Power the world

Laser fusion plant delivers the power of the stars

Sustainability

By Emma Woollacott

Friday, May 29, 2009 05:52

http://www.tgdaily.com/html_tmp/content-view-42639-178.html Livermore, CA - A fusion ignition facility which uses the power of lasers to turn tiny hydrogen pellets into thermonuclear energy is to open in California today. The device is expected to be the first to create more energy than it uses, releasing ten to 100 times more energy than the amount of laser energy required to initiate the fusion reaction. It is hoped that the $3.5 billion National Ignition Facility (NIF) will pave the way for commercial laser fusion power stations - potentially providing clean, almost limitless energy. The NIF's laser - the most powerful in the world - will aim 192 beams of light at an area half a millimeter square in a burst lasting five billionths of a second. The beams produce a shock wave that slams into a tiny pellet of frozen hydrogen. This generates a temperature of tens of millions degrees C and a pressure of many billions of atmospheres, replicating the conditions found within a star. The hydrogen atoms fuse, producing helium and energy. Image: All of the energy of NIF's 192 beams is directed inside a gold cylinder called a hohlraum, which is about the size of a dime. A tiny capsule inside the hohlraum contains atoms of deuterium (hydrogen with one neutron) and tritium (hydrogen with two neutrons) that fuel the ignition process. Credit is given to Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and the Department of Energy under whose auspices this work was performed. The facility will ramp up gradually to full power over the next year. There are hurdles: the hydrogen pellets cost around $40,000 each to produce because of the need to make them perfectly spherical. In addition, the laser can currently only fire half a dozen times each day, with the pellets requiring careful placement each time. The scientists hope to increase the rate to ten times a second by firing the hydrogen pellets into the fusion chamber. The NIF also has a major security application for the US, as it will be the first facility to be able to perform controlled experimental studies of thermonuclear burn. I am sure some left wing nut will find something wrong it. They always do! New Solar Cycle Prediction 05.29.2009 + Play Audio | + Download Audio | + Email to a friend | + Join mailing list May 29, 2009: An international panel of experts led by NOAA and sponsored by NASA has released a new prediction for the next solar cycle. Solar Cycle 24 will peak, they say, in May 2013 with a below-average number of sunspots. "If our prediction is correct, Solar Cycle 24 will have a peak sunspot number of 90, the lowest of any cycle since 1928 when Solar Cycle 16 peaked at 78," says panel chairman Doug Biesecker of the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center. Right: A solar flare observed in Dec. 2006 by NOAA's GOES-13 satellite. It is tempting to describe such a cycle as "weak" or "mild," but that could give the wrong impression. "Even a below-average cycle is capable of producing severe space weather," points out Biesecker. "The great geomagnetic storm of 1859, for instance, occurred during a solar cycle of about the same size we’re predicting for 2013." The 1859 storm--known as the "Carrington Event" after astronomer Richard Carrington who witnessed the instigating solar flare-- electrified transmission cables, set fires in telegraph offices, and produced Northern Lights so bright that people could read newspapers by their red and green glow. A recent report by the National Academy of Sciences found that if a similar storm occurred today, it could cause $1 to 2 trillion in damages to society's high-tech infrastructure and require four to ten years for complete recovery. For comparison, Hurricane Katrina caused "only" $80 to 125 billion in damage. Above: This plot of sunspot numbers shows the measured peak of the last solar cycle in blue and the predicted peak of the next solar cycle in red. Credit: NOAA/Space Weather Prediction Center. [more] The latest forecast revises an earlier prediction issued in 2007. At that time, a sharply divided panel believed solar minimum would come in March 2008 followed by either a strong solar maximum in 2011 or a weak solar maximum in 2012. Competing models gave different answers, and researchers were eager for the sun to reveal which was correct. "It turns out that none of our models were totally correct," says Dean Pesnell of the Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA's lead representative on the panel. "The sun is behaving in an unexpected and very interesting way." Researchers have known about the solar cycle since the mid-1800s. Graphs of sunspot numbers resemble a roller coaster, going up and down with an approximately 11-year period. At first glance, it looks like a regular pattern, but predicting the peaks and valleys has proven troublesome. Cycles vary in length from about 9 to 14 years. Some peaks are high, others low. The valleys are usually brief, lasting only a couple of years, but sometimes they stretch out much longer. In the 17th century the sun plunged into a 70-year period of spotlessness known as the Maunder Minimum that still baffles scientists. Above: Yearly-averaged sunspot numbers from 1610 to 2008. Researchers believe upcoming Solar Cycle 24 will be similar to the cycle that peaked in 1928, marked by a red arrow. Credit: NASA/MSFC Right now, the solar cycle is in a valley--the deepest of the past century. In 2008 and 2009, the sun set Space Age records for low sunspot counts, weak solar wind, and low solar irradiance. The sun has gone more than two years without a significant solar flare. "In our professional careers, we've never seen anything quite like it," says Pesnell. "Solar minimum has lasted far beyond the date we predicted in 2007." In recent months, however, the sun has begun to show timorous signs of life. Small sunspots and " proto-sunspots" are popping up with increasing frequency. Enormous currents of plasma on the sun’s surface ("zonal flows") are gaining strength and slowly drifting toward the sun’s equator. Radio astronomers have detected a tiny but significant uptick in solar radio emissions. All these things are precursors of an awakening Solar Cycle 24 and form the basis for the panel's new, almost unanimous forecast. According to the forecast, the sun should remain generally calm for at least another year. From a research point of view, that's good news because solar minimum has proven to be more interesting than anyone imagined. Low solar activity has a profound effect on Earth’s atmosphere, allowing it to cool and contract. Space junk accumulates in Earth orbit because there is less aerodynamic drag. The becalmed solar wind whips up fewer magnetic storms around Earth's poles. Cosmic rays that are normally pushed back by solar wind instead intrude on the near-Earth environment. There are other side-effects, too, that can be studied only so long as the sun remains quiet. Meanwhile, the sun pays little heed to human committees. There could be more surprises, panelists acknowledge, and more revisions to the forecast. "Go ahead and mark your calendar for May 2013," says Pesnell. "But use a pencil." http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/29may_noaaprediction.htm What will this do to the weather on Earth? Will we have Global cooling? I bet! What will the left wing nuts say than? 05.29.2009

As I was saying

I Have Seen the Future of the Automobile — and It Sucks.

It's a bleak future for car lovers for whom size does matter.

May 28, 2009 - by Stephen Green

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If your idea of a car is something bigger than a penalty box, or more powerful than a moped, or maybe slightly fun to drive, then I suggest you get yourself down to your local dealer (assuming he hasn’t already folded), pronto, and buy yourself something pretty. It might just be your last chance for a good long while.

President Obama put his signature to new CAFE rules last week, requiring that by 2016, automakers must meet fleet-wide gas mileage averages of 39 mpg for cars and 30 for trucks. This is easy enough to accomplish — build smaller vehicles with smaller engines. Although I can tell you how well that’s going to go over here in Colorado, where getting trapped behind a Prius (or an Aveo or any other wind-up toy car) on a steep incline means growing a full beard before cresting the hill.

Now imagine a Ford F-150 trying to make it up to the Eisenhower Tunnel with a full load of construction equipment and a two-liter four-banger under the hood. You’ll have facial growth like one of the ZZ Top guys before it’s all over, maybe even if you’re a girl.

If you think I’m exaggerating, think again. The anonymous “Mechanic,” writing for Edmunds, worries that the new CAFE standards

won’t save much fuel and won’t save the planet, but they will crush the life out of the car business. From here on out, cars are going to shrink in size, shrivel in power and grow more expensive.

With a goal of a corporate fleet average of 39 mpg for cars by 2016 model year it’s not just V8s that are dead, but V6s and decent-size fours. Of course all the SUVs and the Camaro, Mustang and Corvette as we know them are doomed, that’s obvious, but so are reasonably size minivans, midsize sedans like the Accord and Camry, and anything fun.

And if you have even any small interest in seeing what’s left of Detroit survive, now would be a good time to look on Obama’s works, ye mighty, and despair. Chrysler’s plan is to somehow, someday import FIAT’s small cars. GM has never competed well in the small-car segment, and Ford can’t even sell its well-regarded “Euro Focus” domestically at a profit.

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Stephen Green writes, broadcasts, and enjoys the occasional lovely adult beverage at the home he shares with his wife and son in Monument, Colorado.

Kliphnotes:

• As I have said in the past, if Obama was serious about reducing our dependence on foreign oil he would be drilling here in the USA. He is not serious.
• He is pandering to the Greenophobiacs.
• The average car on the road is 10 years old.
• You could start drill of oil in 4 years or less.
• The people in Alaska want to drill in ANWR, the people that live in ANWR want to drill.
• We should be drilling in the Outer Continental Shelf for Oil and off shore. And oil sands/shale.
• No new nuclear plants and no clean coal.
• All Obama is doing is kissing ass of his left wing base. The base that wants you to drive Mini Death Trap Cars. And hates anything oil, coal or nuclear.
• The US government is going to dictate what you can drive.
• And some people think that is just fine.
  
• The bobbleheads, what ever Obama says must be right. The Obamabots.
• Obama said: "We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times . . . and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK." It is coming true.
  
• This is just what Obama wanted, control of the auto industry. Now he can tell them what to build.
  
• Let me be the first(maybe) to say: Obama should be president for life. Because some of you can't think for yourself, Obama will think for you.
• California is going broke, the US is going broke, and all we do is spend more money. And nobody cares.
  

"Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?... George Orwell ... 1984

Here comes the tax man

Once Considered Unthinkable, U.S. Sales Tax Gets Fresh Look

With budget deficits soaring and President Obama pushing a trillion-dollar-plus expansion of health coverage, some Washington policymakers are taking a fresh look at a money-making idea long considered politically taboo: a national sales tax.

Common around the world, including in Europe, such a tax -- called a value-added tax, or VAT -- has not been seriously considered in the United States. But advocates say few other options can generate the kind of money the nation will need to avert fiscal calamity.

A VAT is a tax on the transfer of goods and services that ultimately is borne by the consumer. Highly visible, it would increase the cost of just about everything, from a carton of eggs to a visit with a lawyer. It is also hugely regressive, falling heavily on the poor. But VAT advocates say those negatives could be offset by using the proceeds to pay for health care for every American -- a tangible benefit that would be highly valuable to low-income families.

A VAT's Bottom Line

What would it cost? Emanuel argues in his book that a 10 percent VAT would pay for every American not entitled to Medicare or Medicaid to enroll in a health plan with no deductibles and minimal copayments. In his 2008 book, "100 Million Unnecessary Returns," Yale law professor Michael J. Graetz estimates that a VAT of 10 to 14 percent would raise enough money to exempt families earning less than $100,000 -- about 90 percent of households -- from the income tax and would lower rates for everyone else.

And in a paper published last month in the Virginia Tax Review, Burman suggests that a 25 percent VAT could do it all: Pay for health-care reform, balance the federal budget and exempt millions of families from the income tax while slashing the top rate to 25 percent. A gallon of milk would jump from $3.69 to $4.61, and a $5,000 bathroom renovation would suddenly cost $6,250, but the nation's debt would stabilize and everybody could see a doctor.

Most lawmakers are still looking for "a painless source of revenue" to overhaul the health-care system and dig the nation out of debt, Burman said.
"Who knows?" he added. "Maybe the tooth fairy will bring that to them."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/26/AR2009052602909_pf.html

Obama will have to raise taxes, one way or the other.
If it is not VAT it will be something else.
As I have been saying all along.

GM and some other auto makers will go out of business.

You want a VAT, get rid of the income tax.

I thought increasing the tax on the wealthy was going to pay for everything. What happened?
Just more Obama BS.

Beware of the “dead cat bounce.”

SCOTUS

She said with a smile.
This should get him the Hispanic vote.
I don't care if you are Democrat or Republican, judges should not legislate from the bench.

Judge Sonia Sotomayor is sparking fears among pro-abortion advocates on the left who fear that she may be a closeted pro-life advocate, according to The Los Angeles Times.

On gun control, one Sotomayor ruling suggests she believes that state governments have broad rights to limit the possession of weapons.

John McCain answer to a question: They are lifetime positions as well as the federal bench. There will be two maybe three vacancies.
This nomination should be based on the criteria of proven record of strictly adhering to the Constitution of the United States and
not legislating from the bench.


Speaking at Berkeley's Law School in 2001, Sotomayor asserted that "I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life."

Can you imagine if a white male said that " a white male
would be better than a black, or Latina person"
He would be ridiculed by the left and in the media.
But Sotomayor will get a pass.

Sotomayor's decision in the Ricci v. DeStefano case, is currently in front of the U.S. Supreme. Writing in the Washington Post, George Will provides a one paragraph précis of the case:

In 2003, the city [of New Haven, Connecticut] gave promotion exams--prepared by a firm specializing in employment tests, and approved, as federal law requires, by independent experts--to 118 candidates, 27 of them black. None of the blacks did well enough to qualify for the 15 immediately available promotions. After a rabble-rousing minister with close ties to the mayor disrupted meetings and warned of dire political consequences if the city promoted persons from the list generated by the exams, the city said: No one will be promoted. Sotomayor ruled against the firefighters, a decision that her colleague and fellow Clinton appointee Judge Jose Cabranes, writes The New Republic's Jeffery Rosen, denounced as containing "no reference whatsoever to the constitutional issues at the core of this case." (source)

But Obama wants her voted on soon.
The same Obama that voted against every GW Bush's nominee.
And even thought about a filibuster against Sam Alito.

BTW, did anyone notice N Korea claimed it had an underground nuclear test.
And launched an additional short-range missile from its east coast Tuesday night

And did anyone notice: TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday rejected a Western proposal for it to "freeze" its nuclear work in return for no new sanctions and ruled out any talks with major powers on the issue.
Iran has sent six warships to international waters, including the Gulf of Aden, to show its ability to confront any foreign threats, its naval commander said on Monday.

Let's see what Obama will do about this.
Maybe send them a threatening letter.
I see they take him seriously, NOT.
I'm sure Obama will some how blame Bush.
Maybe he will go on TV(again) and talk about it and himself.
His last speech he said "I" once every 33 seconds.
Now he can't vote 'present' like he did as a state senator, 130 times.
I still don't understand how someone with "no legislative accomplishments"
could become president.
This is what we get with a nation of zombies.
They fall for the slick talkers with few real facts.
Like, who and how are you going to pay for all of your social ideas?
He has no answers. Just more Debt, and people don't care.
Just Plain Stupid.

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Memorial Day

Let us remember the true meaning of Memorial Day.

It is to honor those who gave their lives for America and so you could be free.

Obama is a weakling

Remember this: Dick Cheney had his speech scheduled two week before Obama scheduled his.

Trying to Fix What Ain't Broke

President Obama, using his snottiest, most condescending voice said that:

"Decisions that were made over the last eight years established an ad hoc legal approach for fighting terrorism that was neither effective nor sustainable – a framework that failed to rely on our legal traditions and time-tested institutions; that failed to use our values as a compass," Obama said. "And that is why I took several steps upon taking office to better protect the American people."

Um, Barry, you can't bat any better than 1000, and, much as you loathe the reality, that's exactly what the Bush administration did following 9/11.
http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/197704.php

Was Obama trying to run out the clock?

By Jimmy Orr | 05.21.09

President Obama is running late today. He was expected to speak at 10:00am.

It’s not uncharacteristic of this administration to run late. But seeing that 28 minutes elapsed before Obama took the stage, you could make a case that the Obama team is trying to make it difficult on networks to carry former Vice President Cheney’s speech.

It’s politics. It’s a giant chess game…

Mr. Obama is so classy.

Kliphnotes:
Obama sounds like he is still on the campaign trail

• Obama never mentioned why he will not release the memos that showed the results of enhanced interrogation. WHY? Because they worked. He doesn't want the American people to know that. That would make him look bad and incompetent. What ever happened to the "transparency". But it's OK the release memos on enhanced interrogation, because that makes the US look bad, but not the results.
  
• He never did say when and what he is going to do with Gitmo.
• But he did criticize Bush 28 times in his speech.
• Obama has gone around the world apologizing for the US being a world power.
• He has never mentioned how many people the US has freed from tyranny.
  
• The US has freed more people than any other country, EVER!
• Obama sounds like he is embarrassed to be an American. And he wants to changed that.
• Obama is more worried about what Europe think of us than what is good for America.
• Obama never thinks that only in America can a black man become president. How many black presidents/PM has Europe had?
• Obama is a slick, long winded speaker. Did anyone notice his chin was up and out like, "in your face, don't defy me"?!
• Besides, just why does Obama want to close Gitmo? WHY?
• Who do you trust to keep America safe, Cheney and the CIA or Obama and the ACLU?
  
• Obama is making America weak!

"Who the hell is this Nancy Pelosi?" asked Pinocchio.

More BS

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama’s new fuel and emission standards for cars and trucks will save billions of barrels of oil but are expected to cost consumers an extra $1,300 per vehicle by the time the plan is complete in 2016.

Green groups applauded the administration announcement as a significant step toward addressing global warming and achieving energy independence. The Union of Concerned Scientists said it expects the plan to slash the U.S.'s dependence on oil by about 1.4 million barrels a day by 2020, almost as much as daily imports from Saudi Arabia.

Kliphnotes:
What a crock of S***!
If they wanted "energy independence" they would be drilling for oil here. No clean Coal.
No new Nuclear power plants.
No oil from sands/ shale.
No off shore/Outer Continental Shelf drilling.

No, the Green people don't want that.
They are the party of "NO" when it comes to oil.

They don't want you driving your SUV's and pickups.
They want you driving Mini Death Trap Cars.
They want the government telling you what to drive.
The next step will be a gas tax increase.
They will say gas is too cheap. Mark my word.

Anything they can tax they will.
Remember they have to pay for all of Obama's
social programs some way.
And taxing EVERYONE is the only way to pay for his programs.

Credit Card Industry Aims to Profit From Sterling Payers

By ANDREW MARTIN

May 19, 2009

Credit cards have long been a very good deal for people who pay their bills on time and in full. Even as card companies imposed punitive fees and penalties on those late with their payments, the best customers racked up cash-back rewards, frequent-flier miles and other perks in recent years.

Now Congress is moving to limit the penalties on riskier borrowers, who have become a prime source of billions of dollars in fee revenue for the industry. And to make up for lost income, the card companies are going after those people with sterling credit.

Banks are expected to look at reviving annual fees, curtailing cash-back and other rewards programs and charging interest immediately on a purchase instead of allowing a grace period of weeks, according to bank officials and trade groups…

http://sweetness-light.com/archive/credit-cards-to-stick-good-customers

This is ME!

Just stick it to the good people.

Isn't Socialism great? NOT!

Obama was wrong about the surge.
And his choice of a Vice President was not too stellar either.
Is there a worse VP, ........ EVER?

Short Memory.

Some Imaginary Friends

While at a party,
A friend asked me how my 401k was doing. I said not as bad as it could have been. I lost about 10%.
She said hers was way down. I said I have mine now mostly in cash and bonds now.
My thought was, I treated my investments like it was my only income.
She treated her investments like it was her supplemental income.
I watched mine a lot closer.

She said some politician took his eye off the ball.
I said "Barney" Frank and Christopher Dodd certainly did.
As a matter of fact Frank said last July that Fanny Mae going forward was in good shape.
She said No! George Bush.
I said Bush tried no fewer than 17 times, by White House count, to raise the issue of Fannie-Freddie reform.
But the Democrats had control of Congress the last two years.
I still believe Bush should have been more forceful.

Then she said if we didn't have that illegal war and not invaded another country we could have saved billions of dollars.
We could have spent it on national health care and roads and such things.
I said it was bad intelligence.
She said it was a willingness to ignore more Intel.
I said the idea was to stop the spread of Communism in the region.
It is criminal that we left after more than over 58,000 Americans died in Vietnam.
She said NO! I'm talking about Iraq and Bush's willingness to ignore more Intel.
I said do you know that Iraq was known to be working with terrorist?
And that many other countries said Iraq had WMD's not just the US.

She said do I think it is right for a president who was never in the military to send troops to war?
I said do you mean Obama sending more troops to Afghanistan or do you mean Bill Clinton sending troops
to Bosnia, or perhaps FDR sending troops overseas in WW2.
She NO! I mean Bush sending troops to Iraq. I said Bush was in the Air National Guard.

Then she said how about a president holding people against their will without trial.
I said you must be talking about FDR interning the American citizens of Japanese accessory during World War 2.
Maybe you mean Abe Lincoln suspending Habeas corpus during the civil war. As did FDR during WW2.
She said no, Bush holding prisoners at Guantanamo Bay with out trial.
I said they are enemy combatants and not US citizens.
And some that have been released have gone back to fighting against the US.
And no other country wants them.
And we don't have any place in the US to put them.
The US did consider putting them at the Super Max in Colorado but the ACLU said that was worse the Gitmo.
Nobody wants them in their back yard.
The ACLU wants them treated to milk and cookies.
Than put them on US soil so the ACLU will send their lawyers in, treat them like US citizens and sue the US.
I said why does the ACLU hate the US so much? She did not have an answer.

She then said Bush ordered the Gitmo prisoners tortured.
I said I am not sure that waterboarding is torture.
It sounds more like a fraternity initiation, hazing.
But it is not torture compared to what the Japanese did during WW2. And it is not torture compared to what the North Vietnamese did to the American during the Vietnam war.
Besides it was right after 9-11 and thoughts of people jumping out of the 80Th floor windows, to their
death was still fresh in peoples minds.
Can you still hear the "thump" from people landing?
If it meant saving thousands of American lives what would you do?
She said nothing.
I said would you waterboard someone if it meant it would save your sons life?
She said "I'm not sure". I said if you are his mother you would not hesitate.
And you would do a lot more than just waterboarding.
I said torture to me is having to listen to Nancy Pelosi lie.
She didn't know what to say.

Then she changed the subject to Social Security, saying it was going broke and no one has done anything about it.
I said Bush tried to have part of your Social Security invested but couldn't get through Congress.
Even with a Republican majority, because it was not filibuster proof.
She said with the stock market down people would have lost almost everything.
I said it would only be a small percentage of your Social Security and that could be
invested in government bonds and cash. The Democrats bashed Bush about it.
But the Government is of thinking doing something similar to Bush's idea but with your 401K.
And it will get a free pass because the Democrats control everything.
Don't be surprised if they cut benefits and/or increase taxes and the age you can collect.
Maybe even a means test.
Wait until you see what they do with Medicare.

She mentioned GM going broke.
I said no one had any foresight when they allowed the foreign car maker to build here.
GM would not be going broke if it wasn't for the financial market downturn last year.
And GM has more retirees than workers.
It is not GM's fault they have been building cars
and putting people to work for almost 100 years.
Whereas the imports have been here 20 years or less.
And people don't need new cars as often as they used to.
The average age of a car on the road is ten years old.
The auto makers are making cars so well they may put them self out of work.
That the import car makers got tax breaks worth hundreds of millions of US dollars while GM got tax increases.
She said the UAW is at fault.
I said the hourly wage is about the same with GM and the imports.
But some of the benefits are better for GM workers.
[BTW I was not a member of the UAW.
I was in a skilled trades union.
I had to have eight years experience to get a job with GM.]
I don't agree with some of the UAW's shop rules and benefits e.g. Jobs banks.
But that was only a part of the problem.
Remember GM also signed the contract.
Everything was stacked against GM.
I said did you ever notice Liberals mostly drive foreign cars.

She said the stimulus plan will get the economy going.
I said the economy will take off if we get cost under control.
It is not as bad as it has been in the past.
Do you remember when unemployment was 10% and interest was 10%
and inflation was high. Back in the late 1970's.
Now we have low inflation, low interest and unemployment at 8.9%.
But if we have to keep printing money to pay the bills inflation may come back.
And what you don't want is high inflation.
I have not seen a stimulus check, has anyone?
If it was up to me I would give an across the board tax cut.
She said 95% of the people will see a tax cut.
I said I have not seen it yet.
And when in the past when we had high income tax on the wealthy(85%) the country was deep in dept.
And remember it was Obama who told ABC's Charlie Gibson that "I would look at raising the capital-gains tax for purposes of fairness," even if hiking the tax would ultimately result in shrinking federal revenues.
Just remember Marx’s Proposal Number Five: government control of capital.
This is not the same as the great depression. We now have unemployment, food stamps, Social Security and many
other things in place that we didn't have in the 1930's.
The Federal Reserve Act of 1913 gave the Federal Reserve responsibility for setting monetary policy.
It is to say laissez-faire capitalism never existed.

So thing's are not as bad as some would have you think.
These same people that have been saying for over two years how bad things are, maybe their wish came true.
Now all they do is complain. But because they are in power it will get better.
It would have gotten better regardless who is in power. But they won't tell you that.

I think at this point it was hurting her head to think.
And she walked away.

I wanted to ask her about meeting with Iran with "no preconditions" and why it hasn't happened.
And Afghanistan and did she think it will be Obama's Vietnam?
How Obama kept talking about Afghanistan like he was some kind of military genius.
Now not only does he have Afghanistan to worry about he has Pakistan also. And Iraq is getting worse as troops pull out.

And what about N Korea and China?
And why it seems like every country in Africa has problems.
And what she thought about Obama's opposing the release of prisoner abuse
photographs and support for indefinite detention for some detainees.

And did she think the next Supreme Court nominee will be a pro abortion woman?

And did she think it was right that Obama gets a pass on the gay marriage
issue but Miss California, Carrie Prejean does not?

So many more questions so little time.

Many things don't have simple answers.
But that is what she was looking for.

But I never got the chance to ask her more.
She was obviously left leaning.
I think she was a professional woman, of some type.

She didn't seem to be well informed on world affairs.

Class Act...........NOT !!

Just tell the truth

ACLU not happy

Bottom line is: why does the ACLU want the photos released?
Is just to make the military look bad?

Who are they going to sue now?

"The decision to suppress the photos is profoundly inconsistent with the promise of transparency that President Obama has made time after time," ACLU lawyer Jameel Jaffer said…

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Yucca Mountain

The Administration proposes to eliminate the Yucca Mountain repository program. The Budget provides $196.8 million for the Department of Energy (DOE) to explore alternatives for nuclear waste disposal and to continue participation in the repository license proceeding before the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2010/assets/trs.pdf

Kliphnote: That means no new nuclear power plants.

No oil drilling off shore or the Outer Continental Shelf.
No clean coal. We have about maxed out the hydro dams.
As we take more hydro dams off line every year.

You can build all the wind and solar power you want and
you would be lucky to get 5% of your power.

Coal is half of our electricity.

France nuclear is 80% of their electricity.

We will be importing oil for ever.
All talk no action. WEAK!

Saul Alinsky's model that Barack Obama used so successfully

Sick people

Any mother who kills their own baby deserves to be put to death. I do not care how deranged she is, how stressed out she may be, or how much pain she may be in from the aftermath of labor. Murder is murder, and murdering an infant is especially horrible.

Of course, leave it to a rabid pro-abortionist like Jessica Ferrar to see otherwise. She’s a Texas state representative, recently honored by Planned Parenthood and the proud owner of a 100% NARAL approval rating. She’s currently trying to force through a bill that would make Catholic hospitals be required to dispense the morning-after pill. Her latest bright idea? To decriminalize infanticide. Introducing Texas HB 3318, the first of its kind in the entire country, known as “the infanticide bill”. It defines infanticide as:

A person commits an offense if the person wilfully by an act or omission causes the death of a child to whom the person gave birth within the 12-month period preceding the child’s death

The bill says that infanticide should not be prosecuted as murder, though, as long as:

… at the time of the act or omission, the person’s judgment was impaired as a result of the effects of giving birth or the effects of lactation following the birth.

Infanticide would become a felony, punishable by no more than two years in prison, with a minimum of 180 days, and/or a fine of no more than $10,000.

Are you sick to your stomach yet?

This bill was passed by the Texas State Criminal Jurisprudence Committee 7 to 1 on April 28th. It’s currently on the way to the Calendars Committee.

Right now, murder of a child under the age of six in the state if Texas is capital murder. And this evil woman, Jessica Ferrar (who, by the way, calls herself a Catholic — yeah right), wants the punishment for murdering an infant to be little more than a slap on the wrist. And why? Because if the child is under a year old, they’re worth less than a child aged 1 - 6?

Read the rest here: http://www.cassyfiano.com/2009/05/texas-infanticide-bill-would-decriminalize-murdering-an-infant

Deep regret, now!

Up to 100 civilians, including women and children, are reported to have been killed in Afghanistan in potentially the single deadliest US airstrike since 2001. The news overshadowed a crucial first summit between the Afghan President and Barack Obama in Washington yesterday.

The one-hour bombardment of two villages in western Afghanistan near Iran, aimed at Taleban militants fighting Afghan troops, left “dozens” of bodies scattered amid the rubble, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State, sitting next to President Karzai during a joint press conference in Washington, expressed “deep regret” for the bombings and announced a joint US-Afghan investigation.

It's a little different now, isn't it. Unbelievable!

20,000 new government employees.

Pentagon to create 20,000 jobs to manage arms buys

Wed May 6, 2009 4:26pm EDT

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By Jim Wolf

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's Defense Department plans to create 20,000 new government jobs to help revise how it buys more than $100 billion of weapons each year, the Pentagon's No. 2 official told Congress.

The Pentagon also plans to tie contract fees more closely to performance and make deals spanning two years, or more, only when "real, substantial" savings result to taxpayers, Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynn told the House of Representatives Armhttp://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSTRE54545N20090506?feedType=RSS&feedName=politicsNews&rpc=22&sp=trueed Services Committee on Wednesday.

Kliphnote: What happened to a leaner government?
You don't do that by hiring 20,000 employees.
Unless that was your plan from the get go.
And is to make government bigger.

Homophobic ? You decide.

Topless Photos of Homophobic Christian Beauty Contestant

Iowahawk's exclusive topless photos of infamous homophobic hatemonger who has the audacity to publicly oppose gay marriage and who hypocritically professes to be a Christian.

Because of the hypocrisy!

Hypocrisy!!!

Massive natural-gas discovery

• APRIL 30, 2009

U.S. Gas Fields Go From Bust to Boom

By BEN CASSELMAN

CADDO PARISH, La. -- A massive natural-gas discovery here in northern Louisiana heralds a big shift in the nation's energy landscape. After an era of declining production, the U.S. is now swimming in natural gas.

Even conservative estimates suggest the Louisiana discovery -- known as the Haynesville Shale, for the dense rock formation that contains the gas -- could hold some 200 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. That's the equivalent of 33 billion barrels of oil, or 18 years' worth of current U.S. oil production. Some industry executives think the field could be several times that size.

"There's no dry hole here," says Joan Dunlap, vice president of Petrohawk Energy Corp., standing beside a drilling rig near a former Shreveport amusement park.

From Rock to Gas

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Huge new fields also have been found in Texas, Arkansas and Pennsylvania. One industry-backed study estimates the U.S. has more than 2,200 trillion cubic feet of gas waiting to be pumped, enough to satisfy nearly 100 years of current U.S. natural-gas demand.

Read the rest of the story here: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124104549891270585.html#printMode

The little green people have to be PO'd about this.