Yaaawwwwnnnn.....

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Obamas Huge Portland Crowd Was Because Of A Free Rock Concert By Communist-Sympathizing Musicians.

And not really just his speech. So all you liberals can stop wetting your pants now.

The thing is, it gets worse for Obama. Not only was this big crowd hyped by the media with no mention of the fact that it was a crowd for a rock concert and not just Obama, the rock band in question calls themselves the Decemberists after the Russian Decembrist Revolt. The band is fond of playing the Soviet national anthem at the beginning of shows, and has popular songs like “Sixteen Military Wives” which depicts America as an international bully declaring war on innocent nations

Just what Obama needs while suffering from criticism about his connections to Rev. Jeremiah “God Damn America” Wright and William “Bomb ‘Em All” Ayers

I saw this bit of Republican revisionism the other day. The Decemberists are local favorites and play every weekend in Portland. The largest crowd they have ever played to was 10,000 at a free rally in Chicago last year.

So it stands to reason that 75,000 people would show up...seven and a half times their largest free audience.

Sorry, I'm not buying what you're selling. The huge crowd showed up to get a glimpse of America's Next President, and no amount of churlish Townhall revisionism can deny that.

Polls this morning indicate that the huge number of newly registered voters might cause a best-case veto proof 62-38 Democratic super majority in the Senate this year.

Small wonder the Republican't party is in major panic spin mode!!

Oregon has 7 electoral college votes, 2 more than West Virginia. does anyone really care? It's a very well-known blue state and it's no mystery who'll they'll be voting for in November. Now, if Obama could pack in 70K in a contested state like the several Hillary has trounced him in, then it would be more than simply preaching to the choir.

The right-wing bit about whether X amount of the crowd were there to see the Decemberists or Obama is a waste of time. In the end, those 70K and the entire state can vote Obama(or anyone else) and it's 7 electoral college votes up for grabs.

No, that wasn't a crowd of people, it was a crowd of sheeple.

"CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE... oh wait, what does CHANGE mean? Ahhhhh, I don't know, but this is fun! CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE CHBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

Who needs facts or substance when you life revolves around ideology?

Embrace the ideology of CHANGE.

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Did you see the one where it seems Obama's support from the masses is eroding, yet his strength with the elitist is growing?

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BITE ME you socialist Nazi loser and go get a job or do something useful with your hateful life.

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Ah'm feeling the Southern Baptist looooooooooooove suppuratin' from each and every festering sore on your body. You truly are a shining representative of your Southern Baptist faith, my Republican't friend

You've got characteristics of bitterness and hate mastered to a tee.

But good grief. Do you really think I'm going to get that upset by some unemployed, jealous, bitter, socialist hatemonger such as yourself? Come on boy. You can do better than that. Let me help you with this. Go out and do something with your dissatisfied and mediocre life and become that which you are so envious and hateful toward; a successful and productive person. Rather than tear down that which enables you to succeed or fail why don't you apply yourself in life and perhaps you just might find it more rewarding than depending on clowns like Bush, Obama, and your Marxist Nazi ways.

Success defined by Sniffles is dragging every one down to his level so they can live as miserable and pathetically as he.
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When he/she made the point about Obama and Hillary demanding that the Saudis release more oil on the market. Glad they're finally catching on. Many of us have been demanding that our gumament release more oil from our vast and untapped domestic reserves. But no.... what do we do? We disallow drilling from this side of Cuba, up the West Coast and all the way into the icy no man's lands of this country. And then to top it off, every effort to construct a refinery is blocked due to environmental concerns.

Ever hear anymore in regards to those high grade clean coal fields that Clinton set aside as a UN World Heritage Site or some kind of crap like that? Here we've got coal prices starting to skyrocket and some of the worlds cleanest coal has blocked from being able to be mined. If I recall properly these fields were on the West side of the Rockies in Colorado. Remember that?

Our refusal to produce products anymore and to look out after our own energy needs has to make us the laughing stock of the world as we funnel our riches into the pockets of OPEC. And they want to whine about Exxon and Chevron making acceptable profit percentages? What next? Drive them out of country?

So I vent and ramble.....

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First big problem has been the lack of any foresight years back that would have addressed some of the current mess. Having to go to OPEC hat in hand is no different than having to go to China and India hoping they'll keep buying our debt. At least China and India aren't blatantly using US money to fund terrorism at every level like the Saudis have for decades.

All the bluster about how long it takes to begin extracting oil in ANWR has gone on longer than it would now have taken to begin to do so. I don't think the Gulf of Mexico idea was ever going to fly when they wanted to build platforms one mile off of the gulf, something that would be a huge threat to tourism in Florida. Jeb Bush was a wildly popular governor and one of the reasons being is that he convinced his brother that was a bad idea.

The problem now is that the higher demand for oil makes oil refined in America just as likely to be sold outside of the US as inside. The real lack of a energy policy besides talk has haunted the US for a few decades and this is the result. Very few wanted to acknowledge that energy=national security and being dependent on foreign countries for cheap oil was insane. I remember when John Anderson was running for Prez in 1980 and he wanted to place a 50cent a gallon tax on gas to cool-off demand and overhaul social security. People thought he was NUTS. He wasn't.

No one is innocent here, from all the politicians down to the consumer who thought that gas would always be cheap and that was all that mattered. So the Saudis used our money to train terrorists and teach schoolchildren every day of class to hate America? No problem....a gallon of gas is $1.50! What happens one day in the future? Hey, that future is someone else's problem! Now, it's our problem and the opportunities have been squandered to have taken action long before. The options now become more limited and not as desirable. So we get grandstanding politicians overwhelmingly voting to stop filling the strategic reserve even though it will make absolutely no difference at all except we won't have a 100% strategic reserve. Not only is it meaningless and pandering, it's a mindset that will keep the US mired in an energy crunch forever. NOT a solution.

I first read about the world's current situation regarding oil in a Scientific American special issue titled "Energy and Power", published in 1972.

We need to start developing solar energy on a national scale now. The argument has been that it is not competitive with conventional fuels. Now that we are watching the price for oil go up up up, and the finiteness of the supply is even beginning to occur to Republicans, what are we afraid of, success? My favorite quote is " The stone age did not end because we ran out of stone." The oil age is drawing to a close, let's use our intelligence and move on.

to change our focus from finding new sources of oil to finding new sources of energy. I have no problem with slapping a windfall profits tax on our major oil producers to finance such research. That was what the oil-depletion allowance was SUPPOSED to be used for, not for buying up patents to protect their bailiwick. And if the so-called US oil companies are using facilities in the states to refine products for sale abroad, then that is even more reason for us to take a good healthy look/bite at/of their profits. Energy is a problem for us, as a nation, and all segments of our nation should participate in finding a solution.

BTW, c-unit...how about all those coal cars lined up in the Enola Yards back in the 50s and 60s? That was a sight to see. Keep the faith.

Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

I think you need both oil and alternative energy. More oil in the short-term and a long-term plan that isn't very long to get off the oil addiction.

Solar energy is very cost inefficient and even some diehard environmentalists think it's a dud not worth pursuing further. I can see that as an add-on but not much of major replacement for energy. Wind not so bad. A few companies are doing some marvelous things with ocean wave-generated power in the past decade or so, and that seems to be a winner. Hard to beat an unlimited source of ocean waves/currents, especially when it's being done without wrecking coastlines. A lot of the scotch distillers in Scotland and some smaller(10K-15K) towns are running on ocean wave power right now.

There is a lot of research already on-going and it's not like the world is starved for the information, it's more like oil was always relatively cheap and no one really thought too hard about the alternatives, several of which are from oil companies themselves and don't involve corn-based solutions.

In the short-run, there is going to need to be more oil until alternatives are in place. Maybe at $135 a barrel the alternatives will get a lot longer look for a change. Maybe even congress and a president will do more than grandstand and pander for once, though I doubt it. A lot of oil company tech is going into the drilling/processing into tar/shale and also DEEP into the ocean floor. Unlike what the mass media tries to portray, oil companies aren't just sitting around blindly thinking OIL OIL OIL and that petro-based will forever sustain their companies. Politicians are that stupid but businessmen are not, and oil companies are in the forefront of not only alternative energy, but using tech and massive money to be able to find/drill/refine oil that wasn't available before.

Solar energy is very cost inefficient and even some diehard environmentalists think it's a dud not worth pursuing further

I have not heard anything about these environmentalists. They must be on an competitor's company payroll. Solar energy is anything but a dud, ask any plant that utilizes photosynthesis. Long term, solar will be a principle energy source for the world. Right now, cloudy Germany is a leader in solar technology. There are two solar plants being built now in the CA desert that use a Stirling engine design to generate power, one is a 300 MW and the other is 250 MW (the working reactor at Three Mile Island is 887 MW). Solar technology has 0 fuel costs, and produces 0 pollution (unless you count shade as a pollutant). Wind power has it's uses, and it's disadvantages. Wave/ocean current difinetly should be developed. We have much more solar potential than either of these, what we don't have is the will to think differently (my grandfather used stone tools, my father used stone tools, I use stone tools, and dammit boy, stone tools are good enough for you too).

think that solar is a waste of money and not a solution, and aren't on corporate payrolls and getting paid for propaganda:

Patrick Moore: founder of Greenpeace
James Lovelock: creator the Gaia hypothesis the green movement considers the Holy Grail
Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger, two long-time environmental leaders who now say that environmentalists are tired old hippies that need to embrace the present

I think about any alternative energy source has a place, though on the cost scale solar looks quite prohibitive still. Technology has not improved to the point that it's as economically viable as other alternatives. In California, the leading utility using solar collapsed in a heap of wasted millions of subsidies, and Japan also lost interest in heavily subsidizing solar when the returns in power produced fell well short of projections.

I looked at Germany's program that creates less than 1% of the power usage while wind is at 6%, and how there is quite a debate on ending all the subsidies for solar, including the forcing of utility companies to buy all solar power produced by anyone at a very high premium over market price.

I'm all for thinking outside of the box, which also includes the thinking that solar is the king of alternative energy because that's been the prevailing theory for a few decades now:)

They are entitled to their opinion. If you follow the money, Silicon Valley is abuzz about solar. The problem in Germany was the scale that the buybacks were based on, not the results. Every watt that is produced by solar power is one less watt that needs to be produced by coal. Polution damange is not counted into the cost of using fossil fuels, for good reason. Solar research is going strong on its own, and my thinking is that a government that is serious about energy independence will put resources into developing it. I mean really, we are whizzing away billions with NASA and the nearly totally useless space station, why not develop solar energy instead?

I saw where you can now get a wind generator from Northern Tool for under $1000. That would be an option worth exploring. Keep the faith.

Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

You can get one of those at Taco Bell for under two bucks.

HA! thanks for the laugh.

g'night, all...

I'm trying to patent a device that converts all the blustery hot air from pols into something useful, like an energy source or, at minimum, fertilizer.

Nuclear power plants are making a very strong comeback due to the wild success Europe has had with them as an alternative to coal. Even the founder of Greenpeace has jumped on the pro-nuclear(pro-nuk?) bandwagon and Souther Co has a couple in the works after a long absence. Be nice to figure out what to do with the waste over the long-term, but nuke-power is all the rage once again.

I have to admit that one of my major philosophical shifts in the past 2 decades has been my opinion regarding nuclear plants.

The French, of all people, have shown the world how to do "nuclear power" the right way: they have one cookie-cutter nuclear plant model, a "medium" power generation facility, and they have refined and standardized this model so that it is now considered the "world class" model".

Compare that to nuclear plants in Russia, where cutting corners is the norm, and America, where red-tape and the desire to build the gol-darn biggest and bestest and huge-est plants, each and every one of them a custom job with untested safety records.

I'm more concerned that poor corporate citizens like the Southern Company might raise electrical rates on their nuclear power to match their higher rates on coal plants.

Given the choice between burning that filthy coal and a well designed nuclear power plant (no more Babcock & Wilcox reactors please), I would take the nuclear plant. This in spite of the fact that I was in Enola PA when Three Mile Island had it's partial meltdown (right after the movie The China Syndrome played in the area, go figure). The nuke plant would have it's risks, but the coal plant is a guaranteed environmental disaster, because they all are. Heck, we might figure out something useful to do with the wastes, in which case they wouldn't be wastes anymore. Of course, there is the fact that if there is a major nuclear accident, the area would have to be evacuated for 300 years or so (an interesting website regarding Chernobyl:Kid of Speed-Chernobyl Pictures.)

Good choice Carbon. Let's heavily pursue the nuclear option and pour massive research into developing and improving the safety aspects of this technology. As far as disposal goes, Perhaps we could pump it deep down into the earth with some sort of chemicals that would cause it to solidify or gel into the rock structure where it could enjoy it's self indefinitely while doing it's own thing.

Another option to consider... perhaps we could blast that crap into outer space with a crash destination as a target. Say the moon or perhaps even Mercury or Mars. And if you think about it, those aliens haven't given us any reason to be concerned with their well being........

An interesting note. In my frequent travels to Oklahoma, the little town I haunt has a tremendous amount of trucks hauling huge, fabricated towers that are like 10 feet in diameter at the base. After seeing about four or five of those roll through during my visits I inquired as to what the heck those rascals were for. I was surprised and pleased to find out they were sections for towers that were for wind mill towers to produce electricity. I guess they are being installed in many places in OK and TX. Which makes me wonder if I might just possibly lease out some of my land over their to facilitate a windmill farm.

Chernobyl Pictures... Wow! Like I said.... Let's pour our efforts into safe technology for these plants.

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Heck yeah! Thar's gold in that thar wind!

That in addition to taxing the income received, I'd then get nailed for some kind of a 'wind tax'. Then I would have to sit in front of those idiots in congress explaining my profits. Not to mention the protests that I would have to endure as a result of a bunch of whacko's that would be blaming me for changing the environment by stealing the wind from Mother Earth. Then I would get blamed for the newly discovered climate change taking place on Jupiter and Mars. Then my neighbors would probably block my plans like Ted Kennedy did in his own backyard. Second thought..... I'll just kick and the the gumament worry about this for me.

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Second thought, you would make yourself a big target. Better to let the wind blow on through and let someone else make a big heaping bunch of moola, and let them have all those troubles. Plus, those windmill blades are hard on our friends the birds, and you definitely don't need to get on the wrong side of their supporters.

Hadn't seen your post before responding to Carbonunit's post. Is most of PA now here in Georgia?

Hummelstown (I tell people "Hershey" cause most know where that is)...left there in 75...moved to GA in 79.

Hutch, where abouts in Pittsburg?...went to high school in that area. Keep the faith

Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

Everybody knows Hershey, but Hummelstown has the Indian Echo Caverns. I lived in Pittsburgh (don't forget the h on the end) when the Steelers won their first super bowl. There was lots of Iron City beer drank that day.

they don't make caverns like that anymore. Here's to Iron City on tap. Keep the faith.

Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

My mother's parents lived in Monroeville (sp?) my Dad's just in Pittsburgh, I was an Army brat and we only lived there for about a year till we moved south.

I yam what I yam....Popeye

spent some of the best years of my life there one week. Keep the faith.

Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

My family originally came from the Pittsburgh area.

I yam what I yam....Popeye

Pittsburgh Penguin fans? If not, now is a good time to jump on the bandwagon!

I remember these well yardman. It is my familiarity with coal that makes me dislike it so much. Dirty, filthy, nasty stuff, and that's before you burn it.

Traveled through Enola many times going between home and Navy bases. Also shoveled a bit of coal in my youth helping my Dad fire the home furnace. The ashes did make good pothole fillers for an unpaved driveway.

I was outta there when I turned 18, with brief stints here and there, none except for visits for the past 20+ years. It is a nice place to be from.
Hardwood ashes are good for your garden, coal ashes are poisonous, but I imagine they would fill in a driveway.

I believe you're dead-on with your analogy. I predict that we will be in ANWR and those other areas and exploit those oil deposits. I wouldn't even be a bit surprised that we start taking a closer look at tar sands and shale.

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Don't hold your breath on waiting for the Madame Speaker's plan. BTW, have you been watching the hearings regarding the price of oil. What a joke. Like anything will become of that activity other than a show.
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What we need next are hearings to try to find out why American Airlines is screwing the world by adding a $15 surcharge onto checked bags. I suppose they're trying to emulate the oil companies and actually try to make a profit.

Hopefully they'll get finished making jerks out themselves and get back to something more productive. Like investigating baseball and then moving on to get to the bottom of why a football player makes more than they do.

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The problem for American Airlines is that this $15 represents an attempt for them just to tread water. Their business model and plan is undergoing radical changes which might even include a trip to bankruptcy court to shed that $20+ billion in debt that they have. One thing for sure, it's not fun working for a "non-profit" business.

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Why did the chicken cross the road?

BARACK OBAMA:
The chicken crossed the road because it was time for a CHANGE! The chicken wanted CHANGE!

JOHN MC CAIN:
My friends, that chicken crossed the road because he recognized the need to engage in cooperation and dialogue with all the chickens on the other side of the road.

HILLARY CLINTON:
When I was First Lady, I personally helped that little chicken to cross the road. This experience makes me uniquely qualified to ensure -- right from Day One! -- that every chicken in this country gets the chance it deserves to cross the road. But then, this really isn't about me.......

DR. PHIL:
The problem we have here is that this chicken won't realize that he must first deal with the problem on 'THIS' side of the road before it goesafter the problem on the 'OTHER SIDE' of the road. What we need to do is help him realize how stupid he's acting by not taking on his 'CURRENT' problems before adding 'NEW' problems.

OPRAH:
Well, I understand that the chicken is having problems, which is why he wants to cross this road so bad. So instead of having the chicken learn from his mistakes and take falls, which is a part of life, I'm going to give this chicken a car so that he can just drive across the road and not live his life like the rest of the chickens.

GEORGE W. BUSH:
We don't really care why the chicken crossed the road. We just want to know if the chicken is on our side of the road, or not. The chicken is either against us, or for us. There is no middle ground here.

COLIN POWELL:
Now to the left of the screen, you can clearly see the satellite image of the chicken crossing the road...

ANDERSON COOPER - CNN:
We have reason to believe there is a chicken, but we have not yet been allowed to have access to the other side of the road.

JOHN KERRY:
Although I voted to let the chicken cross the road, I am now against it! It was the wrong road to cross, and I was misled about the chicken's in tentions. I am not for it now, and will remain against it.

NANCY GRACE:
That chicken crossed the road because he's GUILTY! You can see it in his eyes and the way he walks.

PAT BUCHANAN:
To steal the job of a decent, hardworking American.

MARTHA STEWART:
No one called me to warn me which way that chicken was going. I had a standing order at the Farmer's Market to sell my eggs when the price dropped to a certain level. No little bird gave me any insider information.

ERNEST HEMINGWAY:
To die in the rain. Alone.

JERRY FALWELL:
Because the chicken was gay! Can't you people see the plain truth?' That's why they call it the 'other side.' Yes, my friends, that chicken is gay. And if you eat that chicken, you will become gay too. I say we boycott all chickens until we sort out this abomination that the liberal media white washes with seemingly harmless phrases like 'the other side. That chicken should not be crossing the road. It's as plain and as simple as that.

GRANDPA:
In my day we didn't ask why the chicken crossed the road. Somebody told us the chicken crossed the road, and that was good enough.

BARBARA WALTERS:
Isn't that interesting? In a few moments, we will be listening to the chicken tell, for the first time, the heart warming story of how it experienced a serious case of molting, and went on to accomplish its life long dream of crossing the road.

JOHN LENNON:
Imagine all the chickens in the world crossing roads together, in peace.

BILL GATES:
I have just released e-Chicken2007©, which will not only cross roads, but will lay eggs, file your important documents, and balance your check book. Internet Explorer is an integral part of the Chicken.. This new platform is much more stable and will never cra...#@&&^(C% ..reboot.

ALBERT EINSTEIN:
Did the chicken really cross the road, or did the road move beneath the chicken?

BILL CLINTON:
I did not cross the road with THAT chicken. What is your definition of chicken?

AL GORE:
I invented the chicken!

COLONEL SANDERS:
Did I miss one?

DICK CHENEY:
Where's my gun?

AL SHARPTON:
Why are all the chickens white? We need some black chickens