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Trump exploring third party bid
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/poli…
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Romney says he's "not concerned about the very poor"
Republican presidential frontrunnner Mitt Romney, fresh off his victory in the Florida primary, drew fire from conservatives on Wednesday after remarking that he's "not concerned about the very poor" -- the kind of remark that Democrats are sure to seize on as Romney inches closer to the Republican presidential nomination.
CNN anchor Soledad O'Brien asked him to clarify his remarks saying, "There are lots of very poor Americans who are struggling who would say, 'That sounds odd.'"
- pfft. the guy is right, poor people dont even vote. they are on ssi getting high and going online for free shite.robotron3k
- they do pretty much the same as rich people but with just lower quality drugs.robotron3k
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The poor have 'safety net'!
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Don't kill Osama! Joe Biden admits he told Obama NOT to launch Navy SEAL raid to take out bin Laden
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/…
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Gasland's content is taken completely out of context. I know hippy, liberal environmentalist that have agreed.
They laugh at it and like it, partly because it supports their cause and agenda, but have specifically told me those places had shit water to begin with, what a fucking joke! Especially the place in Colorado, but then again, you drink the kool-aid in anything supporting your cause. if it's well-produced with fancy images and good music, you dive right in, huh?
I'm surprised someone with integrity hasn't edited this crap data: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas…
CRAP DATA!
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'Gasland' lies put a plentiful fuel at risk
http://washingtonexaminer.com/op…
By: John Stossel | 05/17/11 9:41 PM
I just learned I'm going to save money! My apartment building in New York will switch from heating oil to cleaner natural gas. Gas is much cheaper than oil now because energy companies found ways to get more of it out of the ground.Even more astounding is that by using this technique, America won't run out of natural gas for 100 years or more! Time to break out the Champagne?
Not so fast, say environmentalists. To get gas out of the ground, companies use pressurized chemicals to blow up rock. It's called hydraulic fracturing -- fracking. An Oscar-nominated movie, "Gasland," says that fracking contaminates our water supply with chemicals. In the movie, some homeowners set their tap water on fire.
That got my attention. I've seen Michael Moore's movies and environmental documentaries, which I thought were nonsense. But "Gasland" is more convincing.
Unfortunately, "Gasland" producer Josh Fox turned down my interview requests, as did representatives of the big national environmental groups that oppose fracking. I think I know why. The movie and the left's arguments against fracking are deceitful.
First, the movie implies that nasty chemicals get into the water table. That seems logical, since they shoot them down into gas wells. But it turns out that the shale gas wells are thousands of feet below the water table. Do the chemicals flow up -- against gravity?
But then what's the explanation for the most dramatic part of the movie: tap water so laden with gas that people can set it on fire?
It turns out that has little to do with fracking. In many parts of America, there is enough methane in the ground to leak into people's well water. The best fire scene in the movie was shot in Colorado, where the filmmaker is in the kitchen of a man who lights his faucet. But Colorado investigators went to that man's house, checked out his well and found that fracking had nothing to do with his water catching fire. His well-digger had drilled into a naturally occurring methane pocket.
"There are lots of ... naturally causing effects that occur," says Matthew Brouillette of the Commonwealth Foundation, a think tank in Pennsylvania -- where much of the film was shot. "It's really no surprise. We find that 40 percent of the wells in Pennsylvania have some sort of naturally occurring methane gas and other types of things."
John Hanger, former director of Pennsylvania's Department of Environmental Protection, who also appeared in the film, is less sanguine:
"Gas can migrate ... from poor drilling into people's private water wells. ... We have had gas move from poorly done gas drilling through the ground and reach people's water wells. So there is a need for oversight ... gas does have some impacts. It is not perfectly clean. But compared to coal and oil, which are more dirty fossil fuels, natural gas can be produced and consumed in a manner that is cleaner than coal."
Filmmaker Josh Fox concedes that the states concluded that the fire wasn't caused by fracking, but he says the government regulators collude with industry, or don't use good science. His movie portrays Hanger as an indifferent bureaucrat. Hanger says the movie is just inaccurate. "Josh Fox has a mission. ... He is trying to shut down the gas -- drilling industry."
Frankly, I'm skeptical of all of them: lefty moviemakers who smear companies, companies with economic interests at stake and the regulators, who are often cozy with industry and lack essential knowledge. The surest environmental protectors are property rights -- and courts that assign liability to polluters.
But hydraulic fracturing is a wonderful thing. It's not new. Companies have done it for 60 years, but now they've found ways to get even more gas out of the ground. That's the reason gas is getting cheaper and panicky politicians no longer rant about America "running out of fuel."
Natural gas is not risk-free, but no energy source is. Perfect is not one of the choices.
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- John Stossel.. really? are kidding me?BonSeff
- I don't care whom it is, those facts hold true, which makes 'Gasland' as humorous as as 'An Inconvenient Truth'.********
- a bunch of made-up BS********
- have you even seen the film? holy shit you are a fucktadBonSeff
- BTW, who the FUCK is John Fox? Some johnny come lately, trying to make a name for himself by fabricating lies?********
- I've seen it twice actually and each time I was not impressed by the BS spew. All of it taken out of context.********
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Propaganda
Fucktardutopian - keep eating the left ideologies based on thin air made up propaganda you damn hippies!********
- so all the people documented with illness and cancer is simply bullshit.
got it.BonSeff - both of you are reprehensible.BonSeff
- you have no fucking idea whether the Marcellus Shale or the like caused their cancer. that's the dumbest thing ever********
- on top of the fact that methane has been known to be in water for centuries. fuck off********
- its not just chemicals in the water you asshole. its also in the air around the refineries
BonSeff - in the end-as long as the positives outweigh the negatives its all good.********
- Ta FUCKING da...
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- a little comedy relief...********
- ahhhhhhhhhh handle I posed that long ago********
- its a good relief thats all.********
- a little comedy relief...
- ukit20
Mitt Romney relying heavily on small group of super-rich donors
A quarter of the money amassed by Romney’s campaign and an allied super PAC has come from just 41 people, each of whom has given more than $100,000, according to a Washington Post analysis of disclosure data. Nearly a dozen of the donors have contributed $1 million or more.
Some of Romney’s biggest supporters include executives at Bain Capital, his former firm; bankers at Goldman Sachs; and a hedge fund mogul who made billions betting on the housing crash.
- of course, what the fuck did you expect, did you check Obama's record lately?********
- So Alex, you don't like Goldman donating to Obama but Romneys gets 5 times as much, how do you feel about that?DrBombay
- of course, what the fuck did you expect, did you check Obama's record lately?
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Senate passes insider-trading bill
Now watch the God fearing, warmongering, Teabaggin' Republican imbeciles in Congress water down or kill the "(STOCK) Act" bill in order to protect their corporate welfare partners in crime that depend, demand, and expect: bailouts, tax breaks, tax loopholes and or subsidies for the Corporate America and for the elite wealthiest 1% !
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Al Gore’s Cruising with the Stars
http://news.investors.com/Articl…I draw your attention to an excellent editorial in Investor’s Business Daily, about the former Vice President’s plan to go on a star-studded cruise to Antarctica.
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Climate: Global warming alarmists won't give up their campaign to spread fear and backward thinking until an ice bridge stretches from New York to Paris. Science, though, says they should.
Al Gore, who invented global warming hysteria, has most recently been found planning a trip to Antarctica where he will surely find evidence that man is overheating the planet.
This clearly insecure man who so desperately needs an audience that approves of his world-saving efforts says he will be taking with him "a large number of civic and business leaders, activists and concerned citizens from many countries."
He expects them "to see firsthand and in real time how the climate crisis is unfolding in Antarctica."
For Gore's reading material on this trip, we suggest he look at some data released by Great Britain's Met Office. He would find himself meeting head-on a terribly inconvenient truth.
According to the data, there's been no warming for more than a decade. The global temperature that Gore and the rest of the alarmist tribe are so concerned about was about one full degree cooler (as measured in Celsius) last year than it was when temperatures peaked in 1997.
Of course 2012 could be warmer than 2011 just as 2010 was warmer than 2008 and 2009.
Or it could be cooler. Who knows?
Our space program thinks it does. NASA physicist David Hathaway believes the next solar period, called Cycle 25, "could be one of the weakest in centuries."
The Daily Mail, which, unlike America's mainstream media, isn't afraid to report news that goes against the global warming narrative, says the British government agrees with that assessment.
The Mail says a Met Office research paper notes that "there is a 92% chance that both Cycle 25 and those taking place in the following decades will be as weak as, or weaker than, the 'Dalton minimum' of 1790 to 1830."
But "it is also possible," continues the Mail, "that the new solar energy slump could be as deep as the 'Maunder minimum,'" which occurred "between 1645 and 1715 in the coldest part of the 'Little Ice Age' when, as well as the Thames frost fairs, the canals of Holland froze solid."
OK, so frozen Dutch waterways are not the same as an ice bridge linking Fifth Avenue to Avenue des Champs-Elysees.
But predictions that a man-made global warming catastrophe is imminent look foolish in light of the data and the solar cycle forecasts.
In fact, they've looked foolish for quite some time.
The warmer temperatures the alarmists were predicting decades ago have never arrived. Nearly five years back, Kevin Trenberth, a climate scientist who believes in global warming, had to admit that "none of the climate states in the models correspond even remotely to the current observed climate."
We have no models, but even without one we think we can safely predict that the alarmist community and its sphere of influence will continue to shrink.
- Fly me to the moon!utopian
- you got it wrong, you meant cruise me to Antarctica.********
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Holder: No cover-up in 'Fast and Furious,' no effort to hide details of the operation
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/…- what a lying piece of crap cunt********
- You loved Ashcroft and Gonzales though, remember? They were great AG'sDrBombay
- DrBombay's justification: I know we are, but so are you. What a crock.********
- what a lying piece of crap cunt
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Egyptian comedian sentenced to jail for offending Islam
http://worldnews.msnbc.msn.com/_…
One of the Arab world's best-known comedians was sentenced to three months in jail for offending Islam on Thursday, just weeks after Islamist parties won a majority in parliament.
A judge, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to reporters, told The Associated Press that Adel Imam was convicted in absentia of "defaming Islam." His whereabouts were unknown, the AP reported.
A lawyer with ties to Islamist groups, Asran Mansour, brought the case, judicial sources told The Guardian.
"I think the lawyer who filed the case against Imam is taking advantage of the current circumstances with Islamists gaining power in Egypt," Nabil Abdel Fattah, an analyst and researcher at al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies in Cairo, told the newspaper.
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Beginning of the end for Egypt, but you know. REVOLUTION and all that fun shit!!
- Obama's fault again!utopian
- who the fuck said that asshole? I post facts, you post BS.********
- I'll say it: Obama's fault.********
- utopian0
- shame, you'll not be able to post this during the general election, ain't no way Newt is winning the nod.********
- shame, you'll not be able to post this during the general election, ain't no way Newt is winning the nod.
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GM sold just 603 Volts - above its sales in January 2011, but far below GM's best-ever sales month in December, when GM sold 1,529 Volts.
http://www.detroitnews.com/artic…- 'I'm telling you guys, I recommend them" - BHO********
- do you have one?utopian
- No thanks, they blow up and catch homes on fire! Highly publicized: http://www.autoguide…********
- Obama's fault... umm scratch that... dems fault.********
- 'I'm telling you guys, I recommend them" - BHO
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The unemployment rate is at a 3 year low and the Dow is close to a three year high. Spin that shit, Alex..
- who the fuck are you talking to asshole? Obama is a complete failure. 8.3% still fucking sucks. Real rate is ~16%.********
- i'm talking to you, you sad, angry, pathetic chump.BonSeff
- how is it obama's fault investment banks ruined the economy with credit default swaps?BonSeff
- my god you are a fucking rube.BonSeff
- you're the ignorant moron, take a look at who supports Obama, you sheep.********
- maybe you've fucking missed it. Goldman Sachs, etc. http://www.opensecre…********
- not tell me he's not in bed with these fuckers... yeahhhhhhhhh... blind leading the blind.********
- Mitt Romney received 5 times the amount of donation from Goldman, but you have a massive double-standard so it won't make a diff.DrBombay
- won't matter to you.DrBombay
- Spin the numbers guy. Ever thought that the extended unemployment benefits are ending for individuals-thus not counted anymore?********
- counted anymore? Makes sense 2 year benefits running out... hmmm... dumb asses. think a bit buddy.********
- This could be said since the dawn of unemployment compensation.DrBombay
- thanks you for saying it then-idiot!********
- who the fuck are you talking to asshole? Obama is a complete failure. 8.3% still fucking sucks. Real rate is ~16%.
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yo, panacea, we all have internet connections and access to newspapers broh...
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Obama: Potential Supporters Sense Recovery ‘Still Hasn’t Gotten Done Yet’
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/poli…The president faces sagging popular support in key swing states such as North Carolina and Virginia, which he won narrowly in 2008 and where lingering economic malaise is complicating his bid to keep the states blue.
Obama narrowly carried North Carolina four years ago, but now 51 percent of voters disapprove of the president and 44 percent say he has made the economy worse, according to an Elon University poll. In Virginia, 52 percent of voters in a Quinnipiac University poll disapprove of Obama while 51 say he deserves no second term.
“This is going to be a close election and a very important one for the American people,” Obama said. “The thing I hope the most is that everyone is going to be paying close attention to the debate that takes place because it could determine not just what happens over the next four years, but what’ll happen over the next 20 or 30 years.”