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ENERGY:

Because BP has worked night and day, tapping the best people in the business, attempting new methods, discarding those that don't work and innovating, it has a plan that may control all the oil leaking from the well in a few days. If it works, that will be impressive. If government was in charge of cleaning this thing up, they'd still be having meetings about who was going to be in charge and how the politicians were going to take all the credit and not one attempt would have been made to stop the leak by now. What's really sad is the marxist-environmentalists are rooting against BP and rooting for more damage.

POLICE STATE:

After a jury convicted a policeman of involuntary manslaughter for shooting an unarmed man to death, people in Oakland riot. Why?

WAR:

Military spending is dividing the tea party exemplified by the positions of Palin and Paul.

POLITICS:

Democrats have read the writing on the wall so Pelosi and Reid are preparing a destructive lame duck session after Democrats get trashed in November. On the agenda are new taxes, card check, federally mandated universal voter registration, and porkapalooza.

"Conservative groups such as FreedomWorks are alarmed at the potential damage, and they are demanding that everyone in Congress pledge not to take up substantive legislation in a post-election session. "Members of Congress are supposed to represent their constituents, not override them like sore losers in a lame-duck session," Rep. Tom Price, head of the Republican Study Committee, told me."

Republicans would be smart to force Democrats to vote on a resolution against lame duck legislation. We would be smarter to block Congress from being in session after the election. We'd be even smarter to limit them to about 30 days beginning in January each year.

"It's been almost 30 years since anything remotely contentious was handled in a lame-duck session, but that doesn't faze Democrats who have jammed through ObamaCare and are determined to bring the financial system under greater federal control."

Like that matters to Pelosi, Reid or Obama.

"Mike Allen of Politico.com reports one reason President Obama failed to mention climate change legislation during his recent, Oval Office speech on the Gulf oil spill was that he wants to pass a modest energy bill this summer, then add carbon taxes or regulations in a conference committee with the House, most likely during a lame-duck session. The result would be a climate bill vastly more ambitious, and costly for American consumers and taxpayers, than moderate "Blue Dogs" in the House would support on the campaign trail. "We have a lot of wiggle room in conference," a House Democratic aide told the trade publication Environment & Energy Daily last month."

Obama is an evil monster. He won't be satisfied until he turns the military loose on the American people like Lincoln, kills millions and enslaves us all.

Let's hope Obama campaigning for Reid is the kiss of death it's been for everybody else he's campaigned for.

MISC:

The US is the only major country without a loser pays tort system. That's stupid.

Common Hollywood accounting scam exposed in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix in come statement.

"The really, really, really simplified version is that Hollywood sets up a separate corporation for each movie with the intent that this corporation will take on losses. The studio then charges the "film corporation" a huge fee (which creates a large part of the "expense" that leads to the loss). The end result is that the studio still rakes in the cash, but for accounting purposes the film is a money "loser" -- which matters quite a bit for anyone who is supposed to get a cut of any profits."

Always get a share of the gross, not the profits.

The ugly truth about eminent domain:

"The phrase "eminent domain" reflects an assumption Karl Marx would find congenial: government is the default owner of everything, and that private ownership, however extensive, is merely a contingent arrangement."

We don't own property. The government gives us permission for the illusion of ownership. That's a load of crap.

"The familiar civics class platitude describes this provision as necessary for the construction of bridges, hospitals, and other amenities that are supposedly "public goods" only government can provide. The inescapable reality is that eminent domain is a particularly vulgar form of plunder used to enrich the political class and their corporate cronies at the expense of the rest of us."

No kidding. It keeps government, politicians and their cronies from having to pay the asking price for property like everybody else has to.

How government breeds contempt that becomes its downfall. The bigger, more aggressive a government becomes, the more contempt it breeds.

The nasty reaction by Cleveland's owner and fans make LeBron James look classy and sympathetic by comparison. What a bunch of idiots. LeBron has every right to pursue his dream wherever he wants. Cleveland doesn't own him. More power to him. Great observation about the situation:

"In the last week, I’ve seen the word “narcissism” used dozens of times by the mainstream press to describe a 25-year-old African-American male who worked his way out of poverty to earn millions of dollars entertaining people with his basketball skills. Apparently, his transgression was refusing to honor the collectivist whims of the press to remain in his depressed “hometown” by deciding to join two of his close friends in a better part of the country.

Funny how the press rarely describes politicians who steal, plunder, and pillage as “narcissists.” And the greatest narcissists of all — the press themselves — wonder why their industry is in decline."

Don't you love how the press fed off LeBron then condemned him? That's why the media as we know it is dying.