Sunday, February 26, 2012
Over The Edge And Hit Their Heads On The Rocks Below
Rick Santorum is comfortable mixing religion and politics.
"I don't believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute," Santorum, a devout Catholic, said in an interview from Michigan on ABC's "This Week."
"The First Amendment means the free exercise of religion and that means bringing people and their faith into the public square."
Really Rickster, so the Muslims should be welcomed to bring their faith into the public square? I should be able to bring mine, which is neither of the others, into the public square? Or is that reserved for only Christians? Do you know what Sharia law is Ricky?
"Sharia, or Islamic law, influences the legal code in most Muslim countries. Sharia governs personal status law, a set of regulations that pertain to marriage, divorce, inheritance, and custody."
Yes Rick it is Religious law, doled out by religious experts. You are lobbying for a Christian version of Sharia law. You may be surprised to find that most of the country , even those with strong faith, do not believe in Dominionism or you and your Talibangelicals.
I've said this before and I'll repeat it here, the righties are going to out conservative themselves this year with radical right wing ideology and old hackneyed ideas.
Oil is going up again so you can be sure Pavlovs dogs are going to be hollering drill baby drill. They are completely unaware that supply and demand no longer control our markets. They seem to think the little more oil we have left in the US would make a price difference.
...Brockwell says gasoline exports, on a four week average, are now running 600,000 barrels a day compared to 200,000 barrels per day a year ago. He says this is the equivalent of three of the largest refineries in the US exporting most of their gasoline production.
Demand is low:
Feb 17 (Reuters) - U.S. crude oil demand plunged in January, dragged down by weak heating oil use, the American Petroleum Institute said on Friday. Demand for gasoline fell 0.2 percent to 8.398 million bpd in January, an nine-year low for the month.
Yet the prices go up, up, up.
It's not based on supply and demand.
...Meiffren notes that Exxon-Mobil chief executive officer Rex Tillerson said Wall Street speculators are driving up the price of oil by 40 percent.
As is nearly always the case now, Wall St. is robbing you blind. Don't expect the right to figure this out though. Most of them are too busy defending tax breaks for the plutocrats and their cohorts and insisting that they have so few regulations that they can do what ever they want. ..Oh and replying with the Pavlovian drill bayb drill.
We need new free/renewable energy NOW. Don't expect the right to have any ideas besides natural gas(not renewable or free) ,or we need more oil until we get to that point. I've been hearing that same "until" line for well over a decade now. When are we going to stand up and do it!? The technology and brains are there, we only need a national will to do so. There are a multitude of good reasons to do it, not the least national security. Theres also independence from power companies and self sustainability(something the right always pontificates on).
Of course when our plutocrats spend big money delaying progress so they can squeeze every ounce of profit out of oil, that could a be long time and many hardships more.
I could write reams on so many things going on right now but I just wanted to point out how tired, hackneyed and left behind the right wing knee jerk reactionaries have become. It rarely seems even worth pointing out anymore. They have become totally irrelevant. They are down to cheerleading, bombast and longing for yesterday.
Maybe someday they will figure out who is really running things and who is the real authoritarian power they should be fighting. That would be great cuz then we could band together and get our country back from the plutocrats. Unfortunately watching the worship of them as the beacons of capitalism makes me think I shouldn't be holding my breath.
The future happens and they cant stop it forever. They are going to have a hard time letting go of the old paradigm. It's going to be ugly for them for a while and they will lash out even more.
For those of us anxious for a brighter future instead of longing for the past its going to be an exciting time. Welcome to the future!
"Sharia, or Islamic law, influences the legal code in most Muslim countries. Sharia governs personal status law, a set of regulations that pertain to marriage, divorce, inheritance, and custody."
Yes Rick it is Religious law, doled out by religious experts. You are lobbying for a Christian version of Sharia law. You may be surprised to find that most of the country , even those with strong faith, do not believe in Dominionism or you and your Talibangelicals.
I've said this before and I'll repeat it here, the righties are going to out conservative themselves this year with radical right wing ideology and old hackneyed ideas.
Oil is going up again so you can be sure Pavlovs dogs are going to be hollering drill baby drill. They are completely unaware that supply and demand no longer control our markets. They seem to think the little more oil we have left in the US would make a price difference.
...Brockwell says gasoline exports, on a four week average, are now running 600,000 barrels a day compared to 200,000 barrels per day a year ago. He says this is the equivalent of three of the largest refineries in the US exporting most of their gasoline production.
Demand is low:
Feb 17 (Reuters) - U.S. crude oil demand plunged in January, dragged down by weak heating oil use, the American Petroleum Institute said on Friday. Demand for gasoline fell 0.2 percent to 8.398 million bpd in January, an nine-year low for the month.
And US oil production is higher than it has been in years.
Yet the prices go up, up, up.
It's not based on supply and demand.
...Meiffren notes that Exxon-Mobil chief executive officer Rex Tillerson said Wall Street speculators are driving up the price of oil by 40 percent.
As is nearly always the case now, Wall St. is robbing you blind. Don't expect the right to figure this out though. Most of them are too busy defending tax breaks for the plutocrats and their cohorts and insisting that they have so few regulations that they can do what ever they want. ..Oh and replying with the Pavlovian drill bayb drill.
We need new free/renewable energy NOW. Don't expect the right to have any ideas besides natural gas(not renewable or free) ,or we need more oil until we get to that point. I've been hearing that same "until" line for well over a decade now. When are we going to stand up and do it!? The technology and brains are there, we only need a national will to do so. There are a multitude of good reasons to do it, not the least national security. Theres also independence from power companies and self sustainability(something the right always pontificates on).
Of course when our plutocrats spend big money delaying progress so they can squeeze every ounce of profit out of oil, that could a be long time and many hardships more.
I could write reams on so many things going on right now but I just wanted to point out how tired, hackneyed and left behind the right wing knee jerk reactionaries have become. It rarely seems even worth pointing out anymore. They have become totally irrelevant. They are down to cheerleading, bombast and longing for yesterday.
Maybe someday they will figure out who is really running things and who is the real authoritarian power they should be fighting. That would be great cuz then we could band together and get our country back from the plutocrats. Unfortunately watching the worship of them as the beacons of capitalism makes me think I shouldn't be holding my breath.
The future happens and they cant stop it forever. They are going to have a hard time letting go of the old paradigm. It's going to be ugly for them for a while and they will lash out even more.
For those of us anxious for a brighter future instead of longing for the past its going to be an exciting time. Welcome to the future!
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