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Got Gas?
Author: TriSec    Date: 05/28/2011 10:35:50

Good Morning!

I've got to buy gas today. Thankfully, the price has dropped by about 15 cents and is back down under $4/gallon in these parts. But was it the market, or the oil companies?

I've got a pet theory about that. Think back a while. Do you remember $3 gas? how about $2 or even $1?
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3 comments (Latest Comment: 05/28/2011 16:21:50 by trojanrabbit)

Friday, Finally.
Author: Raine    Date: 05/27/2011 12:40:06

It's been a personally challenging week and thankfully, it's Friday on a holiday weekend!

So, in light of that, let's just have a free and easy blog.

Have a wonderful weekend.

and
Raine
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54 comments (Latest Comment: 05/28/2011 03:57:20 by Will in Chicago)

Bad Manners
Author: BobR    Date: 2011-05-26 10:30:46

Sometimes it seems that the only behavior more crass than TV sitcoms is that of our elected officials. Discussions of policy and plans for our nations future start of with vague generalities and end up with pointed insults and namecalling of opponents. The saying goes that "patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel"; it seems that too often our elected officials prove that to be true. Sometimes, they leave out the patriotism part altogether.
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36 comments (Latest Comment: 05/27/2011 02:22:52 by Raine)

Is the messsage recieved?
Author: Raine    Date: 05/25/2011 12:45:34

Yesterday, the Dems won a seat in the House of Representatives, NY-26. It was the seat vacated by Representative Chris Lee, also known as the shirtless Craigslist guy. It should be noted that this is a heavily Republican-leaning district and has only had 3 or 4 Democrats representing it since the 1870s

Is this a referendum on the Paul Ryan Medicare plan?
With 75% of precincts reporting, Democrat Kathy Hochul was leading Republican Jane Corwin 48% to 42%, with the tea party candidate Jack Davis getting 8%, and news outlets were calling the race for the Democrat.
Most analysts say so.Many people believe that this is backlash. People LIKE Medicare regardless of political affiliation Just don't tell the GOP that.
"This race is about the fact that it's a three-way race," Cantor told reporters. "I do not think it can be seen as a signal as to the role of the budget reforms that we have proposed, including Medicare."

Republicans could take some solace from the fact that it was a three-way race, making it a more ambiguous indicator than a pure head-to-head contest.

But it couldn’t be anything other than unsettling for Republicans to lose what had been a GOP seat since Jack Kemp held it in the 1970s.

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45 comments (Latest Comment: 05/25/2011 19:56:22 by TriSec)

Ask a Vet
Author: TriSec    Date: 05/24/2011 10:37:12

Good Morning.

Today is our 2,988th day in Iraq, and our 3,504th day in Afghanistan.

We'll start this morning as we always do; with the latest casualty figures from our ongoing wars, courtesy of Antiwar.com:

American Deaths
Since war began (3/19/03): 4454
Since "Mission Accomplished" (5/1/03) 4313
Since Handover (6/29/04): 3595
Since Obama Inauguration (1/20/09): 226
Since Operation New Dawn: 36

Other Coalition Troops - Iraq: 318
US Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 1,582
Other Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 887
Contractor Employee Deaths - Iraq: 1,487
Journalists - Iraq: 348
Academics Killed - Iraq: 448

We find this morning's Cost of War passing through:

$ 1, 198, 818, 250, 000 .00

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40 comments (Latest Comment: 05/24/2011 20:58:30 by livingonli)

Environmental Wrap-up
Author: BobR    Date: 05/23/2011 12:44:27

The environment is one of those issues near and dear to our hearts here at Four Freedoms Blog, and with several environment-related news stories all breaking this morning, I thought I would give a quick look-see at them, starting with the most distressing...
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37 comments (Latest Comment: 05/24/2011 03:15:42 by Raine)

Goodbye World!
Author: velveeta jones    Date: 05/22/2011 15:27:31

Good Morning bloggers! At least to those of you who remain upon this Earth. You know who you are. Since there is no dispute that Yours Truly will be Raptured to Heaven on this day (Saturday May 21, 2011) I am hereby writing my obit.

Enjoy. I know I did.
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8 comments (Latest Comment: 05/23/2011 06:27:29 by livingonli)

Pass on what you have learned
Author: TriSec    Date: 05/21/2011 13:30:13

Good Morning!

It's been a whirlwind week...after all of my training, the hard work now begins.

But I'll take a step back first and try to explain what has just happened to a group of volunteers. (Remember that - the 'volunteer' part is important.)

Back in April, 45 candidates and a staff of 16 trooped out to a place called Camp Norse in Kingston, MA. Even though we were all adult leaders of various experience, we started at the beginning. Each of us was assigned to a Cub Scout Den, and with our Den Chiefs, we spent the morning in various instruction and activity.

At lunch, we had our "Blue & Gold Banquet" and were graduated to Gilwell Troop 1, and I became a member of the Bear Patrol. Somehow, I managed to get myself elected first day Patrol Leader.
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5 comments (Latest Comment: 05/22/2011 14:22:08 by BobR)

Behaving Badly
Author: Raine    Date: 05/20/2011 13:05:47

Why do people support such bad behavior? I'm not talking about sexual infidelity from politicians, I am talking about politicians that block government from creating programs that genuinely help people. Addicting Info.org has a partial (from January) listing bills the GOP have blocked or attempted to :

Tax on Companies that ship jobs overseas
Political Ad disclosure bill
Subpoena Power for the Committee investigating the BP Oil Spill
The Small Business Jobs Act
The DREAM Act
Repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”


If you go over to the link, you will see how partial a list this really is. Yesterday I mentioned how Eric Cantor promised Oil companies that the GOP would block the Federal Financial Regulations set forth in the Dodd - Frank act, an act that has not even begun to take place yet. They are trying to dismantle Medicare, increase tax breaks for Corporations, bust labor... They rarely mention our troops and what they want to do to help them and our veterans.
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55 comments (Latest Comment: 05/20/2011 20:15:15 by Raine)

Gas-holes
Author: BobR    Date: 05/19/2011 12:55:13

As our economy continues to languish, limping slowly towards recovery, federal tax revenue has lagged. That - plus the wars in the Middle East - have helped rachet up the budget deficits and national debt. Republicans call for cuts to "entitlements" (Medicare and Social Security) while Democrats have advocated for raising taxes on those who have reaped huge benefits from the tax policies of the previous decade.

That would include industries that make record profits and pay little in taxes. In particular, that would include the oil companies. The average profit (that's profit after expenses, not gross) for the top 5 oil companies is over $3000/sec. That means that in the 2 minutes it takes you to read this blog, the average oil company will collect over $360,000 in profit. Does this sound like a company that needs a tax break? No? Well Republicans in Congress seem to think so.
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50 comments (Latest Comment: 05/19/2011 20:49:38 by Raine)

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