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Congress gets all-time low gallup poll

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Just 14% of Americans have a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in Congress.

This 14% Congressional confidence rating is the all-time low for this measure, which Gallup initiated in 1973. The previous low point for Congress was 18% at several points in the period of time 1991 to 1994.

Congress is now nestled at the bottom of the list of Gallup's annual Confidence in Institutions rankings, along with HMOs. Just 15% of Americans have a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in HMOs. (By way of contrast, 69% of Americans have a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in the military, which tops the list. More on this at galluppoll.com on Thursday).

It’s worth remembering that Congress is basically nothing more than a mechanism for the representation of the people’s wishes. We all can’t go to Washington. So we elect men and women and send them off in our stead. It’s not an optimal situation, it seems to me, when such a low percentage of average Americans have confidence in this system.

Generally speaking, Americans have been skeptical about Congress for decades now. But the current 14% confidence rating for Congress is down from 19% last year and is the lowest in Gallup’s history, surpassing the 18% confidence in Congress measured in 1991, 1993 and 1994.

Americans' are generally in a sour mood, as discussed here. The particularly low rating for Congress this year thus represents a continuation of the existing low esteem in which Congress is held, coupled with a strongly negative mindset on the part of the American public.

Triangle of Death: the JFK Assassination

Here are the facts: a) President John F. Kennedy supported the coup d'etat that resulted in the assassination of Diem; b) twenty-one days later, Kennedy was assassinated; c) forty-eight hours after JFK's murder, the FBI deported a French assassin-a fact that was not reported at the time, even to the Warren Commission; d) this deportation order came from the Office of the Attorney General, Robert F. Kennedy.Bradley O'Leary and L.E. Seymour present a convincing argument that implicates not Lee Harvey Oswald, but rather a conglomerate of conspirators, in the death of beloved President Kennedy. Using actual CIA documents, interviews, and evidence, Triangle of Death will alter everything you thought you knew about John F. Kennedy's death.

"He [JFK] murdered Diem, and then he got it himself"

Lyndon B. Johnson

"We had a hand in killing him [Diem]. Now it's happening here."

Hubert H. Humphrey

Chemical Ali to hang

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BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

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Just the facts, ma'am.

Just on a whim, I thought I would check Gil's source on his most recent column. I had never previously heard of the Barna Research Group.

I was unsurprised to find that he left out key information in his quotes yet again. Well, at least he is not making up his figures and facts anymore. Now he just manipulates them. (Stem cell research, anyone?)

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2001 Barna Update

Statistics about Christian divorce rates

Get Smart June 20, 2008

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I just have to go back to this high gas price thing

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USA: August 10, 2005


WASHINGTON - US refiners' attempts to phase out a water-fouling gasoline additive could mean "transition pressure" for gasoline prices next summer, the US Energy Information Administration said Tuesday.


Some refiners will phase out use of methyl tertiary butyl ether, or MTBE, because of liability concerns, the EIA said in its monthly supply and demand report. The chemical is a suspected carcinogen, and has leaked into underground water supplies in many US states.

"As the market adjusts to the new provisions, there could be transition pressure on gasoline prices from the supply loss next summer, depending on the number of suppliers that eliminate their use of MTBE," the EIA said.

The EIA did not quantify the possible price impact in its report.

The phase-out could take about 150,000 barrels per day of gasoline-blending components off the market, the EIA said.

The National Petrochemical and Refiners Association estimates that MTBE accounts for 1.6 percent of US gasoline supplies.

So far, independent refiner Valero Energy Corp. is the only US company to publicly announce it will phase out making MTBE in 2006.

Valero said taking the additive from its US production will reduce its gasoline output by 6 percent.

Some refiners will be able to switch to corn-distilled ethanol as a replacement but others will have to opt for higher quality products, the EIA said.

MTBE has been used by refiners since the 1980s as an anti-knock agent to replace lead. The 1992 Clean Air Act required US refiners to use oxygenates like MTBE to make gasoline burn more cleanly.

But the additive has leaked into water supplies in many US states, rendering water undrinkable...

Senator Tim Johnson, the Terri Schiavo of the Democrat party, expected back in September

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Instead of letting this brain hemmoraged Democrat starve and/or dehydrate to death, he actually recovered and is anticipated to return to his "job" as a U.S. Senator (D). Don't worry, you didn't miss much "work" there, Timmay.

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Tim Johnson, D-S.D., absent from the Senate since suffering a brain hemorrhage late last year, is likely to return in September, if not earlier, Majority Leader Harry Reid said Thursday.

Reid, D-Nev., said Johnson undergoes physical and speech therapy five days a week and has recovered 90 percent of his speech, although his right side remains weak.

"He and his family and the doctors are trying to decide whether he will come back in September or July, but he's really doing quite well," Reid said.

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Democrat culture of corruption: racketeering, soliciting bribes and money laundering

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House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) will ask the ethics committee to review the federal indictment filed Monday against Rep. William Jefferson (D-La.) in order to seek his expulsion from Congress.

Boehner will offer a priviledged resolution on the House floor as early as Tuesday calling for the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct to review the 94-page investigation filed against Jefferson Monday, according to the Republican leader's office.

The Justice Department indictmented the Louisiana Democrat Monday on federal charges of racketeering, soliciting bribes and money laundering.

Boehner's resolution is intended to "jump start" a previous investigation into Jefferson's alleged misdeeds that expired last year.

Clinton says we are safer after 9/11

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Arrogant weasels

They have given us the most ill-conceived, poorly-executed war in our nation's history, one that has made us less safe, not more. Like Carter, Our Leader has presided over high gas prices — which, in part, are a direct result of that war.

Is this statement in anyway true?

Several months ago, I researched and found that the War on Terror has the lowest KIA rate in the history of any US war. I went back to find out if it is still the case.

Here were the stats then:

Iraq
US war dead (KIA per month) 52
Months at war: 43
Average US KIA per day 1.73

Afghanistan
US war dead (KIA per month) 3
Months at war: 60
Average US KIA per day 0.1

As of June 1, 2007, Iraq has 2,838 US KIA in total and 206 in Afghanistan (total). Source.

Today, it is 50 months at war in Iraq and 67 months in Afghanistan.

So 2,838 divided by 50 will give us the average per month in Iraq. I get 57.

Divide by 30 to get Average US KIA per day is 1.892.

Afghanistan is 206/67 = 3, per day is still 0.1 US KIA per day in Afghanistan.

So the war in Iraq is now the SECOND LOWEST US KIA RATE in US history, preceded only by the Revolutionary War which has a Average US KIA per day of 1.8 (but lasted 80 months and was fought here in the US).

However, it is the lowest KIA RATE in the US history of foreign wars.

I then went onto icasualties.org and looked at the chart. Those Democrat "saviors" who were going to "put an end" to this war have not seemed to have done their job very well. The monthly KIA rate went up again. In fact, May 2007 had about the third highest KIA rate during the course of the Iraq War and the highest rate in about two years!

Then I looked at the casualty trends since the fall of Baghdad. The trend is the highest it has been since about January 2005! It had been on it's way to an attempted disengagement - until power-hungry Democrats made a grab for political power, that is.

So if anyone is arrogant - it is Gil Smart of LNP and the Democrat party, who falsely characterized this war as "the worst" and continue in their weasel-like arrogance. They remain opportunists - trying to salvage their bad choices in electing a peanut farmer for President.

The statement about gas prices is also arrogant.

Check this story which states:

What factors are causing gas prices to rise so quickly?

The biggest factor in rising costs is the price of crude oil, followed by the cost of refining.

If a gallon of gasoline costs $2.90 (this week's average, according to the Energy Department), crude oil accounts for about $1.60. The cost of crude oil on the futures market has risen about 33 percent in the last year. This reflects supply problems in such places as Nigeria, Iraq and the Gulf of Mexico, as well as the threat of supply problems in Iran.

Refining costs add another 64 cents or so to a gallon of gasoline. Refining margins have increased from a few years ago, and are especially high this spring, because many refineries are currently shut down for seasonal maintenance. Refineries are still recovering from the effects of last year's hurricanes. And they are adjusting to more stringent low-sulfur fuel requirements and the phase-out of the gasoline additive MTBE.

The balance of the price is taxes -- about 55 cents -- and distribution and marketing costs, which account for about 11 cents per gallon.

Here is an interesting story from August 10, 2005 called MTBE Phase-Out will Stretch US Gasoline Supply-EIA which states:

US refiners' attempts to phase out a water-fouling gasoline additive could mean "transition pressure" for gasoline prices next summer, the US Energy Information Administration said Tuesday.

What a strange coincidence! "Our Leader" had to correct some thing issued in the Clean Air Act, which was originally passed in 1970. Well, gee - who was the majority party in the Senate in the 70's? Democrats!!!!

So - to clarify - Democrats demanded this fuel additive to make the emissions cleaner (called MTBE, and was later found to be a carcinogen) so it had to be removed because it was leaking into water supplies and poisoning the environment. LOL!

The National Petrochemical and Refiners Association estimates that MTBE accounts for 1.6 percent of US gasoline supplies. The phase-out could take about 150,000 barrels per day of gasoline-blending components off the market, the EIA said.