Post Scripts

Posted by Tina

The people need oil as an interim source of fuel until viable alternatives can act as a replacement. America needs to free herself of dependence on hostile foreign sources of oil. Oil companies, for their part, have been willing to bend over backwards to accommodate the concerns expressed by environmentalists. Id like to offer kudos to the green groups that recently made an agreement with Plains Exploration & Production Co. The company was hoping to drill off the coast of Santa Barbara but now politicians in California and Washington are set to undermine the plan:

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Posted by Tina

Theres a certain danger in making extreme promises during a campaign…

Loopholes, Loopholes, Everywhere!

** Republican opposition to Eric Holder faded away Wednesday after the attorney general designate gave private assurances that he did not “intend” to target CIA officers who acted in “good faith” when conducting harsh interrogations of terror suspects. But Holder’s assurances, offered to GOP Sen. Christopher Bond, were carefully qualifiedand left the door open for him to approve expanded Justice Department inquiries into agency interrogations once he takes office, according to White House and congressional aides. Newsweek **

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From Politico.com, also featured on the Tom Sullivan radio show….

Even as President Barack Obama traveled down Pennsylvania Avenue on Tuesday after his swearing-in, the Dow Jones Industrial Average had fallen more than 300 points on Wall Street.

If his $825 billion economic stimulus plan is not successful, economists and investors warn that a stock market slide could be more like a 4,000-point stock market crash.

And Americans have vastly more to worry about than just that.

If the stimulus doesnt work and I dont think it will we will never have world leader empire status again, says Lynn Tilton, chief executive officer of the $6 billion private equity fund Patriarch Partners in New York.

We will lose our global position to India and China. People will lose jobs and homes, and there will be tremendous suffering, she added.

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by Jack Lee

Did you hear that an applicant for a bikini clad barmaid job at a New York City eatery says managers all discriminated against her because they said they couldn’t understand her due to her heavy “Latin accent.” She had applied repeatedly and been turned down repeatedly, even though others got hired.

Her lawyer says it’s 100% illegal for the restaurant to refuse to hire her over her accent!

Her lawsuit says one manager told her that her “Latin accent” would ruin his business. What do you want to bet what was really said was closer to this: “If customers can’t understand you it would not be good for business”.

Don’t you think that people in America should speak English well enough to be understood when it is essential to customers getting their orders right? This is a matter of competence, not racial discrimination.

Posted by Tina

President Obama spoke to the Middle East on Al Arabiya on Tuesday. His purpose to re-establish the relationship we had twenty to thirty years ago. As Max Boot reported in Commentary, a little math takes us back to the period between 1979 and 1989:

20 or 30 Years Ago? by Max Boot Commentary Magazine

What was happening in relations between America and the Muslim world back then? Not relying on memory alone, I consulted Bernard Gruns reference book, The Timetables of History. *** It turns out that in 1989 U.S. fighters shot down two Libyan jets over the Gulf of Sidra. The last Soviet troops left Afghanistan, creating a vacuum that would eventually be filled by the Taliban. Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa calling for Salman Rushdies death for blasphemy. Hundreds died in Lebanons long-running civil war while Hezbollah militants were torturing to death U.S. Marine Colonel William Rich Higgins, who had been kidnapped the previous year while serving as a UN peacekeeper in Lebanon. **

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Posted by Tina

Dick Morris has come up with a very good idea for the GOP…I wonder if anyone’s listening. Be smart…follow the link and learn a thing or two about the stimulus bill and what it will mean to all Americans and this one thing the GOP could do to protect our free enterprise system.

“GOP, push free enterprise,” by Dick Morris – The Hill

** In the name of economic stimulus, it not only has every item any liberal ever asked of Santa Claus on Christmas eve, it also contains the seeds of a permanent shift toward a European-style socialist democracy. Its dramatic exemption of more than half of Americans from paying federal income taxes (it is now about one-third who dont pay them) and its generosity in awarding this voting majority a welfare check called a refundable tax credit moves the politics of taxation sharply to the left. **
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Submitted by Informed Lawyer

Even Charles Dickens Has Been Outdone! ITSSD Journal on Energy Security

In the novel Great Expectations, written in 1860 by Charles Dickens, there is an underlying theme of disillusionment, but it is not a melancholy book. The main character, named Pip, has many “great expectations” in his life, but over the course of time these illusions are slowly shattered.”

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If you tax productivity – you get less of it.

Tom McClintock

From the Economist Magazine

RIGHT and left, Americans and Europeans, stockmarket investors and anti-globalisation campaigners all share one belief: top managers pay themselves too much. The evidence seems to bear them out. For almost half a century the ratio of top executives’ pay to median earnings was as smooth as a boardroom table. Then, starting in America in the 1980s and a few years later elsewhere, this ratio began to increase before taking off exponentially and peaking around the turn of the millennium (see chart 1). At that point the worker on an American shop floor was earning in a year roughly what his boss on the top floor took home each evening.

Most people think they know what lay behind this. Greedy chief executives, abetted by weak, sycophantic boards, gorged themselves at the expense of saversmore often than not the very pension and mutual-fund investors who, as workers, had seen their salaries and benefit packages fail to grow.