Political Opinion

Excerpts from an article in The Foundry this morning:

With the national average of gas prices hitting $3.65 a gallon, nearing $6 in some parts of the country, and poised to head even higher, America’s families are wondering when the bleeding at the pump will stop. But for Secretary of Energy Stephen Chu, those steep prices aren’t even a concern. In fact, he says his goal is not to get the price of gasoline to go down.

In 2008, he stated, “Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.”

(I have bolded two sentences, above, for emphasis.)


When some tribe of desert nomads
discovers that they are sitting on a gazillion barrels of oil,
they declare themselves to be “royalty”.

Then Barack Hussein Obama, Peace Be Upon Him,
who will not allow America to become energy independent,
runs to the desert and bows down to the phony “royalty”.

Is this really the sort of “president” we want?

:o
$3.65 a gallon? You guys don’t know how lucky you are.
This kind of price we had in the 1950s, if ever.

Currently a liter of gas costs around €1,70 in Germany … this translates into $10.25 a gallon (EURUSD 1.34). :smiley:

Obama looks ready to kneel and …
America really needs to get rid of him in November.

I wished Paul had a chance, because the choice between Obama and Romney/Gingrich/Santorum is a pretty crappy one.

O.

Check your math. 1 US gallon = 3.785 liters. I get €1.70 / liter = $8.62 / US gallon.

We’re working on that.

[B]If it’s Romney vs. Obama — vote for Romney.

If it’s Gingrich vs. Obama — vote for Gingrich.

If it’s a cardboard cut-out of Abraham Lincoln vs. Obama — vote for the cardboard cut-out![/B]

No need to work on my math, I just forgot that the US (only God knows why) decided to have it’s own gallon, instead of just using the Imperial gallon (4.5 liters) … probably upon gaining independence from the Empire they wanted to distinguish themselves as much as possible from anything British.

Re Obama: If I were an American, I’d probably even vote for a cardboard cut-out of Bill Clinton rather than giving Obama an opportunity to sink what is left of the US … compared to Obama, even that clown was a statesman.

Very much looking forward to hearing what that Arizona Sheriff has to say tomorrow.

O.

The post that was here originally has been deleted, voluntarily, by me.

No, I was not contacted by the Moderator (or by the CFTC).

I just decided, after re-reading it, that it was a little heavy-handed.

I apologize to anyone who loved that post, and is now sad because it’s gone.

Isn’t gas more money in Germany because it includes the tax for maintaining the roads? Instead of taxing everyone, even if they don’t drive, they just tax the gas.

Yeah, the major part of what we pay for a liter of petrol at the filling station is tax, although it doesn’t go into road maintenance specifically, as far as I know, but is just split between state and federal governments, as is every tax revenue.

Hehe, shows that our politicians aren’t any less greedy than American ones.
I guess politicians are all the same, no matter the country or party affiliation.

Cheers,
P.

Ahh okay, makes sense now. My cousin Volker told me something along those lines like 5 or 6 yrs ago, so it’s been a while haha.

Oliver,

I’ve been expecting you to post a follow-up on Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s press conference.

His Cold Case Posse — a team of volunteer detectives, forensic document experts, and lawyers — have presented convincing evidence that Obama’s Hawaii birth certificate is a forgery. In addition, Obama’s Selective Service registration card is also a forgery.

Since April 2011, when Obama released his “long-form birth certificate”, many document experts have declared it to be a forgery. See the video posted by johnnykanoo, here on this thread.

But, Joe Arpaio’s Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office is the first [I]law enforcement agency[/I] to investigate this document as a potential crime.

So, there you have it, folks —

[B]Obama was born in Cyberspace, sometime between 2008 and early 2011. His real father was Photoshop.[/B]

Here’s a YouTube video of the Sheriff’s press conference. It’s very poor quality video, but the audio is clear enough to understand. I’ve looked for a better quality video, but haven’t been able to find one.

This was a very long press conference, and casual viewers will probably find it boring. But, for anyone who cares about this issue, the evidence presented is compelling enough to watch.

Here’s a video of some local t.v. coverage in Phoenix (Arizona).

I’ve tried to find a text version to link to, but haven’t been able to.

Also, I find the outcome rather disappointing: I’d (naively, I guess) hoped for Obama to be prohibited from candidating in Arizona as a result of the investigation.

P.

Patience, my friend. This is a multi-step process.

The Sheriff has a narrow mandate: To investigate crime which occurs within his jurisdiction — Maricopa County, Arizona, with 4 million residents — and to arrest suspects, [I][B]if[/B][/I] they can be identified and apprehended. He is not a prosecutor; that’s the courts’ business. And he doesn’t have the power to prohibit future actions by anyone; that power rests with the state legislature, or (possibly, in this case) with the state election board.

The Sheriff has been very careful not to overstate the results of his Posse’s investigation. He has said simply that his department has determined that there is probable cause to declare the birth certificate presented by Obama to be a forgery, as is Obama’s Selective Service (military service) registration card. Further, he has said that his investigation has identified the computer on which Obama’s birth certificate was manufactured; and his investigation has identified a “person of interest” in the creation of the fake birth certificate.

Even after repeated prodding by reporters, the Sheriff has refused to accuse Obama of anything. Think of it as similar to counterfeiting currency. If you pass a counterfeit $100 note (or, in your case, a counterfeit €100 note), and it is detected and seized, you will likely be questioned, but you will not automatically be charged as the maker of the counterfeit currency. You may have passed the counterfeit note innocently. The counterfeiter is yet to be identified.

In Obama’s case, he will not likely be questioned directly by anyone, except perhaps a courageous reporter. Obama has built multiple firewalls around everything in his background.

Obama has spent more than $1 million — probably campaign contributions, and this is probably a crime, in itself — to seal, destroy, or conceal every record of his birth, his immigration into the United States, his citizenship-status at the time he attended various U.S. colleges and universities (on scholarship, and reportedly as a foreign-exchange student), and certain periods of “employment” prior to becoming an Illinois state senator.

Obama’s fingerprints will not be found at any step in the manufacture of his fake birth certificate. I’m guessing that he will never be officially linked to the forgery.

The whole question of who has jurisdiction to proceed from this point forward is wide open. Sheriff Arpaio has said that he doesn’t know what the next step will be.

It’s important for every voter in America to know that this fraud has been perpetrated on all of us. Every citizen in every town and county in this country has been defrauded by Obama, because he is not — and he knows that he is not — qualified, under the Constitution, to be president of the United States.

Now we, the electorate, know what we need to know. It’s up to us to rid this nation of the Obama-menace in November — whether the states, or the Justice Department, or the FBI, or the Supreme Court do anything about this, or not.

Obama fooled us once, and shame on him. — If he fools us again, shame on us.

“There’s an old saying in Tennessee — I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can’t get fooled again.” My favorite Bushism

Nice post, Clint.

Of course I know that a mere Sheriff does not have authority in a matter as grave as this.
I’d hoped, or expected, however, that the offices in whose power decisions like this lie would take some kind of action … provided the case that irrefutable evidence has indeed been provided by the Posse.

Oh well, it’s been only a few days since the press conference, so one may hope that something more than short-lived outrage will result from it.

Looking at Russia, where Putin has just been re-elected (with a 67% majority, which reeks of fraud), I only hope that something similar will not happen in the US.
I certainly wouldn’t be surprised at Obama and his thugs attempting to rig an election in their favour. Just look into his wife’s face when she speaks of white people, to be convinced she’d do anything for her husband to remain in power.

P.

[B]Obama’s Enemies List[/B]


"Mr. Obama is prepared to get in the gutter to get reelected. Scorched Earth will be the approach.

“As his reelection gets more difficult, expect his list of enemies to grow. Any conservative Republican who breathes is now a target.”

Eric Golub, writing in the [I]Washington Times.[/I]


Here’s a recent article from the [I]Wall Street Journal[/I] by former Solicitor General of the United States, Ted Olson.


From the [I]Rasmussen Reports[/I], May 13, 2011

Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky), speaking from the floor of the Senate
on the Boeing Corp. plant location controversy, and aiming his questions squarely at Obama:

“Mr. President, do you have an enemies list?” Paul asked. “Is this decision based on the fact that South Carolina appears to be a Republican state, has two Republican senators? Is this decision based on the fact that South Carolina is a ‘right to work’ state? Are they on your enemies list?”

Paul didn’t stop there – blasting Obama for his recent threat to require government contractors to disclose donations to groups that participate in political activities.

“The president has said now that he’s going to ask contractors who do business with the government ‘Who have you contributed to?’” he said. “Mr. President, do you have en enemies list? Will you now punish contractors who have given money to Republican candidates? I’m concerned – there are two Republican Senators from Kentucky. Are we on your enemies list? Is Alabama on your enemies list? Is Texas on your enemies list?”


Proud to be on Obama’s Enemies List

“Origin of Left and Right”

'I have often wondered why it is that Conservatives are called the "right"
and Liberals are called the “left.” ’

By chance I stumbled upon this verse in the Bible:

"The heart of the wise inclines to the right,
but the heart of the fool to the left."
Ecclesiastes 10:2 (NIV)

Thus sayeth the Lord. Amen.

Can’t get any simpler than that.

Spelling Lesson

The last four letters in American…I Can
The last four letters in Republican…I Can
The last four letters in Democrats…Rats

End of lesson. Test to follow in November, 2012

Remember, November is to be set aside as rodent extermination month.

This Coming Sunday-- Set Your DVR for the Fox News channel at 9:00 PM
> eastern. Maybe this is why the White House has been discounting FOX. Sounds
> like this could be history in the making - someone may go down - either Obama

> or Fox News. It may be that Fox has been withholding this information back
> due to the sensitivity of it and out of courtesy. But, Obama has taken on
> Fox and it appears they are ready to spill the ugly beans of truth about the
> background of this individual who has had an extremely radical past. This
> Sunday, Fox News is going to air a very important documentary about Barack
> Obama, Sunday night at 9P.M. Eastern. The report will go back to Obama’s
> earlier days, showing even then his close ties to radical Marxist
> professors, friends, spiritual advisers, etc. It will also reveal details
about his
> ties to Rev. Wright for 20+ years, i.e., how he was participating with this
> man, and not for the reasons he stated. The report has uncovered more of
> Obama’s radical past and we will see things that no one in the media is
> willing to put out there. It will be a segment to remember. Mark your
calendar
> and pass this on to everyone you know: Sunday night, 8 PM CT; 9 PM ET.
> Democrat or Republican, this report will open your eyes to how YOUR country
is
> being sold down the road to Totalitarian Socialism. If you care about the
> direction of our country, pass this notice on to everyone you know.

Don’t get too excited that hoax has been bouncing around for a few years.

The HOAX that Will Not Die – FOX NEWS OBAMA EXPOSE � ON MY WATCH – the writings of SamHenry

OBAMA-GAS
Coming to a gas station near you.

Those prices are almost the same than in my country… and we are a net oil exporter… go figure :rolleyes:

Oddly, so was the US in 2011

I can’t for the life of me figure out why OPEC gets to set the crude rates…

It’s really not that hard to figure out;)