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1 posted on 10/12/2009 6:28:16 AM PDT by backhoe
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The list, ping


48 posted on 10/12/2009 9:29:54 AM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: All
More background from GP regular bg:

flashback:

LOST

[As the advisors talked among themselves debating whether the administration should sign the treaty as it stood or demand changes, the President sat by silently and listened. With the debate raging, suddenly the President's voice was heard to say, "Isn't that what it was all about?"

Debate stopped as everyone looked over to the President. "What, sir?" Reagan then repeated his statement. "Isn't that what it was all about -- the election? Doesn't it mean that we don’t have to sign these things?"

The group realized that President Reagan had just cut through all of the debate and stated the real issue. His administration had been elected to defend American sovereignty and independence, and that changes in a bad treaty didn't have to be negotiated. He could just refuse to sign and kill it right then and there. Ronald Reagan understood that he was the President of the United States and not a captive of someone else’s power grab.

And the Law of the Sea Treaty remained justifiably dead for the next 12 years until Bill Clinton pulled it out of the trash bin, dusted it off and signed it. Then, in the spirit of Reagan, a courageous Senator Jesse Helms, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, bottled it up until the Clintonistas were driven from power.]

flashforward:

LOST and Found

[LOST -- the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea, also called the Law of the Sea Treaty -- regulates all things oceanic, from fishing rights, navigation lanes and environmental concerns to what lies beneath: the seabed's oil and mineral wealth that companies hope to explore and exploit in coming years.

But critics say the treaty, which declares the sea and its bounty the "universal heritage of mankind," would redistribute American profits and have a reach extending into rivers and streams all the way up the mighty Mississippi.

The U.N. began working on LOST in 1973, and 157 nations have signed on to the treaty since it was concluded in 1982. Yet it has been stuck in dry dock for nearly 30 years in the U.S. and never even been brought to a full vote before the Senate.

But swelling approval in the Senate and the combined support of the White House, State Department and U.S. Navy mean LOST may be ready to unfurl its sails again.

Sen. John Kerry, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said during a January confirmation hearing that he intends to push for ratification. "We are now laying the groundwork for and expect to try to take up the Law of the Sea Treaty. So that will be one of the priorities of the committee, and the key here is just timing -- how we proceed."

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, saying the treaty is vital for American businesses and the Navy, told Kerry that his committee "will have a very receptive audience in our State Department and in our administration."

LOST apportions "Exclusive Economic Zones" that stretch 200 miles from a country's coast and establishes the International Seabed Authority to administer the communal territory farther out. The treaty's proponents say it clears up a murky legal area that has prevented companies from taking advantage of the deep seas' wealth.]

note the negative Dhimmi theme throughout
everything when they're in control..
*sigh*

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50 posted on 10/12/2009 12:07:21 PM PDT by backhoe (All Across America, the Lights are being relit again...)
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Every single day I wake up thinking they can’t do anything else to shock me....and every single day they do.


51 posted on 10/12/2009 12:21:52 PM PDT by ladyvet (WOLVERINES!!!!!)
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“A recently published administration document outlines a structure that could result in closures of sport fishing in salt and freshwater areas across America.”

And of course, because of one of Obama’s czars, the liberal Cherokee woman, the ‘tribes’ will be exempt to waste all the fish they can! Enough of this tribal crappola!


53 posted on 10/12/2009 12:34:09 PM PDT by AuntB (If the TALIBAN grew drugs & burned our land instead of armed Mexican Cartels would anyone notice?)
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To: grellis

Here’s one that will have a huge impact on Michigan.


54 posted on 10/12/2009 12:35:06 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
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To: backhoe

THREAD BUMP.


57 posted on 10/12/2009 12:41:53 PM PDT by Cindy
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This smells of UN big time as well as Obama of course, he’s a Marxist.

Also, in case you folks haven’t figured it out yet, we don’t have until 2012. Ain’t gonna happen.

After the fishing industry’s destruction, hunting will be next and you’ll be moved off your land. Study your history. Maybe you’ll enjoy those ACORN types moving into your house.


58 posted on 10/12/2009 12:56:32 PM PDT by brushcop (SFC Sallie, CPL Long, LTHarris, SSG Brown, PVT Simmons KIA OIF lll&V, they died for you, honor them)
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If you would like to be added or dropped from the Michigan ping list, please freepmail me.

Correct me if I'm wrong--didn't most of the Great Lake states vote for this clown?

60 posted on 10/12/2009 5:57:23 PM PDT by grellis (I am Jill's overwhelming sense of disgust.)
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To enforce this illegal treaty obuma will need to put jackboots on the ground. That’s where the rubber will meet the road.


63 posted on 10/13/2009 4:15:19 AM PDT by sergeantdave (obuma is the anti-Lincoln, trying to re-establish slavery)
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Okay, I live in way Northern California on the coast. There is no salmon season, you don't want crab season more unemployed, many dairy farmer took a dive( when Humboldt Creamery went belly-up) and bankruptcy transferred to the FARMERS, no water in San Joakim where my cousins have 80 year olod plus fruit treees9 and etc) gone because of a delta smealt, there's NO pulp mills running, no more tree harvesting and out unemployment rate( aside from my tangential San Joakin story five hunderd moles SSE)there is allegedly over 30% unemployment( real reports between 18-24% for Humboldt, Del Norte county) which ushers in what???....opium from the "Tahleebahn" or marijuana from Mr "I'llbebach?"

There are so many good hard workers, fishermen, beef farms, dairy farms all kinds of tree and produce farmers, pulp mill workers, lumbermen....and now I see folks selling generations of land, fishing boats and the crime ratte going up as the courts of the nation want to out loaw legal folks to protect themselves when only criminals have wads of cash and weaponry....this is SICKO!!

65 posted on 10/13/2009 1:05:18 PM PDT by Karliner (Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before. DDE)
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I'm sure the states will love losing their revenue from fishing license fees and stamps for “Hope & Change.”
66 posted on 10/13/2009 1:13:43 PM PDT by 4yearlurker ("Damn the King and double damn him!")
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This is going to destroy the peninsula on the coast, where things are hard already, but WERE getting better.


67 posted on 10/13/2009 1:30:03 PM PDT by MarMema (chains we can believe in)
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The fishing thread....


78 posted on 10/14/2009 1:13:11 AM PDT by MarMema (chains we can believe in)
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These libs must have enough votes stuffed in the ballot box to win the next ten elections. And Graham, too. ‘Cause they sure seem to be assured of victory while telling millions “If you don’t like it, leave.”


80 posted on 10/14/2009 2:32:35 AM PDT by Terry Mross (I hate all politicians, including republicans.)
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To: Stillwaters

I haven’t heard this anywhere else, and it sounds like yet another important thing to keep track of.


85 posted on 10/14/2009 8:08:50 AM PDT by lonevoice (This tagline is identical to the one you are reading)
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To: backhoe

For later


90 posted on 10/21/2009 1:32:26 PM PDT by DLfromthedesert
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To: backhoe
America: Off Limits to Americans.

Mexicans: Welcome, do whatever you want, wherever you want.


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

93 posted on 10/21/2009 1:37:46 PM PDT by The Comedian (Evil can only succeed if good men don't point at it and laugh.)
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"You can't undo a UN treaty,"


Sure you can. You just need the right legal representation.

I recommend the law firm of Mossberg, Remington, Springfield amd Colt.

(If you require international representation, I hear the firm of Kalashnikov and Makarov is quite reliable.)

Make sure your case is filed in the court of Judge Taurus.
96 posted on 10/21/2009 2:45:51 PM PDT by shibumi (" ..... then we will fight in the shade.")
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BTTT^


98 posted on 03/10/2010 4:29:14 AM PST by backhoe (All Across America, the Lights are being relit again...)
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