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To: Cautious_Optimist who wrote (87998)	5/4/2012 11:34:45 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

The retail prices are hardly driven down because of government subsidies. What gov't subsidies? Are they more than the alternative energy companies like Solyndra have received? I'm all for withdrawing any undeserved subsidies. But from what I've seen, thus far, a lot of accusations about subsidies in the oil industry don't seem to match the reality. But maybe you mean like when the Clinton administration basically gave away the Elk Hills Oil Reserve to OXY (who Gore's Senatorial father used to work for, leaving hundreds of thousands of shares upon his death).. They are pumping oil at a cost of $1.50/bbl out of that reserve now. That's nearly a $97 dollar profit on each bbl. rumormillnews.com Read more: time.com time.com And Bart Chilton of the CFTC is pushing to limit speculation it the oil markets that that prices more appropriately reflect global supply and demand. money.cnn.com abcnews.go.com All Obama has to do is support Bart Chilton's efforts. Or at the very least, threaten to release some oil from the SPR to break the back of the oil speculators. Hawk

To: Cautious_Optimist who wrote (87998)	5/5/2012 10:51:04 AM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 89467

California: “the ninth circle of business hell.” May 4, 2012 by Lance Burri This is a bit of a leftover from this couple-days-old post, about Wisconsin launching up the lists of “business friendly” states since Gov. Walker took over: SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Texas remains the top state for business and California still holds the title for the worst, according to an annual ranking of states by Chief Executive magazine released on Wednesday. Chief Executive each year surveys CEOs and asks them to grade states in which they do business. This year 650 responded, giving Texas high marks “foremost for its business-friendly tax and regulatory environment,” a report on the survey and ranking said on the magazine’s website. “Texas easily clinched the No. 1 rank, the eighth successive time it has done so,” the report said. “California earns the dubious honor of being ranked dead last for the eighth consecutive year.” California “appears to slip deeper into the ninth circle of business hell,” the report said. “Each year, the evidence that businesses are leaving California or avoid locating there because of the high cost of doing business due to excessive state taxes and stringent regulations, grows.” I believe what I’m feeling right now is called “Schadenfreude.”

To: Cautious_Optimist who wrote (87998)	5/5/2012 12:47:20 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 89467

To: Cautious_Optimist who wrote (87998)	5/5/2012 1:09:22 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 89467

Hillary’s Team Has Questions About Obama’s Muslim Background Are the American people ready for an elected president who was educated in a Madrassa as a young boy and has not been forthcoming about his Muslim heritage? This is the question Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s camp is asking about Sen. Barack Obama. An investigation of Mr. Obama by political opponents within the Democratic Party has discovered that Mr. Obama was raised as a Muslim by his stepfather in Indonesia. Sources close to the background check, which has not yet been released, said Mr. Obama, 45, spent at least four years in a so-called Madrassa, or Muslim seminary, in Indonesia. “He was a Muslim, but he concealed it,” the source said. “His opponents within the Democrats hope this will become a major issue in the campaign.” When contacted by Insight, Mr. Obama’s press secretary said he would consult with “his boss” and call back. He did not. Sources said the background check, conducted by researchers connected to Senator Clinton, disclosed details of Mr. Obama’s Muslim past. The sources said the Clinton camp concluded the Illinois Democrat concealed his prior Muslim faith and education. “The background investigation will provide major ammunition to his opponents,” the source said. “The idea is to show Obama as deceptive.” In two best-selling autobiographies-”The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream” and “Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance”-Mr. Obama, born in Honolulu where his parents met, mentions but does not expand on his Muslim background, alluding only to his attendance at a “predominantly Muslim school.” The sources said the young Obama was given the name Hussein by his Muslim father, which the Illinois Democrat rarely uses in public. His father was black and came from Kenya. Mr. Obama’s mother, the daughter of a farmer, came from Wichita, Kansas. Mr. Obama’s parents divorced when he was two years old. His father returned to Kenya. Later, Mr. Obama’s mother married an Indonesian student and the family moved to Jakarta. . . The sources said the background check concerned Mr. Obama’s years in Jakarta. In Indonesia, the young Obama was enrolled in a Madrassa and was raised and educated as a Muslim. Although Indonesia is regarded as a moderate Muslim state, the U.S. intelligence community has determined that today most of these schools are financed by the Saudi Arabian government and they teach a Wahhabi doctrine that denies the rights of non-Muslims Although the background check has not confirmed that the specific Madrassa Mr. Obama attended was espousing Wahhabism, the sources said his Democratic opponents believe this to be the case‚Äîand are seeking to prove it. The sources said the opponents are searching for evidence that Mr. Obama is still a Muslim or has ties to Islam. Mr. Obama attends services at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago’s South Side. However, he is not known to be a regular parishioner. “Obama’s education began a life-long relationship with Islam as a faith and Muslims as a community,” the source said. “This has been a relationship that contains numerous question marks.” The sources said Mr. Obama spent at least four years in a Muslim school in Indonesia. They said when Mr. Obama was 10, his mother and her second husband separated. She and her son returned to Hawaii. “Then the official biography begins,” the source said. Barack Obama very conspicuously omits these important facts. He’s never directly addressed them and didn’t return the Insight Magazine’s reporters queries about his Muslim background. Why? Why can’t he acknowledge his Muslim background and disavow it? Don’t watch for him ever to do that. And that’s why it’s suspicious. The facts about Obama’s Muslim background raise a LOT of questions. Legitimate questions about a religion dominated by extremist strains that openly call for the destruction of America and the West. Anyone who does not want to look into the questions and, instead, attacks those who ask them, is equally suspect in their intentions and attitudes toward the continued freedom of this country. debbieschlussel.com