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GLOBAL WARMING AND ENERGY:

Human action ignored in the energy debate.

Obama is playing games with the energy debate. Of course he is. He has more power than any Pharaoh ever dreamed of. He can play all the games he wants. But Republicans would be fools if they don't recognize the end-game.  Obama is making energy an issue to set Republicans up to kick their asses. Right now, he looks weak on that issue. That's the way he wants it because sometime this summer, he will release oil from the strategic reserve to temporarily drive down gas prices. When he does that, all energy prices will fall. Obama will look like a genius. He'll look like a hero. He will praise his policies for lowering prices. Sure, Republicans will slam him for using his dictatorial powers for political gain, but nobody will care at that point. Republicans aren't smart enough to recognize Obama's strategy and address it in advance, so they will look like the pathetic, whining wannabes they are compared to Great Pharaoh.

WAR:

Here's another stupid article that doesn't provide enough information for readers. This article claims the  accused mass murderer of Afghans was a con man.

"Federal documents show how Staff Sgt Robert Bales scammed pensioner Gary Liebschner of Carroll, Ohio, of more than $800,000 in a stock scam just before he enlisted in the army."

When? The article doesn't say when.

"Financial regulators found in 2003 how Bales 'engaged in fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, churning, unauthorised trading and unsuitable investments'."

So it was allegedly before 2003, but when?

"Bales joined the Army two months after 9/11 - and before that had studied business at Ohio State University for three years but didn't graduate."

Is that when? How did a guy who hadn't graduated business school become a broker who stole a pensioner's life savings? What is a pensioner anyway? Is that retired person?

"He went on to found an investment company called Spartina Investments Inc. in Doral, Florida with his brother Mark Bales."

When? The article presents this as happening after he joined the Army. How hard is it to publish dates in a news article, especially one profiling events in an effort to establish a person's character?

"Although the business was struggling, Captain Alexander said Bales had chosen to give up his bright prospects to join the Army in the wake of the terror attacks."

When? The article just presented that Bales had joined the military when he quit Ohio State.

"Previously Bales had completed 20 hours of anger-management counseling following a 2002 arrest at a Tacoma hotel for investigation of assault against a previous girlfriend."

How did this guy become special forces? Was he actually special forces? This article claims he was a sniper, but it describes a regular infantryman. Every article I read about this guy is crap. The more I read about this guy, the more I think the military and the government propagandists are lying about him and what happened. It's hard to see how justice can be meted out against the propagators of this crime when no evidence was collected. And here's one of the most critical questions we have to ask about the government's tactics:

"Why are civilian deaths by drone attack treated differently than the deaths that occurred in this case?"

How can the poeple know if they are accidents or murders without an investigation, at least?

FOREIGN POLICY:

The US government can't control the Saudi Arabian government with a stick - can you say $20 gas? - so they control it with welfare. Welfare is always about control.

POLITICS:

Romney wins handily in Illinois.

Senior Romney aid goes on TV and admits that Romney is a phony.

"“I think you hit a reset button for the fall campaign,” Eric Fehrnstrom, a longtime adviser to Mr. Romney, said in response to a question about pivoting to a matchup with Mr. Obama and appealing to moderate swing voters. “Everything changes. It’s almost like an Etch a Sketch. You can kind of shake it up and restart all over again.”"

In other words, everything Romney has said is a lie. The funniest thing about this article is phony Rick Santorum acting like he's any different. You can't make this stuff up.

"“The issues I’m running on will be exactly the same,” Mr. Romney said. “I’m running as a conservative Republican, I was a conservative Republican governor, I’ll be running as a conservative Republican nominee — or, excuse me, at that point, hopefully, nominee for president.”"

A conservative Republican governor who implemented Obamacare in his state while raising taxes and fees tremendously and promoting gun control. This is a wonderful reminder that Romney, Santorum and Gingrich are liarns and hypocrites, as Ron Paul has repeatedly pointed out. This election is a joke. This election is about the bankers favored candidate versus the bankers other favored candidate. Anybody who votes a candidate other than Ron Paul is either a lover of big government or fool. Other than Ron Paul, these candidates and the people who vote for them are losers who are destroying our country.

MEDIA:

Why is the USA Today running a story about a young Muslim woman who was punished by her family for wearing a hijab?

""My family didn't allow me to wear it at first," the petite Chechen girl said as she wrapped a pastel-colored scarf around her head and neck, concealing every strand of her long, brown hair.

"They said I was too young. My mom beat my sister and me every day, but I didn't care: I am a Muslim and it is my duty to wear it.""

This is like running an article praising somebody for self-censorship - burning books - but more important. This story, while weakly pretending to present both sides, is clearly championing the wearing of the hijab.

""I didn't want them to wear the hijab. I argued, yelled and even beat them," said Seda's mother, Rosa Makhagieva, 45, whose three daughters all cover themselves in loose-fitting, modest clothes. "My husband was against me. He said, 'If you don't allow them to wear it, I am going to make you put it on.' ""

So the innocent fawn daughter wanted to wear the hijab but was beaten by the brutal mother who tried to stop her. Yay hijab daughter. Boo violent mother. This is not the real story. Children are not voluntarily confining themselves against their parents' wishes. Human nature tells us otherwise. Something else is going on here. I promise you, this is not the real story. This is propaganda.

MISC:

It's goofy enough when scientists spend money to discover what people have always known, but it's doubly goofy when they spend money to discover what they've already discovered. The law of angular momentum is well understood. Why spend money measuring that people weigh less where angular momentum is greater than where it is less? I bet the government paid for this. People would not invest their own money for stupid research like this.

A police chief in an Orlando suburb refuses to arrest a man who, according to all the public evidence except his own statement, chased down and confronted a black boy in his neighborhood, initiating a conflict in which he subsequently shot the boy dead. If you think about it, pretty much every time somebody is shot, the shooter is arrested. Maybe later they are released because of self-defense. I'm not saying this is right, in America, nearly every shooter is considered guilty until proven innocent, and that's wrong. It's a bad system. But how is it, given all the public evidence that this man initiated the conflict, he hasn't been arrested? Maybe a full investigation will absolve him - it's OK to chase down somebody and talk to them; if they respond violently one has a right to self-defense - but since we have so many statements claiming he initiated the conflict before he shot the boy, he should be arrested. Not necessarily prosecuted, based on a thorough investigation, but arrested. Sadly, if the aggressor had been black and the victim (off)white, there's no doubt the aggressor would have been arrested.