production in 2013, and keep the field running for at least 15 years.It will be the second offshore development in the icy waters of the Barents Sea that Norway shares with its neighbor Russia.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Norway-goverment-1st-Barents-apf-15179458.html?x=1&.v=1
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The Norwegians are also major players in Cuba’s oil exploration within 70 miles of the Florida Keys coast.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/06/boogeyman-drilling-for-oil-near-florida.html
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So while Obama, Pelosi, and Reid are busy taxing and throttling our development of our domestic oil and gas facilities Norway, who is currently the third largest exporter of oil, is busy developing and expanding their massive facilities for the 21st century.
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In addition to the Barents Sea development, Norway has claimed the vast oil reserves under the Northwest Passage of the Artic based on the explorations of Roald Amundsen.
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Isn’t Norway a hoot! They gave Al Gore the Nobel Prize for convincing the world that burning oil is destroying the world. Isn’t that a gigantic piece of hypocrisy and bait-and-switch that most of the world has swallowed.
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Reminds one of the medals they (the same folks) bestowed on Jimmy Carter for establishing peace between Israel and the Arabs.
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/07/we-could-use-little-global-warming.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/10/250-years-of-global-warming-with-al.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/07/oil-problem-cant-be-fixed.html
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/
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We Could Use A Little Global Warming!
Roanoke Times, 7/26/09, Pg 11: Cool summer deters tourists, hurts harvest. Rain is cutting revenues at summer spots, and cool temps are keeping crops from ripening.
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CO2 is high and temperatures are low! How does that work out for you, Mr Gore?
Over 30,000 engineers and scientists have known all along that CO2 is not the primary driver of global temperature and that modest warming is better than the 35 years of significant cooling during the first half of my life (1940 to 1975).
http://www.petitionproject.org/
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The most visual adverse cold temperature consequence I observed during that time was the devastating freeze-out of the citrus businesses in the northern third of Florida. Millions of acres of stark lifeless citrus trees looked as if they had been sprayed with Agent Orange.
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Unfortunately the major media will not publish the NASA graphs on global temperature. Although there is considerable factual data that indicates the temperature history for the past 50 years is overstated due to urban sprawl surrounding the temperature recording stations; the data still shows that:
* There is only one degree warming in the last 100 years.
http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/100yr-temp-co2.jpg
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* There is no net temperature change in the past 10 years.
http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/10yr-temp-co2.jpg
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* This in spite of increased CO2 levels in the atmosphere.
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It’s very clear that our current 250 years of natural warming that started at the end of the little ice age (1750) is not man-made.
http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/GlacierHistory250Years/index.htm
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Prior Items:
http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/07/perriello-boucher-pelosi-vote-for-cap.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/05/for-climate-change-fashion-go-white.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/04/brown-polar-bears-at-risk.html
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CO2 is high and temperatures are low! How does that work out for you, Mr Gore?
Over 30,000 engineers and scientists have known all along that CO2 is not the primary driver of global temperature and that modest warming is better than the 35 years of significant cooling during the first half of my life (1940 to 1975).
http://www.petitionproject.org/
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The most visual adverse cold temperature consequence I observed during that time was the devastating freeze-out of the citrus businesses in the northern third of Florida. Millions of acres of stark lifeless citrus trees looked as if they had been sprayed with Agent Orange.
-
Unfortunately the major media will not publish the NASA graphs on global temperature. Although there is considerable factual data that indicates the temperature history for the past 50 years is overstated due to urban sprawl surrounding the temperature recording stations; the data still shows that:
* There is only one degree warming in the last 100 years.
http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/100yr-temp-co2.jpg
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* There is no net temperature change in the past 10 years.
http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/10yr-temp-co2.jpg
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* This in spite of increased CO2 levels in the atmosphere.
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It’s very clear that our current 250 years of natural warming that started at the end of the little ice age (1750) is not man-made.
http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/GlacierHistory250Years/index.htm
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Prior Items:
http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/07/perriello-boucher-pelosi-vote-for-cap.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/05/for-climate-change-fashion-go-white.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/04/brown-polar-bears-at-risk.html
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Monday, July 27, 2009
Virginia Below National Average Cost of Electricity
Roanoke Times, 7/27/09, Pg 1 & 12: Coal use keeps costs high for Appalachian
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Who writes these headlines? How can anyone print this misinformation in a“news”-paper?
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Virginia electricity is 10% lower than the national average and that includes many states that have vast hydro plants and the mid-west that uses massive strip-mine coal resources. Click-on the link to observe that Virginia has approximately one-half the cost of Connecticut and is way below most “blue-states”.
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http://www.neo.ne.gov/statshtml/115.htm
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So, let’s rail against current increases in energy costs, but let’s get behind and support the largest energy tax package the world has ever seen! What do these people think is going to happen based on the Obama, Pelosi, Reid energy policy of reducing and taxing current energy supply systems and replacing them with very expensive and unreliable and intermittent systems based on the sun-shining and the wind-blowing
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/07/perriello-boucher-pelosi-vote-for-cap.html
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And it’s not just electricity costs that are going to explode with the Obama, Pelosi, Reid energy policies, Click-on the link for a view of a number of big cost-of-living increases that will result from their misguided policy.
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/04/vt-energy-assessment-challenge.html
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We have an energy crisis! It is not carbon or CO2 or global warming!
It is our dependence on external suppliers for our energy systems.
Clearly reducing our current systems and replacing them with high-cost limited capability and intermittent systems is NOT the answer!
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/
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Who writes these headlines? How can anyone print this misinformation in a“news”-paper?
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Virginia electricity is 10% lower than the national average and that includes many states that have vast hydro plants and the mid-west that uses massive strip-mine coal resources. Click-on the link to observe that Virginia has approximately one-half the cost of Connecticut and is way below most “blue-states”.
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http://www.neo.ne.gov/statshtml/115.htm
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So, let’s rail against current increases in energy costs, but let’s get behind and support the largest energy tax package the world has ever seen! What do these people think is going to happen based on the Obama, Pelosi, Reid energy policy of reducing and taxing current energy supply systems and replacing them with very expensive and unreliable and intermittent systems based on the sun-shining and the wind-blowing
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/07/perriello-boucher-pelosi-vote-for-cap.html
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And it’s not just electricity costs that are going to explode with the Obama, Pelosi, Reid energy policies, Click-on the link for a view of a number of big cost-of-living increases that will result from their misguided policy.
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/04/vt-energy-assessment-challenge.html
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We have an energy crisis! It is not carbon or CO2 or global warming!
It is our dependence on external suppliers for our energy systems.
Clearly reducing our current systems and replacing them with high-cost limited capability and intermittent systems is NOT the answer!
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/
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Saturday, July 25, 2009
Thank You President Reagan For Our Missile-Defense Systems
Three big articles in the Roanoke Times hawking the US defense systems from WMD-Missile attacks from North Korea and Iran!
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Roanoke Times, 6/19/09, Pg 6: US dispatches missile interceptors to Hawaii to protect against North Korean missiles.
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Roanoke Times, 6/20/09, Pg 3: Hawaii missile system is safeguard from North Korea’s Taepodong-2 intercontinental ballistic missile system with WMD’s.
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Roanoke Times, 7/12/09, Pg 5: Pentagon confident in defense system; A new radar system can guide interceptors toward long-range missiles threatening the US, Hawaii and Alaska and California, from North Korea missiles with WMD’s.
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What an amazing metamorphosis some of the left-wingers have made on SDI! Proves that to make a liberal into a conservative just point a WMD missile at him and his family!
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However Obama is committed to stop and scrap our anti-missile defense systems.
See his in-person video position made to his radical-left supporters on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o84PE871BE&eurl
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Reflecting back to after Ronald Reagan's SDI "Star Wars" Speech March 23, 1983, the left-wing politicians and media went postal accusing Reagan of being everything from a war monger to being mentally defective.
http://www.atomicarchive.com/Docs/Missile/Starwars.shtml
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Now these same naive appeasers are flaunting and hiding behind a defense system they tried desperately to kill.
Perhaps they should talk to Obama about their change of heart and some hope and change they can depend on when the rockets are:
“ON THE WAY - OVER”!
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/06/obama-commander-of-unilateral.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/02/star-wars-from-sputnik-to-sm3.html
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Click for a substantial and interesting history:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/this-week-obama-iran-nkorea-israel.html
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/05/audacity-of-appeasement.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/04/obama-north-korea-missiles-nuclear.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/iran-winning-big.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/07/obama-to-iran-please-stop.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/02/star-wars-from-sputnik-to-sm3.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/10/north-korean-nukes.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2005/07/impact.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2005/05/bushs-star-wars.html
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Roanoke Times, 6/19/09, Pg 6: US dispatches missile interceptors to Hawaii to protect against North Korean missiles.
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Roanoke Times, 6/20/09, Pg 3: Hawaii missile system is safeguard from North Korea’s Taepodong-2 intercontinental ballistic missile system with WMD’s.
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Roanoke Times, 7/12/09, Pg 5: Pentagon confident in defense system; A new radar system can guide interceptors toward long-range missiles threatening the US, Hawaii and Alaska and California, from North Korea missiles with WMD’s.
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What an amazing metamorphosis some of the left-wingers have made on SDI! Proves that to make a liberal into a conservative just point a WMD missile at him and his family!
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However Obama is committed to stop and scrap our anti-missile defense systems.
See his in-person video position made to his radical-left supporters on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o84PE871BE&eurl
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Reflecting back to after Ronald Reagan's SDI "Star Wars" Speech March 23, 1983, the left-wing politicians and media went postal accusing Reagan of being everything from a war monger to being mentally defective.
http://www.atomicarchive.com/Docs/Missile/Starwars.shtml
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Now these same naive appeasers are flaunting and hiding behind a defense system they tried desperately to kill.
Perhaps they should talk to Obama about their change of heart and some hope and change they can depend on when the rockets are:
“ON THE WAY - OVER”!
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/06/obama-commander-of-unilateral.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/02/star-wars-from-sputnik-to-sm3.html
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Click for a substantial and interesting history:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/this-week-obama-iran-nkorea-israel.html
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/05/audacity-of-appeasement.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/04/obama-north-korea-missiles-nuclear.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/iran-winning-big.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/07/obama-to-iran-please-stop.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/02/star-wars-from-sputnik-to-sm3.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/10/north-korean-nukes.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2005/07/impact.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2005/05/bushs-star-wars.html
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Friday, July 24, 2009
George Bush Healthcare Medicare Part-D
Roanoke Times, 7/23/09, Pg 6: Wire service: MEDICARE Report: Plan makes drugs affordable for seniors.
A glowing summary of the benefits of Medicare Part-D drug plan published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Major out-of-pocket costs dropped and there was major increases in enrollment and coverage.
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All this and no mention of George Bush by the wire service or Roanoke Times as to who originated, spearheaded and made this program happen in spite of Democrat and liberal press naysayers and obstructionists.
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Of course the liberal press is not going to mention Bush’s health accomplishment, especially while Obama, Pelosi and Reid are trying desperately to ram a socialized and nationalized system through Congress in defiance of public opposition.
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Click on following links to reflect on the left-wing efforts opposing Part-D:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/10/yet-more-gross-bias-and-slant.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/10/medicare-part-d.html
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A glowing summary of the benefits of Medicare Part-D drug plan published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Major out-of-pocket costs dropped and there was major increases in enrollment and coverage.
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All this and no mention of George Bush by the wire service or Roanoke Times as to who originated, spearheaded and made this program happen in spite of Democrat and liberal press naysayers and obstructionists.
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Of course the liberal press is not going to mention Bush’s health accomplishment, especially while Obama, Pelosi and Reid are trying desperately to ram a socialized and nationalized system through Congress in defiance of public opposition.
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Click on following links to reflect on the left-wing efforts opposing Part-D:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/10/yet-more-gross-bias-and-slant.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/10/medicare-part-d.html
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Roanoke Times – Zero Creditability
Roanoke Times, 7/12/09, Pg 8: GOP’s AG candidate Cuccinelli wants special session to address US Supreme Court ruling on requiring forensic technicians to testify in court.
Gov. Kaine’s assistant Gordon Hickey and Democrat AG candidate Mike Henry referred to Cuccinelli’s request as “a PR stunt that would cost taxpayers money”.
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7/19/09, Pg Horiz 3, A rush to legislate: A four column commentary with photogenic picture of editor Luanne Traud (Roanoke’s answer to Maureen Dowd) who waxed eloquent about how obtuse and negligible and futuristic this problem is and how Cuccinelli didn’t convince her that this was a real problem worthy of Gov. Kaine’s attention.
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7/23/09, Pg 1 and 18, Forensics ruling prompts scramble – Gov. Kaine has called a special session of the General Assembly in response to a US Supreme Court decision.
Sixteen paragraphs of explanation of why this is a major problem that needs prompt attention by the government of Virginia.
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At this point in the process and print, Cuccinelli’s name doesn’t surface until paragraph 14 of the 16 and then the quote deals with some technical details of the proposed legal fix.
Is this total absence of valid recognition of Mr. Cuccinelli’s involvement in this process: slant, journalistic amnesia or just plain crude political bias?
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Questions that some folks are asking:
Is Ms.Traud on the Democrat party payroll or is she just an energetic volunteer?
Just how deeply buried into the Democrat media machine are the editors of the Roanoke Times?
When they claim they’re just reporting the news, one is left with the additional question: are they insulting their reader’s intelligence on purpose or is it just turning out that way?
There are over 1,000 items in this blog that would cause one to answer “it’s on purpose”!
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/07/political-ads-replace-news.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/obama-abc-and-new-pravda.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/03/not-weird-just-wrong.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/11/roanoke-times-awash-in-hypocrisy.html
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/Purpose.html
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Gov. Kaine’s assistant Gordon Hickey and Democrat AG candidate Mike Henry referred to Cuccinelli’s request as “a PR stunt that would cost taxpayers money”.
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7/19/09, Pg Horiz 3, A rush to legislate: A four column commentary with photogenic picture of editor Luanne Traud (Roanoke’s answer to Maureen Dowd) who waxed eloquent about how obtuse and negligible and futuristic this problem is and how Cuccinelli didn’t convince her that this was a real problem worthy of Gov. Kaine’s attention.
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7/23/09, Pg 1 and 18, Forensics ruling prompts scramble – Gov. Kaine has called a special session of the General Assembly in response to a US Supreme Court decision.
Sixteen paragraphs of explanation of why this is a major problem that needs prompt attention by the government of Virginia.
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At this point in the process and print, Cuccinelli’s name doesn’t surface until paragraph 14 of the 16 and then the quote deals with some technical details of the proposed legal fix.
Is this total absence of valid recognition of Mr. Cuccinelli’s involvement in this process: slant, journalistic amnesia or just plain crude political bias?
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Questions that some folks are asking:
Is Ms.Traud on the Democrat party payroll or is she just an energetic volunteer?
Just how deeply buried into the Democrat media machine are the editors of the Roanoke Times?
When they claim they’re just reporting the news, one is left with the additional question: are they insulting their reader’s intelligence on purpose or is it just turning out that way?
There are over 1,000 items in this blog that would cause one to answer “it’s on purpose”!
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/07/political-ads-replace-news.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/obama-abc-and-new-pravda.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/03/not-weird-just-wrong.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/11/roanoke-times-awash-in-hypocrisy.html
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/Purpose.html
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Another Nasty Obama Friend
Roanoke Times, 7/24/09, Pg 3: Officer tells his side in scholar’s arrest.
Full page extract from Washington Post with on-scene photo of Prof. Gates.
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For those who thought that Obama’s longtime nasty spiritual advisor Rev Wright was an anomaly, out of the box pops Harvard Professor Henry Gates. He’s an old Obama friend and black studies expert on W.E.B. Dubois, who many consider the virtual-originator of what became, many years later, the Black Panther Party.
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Gates was arrested July 16 by Sgt. James Crowley, a Cambridge Police Officer, who was first to respond to the home the renowned black scholar rents from Harvard, after a woman reported seeing two black men trying to force open the front door. Gates said he had to shove the door open because it was jammed.
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Gates was charged with disorderly conduct after police said he yelled at the white officer, accused him of racial bias, disrespected the officer’s mother and refused to calm down after Crowley demanded Gates show him identification to prove he lived in the home. The home had been broken into during the previous month and this incident was clearly a "forced entry".
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Without any detailed information about the incident, Obama publicly declared that the police involved “acted stupidly”.
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There has been a national backlash by police officers and organizations around the country blasting Obama for “acting stupidly” and running his mouth when he should have been gathering the facts! Apparently he didn’t have his teleprompter with him.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,534687,00.html
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The question now is: where is Eric Holder, the new black US Attorney General (AG). Remember him? Soon after becoming Obama’s AG he labeled white Americans as cowards because we don’t openly and actively address and discuss race issues and racial situations in a manner he desires.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/nation-of-white-cowards.html
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Well Eric, here’s your chance. As the chief law enforcement officer of the country what say you? Who acted stupidly? And how has Obama used this incident to improve the racial dialogue and environment in America?
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More hope and change we can believe in? More reasons for voter remorse!
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Prior Item:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/obama-honeymoon-winding-down.html
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Full page extract from Washington Post with on-scene photo of Prof. Gates.
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For those who thought that Obama’s longtime nasty spiritual advisor Rev Wright was an anomaly, out of the box pops Harvard Professor Henry Gates. He’s an old Obama friend and black studies expert on W.E.B. Dubois, who many consider the virtual-originator of what became, many years later, the Black Panther Party.
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Gates was arrested July 16 by Sgt. James Crowley, a Cambridge Police Officer, who was first to respond to the home the renowned black scholar rents from Harvard, after a woman reported seeing two black men trying to force open the front door. Gates said he had to shove the door open because it was jammed.
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Gates was charged with disorderly conduct after police said he yelled at the white officer, accused him of racial bias, disrespected the officer’s mother and refused to calm down after Crowley demanded Gates show him identification to prove he lived in the home. The home had been broken into during the previous month and this incident was clearly a "forced entry".
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Without any detailed information about the incident, Obama publicly declared that the police involved “acted stupidly”.
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There has been a national backlash by police officers and organizations around the country blasting Obama for “acting stupidly” and running his mouth when he should have been gathering the facts! Apparently he didn’t have his teleprompter with him.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,534687,00.html
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The question now is: where is Eric Holder, the new black US Attorney General (AG). Remember him? Soon after becoming Obama’s AG he labeled white Americans as cowards because we don’t openly and actively address and discuss race issues and racial situations in a manner he desires.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/nation-of-white-cowards.html
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Well Eric, here’s your chance. As the chief law enforcement officer of the country what say you? Who acted stupidly? And how has Obama used this incident to improve the racial dialogue and environment in America?
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More hope and change we can believe in? More reasons for voter remorse!
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Prior Item:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/obama-honeymoon-winding-down.html
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Wednesday, July 22, 2009
The Economic Reality
Where’s The Exit Strategy And Checkpoints?
7/21/09, Pg 1, 3: Deadly month, July deadliest month for US soldiers in Afghanistan.
Pg 3: Sec. Defense Gates increasing Army by 22,000 for Afghanistan operations.
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7/8/09, Pg 6, Taliban forces escape massive US offensive in Afghanistan. Violence at highest levels since 2001 even after Obama ordered an additional 175,000 troops sent there. NATO nations threaten to draw down their forces because they are suffering casualties.
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For eight years all we heard from the Democrats and their media associates was “there must be an exit strategy for Iraq and Congress must approve the checkpoints to get there”!
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So, where’s The Exit Strategy and Checkpoints for Afghanistan? Our troops now don’t even disturb the poppy fields because it “upsets the farmers”! This is hope and change we can believe in?
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Now Obama and his CIA chief Panetta have stopped the CIA from implementing direct covert action to selectively kill Osama Bin laden and his top commanders with minimal damage to civilians. Don’t we have a $25 Million reward, dead or alive, for Bin laden? What are Obama and Panetta thinking? Are we now going to stop going after them with Predator Missiles too?
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Prior Item:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/04/obamas-afghanistan-war.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/11/democrats-indicted-judgement-tbd.html
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Pg 3: Sec. Defense Gates increasing Army by 22,000 for Afghanistan operations.
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7/8/09, Pg 6, Taliban forces escape massive US offensive in Afghanistan. Violence at highest levels since 2001 even after Obama ordered an additional 175,000 troops sent there. NATO nations threaten to draw down their forces because they are suffering casualties.
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For eight years all we heard from the Democrats and their media associates was “there must be an exit strategy for Iraq and Congress must approve the checkpoints to get there”!
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So, where’s The Exit Strategy and Checkpoints for Afghanistan? Our troops now don’t even disturb the poppy fields because it “upsets the farmers”! This is hope and change we can believe in?
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Now Obama and his CIA chief Panetta have stopped the CIA from implementing direct covert action to selectively kill Osama Bin laden and his top commanders with minimal damage to civilians. Don’t we have a $25 Million reward, dead or alive, for Bin laden? What are Obama and Panetta thinking? Are we now going to stop going after them with Predator Missiles too?
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Prior Item:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/04/obamas-afghanistan-war.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/11/democrats-indicted-judgement-tbd.html
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The Terrorists Are Still Waging War
The Terrorists are still waging war –
somebody tell Obama!
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Obama actions and response: “I talked to them nicely, I apologized for our response to 911, I told them we were NOT a Judean-Christian nation, I kissed Allah’s feet on Al Jazeera and told them I’m one of them and I have not used the term ‘War on Terror’.” I also had my CIA chief stop the implementation of plans to kill Osama Bin laden and his leadership team and I’m going to close GITMO and free those slaves. What more can I do? I’ve done all I can to stop the war! Is this not the hope and change I promised?
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7/18/09, Pg 4, Bombers kill 9 and injured 50 at Marriott and Ritz-Carlton in Manila, persons connected to al-Qaida believed responsible.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,533566,00.html?test=latestnews
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Roanoke Times, 7/19/09, Pg 16: Clinton calls for support of anti-terrorism campaign in India.
Hillary – when you get back to DC – tell Obama what you told the Indians!
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/07/17/clinton-hotel-bombings-reminder-terror-real/
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9/17/09, Pg 3: CIA spent years trying to assemble teams capable of killing the top al-Qaida leaders. Teams would augment those teams that direct Predator missile strikes against al-Qaida and Taliban leaders in Pakistan.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/07/14/cia-plan-envisioned-hit-teams-killing-al-qaeda-leaders/
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7/14/09, Pg 5, Program targeted al-Qaida leaders. “Official said Pres. Bush authorized killing al-Qaida leaders shortly after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and that Congress was made aware of that.”
Leon Panetta, current CIA director, and former political hack for Bill Clinton, divulged the operation to the entire House and Senate Intelligence Committees in violation of national security policy that only the top four members of each committee were authorized to receive such security information.
Panetta told the committee “there was no indication that there was anything illegal or inappropriate about the effort itself”.
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7/19/09, Pg Horiz 2, Editorial: If the VP (Cheney) ignored the law he must be held accountable.
Yes indeed – let’s publicize and then dismantle our entire anti-terrorism methods, processes, procedures and objectives and then abuse and harass those who worked diligently to protect Americans from yet another attack on the homeland! After all, Obama has declared we’re not at war anymore!
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/05/audacity-of-moral-reprimanding.html
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/obama-america-not-judeo-chistian-nation.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/06/obama-commander-of-unilateral.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/obama-ich-bin-ein-muslim.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/inconvenient-terrorist-attack.html
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somebody tell Obama!
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Obama actions and response: “I talked to them nicely, I apologized for our response to 911, I told them we were NOT a Judean-Christian nation, I kissed Allah’s feet on Al Jazeera and told them I’m one of them and I have not used the term ‘War on Terror’.” I also had my CIA chief stop the implementation of plans to kill Osama Bin laden and his leadership team and I’m going to close GITMO and free those slaves. What more can I do? I’ve done all I can to stop the war! Is this not the hope and change I promised?
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7/18/09, Pg 4, Bombers kill 9 and injured 50 at Marriott and Ritz-Carlton in Manila, persons connected to al-Qaida believed responsible.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,533566,00.html?test=latestnews
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Roanoke Times, 7/19/09, Pg 16: Clinton calls for support of anti-terrorism campaign in India.
Hillary – when you get back to DC – tell Obama what you told the Indians!
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/07/17/clinton-hotel-bombings-reminder-terror-real/
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9/17/09, Pg 3: CIA spent years trying to assemble teams capable of killing the top al-Qaida leaders. Teams would augment those teams that direct Predator missile strikes against al-Qaida and Taliban leaders in Pakistan.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/07/14/cia-plan-envisioned-hit-teams-killing-al-qaeda-leaders/
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7/14/09, Pg 5, Program targeted al-Qaida leaders. “Official said Pres. Bush authorized killing al-Qaida leaders shortly after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and that Congress was made aware of that.”
Leon Panetta, current CIA director, and former political hack for Bill Clinton, divulged the operation to the entire House and Senate Intelligence Committees in violation of national security policy that only the top four members of each committee were authorized to receive such security information.
Panetta told the committee “there was no indication that there was anything illegal or inappropriate about the effort itself”.
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7/19/09, Pg Horiz 2, Editorial: If the VP (Cheney) ignored the law he must be held accountable.
Yes indeed – let’s publicize and then dismantle our entire anti-terrorism methods, processes, procedures and objectives and then abuse and harass those who worked diligently to protect Americans from yet another attack on the homeland! After all, Obama has declared we’re not at war anymore!
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/05/audacity-of-moral-reprimanding.html
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/obama-america-not-judeo-chistian-nation.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/06/obama-commander-of-unilateral.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/obama-ich-bin-ein-muslim.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/inconvenient-terrorist-attack.html
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In God Some Still Trust
Roanoke Times, 7/4/09, Pg 13, Editorial: Printing of Thomas Jefferson’s “Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America”
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A well deserved and timely publishing of this most important document in our history, however, amazingly the Roanoke Times editor included the last paragraph:
“And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the Protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor”.
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Clearly the editorial page editor and the Roanoke Times editorial team included this paragraph in an error of commission!
They-all clearly have sided with every anti-God and anti-Jesus action by atheists, the ACLU, and most recently Obama in his “Ish Bin Ein Muslim” speech in which he declared to the world that “America is NOT a Judean-Christian nation.”
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This of course is in harmony with Obama’s Pennsylvania speech mocking those poor country folks clinging to their guns and bibles and with his “God Damn America” spiritual advisor.
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/obama-america-not-judeo-chistian-nation.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/10/take-god-out.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/08/scouts-honor.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/02/goodbye-dont-let-door-hit-you-on-way.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/12/fake-war.html
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A well deserved and timely publishing of this most important document in our history, however, amazingly the Roanoke Times editor included the last paragraph:
“And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the Protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor”.
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Clearly the editorial page editor and the Roanoke Times editorial team included this paragraph in an error of commission!
They-all clearly have sided with every anti-God and anti-Jesus action by atheists, the ACLU, and most recently Obama in his “Ish Bin Ein Muslim” speech in which he declared to the world that “America is NOT a Judean-Christian nation.”
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This of course is in harmony with Obama’s Pennsylvania speech mocking those poor country folks clinging to their guns and bibles and with his “God Damn America” spiritual advisor.
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/obama-america-not-judeo-chistian-nation.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/10/take-god-out.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/08/scouts-honor.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/02/goodbye-dont-let-door-hit-you-on-way.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/12/fake-war.html
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Monday, July 20, 2009
Yet Another Stuck-on-Stupid Study
Roanoke Times, 7/20/09, Pg 1: Study links pollution to lower IQ scores. Researchers attached air-monitoring devices to women in the last few months of pregnancy.
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This study makes one wonder not about the IQ of the women and children studied but of the researchers involved and all those who chose to write about this study and even chose to put it on the front page of a news paper (other than the Inquirer).
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Cause and effect relationships dealing with people and particularly their IQ levels would certainly require a great deal more than “attaching air-monitoring devices to women in the last few months of pregnancy”.
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This tripe is similar to the study reporting that the sons of women who smoke are much more likely to be future prison inmates than those who don’t smoke.
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Women who smoke during child-bearing and those who live in areas with “bad- air” clearly form a selective group in which there are many potential causal parameters from both nature and nurture. Some simple issues include: what are the mother’s and father’s IQs and family history and how many drugs have they taken and when and what kind?
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To publish this tripe as news is irresponsible and unprofessional and those involved should be ashamed and apologize to those studied and to the public for insulting their intelligence!
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Prior Item:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/09/adhd-cause-effect.html
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This study makes one wonder not about the IQ of the women and children studied but of the researchers involved and all those who chose to write about this study and even chose to put it on the front page of a news paper (other than the Inquirer).
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Cause and effect relationships dealing with people and particularly their IQ levels would certainly require a great deal more than “attaching air-monitoring devices to women in the last few months of pregnancy”.
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This tripe is similar to the study reporting that the sons of women who smoke are much more likely to be future prison inmates than those who don’t smoke.
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Women who smoke during child-bearing and those who live in areas with “bad- air” clearly form a selective group in which there are many potential causal parameters from both nature and nurture. Some simple issues include: what are the mother’s and father’s IQs and family history and how many drugs have they taken and when and what kind?
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To publish this tripe as news is irresponsible and unprofessional and those involved should be ashamed and apologize to those studied and to the public for insulting their intelligence!
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Prior Item:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/09/adhd-cause-effect.html
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Political Ads Replace News
Roanoke Times, 7/20/09, Pg 1 & 14: Deeds to detail his plan
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A wonderful heartwarming FREE-political ad by the Roanoke Times for their Democrat candidate for Va Governor highlighting Deeds wonderful positions and attributes and vigorously villainizing his Republican Opponent Bob McDonnell.
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Forty-three square-inches with photogenic picture of Deeds on page 1 with an ongoing 60 square-inches on page 14. What’s the going price for this type of a political ad and does the election law require the Roanoke Times to declare that amount as a campaign contribution?
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It’s unfortunate that the editorial board of the Roanoke Times doesn’t understand that fair and balanced news reporting is a key part of our democratic political system. Apparently it takes more than a degree in journalism to make a real journalist. Clearly these folks need not apply for the Tim Russert fairness award!
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Prior Item:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/11/roanoke-times-awash-in-hypocrisy.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/can-you-say-democrat.html
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A wonderful heartwarming FREE-political ad by the Roanoke Times for their Democrat candidate for Va Governor highlighting Deeds wonderful positions and attributes and vigorously villainizing his Republican Opponent Bob McDonnell.
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Forty-three square-inches with photogenic picture of Deeds on page 1 with an ongoing 60 square-inches on page 14. What’s the going price for this type of a political ad and does the election law require the Roanoke Times to declare that amount as a campaign contribution?
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It’s unfortunate that the editorial board of the Roanoke Times doesn’t understand that fair and balanced news reporting is a key part of our democratic political system. Apparently it takes more than a degree in journalism to make a real journalist. Clearly these folks need not apply for the Tim Russert fairness award!
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Prior Item:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/11/roanoke-times-awash-in-hypocrisy.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/can-you-say-democrat.html
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Monday, July 13, 2009
Perriello, Boucher & Pelosi Vote for Cap&TAX
Apparently Perriello, Boucher and their friends at the Roanoke Times feel that energy is too cheap!
Roanoke Times, 7/6/09, Pg 7: GOP ads target Boucher and Perriello for supporting the Gore, Obama, Pelosi, Reid Cap&Trade bill.
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RT, 7/7/09, Pg 8: The Roanoke Times and their business partner WDBJ (chan 7) refused to run the anti-Cap&Trade Bill without editing, albeit that two other local TV stations ran the ad.
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Isn’t it comforting that the Roanoke Times is editing paid advertising that criticizes a major piece of incredibly bad legislation and their friend Perriello who voted for it. Most people had no idea that the editorial board of the RT is an integral part of Perriello’s media team.
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A very interesting part of the Cap & TAX story is its intersection with the ongoing AEP rate increase hearings. These increases are based on the increased energy costs to AEP beyond those calculated into the current rate structure.
Roanoke Times, 7/16/09, Pg 12: Editorial: Area lawmakers can do more than rail against rising electric rates.
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So, let’s rail against current increases in energy costs, but let’s get behind and support the largest energy tax package the world has ever seen! What do these people think is going to happen based on the Obama, Pelosi, Reid energy policy of reducing and taxing current energy supply systems and replacing them with very expensive and unreliable and intermittent systems based on the sun-shining and the wind-blowing.
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The most disturbing part of all this is that Obama, Pelosi, Reid are promoting these changes based on a totally false Gore-hypothesis that man-made CO2 is causing catastrophic climate changes.
Perhaps Perriello is starting to get the message that the wheels are coming off that wagon because his latest mass mailing indicates he voted for the Cap&TAX Bill because it supports homeland security.
Really? How can it do that when it does not generate one BTU of energy, one Kilowatt of electricity, one barrel of oil or one ton of coal!
It does not reduce our dependency on foreign energy supply which is precisely what is required to help our security!
What it does do is to apply a major tax to energy production and CO2 generating processes like fertilizers and lime (key to food prices) and cement (key to construction prices).
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Join the majority of educated people of the world who reject the Gore-Hypothesis and are questioning making major bad policy based on faulty hypothesis.
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Be Informed: Spend Some Time Perusing Energy Data and Facts:
http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/
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Click for a current view of “What Fools We Mortals Be”:
http://www.roanokeslant.org:80/ObamaThermostat.jpg
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Roanoke Times, 7/6/09, Pg 7: GOP ads target Boucher and Perriello for supporting the Gore, Obama, Pelosi, Reid Cap&Trade bill.
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RT, 7/7/09, Pg 8: The Roanoke Times and their business partner WDBJ (chan 7) refused to run the anti-Cap&Trade Bill without editing, albeit that two other local TV stations ran the ad.
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Isn’t it comforting that the Roanoke Times is editing paid advertising that criticizes a major piece of incredibly bad legislation and their friend Perriello who voted for it. Most people had no idea that the editorial board of the RT is an integral part of Perriello’s media team.
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A very interesting part of the Cap & TAX story is its intersection with the ongoing AEP rate increase hearings. These increases are based on the increased energy costs to AEP beyond those calculated into the current rate structure.
Roanoke Times, 7/16/09, Pg 12: Editorial: Area lawmakers can do more than rail against rising electric rates.
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So, let’s rail against current increases in energy costs, but let’s get behind and support the largest energy tax package the world has ever seen! What do these people think is going to happen based on the Obama, Pelosi, Reid energy policy of reducing and taxing current energy supply systems and replacing them with very expensive and unreliable and intermittent systems based on the sun-shining and the wind-blowing.
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The most disturbing part of all this is that Obama, Pelosi, Reid are promoting these changes based on a totally false Gore-hypothesis that man-made CO2 is causing catastrophic climate changes.
Perhaps Perriello is starting to get the message that the wheels are coming off that wagon because his latest mass mailing indicates he voted for the Cap&TAX Bill because it supports homeland security.
Really? How can it do that when it does not generate one BTU of energy, one Kilowatt of electricity, one barrel of oil or one ton of coal!
It does not reduce our dependency on foreign energy supply which is precisely what is required to help our security!
What it does do is to apply a major tax to energy production and CO2 generating processes like fertilizers and lime (key to food prices) and cement (key to construction prices).
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Join the majority of educated people of the world who reject the Gore-Hypothesis and are questioning making major bad policy based on faulty hypothesis.
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Be Informed: Spend Some Time Perusing Energy Data and Facts:
http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/
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Click for a current view of “What Fools We Mortals Be”:
http://www.roanokeslant.org:80/ObamaThermostat.jpg
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Michael Jackson the new Anna Nicole Smith
After hundreds of hours of media coverage, thousands of articles and millions of words all exalting the king-of-pop the beat continues to go on without end and all in the name of “news”.
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Perhaps the reality is that for the first half of his life Michael was a talented performer and for the second half of his life Michael was a colossal disappointment to those who believe being reasonable, prudent and responsible are important human attributes.
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When the final words are written about Michael it may be that you can’t get someone into heaven by writing a good obituary or by delivering a moving eulogy.
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Perhaps the reality is that for the first half of his life Michael was a talented performer and for the second half of his life Michael was a colossal disappointment to those who believe being reasonable, prudent and responsible are important human attributes.
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When the final words are written about Michael it may be that you can’t get someone into heaven by writing a good obituary or by delivering a moving eulogy.
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Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Obama ABC and New Pravda
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pravda
Pravda (Russian: Правда, "Truth") was a leading newspaper of the Soviet Union and an official organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party between 1912 and 1991.
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The upcoming ABC special infomercial from the White House staring Obama and friends for socialized-medicine (and excluding all others) is a new high-water mark for the Pravdaization of the American major media.
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A free, open, fair and balanced news press has been vital to our national balance of power as implied by the description “the fourth estate”. Because of this history, our courts have even granted the press significant latitudes beyond the first amendment definitions.
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The major news media have indeed lost their professional compass and perspective and many are in financial distress, not because of the weak economy or bloggers or other forms of media. It’s because they have totally lost the journalistic concept that with power comes responsibility!
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/03/not-weird-just-wrong.html
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Over time the majority of the Russian people (those not in The Party) came to not only reject Pravda but also to despise it. This process is unfolding in America and the worrisome issues are who and what will replace our old Fourth Estate?
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Some examples of the New Pravda:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/obama-honeymoon-winding-down.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/03/not-weird-just-wrong.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/90-million-shoes.html
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Pravda (Russian: Правда, "Truth") was a leading newspaper of the Soviet Union and an official organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party between 1912 and 1991.
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The upcoming ABC special infomercial from the White House staring Obama and friends for socialized-medicine (and excluding all others) is a new high-water mark for the Pravdaization of the American major media.
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A free, open, fair and balanced news press has been vital to our national balance of power as implied by the description “the fourth estate”. Because of this history, our courts have even granted the press significant latitudes beyond the first amendment definitions.
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The major news media have indeed lost their professional compass and perspective and many are in financial distress, not because of the weak economy or bloggers or other forms of media. It’s because they have totally lost the journalistic concept that with power comes responsibility!
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/03/not-weird-just-wrong.html
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Over time the majority of the Russian people (those not in The Party) came to not only reject Pravda but also to despise it. This process is unfolding in America and the worrisome issues are who and what will replace our old Fourth Estate?
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Some examples of the New Pravda:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/obama-honeymoon-winding-down.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/03/not-weird-just-wrong.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/90-million-shoes.html
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Monday, June 22, 2009
Obama: America not a Judeo-Christian Nation
Obama declared to the Muslim world in Turkey on April 6, 2009 that America is not a Judeo-Christian Nation.
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Watch and listen to Rep Randy Forbes' response and challenge to Obama's declaration:
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More hope and change we can believe in?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpQOCvthw-o
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpQOCvthw-o
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Prior Item:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/obama-ich-bin-ein-muslim.html
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Watch and listen to Rep Randy Forbes' response and challenge to Obama's declaration:
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More hope and change we can believe in?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpQOCvthw-o
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpQOCvthw-o
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Prior Item:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/obama-ich-bin-ein-muslim.html
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Obama Honeymoon Winding Down
After one long year of the most endearing and intensive honeymoon between Obama and the major media, the reality of the Obama, Pelosi, Reid economic, social and political agendas are starting to be understood by the American people.
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The following blog items summarize some of the disturbing major realities of the Obama, Pelosi, Reid programs that Americans now recognize are not the change and direction they hoped for:
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Obama, Iran, N.Korea, Israel
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/this-week-obama-iran-nkorea-israel.html
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Economic Reflections & Revisionism
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/economic-reflections-revisionism.html
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Obama Palliative Care : The New Euthanasia
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/palliative-care-new-euthanasia.html
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Obama's New American System
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/name-new-american-system.html
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-The following blog items summarize some of the disturbing major realities of the Obama, Pelosi, Reid programs that Americans now recognize are not the change and direction they hoped for:
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Obama, Iran, N.Korea, Israel
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/this-week-obama-iran-nkorea-israel.html
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Economic Reflections & Revisionism
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/economic-reflections-revisionism.html
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Obama Palliative Care : The New Euthanasia
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/palliative-care-new-euthanasia.html
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Obama's New American System
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/name-new-american-system.html
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Friday, June 19, 2009
This week: Obama, Iran, N.Korea, Israel
Obama: N.Korea nuclear program poses "grave threat"
http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN16270891
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U.S. Fortifies Hawaii to Meet Threat From N.Korea
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124535285705228571.html#mod=rss_Today
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The President yesterday denounced the "extent of the fraud" and the "shocking" and "brutal" response of the Iranian regime to public demonstrations in Tehran these past four days.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124520170103721579.html
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JERUSALEM -- A new poll shows only 6 percent of Israeli Jews see President Barack Obama's administration as pro-Israel,
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/06/19/poll-israelis-obama-pro-palestinian/
Can you imagine the number of American Jews who are having major buyers-remorse based on the last election investment of their money and votes? Where's Chuck Schumer now?
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Apparently Obama’s Appeasement speeches, his Ich bin ein Muslim speech in Cairo and his pathetic pandering with his “we are bad and you have a right to hate us” pronouncements are not working out well. What next? I just called to say I love you?
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The wheels are coming off the Obama-foreign-policy-wagon! Perhaps a good move and diversion would be a new election for Vice President: Biden vs Cheney. After what we’ve seen, would there be any doubt about the outcome?
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And what’s with the missile defense of Hawaii? Didn’t Obama state he was shutting down the US anti-missile system! See and listen to his commitment to the left-wing fellow-travelers for yourself:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o84PE871BE&eurl
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And the major left-wing media continues their pronouncements that Obama is heading in the right direction! What map, what GPS and what compass are these losers using? Talk about your Pied Piper and lemmings!
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Prior items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/obama-ich-bin-ein-muslim.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/inconvenient-terrorist-attack.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/04/obama-north-korea-missiles-nuclear.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/06/obama-commander-of-unilateral.html
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http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN16270891
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U.S. Fortifies Hawaii to Meet Threat From N.Korea
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124535285705228571.html#mod=rss_Today
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The President yesterday denounced the "extent of the fraud" and the "shocking" and "brutal" response of the Iranian regime to public demonstrations in Tehran these past four days.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124520170103721579.html
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JERUSALEM -- A new poll shows only 6 percent of Israeli Jews see President Barack Obama's administration as pro-Israel,
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/06/19/poll-israelis-obama-pro-palestinian/
Can you imagine the number of American Jews who are having major buyers-remorse based on the last election investment of their money and votes? Where's Chuck Schumer now?
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Apparently Obama’s Appeasement speeches, his Ich bin ein Muslim speech in Cairo and his pathetic pandering with his “we are bad and you have a right to hate us” pronouncements are not working out well. What next? I just called to say I love you?
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The wheels are coming off the Obama-foreign-policy-wagon! Perhaps a good move and diversion would be a new election for Vice President: Biden vs Cheney. After what we’ve seen, would there be any doubt about the outcome?
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And what’s with the missile defense of Hawaii? Didn’t Obama state he was shutting down the US anti-missile system! See and listen to his commitment to the left-wing fellow-travelers for yourself:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o84PE871BE&eurl
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And the major left-wing media continues their pronouncements that Obama is heading in the right direction! What map, what GPS and what compass are these losers using? Talk about your Pied Piper and lemmings!
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Prior items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/obama-ich-bin-ein-muslim.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/inconvenient-terrorist-attack.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/04/obama-north-korea-missiles-nuclear.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/06/obama-commander-of-unilateral.html
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Economic Reflections & Revisionism
Roanoke Times, 6/10/09, Pg 20: Editorial: Give stimulus time to work, recession was eight years in the making.
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The democrats and their liberal media associates are busy rewriting the economic history of the past nine years. Perhaps it would be prudent to look at the nine year economic index before extending the Obama administration spin beyond all fact and reality.
Note: click-on image for full-size
http://www.roanokeslant.org/EconomicReflection.jpg
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One might also reflect on the government as the primary cause of the current financial crisis through congressional demands on Fannie-May and Freddy-Mac to loan billions of dollars in mortgages to people who couldn’t afford them. These “toxic assets” are still “on the books” with no resolution in sight.
To revisit the highlights of congressional hearings going back to 2001 click-on:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMnSp4qEXNM&NR=1
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/hiding-pelosi-reid-again.html
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The facts are that the stimulus is NOT working and we are accelerating further into difficulty. Unemployment is over 9%. Foreclosures are still increasing; the government (taxpayers) indebtedness is astronomical and growing rapidly. GM is now in bankruptcy after $50 BILLION taxpayer money thrown away and dealerships and suppliers are falling off a cliff.
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The major issue with the “shovel ready” stimulus plan is just that – “shovel ready”. Of all the unemployed, how many run bulldozers, excavators, dump-trucks and jack-hammers? The focus should be on small business stimulation to create and grow private sector real long-term jobs. That’s not being done because the AFLCIO and UAW and other unions may not collect their pay-back from the last election.
It’s also not being done because the team of Obama, Pelosi and Reid are determined to use the crisis to drive the country into a European-socialist economic model that suits their philosophy and cultural vision.
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Yet more hope and change we can believe in!
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Taxes and Debt are like anchors
nailing our ship of state to the bottom
where socialism and stagnation
hold us securely to mediocrity
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/04/stimulus-anchor.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/name-new-american-system.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/obamas-gm-new-amtrack.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/04/stimulus-anchor.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/obama-economics.html
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/ClintonRecession.jpg
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The democrats and their liberal media associates are busy rewriting the economic history of the past nine years. Perhaps it would be prudent to look at the nine year economic index before extending the Obama administration spin beyond all fact and reality.
Note: click-on image for full-size
http://www.roanokeslant.org/EconomicReflection.jpg
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One might also reflect on the government as the primary cause of the current financial crisis through congressional demands on Fannie-May and Freddy-Mac to loan billions of dollars in mortgages to people who couldn’t afford them. These “toxic assets” are still “on the books” with no resolution in sight.
To revisit the highlights of congressional hearings going back to 2001 click-on:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMnSp4qEXNM&NR=1
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/hiding-pelosi-reid-again.html
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The facts are that the stimulus is NOT working and we are accelerating further into difficulty. Unemployment is over 9%. Foreclosures are still increasing; the government (taxpayers) indebtedness is astronomical and growing rapidly. GM is now in bankruptcy after $50 BILLION taxpayer money thrown away and dealerships and suppliers are falling off a cliff.
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The major issue with the “shovel ready” stimulus plan is just that – “shovel ready”. Of all the unemployed, how many run bulldozers, excavators, dump-trucks and jack-hammers? The focus should be on small business stimulation to create and grow private sector real long-term jobs. That’s not being done because the AFLCIO and UAW and other unions may not collect their pay-back from the last election.
It’s also not being done because the team of Obama, Pelosi and Reid are determined to use the crisis to drive the country into a European-socialist economic model that suits their philosophy and cultural vision.
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Yet more hope and change we can believe in!
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Taxes and Debt are like anchors
nailing our ship of state to the bottom
where socialism and stagnation
hold us securely to mediocrity
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/04/stimulus-anchor.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/name-new-american-system.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/obamas-gm-new-amtrack.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/04/stimulus-anchor.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/obama-economics.html
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/ClintonRecession.jpg
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Obama: Ich bin ein Muslim
Roanoke Times, 6/16/09, Pg 5: Three kidnapped women found mutilated and slain by al-Qaida in San’a Yemen. Two were German nurses and a South Korean teacher. Also missing are a German doctor, his wife and their three children.
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How could this have happened following Obama’s “Ich bin ein Muslim” Cairo speech that was advertised as being embraced by the radical Muslims who now are supposed to understand that we are nice people and their friends and we’re not at war with them anymore. That was just a Bush thing!
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The nativity of our new leaders is difficult to comprehend and will prove to be like the often repeated processes of appeasement throughout world history.
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/inconvenient-terrorist-attack.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/05/audacity-of-appeasement.html
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How could this have happened following Obama’s “Ich bin ein Muslim” Cairo speech that was advertised as being embraced by the radical Muslims who now are supposed to understand that we are nice people and their friends and we’re not at war with them anymore. That was just a Bush thing!
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The nativity of our new leaders is difficult to comprehend and will prove to be like the often repeated processes of appeasement throughout world history.
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/inconvenient-terrorist-attack.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/05/audacity-of-appeasement.html
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Palliative Care - The New Euthanasia
Roanoke Times, 6/15/09, Pg 1, 14: Va Senator Mark Warner kicks off ObamaCare with law that will limit Medicare funding for late-in-life medical procedures.
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Roanoke Times, 6/16/09, Pg 1, 8: Obama presents ObamaCare to Doctors. “Cost of health care is an escalating burden on our families and businesses.”
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Roanoke Times, 6/17/09, Pg 18: Editorial: “Comfort the dying.”
Not since Orwell’s 1984 has one coined such double-speak!
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American’s in general and senior citizen’s specifically don’t need Obama, Warner or the editors of the Roanoke Times to pass laws telling us and our doctors what their medical care should or shouldn’t be! We don’t need rationing or mandated restrictions; we need freedom of choice and an inviolate patient-doctor relationship that is immune to both government bureaucrats and ambulance-chasing-lawyers.
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All we really need is for Congress to enact reasonable and prudent limits on lawsuits and litigation so that hospitals and doctors do not have to continue to practice “preventative-lawsuit-medicine” and also pay tremendous liability insurance premiums that are passed on to the public!
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That is the central core of our medical care and cost problems; however, the-in-charge democrat party is in the trial-lawyer’s pockets and are not about to bite the hand that feeds them. In their view it’s much better to socialize medicine so that the new medical waiting room can be an extension of the motor vehicle office with all the associated implications.
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Roanoke Times, 6/16/09, Pg 1, 8: Obama presents ObamaCare to Doctors. “Cost of health care is an escalating burden on our families and businesses.”
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Roanoke Times, 6/17/09, Pg 18: Editorial: “Comfort the dying.”
Not since Orwell’s 1984 has one coined such double-speak!
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American’s in general and senior citizen’s specifically don’t need Obama, Warner or the editors of the Roanoke Times to pass laws telling us and our doctors what their medical care should or shouldn’t be! We don’t need rationing or mandated restrictions; we need freedom of choice and an inviolate patient-doctor relationship that is immune to both government bureaucrats and ambulance-chasing-lawyers.
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All we really need is for Congress to enact reasonable and prudent limits on lawsuits and litigation so that hospitals and doctors do not have to continue to practice “preventative-lawsuit-medicine” and also pay tremendous liability insurance premiums that are passed on to the public!
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That is the central core of our medical care and cost problems; however, the-in-charge democrat party is in the trial-lawyer’s pockets and are not about to bite the hand that feeds them. In their view it’s much better to socialize medicine so that the new medical waiting room can be an extension of the motor vehicle office with all the associated implications.
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Gore Girls Doing Hard Time for Him
The guy who would be president, invented the internet and discovered that we have left the little ice age and are in 250 years of natural global warming has outdone himself.
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Gores holding company, INdTV, owns “Current TV” an independent media company. In March 2009, two of Gores media employees, Euna Lee and Laura Ling, were arrested by the North Korean’s for entering their country illegally.
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On June 8 they were found guilty of illegal entry and committing "hostile acts against the DPRK and subsequently sentenced to twelve years of hard labor.
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In the middle of all this, North Korea has been setting off nuclear weapons and firing long range missiles and threatening all people with white-skin and oval-eyes.
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Now would be a good time for Gore to do the honorable thing that Capt. Richard Phillips' of the Maersk Alabama did, trade himself as a hostage in exchange for his two female employees!
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This act would show what a caring and responsible southern gentleman Gore is and at the same time save the world from more of his misdirected activities for the next 12 years.
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/04/obama-north-korea-missiles-nuclear.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/mr-gores-problem-with-data.html
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Gores holding company, INdTV, owns “Current TV” an independent media company. In March 2009, two of Gores media employees, Euna Lee and Laura Ling, were arrested by the North Korean’s for entering their country illegally.
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On June 8 they were found guilty of illegal entry and committing "hostile acts against the DPRK and subsequently sentenced to twelve years of hard labor.
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In the middle of all this, North Korea has been setting off nuclear weapons and firing long range missiles and threatening all people with white-skin and oval-eyes.
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Now would be a good time for Gore to do the honorable thing that Capt. Richard Phillips' of the Maersk Alabama did, trade himself as a hostage in exchange for his two female employees!
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This act would show what a caring and responsible southern gentleman Gore is and at the same time save the world from more of his misdirected activities for the next 12 years.
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/04/obama-north-korea-missiles-nuclear.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/mr-gores-problem-with-data.html
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Sunday, June 14, 2009
Name the New American System
Politicians and commentators, journalists and pundits are trying to assign a name to the New American System of Economics and Government and Industry that is now deeply involved in Government control of:
Automobile Industry
Banking Industry
Mortgage Industry
Energy Industry
Health Care Industry
Railroad (AMTRAK) System
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Some are using the old and much maligned Mussolini-Fascism term that some define as a political theory advocating an authoritarian hierarchical government (as opposed to democracy or liberalism) and that historically focused on government-run industry and minimization of profit-driven competitive systems.
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Historically America has shunned this approach except in times of crisis as when Harry Truman took over (nationalized) the steel industry to break the steel workers strike during WW2.
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Perhaps our major media, and The Roanoke Times, could sponsor a public contest in which all could submit candidate names for the new system; something like Virginia has tried to do for its new state song.
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As an aside, it’s not clear to me what portions of the Constitution support government nationalization of private industry and corporations and companies. Didn't the Supreme Court rule in Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer that nationalization of private industry in not OK!
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Automobile Industry
Banking Industry
Mortgage Industry
Energy Industry
Health Care Industry
Railroad (AMTRAK) System
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Some are using the old and much maligned Mussolini-Fascism term that some define as a political theory advocating an authoritarian hierarchical government (as opposed to democracy or liberalism) and that historically focused on government-run industry and minimization of profit-driven competitive systems.
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Historically America has shunned this approach except in times of crisis as when Harry Truman took over (nationalized) the steel industry to break the steel workers strike during WW2.
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Perhaps our major media, and The Roanoke Times, could sponsor a public contest in which all could submit candidate names for the new system; something like Virginia has tried to do for its new state song.
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As an aside, it’s not clear to me what portions of the Constitution support government nationalization of private industry and corporations and companies. Didn't the Supreme Court rule in Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer that nationalization of private industry in not OK!
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Friday, June 12, 2009
David “Gutter-mouth” Letterman & Friends
This week David Gutter-mouth Letterman chose to highlight his monologue with a disgusting rant focused on Alaska Governor Palin’s visit to NY and on her 14 year old daughter whom Letterman disparaged with a disgusting sick joke that she was sexually abused by a Yankee ball player.
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This garbage is a youtube item:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5g8kE_g-YA
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Compounding his gross misconduct was the laughter of the audience and the silence of major media, the NOW girls, and the editorial girls at the Roanoke Times.
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Apparently all these media folks who pretend to be keepers of civility and decorum are very politically selective when it comes to articulating their standards of decency and speaking out against this type of abuse directed at women and young girls.
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Prior item on how supportive all these girls were on Hillarie’s behalf:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/01/hillary-and-now-girls.html
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This garbage is a youtube item:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5g8kE_g-YA
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Compounding his gross misconduct was the laughter of the audience and the silence of major media, the NOW girls, and the editorial girls at the Roanoke Times.
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Apparently all these media folks who pretend to be keepers of civility and decorum are very politically selective when it comes to articulating their standards of decency and speaking out against this type of abuse directed at women and young girls.
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Prior item on how supportive all these girls were on Hillarie’s behalf:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/01/hillary-and-now-girls.html
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Thursday, June 11, 2009
College The New Welfare State
USA Today 6/3/09, Pg 1: 4-year colleges graduate 53% in 6 years
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What course of study are you following at college?
I’M UNDECLARED!
And what a convenient major that is and such a nice transition from high school!
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Excuse me if I’m not sympatric and also short on empathy but I did my BS in mechanical engineering in 4 years and an MS in electrical engineering in 1 year despite the fact that I was not nearly as quick or smart as many of my contemporizes.
Apparently there’s something about perseverance, work-ethic and determination that clearly can overcome shortfalls in many areas.
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So, stay in school and search for yourself. Never mind the concept of “Be all you can be”! And with Dad & Mom paying the bill or better yet, the government handing out lots of grant money, there’s no rush to get out there and join the human-race. How about a nice segway from college-welfare to lifetime-welfare and a culture of dependence and entitlement?
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And what about the college view of this? Apparently it’s OK. Lots of additional instructors and seats are required for full permanent growth and accommodation. Big budget increases every year, big increase in tuition every year, no visible or measurable payback in the huge investment in technology over the past 20 years and no thought about fiscal responsibility.
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Ever wonder why our productivity and associated standard of living are slipping away compared to many other countries?
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/06/teachers-short-on-math.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/11/feed-hungry-beasts.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/12/who-are-failures.html
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What course of study are you following at college?
I’M UNDECLARED!
And what a convenient major that is and such a nice transition from high school!
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Excuse me if I’m not sympatric and also short on empathy but I did my BS in mechanical engineering in 4 years and an MS in electrical engineering in 1 year despite the fact that I was not nearly as quick or smart as many of my contemporizes.
Apparently there’s something about perseverance, work-ethic and determination that clearly can overcome shortfalls in many areas.
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So, stay in school and search for yourself. Never mind the concept of “Be all you can be”! And with Dad & Mom paying the bill or better yet, the government handing out lots of grant money, there’s no rush to get out there and join the human-race. How about a nice segway from college-welfare to lifetime-welfare and a culture of dependence and entitlement?
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And what about the college view of this? Apparently it’s OK. Lots of additional instructors and seats are required for full permanent growth and accommodation. Big budget increases every year, big increase in tuition every year, no visible or measurable payback in the huge investment in technology over the past 20 years and no thought about fiscal responsibility.
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Ever wonder why our productivity and associated standard of living are slipping away compared to many other countries?
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/06/teachers-short-on-math.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/11/feed-hungry-beasts.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/12/who-are-failures.html
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Sunday, June 07, 2009
Dr. Thomas Frieden and Health Malfeasance
Roanoke Times, 6/7/09, Pg 16: Former NY health chief (Thomas Frieden) tapped (by Obama) to head agency (CDC).
A heartwarming summary, with picture, of Frieden’s wonderful accomplishments in NY public health management and his challenges as the nation’s chief public health chief.
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Roanoke Times, 8/30/08, Pg Va 9:
NY HIV+AIDS pandemic at least three times worse than national rate and much higher than documented.
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/08/aidshiv-pandemic-worse-than-reported.html
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,412141,00.html
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Clearly Obama is promoting a public health official who has been complicit in not containing the awful HIV+AIDS pandemic. Frieden and NY government have refused to implement the public health systems that were developed over 100 years ago because of Typhoid Mary. Because of this malfeasance of refusing to implement the same processes and procedures that are used for all major communicable diseases, this pandemic will continue to destroy thousands of innocent lives. The ultimate obscenity is to specifically and officially exclude HIV+AIDS from the definition of sexually transmitted diseases (STD’s) and thereby negate the health systems that have been used in their containment. Covering-up the magnitude and extent of the pandemic by never listing AIDS as cause of death is a national public health system disgrace. Frieden’s promotion to head of CDC will ensure that this malfeasance will continue. How pathetic!
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More hope and change we can believe in!
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To view the NY response to this pandemic click-on:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2005/02/hivaids.html
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Some Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/08/aidshiv-pandemic-worse-than-reported.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/07/hivaids-pandemic-continues.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/12/tens-of-thousands-of-virginians-dead.html
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A heartwarming summary, with picture, of Frieden’s wonderful accomplishments in NY public health management and his challenges as the nation’s chief public health chief.
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Roanoke Times, 8/30/08, Pg Va 9:
NY HIV+AIDS pandemic at least three times worse than national rate and much higher than documented.
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/08/aidshiv-pandemic-worse-than-reported.html
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,412141,00.html
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Clearly Obama is promoting a public health official who has been complicit in not containing the awful HIV+AIDS pandemic. Frieden and NY government have refused to implement the public health systems that were developed over 100 years ago because of Typhoid Mary. Because of this malfeasance of refusing to implement the same processes and procedures that are used for all major communicable diseases, this pandemic will continue to destroy thousands of innocent lives. The ultimate obscenity is to specifically and officially exclude HIV+AIDS from the definition of sexually transmitted diseases (STD’s) and thereby negate the health systems that have been used in their containment. Covering-up the magnitude and extent of the pandemic by never listing AIDS as cause of death is a national public health system disgrace. Frieden’s promotion to head of CDC will ensure that this malfeasance will continue. How pathetic!
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More hope and change we can believe in!
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To view the NY response to this pandemic click-on:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2005/02/hivaids.html
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Some Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/08/aidshiv-pandemic-worse-than-reported.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/07/hivaids-pandemic-continues.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/12/tens-of-thousands-of-virginians-dead.html
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Friday, June 05, 2009
Obama's GM the New AMTRACK
Roanoke Times, 6/2/09, Pg 1: Obama: GM’s nationalization only short term. Obama gives Government 60% and Canada 12.5%.
Nicely tucked away back on Pg 16: Obama gives GM an additional $30 BILLION for a running total of $50 BILLION and gives the UAW 17.5% of GM.Stockholders are wiped out and bondholders get 10%. And to think that the government is prosecuting Madoff for his ponzi scheme!
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$50 BILLION and now they go to bankruptcy! What was the $50 BILLION used for?Apparently to pay UAW workers not to make cars. Their reward: 17.5% of the company! What a deal! Sounds like Chavez and the oil company takeovers!
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GM has been on a straight line down from 45% market share in 1980 to 35% in 1992 to 28% in 2000 to 22% in 2008. Why didn’t the wonderful Bill Clinton team fix this when it went from 35% in 1992 to 28% in 2000; a time when the UAW forced GM to accept a contract giving them 90% pay when they weren’t building cars, a contract still in place!
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So here we are, with a new AMTRACK. A government owed business in which white house aids, senators and congressmen are going to determine, based on politics of course, what dealerships survive, what plants are to be operated and what future car designs should be. What a bargain for America.
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Toyota and Nissan meanwhile are doing what free-market enterprise companies are supposed to do: adapt, innovate, and focus on customer-centric products and service. Why didn’t we think of that?
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Prior Items:http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/04/gm-sinking-with-our-tax-money.html-
Nicely tucked away back on Pg 16: Obama gives GM an additional $30 BILLION for a running total of $50 BILLION and gives the UAW 17.5% of GM.Stockholders are wiped out and bondholders get 10%. And to think that the government is prosecuting Madoff for his ponzi scheme!
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$50 BILLION and now they go to bankruptcy! What was the $50 BILLION used for?Apparently to pay UAW workers not to make cars. Their reward: 17.5% of the company! What a deal! Sounds like Chavez and the oil company takeovers!
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GM has been on a straight line down from 45% market share in 1980 to 35% in 1992 to 28% in 2000 to 22% in 2008. Why didn’t the wonderful Bill Clinton team fix this when it went from 35% in 1992 to 28% in 2000; a time when the UAW forced GM to accept a contract giving them 90% pay when they weren’t building cars, a contract still in place!
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So here we are, with a new AMTRACK. A government owed business in which white house aids, senators and congressmen are going to determine, based on politics of course, what dealerships survive, what plants are to be operated and what future car designs should be. What a bargain for America.
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Toyota and Nissan meanwhile are doing what free-market enterprise companies are supposed to do: adapt, innovate, and focus on customer-centric products and service. Why didn’t we think of that?
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Prior Items:http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/04/gm-sinking-with-our-tax-money.html-
Thursday, June 04, 2009
An Inconvenient Terrorist Attack
Roanoke Times, 6/2/09, Pg 3: Large Heading and five column large article: Suspect is jailed in shooting death of abortion doctor.
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Pg 6: Small heading and small single column article: Arrest made after soldier killed at recruiting center.
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June 3, Pg 5: Almost entire page: Obama’s speech to trek rocky political terrain; The president on Thursday will address a Muslim world where distrust runs deep and credibility of the US is lacking.
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Thousands of Americans killed by radical-Muslims dating back to the early 1980’s culminating in the horrific 911 attack and the authors of this article and the editors of the Roanoke Times are concerned that the Muslims “distrust” us and that we have a lack of “credibility”!
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Reflecting on the Roanoke Times reporting of the two murders and the associated Obama response to them is also a clear measurement of the values and motivations of these two entities.
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A domestic-radical-Muslim shot two US soldiers outside an Army recruiting station in Little Rock Ark June 2, 09. One of the soldiers died from his wounds.
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Obama was busy getting ready for his trip to Egypt to kiss the feet of the Muslin world and inform them about all his Muslim background and connections.
What an inconvenient time to express his sorrow for our loss! Not the case when a late-term-abortionist was shot and killed the prior day. That was seized upon as an opportunity for a national press-OP to express a strong message of outrage.
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What a true measure of Obama, the politician, making clear decisions about expressing dismay over the death of an abortionist vs. a young soldier serving his country, killed by one of our sworn enemies in our homeland on our city street.
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Another true measure of Obama’s dedication to our safety is GITMO.
In spite of last weeks vote by both the House and Senate to NOT close GITMO and to NOT bring the GITMO detainees to the homeland, Obama held a new conference and ranted his distain for Congress and the American people and issued an edict that detainees will be brought here and that GITMO will close end of year!
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Much to the chagrin of Obama and Democrats and the liberal media, Americans believe, two to one, that GITMO should not close and that the detainees should stay there. They also believe that GITMO and water-boarding have added to our level of safety thereby siding with Chaney and not with Obama.
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The American people know that as soon as these detainees are brought here the ACLU will find liberal judges who will throw-out all charges and release them into our communities. The “OJ Dream Teams” and Judge Itos are easy to find! At that time Obama and friends will declare: “not my fault”!
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Perhaps Obama and his liberal supporters should start each day reading a brief summary of attacks upon Americas done primarily by the radical-Muslims he is embracing.
This partial list all pre-date George Bush and 911. Apparently it’s not all Bush’s fault!
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April 1983: 17 dead at the U.S. embassy in Beirut.
October 1983: 241 dead at the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut.
December 1983: five dead at the U.S. embassy in Kuwait.
January 1984: the president of the American University of Beirut killed.
April 1984: 18 dead near a U.S. airbase in Spain.
September 1984: 16 dead at the U.S. embassy in Beirut (again).
December 1984: Two dead on a plane hijacked to Tehran.
June 1985: One dead on a plane hijacked to Beirut.
After a let-up, the attacks then restarted: Five and 19 dead in Saudi Arabia in 1995 and 1996, 224 dead at the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in August 1998 and 17 dead on the USS Cole in Yemen in October 2000.
Simultaneously, the murderous assault of militant Islam also took place on U.S. soil:
July 1980: an Iranian dissident killed in the Washington, D.C. area.
August 1983: a leader of the Ahmadiyya sect of Islam killed in Canton, Mich.
August 1984: three Indians killed in a suburb of Tacoma, Wash.
September 1986: a doctor killed in Augusta, Ga.
January 1990: an Egyptian freethinker killed in Tucson, Ariz.
November 1990: a Jewish leader killed in New York.
February 1991: an Egyptian Islamist killed in New York.
January 1993: two CIA staff killed outside agency headquarters in Langley, Va.
February 1993: Six people killed at the World Trade Center.
March 1994: an Orthodox Jewish boy killed on the Brooklyn Bridge.
February 1997: a Danish tourist killed on the Empire State building.
October 1999: 217 passengers killed on an EgyptAir flight near New York City.
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/05/audacity-of-appeasement.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/05/audacity-of-moral-reprimanding.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/04/obama-north-korea-missiles-nuclear.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/04/audacity-of-groveling.html
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Pg 6: Small heading and small single column article: Arrest made after soldier killed at recruiting center.
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June 3, Pg 5: Almost entire page: Obama’s speech to trek rocky political terrain; The president on Thursday will address a Muslim world where distrust runs deep and credibility of the US is lacking.
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Thousands of Americans killed by radical-Muslims dating back to the early 1980’s culminating in the horrific 911 attack and the authors of this article and the editors of the Roanoke Times are concerned that the Muslims “distrust” us and that we have a lack of “credibility”!
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Reflecting on the Roanoke Times reporting of the two murders and the associated Obama response to them is also a clear measurement of the values and motivations of these two entities.
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A domestic-radical-Muslim shot two US soldiers outside an Army recruiting station in Little Rock Ark June 2, 09. One of the soldiers died from his wounds.
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Obama was busy getting ready for his trip to Egypt to kiss the feet of the Muslin world and inform them about all his Muslim background and connections.
What an inconvenient time to express his sorrow for our loss! Not the case when a late-term-abortionist was shot and killed the prior day. That was seized upon as an opportunity for a national press-OP to express a strong message of outrage.
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What a true measure of Obama, the politician, making clear decisions about expressing dismay over the death of an abortionist vs. a young soldier serving his country, killed by one of our sworn enemies in our homeland on our city street.
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Another true measure of Obama’s dedication to our safety is GITMO.
In spite of last weeks vote by both the House and Senate to NOT close GITMO and to NOT bring the GITMO detainees to the homeland, Obama held a new conference and ranted his distain for Congress and the American people and issued an edict that detainees will be brought here and that GITMO will close end of year!
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Much to the chagrin of Obama and Democrats and the liberal media, Americans believe, two to one, that GITMO should not close and that the detainees should stay there. They also believe that GITMO and water-boarding have added to our level of safety thereby siding with Chaney and not with Obama.
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The American people know that as soon as these detainees are brought here the ACLU will find liberal judges who will throw-out all charges and release them into our communities. The “OJ Dream Teams” and Judge Itos are easy to find! At that time Obama and friends will declare: “not my fault”!
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Perhaps Obama and his liberal supporters should start each day reading a brief summary of attacks upon Americas done primarily by the radical-Muslims he is embracing.
This partial list all pre-date George Bush and 911. Apparently it’s not all Bush’s fault!
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April 1983: 17 dead at the U.S. embassy in Beirut.
October 1983: 241 dead at the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut.
December 1983: five dead at the U.S. embassy in Kuwait.
January 1984: the president of the American University of Beirut killed.
April 1984: 18 dead near a U.S. airbase in Spain.
September 1984: 16 dead at the U.S. embassy in Beirut (again).
December 1984: Two dead on a plane hijacked to Tehran.
June 1985: One dead on a plane hijacked to Beirut.
After a let-up, the attacks then restarted: Five and 19 dead in Saudi Arabia in 1995 and 1996, 224 dead at the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in August 1998 and 17 dead on the USS Cole in Yemen in October 2000.
Simultaneously, the murderous assault of militant Islam also took place on U.S. soil:
July 1980: an Iranian dissident killed in the Washington, D.C. area.
August 1983: a leader of the Ahmadiyya sect of Islam killed in Canton, Mich.
August 1984: three Indians killed in a suburb of Tacoma, Wash.
September 1986: a doctor killed in Augusta, Ga.
January 1990: an Egyptian freethinker killed in Tucson, Ariz.
November 1990: a Jewish leader killed in New York.
February 1991: an Egyptian Islamist killed in New York.
January 1993: two CIA staff killed outside agency headquarters in Langley, Va.
February 1993: Six people killed at the World Trade Center.
March 1994: an Orthodox Jewish boy killed on the Brooklyn Bridge.
February 1997: a Danish tourist killed on the Empire State building.
October 1999: 217 passengers killed on an EgyptAir flight near New York City.
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/05/audacity-of-appeasement.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/05/audacity-of-moral-reprimanding.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/04/obama-north-korea-missiles-nuclear.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/04/audacity-of-groveling.html
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Thursday, May 28, 2009
For Climate Change Fashion – Go White
Energy Secretary Steven Chu stunned the audience at a London scientific conference Tuesday (5/26/09) with a radical but simple proposal to combat global warming: Paint all the roofs of all the buildings in the world white. If we did so, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist said, and if we also made sure the world's roads and sidewalks were light-colored, it would have the same effect on global warming as taking all the cars in the world off the world's roads for 11 years.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,522411,00.html
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It’s interesting how many of the climate-disaster people cling to their colors and inconvenient truth!
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Back in 1975, after 35 years of significant global cooling, the scientific consensus was that we were entering another “little ice age” and that the best solution was to send crop-duster planes to the Polar Regions to cover the ice and snow with black dust. The black dust would absorb the suns heat instead of having the ice and snow reflecting the suns heat.
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http://www.businessandmedia.org/articles/2006/20061024143134.aspx
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The major media publicized the coming climate disaster and exploited public fear and anxiety about the natural variations in earth’s climates. Aren’t we glad that that doesn’t happen anymore!
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Time Jun 24, 1974:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,944914,00.html
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NewsWeek Apr 28, 1975:
http://www.denisdutton.com/cooling_world.htm
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IT’S A GOOD THING WE DIDN’T FOLLOW THAT CONSENSUS!
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For a realistic view of our 250 Years of Natural Global Warming click-on:
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,522411,00.html
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It’s interesting how many of the climate-disaster people cling to their colors and inconvenient truth!
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Back in 1975, after 35 years of significant global cooling, the scientific consensus was that we were entering another “little ice age” and that the best solution was to send crop-duster planes to the Polar Regions to cover the ice and snow with black dust. The black dust would absorb the suns heat instead of having the ice and snow reflecting the suns heat.
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http://www.businessandmedia.org/articles/2006/20061024143134.aspx
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The major media publicized the coming climate disaster and exploited public fear and anxiety about the natural variations in earth’s climates. Aren’t we glad that that doesn’t happen anymore!
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Time Jun 24, 1974:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,944914,00.html
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NewsWeek Apr 28, 1975:
http://www.denisdutton.com/cooling_world.htm
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IT’S A GOOD THING WE DIDN’T FOLLOW THAT CONSENSUS!
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For a realistic view of our 250 Years of Natural Global Warming click-on:
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/
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Wednesday, May 27, 2009
New Qualifications for Supreme Court Judges
Roanoke Times, 5/27/09, Pg 1: Obama hails nominee’s ‘compassion’ (Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court)
Both Va senators (Webb & Warner) praised the Supreme Court nominee’s “personal story”
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Apparently the voters for “hope and change” have directed that the new major qualifications and responsibilities for our highest court are compassion and a moving personal story instead of judicial excellence and intellect.
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It appears that a new oath of office and a new depiction of Lady Justice will also be required to adapt to the new criteria.
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According to Title 28, Chapter I, Part 453 of the United States Code, each Supreme Court Justice takes the following oath: -"I, [NAME], do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will administer justice without respect to persons, and do equal right to the poor and to the rich, and that I will faithfully and impartially discharge and perform all the duties incumbent upon me as [TITLE] under the Constitution and laws of the United States. So help me God."
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My understanding has been that the oath was reflective and consistent with the symbol of Lady Justice, Justitia. She is depicted wearing a blindfold. This is done in order to indicate that justice is (or should be) meted out objectively, without fear or favor, regardless of identity, power, or weakness: blind justice and blind impartiality.
She also is depicted with a set of weighing scales typically suspended from her left hand, upon which she measures the strengths of a case's support and opposition. She is also often seen carrying a double-edged sword in her right hand, symbolizing the power of Reason and Justice, which may be wielded either for or against any party.
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Hopefully, during the hearings, the Senate Republicans will conduct themselves in a far superior and professional manner than did a number of vile and nasty Democrats during hearings for Judge Robert Bork and Justice Clarence Thomas. In fact those processes became so nasty and vindictive that the term Borked became part of the vernacular.
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Both Va senators (Webb & Warner) praised the Supreme Court nominee’s “personal story”
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Apparently the voters for “hope and change” have directed that the new major qualifications and responsibilities for our highest court are compassion and a moving personal story instead of judicial excellence and intellect.
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It appears that a new oath of office and a new depiction of Lady Justice will also be required to adapt to the new criteria.
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According to Title 28, Chapter I, Part 453 of the United States Code, each Supreme Court Justice takes the following oath: -"I, [NAME], do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will administer justice without respect to persons, and do equal right to the poor and to the rich, and that I will faithfully and impartially discharge and perform all the duties incumbent upon me as [TITLE] under the Constitution and laws of the United States. So help me God."
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My understanding has been that the oath was reflective and consistent with the symbol of Lady Justice, Justitia. She is depicted wearing a blindfold. This is done in order to indicate that justice is (or should be) meted out objectively, without fear or favor, regardless of identity, power, or weakness: blind justice and blind impartiality.
She also is depicted with a set of weighing scales typically suspended from her left hand, upon which she measures the strengths of a case's support and opposition. She is also often seen carrying a double-edged sword in her right hand, symbolizing the power of Reason and Justice, which may be wielded either for or against any party.
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Hopefully, during the hearings, the Senate Republicans will conduct themselves in a far superior and professional manner than did a number of vile and nasty Democrats during hearings for Judge Robert Bork and Justice Clarence Thomas. In fact those processes became so nasty and vindictive that the term Borked became part of the vernacular.
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Wednesday, May 20, 2009
The Audacity of Appeasement
Obama: I will talk nice to the North Koreans and they will join me in world peace.
Reality: The North Koreans’s fired an intercontinental missile over Japan that can reach US cities and have restarted their nuclear program they began with the Clinton-program.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/04/obama-north-korea-missiles-nuclear.html
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Obama: I will talk nice to the Iranians and they will join me in world peace.
Reality: The Iranians have fired a missile capable of hitting Israel and Europe and they continue to operate thousands of centrifuges to enrich uranium to weapons-grade.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/iran-winning-big.html
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Obama: I will stop the US antimissile program because it is a waste of money.
Reality: The US antimissile program is the only hope of defending against incoming missiles with weapons of mass destruction.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o84PE871BE&eurl
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Obama: I will talk nice to the Russians about joining me in world peace.
Reality: Not one word said about Russia’s invasion of and occupation of the free and independent nation of Georgia.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/04/obamas-afghanistan-war.html
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The world has seen and experienced other appeasers like Obama. And the result has always been the same.
http://www.historyguide.org/europe/munich.html
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The lesson: Those who beat their swords into plows
will plow for those who didn’t!
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Reality: The North Koreans’s fired an intercontinental missile over Japan that can reach US cities and have restarted their nuclear program they began with the Clinton-program.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/04/obama-north-korea-missiles-nuclear.html
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Obama: I will talk nice to the Iranians and they will join me in world peace.
Reality: The Iranians have fired a missile capable of hitting Israel and Europe and they continue to operate thousands of centrifuges to enrich uranium to weapons-grade.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/iran-winning-big.html
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Obama: I will stop the US antimissile program because it is a waste of money.
Reality: The US antimissile program is the only hope of defending against incoming missiles with weapons of mass destruction.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o84PE871BE&eurl
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Obama: I will talk nice to the Russians about joining me in world peace.
Reality: Not one word said about Russia’s invasion of and occupation of the free and independent nation of Georgia.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/04/obamas-afghanistan-war.html
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The world has seen and experienced other appeasers like Obama. And the result has always been the same.
http://www.historyguide.org/europe/munich.html
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The lesson: Those who beat their swords into plows
will plow for those who didn’t!
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Sunday, May 10, 2009
The Audacity of Moral Reprimanding
Roanoke Times, 5/3/09, Pg Horiz 1: We can’t let torture destroy justice.
A rambling 220 square inch expose by Mark Danner, a prof. at UCs Berkeley, admonishing everyone for the horrors of water-boarding those nice folks and their associates who have bombed and killed many Americans including 3,000 on 9/11.
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This expose is in addition to almost daily comments by Obama and his associates including selective disclosure of documents that describe the analysis and conclusions by those who were missioned to protect the citizens of America against a vicious organization of terrorists who have and still are focused on killing American people.
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Caught up in all this hindsight and retribution are those who had a sworn duty to protect America but now have selective amnesia and a new moral view. Included is Nancy “The Broom” Pelosi who is third in line for the Presidency. She is now making daily “adjustments” to her recollections about what she knew and when she knew it. Many other Senators and Congresspersons were informed and consistent with their oath of office and their responsibilities to “protect and defend” concluded that water-boarding was not sufficiently abhorrent when measured against the war that had been launched against our people.
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Perhaps it would be reasonable and prudent to relate water-boarding to the daily use by police of “tasering” disruptive people who don’t want to be arrested. Having seen many videos of the use of this tool, and the fact that each year numerous persons die after being “tased” one might conclude that water-boarding to save innocent lives may be a reasonable process and is not “destroying justice” but in fact may be exercising justice.
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Perhaps during a time of war the law of retaliation (lex talionis) is appropriate. This recognized military theory of retributive justice says that reciprocity should be equal to the wrong suffered; "life for life, wound for wound, stripe for stripe. One might conclude that a minute of drowning-fright to save innocent lives is far less retributive than the wrong we have suffered and continue to suffer.
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As an aside; isn’t it interesting that most of these pious moralists are pro-abortionists!
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Prior Item:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/10/good-torture-to-save-democrats.html
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A rambling 220 square inch expose by Mark Danner, a prof. at UCs Berkeley, admonishing everyone for the horrors of water-boarding those nice folks and their associates who have bombed and killed many Americans including 3,000 on 9/11.
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This expose is in addition to almost daily comments by Obama and his associates including selective disclosure of documents that describe the analysis and conclusions by those who were missioned to protect the citizens of America against a vicious organization of terrorists who have and still are focused on killing American people.
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Caught up in all this hindsight and retribution are those who had a sworn duty to protect America but now have selective amnesia and a new moral view. Included is Nancy “The Broom” Pelosi who is third in line for the Presidency. She is now making daily “adjustments” to her recollections about what she knew and when she knew it. Many other Senators and Congresspersons were informed and consistent with their oath of office and their responsibilities to “protect and defend” concluded that water-boarding was not sufficiently abhorrent when measured against the war that had been launched against our people.
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Perhaps it would be reasonable and prudent to relate water-boarding to the daily use by police of “tasering” disruptive people who don’t want to be arrested. Having seen many videos of the use of this tool, and the fact that each year numerous persons die after being “tased” one might conclude that water-boarding to save innocent lives may be a reasonable process and is not “destroying justice” but in fact may be exercising justice.
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Perhaps during a time of war the law of retaliation (lex talionis) is appropriate. This recognized military theory of retributive justice says that reciprocity should be equal to the wrong suffered; "life for life, wound for wound, stripe for stripe. One might conclude that a minute of drowning-fright to save innocent lives is far less retributive than the wrong we have suffered and continue to suffer.
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As an aside; isn’t it interesting that most of these pious moralists are pro-abortionists!
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Prior Item:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/10/good-torture-to-save-democrats.html
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Saturday, April 18, 2009
Antarctic Ice Still Hanging in There
Roanoke Times, 4/4/09, Pg 4: Ice shelf could break away from Antarctic coast.
“The beginning of what appears to be the demise ---“
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The message: Be afraid, be very afraid.
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However - the reality is: (not covered in the Roanoke Times – for obvious reasons):
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,517035,00.html
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Ice is expanding in much of Antarctica, contrary to the widespread public belief that global warming is melting the continental ice cap. The results of ice-core drilling and sea ice monitoring indicate there is no large-scale melting of ice over most of Antarctica, although experts are concerned at ice losses on the continent's western coast.
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Australia Antarctic Division glaciology program head Ian Allison said sea ice losses in west Antarctica over the past 30 years had been more than offset by increases in the Ross Sea region, just one sector of east Antarctica.
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Ice core drilling in the fast ice off Australia's Davis Station in East Antarctica by the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Co-Operative Research Center shows that last year, the ice had a maximum thickness of 1.89m, its densest in 10 years.
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A paper to be published soon by the British Antarctic Survey in the journal Geophysical Research Letters is expected to confirm that over the past 30 years, the area of sea ice around the continent has expanded.
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After 250 years of global warming (the little ice age ended in 1750) there is still lots of ice in the Antarctic! However, even if there wasn't -- man-kind has not caused the 250 years of global warming and man-kind is powerless to change it. The Darwin plan - adapt!
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Be afraid -- Be very afraid of those who would exploit our natural climate cycles for personal gain.
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Prior Items:http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/04/brown-polar-bears-at-risk.html
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“The beginning of what appears to be the demise ---“
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The message: Be afraid, be very afraid.
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However - the reality is: (not covered in the Roanoke Times – for obvious reasons):
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,517035,00.html
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Ice is expanding in much of Antarctica, contrary to the widespread public belief that global warming is melting the continental ice cap. The results of ice-core drilling and sea ice monitoring indicate there is no large-scale melting of ice over most of Antarctica, although experts are concerned at ice losses on the continent's western coast.
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Australia Antarctic Division glaciology program head Ian Allison said sea ice losses in west Antarctica over the past 30 years had been more than offset by increases in the Ross Sea region, just one sector of east Antarctica.
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Ice core drilling in the fast ice off Australia's Davis Station in East Antarctica by the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Co-Operative Research Center shows that last year, the ice had a maximum thickness of 1.89m, its densest in 10 years.
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A paper to be published soon by the British Antarctic Survey in the journal Geophysical Research Letters is expected to confirm that over the past 30 years, the area of sea ice around the continent has expanded.
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After 250 years of global warming (the little ice age ended in 1750) there is still lots of ice in the Antarctic! However, even if there wasn't -- man-kind has not caused the 250 years of global warming and man-kind is powerless to change it. The Darwin plan - adapt!
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Be afraid -- Be very afraid of those who would exploit our natural climate cycles for personal gain.
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Prior Items:http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/04/brown-polar-bears-at-risk.html
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Friday, April 17, 2009
The Stimulus Anchor
Taxes and Debt are like anchors
nailing our ship of state to the bottom
where socialism and stagnation
hold us securely to mediocrity
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Click on the video to see how the
new captain of our ship is dropping
the anchor of state upon
our small businesses
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We're the government and
We're here to help!
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/StimulusAnchor.wmv
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nailing our ship of state to the bottom
where socialism and stagnation
hold us securely to mediocrity
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Click on the video to see how the
new captain of our ship is dropping
the anchor of state upon
our small businesses
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We're the government and
We're here to help!
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/StimulusAnchor.wmv
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Thursday, April 16, 2009
A VT Energy Assessment Challenge
A Virginia Tech. Energy Assessment Challenge
Our state and national leaders have launched massive changes to our national and personal energy systems based on the UN-IPCC group’s hypothesis that: man-made CO2 is causing major global warming that is resulting in catastrophic climate change that will result in the end of life on earth as we know it!
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – also called the UN’s climate panel – was set up in 1988 by the UN’s Environment Programme. They have issued numerous reports documenting the hypothesis of CO2 caused global warming that have become the basis for Mr. Gore’s Inconvenient Truth Program and numerous other supporting and contrarian activities, reports, conferences and legislation.
The changes are currently being implemented by stopping construction of and support for additional current technology power plants (coal, oil, gas, hydro, nuclear), imposition of massive taxes on energy (directly and through cap-and-trade), limiting supply and diversion of food growing resources to fuels.
As a substitute energy system our leaders are implementing alternative energy systems that have never been scaled-up to this level and that will cost consumers many times more than current energy. It is not clear how or when these profound changes will support the needs of our current population nor the two-plus million people we add to our population every year (equivalent to two cities the size of Boston).
As a leading institution of scientific and business knowledge and analysis, it is fitting and proper that the VT faculty and staff and students should analyze these massive energy changes, the alternative energy substitutions, the impacts to standards of living and the UN-IPCC hypothesis that is driving these decisions. It is appropriate to conduct a series of ongoing seminars of open and inclusive public dialogue to be presented by the major academic departments with participation by all students, faculty and the public.
Engineering: Comparisons between current technology energy systems and current state of the art alternative energy systems including the parameters of cost per kilowatt, energy storage and peak-power supply and demand and distribution. How many wind mills equal one current power plant? How many square miles of solar panels equal one current power plant? How to plan for those time periods when the sun doesn’t shine and-or the wind doesn’t blow?
Economics: Impacts on people’s standard of living caused by the increases in energy, food, and transportation costs and the rationing of energy and the resulting major increases in off-shore and out-sourcing of jobs to China and other countries that are not changing or limiting their energy systems.
Agriculture: Impacts of CO2 regulation and alternative energy on the cost of producing fertilizer, food, amount of tillable acreage to be converted from production of food to ethanol, the impacts to agriculture exports and the impact of the bovine-methane tax.
Civil Engineering: Quantify impacts of CO2 regulation and increased costs to produce concrete and other building materials and increased cost of construction and maintenance and infrastructure.
Political Science: Outline the American political, social, legal and life-style changes that are required to implement the UN-IPCC goals of major reductions in the per capita consumption of energy by means of major increased costs and rationing of energy similar to the processes used during WW2.
Environmental: Analysis of the UN-IPCC hypothesis upon which these self-imposed actions are being taken. Inclusion of contrarian views and conflicting historical and current data. Comparison of man-made CO2 to all forms of CO2 generation. The magnitude of the temperature reductions that are anticipated to result from a 50 percent reduction in US CO2
The Bottom Line: These are the most massive changes to our society and infrastructure since the Industrial Revolution and all VT students and faculty and the public should be fully informed and participate in the dialogue about the causes and effects of these self-imposed massive changes, the basis upon which they are being made and the reasonable and prudent actions that should be undertaken.
Ref: http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/
Our state and national leaders have launched massive changes to our national and personal energy systems based on the UN-IPCC group’s hypothesis that: man-made CO2 is causing major global warming that is resulting in catastrophic climate change that will result in the end of life on earth as we know it!
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – also called the UN’s climate panel – was set up in 1988 by the UN’s Environment Programme. They have issued numerous reports documenting the hypothesis of CO2 caused global warming that have become the basis for Mr. Gore’s Inconvenient Truth Program and numerous other supporting and contrarian activities, reports, conferences and legislation.
The changes are currently being implemented by stopping construction of and support for additional current technology power plants (coal, oil, gas, hydro, nuclear), imposition of massive taxes on energy (directly and through cap-and-trade), limiting supply and diversion of food growing resources to fuels.
As a substitute energy system our leaders are implementing alternative energy systems that have never been scaled-up to this level and that will cost consumers many times more than current energy. It is not clear how or when these profound changes will support the needs of our current population nor the two-plus million people we add to our population every year (equivalent to two cities the size of Boston).
As a leading institution of scientific and business knowledge and analysis, it is fitting and proper that the VT faculty and staff and students should analyze these massive energy changes, the alternative energy substitutions, the impacts to standards of living and the UN-IPCC hypothesis that is driving these decisions. It is appropriate to conduct a series of ongoing seminars of open and inclusive public dialogue to be presented by the major academic departments with participation by all students, faculty and the public.
Engineering: Comparisons between current technology energy systems and current state of the art alternative energy systems including the parameters of cost per kilowatt, energy storage and peak-power supply and demand and distribution. How many wind mills equal one current power plant? How many square miles of solar panels equal one current power plant? How to plan for those time periods when the sun doesn’t shine and-or the wind doesn’t blow?
Economics: Impacts on people’s standard of living caused by the increases in energy, food, and transportation costs and the rationing of energy and the resulting major increases in off-shore and out-sourcing of jobs to China and other countries that are not changing or limiting their energy systems.
Agriculture: Impacts of CO2 regulation and alternative energy on the cost of producing fertilizer, food, amount of tillable acreage to be converted from production of food to ethanol, the impacts to agriculture exports and the impact of the bovine-methane tax.
Civil Engineering: Quantify impacts of CO2 regulation and increased costs to produce concrete and other building materials and increased cost of construction and maintenance and infrastructure.
Political Science: Outline the American political, social, legal and life-style changes that are required to implement the UN-IPCC goals of major reductions in the per capita consumption of energy by means of major increased costs and rationing of energy similar to the processes used during WW2.
Environmental: Analysis of the UN-IPCC hypothesis upon which these self-imposed actions are being taken. Inclusion of contrarian views and conflicting historical and current data. Comparison of man-made CO2 to all forms of CO2 generation. The magnitude of the temperature reductions that are anticipated to result from a 50 percent reduction in US CO2
The Bottom Line: These are the most massive changes to our society and infrastructure since the Industrial Revolution and all VT students and faculty and the public should be fully informed and participate in the dialogue about the causes and effects of these self-imposed massive changes, the basis upon which they are being made and the reasonable and prudent actions that should be undertaken.
Ref: http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
GM Sinking With Our Tax Money
GM Sinking With Our Tax Money
USA Today, 4/14/09, Pg M1: GM stock sinks amid fears of bankruptcy; Automaker seeks more government loans.
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GM & Chrysler are operating on a combined $17.4 BILLION in government (that’s us!) loans, and the two have asked for $21.6 BILLION more from us!
The wheels are coming off the “plan” to have French-Fiat take over Chrysler.
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THIRTY-NINE (39) BILLION DOLLARS of tax payers money into two Obama, Pelosi, Reid sink-holes that are going under with no hope of recovery of taxpayer money.
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MORE HOPE AND CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN!
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/04/obama-mr-goodwrench.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/11/deunionize-gm-ford.html
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USA Today, 4/14/09, Pg M1: GM stock sinks amid fears of bankruptcy; Automaker seeks more government loans.
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GM & Chrysler are operating on a combined $17.4 BILLION in government (that’s us!) loans, and the two have asked for $21.6 BILLION more from us!
The wheels are coming off the “plan” to have French-Fiat take over Chrysler.
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THIRTY-NINE (39) BILLION DOLLARS of tax payers money into two Obama, Pelosi, Reid sink-holes that are going under with no hope of recovery of taxpayer money.
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MORE HOPE AND CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN!
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/04/obama-mr-goodwrench.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/11/deunionize-gm-ford.html
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Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Unsafe at any Speed II
USA Today 4/14/09, Pg M1: Tests show gas savings can risk safety.
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Crash-test scores drop when small cars are in collisions, but they get good gas mileage if you don’t mind the potential injuries and-or death.
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Deja Vu all over again! For all you who don’t remember or weren’t around in the 1950’s, there’s a list of “small fuel efficient American made cars” that include: Corvair, Henry-J, Crosley and others. Imports included the VW-bug, Renault, MG and Triumph.
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Why did we (the American car manufacturers) stop making them?
Pick up a 1965 book titled “Unsafe at any Speed” and read the same type of results that the current crash-test results are showing now for “today’s small” cars.
This book made Ralph Nader a multi-millionaire, a left-wing celebrity, a perennial presidential candidate and killed Detroits efforts to continue development of small fuel efficient cars.
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There are basic principles of Physics and Mathematics that apply to objects that are in collision. The ultimate example would be a motorcycle impacting with a car.
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Legislation increasing the fuel-mileage requirements for cars results in reducing the weight of cars that results in less protection for the passengers.
It would be “truth in advertising” for the government to be honest with consumers and tell them of the increased risks. Isn’t that what the government requires of manufacturers? Why should they be held to a lesser standard?
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Perhaps this is why Obama, Pelosi and Reid are in such a hurry to enact socialized nationalized medicine!
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/06/democrat-hot-air-energy-bill.html
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Crash-test scores drop when small cars are in collisions, but they get good gas mileage if you don’t mind the potential injuries and-or death.
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Deja Vu all over again! For all you who don’t remember or weren’t around in the 1950’s, there’s a list of “small fuel efficient American made cars” that include: Corvair, Henry-J, Crosley and others. Imports included the VW-bug, Renault, MG and Triumph.
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Why did we (the American car manufacturers) stop making them?
Pick up a 1965 book titled “Unsafe at any Speed” and read the same type of results that the current crash-test results are showing now for “today’s small” cars.
This book made Ralph Nader a multi-millionaire, a left-wing celebrity, a perennial presidential candidate and killed Detroits efforts to continue development of small fuel efficient cars.
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There are basic principles of Physics and Mathematics that apply to objects that are in collision. The ultimate example would be a motorcycle impacting with a car.
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Legislation increasing the fuel-mileage requirements for cars results in reducing the weight of cars that results in less protection for the passengers.
It would be “truth in advertising” for the government to be honest with consumers and tell them of the increased risks. Isn’t that what the government requires of manufacturers? Why should they be held to a lesser standard?
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Perhaps this is why Obama, Pelosi and Reid are in such a hurry to enact socialized nationalized medicine!
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/06/democrat-hot-air-energy-bill.html
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Sunday, April 12, 2009
Brown Polar Bears at Risk
Roanoke Times, 4/12/09, Pg 18: Melting of sea ice picking up speed. Arctic sea ice could be gone in 30 years (according to complex computer models of weather and climate).
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Apparently these models couldn’t predict the current 250 years of global warming, 35 years of cooling from 1940 to 1975, nor the past ten years of no net global temperature change nor what caused the little ice age to arrive no less stop in 1750.
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The picture of a forlorn polar bear resting on the ice was a nice touch.
As a contrast click to view three of the 2100 happy bears in Greenland’s Davis Straight:
http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/Gore-Bear-Graph.jpg
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http://eteam.ncpa.org/commentaries/polar-bears-on-thin-ice-not-really
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Ah yes – only 5.4 MILLION SQUARE MILES of artic ice this winter.
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/ArticSeaIceMar2009.jpg
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But be afraid – it’s mostly new ice and new ice isn’t good ice unless you’re making a cocktail.
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Our climate is changing – our climate has always been changing!
The glaciers will continue to retreat and ice will continue to melt until the 250 years of natural global warming abates and then either stabilizes or we once again enter a cooling period. Click the link to view the factual recorded data that somehow seems out of reach of the “complicated be-afraid models.”
http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/
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An interesting point is that the polar bears are not a unique species but instead are grizzly brown bears that have adapted to cold climates. As our natural global warming continues, Darwin would expect future generations to adapt once again to more open water and land vegetation environments or perhaps as Darwin so well describes – they may not.
http://www.polarbearsinternational.org/polar-bears-in-depth/evolution/
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A light-hearted optimistic view might be a quote from Thor Hammer: speaking of homework.... what's really going to be funny is how the polar bears will evolve once global climate change really kicks in -- they'll evolve BACK into the grizzly bears from whence they came. They won't drown. They'll simply walk away and switch to Pepsi.
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Have you noticed how liberals love to quote Darwin when they’re Jesus-bashing, but show them a snail-darter or a spotted owl and they suddenly never heard about Darwin and instead scream that we must save yet another endangered species.
They’re so selective!
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Be afraid – be very afraid of those who would exploit our natural climate cycles for personal gain.
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Some Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/04/sunspots-climate-and-claptrap.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/03/no-new-energy-jihad_23.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/global-warming-theory-lte.html
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Apparently these models couldn’t predict the current 250 years of global warming, 35 years of cooling from 1940 to 1975, nor the past ten years of no net global temperature change nor what caused the little ice age to arrive no less stop in 1750.
-
The picture of a forlorn polar bear resting on the ice was a nice touch.
As a contrast click to view three of the 2100 happy bears in Greenland’s Davis Straight:
http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/Gore-Bear-Graph.jpg
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http://eteam.ncpa.org/commentaries/polar-bears-on-thin-ice-not-really
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Ah yes – only 5.4 MILLION SQUARE MILES of artic ice this winter.
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/ArticSeaIceMar2009.jpg
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But be afraid – it’s mostly new ice and new ice isn’t good ice unless you’re making a cocktail.
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Our climate is changing – our climate has always been changing!
The glaciers will continue to retreat and ice will continue to melt until the 250 years of natural global warming abates and then either stabilizes or we once again enter a cooling period. Click the link to view the factual recorded data that somehow seems out of reach of the “complicated be-afraid models.”
http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/
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An interesting point is that the polar bears are not a unique species but instead are grizzly brown bears that have adapted to cold climates. As our natural global warming continues, Darwin would expect future generations to adapt once again to more open water and land vegetation environments or perhaps as Darwin so well describes – they may not.
http://www.polarbearsinternational.org/polar-bears-in-depth/evolution/
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A light-hearted optimistic view might be a quote from Thor Hammer: speaking of homework.... what's really going to be funny is how the polar bears will evolve once global climate change really kicks in -- they'll evolve BACK into the grizzly bears from whence they came. They won't drown. They'll simply walk away and switch to Pepsi.
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Have you noticed how liberals love to quote Darwin when they’re Jesus-bashing, but show them a snail-darter or a spotted owl and they suddenly never heard about Darwin and instead scream that we must save yet another endangered species.
They’re so selective!
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Be afraid – be very afraid of those who would exploit our natural climate cycles for personal gain.
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Some Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/04/sunspots-climate-and-claptrap.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/03/no-new-energy-jihad_23.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/global-warming-theory-lte.html
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Saturday, April 11, 2009
Obama, North Korea Missiles & Nuclear Weapons
Obama warned North Korea not to fire their intercontinental missile capable of hitting US cities, telling them bad things will happen if they do. Ooooooh!
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Then Hillary warned North Korea not to fire their intercontinental missile capable of hitting US cities, telling them bad things will happen if they do. Ooooooh!
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Then the North Koreans fired their missile!
And the bad things that happened?
A resolution of condemnation by the UN! Ooooooh!
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North Korea has tested a nuclear bomb and has material for more. Upgrades and repackaging to fit into the nose of their missile is just a matter of time.
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This is just a continuation of the Clinton-North Korea history in which the US gave them money, fuel and a nuclear plant in exchange for a promise to not develop nuclear weapons! We all know how that turned out!
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2005/06/north-korean-nukes.html
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,220137,00.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/10/north-korean-nukes.html
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However, that’s not the bad news! The bad news is that Obama has pledged to disarm the US antimissile defense program in order to play nice with others:
Unilateral Disarmament
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/06/obama-commander-of-unilateral.html
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o84PE871BE&eurl
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And he has promised to eliminate the US nuclear arsenal:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/04/05/obama-pledges-lead-world-nuclear-free-future/
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The lessons of history are clear:
Those who beat their swords into plows will plow for those who didn’t!
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More Hope and Change we can believe in!
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Then Hillary warned North Korea not to fire their intercontinental missile capable of hitting US cities, telling them bad things will happen if they do. Ooooooh!
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Then the North Koreans fired their missile!
And the bad things that happened?
A resolution of condemnation by the UN! Ooooooh!
-
North Korea has tested a nuclear bomb and has material for more. Upgrades and repackaging to fit into the nose of their missile is just a matter of time.
-
This is just a continuation of the Clinton-North Korea history in which the US gave them money, fuel and a nuclear plant in exchange for a promise to not develop nuclear weapons! We all know how that turned out!
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2005/06/north-korean-nukes.html
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,220137,00.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/10/north-korean-nukes.html
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However, that’s not the bad news! The bad news is that Obama has pledged to disarm the US antimissile defense program in order to play nice with others:
Unilateral Disarmament
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/06/obama-commander-of-unilateral.html
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o84PE871BE&eurl
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And he has promised to eliminate the US nuclear arsenal:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/04/05/obama-pledges-lead-world-nuclear-free-future/
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The lessons of history are clear:
Those who beat their swords into plows will plow for those who didn’t!
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More Hope and Change we can believe in!
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The Audacity of Groveling
Prince Obama Bows to Saudi King Abdullah
Not found in the Roanoke Times (for obvious reasons)
Obama’s foreign trip was not only filled with pathetic apologies and groveling to the world but the ultimate embarrassment was his obnoxious display of US subservience to Saudi King Abdullah with his grotesque 15th century bow to the monarch.
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And the Democrats and Liberal press are so quiet you can hear the notes fall due down at the bank!
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Could someone please tell Obama that America is not subservient to any king anywhere and that we fought a Revolutionary War to ensure that we do not bow to monarchs.
Especially ones who have and are fleecing the American people and from whose country 19 of the 21 - 911-terrorists were outsourced.
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And all this silence by the Democrats and Liberal Press after spending 8 years whining about the alleged close relationship between Pres. Bush and the Saudi’s.
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For those nonbelievers that this happened – click on the youtube video:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WlqW6UCeaY
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Prior items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/04/audacity-of-war-funding-hypocrisy.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/04/obamas-afghanistan-war.html
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The President of unilateral disarmament:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o84PE871BE&eurl
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Not found in the Roanoke Times (for obvious reasons)
Obama’s foreign trip was not only filled with pathetic apologies and groveling to the world but the ultimate embarrassment was his obnoxious display of US subservience to Saudi King Abdullah with his grotesque 15th century bow to the monarch.
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And the Democrats and Liberal press are so quiet you can hear the notes fall due down at the bank!
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Could someone please tell Obama that America is not subservient to any king anywhere and that we fought a Revolutionary War to ensure that we do not bow to monarchs.
Especially ones who have and are fleecing the American people and from whose country 19 of the 21 - 911-terrorists were outsourced.
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And all this silence by the Democrats and Liberal Press after spending 8 years whining about the alleged close relationship between Pres. Bush and the Saudi’s.
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For those nonbelievers that this happened – click on the youtube video:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WlqW6UCeaY
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Prior items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/04/audacity-of-war-funding-hypocrisy.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/04/obamas-afghanistan-war.html
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The President of unilateral disarmament:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o84PE871BE&eurl
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Friday, April 10, 2009
The Audacity of War Funding Hypocrisy
Roanoke Times 4/10/09, P g8: Obama seeks billions for Iraq, Afghanistan military operations.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/04/09/obama-seek-b-war-spending/
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Did Obama the US Senator not oppose and vote against this same funding a year ago and did he not campaign against these operations and funding as a candidate for President?
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The real hononable people I know who take a strong position on a subject and then do a total reversal make the effort to explain to their associates and constituents why they were originally wrong or how there has been major changes in the situation to cause such a major change.
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Obama does neither – he simply takes major contradictory positions without any consideration for veracity or creditability. This works well for him because the liberal and leftwing media do not hold him accountable for anything!
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Is this not insulting the intelligence of the American People?
Apparently not – no one is complaining at ABC, NBC., CBS. CNN, or MSNBC or the Roanoke Times!
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/04/obamas-afghanistan-war.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/04/precipitous-withdrawal.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/06/obama-commander-of-unilateral.html
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o84PE871BE&eurl
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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/04/09/obama-seek-b-war-spending/
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Did Obama the US Senator not oppose and vote against this same funding a year ago and did he not campaign against these operations and funding as a candidate for President?
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The real hononable people I know who take a strong position on a subject and then do a total reversal make the effort to explain to their associates and constituents why they were originally wrong or how there has been major changes in the situation to cause such a major change.
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Obama does neither – he simply takes major contradictory positions without any consideration for veracity or creditability. This works well for him because the liberal and leftwing media do not hold him accountable for anything!
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Is this not insulting the intelligence of the American People?
Apparently not – no one is complaining at ABC, NBC., CBS. CNN, or MSNBC or the Roanoke Times!
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/04/obamas-afghanistan-war.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/04/precipitous-withdrawal.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/06/obama-commander-of-unilateral.html
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o84PE871BE&eurl
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Sunday, April 05, 2009
Sunspots Climate and Claptrap
Sunspots Climate and Claptrap
Roanoke Times, 4/5/09, Pg 11: AP: Quieter sun (fewest sunspots since 1913) bodes well for Earth. Nice for GPS, satellites, shrinks the atmospheric boundary by 125 miles and marginally reduces the global warming by about 0.3 degrees.
NASA’s chief solar physicist Hathaway says we don’t know why it happens.
NOAA director Bogdan says solar activity should be increasing “anytime now”.
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These are the chief scientists of the US who are primary operators trying to invent data to support the Gore-Hypotheses that man is responsible for global temperatures and climate changes!
“We don’t know what causes this BUT it should change anytime now!”
These are two of our top climate scientists?
They sound like Abbott & Costello!
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Be afraid, be very afraid! Not of global warming but of high-paid guys like this who are spending hundreds of millions of tax dollars to build a story to support the flawed heifer-dust behind the Global Warming Hysteria
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Marginal reduction of 0.3 degrees!
That’s 60% of the amount of Global Temperature increase in 70 years (since 1939):
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This takes us back to before any significant atmospheric CO2, natural or man-made.
Click to view past 100 years of Global Temperature and atmospheric CO2
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/100yr-temp-co2.jpg
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Click to view past 10 years of Global Temperature and atmospheric CO2
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/10yr-temp-co2.jpg
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Click-on the link to view the graphic showing a much closer association between sunspots and global temperature than atmospheric CO2 and global temperature. There is a very long and voluminous history and data on this phenomena dating back to Galileo, the inventor of the telescope.
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/Sun-CO2-Temp.jpg
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Anyone who enacts any laws, rules or mandates based on the scientific consensus
of guys like this should be removed from office before they vote, not after, and these guys should go out the door with them! Talk about putting politics ahead of science!
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/04/sunspots-climate.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/04/roanoke-times-climate-scientist.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/03/yet-another-nasa-self-serving-study.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/03/federal-employee-civil-disobedience.html
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Roanoke Times, 4/5/09, Pg 11: AP: Quieter sun (fewest sunspots since 1913) bodes well for Earth. Nice for GPS, satellites, shrinks the atmospheric boundary by 125 miles and marginally reduces the global warming by about 0.3 degrees.
NASA’s chief solar physicist Hathaway says we don’t know why it happens.
NOAA director Bogdan says solar activity should be increasing “anytime now”.
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These are the chief scientists of the US who are primary operators trying to invent data to support the Gore-Hypotheses that man is responsible for global temperatures and climate changes!
“We don’t know what causes this BUT it should change anytime now!”
These are two of our top climate scientists?
They sound like Abbott & Costello!
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Be afraid, be very afraid! Not of global warming but of high-paid guys like this who are spending hundreds of millions of tax dollars to build a story to support the flawed heifer-dust behind the Global Warming Hysteria
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Marginal reduction of 0.3 degrees!
That’s 60% of the amount of Global Temperature increase in 70 years (since 1939):
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This takes us back to before any significant atmospheric CO2, natural or man-made.
Click to view past 100 years of Global Temperature and atmospheric CO2
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/100yr-temp-co2.jpg
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Click to view past 10 years of Global Temperature and atmospheric CO2
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/10yr-temp-co2.jpg
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Click-on the link to view the graphic showing a much closer association between sunspots and global temperature than atmospheric CO2 and global temperature. There is a very long and voluminous history and data on this phenomena dating back to Galileo, the inventor of the telescope.
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/Sun-CO2-Temp.jpg
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Anyone who enacts any laws, rules or mandates based on the scientific consensus
of guys like this should be removed from office before they vote, not after, and these guys should go out the door with them! Talk about putting politics ahead of science!
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/04/sunspots-climate.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/04/roanoke-times-climate-scientist.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/03/yet-another-nasa-self-serving-study.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/03/federal-employee-civil-disobedience.html
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Saturday, April 04, 2009
The Roanoke Times Climate Scientist
Roanoke Times, 4/4/09, Pg 15: Opinion by Editor and Self-proclaimed Climate Scientist Dan Radmacher who out-of-hand rejects contrarian views about the extent and causes of our current 250 years of global warming in his lame slam at comments by George Will.
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It’s interesting that Dan refuses to address or publish the NASA data on this subject but instead hides behind the cloak of “a consensus of UN scientists” who have never taken a public recorded vote amongst all scientists qualified to express their collective consensus.
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The use of the Orwellian 1984 double-speak is a nice touch too!
If you believe in global warming you therefore believe it’s man-made and it’s your fault!
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The fact we’re not still in the little-ice-age is certainly an indicator that we have had 250 years of global warming. The factual scientific recorded data clearly shows that CO2 has not played and is not playing a significant role in this warming and all the hundreds of millions of tax dollars spent trying to develop simulators to show the connection has been in vain.
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To view some data on this subject simply click-on these links because you certainly will not see factual data in the Roanoke Times:
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NASA 100 year and 10 year scientific record:
http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/NASA100Yr&10YrGlobalTemp.jpg
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Global Warming and total CO2 (natural + man-made) for past 10 years
http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/10yr-temp-co2.jpg
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Global Warming and total CO2 (natural + man-made) for past 100 years
http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/100yr-temp-co2.jpg
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A glacial view of our 250 years of global warming
http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/GlacierHistory250Years/index.htm
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For the scientific reports by a consensus of other highly qualified Climate Scientists peruse The second International Conference on Climate Change March 10, 2009 in New York City the theme "Global warming: Was it ever really a crisis?"
http://www.heartland.org/events/NewYork09/proceedings.html
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Some Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/global-warming-theory-lte.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/more-inconvenient-untruths.html
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/
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It’s interesting that Dan refuses to address or publish the NASA data on this subject but instead hides behind the cloak of “a consensus of UN scientists” who have never taken a public recorded vote amongst all scientists qualified to express their collective consensus.
-
The use of the Orwellian 1984 double-speak is a nice touch too!
If you believe in global warming you therefore believe it’s man-made and it’s your fault!
-
The fact we’re not still in the little-ice-age is certainly an indicator that we have had 250 years of global warming. The factual scientific recorded data clearly shows that CO2 has not played and is not playing a significant role in this warming and all the hundreds of millions of tax dollars spent trying to develop simulators to show the connection has been in vain.
-
To view some data on this subject simply click-on these links because you certainly will not see factual data in the Roanoke Times:
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NASA 100 year and 10 year scientific record:
http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/NASA100Yr&10YrGlobalTemp.jpg
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Global Warming and total CO2 (natural + man-made) for past 10 years
http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/10yr-temp-co2.jpg
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Global Warming and total CO2 (natural + man-made) for past 100 years
http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/100yr-temp-co2.jpg
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A glacial view of our 250 years of global warming
http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/GlacierHistory250Years/index.htm
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For the scientific reports by a consensus of other highly qualified Climate Scientists peruse The second International Conference on Climate Change March 10, 2009 in New York City the theme "Global warming: Was it ever really a crisis?"
http://www.heartland.org/events/NewYork09/proceedings.html
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Some Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/global-warming-theory-lte.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/more-inconvenient-untruths.html
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/
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Thursday, April 02, 2009
Obama = Mr. Goodwrench
Obama is now your car guy!
Buy an American car and when you have problems – bring it to the White House for warranty service!
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Obama fired the GM CEO and is now “the GM guy in-charge”.
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How can he do this you ask – easy – he has an unlimited line of credit from Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi – he can call Bubba and Junior to fix-up your car for free!
Well -- not exactly for free – it actually will be charged to the tax-payers!
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So – if you bought a Toyota or Nissan because they require less maintenance, guess what, you now get to pay for all those GM problems you wanted to avoid.
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More hope and change you can believe in!
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/01/volvo-layoffs-and-strikes.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/11/deunionize-gm-ford.html
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Buy an American car and when you have problems – bring it to the White House for warranty service!
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Obama fired the GM CEO and is now “the GM guy in-charge”.
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How can he do this you ask – easy – he has an unlimited line of credit from Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi – he can call Bubba and Junior to fix-up your car for free!
Well -- not exactly for free – it actually will be charged to the tax-payers!
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So – if you bought a Toyota or Nissan because they require less maintenance, guess what, you now get to pay for all those GM problems you wanted to avoid.
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More hope and change you can believe in!
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/01/volvo-layoffs-and-strikes.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/11/deunionize-gm-ford.html
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Obama’s Afghanistan War
Roanoke Times, 3/28/09, Pg 1: Obama: 4,000 troops to Afghanistan.
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The Roanoke Times and the AP present this as a great new Obama move.
Apparently they have developed severe journalistic-amnesia since last year to wit:
No mention of an EXIT strategy.
No mention of the number of US troop planed build-up.
No mention of a plan to get Pakistan to either clean-out their border area or let US clean it out.
No mention that Russia has undone our airbase of support in Kyrgyzstan making support and re-supply of our troops difficult and dangerous.
And most important of all:
No mention of number of NATO forces to deploy to and throughout Afghanistan.
Isn’t NATO Responsible for Afghanistan
Didn’t the RT announce that back in May 2006!
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/05/nato-responsible-for-afghanistan.html
Roanoke Times, 5/5/06, Pg A7: NATO takes over responsibility for Afghanistan.6,000 NATO troops move into south-Afghanistan.US to reduce 19,000 foces starting in August.
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Why isn’t Obama and Clinton using this current trip to get NATO to fulfill their responsibilities and commitments and “direct” Russia to not interfere with our military bases and supply lines?
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/03/more-hope-and-change.html
4. The Obama plan for military action in Afghanistan is totally devoid of the “Coalition of Forces” he so eloquently projected. In fact, the remaining coalition forces are avoiding direct combat roles, instead most are securely sequestered in Kabul and other major city enclaves, and clearly not where the fierce combat is taking place, that’s for US to do!
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/10/biden-debate-winner-of-mis.html
5. Sen. Biden denied that Sen. Obama had made a disparaging quote about our troops in Afghanistan.FACT: Sen. Obama DID say in a previous interview that our troops in Afghanistan were "air raiding small villages and killing innocent civilians."Senator Obama stated it at a rally in Nashua, NH. Sen. Obama's lack of understanding of mililtary operations is dangerous to the security of this country.Click-on link for Obama’s dangerous national defense positions:http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/06/obama-commander-of-unilateral.html
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Obama – commander of unilateral disarmament:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o84PE871BE&eurl-
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The Roanoke Times and the AP present this as a great new Obama move.
Apparently they have developed severe journalistic-amnesia since last year to wit:
No mention of an EXIT strategy.
No mention of the number of US troop planed build-up.
No mention of a plan to get Pakistan to either clean-out their border area or let US clean it out.
No mention that Russia has undone our airbase of support in Kyrgyzstan making support and re-supply of our troops difficult and dangerous.
And most important of all:
No mention of number of NATO forces to deploy to and throughout Afghanistan.
Isn’t NATO Responsible for Afghanistan
Didn’t the RT announce that back in May 2006!
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/05/nato-responsible-for-afghanistan.html
Roanoke Times, 5/5/06, Pg A7: NATO takes over responsibility for Afghanistan.6,000 NATO troops move into south-Afghanistan.US to reduce 19,000 foces starting in August.
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Why isn’t Obama and Clinton using this current trip to get NATO to fulfill their responsibilities and commitments and “direct” Russia to not interfere with our military bases and supply lines?
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/03/more-hope-and-change.html
4. The Obama plan for military action in Afghanistan is totally devoid of the “Coalition of Forces” he so eloquently projected. In fact, the remaining coalition forces are avoiding direct combat roles, instead most are securely sequestered in Kabul and other major city enclaves, and clearly not where the fierce combat is taking place, that’s for US to do!
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/10/biden-debate-winner-of-mis.html
5. Sen. Biden denied that Sen. Obama had made a disparaging quote about our troops in Afghanistan.FACT: Sen. Obama DID say in a previous interview that our troops in Afghanistan were "air raiding small villages and killing innocent civilians."Senator Obama stated it at a rally in Nashua, NH. Sen. Obama's lack of understanding of mililtary operations is dangerous to the security of this country.Click-on link for Obama’s dangerous national defense positions:http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/06/obama-commander-of-unilateral.html
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Obama – commander of unilateral disarmament:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o84PE871BE&eurl-
Raise or Lower Auto Fuel Mileage?
Roanoke Times 3/27/09, Pg 6: Environment: White House to raise fuel efficiency standards
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Great Slant! Back to 1984 double-speak (again).
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The Obama team is REDUCING the new fuel efficiency standards from the levels the Bush administration proposed to Congress last year!
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You only get this message if you read the really fine print four paragraphs down the text!
Only a slant-meister could write the RT’s headings!
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The Obama folks explain this by saying they only had two months to work on this item!
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More Hope and Change we can believe in!
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Great Slant! Back to 1984 double-speak (again).
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The Obama team is REDUCING the new fuel efficiency standards from the levels the Bush administration proposed to Congress last year!
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You only get this message if you read the really fine print four paragraphs down the text!
Only a slant-meister could write the RT’s headings!
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The Obama folks explain this by saying they only had two months to work on this item!
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More Hope and Change we can believe in!
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Saturday, March 28, 2009
Obama’s Street Army
Not Found in The Roanoke Times (for obvious reasons)
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This week, 3/28/09, the Democrats in the Senate and House introduced a devastating new bill – the so-called Generations Invigorating Volunteers and Education Act (S.277) – that would allow politicians to funnel billions of tax dollars to leftwing organizations that they could then use for political purposes
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It's being done under the guise of enabling Barack Obama to build his “volunteer” youth corps – “just as powerful, just as strong” as the U.S. military, as he promised during his campaign speech in Colorado Springs:
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"We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."
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Can you imagine how the Democrats and the left-wing liberal media would have related to such a move by the Bush Administration?
This is very disturbing because we have seen this before in world history.
The Robber-Barons had their Brinks thugs.
Jimmy Hoffa had his head-busters.
Hitler had his brown-shirts.
Mussolini had his black-shirts.
Obama is establishing and funding with our public tax money his green-shirts!
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If the so-called GIVE Act is passed in its present form, groups like ACORN and Jessie Jackson's PUSH will receive multi-million-dollar grants of YOUR TAX MONEY for lobbying, community organizing, protests, strikes – and just about any other activity they believe would further their hard left agenda-Support the DeMint Amendment that would prohibit “advocacy” groups or groups co-located with advocacy groups from receiving any assistance under the Act. The DeMint Amendment would automatically prohibit any organization “engaged in legislative advocacy” – or working hand in hand with such organizations -- from receiving assistance under the GIVE Act.
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More Hope and Change we can Believe In!-
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This week, 3/28/09, the Democrats in the Senate and House introduced a devastating new bill – the so-called Generations Invigorating Volunteers and Education Act (S.277) – that would allow politicians to funnel billions of tax dollars to leftwing organizations that they could then use for political purposes
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It's being done under the guise of enabling Barack Obama to build his “volunteer” youth corps – “just as powerful, just as strong” as the U.S. military, as he promised during his campaign speech in Colorado Springs:
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"We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."
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Can you imagine how the Democrats and the left-wing liberal media would have related to such a move by the Bush Administration?
This is very disturbing because we have seen this before in world history.
The Robber-Barons had their Brinks thugs.
Jimmy Hoffa had his head-busters.
Hitler had his brown-shirts.
Mussolini had his black-shirts.
Obama is establishing and funding with our public tax money his green-shirts!
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If the so-called GIVE Act is passed in its present form, groups like ACORN and Jessie Jackson's PUSH will receive multi-million-dollar grants of YOUR TAX MONEY for lobbying, community organizing, protests, strikes – and just about any other activity they believe would further their hard left agenda-Support the DeMint Amendment that would prohibit “advocacy” groups or groups co-located with advocacy groups from receiving any assistance under the Act. The DeMint Amendment would automatically prohibit any organization “engaged in legislative advocacy” – or working hand in hand with such organizations -- from receiving assistance under the GIVE Act.
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More Hope and Change we can Believe In!-
Thursday, March 26, 2009
More Clinton Hypocrisy
Roanoke Times, 3/26/09, Pg 7: Clinton: US shares blame for Mexican drug wars;
“Because of “our” demand for drugs!”
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Perhaps the words and deeds of our national leaders are important.
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Perhaps making jokes about personal illegal drug use has an impact on impressionable young people. Maybe that’s why major advertisers targeting young people use highly visible personalities.
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So – Bill Clinton smoked marijuana, but didn’t inhale!
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Obama smoked marijuana – and did inhale – that was the point!
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Cute pandering to the hemp-heads and yuppies for votes!
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Then Hillary shows up at the Border and declares “we’re all to blame”!
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No girl, we’re not ALL to blame! And your hypocrisy is disgusting!
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Just secure the border instead of continuing to embrace the illegal immigrant traffickers in your disgusting pandering to the 12 million illegal immigrants for future votes!
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/06/democrat-voter-fraud-bill.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/06/democrats-sink-immigration-bill.html
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/American.jpg
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“Because of “our” demand for drugs!”
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Perhaps the words and deeds of our national leaders are important.
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Perhaps making jokes about personal illegal drug use has an impact on impressionable young people. Maybe that’s why major advertisers targeting young people use highly visible personalities.
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So – Bill Clinton smoked marijuana, but didn’t inhale!
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Obama smoked marijuana – and did inhale – that was the point!
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Cute pandering to the hemp-heads and yuppies for votes!
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Then Hillary shows up at the Border and declares “we’re all to blame”!
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No girl, we’re not ALL to blame! And your hypocrisy is disgusting!
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Just secure the border instead of continuing to embrace the illegal immigrant traffickers in your disgusting pandering to the 12 million illegal immigrants for future votes!
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/06/democrat-voter-fraud-bill.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/06/democrats-sink-immigration-bill.html
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/American.jpg
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009
More Hope and Change
1. The team of Obama, Pelosi, & Reid who demanded an open border with Mexico and who pushed for amnesty for illegal immigrants are now sending large numbers of marshals and soon National Guardsmen to help secure the Mexican border. Apparently the illegal cross-border traffickers’ really were and are a serious problem as the Bush administration stated.
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2. Turns out the carbon-credit-trading-scam that’s making Mr. Gore heaps of money now have a direct Chicago connection to Obama who is pushing to force it onto the entire country through mandatory laws intended to limit and ration energy.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/03/25/obama-helped-fund-carbon-scheme/
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3. Obama the Pied Piper Uniter of the World has now alienated the European Union members with his “stimulus” plan and criticism of the EU’s approach.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,510445,00.html
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Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek, whose country currently holds the EU presidency, told the European Parliament that President Barack Obama's massive stimulus package and banking bailout "will undermine the stability of the global financial market."
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He slammed the U.S.' widening budget deficit and protectionist trade measures — such as the "Buy America" — and said that "all of these steps, these combinations and permanency is the way to hell."-"We need to read the history books and the lessons of history and the biggest success of the (EU) is the refusal to go this way," he said.-"Americans will need liquidity to finance all their measures and they will balance this with the sale of their bonds but this will undermine the stability of the global financial market," said Topolanek.
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4. The Obama plan for military action in Afghanistan is totally devoid of the “Coalition of Forces” he so eloquently projected. In fact, the remaining coalition forces are avoiding direct combat roles, instead most are securely sequestered in Kabul and other major city enclaves, and clearly not where the fierce combat is taking place, that’s for US to do!
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/03/no-new-energy-jihad_23.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/obama-economics.html
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2. Turns out the carbon-credit-trading-scam that’s making Mr. Gore heaps of money now have a direct Chicago connection to Obama who is pushing to force it onto the entire country through mandatory laws intended to limit and ration energy.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/03/25/obama-helped-fund-carbon-scheme/
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3. Obama the Pied Piper Uniter of the World has now alienated the European Union members with his “stimulus” plan and criticism of the EU’s approach.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,510445,00.html
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Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek, whose country currently holds the EU presidency, told the European Parliament that President Barack Obama's massive stimulus package and banking bailout "will undermine the stability of the global financial market."
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He slammed the U.S.' widening budget deficit and protectionist trade measures — such as the "Buy America" — and said that "all of these steps, these combinations and permanency is the way to hell."-"We need to read the history books and the lessons of history and the biggest success of the (EU) is the refusal to go this way," he said.-"Americans will need liquidity to finance all their measures and they will balance this with the sale of their bonds but this will undermine the stability of the global financial market," said Topolanek.
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4. The Obama plan for military action in Afghanistan is totally devoid of the “Coalition of Forces” he so eloquently projected. In fact, the remaining coalition forces are avoiding direct combat roles, instead most are securely sequestered in Kabul and other major city enclaves, and clearly not where the fierce combat is taking place, that’s for US to do!
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/03/no-new-energy-jihad_23.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/obama-economics.html
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Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Yet Another NASA Self-serving Study
Roanoke Times, 3/20/09, Pg 3: NASA study: Ozone disaster avoided.
“A” NASA study presented by “A” NASA scientist says his computer simulation of the ozone-hole reduction shows that eliminating the old-Freon air-conditioning chemical has saved the world from a horrible disaster. We would all be fried by now from a large ozone hole if the changes hadn’t been made!
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This is very interesting because other recent studies have concluded that natural forces have had a major effect on the ozone-hole and that it hasn’t shrunk no less gone away.
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The current NOAA graphic data clearly shows the last 10 year history does not support the conclusion that eliminating the old-Freon has made a major change.
In fact the data shows that the 2006 & 2008 hole is larger than the 10-year average for 4 out of the 5 tracking months shown.
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NOAS web site:
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/stratosphere/sbuv2to/gif_files/ozone_hole_plot.png
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An interesting footnote to this subject is that the current NOAA view is that IF the ozone-hole becomes significantly smaller – Global Warming will INCREASE!
http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0424-agu.html
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Don’t you just love all the conflicting stories and data and simulations?
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And these are the folks that are telling our government to make major changes to what we do and how we do it because their simulation-models know what’s going to happen years into the future.
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Perhaps they should join the wall-street crowd and the mortgage folks and tell us how they saved us from a financial melt-down! Talk about global warming!
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Prior similar items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/03/no-new-energy-jihad_23.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/03/federal-employee-civil-disobedience.html
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“A” NASA study presented by “A” NASA scientist says his computer simulation of the ozone-hole reduction shows that eliminating the old-Freon air-conditioning chemical has saved the world from a horrible disaster. We would all be fried by now from a large ozone hole if the changes hadn’t been made!
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This is very interesting because other recent studies have concluded that natural forces have had a major effect on the ozone-hole and that it hasn’t shrunk no less gone away.
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The current NOAA graphic data clearly shows the last 10 year history does not support the conclusion that eliminating the old-Freon has made a major change.
In fact the data shows that the 2006 & 2008 hole is larger than the 10-year average for 4 out of the 5 tracking months shown.
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NOAS web site:
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/stratosphere/sbuv2to/gif_files/ozone_hole_plot.png
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An interesting footnote to this subject is that the current NOAA view is that IF the ozone-hole becomes significantly smaller – Global Warming will INCREASE!
http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0424-agu.html
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Don’t you just love all the conflicting stories and data and simulations?
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And these are the folks that are telling our government to make major changes to what we do and how we do it because their simulation-models know what’s going to happen years into the future.
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Perhaps they should join the wall-street crowd and the mortgage folks and tell us how they saved us from a financial melt-down! Talk about global warming!
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Prior similar items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/03/no-new-energy-jihad_23.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/03/federal-employee-civil-disobedience.html
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Monday, March 23, 2009
No New Energy Jihad
Roanoke Times, 3/22/09, Pg 6: Democrat Ca Senator Feinstein opposes using Mojave Desert to produce energy.
3/22/09, Pg Horiz 1: Editorial: Conservation of energy could offset need to build 40 new coal electric power plants
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Is there anyone anywhere who does not recognize that these articles and their authors, in addition to the examples of the Kennedy-Nantucket Wind Farm and the Virginia Highland Wind Farm represent a “No New Energy Jihad” movement?
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The short-term objective is to stop enhancements of and-or remove current power systems wherever possible and to stop any new power systems however green.
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The overall objective is to reduce availability of power thereby driving up its costs and enabling a government rationing system to control its use.
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The membership of this movement is dedicated to the premise that only the Federal Government should control all energy resources from the source to the end users and that will then become subservient to the UN as the ultimate control authority.
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The UN-IPCC climate change hysteria is currently the vehicle that is being utilized by these organizations to support the contention that this Jihad is required in order to “save the planet”.
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Not included in this scenario is who will save us from “big brother”?
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/03/no-new-energy-jihad.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/weed-in-green-garden.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/wind-power-regulatory-swamp.html
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The Kennedy’s, Walter Kronkite and the Nantucket Wind Farms
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2005/05/wind-turbines-on-highlands-of-va.html
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3/22/09, Pg Horiz 1: Editorial: Conservation of energy could offset need to build 40 new coal electric power plants
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Is there anyone anywhere who does not recognize that these articles and their authors, in addition to the examples of the Kennedy-Nantucket Wind Farm and the Virginia Highland Wind Farm represent a “No New Energy Jihad” movement?
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The short-term objective is to stop enhancements of and-or remove current power systems wherever possible and to stop any new power systems however green.
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The overall objective is to reduce availability of power thereby driving up its costs and enabling a government rationing system to control its use.
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The membership of this movement is dedicated to the premise that only the Federal Government should control all energy resources from the source to the end users and that will then become subservient to the UN as the ultimate control authority.
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The UN-IPCC climate change hysteria is currently the vehicle that is being utilized by these organizations to support the contention that this Jihad is required in order to “save the planet”.
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Not included in this scenario is who will save us from “big brother”?
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/03/no-new-energy-jihad.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/weed-in-green-garden.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/wind-power-regulatory-swamp.html
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The Kennedy’s, Walter Kronkite and the Nantucket Wind Farms
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2005/05/wind-turbines-on-highlands-of-va.html
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Friday, March 20, 2009
Bonus Countrywide Dodd
Roanoke Times, 3/20/09, Pg 5, House bill would tax bonuses for execs of bailed-out firms.
Page 17, Editorial: Bonus rage
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Both the lengthy “news” article and the editorial missed some very important “news” items. Perhaps missed is the wrong word. An act of slantful omission might be more correct. After all how could you write hundreds of words about this without mentioning Democrat Senator Dodd?
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The key Democrat in this Democrat Senate in collusion with the Democrat Treasury who is personally responsible for inserting the “bonus’ are OK” clause in the AIG bailout Bill was none other than:
Chris Bonus Countrywide Dodd, Democrat of Conn., Head of the Senate Banking Committee.
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Dodd initially pointed the finger (you know which one) at Treasury Sec. Geitner, but then when the heat hit he was forced to admit “it was me”. Not exactly the “cherry tree” story.
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We remember Dodd – he’s the Senator who got a sweet-heart mortgage from Countrywide (the company at the epicenter of the mortgage mess that precipitated the current financial crisis).
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Dodd is also the top recipient of campaign cash from AIG employees over the years.
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The Congressional vote on taxing the bonuses is an act of malfeasance on top of malfeasance! Every member of Congress knows that the Bill is unconstitutional and a gross act of patronizing a population who are enduring a major problem and who will be paying for the next 20 years the ONE TRILLION DOLLAR per year debt of the Obama-Reid-Pelosi budget and bail-out mess.
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Just more hope and change we can believe in!
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/obama-economics.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/hiding-pelosi-reid-again.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/duck-and-cover-to-minimize-fallout.html
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Page 17, Editorial: Bonus rage
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Both the lengthy “news” article and the editorial missed some very important “news” items. Perhaps missed is the wrong word. An act of slantful omission might be more correct. After all how could you write hundreds of words about this without mentioning Democrat Senator Dodd?
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The key Democrat in this Democrat Senate in collusion with the Democrat Treasury who is personally responsible for inserting the “bonus’ are OK” clause in the AIG bailout Bill was none other than:
Chris Bonus Countrywide Dodd, Democrat of Conn., Head of the Senate Banking Committee.
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Dodd initially pointed the finger (you know which one) at Treasury Sec. Geitner, but then when the heat hit he was forced to admit “it was me”. Not exactly the “cherry tree” story.
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We remember Dodd – he’s the Senator who got a sweet-heart mortgage from Countrywide (the company at the epicenter of the mortgage mess that precipitated the current financial crisis).
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Dodd is also the top recipient of campaign cash from AIG employees over the years.
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The Congressional vote on taxing the bonuses is an act of malfeasance on top of malfeasance! Every member of Congress knows that the Bill is unconstitutional and a gross act of patronizing a population who are enduring a major problem and who will be paying for the next 20 years the ONE TRILLION DOLLAR per year debt of the Obama-Reid-Pelosi budget and bail-out mess.
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Just more hope and change we can believe in!
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/obama-economics.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/hiding-pelosi-reid-again.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/duck-and-cover-to-minimize-fallout.html
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Monday, March 16, 2009
Not Weird Just Wrong
Roanoke Times, 3/16/09, Pg 15: Commentary by K. Parker: Weird new media world. Ms. Parker laments the downward spiral of print media and blames bloggers, right-wingers and ignorant youths for the problem. She worries that a free press is vital to a free society.
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Ms. Parker is right on the importance of a free press to a free society. However, the rest of her messages are misdirected and way off target.
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The “free press” has been hijacked by liberal and left-wing ideologues that are using bias and slant to further an economic, political and socialist agenda.
This blog contains over 1,000 items that details many examples of this wrong behavior by the Roanoke Times and their associates.
www.roanokeslant.blogspot.com
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For an outrageous example of the views and beliefs of a major leader of “free press” read the commencement address to the graduating teachers of New Paltz College by New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger:
http://www.timeswatch.org/articles/2006/20060522115623.aspx
With that level of publicly pronounced bias and venom, how can he or any of his subordinates represent a fair, balanced and free press?
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If the NY Times declares Chapt 11 this year, it’s not because of the weak economy or bloggers or other forms of media.
It’s because they have totally lost the journalistic concept that with power comes responsibility! People vote with money and their attention and not just with ballots!
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In fact, this referenced commentary by Ms Parker is itself lacking the responsibility to face-up-to the realities of the cause-and-effect of this problem and by failing to make a focused appeal to her fellow journalists to report the news in a fair and balanced manner so that the reading public can regain trust and confidence in the media.
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How many of the media are even qualified to apply for a Tim Russert medal?
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www.roanokeslant.blogspot.com
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Ms. Parker is right on the importance of a free press to a free society. However, the rest of her messages are misdirected and way off target.
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The “free press” has been hijacked by liberal and left-wing ideologues that are using bias and slant to further an economic, political and socialist agenda.
This blog contains over 1,000 items that details many examples of this wrong behavior by the Roanoke Times and their associates.
www.roanokeslant.blogspot.com
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For an outrageous example of the views and beliefs of a major leader of “free press” read the commencement address to the graduating teachers of New Paltz College by New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger:
http://www.timeswatch.org/articles/2006/20060522115623.aspx
With that level of publicly pronounced bias and venom, how can he or any of his subordinates represent a fair, balanced and free press?
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If the NY Times declares Chapt 11 this year, it’s not because of the weak economy or bloggers or other forms of media.
It’s because they have totally lost the journalistic concept that with power comes responsibility! People vote with money and their attention and not just with ballots!
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In fact, this referenced commentary by Ms Parker is itself lacking the responsibility to face-up-to the realities of the cause-and-effect of this problem and by failing to make a focused appeal to her fellow journalists to report the news in a fair and balanced manner so that the reading public can regain trust and confidence in the media.
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How many of the media are even qualified to apply for a Tim Russert medal?
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www.roanokeslant.blogspot.com
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Thursday, March 12, 2009
No New Energy Jihad
Roanoke Times, 2/4/09, Pg Va 9: Commentary by Rick Webb of UVa: Wind power needs regulation.
Roanoke Times, 3/12/09, Pg 19: Commentary by Rick Webb of UVa (AGAIN) Wind project deserves no stimulus
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The highland wind-farm project has been in the Virginia regulatory swamp for 5 years. After all the smoke has settled the two issues the so called “environmentalists” are hung-on are the numbers of bats and birds that may fly into the blades. Apparently akin to the flock of geese that flew into the compressor-blades of the US Airways jet in the Hudson River.
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What are we doing about the hundreds of millions of birds that are killed each year by outside-house cats and other animals and birds of prey? What are we doing about the bats that die each year from rabies and now the tens of millions that are dying from “white nose syndrome”? Apparently Mother Nature has her own blades.
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Why are the Virginia wind turbines a monumental risk while less that 50 miles away in Tucker Mills, West Virginia their wind farms are producing megawatts of clean-green energy? Are our birds and bats less risk averse than theirs?
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Prior Roanoke Times opinion articles gloss over as trivial the restrictions that Virginia bureaucratic regulators have placed on the Highlands turbines. For perspective, suppose you apply for a home building permit and the building inspector tells you that “you can build the house, but, every week there will be an inspection and if more than two birds per week are killed by flying into your windows and glass doors, you will have to tear down the house”. Would anyone build under those conditions, and would any bank provide a mortgage on such a house?
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Apparently there are lots of green-power proponents who are all talk about how they’re going to replace fossil fuel in 10 years but then refuse to recognize that all power generation has adverse consequences and so they obstruct making the changes that are required. When you blow away their smokey wind, the bottom line is obstructionism as an end in itself and a commitment to the Jihad of no more power development of any kind no matter how green.
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/more-kaine-green-hypocrisy.html
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Roanoke Times, 3/12/09, Pg 19: Commentary by Rick Webb of UVa (AGAIN) Wind project deserves no stimulus
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The highland wind-farm project has been in the Virginia regulatory swamp for 5 years. After all the smoke has settled the two issues the so called “environmentalists” are hung-on are the numbers of bats and birds that may fly into the blades. Apparently akin to the flock of geese that flew into the compressor-blades of the US Airways jet in the Hudson River.
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What are we doing about the hundreds of millions of birds that are killed each year by outside-house cats and other animals and birds of prey? What are we doing about the bats that die each year from rabies and now the tens of millions that are dying from “white nose syndrome”? Apparently Mother Nature has her own blades.
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Why are the Virginia wind turbines a monumental risk while less that 50 miles away in Tucker Mills, West Virginia their wind farms are producing megawatts of clean-green energy? Are our birds and bats less risk averse than theirs?
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Prior Roanoke Times opinion articles gloss over as trivial the restrictions that Virginia bureaucratic regulators have placed on the Highlands turbines. For perspective, suppose you apply for a home building permit and the building inspector tells you that “you can build the house, but, every week there will be an inspection and if more than two birds per week are killed by flying into your windows and glass doors, you will have to tear down the house”. Would anyone build under those conditions, and would any bank provide a mortgage on such a house?
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Apparently there are lots of green-power proponents who are all talk about how they’re going to replace fossil fuel in 10 years but then refuse to recognize that all power generation has adverse consequences and so they obstruct making the changes that are required. When you blow away their smokey wind, the bottom line is obstructionism as an end in itself and a commitment to the Jihad of no more power development of any kind no matter how green.
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/more-kaine-green-hypocrisy.html
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Monday, March 02, 2009
Federal Employee Civil Disobedience
Dr Jim Hansen, a NASA employee, apparently is a self-proclaimed major player in today’s, March 2,2009, mass civil disobedience action in Washington DC.
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Hansen is a key player on the Gore-hypothesis team while at the same time being paid by the taxpayers to be an independent and unbiased scientist tasked to explore the scientific facts associated with our 250 year global warming situation.
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It is very disturbing that he does not have the professional integrity to resign from his government position in order to pursue the Gore-agenda.
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What other Federal employee could promote an outside interest to the extent of fomenting mass civil disobedience without being terminated?
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Apparently more change we can believe in!
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http://www.giss.nasa.gov/staff/jhansen.html
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http://www.capitolclimateaction.com/
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Dr. James Hansen on coal, civil disobedience
March 2nd, 2009
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Prior Items
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/more-inconvenient-untruths.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/mr-gores-problem-with-data.html
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Hansen is a key player on the Gore-hypothesis team while at the same time being paid by the taxpayers to be an independent and unbiased scientist tasked to explore the scientific facts associated with our 250 year global warming situation.
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It is very disturbing that he does not have the professional integrity to resign from his government position in order to pursue the Gore-agenda.
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What other Federal employee could promote an outside interest to the extent of fomenting mass civil disobedience without being terminated?
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Apparently more change we can believe in!
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http://www.giss.nasa.gov/staff/jhansen.html
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http://www.capitolclimateaction.com/
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Dr. James Hansen on coal, civil disobedience
March 2nd, 2009
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Prior Items
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/more-inconvenient-untruths.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/mr-gores-problem-with-data.html
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Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Obama Economics
Roanoke Times, 2/24/09, Pg Bus 9: Bigger stakes in shaky banks (40% in Citigroup)
2/25/09, Pg 1: Obama address to congress -- there will be a brighter day "tomorrow" after we spend $2 Trillion dollars we don't have.
Has Obama read the Pelosi-Reid “bailout” and “stimulus” bills yet?
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Some Highlights of the “plan” that he should read:
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We’re in trouble because people were spending money they didn’t have, so, the government is going to spend lots more of your money that you don’t have and never will have.
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People aren’t buying cars, so, we’ve been to paying the UAW union workers $7,000 per month to not make cars and we intend to keep doing it!
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We’re going to have a Whitehouse bureaucracy-team define what new cars are going to be made by which car companies. Toyota and Nissan have “opted-out” of the plan.
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We’re going to insert Billions into banks that are “too big to go into Chap 11”. Unlike the Pennsylvania Railroad System in 1970:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_Railroad
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We’re extending the “too big to fail” policy into the “too big to jail” with our friend Bernie Madof.
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We’re going to take money from folks that are paying their mortgages to “supplement” those who aren’t paying their mortgages.
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We’re going to help folks who are getting some termination money from their employer by calling that money “earned income” so that both the federal and states can tax it and take at least 40% away in “income” taxes.
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We’re going to include in the “economic recovery” packages all the “pork” that we’ve been saving up for the last 10 years. That’s a nice thing about pork, you can smoke it, salt it, or cure it and then keep it ready for that special opportunity.
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We’re going to inject as many Billions into Citi-bank as Bob Rubin wants:
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/ObamaEconomicAdvisorRubin.jpg
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/11/picking-quality-economic-advisors.html
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After all, he was Clinton’s Treasury Sec. and he knows all about economics:
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/ClintonRecession.jpg
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Our left-wing friends have been lamenting the debt our next generation has been committed to. The silence now is deafening isn’t it! Apparently the liberals have determined that our children and grandchildren can pay for the Pelosi-Reid bill.
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Watching Hillary on her knees before the Chinese leaders begging them to buy our paper IOUs was reminiscent of the old Clinton Whitehouse.
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It’s interesting that not one member of the new administration or congress have pointed to a single positive thing that our billions of already spent stimulus dollars have accomplished.
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Suggestion: to immediately improve our unemployment situation by 5 million jobs --- deport 10 million illegal immigrants!
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Some prior items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/audacity-of-extravagance.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/duck-and-cover-to-minimize-fallout.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/01/volvo-layoffs-and-strikes.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/bailout-bridge-to-nowhere.html
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2/25/09, Pg 1: Obama address to congress -- there will be a brighter day "tomorrow" after we spend $2 Trillion dollars we don't have.
Has Obama read the Pelosi-Reid “bailout” and “stimulus” bills yet?
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Some Highlights of the “plan” that he should read:
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We’re in trouble because people were spending money they didn’t have, so, the government is going to spend lots more of your money that you don’t have and never will have.
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People aren’t buying cars, so, we’ve been to paying the UAW union workers $7,000 per month to not make cars and we intend to keep doing it!
-
We’re going to have a Whitehouse bureaucracy-team define what new cars are going to be made by which car companies. Toyota and Nissan have “opted-out” of the plan.
-
We’re going to insert Billions into banks that are “too big to go into Chap 11”. Unlike the Pennsylvania Railroad System in 1970:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_Railroad
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We’re extending the “too big to fail” policy into the “too big to jail” with our friend Bernie Madof.
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We’re going to take money from folks that are paying their mortgages to “supplement” those who aren’t paying their mortgages.
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We’re going to help folks who are getting some termination money from their employer by calling that money “earned income” so that both the federal and states can tax it and take at least 40% away in “income” taxes.
-
We’re going to include in the “economic recovery” packages all the “pork” that we’ve been saving up for the last 10 years. That’s a nice thing about pork, you can smoke it, salt it, or cure it and then keep it ready for that special opportunity.
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We’re going to inject as many Billions into Citi-bank as Bob Rubin wants:
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/ObamaEconomicAdvisorRubin.jpg
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/11/picking-quality-economic-advisors.html
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After all, he was Clinton’s Treasury Sec. and he knows all about economics:
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/ClintonRecession.jpg
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Our left-wing friends have been lamenting the debt our next generation has been committed to. The silence now is deafening isn’t it! Apparently the liberals have determined that our children and grandchildren can pay for the Pelosi-Reid bill.
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Watching Hillary on her knees before the Chinese leaders begging them to buy our paper IOUs was reminiscent of the old Clinton Whitehouse.
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It’s interesting that not one member of the new administration or congress have pointed to a single positive thing that our billions of already spent stimulus dollars have accomplished.
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Suggestion: to immediately improve our unemployment situation by 5 million jobs --- deport 10 million illegal immigrants!
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Some prior items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/audacity-of-extravagance.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/duck-and-cover-to-minimize-fallout.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/01/volvo-layoffs-and-strikes.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/bailout-bridge-to-nowhere.html
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Friday, February 20, 2009
Nation of White Cowards
It is very disappointing that Eric Holder, the new black US Attorney General (AG), has chosen to engage in Al Sharpton style race-baiting public statements.
It is particularly intimidating and disturbing because he is the chief cop of the US.
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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/02/18/holder-calls-nation-cowards-race-matters/
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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/02/19/holders-remarks-ignites-debate-race-relations/
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Apparently he is labeling white Americans as cowards because we don’t openly and actively address and discuss race issues and racial situations in a manner he desires.
It’s not clear if the Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s racial sermons meet with his approval.
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Could it be that this cowardly behavior has been imposed by the politically-correct PC-police who attack those who are not in PC-compliance on race, homosexuality, God, abortion, feminism, Gore-hypothesis and many other liberal social issues?
Perhaps that’s why we just cower-down and cling to our guns and Bibles?
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Today anyone who openly and frankly discusses race issues is subject to being labeled a bad person and whose livelihood may well be at stake.
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The vicious racial attacks upon Bill Cosby stand as a primary example:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/05/bill-cosby-not-pc.html
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Someone I personally know was investigated and her government job placed in jeopardy because she said at work that “a joke she had hear was ‘black humor’”. One can only imagine the person who brought forward the formal complaint and investigation.
Please click if you are one who doesn’t understand the term:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_comedy
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She now is a confirmed coward, one of multitudes of people who are totally intimidated by the PC-Police.
Actually, I would not even think about writing this blog if I still worked for my old employer.
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If this is the “Change we can believe in” – it certainly proves that all Change is not Progress!
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Some prior blog examples of our PC-police environment supported and assisted by our liberal media:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/09/quayle-vs-brown-revisited.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/08/roanoke-times-ap-playing-race-card.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/12/100-year-anniversary-eviction.html
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It is particularly intimidating and disturbing because he is the chief cop of the US.
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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/02/18/holder-calls-nation-cowards-race-matters/
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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/02/19/holders-remarks-ignites-debate-race-relations/
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Apparently he is labeling white Americans as cowards because we don’t openly and actively address and discuss race issues and racial situations in a manner he desires.
It’s not clear if the Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s racial sermons meet with his approval.
-
Could it be that this cowardly behavior has been imposed by the politically-correct PC-police who attack those who are not in PC-compliance on race, homosexuality, God, abortion, feminism, Gore-hypothesis and many other liberal social issues?
Perhaps that’s why we just cower-down and cling to our guns and Bibles?
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Today anyone who openly and frankly discusses race issues is subject to being labeled a bad person and whose livelihood may well be at stake.
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The vicious racial attacks upon Bill Cosby stand as a primary example:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/05/bill-cosby-not-pc.html
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Someone I personally know was investigated and her government job placed in jeopardy because she said at work that “a joke she had hear was ‘black humor’”. One can only imagine the person who brought forward the formal complaint and investigation.
Please click if you are one who doesn’t understand the term:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_comedy
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She now is a confirmed coward, one of multitudes of people who are totally intimidated by the PC-Police.
Actually, I would not even think about writing this blog if I still worked for my old employer.
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If this is the “Change we can believe in” – it certainly proves that all Change is not Progress!
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Some prior blog examples of our PC-police environment supported and assisted by our liberal media:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/09/quayle-vs-brown-revisited.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/08/roanoke-times-ap-playing-race-card.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/12/100-year-anniversary-eviction.html
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Monday, February 16, 2009
Google-Gore Partnership?
The Feb 16, 2009 Google-Earth view of the Artic around Greenland shows no sea-ice, just open blue water.
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Apparently not only has Google-Earth embraced the Gore-hypothesis but it appears that they've turned up the heat and melted 5.4 MILLION SQUARE MILES of sea-ice just in time for Mr. Gore's show in Washington!
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Talk about your global warming! And these folks are just programmers!
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Click to see the graphics and the disappearing ice:
Double-click the image for full size
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/Google-Gore.jpg
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View a site that presents current data:
http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/global-warming-theory-lte.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/mr-gores-problem-with-data.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/more-inconvenient-untruths.html
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Apparently not only has Google-Earth embraced the Gore-hypothesis but it appears that they've turned up the heat and melted 5.4 MILLION SQUARE MILES of sea-ice just in time for Mr. Gore's show in Washington!
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Talk about your global warming! And these folks are just programmers!
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Click to see the graphics and the disappearing ice:
Double-click the image for full size
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/Google-Gore.jpg
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View a site that presents current data:
http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/global-warming-theory-lte.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/mr-gores-problem-with-data.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/more-inconvenient-untruths.html
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Sunday, February 15, 2009
Weed in the Green Garden
Roanoke Times, 2/12/09, Pg 17, BIG opinion article with BIG Graphic:
“Mandate renewable energy” by Al Weed, former Democrat candidate for Congress in 2004 & 2006. Al is the Public Policy Virginia organization with intellectual assistance by Bobbie Joe Gardner.
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“Virginians want immediate government action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.”
Survey by UVA found that 55% of (Virginians who see man-made CO2 as a problem) strongly support mandated renewable power.
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That’s 55% of what number? Oh, it’s the 30% who believe the Gore-hypothesis that current warming is caused by people! So that’s really like 16%! And that’s without asking them if they are willing to double their electric bill!
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“Back in 2007, it became clear that deregulation was not going to bring down the cost of energy in Virginia”.
Perhaps that’s because Virginia has some of the lowest electric rates in the East based on hydro-power and coal-power and good companies like AEP!
Rates in the northeast are well above 15 cents while here in Franklin Co they’re about 5 cents per kilowatt-hour. It is very clear that stopping the use of coal and introducing renewable sources will be much more expensive than today’s costs.
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“If Virginia is going to respond to the challenge of climate change, the rules must be changed to MANDATE development of renewable energy.”
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If so, let there be green on earth and let it begin with Mr Weed and his Public Policy Organization and his wine business interests. Also let’s start with the Roanoke Times a major manufacturing facility with a very big carbon-footprint.
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Here’s how to start Mr. Weed:
1. AEP allows and supports net-metering. That means if you generate power at your site you can not only displace AEP electricity, you can utilize your excess electricity to run your electric meters backwards, thereby getting utility credit. What a deal!
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2. AEP also supports a “green pricing” program. You, Mr. Weed, and your friends at the Roanoke Times and associates in The Virginia Vineyards Association can all purchase “green energy” from AEP! The program is targeted at environmentally conscious customers who want to put their money behind the renewable energy movement.”
Basically they means: put-up or shut-up!
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After you have implemented these programs, you clearly should be able to make the case to the residents of Virginia that this is the way to go without resorting to USSR MANDATES!
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In the meantime perhaps you can talk to your buddy Tim Kaine and have him address the gross hypocrisy of the regulatory roadblocks he is supporting that prevents building the green and renewable Virginia Highland Wind Farm.
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/more-kaine-green-hypocrisy.html
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“Mandate renewable energy” by Al Weed, former Democrat candidate for Congress in 2004 & 2006. Al is the Public Policy Virginia organization with intellectual assistance by Bobbie Joe Gardner.
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“Virginians want immediate government action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.”
Survey by UVA found that 55% of (Virginians who see man-made CO2 as a problem) strongly support mandated renewable power.
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That’s 55% of what number? Oh, it’s the 30% who believe the Gore-hypothesis that current warming is caused by people! So that’s really like 16%! And that’s without asking them if they are willing to double their electric bill!
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“Back in 2007, it became clear that deregulation was not going to bring down the cost of energy in Virginia”.
Perhaps that’s because Virginia has some of the lowest electric rates in the East based on hydro-power and coal-power and good companies like AEP!
Rates in the northeast are well above 15 cents while here in Franklin Co they’re about 5 cents per kilowatt-hour. It is very clear that stopping the use of coal and introducing renewable sources will be much more expensive than today’s costs.
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“If Virginia is going to respond to the challenge of climate change, the rules must be changed to MANDATE development of renewable energy.”
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If so, let there be green on earth and let it begin with Mr Weed and his Public Policy Organization and his wine business interests. Also let’s start with the Roanoke Times a major manufacturing facility with a very big carbon-footprint.
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Here’s how to start Mr. Weed:
1. AEP allows and supports net-metering. That means if you generate power at your site you can not only displace AEP electricity, you can utilize your excess electricity to run your electric meters backwards, thereby getting utility credit. What a deal!
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2. AEP also supports a “green pricing” program. You, Mr. Weed, and your friends at the Roanoke Times and associates in The Virginia Vineyards Association can all purchase “green energy” from AEP! The program is targeted at environmentally conscious customers who want to put their money behind the renewable energy movement.”
Basically they means: put-up or shut-up!
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After you have implemented these programs, you clearly should be able to make the case to the residents of Virginia that this is the way to go without resorting to USSR MANDATES!
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In the meantime perhaps you can talk to your buddy Tim Kaine and have him address the gross hypocrisy of the regulatory roadblocks he is supporting that prevents building the green and renewable Virginia Highland Wind Farm.
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/more-kaine-green-hypocrisy.html
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Global Warming Theory LTE
An Open Letter to: Mr Dave Woolley, Huddleston, VA
Re: Your Open LTE, Roanoke Times, 2/13/09, Global Warming is no theory.
I certainly agree with you that we are 250 years into a global warming cycle. The issue at hand for most people is not that we have warmed-up since 1750, but, what has caused it and what to do about it. I have been very interested in the global warming discussion for a number of years. During a trip to Alaska, the subject came into sharp focus while visiting Mendenhall Glacier at Juneau.
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The Mendenhall data is very clear that we have been in a warming cycle since 1750, the end of the little ice age. I have also visited Nisqually Glacier in Wa and two more glaciers in southern Norway. These glaciers, in addition to hundreds more, have all been studied and documented by Cambridge in London and by numerous other scientific groups and universities and all share a very similar footprint.
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The 150 years of massive melting and retreat between 1750 and 1900 clearly indicates that our current global warming cycle was not the result of man-made CO2 as alleged by the Gore-hypothesis. Also, the global temperatures since then have not tracked against the published atmospheric CO2 as alleged.
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For the first half of my life, from 1940 through 1975 there was a major cooling period that resulted in a scientific consensus that we were reentering another little ice age.
The articles in Newsweek Apr 28, 1975 and Time Jun 24, 1974 describe the coming climate and food crisis with the primary recommendation that the US government use planes to dust-cover the polar ice with dark powder to increase heat absorption. Apparently it’s a good thing we didn’t do that!
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The published NASA global temperature data graphs also clearly show that we have experienced only one (1) degree warming in the past 100 years and no net temperature change in the last 10 years. This data is in stark contrast with the intense and hysterical media-hype about the imminent global warming disaster.
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There is a large body of professional and learned scientists who strongly disagree with the Gore-hypothesis and have well documented that our current global warming cycle is not the result of man-made CO2. These studies and data are indeed not visible in the Roanoke Times.
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March 8 to 10 will be the 2009 international conference on climate change in Times Square in NYC. http://www.heartland.org/events/NewYork09/newyork09.html
Some of the most distinguished scientists in the world will be presenting the most current data and studies that contradict the Gore-hypothesis. I’m sure that this also will not receive any coverage in the Roanoke Times or the media community they are partnered with.
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Clearly we have an energy crisis. It is the crisis of energy independence. We need to free ourselves from our dependence upon our enemies and to stop the major flow of wealth out of our country and economy. Green and renewable energy will play an increasing role, however, for at least the next 20 years we need significant additional domestic energy supplies to be brought online to satisfy our current total demand and support the two-plus million new people we add each year to our population (we have added 2+ million people every year since 1945).
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Not only are we paralyzed relative to conventional power development, but here in Virginia we can’t even support the Va Highlands Wind Farm, the primary “ready to go” green energy project in Virginia that has been in a regulatory swamp for 5 years.
Click for a summary of the Va Wind Farm Regulatory Debacle:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/more-kaine-green-hypocrisy.html
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Click for a summary of some non-Gore Global Warming and Climate Change data:
http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/
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Click for a view from a moon-walker:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,493624,00.html
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Re: Your Open LTE, Roanoke Times, 2/13/09, Global Warming is no theory.
I certainly agree with you that we are 250 years into a global warming cycle. The issue at hand for most people is not that we have warmed-up since 1750, but, what has caused it and what to do about it. I have been very interested in the global warming discussion for a number of years. During a trip to Alaska, the subject came into sharp focus while visiting Mendenhall Glacier at Juneau.
-
The Mendenhall data is very clear that we have been in a warming cycle since 1750, the end of the little ice age. I have also visited Nisqually Glacier in Wa and two more glaciers in southern Norway. These glaciers, in addition to hundreds more, have all been studied and documented by Cambridge in London and by numerous other scientific groups and universities and all share a very similar footprint.
-
The 150 years of massive melting and retreat between 1750 and 1900 clearly indicates that our current global warming cycle was not the result of man-made CO2 as alleged by the Gore-hypothesis. Also, the global temperatures since then have not tracked against the published atmospheric CO2 as alleged.
-
For the first half of my life, from 1940 through 1975 there was a major cooling period that resulted in a scientific consensus that we were reentering another little ice age.
The articles in Newsweek Apr 28, 1975 and Time Jun 24, 1974 describe the coming climate and food crisis with the primary recommendation that the US government use planes to dust-cover the polar ice with dark powder to increase heat absorption. Apparently it’s a good thing we didn’t do that!
-
The published NASA global temperature data graphs also clearly show that we have experienced only one (1) degree warming in the past 100 years and no net temperature change in the last 10 years. This data is in stark contrast with the intense and hysterical media-hype about the imminent global warming disaster.
-
There is a large body of professional and learned scientists who strongly disagree with the Gore-hypothesis and have well documented that our current global warming cycle is not the result of man-made CO2. These studies and data are indeed not visible in the Roanoke Times.
-
March 8 to 10 will be the 2009 international conference on climate change in Times Square in NYC. http://www.heartland.org/events/NewYork09/newyork09.html
Some of the most distinguished scientists in the world will be presenting the most current data and studies that contradict the Gore-hypothesis. I’m sure that this also will not receive any coverage in the Roanoke Times or the media community they are partnered with.
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Clearly we have an energy crisis. It is the crisis of energy independence. We need to free ourselves from our dependence upon our enemies and to stop the major flow of wealth out of our country and economy. Green and renewable energy will play an increasing role, however, for at least the next 20 years we need significant additional domestic energy supplies to be brought online to satisfy our current total demand and support the two-plus million new people we add each year to our population (we have added 2+ million people every year since 1945).
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Not only are we paralyzed relative to conventional power development, but here in Virginia we can’t even support the Va Highlands Wind Farm, the primary “ready to go” green energy project in Virginia that has been in a regulatory swamp for 5 years.
Click for a summary of the Va Wind Farm Regulatory Debacle:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/more-kaine-green-hypocrisy.html
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Click for a summary of some non-Gore Global Warming and Climate Change data:
http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/
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Click for a view from a moon-walker:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,493624,00.html
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More Kaine Green Hypocrisy
Roanoke Times, 10/24/08, Pg Bus 8 & 7: Wind power sees gust of development. Wind turbines are no longer a “marginal player” in the country’s energy grid. Industry expects faster growth. Picture of 210 ft windmill tower in Pa.
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Roanoke Times, 1/13/09, Pg Va 1: Kaine pushes “green jobs,” renewable energy sources. The governor said creating renewable energy sources would help ease the economic crisis.
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Roanoke Times, 1/14/09, Pg Va 10: Same content as 1/13 but with Highlights of “green jobs” plan with offers of taxpayer give-away money.
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How can the Roanoke Times and their associates continue to wrap Kaine in a shroud of green hypocrisy when they know that both Kaine and Gov Warner before him have buried the major real-green Virginia project in a regulatory swamp?
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Click through the following blog items to view what Kaine does verses what he says and then draw your own conclusions. Real journalists would be asking Kaine to either put-up or shut-up on his support for clean green energy.
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Click for the dismal story of Virginia’s green energy initiative:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/wind-power-regulatory-swamp.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/kaine-steers-va-into-green-something.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/09/more-green-virginia-jobs.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/09/virginia-wind-farm-someday.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/06/halt-wind-farm.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/03/birds-bats-blades.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2005/07/wind-turbines-and-bats.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2005/06/wind-power.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2005/06/clouding-wind-energy-debate.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2005/05/wind-turbines-on-highlands-of-va.html
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Tucker Mills, West Virginia, Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vs6nkXgGI4M
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Roanoke Times, 1/13/09, Pg Va 1: Kaine pushes “green jobs,” renewable energy sources. The governor said creating renewable energy sources would help ease the economic crisis.
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Roanoke Times, 1/14/09, Pg Va 10: Same content as 1/13 but with Highlights of “green jobs” plan with offers of taxpayer give-away money.
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How can the Roanoke Times and their associates continue to wrap Kaine in a shroud of green hypocrisy when they know that both Kaine and Gov Warner before him have buried the major real-green Virginia project in a regulatory swamp?
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Click through the following blog items to view what Kaine does verses what he says and then draw your own conclusions. Real journalists would be asking Kaine to either put-up or shut-up on his support for clean green energy.
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Click for the dismal story of Virginia’s green energy initiative:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/wind-power-regulatory-swamp.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/kaine-steers-va-into-green-something.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/09/more-green-virginia-jobs.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/09/virginia-wind-farm-someday.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/06/halt-wind-farm.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/03/birds-bats-blades.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2005/07/wind-turbines-and-bats.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2005/06/wind-power.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2005/06/clouding-wind-energy-debate.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2005/05/wind-turbines-on-highlands-of-va.html
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Tucker Mills, West Virginia, Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vs6nkXgGI4M
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Hiding a Democrat Senator’s Perjury
Roanoke Times, 2/15/09, Small print back on Page 15: Burris confirms request for donation to Blagojevich. The disclosure is at odds with Burris’ under-oath testimony.
Burris is the Illinois senatorial replacement for Obama.
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Once again the Editors at the Roanoke Times are working overtime slanting the news to cover-up for their political friends and associates.
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“The disclosure is at odds” -- Can you say FELONY PERJURY?
Isn’t that what the law calls someone who does not tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth when testifying under oath, especially for something as important as an appointment to US Senator?
And by the way – the amount the RT editors couldn’t remember is $10,000!
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One can only imagine the large print front page story IF Burris was a Republican!
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Why are the RT editors wondering why their business is in a funk?
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/audacity-of-transparency-not.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/throw-emanuel-under-bus.html
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Burris is the Illinois senatorial replacement for Obama.
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Once again the Editors at the Roanoke Times are working overtime slanting the news to cover-up for their political friends and associates.
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“The disclosure is at odds” -- Can you say FELONY PERJURY?
Isn’t that what the law calls someone who does not tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth when testifying under oath, especially for something as important as an appointment to US Senator?
And by the way – the amount the RT editors couldn’t remember is $10,000!
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One can only imagine the large print front page story IF Burris was a Republican!
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Why are the RT editors wondering why their business is in a funk?
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/audacity-of-transparency-not.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/throw-emanuel-under-bus.html
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Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Hiding Pelosi & Reid Again
Roanoke Times, 2/11/09, Pg 20: Large cartoon, drunken elephants,
Title Message: 8 years of GOP Rule
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Eight years of GOP rule?
Did the Democrats not win the House and Senate in Nov 2006?
Does the House and Senate not establish and control the budget?
Does the House and Senate not establish the laws controlling how funds are spent?
Have Reid and Pelosi not been in-charge of the US finances for last two years?
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Are the editors of the Roanoke Times trying to insult their reader’s intelligence, or, is it just working out that way?
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Click to review the time-line leading up to the current financial train-wreck:
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http://www.youtube.com:80/watch?v=cMnSp4qEXNM&NR=1
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/09/democrats-crash-burn-again.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/07/housing-adjustment.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/05/yet-another-free-political-dnc-ad-by.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/02/journalist-dishonesty-continues.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/01/what-reforms.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/11/congratulations.html
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Title Message: 8 years of GOP Rule
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Eight years of GOP rule?
Did the Democrats not win the House and Senate in Nov 2006?
Does the House and Senate not establish and control the budget?
Does the House and Senate not establish the laws controlling how funds are spent?
Have Reid and Pelosi not been in-charge of the US finances for last two years?
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Are the editors of the Roanoke Times trying to insult their reader’s intelligence, or, is it just working out that way?
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Click to review the time-line leading up to the current financial train-wreck:
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http://www.youtube.com:80/watch?v=cMnSp4qEXNM&NR=1
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/09/democrats-crash-burn-again.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/07/housing-adjustment.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/05/yet-another-free-political-dnc-ad-by.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/02/journalist-dishonesty-continues.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/01/what-reforms.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/11/congratulations.html
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Sunday, February 08, 2009
False Positives & Negatives
Roanoke Times, 2/8/09, Pg Horiz 2: Editorial: Protect food safety. A long and accusatory knee-jerk reaction to the current peanut butter salmonella recall based on almost no factual data. The editor’s message is that the manufacturer is criminal.
“Astoundingly, the inspectors’ report states that in each case, after the firm retested the product and received a negative status, the product was shipped “
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Some rational and nonjudgmental points to consider:
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Consider any test in which a positive outcome indicates the product in not okay (red light comes on) and a negative outcome (red light does not come on) indicates the product is okay.
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1. Every testing regimen is subject to false-positives and false-negatives. False negatives (red light didn't come on but should have) result in bad material being shipped with the belief that it’s good.
2. False positives (red light came on but shouldn't have) are identified by retesting those failures and achieving negative outcomes on the follow-up tests.
3. A good process requires that testing be done by a second testing facility to minimize testing error (apparently that was done in this case).
4. The current US commercial food products are the safest in the world. We are feeding 300 million, 3 meals a day with very few serious issues. Where there are issues there is prompt and comprehensive analysis for the cause-and-effect relationships. Most times when there are food poisoning issues, it is the end preparer that has caused the problem.
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As the RT editors eat food products sold at the downtown farmers market and at produce stands along the highway and eat dinners prepared by social and religious organizations perhaps they should question what testing processes these food items have been subjected to.
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Perhaps the RT editors should just take a deep breath and cover the facts of these stories without the emotional tripe and unsubstantiated criminal accusations. In other words: just report the news -- don't help make it!
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Let’s just view this as one more RT false-positive (slant) that needs lots more testing.
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/12/its-poop-stupid.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/09/some-poop-on-ecoli-and-organic-foods.html
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“Astoundingly, the inspectors’ report states that in each case, after the firm retested the product and received a negative status, the product was shipped “
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Some rational and nonjudgmental points to consider:
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Consider any test in which a positive outcome indicates the product in not okay (red light comes on) and a negative outcome (red light does not come on) indicates the product is okay.
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1. Every testing regimen is subject to false-positives and false-negatives. False negatives (red light didn't come on but should have) result in bad material being shipped with the belief that it’s good.
2. False positives (red light came on but shouldn't have) are identified by retesting those failures and achieving negative outcomes on the follow-up tests.
3. A good process requires that testing be done by a second testing facility to minimize testing error (apparently that was done in this case).
4. The current US commercial food products are the safest in the world. We are feeding 300 million, 3 meals a day with very few serious issues. Where there are issues there is prompt and comprehensive analysis for the cause-and-effect relationships. Most times when there are food poisoning issues, it is the end preparer that has caused the problem.
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As the RT editors eat food products sold at the downtown farmers market and at produce stands along the highway and eat dinners prepared by social and religious organizations perhaps they should question what testing processes these food items have been subjected to.
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Perhaps the RT editors should just take a deep breath and cover the facts of these stories without the emotional tripe and unsubstantiated criminal accusations. In other words: just report the news -- don't help make it!
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Let’s just view this as one more RT false-positive (slant) that needs lots more testing.
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/12/its-poop-stupid.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/09/some-poop-on-ecoli-and-organic-foods.html
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Friday, February 06, 2009
The Audacity of Extravagance
Roanoke Times, 2/6/09, Pg 7: Obama finally able to break in AF-1, Takes House Democrats to Williamsburg for dinner.
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Fine print, page 7! What a departure to the big RT 12/10/08 article with big political cartoon roasting the Va Republicans for holding a function at "The Homestead".
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And taking AF-1 for the trip – what a gross act – talk about the auto execs coming thousands of miles to DC in small corporate jets!
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AF-1 is the biggest passenger plane in the world! And MapQuest says the trip is:
Estimated Drive Time: 2 hours 37 minutes Estimated Distance: 152.35 miles!
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And this at a time when Obama is telling us our entire economic system is collapsing and that burning fuel is causing CO2 that is destroying the world!
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Has anyone seen a better example of hypocrisy?
And the coverage/response by the Roanoke Times is yet again more gross-SLANT!
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YET MORE CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN!
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Prior Item:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/obama-and-real-fat-cats.html
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Fine print, page 7! What a departure to the big RT 12/10/08 article with big political cartoon roasting the Va Republicans for holding a function at "The Homestead".
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And taking AF-1 for the trip – what a gross act – talk about the auto execs coming thousands of miles to DC in small corporate jets!
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AF-1 is the biggest passenger plane in the world! And MapQuest says the trip is:
Estimated Drive Time: 2 hours 37 minutes Estimated Distance: 152.35 miles!
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And this at a time when Obama is telling us our entire economic system is collapsing and that burning fuel is causing CO2 that is destroying the world!
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Has anyone seen a better example of hypocrisy?
And the coverage/response by the Roanoke Times is yet again more gross-SLANT!
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YET MORE CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN!
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Prior Item:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/obama-and-real-fat-cats.html
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Wednesday, February 04, 2009
Wind Power Regulatory Swamp
Roanoke Times, 2/4/09, Pg Va 9: Commentary by Rick Webb of UVa: Wind power needs regulation.
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Yes Rick, and regulation they have. The highland wind-farm project has been in the regulatory swamp for 5 years. After all the heifer-dust settled the two issues the so called “environmentalists” were hung-on was the number of bats and birds that would fly into the blades.
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You know – like the flock of geese that flew into the compressor-blades of the US Airways jet in the Hudson River.
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What is Rick and associates doing about the tens of millions of birds that are killed each year by outside-house cats? What is Rick doing about the bats that die each year from rabies and now the tens of millions that are dying from “white nose syndrome”?
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Why are the Virginia wind turbines a monumental risk while less that 50 miles away in Tucker Mills, West Virginia their wind farms are producing megawatts of clean-green energy?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vs6nkXgGI4M
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Rick glosses over as trivial the restrictions that Virginia bureaucratic regulators have placed on the Highlands turbines. Suppose Rick applied for a home building permit, and the building inspector told him he could build the house, but, every week there would be an inspection and if more than two birds per week were killed by flying into his windows and glass doors, he would have to tear down the house.
Does anyone think Rick would build, and does anyone think that the banks would provide a mortgage on such a house?
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Rick is apparently typical of the green-power folks who are all talk about how they’re going to replace fossil fuel in 10 years but then refuse to recognize that all power generation has adverse consequences and so they obstruct making the changes that are required.
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When you blow away the smoke, the bottom line is obstructionism as an end in itself!
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Prior Like Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/09/virginia-wind-farm-someday.html
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Yes Rick, and regulation they have. The highland wind-farm project has been in the regulatory swamp for 5 years. After all the heifer-dust settled the two issues the so called “environmentalists” were hung-on was the number of bats and birds that would fly into the blades.
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You know – like the flock of geese that flew into the compressor-blades of the US Airways jet in the Hudson River.
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What is Rick and associates doing about the tens of millions of birds that are killed each year by outside-house cats? What is Rick doing about the bats that die each year from rabies and now the tens of millions that are dying from “white nose syndrome”?
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Why are the Virginia wind turbines a monumental risk while less that 50 miles away in Tucker Mills, West Virginia their wind farms are producing megawatts of clean-green energy?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vs6nkXgGI4M
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Rick glosses over as trivial the restrictions that Virginia bureaucratic regulators have placed on the Highlands turbines. Suppose Rick applied for a home building permit, and the building inspector told him he could build the house, but, every week there would be an inspection and if more than two birds per week were killed by flying into his windows and glass doors, he would have to tear down the house.
Does anyone think Rick would build, and does anyone think that the banks would provide a mortgage on such a house?
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Rick is apparently typical of the green-power folks who are all talk about how they’re going to replace fossil fuel in 10 years but then refuse to recognize that all power generation has adverse consequences and so they obstruct making the changes that are required.
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When you blow away the smoke, the bottom line is obstructionism as an end in itself!
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Prior Like Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/09/virginia-wind-farm-someday.html
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Tuesday, February 03, 2009
Iran Winning BIG
The Bush Administration and Israel had the data that Iran was concluding work on both nuclear weapons and long-range rockets to deliver them
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The Democrats and Left-wingers told Bush they would impeach him if he or Israel launched preemptive strikes to cripple Iran’s nuclear or rocket development.
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Today – 2-3-09 - Iran put a satellite into earth orbit!
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,487126,00.html
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For the folks who don’t yet have their GED – that means that very soon Iran can place a nuclear weapon into such a satellite, launch it into orbit, and on command cause it to plunge to earth and detonate above any city that ImAnutJob decides to annihilate.
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When ImAnutJob calls Washington and makes his non-negotiable demands, what will Obama and his “Smart Secretary of State” Hillary Clinton have to say then?
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Obama has already committed to stop development of our anti-missile system development and deployment - the only systems that have any chance of protecting the American people --- click for his youtube words in-person:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o84PE871BE&eurl
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YET MORE CHANGE THAT WE CAN BELIEVE IN!
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/06/obama-commander-of-unilateral.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/02/star-wars-from-sputnik-to-sm3.html
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The Democrats and Left-wingers told Bush they would impeach him if he or Israel launched preemptive strikes to cripple Iran’s nuclear or rocket development.
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Today – 2-3-09 - Iran put a satellite into earth orbit!
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,487126,00.html
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For the folks who don’t yet have their GED – that means that very soon Iran can place a nuclear weapon into such a satellite, launch it into orbit, and on command cause it to plunge to earth and detonate above any city that ImAnutJob decides to annihilate.
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When ImAnutJob calls Washington and makes his non-negotiable demands, what will Obama and his “Smart Secretary of State” Hillary Clinton have to say then?
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Obama has already committed to stop development of our anti-missile system development and deployment - the only systems that have any chance of protecting the American people --- click for his youtube words in-person:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o84PE871BE&eurl
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YET MORE CHANGE THAT WE CAN BELIEVE IN!
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/06/obama-commander-of-unilateral.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/02/star-wars-from-sputnik-to-sm3.html
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Yet Another Obama Tax Cheat
Latest web news:
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Obama's selection, Nancy Killefer, has withdrawn herself to be the first chief performance officer for the federal government, because of issues with her tax-paying history, the White House announced Tuesday.
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No wonder Obama and the Democrats are for ever-higher taxes.
Apparently they don’t pay them!
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Chief Performance Office indeed, apparently Obama is the one having performance issues!
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YET MORE CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN!
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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/02/03/white-house-performance-czar-nancy-killefer-withdraws-candidacy/
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/duck-and-cover-to-minimize-fallout.html
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Obama's selection, Nancy Killefer, has withdrawn herself to be the first chief performance officer for the federal government, because of issues with her tax-paying history, the White House announced Tuesday.
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No wonder Obama and the Democrats are for ever-higher taxes.
Apparently they don’t pay them!
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Chief Performance Office indeed, apparently Obama is the one having performance issues!
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YET MORE CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN!
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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/02/03/white-house-performance-czar-nancy-killefer-withdraws-candidacy/
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/duck-and-cover-to-minimize-fallout.html
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Duck and Cover to Minimize Fallout
Roanoke Times, 2/3/09, Pg 6A –Heading – Mortages: Senator to separate from troubled lender ---- (small print; back-end of Pg 6; mortages? Separate?)
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Another outstanding SLANT job by the editors of the Roanoke Times. Let’s republish as if “the Senator” was a Republican.
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Page 1: Large Heading:
Democrat Senator Dodd, chairman of the Senate Banking Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, after 6 months of stone-walling, will try to minimize his major ethical conflict-of-interest by refinancing through a newly nationalized TARP-bank.
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Democrat Senator Dodd, who oversees the Home Loan Industry, received a secret personal sweetheart mortgage deal from Countrywide Financial, the company that was at the epicenter of the current housing and financial crash that has thrown the US economy into recession.
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Rumors have it that he will form a Democrats for Ethics in Government Group with friends: Rangel, Geitner, Daschle, and Richardson
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Prior Like Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/can-you-say-democrat.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/bailout-bridge-to-nowhere.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/11/picking-quality-economic-advisors.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/09/financial-domino-effect.html
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YET MORE CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN!
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Another outstanding SLANT job by the editors of the Roanoke Times. Let’s republish as if “the Senator” was a Republican.
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Page 1: Large Heading:
Democrat Senator Dodd, chairman of the Senate Banking Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, after 6 months of stone-walling, will try to minimize his major ethical conflict-of-interest by refinancing through a newly nationalized TARP-bank.
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Democrat Senator Dodd, who oversees the Home Loan Industry, received a secret personal sweetheart mortgage deal from Countrywide Financial, the company that was at the epicenter of the current housing and financial crash that has thrown the US economy into recession.
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Rumors have it that he will form a Democrats for Ethics in Government Group with friends: Rangel, Geitner, Daschle, and Richardson
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Prior Like Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/can-you-say-democrat.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/bailout-bridge-to-nowhere.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/11/picking-quality-economic-advisors.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/09/financial-domino-effect.html
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YET MORE CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN!
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More Inconvenient UnTruths
More Inconvenient UnTruths
There we had Mr. Gore, yet again, lecturing the less learned members of congress on the Gore-hypothesis of man-made global disaster. The following article addresses Mr Gore’s latest bait-and-switch insult to all those who have a GED in earth science. Isn’t it interesting that no one in the major media ever calls Mr Gore to account for his false and misleading hyperbole!
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Perhaps the major media people are afraid of confronting Mr Gore because of the old axiom: don’t ever argue with a fool because bystanders may become confused!
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Click for some prior items in this blog:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/mr-gores-problem-with-data.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/01/positive-steps-at-roanoke-times.html
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,485064,00.html
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Al Gore and Venus Envy
Thursday, January 29, 2009 By Steven Milloy
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Al Gore has a new argument for why carbon dioxide is the global warming boogeyman -- and it’s simply out of this world.
Testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday with yet another one of his infamous slide shows, Gore observed that the carbon dioxide (CO2) in Venus’ atmosphere supercharges the second-planet-from-the-sun’s greenhouse effect, resulting in surface temperatures of about 870 degrees Fahrenheit. Gore added that it’s not Venus’ proximity to the Sun that makes the planet much warmer than the Earth, because Mercury, which is even closer to the Sun, is cooler than Venus. Based on this rationale, then, Gore warned that we need to stop emitting CO2 into our own atmosphere.
Incredibly, not a Senator on the Committee questioned -- much less burst into outright laughter at -- Gore’s absurd point. In fact, each Senator who spoke at the hearing, including Republicans, offered little but fawning praise for Gore. It’s hard to know whether the hearing’s lovefest was simply an example of the Senate’s exaggerated sense of collegiality, appalling ignorance and gullibility about environmental science, or fear of appearing to be less green than Gore.
It is true that atmospheric CO2 warms both Venus and the Earth, but that’s about where the CO2 commonality between the two planets ends. While the Venusian atmosphere is 97 percent CO2 (970,000 parts per million), the Earth’s atmosphere is only 0.038 percent CO2 (380 parts per million). So the Venusian atmosphere’s CO2 level is more than 2,557 times greater than the Earth’s. And since the CO2 in the Earth’s atmosphere is increasing by only about 2 parts per million annually, our planet is hardly being Venus-ized.
Gore’s incorporation of Mercury in his argument is equally specious because Mercury doesn’t really have any greenhouse gases in its atmosphere that would capture the radiation it gets from the Sun. As a result, the daily temperature on Mercury varies from about 840 degrees Fahrenheit during the day to about -275 degrees Fahrenheit at night. Mercury’s daily temperature swing actually belies Gore’s unqualified demonization of greenhouse gases, whose heat trapping characteristics tend to stabilize climate and prevent wild temperature fluctuations.
The significance of Gore’s testimony is that the Venus scenario seems to be his new basis for claiming that CO2 drives the Earth’s climate and, hence, his call that we must stop emitting CO2 into the atmosphere. At no time did he refer to his two An Inconvenient Truth-era arguments concerning the relationship between CO2 and global temperature -- that is, the Antarctic ice core record that goes back 650,000 years and the 20th century temperature/CO2 record. There’s good reason for his apparent abandonment of these arguments -- presented fairly, both actually debunk global warming alarmism. (Note: This YouTube video that I produced explains this point.)
Gore seemed to “wow” the Senate Committee with images and projections of environmental and even political upheaval allegedly already caused and to be caused in the future by climate change, such as melting glaciers and the 2007 fires in Greece that, Gore says, almost brought down the government. Gore repeatedly said that global warming threatens the “future of human civilization” and could bring it to a “screeching halt” in this century. Gore said that we are on a fossil fuel “rollercoaster” that is headed for a “crash.” We are near a “tipping point,” he said, beyond which human civilization isn’t possible on this planet.
Such melodrama, of course, is necessary to conceal and distract from the fact that there is no scientific evidence indicating that manmade emissions of CO2 are having any detectable impact, much less any harm, on the Earth’s climate or its population.
During his testimony, Gore invoked the specter of James Hansen, NASA’s global warming alarmist-in-chief, to bolster his climate claims. But like the ice core and 20th century temperature records, Hansen may soon have to be dropped from Gore’s presentations.
Hansen’s former NASA supervisor -- atmospheric scientist Dr. John S. Theon, who recently announced that he is skeptical of global warming alarmism -- recently wrote to Senate Environment and Public Works Committee staffer Marc Morano that, “Hansen…violated NASA’s official agency position on climate forecasting (i.e., we did not know enough to forecast climate change or mankind’s effect on it) … [and] thus embarrassed NASA by coming out with his claims of global warming in 1988 in his testimony before Congress.”
Commenting on another key deficiency in the manmade catastrophic global warming hypothesis, Theon also observed that “[climate] models do not realistically simulate the climate system … some scientists have manipulated the observed data to justify their model results … This is clearly contrary to how science should be done … Thus there is no rational justification for using climate model forecasts to determine public policy.”
The same could be said for Gore and his slide shows.
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Venus envy? Yeah, why not? There’s no Al Gore there.
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There we had Mr. Gore, yet again, lecturing the less learned members of congress on the Gore-hypothesis of man-made global disaster. The following article addresses Mr Gore’s latest bait-and-switch insult to all those who have a GED in earth science. Isn’t it interesting that no one in the major media ever calls Mr Gore to account for his false and misleading hyperbole!
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Perhaps the major media people are afraid of confronting Mr Gore because of the old axiom: don’t ever argue with a fool because bystanders may become confused!
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Click for some prior items in this blog:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/mr-gores-problem-with-data.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/01/positive-steps-at-roanoke-times.html
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,485064,00.html
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Al Gore and Venus Envy
Thursday, January 29, 2009 By Steven Milloy
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Al Gore has a new argument for why carbon dioxide is the global warming boogeyman -- and it’s simply out of this world.
Testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday with yet another one of his infamous slide shows, Gore observed that the carbon dioxide (CO2) in Venus’ atmosphere supercharges the second-planet-from-the-sun’s greenhouse effect, resulting in surface temperatures of about 870 degrees Fahrenheit. Gore added that it’s not Venus’ proximity to the Sun that makes the planet much warmer than the Earth, because Mercury, which is even closer to the Sun, is cooler than Venus. Based on this rationale, then, Gore warned that we need to stop emitting CO2 into our own atmosphere.
Incredibly, not a Senator on the Committee questioned -- much less burst into outright laughter at -- Gore’s absurd point. In fact, each Senator who spoke at the hearing, including Republicans, offered little but fawning praise for Gore. It’s hard to know whether the hearing’s lovefest was simply an example of the Senate’s exaggerated sense of collegiality, appalling ignorance and gullibility about environmental science, or fear of appearing to be less green than Gore.
It is true that atmospheric CO2 warms both Venus and the Earth, but that’s about where the CO2 commonality between the two planets ends. While the Venusian atmosphere is 97 percent CO2 (970,000 parts per million), the Earth’s atmosphere is only 0.038 percent CO2 (380 parts per million). So the Venusian atmosphere’s CO2 level is more than 2,557 times greater than the Earth’s. And since the CO2 in the Earth’s atmosphere is increasing by only about 2 parts per million annually, our planet is hardly being Venus-ized.
Gore’s incorporation of Mercury in his argument is equally specious because Mercury doesn’t really have any greenhouse gases in its atmosphere that would capture the radiation it gets from the Sun. As a result, the daily temperature on Mercury varies from about 840 degrees Fahrenheit during the day to about -275 degrees Fahrenheit at night. Mercury’s daily temperature swing actually belies Gore’s unqualified demonization of greenhouse gases, whose heat trapping characteristics tend to stabilize climate and prevent wild temperature fluctuations.
The significance of Gore’s testimony is that the Venus scenario seems to be his new basis for claiming that CO2 drives the Earth’s climate and, hence, his call that we must stop emitting CO2 into the atmosphere. At no time did he refer to his two An Inconvenient Truth-era arguments concerning the relationship between CO2 and global temperature -- that is, the Antarctic ice core record that goes back 650,000 years and the 20th century temperature/CO2 record. There’s good reason for his apparent abandonment of these arguments -- presented fairly, both actually debunk global warming alarmism. (Note: This YouTube video that I produced explains this point.)
Gore seemed to “wow” the Senate Committee with images and projections of environmental and even political upheaval allegedly already caused and to be caused in the future by climate change, such as melting glaciers and the 2007 fires in Greece that, Gore says, almost brought down the government. Gore repeatedly said that global warming threatens the “future of human civilization” and could bring it to a “screeching halt” in this century. Gore said that we are on a fossil fuel “rollercoaster” that is headed for a “crash.” We are near a “tipping point,” he said, beyond which human civilization isn’t possible on this planet.
Such melodrama, of course, is necessary to conceal and distract from the fact that there is no scientific evidence indicating that manmade emissions of CO2 are having any detectable impact, much less any harm, on the Earth’s climate or its population.
During his testimony, Gore invoked the specter of James Hansen, NASA’s global warming alarmist-in-chief, to bolster his climate claims. But like the ice core and 20th century temperature records, Hansen may soon have to be dropped from Gore’s presentations.
Hansen’s former NASA supervisor -- atmospheric scientist Dr. John S. Theon, who recently announced that he is skeptical of global warming alarmism -- recently wrote to Senate Environment and Public Works Committee staffer Marc Morano that, “Hansen…violated NASA’s official agency position on climate forecasting (i.e., we did not know enough to forecast climate change or mankind’s effect on it) … [and] thus embarrassed NASA by coming out with his claims of global warming in 1988 in his testimony before Congress.”
Commenting on another key deficiency in the manmade catastrophic global warming hypothesis, Theon also observed that “[climate] models do not realistically simulate the climate system … some scientists have manipulated the observed data to justify their model results … This is clearly contrary to how science should be done … Thus there is no rational justification for using climate model forecasts to determine public policy.”
The same could be said for Gore and his slide shows.
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Venus envy? Yeah, why not? There’s no Al Gore there.
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Saturday, January 31, 2009
Yet More Change We Can Believe In?
Roanoke Times, 1/31/09, Pg 6A, Obama’s choice for Pentagon is a defense lobbyist.
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How can that be? Didn’t Obama sign an executive order to preclude lobbyists from serving in his administration after making that one of his campaign promises?
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And Obama’s appointment to Health and Human Cabinet post, Tom Daschle, the former South Dakota senator and leader of the US Senate, apparently received $220,000 from health care groups. And that’s in addition to his lapse in $130,000 in unpaid income taxes.
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Of course Obama just appointed Tim Geitner, the guy who hasn’t paid his income taxes to be Secretary of the Treasury (parent organization of the IRS).
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Apparently not paying taxes, getting a quarter million from advocacy groups and being a lobbyist is not a problem if Obama wants you on his team! So much for campaign promises and executive orders!
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Yet More Change we can believe in?
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/01/bill-habla-esponaol-richardson.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/01/obama-declares-end-of-war-on-terror.html
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How can that be? Didn’t Obama sign an executive order to preclude lobbyists from serving in his administration after making that one of his campaign promises?
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And Obama’s appointment to Health and Human Cabinet post, Tom Daschle, the former South Dakota senator and leader of the US Senate, apparently received $220,000 from health care groups. And that’s in addition to his lapse in $130,000 in unpaid income taxes.
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Of course Obama just appointed Tim Geitner, the guy who hasn’t paid his income taxes to be Secretary of the Treasury (parent organization of the IRS).
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Apparently not paying taxes, getting a quarter million from advocacy groups and being a lobbyist is not a problem if Obama wants you on his team! So much for campaign promises and executive orders!
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Yet More Change we can believe in?
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/01/bill-habla-esponaol-richardson.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/01/obama-declares-end-of-war-on-terror.html
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Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Volvo Layoffs and Strikes
Roanoke Times, 1/28/2009, Pg 1: Volvo to lay off at lest 650 workers
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A large multipage article about the layoffs at the Volvo Dublin Va truck plant.
Not mentioned was the UAW 2008 strike supported with vigor by Jim Webb who eagerly walked the picket lines as part of his campaign game.
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/02/happy-uaw-strikers.html
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Also not mentioned was the 2006 national “clean-air” regulations driving up the cost of engines by 10 thousand dollars.
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/10/hoping-for-payback.html
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Perhaps the UAW union leaders and members who work at Volvo, GM, Ford and Chrysler may someday get the message that we are in a new world-wide economic system that will not support the UAW’s insatiable appetite for never-ending major increases in wages, benefits and work-rules.
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The drop in Volvo Dublin employment from 3170 in Nov 2006 to a projected 1000 by May 2008 should be a wake-up call for all who don’t give a hoot about productivity and business competition and the constraints of worldwide markets.
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/11/deunionize-gm-ford.html
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A large multipage article about the layoffs at the Volvo Dublin Va truck plant.
Not mentioned was the UAW 2008 strike supported with vigor by Jim Webb who eagerly walked the picket lines as part of his campaign game.
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/02/happy-uaw-strikers.html
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Also not mentioned was the 2006 national “clean-air” regulations driving up the cost of engines by 10 thousand dollars.
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/10/hoping-for-payback.html
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Perhaps the UAW union leaders and members who work at Volvo, GM, Ford and Chrysler may someday get the message that we are in a new world-wide economic system that will not support the UAW’s insatiable appetite for never-ending major increases in wages, benefits and work-rules.
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The drop in Volvo Dublin employment from 3170 in Nov 2006 to a projected 1000 by May 2008 should be a wake-up call for all who don’t give a hoot about productivity and business competition and the constraints of worldwide markets.
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/11/deunionize-gm-ford.html
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Monday, January 26, 2009
MovinOnUp From GITMO to San Quentin
Roanoke Times, 1/26/09, Editorial: Obama doing good closing GITMO.
Since Obama and staff do not have any plan for what to do with the terrorists at GITMO it appears their best approach politically and legally is to move them to San Quentin.
San Quentin is a good choice because:
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1. It’s within the jurisdiction of the 9th Circuit Court – the most liberal Court in the US
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2. It’s in California, the most liberal state in the US.
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3. It’s in San Francisco, the most liberal city in the US
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4. It’s in a state that hasn’t been hit by terrorists and has been far too busy with their own self-indulgence to have noticed what has happened elsewhere. No ill will there!
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5. It’s in Nancy Pelosi’s congressional district which makes it convenient for her to stop by and commiserate with these poor abused children of Allah.
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6. It’s near SFO which makes it convenient to fly these folks to better places. Suggest half go to Oslo Norway and the other half to Stockholm Sweden. Those folks can then ensure they have a pleasant environment in which to do business.
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/01/obama-declares-end-of-war-on-terror.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/11/world-war-expands.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/11/democrats-indicted-judgement-tbd.html
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Since Obama and staff do not have any plan for what to do with the terrorists at GITMO it appears their best approach politically and legally is to move them to San Quentin.
San Quentin is a good choice because:
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1. It’s within the jurisdiction of the 9th Circuit Court – the most liberal Court in the US
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2. It’s in California, the most liberal state in the US.
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3. It’s in San Francisco, the most liberal city in the US
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4. It’s in a state that hasn’t been hit by terrorists and has been far too busy with their own self-indulgence to have noticed what has happened elsewhere. No ill will there!
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5. It’s in Nancy Pelosi’s congressional district which makes it convenient for her to stop by and commiserate with these poor abused children of Allah.
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6. It’s near SFO which makes it convenient to fly these folks to better places. Suggest half go to Oslo Norway and the other half to Stockholm Sweden. Those folks can then ensure they have a pleasant environment in which to do business.
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/01/obama-declares-end-of-war-on-terror.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/11/world-war-expands.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/11/democrats-indicted-judgement-tbd.html
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Sunday, January 25, 2009
Positive Steps at the Roanoke Times
Roanoke Times, 1/25/09, Pg A3: Study: Antarctica joins rest of globe in warming.
It has ramifications for sea level rise, as scientists had counted on the continent cooling, not warming.
Western Antarctica has warmed at a rapid rate over the past 50 years; eastern Antarctica also has warmed, but more slowly.
Picture of mother penguin feeding young with caption: “region’s climate has warmed by 1 degree since 1957.
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After all this scary lead-in headline hype, if one reads the detail, it was refreshing to see the RT actually printed some reasonable material that puts the above information in perspective:
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1. The research found that since 1957, for the entire continent of Antarctica has risen about 1 degree Fahrenheit, albeit that the temperature is 50 degrees below zero.
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2. The study does NOT point to man-made climate change, acknowledging that some of the effects could be natural variability.
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3. It is hard to make data where none exits. (An included comment on the lack of measuring points and data and veracity of the “study”).
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As a novice skeptic I would add the following:
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1. Most folks acknowledge that we are in a global warming cycle that began in 1750 at the end of the “little ice age”. The three key issues are: 1. What are the causes and 2. What are the effects and 3. Is this a crisis and can man influence it?
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2. The NASA global temperature data base indicates that there has been 1 degree warming in the last 100 years.
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2. The NASA global temperature data base indicates that there was a major 35 years cooling period from 1940 through 1975.
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3. The NASA global temperature data base indicates that there has been no net warming in the last 10 years.
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4. 16,000 years ago the Atlantic Ocean was 400 feet lower than it is today. The Outer Banks were 50 miles east (out to sea) from where it is today. The Atlantic has been rising about 1+ foot per hundred years for hundreds of years (long before man-made anything).
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Having given the supporters of the Gore-hypothesis lots of “good press coverage” perhaps the Roanoke Times will now give some equal coverage to the 2009 International Conference on Climate Change to be held March 8 through 10 in NYC, perhaps not.
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http://www.heartland.org/events/NewYork09/newyork09.html
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Click for global warming insight:
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/08/250-years-of-natural-global-warming.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/07/g8-current-natural-global-warming.html
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It has ramifications for sea level rise, as scientists had counted on the continent cooling, not warming.
Western Antarctica has warmed at a rapid rate over the past 50 years; eastern Antarctica also has warmed, but more slowly.
Picture of mother penguin feeding young with caption: “region’s climate has warmed by 1 degree since 1957.
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After all this scary lead-in headline hype, if one reads the detail, it was refreshing to see the RT actually printed some reasonable material that puts the above information in perspective:
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1. The research found that since 1957, for the entire continent of Antarctica has risen about 1 degree Fahrenheit, albeit that the temperature is 50 degrees below zero.
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2. The study does NOT point to man-made climate change, acknowledging that some of the effects could be natural variability.
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3. It is hard to make data where none exits. (An included comment on the lack of measuring points and data and veracity of the “study”).
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As a novice skeptic I would add the following:
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1. Most folks acknowledge that we are in a global warming cycle that began in 1750 at the end of the “little ice age”. The three key issues are: 1. What are the causes and 2. What are the effects and 3. Is this a crisis and can man influence it?
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2. The NASA global temperature data base indicates that there has been 1 degree warming in the last 100 years.
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2. The NASA global temperature data base indicates that there was a major 35 years cooling period from 1940 through 1975.
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3. The NASA global temperature data base indicates that there has been no net warming in the last 10 years.
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4. 16,000 years ago the Atlantic Ocean was 400 feet lower than it is today. The Outer Banks were 50 miles east (out to sea) from where it is today. The Atlantic has been rising about 1+ foot per hundred years for hundreds of years (long before man-made anything).
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Having given the supporters of the Gore-hypothesis lots of “good press coverage” perhaps the Roanoke Times will now give some equal coverage to the 2009 International Conference on Climate Change to be held March 8 through 10 in NYC, perhaps not.
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http://www.heartland.org/events/NewYork09/newyork09.html
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Click for global warming insight:
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/08/250-years-of-natural-global-warming.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/07/g8-current-natural-global-warming.html
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Saturday, January 24, 2009
Obama Attacks Rush Limbaugh
Roanoke Times, 1/24/09, Not a word! The silence of the lambs!
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Can you imagine the Roanoke Times Editorial Staff reaction if George Bush had directly and specifically attacked one of the liberal news figures --- telling key Congressional Democrats that if they wanted to participate in government that they must stop listening to the myriad of left-wing journalists and commentators.
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Is this what the CHANGE is all about?
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This is the new bipartisan approach to government?
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No -- this is clearly the Audacity of Arrogance!
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click for the details:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/01/23/obama-quit-listening-rush-limbaugh-want-things/
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WASHINGTON -- President Obama warned Republicans on Capitol Hill today (thurs 1/22/09) that they need to quit listening to radio king Rush Limbaugh if they want to get along with Democrats and the new administration.
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/01/obama-declares-end-of-war-on-terror.html
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Can you imagine the Roanoke Times Editorial Staff reaction if George Bush had directly and specifically attacked one of the liberal news figures --- telling key Congressional Democrats that if they wanted to participate in government that they must stop listening to the myriad of left-wing journalists and commentators.
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Is this what the CHANGE is all about?
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This is the new bipartisan approach to government?
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No -- this is clearly the Audacity of Arrogance!
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click for the details:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/01/23/obama-quit-listening-rush-limbaugh-want-things/
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WASHINGTON -- President Obama warned Republicans on Capitol Hill today (thurs 1/22/09) that they need to quit listening to radio king Rush Limbaugh if they want to get along with Democrats and the new administration.
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/01/obama-declares-end-of-war-on-terror.html
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Tuesday, January 20, 2009
GOD and Government
Today, 1/20/09 was a wonderful day!
There was yet again a peaceful and pleasant transfer of power within the most wonderful and powerful country the world has ever known.
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The GOD and Government wonder of the day is that the crazy and nasty people of the world were not able to do something bad in Washington today! A major thank you to the many security people who devote their lives to our well being, and to the Almighty entity that looks over them.
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I'm sure that the ACLU and their friends and associates and supporters would not give credit to a Divine entity for today's peaceful exchange of administrations, however, those of us who are not as sophisticated and intellectual as those folks, are saying a prayer of thanksgiving for today's peaceful outcome.
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It's clear that God loves ordinary people, because he made so many of us!
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/whats-3-12-inches-high-x-9-wide.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/10/take-god-out.html
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There was yet again a peaceful and pleasant transfer of power within the most wonderful and powerful country the world has ever known.
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The GOD and Government wonder of the day is that the crazy and nasty people of the world were not able to do something bad in Washington today! A major thank you to the many security people who devote their lives to our well being, and to the Almighty entity that looks over them.
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I'm sure that the ACLU and their friends and associates and supporters would not give credit to a Divine entity for today's peaceful exchange of administrations, however, those of us who are not as sophisticated and intellectual as those folks, are saying a prayer of thanksgiving for today's peaceful outcome.
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It's clear that God loves ordinary people, because he made so many of us!
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/whats-3-12-inches-high-x-9-wide.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/10/take-god-out.html
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Sunday, January 18, 2009
A Rose Among The Thorns Leaves the Briar Patch
Roanoke Times, 1/18/09, Pg Va 1: Farewell column by Shanna Flowers
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Shanna Flowers has indeed been a Rose among the thorns and briar patch of the editorial board of the Roanoke Times.
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Her articles have been fair, balanced and delivered in a professional manner. This is the hallmark of a real journalist who understands that journalism has both great power and great responsibility and strives to achieve an honorable balance.
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I will miss both her message and her smiling image with each article.
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I wish her the best in her new career. I’m sure she will continue to be a Rose wherever she travels and whatever she does.
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Godspeed Shanna!
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Shanna Flowers has indeed been a Rose among the thorns and briar patch of the editorial board of the Roanoke Times.
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Her articles have been fair, balanced and delivered in a professional manner. This is the hallmark of a real journalist who understands that journalism has both great power and great responsibility and strives to achieve an honorable balance.
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I will miss both her message and her smiling image with each article.
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I wish her the best in her new career. I’m sure she will continue to be a Rose wherever she travels and whatever she does.
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Godspeed Shanna!
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Thursday, January 15, 2009
Obama Declares End of War on Terror
With his appointment of Leon Edward Panetta, a purely political operative with absolutely no background in intelligence or homeland security, to be head of the CIA, Obama has declared that the War on Terror is over.
Obama and his Clinton team will apparently revert to the way attacks on our people were handled by Clinton during his term. In fact they may well bring back Jamie (the wall) Gorelick who so proudly generated the Clinton directive that the FBI and the CIA could not collaborate on investigations, thereby allowing the 911 terrorists to enroll in pilot training in Florida.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/05/cia-director.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/09/waving-that-finger-again.html
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During his introduction, Obama’s challenge to Panetta is to lead the CIA back to being politically correct and in a favorable light with the caring and sensitive people of the human rights groups who have done so much to stop bad things from happening in the world.
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One might have thought the number one priority of the President of the US should be: “Never Again”! No more terrorist strikes against Americans wherever they may be!
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Obama’s next declaration was to close Guantanamo. What a stroke of leadership! No plan on what to do with the folks there who were killing our people, apparently they will just disappear and become nice people.
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Obama’s next declaration was to end military tribunals for terrorists. Apparently the major work done by Congress and the Federal Courts to arrive at a reasonable and just process is not OK. No word on what a replacement might be. Perhaps Judge Ito and the OJ legal system might be available again.
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Obama’s next declaration was to end the “don’t ask, don’t tell” military homosexual rule that was put in place by Clinton. Apparently that will substantially enhance our military combat readiness and morale and make the battlefield a more friendly work environment.
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Just the beginning of the change we can believe in! Many of my friends who voted for Obama are already having second thoughts, and he hasn’t even taken office yet!
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/06/obama-commander-of-unilateral.html
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Obama and his Clinton team will apparently revert to the way attacks on our people were handled by Clinton during his term. In fact they may well bring back Jamie (the wall) Gorelick who so proudly generated the Clinton directive that the FBI and the CIA could not collaborate on investigations, thereby allowing the 911 terrorists to enroll in pilot training in Florida.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/05/cia-director.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/09/waving-that-finger-again.html
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During his introduction, Obama’s challenge to Panetta is to lead the CIA back to being politically correct and in a favorable light with the caring and sensitive people of the human rights groups who have done so much to stop bad things from happening in the world.
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One might have thought the number one priority of the President of the US should be: “Never Again”! No more terrorist strikes against Americans wherever they may be!
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Obama’s next declaration was to close Guantanamo. What a stroke of leadership! No plan on what to do with the folks there who were killing our people, apparently they will just disappear and become nice people.
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Obama’s next declaration was to end military tribunals for terrorists. Apparently the major work done by Congress and the Federal Courts to arrive at a reasonable and just process is not OK. No word on what a replacement might be. Perhaps Judge Ito and the OJ legal system might be available again.
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Obama’s next declaration was to end the “don’t ask, don’t tell” military homosexual rule that was put in place by Clinton. Apparently that will substantially enhance our military combat readiness and morale and make the battlefield a more friendly work environment.
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Just the beginning of the change we can believe in! Many of my friends who voted for Obama are already having second thoughts, and he hasn’t even taken office yet!
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/06/obama-commander-of-unilateral.html
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Monday, January 05, 2009
Bill Habla Espanol Richardson
Roanoke Times, 1/5/09, Pg 1: Richardson withdraws bid for cabinet. Aides said a grand jury investigation would have delayed his confirmation as commerce secretary.
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No – that’s not it! He was chosen, selected and announced by Obama to be Obama’s Commerce Secretary. He was not at Sotheby’s bidding on anything. And what’s with the “delay”? The guy just might be going to jail – some delay! Who writes these RT headlines and why is it so hard to type “Democrat” for bad news bears and so easy to type “Republican”?
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/can-you-say-democrat.html
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It was noteworthy that he chose to accept the Obama appointment-elect in Spanish several weeks ago. Apparently he didn’t withdraw in Spanish! Wonder why not?
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Click back through these links for a more complete picture of Bill Richardson who was a key Clinton operative and who had a major responsibility for enabling North Korea to become a nuclear-rogue nation at our expense and who totally dropped the ball on American energy independence 15 years ago!
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And he represents Change we can believe in?
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/07/oil-problem-cant-be-fixed.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/07/presidential-candidate-pot-man.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/02/should-have-didnt-too-late-now.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/01/richardsons-experience.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/10/north-korean-nukes.html
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No – that’s not it! He was chosen, selected and announced by Obama to be Obama’s Commerce Secretary. He was not at Sotheby’s bidding on anything. And what’s with the “delay”? The guy just might be going to jail – some delay! Who writes these RT headlines and why is it so hard to type “Democrat” for bad news bears and so easy to type “Republican”?
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/can-you-say-democrat.html
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It was noteworthy that he chose to accept the Obama appointment-elect in Spanish several weeks ago. Apparently he didn’t withdraw in Spanish! Wonder why not?
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Click back through these links for a more complete picture of Bill Richardson who was a key Clinton operative and who had a major responsibility for enabling North Korea to become a nuclear-rogue nation at our expense and who totally dropped the ball on American energy independence 15 years ago!
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And he represents Change we can believe in?
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/07/oil-problem-cant-be-fixed.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/07/presidential-candidate-pot-man.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/02/should-have-didnt-too-late-now.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/01/richardsons-experience.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/10/north-korean-nukes.html
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Wednesday, December 31, 2008
What's 3-1/2 Inches High X 9 Wide
Roanoke Times, 12/31/08, Pg 1: Major Heading and leading article: Council prayer stokes e-mailer’s ire. More inside pg 8. Roanoke’s vice-mayor hit a hot-button issue by opening a city meeting with a prayer that referred to God’s son.
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WOW! What a major front page story to ring-out the old year!
A person (as in one) wrote an email complaining about a council member mentioning God.
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Has anyone ever written so much about so little in journalistic history?
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At first folks focused on the VICE-mayor title and thought Roanoke had some real excitement in process, but alas, that was not to be.
It’s just the frustrations of a disgruntled person who is a kindred spirit to the editors of the Roanoke Times and their liberal associates and friends at the ACLU.
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/can-you-spell-christmas.html
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I hardly think the founders of the Constitution, who prayed at every opportunity, would consider this prayer a transgression or problem or even an issue. In fact they clearly would have expected a more robust expression of our religious heritage at this holiday season.
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I note that the RT uses the date of 2008. What do they think that date represents?
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WOW! What a major front page story to ring-out the old year!
A person (as in one) wrote an email complaining about a council member mentioning God.
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Has anyone ever written so much about so little in journalistic history?
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At first folks focused on the VICE-mayor title and thought Roanoke had some real excitement in process, but alas, that was not to be.
It’s just the frustrations of a disgruntled person who is a kindred spirit to the editors of the Roanoke Times and their liberal associates and friends at the ACLU.
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/can-you-spell-christmas.html
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I hardly think the founders of the Constitution, who prayed at every opportunity, would consider this prayer a transgression or problem or even an issue. In fact they clearly would have expected a more robust expression of our religious heritage at this holiday season.
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I note that the RT uses the date of 2008. What do they think that date represents?
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Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Mr Gore's Problem With The Data
Roanoke Times, 12/30/08, Pg Va 9: Commentary: A slow approach to warming by Jay Ambrose of Scripps Howard New Service. KUDOs to the RT for publishing this article.
Mr Ambrose expresses doubts about global warming magnitude and cause and effect and what if any government actions are appropriate.
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Why do so many good people doubt Mr Gore’s hypothesis that man-made CO2 is causing major increases in atmospheric temperature that he says will very soon cause catastrophic environmental and human damage?
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Mr Gore, as the salesman for the UN’s IPCC group, went so far outside the “truth and reality box” with his presentations and movie that many people now doubt his entire hypothesis. His PR campaign enveloped the concepts of: global warming: man-made CO2 and adverse climate change without any regard for the natural forces that has dominated earth’s environment for millions of years. This structure was designed to give his hypothesis the broadest possible coverage of any weather event anywhere and cloud the facts between regional weather events and fossil fuel use and global changes and natural causes and variations.
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Mr Gore and the IPCC knew that their infamous charts showing CO2 causing major temperature variations occuring hundreds of thousands of years ago are patently false and not accepted earth science theory.
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Many good, reasonable, prudent and intelligent people question that man-man CO2 has caused the warming that has occurred since the end of the “little ice age” in 1750. Mr Gore and the IPCC refuse to explain their time line of current warming starting in 1750. Clearly the first 150 years of major land-based glacier retreat occurred before any significant man-made CO2.
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They question the exaggerated forecasts of huge rises in sea levels due to arctic sea-ice melting because they all have watched ice melt in a grass of soda without overflowing and they know that the north-west-passage has been open before.
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They know that one component for increasing atmospheric CO2 is natural increased global temperature from whatever cause. Even youngsters have watched the CO2 escape from a bottle of chilled soda as it warms up.
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They know that there was a significant global cooling for the 35 years from 1940 through 1975 in spite of the major CO2 releases from WWI, WWII, Korea and accelerated world-wide fossil fuel consumption.
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They know that there has been only one degree warming in the past 100 years and NO global temperature increase during the past 10 years in spite of the increased level of atmospheric CO2.
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They know that the significant global warming that occurred during the medieval period did not result in catastrophic disaster. In fact, it was the following “little ice age” that produced major negative impacts.
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They know that only those who are hiding the truth would mount a campaign to silence the questions about their hypothesis and not participate in meaningful and professional dialogue.
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They know that Mr Jim Hanson, prophet of man-made global warming and paradoxically the keeper of the official government temperature data, has continually published faulty data that were only corrected due to scrutiny by doubting-bloggers.
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And so these skeptics and doubters and deniers continue to ask for the truth and nothing but the truth about the global and regional changes we observe and measure and what part if any man-made actions are contributors. Perhaps that’s what everyone should be seeking including Mr Gore and his associates at the IPCC. The debate about the causes and effects of regional and global changes are clearly not over and the current data does not favor Mr Gore or draconian government actions that will cripple our countries economic systems and infrastructure.
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Click for global warming data:
http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/08/250-years-of-natural-global-warming.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/07/g8-current-natural-global-warming.html
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Mr Ambrose expresses doubts about global warming magnitude and cause and effect and what if any government actions are appropriate.
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Why do so many good people doubt Mr Gore’s hypothesis that man-made CO2 is causing major increases in atmospheric temperature that he says will very soon cause catastrophic environmental and human damage?
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Mr Gore, as the salesman for the UN’s IPCC group, went so far outside the “truth and reality box” with his presentations and movie that many people now doubt his entire hypothesis. His PR campaign enveloped the concepts of: global warming: man-made CO2 and adverse climate change without any regard for the natural forces that has dominated earth’s environment for millions of years. This structure was designed to give his hypothesis the broadest possible coverage of any weather event anywhere and cloud the facts between regional weather events and fossil fuel use and global changes and natural causes and variations.
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Mr Gore and the IPCC knew that their infamous charts showing CO2 causing major temperature variations occuring hundreds of thousands of years ago are patently false and not accepted earth science theory.
-
Many good, reasonable, prudent and intelligent people question that man-man CO2 has caused the warming that has occurred since the end of the “little ice age” in 1750. Mr Gore and the IPCC refuse to explain their time line of current warming starting in 1750. Clearly the first 150 years of major land-based glacier retreat occurred before any significant man-made CO2.
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They question the exaggerated forecasts of huge rises in sea levels due to arctic sea-ice melting because they all have watched ice melt in a grass of soda without overflowing and they know that the north-west-passage has been open before.
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They know that one component for increasing atmospheric CO2 is natural increased global temperature from whatever cause. Even youngsters have watched the CO2 escape from a bottle of chilled soda as it warms up.
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They know that there was a significant global cooling for the 35 years from 1940 through 1975 in spite of the major CO2 releases from WWI, WWII, Korea and accelerated world-wide fossil fuel consumption.
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They know that there has been only one degree warming in the past 100 years and NO global temperature increase during the past 10 years in spite of the increased level of atmospheric CO2.
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They know that the significant global warming that occurred during the medieval period did not result in catastrophic disaster. In fact, it was the following “little ice age” that produced major negative impacts.
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They know that only those who are hiding the truth would mount a campaign to silence the questions about their hypothesis and not participate in meaningful and professional dialogue.
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They know that Mr Jim Hanson, prophet of man-made global warming and paradoxically the keeper of the official government temperature data, has continually published faulty data that were only corrected due to scrutiny by doubting-bloggers.
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And so these skeptics and doubters and deniers continue to ask for the truth and nothing but the truth about the global and regional changes we observe and measure and what part if any man-made actions are contributors. Perhaps that’s what everyone should be seeking including Mr Gore and his associates at the IPCC. The debate about the causes and effects of regional and global changes are clearly not over and the current data does not favor Mr Gore or draconian government actions that will cripple our countries economic systems and infrastructure.
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Click for global warming data:
http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/08/250-years-of-natural-global-warming.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/07/g8-current-natural-global-warming.html
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Friday, December 26, 2008
Can You Spell CHRISTMAS?
Roanoke Times, 12-25-08, Pg 1: Heading: Happy holidays
12/26/08, Pg A3: Christmas now official holiday in Iraq
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Apparently Dec 25th is Christmas in Iraq, but not at the Roanoke Times!
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It’s disappointing that the liberal press, who boast of their “inclusiveness”, find it so difficult to say “Merry Christmas”. What a sad and forlorn group that have given up their independence in order to serve on the altar of “political correctness”.
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Click for Prior Items:
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Christmas at Arlington
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/12/christmas-at-arlington.html
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Roanoke Times, 12/17/06, Pg Horiz 1: Editorial: Christian bullies manufactured this “War on Christmas”
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/12/fake-war.html
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12/26/08, Pg A3: Christmas now official holiday in Iraq
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Apparently Dec 25th is Christmas in Iraq, but not at the Roanoke Times!
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It’s disappointing that the liberal press, who boast of their “inclusiveness”, find it so difficult to say “Merry Christmas”. What a sad and forlorn group that have given up their independence in order to serve on the altar of “political correctness”.
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Click for Prior Items:
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Christmas at Arlington
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/12/christmas-at-arlington.html
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Roanoke Times, 12/17/06, Pg Horiz 1: Editorial: Christian bullies manufactured this “War on Christmas”
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/12/fake-war.html
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Thursday, December 25, 2008
LTE Writer Takes Gloves Off
Roanoke Times, 12/25/08, Pg Va 14: Letters to Editor by Peter T. Sarjeant, Bedford, Va.
Radmacher (RT Editor) finds no bliss in ignorance.
“The article, “Efforts to clean coal’s image won’t work.” (Dec.21 commentary), in the Horizon section by Dan Radmacher is the most negative, biased, bilious baloney I have ever read in the Roanoke Times.”
“Has he ever visited on of the coal-burning power plants to witness what is being done to “clean” the coal? He simply copies the tripe that is generally spouted by anti-coal mongers in the free press. It is totally useless information, largely fabricated and without any scientific foundation whatsoever. A real Scroogy attitude.”
“Poor man. He lives in an ignorance that has no bliss.”
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My, My! And the editors of the RT think that my blog items here in the RoanokeSlant.org are unnecessarily harsh and qualify as “roughing the quarterback”!
I don’t know Mr. Sarjeant, but apparently we have a similar view of many of the RT’s editorial board pronouncements.
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This blog contains over 1,000 items that highlight the one-sided liberal views expressed in the RT both as comment and as “news”. I felt compelled to include Mr. Sarjeant’s LTE as yet another blog item reflecting a valid contrarian view of the RT's Editorial Board.
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Some Sample Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/kaine-steers-va-into-green-something.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/90-million-shoes.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/we-want-you.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/09/roanoke-going-green.html
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Radmacher (RT Editor) finds no bliss in ignorance.
“The article, “Efforts to clean coal’s image won’t work.” (Dec.21 commentary), in the Horizon section by Dan Radmacher is the most negative, biased, bilious baloney I have ever read in the Roanoke Times.”
“Has he ever visited on of the coal-burning power plants to witness what is being done to “clean” the coal? He simply copies the tripe that is generally spouted by anti-coal mongers in the free press. It is totally useless information, largely fabricated and without any scientific foundation whatsoever. A real Scroogy attitude.”
“Poor man. He lives in an ignorance that has no bliss.”
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My, My! And the editors of the RT think that my blog items here in the RoanokeSlant.org are unnecessarily harsh and qualify as “roughing the quarterback”!
I don’t know Mr. Sarjeant, but apparently we have a similar view of many of the RT’s editorial board pronouncements.
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This blog contains over 1,000 items that highlight the one-sided liberal views expressed in the RT both as comment and as “news”. I felt compelled to include Mr. Sarjeant’s LTE as yet another blog item reflecting a valid contrarian view of the RT's Editorial Board.
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Some Sample Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/kaine-steers-va-into-green-something.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/90-million-shoes.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/we-want-you.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/09/roanoke-going-green.html
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Sunday, December 21, 2008
Throw Emanuel Under the Bus
Roanoke Times, 12/21/08, Pg 1: Past ties to Ill. Governor a liability for Emanuel.
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A carefully crafted AP hedge-paper setting the stage for Ram Emanuel’s ejection from Obama’s Chief of Staff position should the government wiretaps be embarrassing of Emanuel discussing Obama’s “up for bid” vacated senate seat with Ron Blagojevich. The inference is that Obama wouldn’t have had any idea that was going on!
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Click for Blago-Obama-Daley and fun times in Chicago.
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/Blago-Obama-Daley.jpg
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Exactly how dull does the AP think people are, and what a difference with their handling of the Plame-Wilson-Libby situation. The AP and the liberal press were so into that story that they have even refused to publish the 550 tons of yellow-cake nuclear weapons material discovered in Iraq and then moved by the US to Canada.
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/07/sadams-yellow-cake.html
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Regardless how this particular incident turns out, the public is well aware of the history of Chicago politics and are just now starting to get an insight into Obama’s history within that political swamp.
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Prior Item:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/audacity-of-transparency-not.html
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A carefully crafted AP hedge-paper setting the stage for Ram Emanuel’s ejection from Obama’s Chief of Staff position should the government wiretaps be embarrassing of Emanuel discussing Obama’s “up for bid” vacated senate seat with Ron Blagojevich. The inference is that Obama wouldn’t have had any idea that was going on!
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Click for Blago-Obama-Daley and fun times in Chicago.
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/Blago-Obama-Daley.jpg
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Exactly how dull does the AP think people are, and what a difference with their handling of the Plame-Wilson-Libby situation. The AP and the liberal press were so into that story that they have even refused to publish the 550 tons of yellow-cake nuclear weapons material discovered in Iraq and then moved by the US to Canada.
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/07/sadams-yellow-cake.html
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Regardless how this particular incident turns out, the public is well aware of the history of Chicago politics and are just now starting to get an insight into Obama’s history within that political swamp.
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Prior Item:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/audacity-of-transparency-not.html
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Friday, December 19, 2008
Big Out of State Student Tuition Reduction
Apparently the Va Election Board directed local election officials to not require ID as a requirement for voting in the 2008 general election Nov 4.
As a result it appears that many out of state students successfully voted as state residents at the polls near their school.
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It now appears that a large number of these students will be using this Virginia Government certified residency to apply for in-state-tuition at all Virginia Public Colleges and Universities. Resistance to these applications will constitute the basis for a class action law suit to enforce these rules.
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Seems like a proper and simple followup activity. However, there may be significant economic implications for the schools and the state.
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It turns out there are 28,234 out of state undergraduates enrolled in Virginia Public four year institutions.
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It also turns out that there is approximately a $10,000 per student per year fee charged to out of state students.
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That will result in $282.3 MILLION dollars per year that these students will save!
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Not clear how that reduction will relate to state and school budgets.
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Perhaps Gov Kaine will address that in his upcoming budget.
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/no-real-vote-recount.html
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As a result it appears that many out of state students successfully voted as state residents at the polls near their school.
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It now appears that a large number of these students will be using this Virginia Government certified residency to apply for in-state-tuition at all Virginia Public Colleges and Universities. Resistance to these applications will constitute the basis for a class action law suit to enforce these rules.
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Seems like a proper and simple followup activity. However, there may be significant economic implications for the schools and the state.
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It turns out there are 28,234 out of state undergraduates enrolled in Virginia Public four year institutions.
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It also turns out that there is approximately a $10,000 per student per year fee charged to out of state students.
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That will result in $282.3 MILLION dollars per year that these students will save!
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Not clear how that reduction will relate to state and school budgets.
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Perhaps Gov Kaine will address that in his upcoming budget.
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/no-real-vote-recount.html
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Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Kaine Steers Va into Green Something
Roanoke Times, 12/12/08, Pg Bus 8: Kaine steers Virginia in direction of “green jobs”. Virginia has the potential to create tens of thousands of green jobs by 2025, Kaine said.
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Governors Warner and Kaine have clearly NOT supported Virginia GREEN Wind-power. The Wind-farm in Highland County, now five years in a Virginia regulatory swamp, still does not have Virginia Democrat support to move forward over objections about insignificant impacts to birds and bats.http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/09/virginia-wind-farm-someday.html
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What are these green-jobs going to produce that will be greener than wind power on the Va-WVa highlands?
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Based on his total lack of leadership to support the highland wind farm, how can anyone, even someone from the Roanoke Times, take this political hot air seriously?
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To put the total hex on anything that could possibly be done, the article quotes Glen Besa of the Sierra Club as saying he hopes to be supportive of Kaine’s initiatives. Since the Sierra Club has not been supportive of any energy project I have ever heard of, one wonders what new invention he is talking about?
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The bottom line is:
1) We have increased our US population by 2 million persons per year for over 50 years. Every one of these people need and use energy.
2) The Democrat party and the so called “environmentalists” have not supported any additional energy sources in the last 20 years.
3) Our current dependence on foreign energy has created massive financial and security issues for our country.
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We look forward to these new green-jobs that the Sierra Club endorses.
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/11/drill-but-dont-really-drill.html
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Governors Warner and Kaine have clearly NOT supported Virginia GREEN Wind-power. The Wind-farm in Highland County, now five years in a Virginia regulatory swamp, still does not have Virginia Democrat support to move forward over objections about insignificant impacts to birds and bats.http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/09/virginia-wind-farm-someday.html
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What are these green-jobs going to produce that will be greener than wind power on the Va-WVa highlands?
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Based on his total lack of leadership to support the highland wind farm, how can anyone, even someone from the Roanoke Times, take this political hot air seriously?
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To put the total hex on anything that could possibly be done, the article quotes Glen Besa of the Sierra Club as saying he hopes to be supportive of Kaine’s initiatives. Since the Sierra Club has not been supportive of any energy project I have ever heard of, one wonders what new invention he is talking about?
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The bottom line is:
1) We have increased our US population by 2 million persons per year for over 50 years. Every one of these people need and use energy.
2) The Democrat party and the so called “environmentalists” have not supported any additional energy sources in the last 20 years.
3) Our current dependence on foreign energy has created massive financial and security issues for our country.
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We look forward to these new green-jobs that the Sierra Club endorses.
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/11/drill-but-dont-really-drill.html
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90 Million Shoes
Roanoke Times, 12/17/08, Pg A 11: Yet another AP and liberal media gleeful and festive article on the shoe thrown at Pres. Bush at a Bagdad news conference.
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It’s interesting that AP and the major media don’t talk about the 90 million Iraqi shoes that are now free from the terror of Sadam and Usay and Kuday. No one threw shoes at them because everyone knew their feet would be cut-off and then their head and then the heads of all their family members would be cut off just like journalist David Pearl who the liberal media has chosen to forget. No liberal media medal of honor for him!
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On the subject of liberal media gross slant and bias, please advise if anyone has ever seen a significant liberal media article on the 550 tons of yellow-cake nuclear bomb making material the US army removed from Iraq and sent to vaults in Canada for safe keeping.
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All this shoe hype wouldn’t be a part of the ongoing media effort to keep folks from asking about Obama’s ChicagoGate issues, would it? Perhaps reporters should be throwing shoes at him until he comes clean on this scandal and the corrupt Democrat machine!
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/audacity-of-transparency-not.html
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It’s interesting that AP and the major media don’t talk about the 90 million Iraqi shoes that are now free from the terror of Sadam and Usay and Kuday. No one threw shoes at them because everyone knew their feet would be cut-off and then their head and then the heads of all their family members would be cut off just like journalist David Pearl who the liberal media has chosen to forget. No liberal media medal of honor for him!
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On the subject of liberal media gross slant and bias, please advise if anyone has ever seen a significant liberal media article on the 550 tons of yellow-cake nuclear bomb making material the US army removed from Iraq and sent to vaults in Canada for safe keeping.
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All this shoe hype wouldn’t be a part of the ongoing media effort to keep folks from asking about Obama’s ChicagoGate issues, would it? Perhaps reporters should be throwing shoes at him until he comes clean on this scandal and the corrupt Democrat machine!
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/audacity-of-transparency-not.html
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Sunday, December 14, 2008
The Audacity of Transparency NOT
Where are the media cries for the Obama promised and advertised openness of the new administration relative to communications between the “Office of the President Elect” and Blago, the Democrat Gov. of Illinois who has been busy selling a US Senate seat to the highest bidder.
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Obama told us (on TV) that neither he nor his team have been involved in discussion with Blago “about this subject”.
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Turns out: Ron Emanuel, Obama’s new chief of staff, had lots of discussions and now there’s silence until “the team” figures out what’s recorded on tape and what they have to “fess up to” and how to spin the story. What a refreshing new approach to transparency and the media just rolls over and lets it roll by! Wouldn’t want to spoil the start of the Obama Honeymoon.
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Certainly a far cry from how the major media have handled all the items that have surfaced during the Bush term and the media feeding frenzy focused on Gov. Palin.
So much for fair and balanced!
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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2008/12/13/report-obamas-aide-discussed-senate-job-blagojevich/
“Communications between Emanuel and the Blagojevich administration were captured on court-approved wiretaps, a source confirmed for the newspaper.
Another source told the newspaper that contact between the Obama camp and the governor's administration over the Senate seat began the Saturday before the Nov. 4 election, when Emanuel called the cell phone of Blagojevich's chief of staff, John Harris.
Emanuel delivered a list of "acceptable" candidates, the source told the newspaper. The list named Obama adviser Valerie Jarrert, Illinois Veterans Affairs Director Tammy Duckworth, state Comptroller Dan Hynes and U.S. Rep Jan Schakowsky of Chicago, the source told the Tribune.
After the election, Emanuel called Harris back to add the name of Democratic Attorney General Lisa Madigan to the approved list, the source said.”-
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Obama told us (on TV) that neither he nor his team have been involved in discussion with Blago “about this subject”.
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Turns out: Ron Emanuel, Obama’s new chief of staff, had lots of discussions and now there’s silence until “the team” figures out what’s recorded on tape and what they have to “fess up to” and how to spin the story. What a refreshing new approach to transparency and the media just rolls over and lets it roll by! Wouldn’t want to spoil the start of the Obama Honeymoon.
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Certainly a far cry from how the major media have handled all the items that have surfaced during the Bush term and the media feeding frenzy focused on Gov. Palin.
So much for fair and balanced!
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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2008/12/13/report-obamas-aide-discussed-senate-job-blagojevich/
“Communications between Emanuel and the Blagojevich administration were captured on court-approved wiretaps, a source confirmed for the newspaper.
Another source told the newspaper that contact between the Obama camp and the governor's administration over the Senate seat began the Saturday before the Nov. 4 election, when Emanuel called the cell phone of Blagojevich's chief of staff, John Harris.
Emanuel delivered a list of "acceptable" candidates, the source told the newspaper. The list named Obama adviser Valerie Jarrert, Illinois Veterans Affairs Director Tammy Duckworth, state Comptroller Dan Hynes and U.S. Rep Jan Schakowsky of Chicago, the source told the Tribune.
After the election, Emanuel called Harris back to add the name of Democratic Attorney General Lisa Madigan to the approved list, the source said.”-
We Want You?
Roanoke Times, 12/14/08, Pg Horiz 1: Extensive editorial about “joining the RT reader panel”.
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Article should read: we want your input if you’re like us! And we’ll make that decision!
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Very interesting! Back on 1/7/06 the RT launched a similar effort to:
“we’ll be keeping a sharp eye out for thoughtful conservatives who can present views that differ from the Roanoke Times editorial board.”
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/01/searching-for-whom.html
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That diligent search brought us articles by folks like Ray Stubble, yet another clone of the left-wing and liberal editorial board of the RT, hardly a contrasting view of anything.
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Good news RT editors: There are over 1,000 items in this blog that should fulfill your objectives of having reasonable, prudent and contrasting views of the material presented in the RT with the author clearly identified and not receiving any compensation for anything. All this great stuff and free too!
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Your search is over! What a Holiday gift! Just link to this blog and you’ll get the feedback you deserve.
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http://www.roanokeslant.blogspot.com/
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Article should read: we want your input if you’re like us! And we’ll make that decision!
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Very interesting! Back on 1/7/06 the RT launched a similar effort to:
“we’ll be keeping a sharp eye out for thoughtful conservatives who can present views that differ from the Roanoke Times editorial board.”
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/01/searching-for-whom.html
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That diligent search brought us articles by folks like Ray Stubble, yet another clone of the left-wing and liberal editorial board of the RT, hardly a contrasting view of anything.
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Good news RT editors: There are over 1,000 items in this blog that should fulfill your objectives of having reasonable, prudent and contrasting views of the material presented in the RT with the author clearly identified and not receiving any compensation for anything. All this great stuff and free too!
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Your search is over! What a Holiday gift! Just link to this blog and you’ll get the feedback you deserve.
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http://www.roanokeslant.blogspot.com/
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Saturday, December 13, 2008
Obama and the Real Fat-Cats
Roanoke Times, 12/10/08, Pg Va 8: Political cartoon roasting the Va Republicans for holding a function at "The Homestead".
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Good cheap shot. Of course those dollars will go to support jobs and taxes here in rural Virginia.
Now for fairness and equity: how about a cartoon roasting the Coronation of Prince Obama.
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After buying the election for over $700 MILLION DOLLARS his jesters are now selling tickets to the coronation ceremony for $50,000 per ticket. (not found in the RT!)
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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/elections/2008/12/12/g-buys-day-presidential-inauguration-trip/
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One might wonder why the editors of the Roanoke Times would try to portray the Republicans as the fat cats of politics given the facts of the 2008 primaries and elections.
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Prior Items
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/05/those-poor-democrats.html
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Good cheap shot. Of course those dollars will go to support jobs and taxes here in rural Virginia.
Now for fairness and equity: how about a cartoon roasting the Coronation of Prince Obama.
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After buying the election for over $700 MILLION DOLLARS his jesters are now selling tickets to the coronation ceremony for $50,000 per ticket. (not found in the RT!)
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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/elections/2008/12/12/g-buys-day-presidential-inauguration-trip/
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One might wonder why the editors of the Roanoke Times would try to portray the Republicans as the fat cats of politics given the facts of the 2008 primaries and elections.
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Prior Items
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/05/those-poor-democrats.html
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The Bailout-Bridge to Nowhere
Roanoke Times:
12/10/08, Pg A7: Big bailout ($14 BILLION) has GOP stalling
12/08/08, Pg A7: Key senator calls for GM chief to resign
12/09/08, Pg A6: Congress, White House craft auto aid plan, key item: “car czar”
12/12/08, Pg A6: Auto bailout talks collapse over union wages
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The Alaska “bridge to nowhere” was actually designed to connect Juneau, the capital city of Alaska, to the airport that services that city and to the only land available to expand that city.
View that in contrast to the Bailout-Bridge to Nowhere that will pump billions of tax dollars into the failing car companies and their pack-man UAW union workers who get 90% of their pay weather they’re making cars or drinking coffee!
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The key to Democrat support for this bill is the “pay back” for their funding and votes during last months elections. The Obama $700 MILLION dollars certainly didn’t come from $5 internet donations.
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Key senator calls for GM chief to resign. This from Democrat Sen Chris Countrywide Dodd the guy who got a secret sweetheart mortgage deal from THE major player in the current financial collapse. What’s his opinion worth these days?
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And what’s with all the discussions about a “car-czar”? Does anyone remember what happened under the last real czar – and – what happened to him and his family? How about our past czars for health, drugs, and poverty. There is a car-czar! His name is Katsuaki Watanabe and he’s the CEO of Toyota Motors.
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In order to get out of this swamp, The United Auto Workers (UAW) Union leadership and membership must accept the fact that the “new world economic reality” will no longer support the outlandish contracts that they have extracted from the US auto industry through coercion and intimidation. They can either adjust or perish.
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The Bailout-Bridge to Nowhere should not be built with tax dollars. The parties involved must construct a new business and product model. This will take years, not months!
In the mean time the big-3 are making lots of money off-shore. Interesting!
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/11/deunionize-gm-ford.html
12/10/08, Pg A7: Big bailout ($14 BILLION) has GOP stalling
12/08/08, Pg A7: Key senator calls for GM chief to resign
12/09/08, Pg A6: Congress, White House craft auto aid plan, key item: “car czar”
12/12/08, Pg A6: Auto bailout talks collapse over union wages
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The Alaska “bridge to nowhere” was actually designed to connect Juneau, the capital city of Alaska, to the airport that services that city and to the only land available to expand that city.
View that in contrast to the Bailout-Bridge to Nowhere that will pump billions of tax dollars into the failing car companies and their pack-man UAW union workers who get 90% of their pay weather they’re making cars or drinking coffee!
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The key to Democrat support for this bill is the “pay back” for their funding and votes during last months elections. The Obama $700 MILLION dollars certainly didn’t come from $5 internet donations.
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Key senator calls for GM chief to resign. This from Democrat Sen Chris Countrywide Dodd the guy who got a secret sweetheart mortgage deal from THE major player in the current financial collapse. What’s his opinion worth these days?
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And what’s with all the discussions about a “car-czar”? Does anyone remember what happened under the last real czar – and – what happened to him and his family? How about our past czars for health, drugs, and poverty. There is a car-czar! His name is Katsuaki Watanabe and he’s the CEO of Toyota Motors.
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In order to get out of this swamp, The United Auto Workers (UAW) Union leadership and membership must accept the fact that the “new world economic reality” will no longer support the outlandish contracts that they have extracted from the US auto industry through coercion and intimidation. They can either adjust or perish.
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The Bailout-Bridge to Nowhere should not be built with tax dollars. The parties involved must construct a new business and product model. This will take years, not months!
In the mean time the big-3 are making lots of money off-shore. Interesting!
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/11/deunionize-gm-ford.html
Can you say "DEMOCRAT"
Roanoke Times, 12/13/08, Pg A5: Defiant Illinois Governor not stepping down
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Those rightwing guys at Fox news were lamenting that after this story broke none of the major media morning shows ever mentioned that Blagojevich was a DEMOCRAT. I was skeptical.
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However here we have the Roanoke Times article with the major headline, the sub-headline the description under the Blagojevich picture with no mention that he's a DEMOCRAT.
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In fact, the first time the word DEMOCRAT is printed is in the third column where it's dropped as the AG "also a Democrat" etc.
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Sure a different approach to coverage of folks like Ted Stevens (AK) where it's made very clear right up front and over and over that he's a Republican!
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And the RT and major media continue to insist that they don't have any slant and bias! These folks need not apply for the Tim Russert fairness award!
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/audacity-of-blind-slant.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/07/roanoke-times-and-bloggers.html
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Those rightwing guys at Fox news were lamenting that after this story broke none of the major media morning shows ever mentioned that Blagojevich was a DEMOCRAT. I was skeptical.
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However here we have the Roanoke Times article with the major headline, the sub-headline the description under the Blagojevich picture with no mention that he's a DEMOCRAT.
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In fact, the first time the word DEMOCRAT is printed is in the third column where it's dropped as the AG "also a Democrat" etc.
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Sure a different approach to coverage of folks like Ted Stevens (AK) where it's made very clear right up front and over and over that he's a Republican!
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And the RT and major media continue to insist that they don't have any slant and bias! These folks need not apply for the Tim Russert fairness award!
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/12/audacity-of-blind-slant.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/07/roanoke-times-and-bloggers.html
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Tuesday, December 09, 2008
Calling In Heterosexual Today
Roanoke Times, 12/9/08, Pg A 4: Homosexuals urged to “call in gay” today.
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Not clear why one would call in to tell their boss they’re not coming to work based on their sexual preference.
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It’s also not clear what they expect their boss to reply to that statement.
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Perhaps we all should just handle our sexual preference the same way we handle other personal things that other folks don’t have a “need to know” and that really shouldn’t matter for most situations.
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Perhaps “don’t ask – don’t tell”, is good advice for all of us!
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Not clear why one would call in to tell their boss they’re not coming to work based on their sexual preference.
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It’s also not clear what they expect their boss to reply to that statement.
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Perhaps we all should just handle our sexual preference the same way we handle other personal things that other folks don’t have a “need to know” and that really shouldn’t matter for most situations.
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Perhaps “don’t ask – don’t tell”, is good advice for all of us!
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Sunday, December 07, 2008
TWO DAYS THAT LIVE IN INFAMY
Wednesday, December 03, 2008
No Real Vote Recount
Roanoke Times, 12/2/08, Pg Va 8: Editorial: Goode won’t get a real recount. Without a paper trail in the 5th Dist. Officials can only double-check their arithmetic.
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The Editors are correct – for all the wrong reasons!
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The major issue with the recount is not adding up the numbers of votes in each precinct whether cast by paper, mechanical incriminators, terminals or colored marbles.
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The real BIG issue is who is registered to vote, are they valid voters and who actually voted under their name.
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The Roanoke Times and their friends find nothing wrong with the ACORN voter registration activities and they adamantly oppose requiring valid voter ID at the polls. They also oppose asking people to fill-out provisional ballots for cases where the poll workers have doubts about a voter’s qualification to vote.
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These are the real issues why our voting system is not valid and why a recount won’t be “real”!
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The lack of valid ID was a major issue in the 9/11 attack, many of the terrorists had invalid Virginia ID and the 9/11 Commission directed that all states implement a proper personal ID system. It’s been seven years since 9/11 -- why hasn’t that been done?
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It is sad indeed that the very basis of our system of government is being undermined by people who claim to hold high our constitutional values.
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/10/vote-early.html
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The Editors are correct – for all the wrong reasons!
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The major issue with the recount is not adding up the numbers of votes in each precinct whether cast by paper, mechanical incriminators, terminals or colored marbles.
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The real BIG issue is who is registered to vote, are they valid voters and who actually voted under their name.
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The Roanoke Times and their friends find nothing wrong with the ACORN voter registration activities and they adamantly oppose requiring valid voter ID at the polls. They also oppose asking people to fill-out provisional ballots for cases where the poll workers have doubts about a voter’s qualification to vote.
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These are the real issues why our voting system is not valid and why a recount won’t be “real”!
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The lack of valid ID was a major issue in the 9/11 attack, many of the terrorists had invalid Virginia ID and the 9/11 Commission directed that all states implement a proper personal ID system. It’s been seven years since 9/11 -- why hasn’t that been done?
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It is sad indeed that the very basis of our system of government is being undermined by people who claim to hold high our constitutional values.
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/10/vote-early.html
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Monday, December 01, 2008
The Audacity of Blind Slant
USA Today, 12/1/08, Pg Money Sect B Pg 1: “Obama’s actions perk up Wall St. Investors respond to a clear strategy. NY: Pres.-elect Obama hasn’t even moved into the White House yet. But Wall street is already showering him with praise for injecting confidence into the battered psyche of investors and working quickly to hatch a plan meant to jolt the economy out of its worst funk in decades.”
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Hatch a plan – NOT – hatch an egg is more like it!
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The DOW on Monday 12/1, the date of the above big headline story, DROPPED -680 points or – 7.7%, one of the biggest drops in history!
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The left-wing liberal media is still going strong as if the election wasn’t even over!
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Exactly how much bias and spin and heifer-dust is the liberal media going to continue to feed us until they settle down and start reporting the real news? And this piece in the front page of the “USA Money News” section of a national paper that should be practicing professional journalism! What a sad sack of losers!
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Hatch a plan – NOT – hatch an egg is more like it!
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The DOW on Monday 12/1, the date of the above big headline story, DROPPED -680 points or – 7.7%, one of the biggest drops in history!
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The left-wing liberal media is still going strong as if the election wasn’t even over!
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Exactly how much bias and spin and heifer-dust is the liberal media going to continue to feed us until they settle down and start reporting the real news? And this piece in the front page of the “USA Money News” section of a national paper that should be practicing professional journalism! What a sad sack of losers!
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Sunday, November 30, 2008
The World War Expands
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Roanoke Times, 11/30/08, Pg 1: Mumbai rampage has ended.
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Who writes these headlines for the Roanoke Times? A rampage? Hundreds killed and wounded by a major coordinated military attack by the Muslim Radical Terrorists (the MRT) is not a rampage, it’s yet another 911-type of attack upon innocent civilians.
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This massive attack by Muslim Radical Terrorists (the MRT) on the people of Mumbai
India demonstrates the naivety of the Obama Campaign, the DNC and the US Major Media all of whom spent the last year telling the world that the risk from the MRT was minimal and that the “war on terror” was a hoax and a waste of time, money and blood.
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Included in that massive denial program was the total lack of public visibility of the 550 tons of yellow-cake removed from Sadam’s Iraq nuclear weapons program and sent to vaults in Canada for safe-keeping. Sadam’s nuclear weapons effort is now being continued by our enemies in Iran. But not to worry, Obama’s going to talk to them!
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Clearly the MRT World War exists and is a clear and present danger to whomever the MRT decides to target.
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Our liberal left-wing judges are now busy directing our military that GITMO members of the MRT be released on the streets of America! This is our judicial system that served OJ so well and is now busy representing and assisting members of the MRT. I’m sure that these same people are now worried that the captured MRT terrorists from the Mumbai attack that has killed and injured hundreds of innocent people are now being water-boarded to get information about the leaders of this attack. Sure wouldn’t want to put them under duress to get information vital to saving other innocent lives.
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How quickly the media totally forgot the video of Daniel Pearl’s demise by the hands of these same MRT animals and have put their political goals above our national security and the best interests of our people.
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Perhaps it would be fitting that on Dec 7th we should all reflect on the stark reality that the Muslim Radical Terrorists that have declared war upon us are still determined to destroy us and are pursuing a World War.
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-Roanoke Times, 11/30/08, Pg 1: Mumbai rampage has ended.
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Who writes these headlines for the Roanoke Times? A rampage? Hundreds killed and wounded by a major coordinated military attack by the Muslim Radical Terrorists (the MRT) is not a rampage, it’s yet another 911-type of attack upon innocent civilians.
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This massive attack by Muslim Radical Terrorists (the MRT) on the people of Mumbai
India demonstrates the naivety of the Obama Campaign, the DNC and the US Major Media all of whom spent the last year telling the world that the risk from the MRT was minimal and that the “war on terror” was a hoax and a waste of time, money and blood.
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Included in that massive denial program was the total lack of public visibility of the 550 tons of yellow-cake removed from Sadam’s Iraq nuclear weapons program and sent to vaults in Canada for safe-keeping. Sadam’s nuclear weapons effort is now being continued by our enemies in Iran. But not to worry, Obama’s going to talk to them!
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Clearly the MRT World War exists and is a clear and present danger to whomever the MRT decides to target.
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Our liberal left-wing judges are now busy directing our military that GITMO members of the MRT be released on the streets of America! This is our judicial system that served OJ so well and is now busy representing and assisting members of the MRT. I’m sure that these same people are now worried that the captured MRT terrorists from the Mumbai attack that has killed and injured hundreds of innocent people are now being water-boarded to get information about the leaders of this attack. Sure wouldn’t want to put them under duress to get information vital to saving other innocent lives.
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How quickly the media totally forgot the video of Daniel Pearl’s demise by the hands of these same MRT animals and have put their political goals above our national security and the best interests of our people.
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Perhaps it would be fitting that on Dec 7th we should all reflect on the stark reality that the Muslim Radical Terrorists that have declared war upon us are still determined to destroy us and are pursuing a World War.
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Tuesday, November 18, 2008
THANKSGIVING
Picking Quality Economic Advisors
Roanoke Times, 11/18/08, Pg Bus 1: Citigroup to cut 53,000 more jobs after cutting 22,000 jobs this year. Citi lost another $2.8 BILLION in third quarter.
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Who’s a key Citigroup executive? Bob Rubin, Clinton’s Treasury Secretary that led us into the Clinton Recession.
http://www.roanokeslant.org/ClintonRecession.jpg
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So why has Obama made Rubin one of his closest economic advisors?
http://www.roanokeslant.org/ObamaEconomicAdvisorRubin.jpg
Based on Rubins’ head-in-hand posture – apparently he’s wondering the same thing!
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Is this what “change we can believe in” means?
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One may wonder how many of the 75,000 laid-off Citi employees are reflecting on how their job loss relate to the economic crisis initiated by Congressional Democrat leadership demands upon the lending industry to “include” people who couldn’t afford home ownership in their mortgage portfolios.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/09/financial-domino-effect.html
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And now Pelosi and her court of jesters want to use taxpayer money to keep these ill-equipped people in these houses they can’t afford.
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One may also wonder how many of the 75,000 ex-Citi employees will now loose their homes that they were qualified to own before the Democrat’s were so benevolent with the banking industries funds. Of course Democrats like Chris Dodd is in good shape after getting a sweetheart-mortgage from his friends at Countrywide.
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/08/clintons-treasury-secretary.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/12/bob-rubin-whats-your-credit-score.html
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Who’s a key Citigroup executive? Bob Rubin, Clinton’s Treasury Secretary that led us into the Clinton Recession.
http://www.roanokeslant.org/ClintonRecession.jpg
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So why has Obama made Rubin one of his closest economic advisors?
http://www.roanokeslant.org/ObamaEconomicAdvisorRubin.jpg
Based on Rubins’ head-in-hand posture – apparently he’s wondering the same thing!
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Is this what “change we can believe in” means?
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One may wonder how many of the 75,000 laid-off Citi employees are reflecting on how their job loss relate to the economic crisis initiated by Congressional Democrat leadership demands upon the lending industry to “include” people who couldn’t afford home ownership in their mortgage portfolios.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/09/financial-domino-effect.html
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And now Pelosi and her court of jesters want to use taxpayer money to keep these ill-equipped people in these houses they can’t afford.
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One may also wonder how many of the 75,000 ex-Citi employees will now loose their homes that they were qualified to own before the Democrat’s were so benevolent with the banking industries funds. Of course Democrats like Chris Dodd is in good shape after getting a sweetheart-mortgage from his friends at Countrywide.
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Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/08/clintons-treasury-secretary.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/12/bob-rubin-whats-your-credit-score.html
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Raising Rates
Roanoke Times, 11/18/08, Pg 1: Large headline: AEP to raise rates
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Not found anywhere is the 10% increase in the cost of the Roanoke Times!
From $31.60 to $34.88 for 8 weeks home delivery.
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Perhaps an appropriate household budgeting approach would be to cancel the RT subscription and use that money for electricity.
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Not found anywhere is the 10% increase in the cost of the Roanoke Times!
From $31.60 to $34.88 for 8 weeks home delivery.
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Perhaps an appropriate household budgeting approach would be to cancel the RT subscription and use that money for electricity.
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Sunday, November 16, 2008
Drill! But-- Don't Really Drill!
Roanoke Times, 11/14/08, Pg Va 5: Government to study drilling off Va. Coast
The Democrats are “considering” off-shore oil drilling but want a 50-mile buffer.
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Apparently the Virginia Democrats including Governors Warner and Kaine want off-shore oil drilling the same way they support wind-power. Say you support it in such a way that it’s not going to happen. We’re for it, as soon as pigs fly!
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Governors Warner and Kaine have clearly NOT supported Virginia Wind-power. The Wind-farm in Highland County, now five years in a Virginia regulatory swamp, still does not have Virginia Democrat support to move forward over objections about insignificant impacts to birds and bats.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/09/virginia-wind-farm-someday.html
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The plan for off-shore drilling to achieve energy independence is receiving the same kind of Democrat non-supportive double-speak that Virginia wind-power has received.
There are those who say it will take ten years to get off-shore oil into production. Judging from the wind-power project and the following graphic on the realities of the east coast continental shelf, it’s clear that it will never be done and we will continue to be held hostage by foreign extortionists.
So much for change we can believe in!
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/OffShoreOilDrill.jpg
Click on graphic to enlarge.
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/09/pelosi-insulting-our-intelligence-again.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/09/more-green-virginia-jobs.html
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The Democrats are “considering” off-shore oil drilling but want a 50-mile buffer.
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Apparently the Virginia Democrats including Governors Warner and Kaine want off-shore oil drilling the same way they support wind-power. Say you support it in such a way that it’s not going to happen. We’re for it, as soon as pigs fly!
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Governors Warner and Kaine have clearly NOT supported Virginia Wind-power. The Wind-farm in Highland County, now five years in a Virginia regulatory swamp, still does not have Virginia Democrat support to move forward over objections about insignificant impacts to birds and bats.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/09/virginia-wind-farm-someday.html
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The plan for off-shore drilling to achieve energy independence is receiving the same kind of Democrat non-supportive double-speak that Virginia wind-power has received.
There are those who say it will take ten years to get off-shore oil into production. Judging from the wind-power project and the following graphic on the realities of the east coast continental shelf, it’s clear that it will never be done and we will continue to be held hostage by foreign extortionists.
So much for change we can believe in!
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/OffShoreOilDrill.jpg
Click on graphic to enlarge.
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/09/pelosi-insulting-our-intelligence-again.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/09/more-green-virginia-jobs.html
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Saturday, November 08, 2008
DeUnionize GM & Ford
Roanoke Times, 11/8/08, Pg Bus 10: GM and Ford want Billions in Bailout money to save UAW union jobs.
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The price for US automaker bailout should be to deunionize the industry.
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Unions have been a primary cause behind the poor performance of the US auto-industry and lack of competitive position in the world market.
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Deunionization would provide the opportunity to restructure and retool and redesign a totally new and competitive US auto industry.
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Why bailout the UAW so that they can utilize their feather-bedding work-rules and strikes to continue to cripple the companies they are supposed to work for?
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The price for US automaker bailout should be to deunionize the industry.
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Unions have been a primary cause behind the poor performance of the US auto-industry and lack of competitive position in the world market.
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Deunionization would provide the opportunity to restructure and retool and redesign a totally new and competitive US auto industry.
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Why bailout the UAW so that they can utilize their feather-bedding work-rules and strikes to continue to cripple the companies they are supposed to work for?
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Monday, November 03, 2008
Roanoke Times Awash in Hypocrisy
Roanoke Times, 11/2/08, Pg Horiz 1: A self-conversation by Dan Radmacher.
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Dan is lamenting that the RT doesn’t get enough input from some folks, like me, to offset the wonderful, meaningful and correct input from liberal, socialist and left-wing admirers who enthusiastically support his views.
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Apparently Dan was moved to this self-serving reflection about the RT’s fair and balanced reporting due to the negative feedback about publishing a number of pro & con LTE’s in which there was only one in support of McCain and a dozen in support of Obama.
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This lack of input in support for McCain seems very strange based on the 16,000 folks who showed up for a Palin rally in Salem last week! Apparently the inference is that only one of these 16,000 was literate enough to write to the RT or that writing to the RT is akin to wasting good trees that are needed to consume the CO2 that the RT emits.
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The highlight was Dan’s proud statement that the RT wasn’t going to endorse any candidate this year. Is there any doubt in anyone’s mind that the RT has been running a continuous endorsement of Obama for months? Is Dan trying to insult the reader’s intelligence with this tripe or is it just working out that way?
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Perhaps if Dan and the other members of the Roanoke Times wish to peruse some contrarian comments about the RT’s views and distortions of news they could simply read the RoanokeSlant blog that contains over 1,000 items that challenge their material.
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http://www.roanokeslant.blogspot.com
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http://www.roanokeslant.org
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Dan is lamenting that the RT doesn’t get enough input from some folks, like me, to offset the wonderful, meaningful and correct input from liberal, socialist and left-wing admirers who enthusiastically support his views.
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Apparently Dan was moved to this self-serving reflection about the RT’s fair and balanced reporting due to the negative feedback about publishing a number of pro & con LTE’s in which there was only one in support of McCain and a dozen in support of Obama.
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This lack of input in support for McCain seems very strange based on the 16,000 folks who showed up for a Palin rally in Salem last week! Apparently the inference is that only one of these 16,000 was literate enough to write to the RT or that writing to the RT is akin to wasting good trees that are needed to consume the CO2 that the RT emits.
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The highlight was Dan’s proud statement that the RT wasn’t going to endorse any candidate this year. Is there any doubt in anyone’s mind that the RT has been running a continuous endorsement of Obama for months? Is Dan trying to insult the reader’s intelligence with this tripe or is it just working out that way?
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Perhaps if Dan and the other members of the Roanoke Times wish to peruse some contrarian comments about the RT’s views and distortions of news they could simply read the RoanokeSlant blog that contains over 1,000 items that challenge their material.
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http://www.roanokeslant.blogspot.com
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http://www.roanokeslant.org
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Sunday, October 26, 2008
The Tale of Two Bad Guys
Roanoke Times, 10/26/08, Pg 1 & 17: William White of Roanoke, a self-described radical, is in jail because of violent items he wrote in his on-line web pages.
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Not in jail, but a college professor and associate to the presumptive next president, Sen. Obama, is Bill Ayers, a leader of a radical group that didn’t just talk about violence but set-off bombs that killed and hurt people.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ayers
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Based on the news coverage of these items, somehow the Roanoke Times and the liberal media seem totally OK with how this story is playing out! That’s particularly interesting based on their rabid defense of their view of and their exercise of the 1st amendment.
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Apparently if you’re associated with Sen Obama it really doesn’t matter what you say or do, it’s OK, and if covered at all, it’s in small print buried in the back pages.
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A few, of the many, prior items of the RT’s fair and balanced journalism – NOT:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/10/race-trumps-character-judgment.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/10/vote-early.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/10/biden-debate-winner-of-mis.html
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Not in jail, but a college professor and associate to the presumptive next president, Sen. Obama, is Bill Ayers, a leader of a radical group that didn’t just talk about violence but set-off bombs that killed and hurt people.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ayers
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Based on the news coverage of these items, somehow the Roanoke Times and the liberal media seem totally OK with how this story is playing out! That’s particularly interesting based on their rabid defense of their view of and their exercise of the 1st amendment.
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Apparently if you’re associated with Sen Obama it really doesn’t matter what you say or do, it’s OK, and if covered at all, it’s in small print buried in the back pages.
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A few, of the many, prior items of the RT’s fair and balanced journalism – NOT:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/10/race-trumps-character-judgment.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/10/vote-early.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/10/biden-debate-winner-of-mis.html
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Classroom Colors
Roanoke Times, 10/21/08, Pg Va 9: The classroom isn’t the place for partisanship, by Becky Mason a teacher in Roanoke area schools.
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Ms Mason’s commentary is in response to the head of the Virginia teachers association who apparently sent out an email to all teachers in the VEA that they should show their support for Obama by wearing blue ribbons in school classrooms. Clearly this was an inappropriate and unprofessional directive.
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Ms Mason’s response was fair, reasonable, responsible and totally consistent with the ethical standards we expect from those to whom we entrust our children’s education.
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Her bottom line was priceless and cannot be improved upon:
If you’re going to wear a ribbon in the classroom, it should be red, white and blue!
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Ms Mason’s commentary is in response to the head of the Virginia teachers association who apparently sent out an email to all teachers in the VEA that they should show their support for Obama by wearing blue ribbons in school classrooms. Clearly this was an inappropriate and unprofessional directive.
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Ms Mason’s response was fair, reasonable, responsible and totally consistent with the ethical standards we expect from those to whom we entrust our children’s education.
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Her bottom line was priceless and cannot be improved upon:
If you’re going to wear a ribbon in the classroom, it should be red, white and blue!
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Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Vote Early
Roanoke Times, 10/22/08, Pg Va 10: Editorial: Vote early in Virginia. Election officials want Virginia voters to consider casting an absentee ballot. Good Advise.
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There’s two major things wrong with this article.
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First is the fact that Virginia law requires one to “certify” that there is a “legitimate” reason why one cannot vote in person on Election Day. Therefore those who promote this action without changing the law are aiding and abetting a crime.
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Second is the total hysteria the editors of the Roanoke Times expressed over absentee voting in Gate City in 2005. They were shocked and appalled that having absentee paper ballots given to people to be filled out in advance was so shocking that the voting registrar should have been removed from office. Their view was that absentee voters were extremely likely to be unduly influenced by shady politicians. Apparently that won’t happen in this election!
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What changed? Oh yes, we now have the acorn nuts registering every name they can think of on behalf of the Obama campaign. And, the registration deadline is extended for absentee paper ballots.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/10/acorn-nuts-fall-close-to-tree.html
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Now combine that with the Roanoke Times crusade for no voter-ID
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/04/voter-id-required.html
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And we have a greatly increased opportunity to elect the candidates supported by the editorial board of the Roanoke Times to further their personal agendas.
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2005/06/apparent-conflict-of-interest.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2005/06/elections-voter-friendly.html
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There’s two major things wrong with this article.
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First is the fact that Virginia law requires one to “certify” that there is a “legitimate” reason why one cannot vote in person on Election Day. Therefore those who promote this action without changing the law are aiding and abetting a crime.
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Second is the total hysteria the editors of the Roanoke Times expressed over absentee voting in Gate City in 2005. They were shocked and appalled that having absentee paper ballots given to people to be filled out in advance was so shocking that the voting registrar should have been removed from office. Their view was that absentee voters were extremely likely to be unduly influenced by shady politicians. Apparently that won’t happen in this election!
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What changed? Oh yes, we now have the acorn nuts registering every name they can think of on behalf of the Obama campaign. And, the registration deadline is extended for absentee paper ballots.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/10/acorn-nuts-fall-close-to-tree.html
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Now combine that with the Roanoke Times crusade for no voter-ID
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/04/voter-id-required.html
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And we have a greatly increased opportunity to elect the candidates supported by the editorial board of the Roanoke Times to further their personal agendas.
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2005/06/apparent-conflict-of-interest.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2005/06/elections-voter-friendly.html
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Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Yet Another Personal Slant Best for the Roanoke Times
Roanoke Times, 10/21/08, Pg 1 & 6:
“Page 1: Folks in the heart of the Appalachia aren’t amused that Pres. Bush, with the stroke of a pen, has redrawn Appalachia’s geographic boundaries in a way that could take federal money away from some of the poorest communities in the US.”
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Wow! Just how mean is this guy? And just in time for Scrooge too!
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But wait – there’s more in tiny little print back on page A 6:
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“Page 6: Pres. Bush recently signed a measure increasing the counties eligible for federal funds set aside for poor mountain communities. Counties added (10)”
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Are the editors at the Roanoke Times trying to insult our intelligence or is it just turning out that way? Trust me, they’re trying real hard! Just read the other 1,000 items in this blog.
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Moral of Story: just because you went to journalism school, doesn’t mean you can be a good journalist.
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“Page 1: Folks in the heart of the Appalachia aren’t amused that Pres. Bush, with the stroke of a pen, has redrawn Appalachia’s geographic boundaries in a way that could take federal money away from some of the poorest communities in the US.”
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Wow! Just how mean is this guy? And just in time for Scrooge too!
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But wait – there’s more in tiny little print back on page A 6:
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“Page 6: Pres. Bush recently signed a measure increasing the counties eligible for federal funds set aside for poor mountain communities. Counties added (10)”
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Are the editors at the Roanoke Times trying to insult our intelligence or is it just turning out that way? Trust me, they’re trying real hard! Just read the other 1,000 items in this blog.
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Moral of Story: just because you went to journalism school, doesn’t mean you can be a good journalist.
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Sunday, October 19, 2008
Race Trumps Character & Judgment
Roanoke Times, 10/20/2008, Pg 1: Gen Powell endorses Obama, he touted Obama's economic abilities.
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What economic abilities? He accomplished virtually nothing in his 140 days as a senator. As a state official his primary contribution was to vote "present". He never has held a finance job and there's no evidence he can even balance his checkbook.
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Bottom line:
Gen. Powel endorsed Sen. Obama this weekend
Not exactly a surprise!
What else could he do?
One might even go so far as to observe that this didn’t qualify as a ribbon for a “profile in courage”.
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An interesting view is that as an army commanding officer, Powel would never approve a Secret clearance for someone to serve in a nuclear weapons unit whose profile indicated he had 20 years of close association with people who include those who are racist, anti-American and anarchists.
Clearly Powel would have concluded that this person lacks the character and judgement to be in a position of critical importance.
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Prior Items
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/08/roanoke-times-ap-playing-race-card.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/04/were-known-by-friends-we-keep.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/03/obamas-rev-wright-very-wrong.html
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What economic abilities? He accomplished virtually nothing in his 140 days as a senator. As a state official his primary contribution was to vote "present". He never has held a finance job and there's no evidence he can even balance his checkbook.
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Bottom line:
Gen. Powel endorsed Sen. Obama this weekend
Not exactly a surprise!
What else could he do?
One might even go so far as to observe that this didn’t qualify as a ribbon for a “profile in courage”.
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An interesting view is that as an army commanding officer, Powel would never approve a Secret clearance for someone to serve in a nuclear weapons unit whose profile indicated he had 20 years of close association with people who include those who are racist, anti-American and anarchists.
Clearly Powel would have concluded that this person lacks the character and judgement to be in a position of critical importance.
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Prior Items
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/08/roanoke-times-ap-playing-race-card.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/04/were-known-by-friends-we-keep.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/03/obamas-rev-wright-very-wrong.html
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Saturday, October 18, 2008
ACORN - nuts fall close to tree
Roanoke Times, 10/18/08, Pg A5: Challenge to ACORN thwarted. The US Supreme Court said the GOP in Ohio lacks the standing to sue the voter registration organization.
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What a total and obnoxious suppression of the critical issues of this situation.
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WHAT WOULD THE ROANOKE TIMES PG 1 HEADLINE BE FOR THIS STORY?
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200,000 names for the 2008 Virginia election that the Republicans registered to vote have been determined by Gov. Kaine to not match the state data base of social secur
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What a total and obnoxious suppression of the critical issues of this situation.
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WHAT WOULD THE ROANOKE TIMES PG 1 HEADLINE BE FOR THIS STORY?
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200,000 names for the 2008 Virginia election that the Republicans registered to vote have been determined by Gov. Kaine to not match the state data base of social secur