Algae!? Really, Mr. President, that’s your idea? That’s going to be what saves us, and allows us to fuel, quite literally a brand new vibrant and growing economy? Left and Right take turns alternately admonishing the other side of the political divide about the popper respect due to the office of the Presidency. I do feel that the office deserves respect, but I also believe that the person occupying that office should be the number one example of how that respect be paid. One of the truly beautiful things about some of our greatest Presidents is that they all knew that they were merely occupants of that office, and that they were put in charge of institutions which were truly greater than any one person, or even groups of people. So, my question is a simple one. At what point does a single man do such a disservice to that office that outright ridicule is not only allowed, but demanded of those who make up the governed?
Personally, for me anyhow, trying to sell Americans on using Algae as our main source of energy crosses that point. Before you pseudo scientific environmentalists start screaming about my being anti-science, I realize that research into the energy productive or any other possible uses of Algae would be a good thing, and that in the future, Algae may prove to be a super cool new toy. Suggesting that today, Algae is a viable alternative to our current providers of energy can best be described as one of the single dumbest statements of all time. The fact that our President said it is simply astounding. As of now, the debate of who is smart and who is dumb is officially over, and those who see Barack Obama as smart have to be either lying or high or completely brain dead.
I do not know if Barack Obama believes this idiocy or not. I do know that he has spent his entire term in office so far working feverishly to insure that our oil production and electricity production slows to a point where it is a hindrance to our economy rather than a fuel for it. Being the First President to ever be held in contempt of court for ending all oil Production in the Gulf is only the tip of the Ice berg. Little Barry has been using our increased percentage of oil coming from domestic sources a point in his reelection bid. What he leaves out of course is that the major reason for this has happened in spite of his policies and not as a result of them. If he were in fact an emperor as he wishes, that productivity for which he is spiking the football so to speak, known as the Bakken Formation, would be producing no oil at all. When President Obama took the Oath of Office in January of 2009, our nation ranked 4th in terms of Economic Freedom according to the Heritage Foundation. Three years later, and we have slipped to 10th on that list.
For years, Barack Obama has been traveling the country stating that he would like to see gas prices around $10 per gallon. His reason of course, that’s the price when those high speed rail systems start to make economic sense to a population that escaped that vastly inferior form of transportation over a hundred years ago. We had windmills in the 1600′s as well, and found a better form for delivering our energy needs. His goal of bankrupting the electricity industry of course will make windmills seem viable in the long run, only if we make the price for a kilowatt hour so expensive artificially, that using a system which only worked occasionally would be the best that we could hope for. Of course, openly stating that to the American People would be political suicide. After the Windmill and Solar Panel businesses suffered the inevitable high profile bankruptcies, even after receiving massive subsidization, what does an inherently dishonest President have left?
What he has left is Algae. He must think that a vast majority of Americans are the dumbest people on the planet. Exit questions for the environmentalists: What on Earth do you think will be the environmental impact of taking all of the Algae from the World’s Oceans and burning it? How much Algae do we need to burn to move a half ton automobile 10 miles? Wouldn’t the Carbon Gas created from burning Algae be the same as carbon created from burning other forms of oil? How can you keep a straight face when discussing anything having to do with our current President?
Cross Posted at Musings of a Mad Conservative.
Brings new meaning to the term “Science Fiction”.
What I like about the algae is they’ve produced 800 barrels of diesel an acre. Sounds small doesn’t it.
Yet it can be started on the worst land and beats 400 barrels of ethanol(much lower energy) an acre on our best farm land. Remember they did the chairman mao on ethanol.
GIVE US OUR FARM LAND BACK!!!
The words “unintended consequences” are going through my mind for some reason…
How dare any question question our Pharaoh!
Obama, the first American Emperor!
@ waldensianspirit:
Emperor Barack Hussein I, Pasha of the United States and Defender of the
FaithUmmah!I would say that after the disrespectful way that
GW was treated by Progressives all bets are off.
They called him Hitler, stupid, unamerican, a chimp,
and a criminal etc.
Obamas race or Arabic name should not insulate
him from criticism and the joke punch line that
he has turned himself into.
@ RIX:
Agreed, I give the god-king no respect.
@ Rodan:
@ waldensianspirit:
Are we sure the proper title isn’t caliph?
What happens if the bioengineered “fuel algae” gets in with the regular algae?
Just playing devil’s advocate here, isn’t that, like, really bad for the food chain? Or at the very least much more “environmentally dangerous” than extracting fuels that the Earth has naturally produced?
@ Rodan:
Definitely no respect!
waldensianspirit wrote:
There is a serious problem with that theory though. A gallon of ethanol required 175,000 BTU’s of thermal energy to distil. A gallon of biodiesel produced from algae requires 575,000 BTU’s to distil. Unless you can change the laws of Thermodynamics at will, then the writing is already on the wall with regards to algae based biodiesel. Way past the point of diminishing returns existing solely in the land of magical unicorn farts.
@ doriangrey:
It is like the coal powered cars: if you subsidize it, they will come. Look at how well that has worked with the Chevy Volt…
@ doriangrey:
In other words, this is nonsense.
@ Bumr50:
How dare you question our divine Pharaoh!
Bumr50 wrote:
Nothing. Bio-engineered does not mean that we rewrote the algae DNA, it just means that various species were cross bread to achieve a desired result. What usually happens when we do that is that the “new” species, which are known as hybrids, become infertile.
@ doriangrey:
Doesn’t take that kind of distillation. The asphaltene is negligible. The diesel is ready for the tank right from the algae
What will make it fail is Marxist R&D
I’m surprised they are trying to hawk human-power vehicles, bicycles and little pedal cars for hauling groceries.
Rodan wrote:
He doesn’t deserve any. He is snarky & mocking
himself. He needs his aura stripped away.
@ waldensianspirit:
Marxist R&D is designed to fail. They don’t want us driving Green Cars (however you may define them). They ultimately want us bound to the land, walking wherever we go (bicycles are probably OK as well). Public transportation only for those who can afford it, and, of course, private transportation for the Elites. That is their dream society, and all of these other steps are merely bumps on the road to Utopia…
Rodan wrote:
Umm, no, on the scale the President is talking it’s a Ponzi Scheme, as a niche market product for enviro-Nazi’s it would work, as would it in a post crude oil world where massive amounts of coal were burned for the thermal energy to produce biodiesel for only the most essential transportation services or the extremely wealthy it would work, but no where else.
@ doriangrey:
Nuclear energy could produce the power for distilling it as well, but the Environut-Whackos hate nuclear power worse than they hate oil. They just think they have nuclear defeated in the United States. I hope they are wrong on that, but only time will tell.
Everyone here should read The Handmaid’s Tale.
*lurking*
doriangrey wrote:
There, fixed that for ya!
@ doriangrey:
In order words, its not something that can be done on a massive scale or mass produced.
@ NoThreat2U:
I saw the movie.
@ NoThreat2U:
Don’t have time, but I am reading a biography of Robert E. Lee…
Posted it yesterday, but Government Motors already has this covered. Introducing the Chevy Fishtank!
http://thepeoplescube.com/peoples-blog/obama-s-algae-powered-car-chevy-fishtank-t8475.html
Bibi says it’s OK to laugh at the POTUS.
Robert E. Lee. The first (only?) cadet to graduate West Point with zero demerits.
NoThreat2U wrote:
Creepy book. Supposed to show how the eeeeeeeeeeevil Kris-chuns were gonna enslave the wimmin, but frankly it reads very much like Uncle Mohammed’s Sharia Hour.
@ Mike C.:
Yep. He also was an exemplary officer. If he’d stayed with the Union, he would have likely one day been President of the United States.
It’s my understanding that the Israelis have made some strides in/progress towards creating petroleum from algae; I read something to this effect some months ago and may even have posted the link here, but alas did not save it.
If so, there are several ironies here, the most obvious being that, assuming Israel does end up being the leader in developing such a process, it will be the nation which Obama most obviously despises and wishes ill (after America, that is) that will end up providing the technology he is touting.
What is being lost here, however, is the realization that synthesizing “fossil fuels” out of algae will leave us exactly where we are if we burn fossil fuels. It’s the same fuel, just from a different source. If the reason for laying off fossil fuel is supposed harm to the environment, there will not only be no net gain from burning algae-based “oil” instead of the real thing—there will probably be a net loss when compared to genuine fossil fuel because the algae will have to be processed and refined just as the real oil would be. In addition, there is always the possibility—indeed, the likelihood—that “algae oil” will not provide all of the derivatives that we currently extract and use (and rely on) from petroleum, so the petroleum industry will not be replaced by algae farms.
Why, then, bother with algae technology at all? Well, we do need to look ahead to when the world’s current reserves are depleted and/or much more expensive to extract, and demand is greater because of population growth. But in the meantime, it is a mistake to think that algae oil will be a substitute for the real thing any time soon—and it is well to remember that even if it eventually is a substitute, it is not an alternative, but merely a replacement.
This isn’t the first time. Let’s harken back to those thrilling days of yesteryear when the Supreme High Dufus pontificated that the answer to the high cost of gasoline was properly inflated tires.
Until that time I was blissfully unaware that an epidemic of deflated tires was responsible for our national gasoline malaise.
waldensianspirit wrote:
I’m Sorry, but the truth is that algae based biodiesel is a energy negative product, there is simply no getting around that.
“Pond Scum Futures” -- coming to a Goldman Sachs trading desk near you.
Carolina Girl wrote:
I keep wondering if Обама has some type of dain bramage….
Carolina Girl wrote:
Algae is pond scum.
So are Obama’s “bundlers.”
Obama saying that he’s going to “invest in algae as an alternative fuel,” i.e., pay out for pond scum, is simply a dogwhistle way of announcing that he’s going to funnel larger payoffs to his cronies.
…on the other hand, maybe there’s a Muslim connection: “Algae/Zero”…Al-Jazeera…
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@ Carolina Girl:
If you don’t inflate your tires, Polar Bears will
drown.
You don’t want Polar Bears to drown do you?
RIX wrote:
There was an letter to the editor in my newspaper recently, and I’m just giving the jest of it because I don’t have the paper and repeat it word for word, but this person complains that:
Barack Obama has been the most disrespect president we have ever had.
The reason for this is simple it is because of racism.
The next Sunday another letter to the editor refutes this claim by saying:
To the person who wrote a letter to the editor that Barack Obama has been the most disrepected president ever and it is because of racism.
Apparently this person didn’t acknowledge the great disrespect lumped on George W. Bush in his last 4 years. To this person I say bunk. Barack Obama gets plenty of passes. Not to mention to even critize Obama’s policies you are racist. Don’t re-write history.
bho is trying his damnest to portray himself a victim and it is the color of his skin is the reason why.
Carolina Girl wrote:
bho takes stupid to a whole new meaning. Not to mention the media gives him a pass to this crazy crap. I’m not saying he isn’t crafty and loves to campaign and loves all the attention or should I say ‘worship’ he so much desires. The man could go on TV and declare that rain is wet and the media would express how brillant and scientific he is.
@ doriangrey:
I know.
But it doesn’t take distillation like Saudi crud
@ Lily:
People have just got tired of being called racist,
just for diaagreeing with Marxist policies.
Since we’re discussing Обама…Here’s something that Alan Dershowitz said:
Обама Could Be ‘Chamberlain of 21st Century’
@ buzzsawmonkey:
More State Capitalism.
@ Macker:
Wow, something is up with Dershowitz.
RIX wrote:
Excatly I don’t care what the color of his skin is at all. But his policies are killing this country. This is what I have a problem with. Not to mention Urban Infidel listed a whole lot firsts for a sitting president that he has done. Let me find it and repost it here.
Let me hope I did it right.
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Urban Infidel
109 | February 27, 2012 8:27 pm
List of impressive of Obama accomplishments:
First President to apply for college aid as a foreign student, then deny he ever was a foreigner.
First President to have a social security number from a state he has never lived in, a legal impossibility.
First President to preside over a cut to the credit-rating of the United States.
First President to violate the War Powers Act.
First President to be held in contempt of court for illegally obstructing oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.
First President to defy a Federal Judge’s court order to cease implementing the Health Care Reform Law.
First President to require all Americans to purchase a product from a third party.
First President to spend a trillion dollars on ‘shovel-ready’ jobs when there were no ‘shovel-ready’ jobs.
First President to abrogate bankruptcy law, screwing individuals holding bonds and preferred stock, to turn
over control of companies to his union supporters.
First President to by-pass Congressional constitutional authority and implement the Dream Act through executive fiat.
First President to order a secret amnesty program that stopped the deportation of illegal immigrants across the U.S.,
including those with criminal convictions.
First President to demand a company hand over $20 billion to one of his political appointees.
First President to terminate America’s ability to put a man in space, by defunding NASA and converting its primary
mission to making Muslims feel pride.
First President to have a law signed by an auto-pen without being present.
First President to arbitrarily declare an existing law unconstitutional and refuse to enforce it.
First President to threaten insurance companies if they publicly spoke-out on the reasons for their rate increases.
First President to tell a major manufacturing company (Boeing) in which State they are allowed to locate a factory.
First President to file lawsuits against the states he swore an oath to protect (AZ, WI, OH, IN).
First President to withdraw an existing coal permit that had been properly issued years ago.
First President to fire an inspector general of Ameri-corps for catching one of his friends in a corruption case.
First President to appoint 45 czars to handle functions of officials requiring Senate advice and consent of appointment.
First President to golf 73 separate times in his first two and a half years in office, 90 to date & counting.
First President to hide his medical, educational and travel records.
First President to win a Nobel Peace Prize for doing NOTHING to earn it.
First President to not know how to properly pronounce Navy ‘corpsman’.
First President to go on multiple global ‘apology tours’ and to bow to foreign rulers.
First President to go on 17 lavish vacations, including date nights and Wednesday evening White House parties for his
friends, paid for by the taxpayer.
First President to say that America was not a Christian nation.
First President to have 22 taxpayer funded personal servants just for his wife.
First President to keep a dog trainer on retainer for $102,000 a year at taxpayer expense.
So how is this hope and change working out for ya? Don’t you feel better now
Trying to grab our youth and indoctrinate them I see.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/02/27/obama-to-governors/#ixzz1niIFRC41
RIX wrote:
Polar bears are white. They deserve to drown.
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@ Lily:
here will they get the money? It doesn’t matter, our Pharaoh has spoken!
@ Moe Katz:
Charles Johnson agrees!
This shows you how much Israel doesn’t trust our government and especially our president and I don’t blame them. Obamma would naturally side with Iran.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/02/27/israelis-reportedly-dont-plan-to-notify-us-if-decision-made-to-strike-iran/http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/02/27/israelis-reportedly-dont-plan-to-notify-us-if-decision-made-to-strike-iran/?test=latestnews
I think that Obama will roll out his new energy plan
during the campaign.
That nasty fossil fuel will be replaced at the pump
with Granola for Regular, Shreds of PBS tote Bags
for Mid Grade & Unicorn poop for High Test.
“Where ya headed Bill?”
“My engine has been running a little rough. I’m
off to the gas station to get a tank of poop.”
Rodan wrote:
The States have more pressing matters. They are running out of money and certainly have more pressing matters. Doesn’t sound like bho is offering money and if he did it would certainly come with a heavy catch.
I think it was Rush yesterday (could have been Levin; I get my podcasts crossed) that said there was a time when President Bush had suggested an unorthodox alternative fuel and the press was merciless about it. I can’t find anything anywhere with more information, unfortunately, so hopefully someone here heard the same broadcast and remembers.
@ Carolina Girl:
He suggested wood chips and the media mocked him for it. The Pharaoh says Algae and they worship him for that.
Rodan wrote:
Oh but wait bho is the MOST CRITIZED president ever!!! Yeah right.
@ Rodan:
Yeah, because burning wood chips won’t create immediate heat, no sirree bob.
@ Lily:
He’s the most protected President ever. I have never seen a President worshiped like a god.
@ Lily:
Didn’t they use Panetta to leak their possible attack time schedule to foil the attack? IMHO, that is taking iran’s side.
Rodan wrote:
Neither have I, especially within the media.
@ citizen_q:
Israel is now saying that they will not advise the
US prior to any attack on Iran. They are saying that
is so the US will have no blame for anything.
Bullshit, it is so the BHO people do not go public
or privately tip off Iran.
The weasels at the White House must be livid.
citizen_q wrote:
I don’t know, but I would not doubt this. There is a reason that Israel isn’t going to tell the White House. Although Israel is soft-peddeling the reason why to the American citizens. It is clearly the WH and our president he distrusts and with good reason.
HOW TO START EACH DAY WITH A POSITIVE OUTLOOK
1. Open a new file in your computer
2. Name it ‘Barack Obama’.
3. Send it to the Recycle Bin.
4. Empty the Recycle Bin.
5. Your PC will ask you: ‘Do you really want to get rid of ‘Barack Obama?’
6. Click ‘YES.’
7. Feel better?
GOOD -- Tomorrow we’ll do Nancy Pelosi
@ Lily:
Yeah, Reagan’s ‘Teflon presidency’ didn’t begin to compare.
This really pisses me off.
citizen_q wrote:
http://www.daylife.com/photo/033S4TS0Ku2Ff?__site=daylife&q=Michelle+Obama
RIX wrote:
I think reason they are doing this is because they don’t have any problems with Americans in general it is the president and the White House is the problem.
I hope the weasels are livid they hate Israel.
Rodan wrote:
The Black Superman./
Bill Maher takes ever chance he gets to have a hate on for Christians.
Being an atheist he sure does seem to be consumed with Christians.
citizen_q wrote:
A re-post:
http://www.iranian.com/main/singlepage/2008/valerie-jarrett
yenta-fada wrote:
Make that the black Spiderman.
Because when Spiderman has the black outfit he was consumed with hate.
Lily wrote:
I think that a lot of professional comedians are headcases. I would bet that’s true of Maher. Needs a check up from the neck up.
Rodan wrote:
Meh, Bill Maher is a ugly gay imbecile who has to sneak up on his own hand to get laid.
Lily wrote:
I LIKE it! The Black Spiderman. heh.
@ Lily:
Absolutely, this is slap at Obama. But it is also a necessity for Israel to have some secrecy.
doriangrey wrote:
I thought Ann Coulter dated him. He could be bi-special.
doriangrey wrote:
Didn’t know he was gay. No wonder the hate on Christians…not saying all are like this.
yenta-fada wrote:
Ann is probably why he is gay…
@ doriangrey:
I used to be a fan of Coulter. Not any more. I may never forgive her for the way she pissed all over her own principles in order to support Mitt Romney.
@ yenta-fada:
LOL!
@ yenta-fada:
Don’t know what is more surprising after looking at her picts and the first part of the bio, that she is black or born in Iran.
Flyovercountry wrote:
Ann Coulter shows off her perfectly-toned arms almost as obsessively as if she were a vanilla version of Michelle Obama.
citizen_q wrote:
Valerie Jarrett looks like an overlarge hamster, without the charm.
@ Flyovercountry:
I used to amused by her antics. Now she is just more MFM white noise (is that raaacist?), that I ignore.
@ yenta-fada:
He is anti-marriage and doesn’t treat women well…but can’t actually rule out he isn’t ac/dc!
Flyovercountry wrote:
My feelings exactly. I came to the conclusion that she was little more than a snake-oil salesman writing not what she believed, but what she carefully calculated would sell.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
You can’t throw a rock without hitting a bad seed in the obama admin.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Doesn’t Valerie Jarrett have some ties to Iran, wasn’t she born there?
doriangrey wrote:
Wouldn’t that make her a female CJ???
Lily wrote:
Yes.
She also appears to have the key to the lockbox in which reside both Barack’s balls and Michelle’s.
Some good news to make us all feel better today!
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/213055-gallup-obamas-approval-rating-falls-sharply#.T01PCNe-zvU.twitter
Enjoy!
I say we skipt the algea (pond scum) and go directly to setic tanks.
Flyovercountry wrote:
I agree completely. I will not buy another one of her books. And I enjoyed her writing -- it was often clever, and sometimes over the top, but she gave you some wonderful facts, etc., to use against the libturds at the cocktail party. I stopped subscribing to her column as well.
Yep she is! Valerie Jarrett ~ Iranian
http://www.iranian.com/main/singlepage/2008/valerie-jarrett
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Lol, hamsters are sort of cute. She looks like a greedy slumlord.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Rumor has it, it is she that really runs things in White House!
/nobody elected her to be president now did they?
yenta-fada wrote:
A pointy, rodent-like face, if you ask me.
Or even if you don’t ask me.
Lily wrote:
Valerie’s got to be steaming with the Obamas right now, though. She bought up all that slum property in Chicago, in anticipation of the Messiah and Fat Ass flying to Copenhagen to get the Olympics for the Windy City -- her property was in the plum spot for building Olympic facilities. So now she’s stuck with shithole property like I’m sure the Obamas guaranteed. Because you know they absolutely believed the appearance of their divine selves would make it impossible for the Olympic Committee to give the Olympics to anyone else.
Nothing says “Kiss My Ass” more than going out in the first round of voting.
yenta-fada wrote:
OMG! LMAO! I’m stealing that!
Wanna hear something else really funny? We got a letter from our gas company today. It offered us a real deal. Pay the same price every month regardless of your usage! (can you tell prices are going down?). And if we sign up for this ‘blanket bill’ they’ll automatically match 5% of our usage with their CleanSteps Carbon Offsets!
SUCKERS!!
Sorry yenta I posted the same website about Jarrett!
Lily wrote:
At the time of the Seal Team Six raid, it was said that she didn’t want Obama to give the go ahead (hell, if rumor is to be believed, that Divine Dufus had to be pulled off the golf course to even deal with the crisis and Panetta got so fed up with the delay that he gave the order himself).
@ Lily:
Hence the nickname: the First Beard….
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
I see what you mean, especially if you include pointy-faced LYING rodent.
http://thehayride.com/2012/02/this-is-whos-running-the-country-valerie-jarrett-says-unemployment-checks-stimulate-the-economy/
@ Carolina Girl:
Well she deserved what she got.
/she is one wicked b*tch!
@ eaglesoars:
You mean to tell me that there are still these nonsensical Carbon Offsets out there! ROTFLMAO!
@ Lily:
I think Valerie is one of the reasons the Divine Dufus has so many czars. Her running the show almost gets lost where there are 40 policymakers running into each other in the West Wing. Well, there’s that reason and the fact that he doesn’t know jack shit about anything except Alinski tactics.
Carolina Girl wrote:
Too many rumors running around she is really running the country. Hence the reason that obamma stays as little as possible there. It bores him. Not to mention he has someone else do the dirty work.
Carolina Girl wrote:
Bingo!
Flyovercountry wrote:
I’d like to know where they think they’re going to trade them. Last I heard all the exchanges had gone bust.
Lily wrote:
Obviously we needed to hear it again.
Flyovercountry wrote:
Australia just passed a Cap & Trade Bill in November 2011 that will take effect in May 2012.
I wonder how long it will take for the peasants to rise up in their righteous wrath and put an end to that BS.
@ Carolina Girl:
Yep his worship of Alinski, who was an atheist, but paid great homage to lucifer! Says alot about obamma doesn’t it.
eaglesoars wrote:
The offsets are another example of the marked-to-fantasy markets.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
@ Carolina Girl:
That’s exactly right. Michelle gave a speech telling
the assembleage that she was born a poor lil Black
girl in the Hood on the South Side.
They really didn’t buy into “Y’all owe me” bullshit.
Besides, it actually was bullshit. Her father had a
good civil service job with the City of Chicago.
Those are political jobs, the Robinsons were not poor.
Lily wrote:
“Lucifer” = “bringer of light”
Obama, according to some of his fans during the last election, is a “lightworker.”
Macker wrote:
Yes, I defintely see it now. lol
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Great contection. They just left out the part he went evil.
Moe Katz wrote:
Word.
@ huckfunn:
They tried to rise up. Gillard still got back in office. Altho her opponent, Rudd, (who had had the office once) was just another evil. I do not understand why Tony Abbot can’t make headway.
RIX wrote:
Michelle Obama was a little girl during the years that South Shore went from being an integrated middle-class neighborhood to a gang-ridden, crime-infested black slum.
A friend of mine grew up there. He told me about waking up each day in the mid-Sixties to find that another one of his friends had moved away in the night; how it became a horror to go to school because the black kids would beat up the ever-dwindling number of white kids.
In the mid-Sixties the huge residential hotel, the Southmoor—one entire square city block—which was the place to hold fancy weddings and other celebrations, was invaded by Blackstone Rangers (later the Black P. Stone Nation, later the El Rukhns) and, in the days long before crack, became a dangerous hellhole filled with muggers and junkies and whores. The Southmoor later became a boarded-up hulk.
That’s what Michelle Obama grew up with; a formerly-grand neighborhood (the South Shore Country Club was very exclusive) that was turned to shit by gangster violence.
And she is on the side of the people who created that environment.
@ Lily:
*pimp* connection
Hannity sez it looks like Romney takes Arizona, still too close to call in MI
@ Rodan:
@ buzzsawmonkey:
A divided nation where women were used as breeders and only the rich and powerful were allowed to take their children. Scary parallel here…to a minor degree.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
@ NoThreat2U:
meh. Atwood is a femni-nazi. Good writer, tho.
@ Lily:
Lucifer is an ancient Latin term referring to the
Morning Star, ergo Bringer of Light.
The term Light Worker referring to Obama was coined
by some slobbering syncophant in the San Francisco
Chronicle. His usage was about one who brings spiritual
enightenment.
Guess that his leg tingled.
@ waldensianspirit:
In Chicago, that is—or was—true, at least in the period between, say, 1915 and about 1970.
Chicago was—still is—a very racially-polarized city. It has the history of a race riot in 1919 where the whites went into the black neighborhoods and lynched blacks from lightposts. You can get some feel for the racial animosity if you read some of the fiction of James T. Farrell, author of the “Studs Lonigan” trilogy, which—like much of his fiction—deals with, among other things, the Irish communities of the South Side dealing with the ever-greater encroachment by black people.
“Blockbusting” was a common practice in Chicago; real estate firms would sell a house to a black family, then use “buy now before your house loses its value” scare tactics to get the other white owners to sell (for ever-less money), then turn around and sell the same houses at inflate prices to the black families who were hoping to move up.
@ RIX:
No doubt. Lightworker good grief. To think people bought it too.
It is a word that elevates the person to be above all other people in my opinion.
More whack job news out of Australia
Australian Ethicists Call For “After-Birth Abortions” In Medical Journal…
@ RIX:
@ Lily:
Obama’s more of a loo-cipher, I think. “Loo” because of what he’s full of, “cipher” because of his accomplishments.
a shitty-enigma?
@ eaglesoars:
I really don’t care for Atwood either. I just stumbled across the movie once and ran out and bought the book.
@ eaglesoars:
Good heavens this is horrible! OMG! This is sheer evil!
NoThreat2U wrote:
If I ever stumble across a Atwood movie, I’m going to sue the bastard that left it laying in the road for me to stumble on…
Lily wrote:
It’s Hitler’s eugenics, nothing less.
@ eaglesoars:
This could also be said “Coming To America Soon” too!
@ doriangrey:
That’s what really happened to my knee. lol Help, I stumbled across a novel!!!!!!!!!!!!
@ doriangrey:
Indeed it is. Have people’s morals become so warped they aren’t concerned with this???
If this were inacted when I had my first child. They would have deemed him unfit to life. Yet at 30 he is working on his 2nd degree and contributes to others and society.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
I do agree with that.
NoThreat2U wrote:
I saw that pic of your leg….Atwood got you good deary! {NT2U}
The United States sits on enough known oil to last us, at our present cinsumption rate, 250 years. I would say we have plentyof time to investigate, explore and tinker with all kinds of new technologies for energy production without sacrificing lifestyle, progress or livlihood. Drill Baby Drill! As new technologies become feasible, they will enter into the streamof profitable endeavors. If they are not proved to be feasible, they will go the way of steam-powered cars and tractors. The government has NEVER been good at forcing inventiveness, with the exception of the A-Bomb, and then it was the military and the gross need of national survival . . . not the socialistic tendencies of a centrally planned government tinkering with the free marker.
I laugh at Obama and it is perfectly acceptable to do so. He is a chump and a sttoge. a Post Turtle. An America-hater of the first order. I have disdain, resentment and anger for him. I scoff in his general direction.
doriangrey wrote:
Look at the wonderful research and bioproducts they’ll be able to make for progressives
Isn’t It Ironic?
The food stamp program, part of the Department of Agriculture, is pleased to be distributing the greatest amount of food stamps ever.
Meanwhile, the Park Service, part of the Department of Interior, asks us to “please do not feed the animals” because the animals may grow dependent and not learn to take care of themselves.
PIMF!
@ Lily:
Yah, she’s a real bitch. lol lol {{{Lily}}} The leg looks much better now though. Just got some really tight sore muscles, but I do lunges and ballet stretches to loosen them up.
yenta-fada wrote:
Was it Jesse or Al that said they were proud to call Obama the Food Stamp President?
@ NoThreat2U:
So glad to hear your leg is getting better!
NoThreat2U wrote:
Come to my rahab hospital and we’ll fix you right up.
yenta-fada wrote:
When will the time morph (if we keep obamma) on who gets to get food and who doesn’t get to get food? Slippery slope depending on the government. Not to mention the government, at least this one wants us all depend on it. Food for me but not thee! Crazytown.
@ Lily:
In Obamas Affordable Care Act it is already here.
It is the law of the land impemented in 2014.
The ‘Comittee” will decide which “Units”
recieve care in a multitude of situations.
Imperfect babies & seniors will not often make the
cut.
Obama is a freeking moster in every way that matters.
@ Lily:
It is. I have a problem with swelling, but that is in both legs. Not sure why but the exercising does help a bit.
@ father_of_10:
I am thinking I may need PT. The muscles are very tight and sore. It burns…inside. Weird feeling.
RIX wrote:
My oldest son has a rare disease and we pay for his insurance not the government. Dear lord. This thing has got to go. The government is playing God here.
father_of_10 wrote:
Thanks to MikeC and Huckfunn I have done quite a bit of research on this whole oil situation. Here is the really ugly brutal truth.
Crude oil is a global fungible commodity. While it may or may not be true that the US has enough oil to last 250 years at “OUR” current consumption rate, “OUR” current consumption rate means diddly-squat. What that means is that the second that oil comes out of the ground it goes on sale on the global market and is purchased by the highest bidder, and then shipped to them.
The only way America will ever become energy independent or self sufficient is if America withdraws from the global crude oil market. What might constitute a 250 year supply for America at America’s current consumption rate doesn’t even remotely approach a 250 year supply for the entire world.
What is not even remotely in debate though is that America has the worlds largest proven hydrocarbon fuel reserves. The majority of it just isn’t crude oil.
@ doriangrey:
dorian, when the term ‘proven’ is used does that mean it’s also recoverable (economically, technichly)?
@ NoThreat2U:
Get your MD to give you a therapy referral. but rememberm Physical Therapists are a mean bunch. They like to hurt you. No pain, no gain was invented by them, I’m sure.
eaglesoars wrote:
You would have to ask MikeC or Huckfunn about that, I am somewhat unclear, I believe it does not mean recoverable. The Green River Valley Shale Oil Reserves for example are estimated at 2.6 TRILLION barrels, but I have been unable to find any reference to their recoverable reserves, unlike the Balkan Formation which has been cited as 503 Billion Barrels, but only about 4.6 Billion recoverable barrels.
@ father_of_10:
I have avoided calling and asking him because he will give me hell for not getting my bloodwork done. Yes, I am worse then a kid sometimes. That is why I have been trying to do the stretching on my own, along with a moist heating pad. If I don’t feel better soon though I will probably call him. Oh and the PT cant scare me…I have given birth…twice. lol
NoThreat2U wrote:
Three time if you consider that general attitude of yours a rotten little brat…
@ NoThreat2U:
I have a hard time going to the doc too. I have high blood pressure and the doc I was going to wanted to all kinds of labs and stuff too often and since I know little about this I balked and had an argument with her and we fired each other (I don’t want to have you as my doctor anymore! Good, because I don’t want you as my patient anymore either!) So when I need a refill on my prescription I asked one of the docs that work for me to call it in and he said: No prob! Want a 90-day with 4 refills?
Problem handled.
but I don’t have a PCP now.
@ doriangrey:
doriangrey wrote:
Ouch.
doriangrey wrote:
thanks dorian. I asked because I was unclear also. How’s mom?
@ NoThreat2U:
Trust me I thought that too. I have gave birth to a 9lb baby and another baby naturally.
The PT whooooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. At least giving birth comes to an end. They put you in a world of hurt. Pain so bad I threw up. Yep I thought child-birth was the worse. No by far! Torture is what physical therapy is like. Pure torture. I begged them to waterboard me because that would have been better than them working my frozen shoulder.
@ doriangrey:
My bad attitude is my best asset
@ father_of_10:
I don’t usually mind going, but when you have surgeons telling you that you have a finite number of years left…do this blood work just to see how bad off you are….I prefer not to do the bloodwork.
@ NoThreat2U:
Check my #165 on PT.
NoThreat2U wrote:
Don’t blame you there. But doc’s are wrong at times.
NoThreat2U wrote:
we all have a finite number of years left. What if the blood work shows that the number of years can be extended, hmmm? Wanna be around with your kids as long as possible, yes?
GO DO THE FUCKING BLOODWORK!!
@ Lily:
It was really that bad????? Well, it may come to that. I am trying to deal with it on my own though. As to the docs, part of me doesn’t want to get caught up in some grand treatment plan only to have Obamacare cut me off at some point. If I am gonna go, I’m gonna go. Half of a treatment plan would be of no help. I am trying to take a more holistic approach anyway.
@ eaglesoars:
I do want to be around as long as possible. What I don’t want is a definitive number. Two surgeons have told me a timeline, two said it was bullshit. I know I should get this done, I am just putting it off for fear of what they have to say.
@ NoThreat2U:
Oh yeah really that bad. But I had a frozen shoulder one of the more painful things. As far as your leg probably will not be as bad as a frozen shoulder I was on pain pills too. That damn pt hurt like hell.
I cried every session. But my pt told me it was one of the most painful types of pt to go through. He was right. Your leg probably will not be that bad. Like eagles says go get your blood work done! I can say my shoulder has 90% movement back. When I began I had maybe 30%.
NoThreat2U wrote:
gurl, you just bring your bad attitude. You got NO expiration date that they’re privy to so just tell them to shove it.
@ NoThreat2U:
If you are dealing with it on your own you may not know all the movements that will help it best. A pt can help you out there too.
On what to do at home.
eaglesoars wrote:
Yep doc’s are wrong on that. My cousin’s wife should be dead like a couple of years ago. Brain cancer. She is actually getting better now.
@ eaglesoars:
I hope you are right. I really am trying to gear myself up to getting it done. I’m trying my hardest to just do it and get it out of the damn way. I just can’t get to that place in my head yet. God I wish my Dad was still alive.
@ Lily:
I will probably wait out the week and then call him Monday if it isn’t feeling better. I am very glad the discoloration went away though. God that thing was ugly!
@ NoThreat2U:
As par your leg I don’t think it will be as bad. My shoulder froze up. I had bone grinding on bone while they were working my arm.
As par your blood work, make the appt. The repeat ‘I’m not going to let it bother me today and at night I’m not going to let it bother me tonight. Don’t think. Because your mind will come up with all types of stuff to scare you.
NoThreat2U wrote:
Listen, they found something on my mamogram 2 wks ago. Now I have to go back and get my boob put back in a vise AGAIN. I’m goin’. Don’t like it but I’m goin’. What would Hubby and Molly the Beagle do w/o me? Lost, they’d be.
I have obligations.
RIX wrote:
Word Perfect.
@ eaglesoars:
They thought I had liver cancer during the fall. I had to go through so many tests and found out it was nothing.
When I got anywhere near low. I just said in my mind, I’m not gonna let it bother me tonight. Then didn’t think about it.
Hope your test comes out fine! Prayers for you!
Lily wrote:
Thanks. I’m really not worried. And if it turns out to be something, maybe I can get a boob job out of it! W00T!
@ eaglesoars:
That is the type of attitude you have to have.
I just want to say one word.
Are you listening?
Yes sir.
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