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Nothing like US Government mandates creating problems for business and commerce. Here is an excellent example. Remember the recent chatter about nonessential government employees during the recent Government lockout. EPA and Department of Energy would be excellent candidates to defund and abolish. The Department of Energy does not produce any energy at all just like the Department of Education does not educate anyone. The US has got money to burn, there is no waste in Washington, DC.

Dear Boss,

Eight little whores, with no hope of heaven,
Gladstone may save one, then there'll be seven.
Seven little whores beggin for a shilling,
One stays in Henage Court, then there's a killing.
Six little whores, glad to be alive,
One sidles up to Jack, then there are five.
Four and whore rhyme aright,
So do three and me,
I'll set the town alight
Ere there are two.
Two little whores, shivering with fright,
Seek a cosy doorway in the middle of the night.
Jack's knife flashes, then there's but one,
And the last one's the ripest for Jack's idea of fun.

I do a bit more work, then give it out straight.
My knife's so nice and sharp I want to get to work right away if I get a chance.
Good Luck, catch me if you can.
Yours truly

Jack the Ripper

Sen. Ted Cruz will be a better alternative to Jeb Bush (Mr. Congeniality) in the 2016 Presidential Race. If Bush Jr. is the Republican RINO candidate, Hillary Clinton will win in 2016.

Yes, all well and good.

Why don’t you do something constructive like bash Obama instead and his refusal (while opting for Obamacare) to adopt a strategy to convert the diesel fueled tractor trailers to natural gas which would lower the price of gasoline for your Corvette?
How do you like the “low” price of gasoline, btw?
Or Obama’s refusal to sign legislation which would enable the Keystone pipeline?

Obama is the Chosen One, the Narcissist in Chief.

How many endless hours does he stand watching himself in a mirror while practicing delivering a speech to promote himself and his misguided agenda to a gullible nation?

There is no god but the Chosen One Barack Hussein Obama, Moochelle is his wife and Biden is his anointed Vice President.

Government isn't the solution, GOVERNMENT is the problem.
Ronald Wilson Reagan

Oh what a tangled web she weaves, When first she practises to deceive!

Also on Tsarnaev’s apparent YouTube site were videos in Russian from Abdel al-Hamid al-Juhani. Mary Habeck, an expert in radical Islam at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies who is a Russian speaker, said al-Juhani “is an important ideologue for al Qaeda in Chechnya and the Caucases.”

“The form of Salafism that Tsarnaev was [allegedly] interested in is a very radical form of Salafism,” Habeck said, “one that is usually associated with al Qaeda and associated groups.” She also pointed to a video on his playlist featuring a sermon from Mohammad on the armies of Khuresan, a reference to a Muslim prophecy of an army from Central Asia that would inflict defeat upon the enemies of the faith. “The black banners from Khuresan are a reference to al Qaeda,” Habeck sai.

The YouTube page allegedly belonging to Tsarnaev is the second clue that the Boston Marathon bombers may have been motivated by the ideology of Osama bin Laden. The type of bomb used in the attack utilized a pressure cooker as a timer; al Qaeda’s online English-language Web magazine, Inspire, features instructions on making a pressure-cooker bomb in its debut issue. The pressure-cooker bombs are also used by insurgents in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India.

The Armenian nationality hiding in the background in the shadows is the real criminal. The two Boston Marathon bombers are just his "instruments".

Uncle Ruslan Tsarni should be listened to. The 26 year old Boston Marathon bomber suspect, Tamerlan Tsarnaev - his nephew, was radicalized or brainwashed by the behind the scenes mastermind, of Armenian nationality (this is the individual that should be apprehended and interrogated i.e. put out of business before he finds other pawns to infect with Islamic radicalism or brainwashing to commit his jihad while keeping his filthy hands clean).

Islamic radicalization is like an aggresive African bee creating havoc in the predominately passive mosque bee hive.

Great question, was wondering the same thing myself.
Accomplice, conspiracy.
What’s the link, connect the dots...

Chavez supporters and propagandists - Sean Penn and Oliver Stone are idolized in this country by the Leftist US "Lame Stream" Media.

From Evan Sayet author of the book, “The KinderGarden of Eden: How The Modern Liberal Thinks And Why He’s Convinced That Ignorance Is Bliss.

Modern Liberalism is a utopian ideology that is predicated on the notion that, since mankind lost paradise when Adam and Eve ate from the apple of knowledge, then mankind can return to paradise if only we’d all just “regurgitate the apple” and give up all knowledge of right and wrong. The notion is that, if we can eliminate the quest for what I call “the better,” then there’d be nothing for people to disagree about. If people didn’t disagree about things, then they wouldn’t fight; and, if they didn’t fight, then of course they’d never go to war. Peace on Earth — in fact, paradise — can be achieved, they’re convinced, if only they could eliminate the quest for the better. This is the environment that is found in kindergarten, where every child’s finger painting is declared “beautiful,” and every child is declared special (but none more special than any other), and where every child gets a cookie, but no child gets two. Modern liberalism is predicated on the notion that, if we could just retard the child’s moral and intellectual growth at a level prior to his having begun to learn about the better, then paradise will reign.

It is essential that one understand that the “Modern Liberal” is not simply a liberal who happens to be alive today. I call them “Liberals” only because they typically call themselves Liberals, and I felt that any other word would fail to make clear just how prevalent the ideology is. I inserted the modifier “Modern” to make clear that they are not who they say they are, nor are they what “Liberals” used to be. In fact, the Modern Liberal is as much at war against “classical” liberal values as he is against conservative ones, for mature values are not found in the kindergarten classroom, and they can be the stuff about which people might disagree, fight and even war.

Modern Liberalism is a new ideology — or rather, one that is new in its prevalence to the Modern Liberal era (post-World War II through today). It traces its call for the rejection of intellect to Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who sought to replace thinking with passion and feeling (just like the small child). But whereas Rousseau’s ideology of abject and intentional stupidity was roundly rejected by people who lived in times and places where intelligence was required to avoid and survive real world difficulties like disease, hunger, poverty and physical pain, in post-World War II America — with science and technology having just about eradicated these things — an ideology that was based upon recreating paradise by retarding the moral and intellectual growth of its followers found greater acceptance.

These are what I call the first two Laws of the Unified Field Theory of Liberalism. The first is that thinking is an act of bigotry to be avoided by all moral people and reviled when seen practiced by others. The rationale behind the outlawing of thought is that, anything a person concludes is going to have been so tainted by his personal prejudices – prejudices all people possess as simply part of the human experience based on things like the color of their skin, the nation of their ancestry, their height, weight, sex and so on, that the only way not to be a bigot is to never think at all.

The Second Law is that indiscriminateness of thought does not lead to indiscriminateness of policy, it leads — and, in fact can only lead — to the Modern Liberal siding with evil over good, wrong over right and the behaviors that lead to failure over those that lead to success. After all, if no culture, no religion, no form of governance or anything else is better than anything else, then the Modern Liberal has no explanation for success and failure. To those to whom indiscriminateness is a moral imperative (because its opposite is discrimination), success – as proved by nothing other than the fact that it has succeeded is all the proof that’s required for them to conclude that some injustice must have taken place. The same is true with failure. If nothing is better than anything else, then failure – as proved by nothing other than the fact that it has failed – serves as definitive proof that the failure has somehow been victimized. And the same is true of good and evil. If no person, culture, religion and so on is better or worse than any other, then anything society deems to be good can be said to be so only because of society’s bigotries. This led Thomas Sowell to conclude that, to those I call the Modern Liberals, “That which is held in esteem qualifies to be their target; that which is held in disdain qualifies to be their mascot.”

I have no doubt and don’t make any other claim that the Modern Liberal’s purpose is altruistic. Their desire is, in fact, the ultimate in altruism: to create heaven on Earth. It’s just not mature, has no relationship to the grown-up, real world and, ultimately, because it doesn’t, it leads them to policies that are invariably destructive. Those who hounded former Harvard President Larry Summers off of campus were doing so out of “altruism” and the desire to end “sexism” by making it virtually illegal to consider differences between the sexes, but they did nothing to advance the cause of science or promote sound policy that can only come from the truth.

Well stated.

On 2012 Memorial Day. Thank you for your service!

RINO,Republican in Name Only. Head of an elephant with the body of a donkey.

THINK SOLYNDRA AND THINK ABOUT HOW YOU COULD EXPORT WIND TO CHINA.

"If the pipeline were not enough, there are also huge oil reserves off of our coasts as well. With just a small fraction of our offshore acreage being leased, American companies suffer burdening restrictions in the form of federal bans and declining lease offerings".

"Incredulously, President Obama has pledged billions in offshore drilling elsewhere -- most notably, Brazil. If the president were truly opposed to offshore drilling, he would uniformly discourage the practice, rather than pick "winners and losers." Experiments of this type of national policy in recent decades, with Venezuela, saw our hand bitten by the satiated country as it seized private industry and now uses their American-aided resources to hurt us at any opportunity".

"Given the current failed national leadership, America has little choice but to become even more reliant on insecure sources of foreign oil. Middle Eastern oil reliance continues to be a costly and terrible policy. The money we spend there often ends up in the hands of people who only seem to use it to plan our demise".

"The United States devours 23 million barrels of oil daily, accounting for about 25 percent of total global consumption. But our domestic production -- through visionless polices and failed leadership -- isn't keeping pace. American production falls by an average of 135,000 barrels annually while demand steadily rises. And that demand must now compete globally with the equally insatiable appetite of China".

"While President Obama wistfully gambles our national security on foreign oil, he could have tapped into North America's bounty of natural energy resources. According to a new study from the Institute for Energy Research (IER), the total amount of recoverable oil in North America exceeds 1.7 trillion barrels. That's enough to cover America's energy needs for the next 250 years".

"This would create opportunities to export needed energy globally, funneling international currency into national coffers, rather than siphoning them, while giving the innovative American people time and resources to lead the world on new energy solutions".

"If that were not enough, America is even more abundant in natural gas. IER estimates 4.2 quadrillion cubic feet of recoverable natural gas lies below our soil -- that enough to provide the United States with electricity for the next 575 years"!

"Rather than exploit this clean and abundant energy with favorable government policy, the president would rather use it as a class warfare wedge for political purposes".

"A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing." -- Oscar Wilde

Only if you sit by and allow them to do so.

DEAR SECRETARY SALAZAR:

WHILE THE OIL INDUSTRY IS EAGER TO GET BACK TO WORK BY EXPLORING AND PRODUCING THE OIL AND NATURAL GAS AMERICA DEMANDS, I AM DISCOURAGED BY THE RECENTLY RELEASED FIVE-YEAR OFFSHORE PLAN. THE PLAN IS AN IMPORTANT FIRST STEP, BUT IT DOES NOT GO FAR ENOUGH.

BY KEEPING THE ATLANTIC, PACIFIC AND EASTERN GULF OF MEXICO OFF LIMITS, WE RISK MISSING THE OPPORTUNITY TO DEVELOP NEW AND POTENTIALLY SIGNIFICANT RESOURCES OF OIL AND NATURAL GAS. THE DEVELOPMENT OF THESE RESOURCES COULD PROVIDE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF NEW JOBS, MORE THAN $100 BILLION IN GOVERNMENT REVENUE, AND NEARLY 4 MILLION BARRELS OF OIL AND NATURAL GAS PRODUCTION. THIS IS ECONOMIC GROWTH AND ENERGY DEVELOPMENT THAT WE CANNOT IGNORE. I ENCOURAGE YOU TO REVAMP THE FIVE-YEAR PLAN TO INCLUDE ADDITIONAL AREAS FOR LEASING.

THANK YOU,