I say yes, you say no, OR People are Strange

Reading through these posts I have one thing to say.  I don't believe I have run across ONE racist posting on this thread.  If we can't provide links to articles with information how a university's standards changed, then shame on us for assuming that the person who posted something controversial is a racist or do not care about people, young or poor.

I DON'T give a rat's arse what color of skin the leader of our country has.  I just want him to lead!  He has no answers.  Again, his deficit commission gave him answers, but nothing was debated...nada...waste of time and money!  Old people were scared into thinking their livelihood, Social Security, was going to be somehow decreased or taken away.  So, end of any debate.  We've heard Obama say that as long as HE'S president the poor and elderly will not be harmed because the rich are taking too much from this country without giving back, and I say WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT!!? Who gives you jobs...besides the government? 

You see on the right hand side of the screen where it says...tax-deductible donation today....that may be another way to fund our deficit.  I'm sure charities will be relieved.  And as I've heard over and over...take in  more taxes and we'll end up with MORE SPENDING instead of being put toward lowering our deficit.    That scares the crappola out of me!

Trickle down doesn't work. It didn't work with the Great Communicator and it doesn't work today.           Where are the jobs the Tea Party promised would come with extending thr tax cutd for the wealthy???

It's been a year since the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.  The moratorium on drilling has finally been lifted, but there are still many fewer wells permitted than there were a year ago.  In the meantime, the price of gasoline has soared.  It is now over $4 per gallon in most of the country, and today it was announced that it is likely to hit $6 a gallon by summer.  The war in Libya (that Obama got us involved in while not getting us out of either Iraq or Afghanistan) is exacerbating the situation. 

Why are we curtailing domestic oil production at a time when the worldwide price for oil is setting new records and Obama is giving money to Brazil to develop their oil reserves and promising that the US will be their best customer?

http://www.qando.net/?p=10561

That article answers CherryIH's question

"Where are the jobs the Tea Party promised would come with extending thr tax cutd for the wealthy???"

Our government is financing them in Brazil !!!!!!

To keep oil prices reasonable they need to take it off the stock market.  But they won't do that because too many politicians (on all sides) make a fortune oil stocks.  

Well, what is hitting me hard is the terrible rise in food prices. I mean, my usual once a week grocery shop has gone from maybe 65.00 to over 120!! That is almost double. It can't be just from rising fuel prices.

Actually there are a bunch of reasons why groceries are higher (my bill has risen about 12% over the last few months).  Fuel prices are one reason (tractors and other farm equipment use gasoline, and delivering the goods to the stores is -- unfortunately -- mostly done by trucks).  But global weather has also been a big factor.  Fires in Russia and droughts in Australia have severely depressed the wheat supplies, so bread and so many other products depending on wheat are much higher.  Weather and pests have been a big factor in coffee production.  Political unrest in northwest Africa is jeopardizing cocoa bean harvesting.

It seems to be the "perfect storm" -- so many contributing factors.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/braziloil.asp

Sorry, I still haven't mastered the hot link trick.  Maybe someone else can.  Thanks!

There's more in this article, but I won't bother to engage any further on this topic because everything the right says about the way Obama is handling this crisis (yep, I think it's a crisis), the left continues to support this guy's obscene goals for his energy policy. 

Medigal, have you seen this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlTxGHn4sH4

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http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=566719&p=2

Yet in his alleged quest for "secure-energy supplies," he refuses to develop oil and natural gas resources in U.S. waters. His administration has locked up areas in the West where oil shale reserves are estimated to be triple Saudi Arabia's reserves of crude. His administration is even stalling on plans to build a pipeline to deliver oil from Canada's tar sands to the U.S. market.

That project would build a 1,661-mile pipeline from the tar sands of Alberta to U.S. refineries near Houston. It would create 13,000 "shovel-ready" jobs and provide 500,000 more barrels of oil per day from an ally.

Yet it's now being held up by the State Department because it crosses an international border, on the grounds that it needs further environmental review. Shipping oil by tanker from Brazil is safer and more secure?

If Brazil had copied our current energy policy, it wouldn't have discovered in December 2007 the Tupi field, estimated to contain 5 billion to 8 billon barrels of crude, or its Carioca offshore oilfield that may hold up to 33 billion barrels.

Haroldo Lima, head of Brazil's National Oil Agency, estimates that Carioca might hold as much as five times the reserves of Tupi. Somehow the Brazilians aren't too worried about oil spoiling the pristine beaches of nearby Sao Paulo or Rio de Janeiro in the tourist season.

PatMom, the WSJ Online opinion (not news) article you linked to is from August 2009.

The Yahoo News link is to an opinion essay by Mark Whittington, a self-published novelist.

Medigal ... did you notice that the video was from January 2008? 

Agree with him or not ... he was being honest.  Telling people that electric rates would go up because of the costs involved in retrofitting power plants ... but that he believed it would benefit the economy in the long term.  He also acknowledged that if the American people could not be persuaded that it was necessary it would not happen. 

Honesty is obviously not the best policy to get things done.  We seem to prefer the 'don't worry ... be happy' approach.  And then get blindsided later with the consequences.   

White:  No I didn't notice the date.  I have heard so many talks from Obama that I can't keep up with when he is doing what.  If it was obvious 3 years ago people didn't want anything that would raise gas prices then why didn't he listen to the voice of the people and find other means rather than go with raising gas?  I just don't understand the way he and his cohorts think. 

And from the President's weekly address today:

"...But there are a few things we can do.  This includes safe and responsible production of oil at home, which we are pursuing.  In fact, last year, American oil production reached its highest level since 2003. ..."

Full transcript:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/04/23/weekly-address-instead-subsidizing-yesterdays-energy-sources-we-need-inv 

Or video if you prefer:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/04/23/weekly-address-stopping-oil-market-fraud-beginning-clean-energy-future 

I always enjoy reading the lively debates on this thread but have trouble catching up with the little time I have. I thought the following was noteworthy, although you may have already heard about it. 

Michael Douglas' cancer was diagnosed in our good old health system in Canada after being given a clean bill of health elsewhere. He and his wife are hosting fundraising events in gratitude. It makes us Canadians feel very grateful for our system.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/michael-douglass-cancer-diagnosed-canada-now-hes-helping-20110418-123032-406.html

Painterly, that's a nice article.  I especially like that Douglas and his wife Catherine Zeta-Jones are auctioning off a golf outing with them in addition to other fundraising efforts.

E, whoever these "Caps" are if they have made you happy I'm happy for you.