Posts Made By: Jeffrey Counsil

david elosser said:

...wealth redistribution!

Paychecks from private business shrank to their smallest share of personal income in U.S. history during the first quarter of this year, a USA TODAY analysis of government data finds...At the same time, government-provided benefits -from Social Security, unemployment insurance, food stamps and other programs- rose to a record high during the first three months of 2010.

Finally! A policy success Obama can be proud of!

The trend is not sustainable, says University of Michigan economist Donald Grimes. Reason: The federal government depends on private wages to generate income taxes to pay for its ever-more-expensive programs. Government-generated income is taxed at lower rates or not at all, he says. "This is really important," Grimes says.

Well, shut my mouth! Who wudda ever figgered that!

http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/income/2010-05-24-income-shifts-from-private-sector_N.htm

David E

david elosser said:

It never amazes me how Congress's first and often only solution to any problem is to raise taxes, as if raising taxes ever solved any problem. Now, the quadruple tax increase on a barrel of oil to from 8 cents to 32 cents would mean no real impact at the pump: thousands of products are made from one barrel of oil that the money would be dispersed into. But does anyone really think that money would go into a "trust fund" just like, say, Social Security? That trust fund worked out really well, didn't it? Obama and his administration has been pounding the tables shouting that BP will pay for any and all damages as a result of the oil spill. Well, okay, but if they are going to pay for it just why do we need any tax for that purpose anyway? If you need any proof this money is just for a slush fund: "The U.S. Chamber of Commerce said the tax increase was hastily put together, without adequate study, to help pay for an unrelated bill. The tax increase was unveiled Thursday, without any congressional hearings to study its impact."
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9FTDV7O1&show_article=1

David E

david elosser said:

...you might as well wait until Hell freezes over.

"[Louisiana Governor] Jindal is still waiting for the federal government to provide millions of feet in boom and to approve an emergency permit for a state plan to dredge and build new barrier islands to keep the oil from reaching the marshes and wetlands...Jindal is so desperate for the islands, he's said he'll build them even if it sends him to jail."

"It is clear [the Obama Administration doesn't] have the resources we need to protect our coast," the Republican said. "We need more boom, more skimmers, more vacuums, more jack-up barges that are still in short supply. Let's be clear: Every day that this oil sits is one more day that more of our marsh dies."

http://abcnews.go.com/WN/bp-oil-spill-louisiana-governor-bobby-jindal-asks/story?id=10731680&page=2

David E

david elosser said:

...you might as well wait until Hell freezes over.

"[Louisiana Governor] Jindal is still waiting for the federal government to provide millions of feet in boom and to approve an emergency permit for a state plan to dredge and build new barrier islands to keep the oil from reaching the marshes and wetlands...Jindal is so desperate for the islands, he's said he'll build them even if it sends him to jail."

"It is clear [the Obama Administration doesn't] have the resources we need to protect our coast," the Republican said. "We need more boom, more skimmers, more vacuums, more jack-up barges that are still in short supply. Let's be clear: Every day that this oil sits is one more day that more of our marsh dies."

http://abcnews.go.com/WN/bp-oil-spill-louisiana-governor-bobby-jindal-asks/story?id=10731680&page=2

David E

david elosser said:

...you might as well wait until Hell freezes over.

"[Louisiana Governor] Jindal is still waiting for the federal government to provide millions of feet in boom and to approve an emergency permit for a state plan to dredge and build new barrier islands to keep the oil from reaching the marshes and wetlands...Jindal is so desperate for the islands, he's said he'll build them even if it sends him to jail."

"It is clear [the Obama Administration doesn't] have the resources we need to protect our coast," the Republican said. "We need more boom, more skimmers, more vacuums, more jack-up barges that are still in short supply. Let's be clear: Every day that this oil sits is one more day that more of our marsh dies."

http://abcnews.go.com/WN/bp-oil-spill-louisiana-governor-bobby-jindal-asks/story?id=10731680&page=2

David E

Rod Kaufman said:

If we go in, it'll be a massive air strike. We already know where the uranium is and everything that goes with it. The recon missions are likely keeping tabs on the revolutionary guard and monitoring response times from Iranian air defenses.
We're definitely sending a message:
http://www.jpost.com/IranianThreat/News/Article.aspx?id=176483

david elosser said:

"This scandal could be enormous," said Dick Morris, a former White House adviser to President Bill Clinton, on the Fox News Sean Hannity show last night. "It's Valerie Plame only 10 times bigger, because it's illegal and Joe Sestak is either lying or the White House committed a crime.

What is Dic Morris talking about? Well, The controversy revolves around an oft-repeated statement by Rep. Sestak, D-Pa., that he had been offered a job by the Obama administration in exchange for dropping out of the senatorial primary against Obama supporter Sen. Arlen Specter..."They tried to bribe me out of the race by offering me a job." [Sestak] said on Greta Van Susteran's "On the Record" program on the Fox News Channel.

Yeah, and if true that's a felony, and if Obama knew about it, or tried or is trying to cover it up, that looks to me like an impeachable offense. And Sestak may not be the only one: WND previously reported on the Sestak controvesy and a similar one concerning a Democrat Senate candidate in Colorado, Andrew Romanoff. The Denver Post said Jim Messina, Obama's deputy chief of staff and "a storied fixer in the White House political shop, suggested a place for Romanoff might be found in the administration and offered specific suggestions."

And this paragraph is pretty damning to the administration: The report said Romanoff turned down the overture, but it is "the kind of hardball tactics that have come to mark the White House's willingness to shape key races across the country, in this case trying to remove a threat to a vulnerable senator by presenting his opponent a choice of silver or lead."

This is serious stuff, and you can bet your last unemployment check (which may be coming very soon) that if Obama were a Republican president, Pelosi and the Democrats would at least be holding Congressional hearings if not drawing up impeachment papers even as we speak.

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=158617

David E

david elosser said:

What can I say, the article speaks for itself. This is the Obama administration at work! (Or, more accurately, NOT! :S )
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/two_more_census_workers_blow_the_OqY80N3DBTvL17VmxKKR0O

David E

david elosser said:

Why hasn't Obama thought of this? He's smart enough to take over out health care, financial system, and run huge car companies...


The suck-and-salvage technique was developed in desperation across the Arabian Gulf following a spill of mammoth proportions - 700 million gallons - that has until now gone unreported, as Saudi Arabia is a closed society, and its oil company, Saudi Aramco, remains owned by the House of Saud. But in 1993 and into '94, with four leaking tankers and two gushing wells, the royal family had an environmental disaster nearly sixty-five times the size of Exxon Valdez on its hands, and it desperately needed a solution.

Basically, empty oil tankers team up to suck up the oil, as much as they can off the top and just below the surface, process it, and dump the mostly clean water back into the sea.

...Pozzi and his team came up with the idea of having empty ships park near the Saudi spill and pull the oil off the water. This part of the operation went on for six months, with the mop-up operations lasting for several years more. Pozzi says that 85 percent of the spilled oil was recovered, and it is precisely this strategy that he wants to see deployed in the Gulf of Mexico.


Keep in mind that what supertankers typically do is they sit in the middle of the ocean waiting for all the traders to come up with the right price. When they feel that the price is right, the tankers that are full, they take off, and they can be anywhere in the world in a few days. Right now there are probably 25 supertankers, waiting for orders, full of oil. So all they got to do is come to Texas, in the Gulf, unload the oil, and then turn around and suck up all this other stuff and pump it onto shore into on-shore storage. It's not rocket science. It's so simple. It's a Robinson Crusoe fix, but it works.
http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/gulf-oil-spill-supertankers-051310

David E

Mike Strieber said:

"Barney Frank wants to see Rep. Djou's birth certificate."
http://washingtonscene.thehill.com/in-the-know/36-news/4309-barney-frank-wants-to-see-rep-djous-birth-certificate

Don't know if you saw this guy's swearing in ceremony and first day in congress on Monday. He was all smiles, almost in awe of the place, couldn't believe he was actually there. It was a great scene, he was certainly proud and so was his family. And now Frank comes out with this? Hilarious, and I give Barney credit for a good sense of humor. Of course that's the only credit I would ever give Barney.
Mike