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Almost every candidate for office held prior office somewhere, even if on a school board. Take a look at their prior voting record. Call their campaign and ask what their stance is on issues that concern you..

That should get you some info.

Thanx

Maybe these groups should have monitored the elections of Hugo Chavez or Vladimir Putin. Contact your state governors and representatives and let them know how you feel about outside monitors affiliated with the U.N. and their puppet organizations. Remember, 60% of the U.N. are dictators.

“I can guarantee you that it's not the oil companies that created this mess...”

but it's the oil companies that are spending the money they are taking from consumers at the pump.

I also am no stranger to gas prices. I am old enough to remember gas wars and .17.9 cent per gallon gas. That was around 1962 when our family ran a Sinclair station. Then in 65 a Standard Oil station. In 1973 I ran an independent station for a company called Transport Oil Company and well remember the run up in pump prices from the Arab oil embargo.

I remember the outrage from customers at me every time I raised the pump price when I got a phone call from my supplier. “Your cost per gallon just went up a nickle for regular” about once a week. Gas lines 2 blocks long to my pumps.

I sold #1 and #2 fuel and was also a truck stop and #2 sold for around .22 per gallon and we offered a “ 2 cent trucker cash discount” after a 100 gallons.

Like now the refineries were taking the money as I watched my gallonage drop from 300,000 per month to 75,000 and I still made 3 to 5 cents per gallon no matter what the price from which I paid operation costs.

Eventually I could only stay open 3 days a week and had to limit gas gallonage per customer to 5 gallons per day. If I didn't, all my dairy product sales would go out of code date and get tossed.

The best thing I ever did was get the hell out of that gasoline business. You see, I might know a bit about the oil and gas business too.

Been there done that but on the retail end.

All sarcasm aside, I sincerely hope you're not gloating about lower prices in Texas than in Calistan.

Think about what you just said for a moment.

You just told us that you paid 25% per year more for gasoline for each of the last 4 years. I’d be willing to bet your truck mileage didn't double because of the great Texas secret refining techniques and blending.

For you, the oil companies have screwed you and your family and you seem delighted.

What ever the pump price read, divide it by 2 and ask yourself where the extra money you just paid to the oil companies went.

I for sure wasn't due to higher oil prices because gas cost less when crude was $147.00 per barrel.

The only difference between us seems to be I’m more pissed than you are by California's highest in the nation gas prices.

I couldn't agree more Jim. The problem is the government has already taken over drilling permits on federal land, hydroelectric generation, pipeline construction, federal mileage standards, fuel emissions, the national oil reserve, refinery building permits, refinery modernization and so much more.

I'd prefer to go back to the days where the federal government did no more or less that what the Constitution deligates to the 3 branches. I think we'd both agree that what has been done to date is nothing but social engineering and pandering for votes by creating groups and classifications based on race, income, education and more.

I admit I am clueless about having an idea to undo any of the above, since voting one bum over another won't work.

I've been around in my lifetime. I have stood shoulder to shoulder with patriots in armed confrontation against the IRS, ATF, U.S. Treasury and Secret Service. I have. Years ago I stood with my local Chief of Police and 3 of his deputies against these invading tyrants and defended my property and constitutional rights from being violated.

I no longer advocate such actions because the days of the beat cop are gone and the Kevlar jackboot paramilitary are here. What we once got away with would now cost us our lives, so I do NOT advocate this type action any longer unless you have a Randy Weaver death wish.

hummm it was 1.84 just 4 years while ago. how’s it working for you?

Hmm ... forgot to tell you this.

I filled up my truck this morning for $3.36 a gallon.

How’s that working for you in California?

FRANKFORT, Ky. — The National Rifle Association's political arm has endorsed Republican congressional candidate Thomas Massie in Kentucky's 4th District race.

NRA said in a statement that Kentucky voters can trust Massie to protect their gun rights and encouraged them to vote for him in the Nov. 6 election.

You’ve been reported.

Next personal attack gets reported to freerepublic.com ADMIN

Got it?

RULE <<< YOU SHOULD ALSO READ “Please: NO profanity, NO personal attacks, NO racism or violence in posts.”

Now go away.

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Go away baby.

Rule 5

Again, get off the stage sonny we're done. It's goes into your left ear and out of the right ear without even rattling around a bit.

Real Money is NOT a bank note. Congress told the mint to add FIFTY DOLLARS to the back of the gold coin. That's it's value as REAL MONEY and is backed by the full faith and credit of the United States government to NEVER be WORTH LESS or worthless.

The words “...redeemable at any federal reserve bank in Gold or silver”; “redeemable in lawful money” and “Silver Certificate” have long since been removed. Congress did not abrogate it's authority to coin money and set the coins value. That's still being done.

I'm done wasting time because all I get from you is Saul Alinsky RULE 5: “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.” There is no defense. It’s irrational. It’s infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions.

You're on my stage now. You're on my post. I have never even read or responded to one of yours because I'd find them boring. Then I'd be on your stage.

Now go away sonny you bother me. See Rule 5 above.

or is that Ma Dame

Didn't we meet above Big Al's down on Bourbon Street years ago Madam?

Packers vs. Texans: Final score 42-24 SPANKED!

LOL!! Love those Green Bay Packers. They just spanked those Houston Texans... YEEE HAWWWWW!!

The constitution and rule of law put in front of you and you are still in denial. Funny how facts get in the way of your arguement that congress has nothing to do with the legal tender value of a 1 ounce gold coin made at the United States Mint.

Congress has everything to do with regulating the the value of real money. The federal reserve notes are just that, a note. A promise to give you something of value for one. They have no real set value. The notes are actual bank notes issued by the Federal Reserve Banks and issued by a for profit corporation that can print all they want.

Now read a bit more and sonny... get off the stage.

Enjoy! 1 cent

Read a bit more. Engage your brain before putting your mouth in gear.

I have a 1909-S VDB penny. It's worth 1 cent and will get me a gumball from any old Ford gumball machine.

BTW I can sell it for hundreds of dollars but congress set it's value at 1 cent.

Got it yet?

The value of the currency is NOT the market value. In short it takes you 1,750 treasury notes to but $50.00 in real money.

Hey did you hear the fed’s printing tons of more paper notes? Next year you'll need 2,000 notes for a 1 oz gold coin.

The gold's not wort more... your paper is worthless!

confused?

There's a difference between a Federal Reserve NOTE and 1 DOLLAR. The DOLLAR is real money with a value fixed by the U.S. Government and will NEVER be worth less or worthless like the overprinted fiat currency you call money. I talk apples and you have oranges. Congress COINED the real money and set the value according to the U.S. Constitution. Like it or not.

Gold Eagle Denominations
American Gold Eagle Coins are offered in four different fractional weights. Each fractional weight carries a different denomination or legal tender face value.

•1 ounce: $50 face value
•1/2 ounce: $25 face value
•1/4 ounce: $10 face value
•1/10 ounce: $5 face value

You might want to brush up on your knowlege before you type. A MUST READ! U.S. Constitution - Article 1 Section 8 "The Congress shall have power to ... To coin money, regulate the value thereof, ..." Made at the U.S. Mint with $50 Dollars U.S. on the back.

Not while the Republican’s control the House of Representatives and soon [Hopefully] the U.S. Senate.

All a proposal like that does is make 0bama look more like the criminal he already is known to be.

Hide him back in a windy city closet.

... and your idea to lower gas prices is ...

“How about getting control of or eliminating the CA ARB...”

All I can do is continue voting or do you have a better idea?

Isn’t gold a commodity who’s value is fixed at $50.00/troy oz by Congress, you know, the part about coining money and regulating the value thereof?

Isn’t oil a commodity too?

Thanks for the lively debate.

Now YOU do your part and let YOUR Representative know how you feel only leave out the personal attacks like:

knucklehead
Did you get lost on your way to DU?
You’re on drugs.

HHC’s husband.

Dude, You really need the /Sarc tag or someone will think that you are serious

BRILLIENT! It's time to sleep. Frogive <===the typo's in my posts. :-)

so enlighted your representative with your brillient idea to lower pump price. I’m sure they can use your wisdom.

BTW I ran a service station in 1973-74 and those gas shortages that drove the prices up. History repeats itself again.

OMG there’s a cloud in the Gulf of Mexico! EVACUATE!!

I think nationalization lowered prices in Mexico and Venezuela. Refiners create shortages with shutdowns and seasonal blend changeovers while continuing to sell unblended gasoline to China.

They sit back and laugh at the fools at the pump that pay what they demand for gas.

Remember oil was $147.00 per barrel and prices were lower than they are now when it's at $92.00

Who's kidding whom?

Let me guess...

and the state gets to blend fuel for seasonal use and to their standards for emmissions even if it means poisioning all of us here with MTBE.

I think that’s what isn’t working now... IMHO.

It's time ONE grade of fuel is used by ONE nation. ONLY the feds can mandate a blend a standard fuel that meets THEIR standards for emissions.

It's the ONLY way to end this ridiculous state seasonal/custom blending by idiots like Cali's ARB.

Remember those fools mandated that MTBE, a known water soluable cancer causing agent oxygenate be added to all Calistan gasoline?

That's the same poison that blows out tailpipes of cars passing through farmlands and settles on the fields, then leaches into the soil contaminating crops and polluting the water tables.

mileage

Again, it has been nationalized already.

Who controls the national oil reserve? Pipeline construction? refinery construction and modernization? Environmental impact studies? All hydroelectric energy production in the U.S.? Nuclear plant conctruction? Oil leasing?

That’s right... the national government.

Oh... I forgot emission and fuel milage standards...

That’s right. In a Representative Republic, the last thing anyone wants to see is a voter contacting their Representative.

Seig Heil

The government already HAS taken over.

Try and build a refinery or update one without the permission of the government and the EPA

Just try and build a pipeline or drill on federal land or waterways.

Just what we all need. A comic. Your solution is .... insert drum roll here ....

Lucy KilleaDuring a special election for the California Senate in 1989, pro-choice Catholic Lucy Killea was barred from communion by Leo Thomas Maher, the bishop of San Diego.[8] This was the first instance of a politician being censured in this way.[9] She received communion in Sacramento with the consent of Bishop Francis Quinn.[10] The incident brought publicity to Killea’s candidacy and gained her the voters’ sympathy, helping her to win the election.[11][12]

[edit] Mario CuomoIn 1984, Cardinal John Joseph O’Connor, then archbishop of New York, considered excommunicating New York Governor Mario Cuomo.[13][14] He also condemned Cuomo’s statements that support for abortion rights did not contradict Catholic teaching, but did not suggest that Cuomo should stop receiving communion.[15]

[edit] Gray DavisIn January 2003, Bishop William Weigand of Sacramento said Governor of California Gray Davis, a Catholic who supported abortion rights, should stop taking communion.[8]

[edit] John KerryIn 2004, Archbishop Burke said he would not give communion to 2004 presidential candidate and Senator John Kerry, in part because of his position on abortion. According to religion experts, such a denial of communion would have been unprecedented.[16][17] Kerry’s own Archbishop Sean O’Malley refused to specify the applicability of his earlier statement that such Catholics are in a state of grave sin and cannot properly receive communion.[16]

The issue led to comparisons between Kerry’s presidential campaign and that of John F. Kennedy in 1960. While Kennedy had to demonstrate his independence from the Roman Catholic Church due to public fear that a Catholic president would make decisions based on Vatican commands, it seemed that Kerry, in contrast, had to show obedience to Catholic authorities in order to win votes.[8][18][19][20][21]

According to Margaret Ross Sammons, Kerry’s campaign was sufficiently damaged by the threat to withhold communion that it may have cost him the election. Sammons argues that President George W. Bush was able to win 53% of the Catholic vote because he appealed to “traditional” Catholics.[22]

[edit] Rudy GiulianiIn 2007, Burke said that he would deny communion to 2008 Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani because of his views on abortion, and that Giuliani should not seek the sacrament.[17]

[edit] Kathleen SebeliusIn May 2008, Kansas City Archbishop Joseph Naumann said that Kathleen Sebelius should stop receiving communion because of her support for abortion rights, and that she should not again take it unless she publicly stated that she opposed abortion rights.[23][24][25]

[edit] Joe BidenAfter Joe Biden, a pro-choice Catholic, was nominated as a vice presidential candidate in the 2008 presidential election, Bishop Joseph Francis Martino of Biden’s hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania, said Biden would be refused communion in that diocese because of his support for abortion rights.[7] Biden was not refused communion in his then-parish of Wilmington, Delaware.[26]

[edit] Patrick KennedyIn November 2009, it emerged that in February 2007, Bishop Thomas Tobin asked Representative Patrick Kennedy not to take communion because of his position on abortion.[27] Kennedy told the Providence Journal that Tobin also instructed priests in the diocese not to give him communion; Tobin denied this.[27]

This might be of interest.

Kerry said to be excommunicated
October 18, 2004

A consultant to the Vatican has said Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry has incurred the penalty of excommunication from the Catholic Church.

The consultant made his statement in a highly unusual letter to Marc Balestrieri, a Los Angeles canon lawyer who formally sued John Kerry in ecclesiastical court for heresy.

Balestrieri, who launched his case earlier this year by filing a heresy complaint in Kerry’s home archdiocese of Boston, told EWTN’s “World Over” program on Friday that he had received an unusual, indirect communication from the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith regarding the pro-abortion stance.

That communication provides a basis, he said, to declare that any Catholic politician who says he is “personally opposed to abortion, but supports a woman’s right to choose,” incurs automatic excommunication. It also provided a basis for Balestrieri to broaden his canonical actions and file additional complaints against four more pro-abortion Catholic politicians: Democrat Senators Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts and Tom Harkin of Iowa; Republican Senator Susan Collins of Maine; and former New York Governor Mario Cuomo, a Democrat.

http://www.catholicculture.org/news/features/index.cfm?recnum=32830

Bad Confessions
Bad Communions

Mean nothing.

That didn’t work out for John Kerry. He was excommunicated back in 2004

Canon Law 1398

All those who suggest or pass a law that promotes abortion, are automatically excommunicated.

Their excommunication does not have to be public. Their action is sufficient to incur the excommunication.

Accordingly, it can be said that most ex-Catholic politicians today are among the excommunicated. They cannot

be called Catholics because they no longer belong to the Catholic Church.

Canon law already has. He excommunicated himself by voting to fund abortions.

Better let them know ASAP!

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The Catholic Church will permit Pro-Choice Catholics when Shira Law permits Gay Muslims.

As for me, I don’t trust posters who think they are oh so creative changing article titles and that with their very own grammatical errors.

“Joe Biden and the Abortion Question (Catholics calling for his EXCOMMUNICATION]”

Like the Above?

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Kerry said to be excommunicated
October 18, 2004

A consultant to the Vatican has said Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry has incurred the penalty of excommunication from the Catholic Church.

The consultant made his statement in a highly unusual letter to Marc Balestrieri, a Los Angeles canon lawyer who formally sued John Kerry in ecclesiastical court for heresy.

Balestrieri, who launched his case earlier this year by filing a heresy complaint in Kerry’s home archdiocese of Boston, told EWTN’s “World Over” program on Friday that he had received an unusual, indirect communication from the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith regarding the pro-abortion stance.

That communication provides a basis, he said, to declare that any Catholic politician who says he is “personally opposed to abortion, but supports a woman’s right to choose,” incurs automatic excommunication. It also provided a basis for Balestrieri to broaden his canonical actions and file additional complaints against four more pro-abortion Catholic politicians: Democrat Senators Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts and Tom Harkin of Iowa; Republican Senator Susan Collins of Maine; and former New York Governor Mario Cuomo, a Democrat.

http://www.catholicculture.org/news/features/index.cfm?recnum=32830