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To: tejek who wrote (828853)	1/9/2015 1:50:22 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575424

>> Straw man. Never said that. It isn't a "straw man". The oil is going to be transported one way or the other. It is ignorant to think otherwise; the resource isn't just going to sit there indefinitely. >> And I showed you a map that shows the line going right over the main part of the aquifer. As he explained, it isn't as though it a pool of water that dumping oil into will damage. It won't. He explained that in excruciating detail. He is, without any question, the sole expert on this aquifer. There is no one who can credibly contradict him; he has spent his entire life studying it. >> No we don't know that. You don't know that nor does your winger EXPERT. Its funny how you ridicule profs and scientists until you find one that shares your POV. I don't ridicule scientists, you idiot. I ridiculous false gods.

To: tejek who wrote (828853)	1/9/2015 1:54:18 PM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Recommended By POKERSAM Respond to of 1575424

Sticking Up for the Commie Heathen: Right-Wing Christians for Charlie Hebdo by Scott Ott January 9, 2015 - 4:27 am Charlie Hebdo, the magazine attacked this week by heavily-armed Hell-bound Muslim jihadists, was run by Left-wing atheists who reveled in lampooning all religions and politicians who aren’t sufficiently socialist. Yet despite the heathen commie content of Charlie Hebdo, those of us in the Right-wing echo chamber have offered full-throated support for their right to express their despicable views, even if they do it with tasteless, often ribald, satire. (The fact that I use the word “ribald” proves that I’m the kind of stick-in-the-mud who should despise Charlie. What’s worse: I write ScrappleFace.com, which I bill as “family-friendly satire.” Ick.) But you see, Right-wing evangelical wackos like me tend to be people of principle. True principles, by definition, must enjoy universal application. We believe in a free marketplace of ideas where, ultimately, the truth will come to light — if not in this life, then in the one to come. So, while one of President Obama’s press secretaries clucks his tongue about Charlie Hebdo’s poor judgement – using the bully pulpit to pressure them to still their Muhammed-mocking pens — we stand by the cartoonists’ right to lampoon the Prophet Muhammed and his morality-bereft, blood-besotted groupies. (Carney’s parsing of “right” vs. “judgment” is fine for parlor prattle, but not from the president’s spokesman standing before a global camera in the White House.) The Obama administration, in 2012, attempted to draw a distinction between Charlie Hebdo’s right to print insulting cartoons of Muhammed, and their “judgment,” which should have led them to refrain. From the platform of the White House, this is tantamount to censorship pressure. We did not support Charlie because “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.” It’s not because we were glad to see someone stick it to the pedophile “prophet” of the scimitar “scriptures.” After all, Charlie mocked Christians too. We support free speech rights unconditionally — regardless of what we think of the message. If we disagree with the viewpoint or method of expressing it, the remedy for bad speech is more speech, not censorship by statute or scimitar (or presidential bullying). The Leftist is in a quandary, because many of his movement’s brightest lights, or at least loudest speakers, want us to believe that slim difference lies between the Muslim gunmen of Paris and the average Southern Baptist. To Lefty, we’re all dangerous religious bigots. Yet even the “progressive” journalists and politicians know in their hearts that if they showed up at a baptist church potluck, uninvited, and started to spout their Utopian collectivism, they’d get nothin’ but love, strange looks, and perhaps some awkward but sincere attempts to share Jesus with them. At the Baptist potluck, Lefty would be allowed to run his fool mouth until the peach cobbler ran out, signaling time to go home. Next Sunday, someone would ask Brother Mike to pray for Lefty’s commie, heathen soul…bless his heart. That’s because we worship a Jesus who loves and saves God’s enemies, and who can defend himself. http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2015/01/09/sticking-up-for-the-commie-heathen-right-wing-christians-for-charlie-hebdo/?singlepage=true

To: tejek who wrote (828853)	1/9/2015 2:03:55 PM
From: joseffy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575424

Obama’s Hawaii vacation is over, now it’s time for taxpayers to pay massive tab ................................................................................. watchdog.org ^ \| Jan. 9, 2015 \| Malia Zimmerman HONOLULU – President Barack Obama and his family just spent their Christmas and New Year’s holidays in Kailua. Now it’s time for taxpayers to pick up the tab. While the Obamas and friends who accompany them pay for their own private vacation home rentals on or near Kailua Beach, taxpayers foot a multimillion dollar tab for everything from a stand-by ambulance to the fuel for Air Force One. Local taxpayers pick up the bill for Honolulu Police Department escorts who guard Obama, first lady Michelle and daughters Malia and Sasha around the clock. Figures just released by HPD spokeswoman Michelle Yu show HPD spent $277,000 on overtime costs this year during the president’s 16-day vacation. That’s $16,000 less than in 2013, but $60,000 more than in 2012. The Emergency Management Services department also dispatches an ambulance to be on call for the president, which annually costs the city about $15,890. The U.S. Secret Service doesn’t disclose information about the expense for its agents to travel to and stay in Hawaii or guard the first family. Dozens of Secret Service agents were spotted at Ala Moana Hotel checking in the day before Obama arrived. A spokeswoman for the hotel said she couldn’t release details on the number of agents who stayed there, but hotel staff told Watchdog the government rate would be about $200 a night, including taxes. Secret Service agents, Navy SEALs and Coast Guard officials also rent private homes along the canal near the president in Kailua at a cost of $250 per room per night, according to several residents renting their homes. The most pricey charge to taxpayers is the flight to Oahu from Washington, D.C. Records obtained by Washington, D.C.-based Judicial Watch said “the flights to and from Honolulu for the December 2013-January 2014 Christmas vacation totaled 36.9 hours at $210,877 an hour, which comes to a flight expense alone of $7,781,361.30.” That was an increase of $3.7 million in flight expenses Judicial Watch reported the Obamas incurred for their 2012 Honolulu Christmas vacation. No estimates for 2014’s travel have been released by the administration. The cost for USAF C-17 cargo aircraft that transports presidential limos, helicopters and other support equipment to Hawaii has never been disclosed, but the round-trip flight time between Andrews Air Force Base and Hawaii is 21.5 hours, with estimated operating cost of $12,000 per hour, according to an U.S. Government Accountability Office report. The U.S. Marine Corps provides a presidential helicopter, along with pilots and support crews for the test flights, which travel on another C-17 flight. That totals $258,000, not including costs for the four-to-six-member crew’s per diem and hotel. The Obamas rented the same five-bedroom oceanfront villa on Kailuana Place they’ve secured for the past four years. Sumit Capital LLC, a New York investment firm headed by Soumyo Sarkar and his wife Chinyu Sarkar, owns the multimillion-dollar property. Security upgrades are made to the home, with bulletproof glass, additional phone lines and other detection and defense systems installed. Since the home sits on the popular Kailua Beach, the U.S. Coast Guard stations a sea vessel nearby, while its officials use personal watercraft and smaller boats to patrol the ocean and canal surrounding the home. The administration also rents cars for staff and security, and pays additional travel costs for Secret Service and White House staff traveling ahead of the president. None of those costs have ever been released to the public.