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WASHINGTON – A Democratic senator on the Energy and Natural Resources Committee inadvertently explained why her colleagues have no intention of ending the moratorium on offshore oil drilling or increasing the areas open for exploration and production – no matter how popular the idea might be with gas prices soaring.

In an interview with Bloomberg TV’s “Money and Politics” last night, Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., explained Democrats don’t want to increase supplies of oil and gasoline because they want to wean Americans off of petroleum products.

Asked point-blank if Democrats in the Senate would consider how increasing the supply of oil would lower the prices that are pinching U.S. consumers, Cantwell replied: “Oh, we definitely want to move beyond petroleum. And so there will be a supply side offered by the Democrats and it will include everything from battery technology to making sure that we have good home domestic supply, and looking, as I said about moving faster on those kind of things like wind and solar that can help us with our high cost of natural gas.”

In other words, no.

The point was underlined by Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, who said Democrats are not even permitting debate on legislation and amendments designed to increase the supply of oil and gasoline to U.S. consumers.

“Today, the appropriations markup that was going to include amendments that would open up the outer continental shelf and maybe even shale in Colorado and Utah was canceled,” she told the same Bloomberg interviewer. “It wasn’t postponed, it was canceled. So that indicates to me that the majority is not going to try to have an open debate, but I hope I’m wrong. If they have an open debate, and we’re allowed to have amendments, and we have a balanced plan that includes production in all the sectors, then I believe we can meet this problem in a bipartisan way, and that’s what we should be doing for America.”

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=70337

The corporate headquarters for McDonald’s is hearing from store managers in California that customers are upset over the company’s pro-homosexual advocacy and they aren’t going to take it any longer.

Yuriy Popko, one of several Christians who staged a sign-waving protest at the Golden Arches in Citrus Heights today, said the protest at that location was suspended when store officials agreed to convey protesters’ objections to the corporate office.

It was because of a decision by the restaurant chain known for Happy Meals and its Golden Arches to deliberately advocate for homosexuality. The company has given $20,000 to the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce and placed one of its executives on that group’s board. The NGLCC, among other things, lobbies for same-sex “marriage” provisions.

“McDonalds should focus on food quality and safety issues instead of attacking the values held by the majority of people worldwide. Marriage between a man and a woman is the norm throughout the world. McDonalds’ personal attack against those who support the traditional definition of marriage, while siding with a narrow group that promotes a radical redefinition, shows that company executives are out to lunch. McDonalds might as well change their signs to read ‘billions and billions insulted,’” said Mathew Staver, chief of Liberty Counsel.

“It’s a shame that McDonald’s would tarnish their family-friendly image,” said AFA Chairman Don Wildmon. “But the company has ramped up its support of the gay agenda and it leaves us no option but to call for a boycott.”

Boycotts and protests are the American way to make the voices of average citizens heard. Normally I am not a big fan of Wildmon, but McDonalds has always been family oriented and to use the money of those families to advance anti-family, pro-gay issues is just not good business IMO.

I won’t go to McDonalds for anything until they stop using money I pay for products for gay causes.

By the way, I wonder what this says about Californians and amending the state constitution this year to ban gay marriages?

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=70344

I post this in its entirety and credit it to Wolkings World @ http://wolkingsworld.com/2008/07/21/spitting-on-soldiers-recent-anti-american-demonstration-in-santa-barbara/

Spitting on soldiers: recent anti-American demonstration in Santa Barbara

A friend of a friend produced this video, one of the best I’ve seen when it comes to documenting the anti-Americanism of the radical left. Complete with an upside down flag, spitting on an Iraq War veteran and calling him a rapist, it’s sure to make your blood boil. Good gosh, can we please rid our country of this kind of human garbage?

You know, the Left would like to turn almost anything now into a hate crime. Do you think we could get the Dems in Congress to include US servicemen and women in their next piece of hate crime legislation? Imagine if some right-of-center folks had spat all over a LGBT parade. I’d think we’d see a huge cry of intolerance and bigotry from the Left. Why should it be any different when these maggots verbally and physically attack our troops in our own country, whether they are in uniform or not?

These people are the waste product of the world, deserving to be flushed into the sewers from whence they came!

Its a pretty bad commentary on our country when a firefighter is killed, not because of the fire, but because some bastard is shooting at the firefighters and police officers.

MAPLEWOOD, Mo. (AP)—A gunman shot at firefighters responding to a report of a burning pickup truck early Monday, killing one, then opened fire on other emergency workers, wounding two. The incident began at 5:40 a.m. with a report of a pickup truck fire in Maplewood, a suburban town just southwest of St. Louis. When firefighters arrived, someone began firing shots.

St. Mary’s Hospital spokesman Eric Clark said a firefighter/paramedic from Maplewood was killed. The city identified him as 22-year-old Ryan Hummert. Officials said he was shot to death as he got off the fire truck.

Hummert, the son of former Maplewood Mayor Andy Hummert, began his career in August 2007 after graduating from paramedic training. He graduated from the St. Louis County Fire Academy in March.

“He had been with the fire department for only 10 months but knew it was his calling,” Fire Chief Terry Merrell said at a brief news conference as he fought back tears. “It’s impossible to say in words the emotion and pain we are feeling right now.”

Sanyoz Rai, who works at a 7-Eleven store nearby, said he heard three or four shots at around 5:45 a.m., then saw a police officer go to the ground holding his shoulder. Rai said he then saw a firefighter on the ground behind the truck. He said the firefighter remained there for an hour before authorities could get close enough to remove him.

God bless the brave young man, his family and fellow first responders and may He help the authorities get the scum bag that did this!

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/F/FIRE_STANDOFF?SITE=CAANG&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

Rick Warren’s Southern California megachurch announced today it will host the first joint campaign appearance of Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama.

Warren will moderate the event with the presumed Republican and Democratic presidential nominees Aug.16 at Saddleback Church’s Civil Forum on Leadership and Compassion.

“This is a critical time for our nation and the American people deserve to hear both candidates speak from the heart – without interruption – in a civil and thoughtful format absent the partisan ‘gotcha’ questions that typically produce heat instead of light,” Warren said in a statement.

To the surprise of many here at SAB, I am absolutely against this event. While I believe the government should not be hostile to people of faith, that Christians have a right to promote and elect fellow Christians, influence laws to reflect their belifs and be involved in shaping our nation; this is an unacceptable entanglement by the Church in election year politics that elevates one man as seemingly speaking for Christians everywhere.

It is perfectly fine to me for a minister to speak to issues that are important to Christians, even to the point of indicating how each candidate stands on these issues. Outside the pulpit, there is no reason why a minister or any Christian should not be able to endorse one candidate over another. But, this event puts Warren into the position of Protestant Pope, without benefit of God’s calling him or anyone to that position.

Warren said: “While I know both men as friends, and they recognize I will be frank, but fair, they also know I will be raising questions in these four areas beyond what political reporters typically ask,” Warren said. “This includes pressing issues that are bridging divides in our nation, such as poverty, HIV/AIDS, climate and human rights.” These, as he stated them in the past, are Leftist issues and Warren has demonstrated his own anti-Semitism and pro-Islam stances in the past and I expect him to endorse Obama!

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=70182

The following story is from the Israeli Insider, July 20th, 2008. I don’t have the expertise to verify it further:

The purported Certification of Live Birth published by the Daily Kos left wing blog and claimed as genuine by the Obama campaign features a security border that differs dramatically from security borders on COLB documents before and after the one supposedly printed out for Obama in 2007.

Barack Obama may be on a world tour surrounded by a fawning media, but Sunday an expert in electronic document forensics released a detailed report on the purported birth certificate—actually a “Certification of Live Birth” or COLB—claimed as genuine by his campaign. The expert concludes with 100% certainty that it is a crudely forged fake: “a horribly forgery,” according to the analysis published on the popular right-wing Atlas Shrugs blog.

Atlas Shrugs publisher Pamela Geller reports that the expert analyst, who goes by the screen name “Techdude”, is “an active member of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, American College of Forensic Examiners, The International Society of Forensic Computer Examiners, International Information Systems Forensics Association—the list goes on. He also a board certified as a forensic computer examiner, a certificated legal investigator, and a licensed private investigator. He has been performing computer-based forensic investigations since 1993 (although back then it did not even have a formal name yet) and he has performed countless investigations since then.”

“The (Daily) KOS image security border pattern does not match any known specimen from any known year. It does not match the pre-2006 nor does it match the post-2006 certificate patterns. The placement of the text in all of the pre-2006 and post-2006 certificates are almost identical pixel location matches while the image?s text placement does not match any known specimen from any known year. The shape and kerning of the fonts used in the 2006 through 2008 certificates are identical while the shape and kerning of the fonts used in the image does not match any known specimen. The KOS image shows clear signs of tampering such as the mismatch in RGB and error levels, visible indications of the previous location of the erased security border, easily detectable patterns of repeating flaws around the new security border, EXIF data that says the image was last saved with Photoshop CS3 for Macintosh, and finally a technician from Hawaii who confirms it just looks wrong.”

The evidence, he says, allows for two possible scenarios by which the document was fabricated:

See the rest of the story at http://web.israelinsider.com/Articles/Politics/12993.htm

This is not to suggest anything about the Obama Campaign or DailyKos, other than it appears the document they say prove Obama is a U.S. citizen is a forgery.

“For those of you who are not familiar with her case, Lauren overdosed on heroin on August 28, 2006. She suffered oxygen deprivation as a result of the overdose and Lauren is now ... unable to speak out for herself. At the time of the overdose Lauren was expecting a baby. Her parents honored what they knew would have been her wish and did all they could to keep her healthy and comfortable until the child was born. Today, though Lauren may not be aware of it, she is the mother of Ember Grace, who was born in February 2007,” Brown wrote.

“With therapy, she might be eating [by herself] within a couple months,” he said. “Right now they’re trying to hang her out to dry.”

He said he’s identified treatments that could be tried and therapy that could be attempted, and he’s offered to provide the care his daughter needs, but has been rejected.

“My daughter has been there for 16 months. I’ve had enough,” he said. “I’m really ticked about it. This Medicaid thing is paying huge numbers to keep her in this home when she could be at my home for nothing.”

Even now, without substantive treatment, he said, “She has been trying to sit up and also has tried to verbalize. She looks good, is loving, she cries, she can giggle, she can’t talk but does try to verbalize, we can tell when she’s in pain or uncomfortable.”

“We struggle at times as we seek to share with the public the details of what is happening with Lauren because of the disagreement we have with Lauren’s mother. We cannot understand her reasoning in refusing a path of hope, healing and restoration for Lauren and insisting on causing her death by withholding food and water from her. The issue in Lauren’s case is the eternal truth that all people, no matter what their medical condition, bear the image of God and deserve basic care and an opportunity to be restored to health.”

The statement from the House of Representatives said:

BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the 144th General Assembly of the State of Delaware that it is against the public policy of this State and this State’s interest in life, health and safety, for hydration and nutrition that is not harming a patient to be involuntarily removed from a non-terminal, apparently brain-incapacitated patient if doing so will cause the individual’s death. Furthermore, such withholding of hydration and nutrition without: 1) clear written direction from a legally competent patient or, 2) a valid written advance health-care directive that was previously executed by a patient who is now incapacitated and that either allows such withholding under such circumstances or grants an agent authority to make that decision by an incapacitated patient is also against the public policy of the State of Delaware.

The lawmakers’ plan cites the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which “asserts that ‘everyone has the right to recognition as a person before the law’ and that ‘all are equal before the law.’”

Three issues are of importance to me:

I object to the idea that the state is playing a role in the execution (Euthanasia) of Lauren. As long as she is able to survive without external life support machines and the father is willing to take her into his home and provide for her daily care, the state should have no authority over Lauren.

I object to nutrition and hydration being classified as artifical life support or extraordinary means, even if administered by a tube. If she were on machines and removing her from those machines would cause her death that is a different subject, but dammit food and water are not artifical means of life support.

I object to the state exercising control over the lives of our children. If this case is between the parents and one parent is willing to assume responsibility that ends the matter ands the state should butt out!

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=70004

I realize some horn dogs here will rejoice at this news and book flights to S.F.

Petitioners have succeeded in moving a measure that would effectively decriminalize prostitution in the city of San Francisco to the Nov. 4 ballot.

While prostitution is unlawful under the California Penal Code, the measure – if passed by voters – would ban the San Francisco Police Department from allocating any financial resources for the investigation and prosecution of sex workers on prostitution charges.

Section four of the ballot measure – under the heading “Prostitution Shall Be Decriminalized” – further states that the city, county, and district attorney “shall not subject sex-workers to life long economic discrimination associated with having a criminal record.”

I have a big problem with local municipalities being able to violate state or federal laws with impunity. California has laws again prostitution, it is a criminal act, whether others think it should be or not. But, if cities like this can flaunt the law and not suffer by withholding of state funds, then the state is for all intent and purposes lawless. This is anarchy!

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=70050

Guess what this is?

New Cook County Correctional Center
Chicago , Illinois

( I guess if I ever break the law, I’d better do it in Illinois !

Homeless people should have it so good!)

Once again the taxpayer gets stung.

I got this by Email today:

On Easter the ex-cheerleader (age 19) in this picture was watching a road that lead to a NATO military base when she observed a man digging by the road. She engaged the target, and she shot him.

Turned out he was a bomb maker for the Taliban and he was burying an IED that was to be detonated when a US patrol walked by 30 minutes later. It would have certainly killed and wounded several soldiers.

The shot was measured at 725 yards. She shot him as he was bent over burying the bomb. The shot struck him in the butt blowing in to the bomb which detonated. He was blown to pieces. The Air Force made a motivational poster of her. Her name is Kimmy.
To you we say, HOO-AH! Thanks for your service.

Jim Reed
Munitions & Explosives Safety Specialist
NTC Ft. Irwin , CA

A federal appeals court dismissed a civil rights complaint by 11 Philadelphia Christians, ruling their First Amendment rights were trumped by the First Amendment rights of homosexuals at the city’s taxpayer-funded “Outfest” celebration in 2004.

“The city has an interest in ensuring that a permit-holder can use the permit for the purpose for which it was obtained,” this week’s opinion from the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said. ”This interest necessarily includes the right of police officers to prevent counter-protestors from disrupting or interfering with the message of the permit-holder.”

“It is without question that Judge Stengel’s decision has set a precedent to eliminate the First Amendment rights of others by citing that a ‘permitting scheme’ can be used by police and event organizers to ‘exclude persons expressing contrary messages’ in public areas and at public events,” Marcavage said earlier.

Besides Christianity itself being under assault by the government, mostly based on a pro-homosexual agenda, our First Amendment right to free political speech in the public square is also under assault. In this case, it is shameful that the rights of homosexuals to the public square were ruled as being greater than the rights of any group, even when they are not disruptive, from protesting the homosexual agenda of the group having a legal permit. Does that mean that civil rights advocates should not be allowed to protest KKK rallies in the public square? Does it mean that if a Democrat candidate has a scheduled rally in the public square no one protesting their candidacy may be present at the same time?

Free Speech means that everyone has an equal right to the public square, even if what they have to say is offensive to another group. But, now Free Speech is limited to that speech approved by the community and all other speech can lawfully be silenced. Sounds like the Soviet Union to me!

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=69881

Teachers, pastors facing ‘criminalization of homophobia’

Christians will face prison for speaking out against homosexuality if Brazil’s Senate passes a bill approved unanimously by its House of Representatives.

The measure is considered the country’s newest attempt to promote homosexuality, disguised as an act to combat discrimination, the Catholic News Agency reports.

If anyone prevents actions of “homosexual affection” in public or private locations open to the public, they could face up to five years in prison for doing so, the Association of the Defense of Life reports.

The bill also seeks to penalize private and public school administrators with up to three years in prison if they refuse to hire openly “gay” teachers.

According to the CNA, the measure will force prison time for any “moral, ethical, philosophical or psychological expression that questions homosexual practices.”

The ADL claims the bill could spell disaster for churches and teachers.

“[A] priest, a pastor, a teacher or even an average citizen who says in a sermon, a classroom or public conversation that homosexual acts are sinful, disordered or an illness could be denounced and detained,” the association said.

Only weeks ago, WND reported the president of Brazil said ”opposing” homosexuality makes you a sick person, and he believes such thoughts need to be criminalized.

This is NOT just in Brazil, such hate crimes laws are being passed throughout much of the world, even in Canada and while not as severe yet, even in the United States.

This is wholly anti-Christian in nature, as I assure you that no country would dare arrest and imprison Muslims for attacking homosexuality as being a sin. The homosexual community with their small numbers have big money to buy votes and thus sway politicians to support these laws.

Beyond the crime of saying homosexuality is wrong, I was fascinated by the idea in this law of it being illegal to try and prevent physical acts of affection between homosexuals in public. So, I guess if in a park, near children, if homosexuals are engaging in oral sex or sodomy and a parent tried to encourage them to put their penises away, that could land them in prison.

Such laws are making their way to America, in California we are very near to having such laws passed by our legislature. This is a violation of the First Amendment in that it unnecessarily infringes upon our rights of free speech and freedom of religion. This is not a states rights issue, it is a degradation of the morality of our nation and that to our everlasting peril.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=69775

A San Francisco city and county board resolution that officially labeled the Catholic church’s moral teachings on homosexuality as “insulting to all San Franciscans,” “hateful,” “defamatory,” “insensitive” and “ignorant” will be challenged tomorrow in court for violating the Constitution’s prohibition of government hostility toward religion.

Resolution 168-08, passed unanimously by the City and County of San Francisco Board of Supervisors two years ago, also accused the Vatican of being a “foreign country” meddling with and attempting to “negatively influence (San Francisco’s) existing and established customs.”

The anti-Catholic diatribe had been challenged in U.S. District Court on similar grounds, but District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel ruled in favor of the city, saying, in essence, the church started it.

Thomas More attorney Robert Muise will present oral arguments in the case tomorrow morning in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

“Our Constitution plainly forbids hostility toward any religion, including the Catholic faith,” he said.

“In total disregard for the Constitution, homosexual activists in positions of authority in San Francisco have abused their authority as government officials and misused the instruments of the government to attack the Catholic Church. Their egregious abuse of power has now the backing of a lower federal court. … Unfortunately, all too often we see a double standard being applied in Establishment Clause cases,” Muise said.

Thomas More attorneys argued in the District Court case that the “anti-Catholic resolution sends a clear message” that Catholics are “outsiders, not full members of the political community.”

The cultural, and now political, straight-arm to adherents of the Christian faith in San Francisco has been increasingly public in the last two years. Just one week after the anti-Catholic resolution was passed, the San Francisco Board issued a similar resolution against a mostly evangelical group.

This is another salvo by S.F., homosexual activists and liberals generally against the Christian Faith. Like many other countries around the world we are rapidly moving towards making Christianity a crime punishable by law and our own national Sodom and Gomorrah - S.F., along with California is leading the battle.

This is official government, including judicial, hostility towards people of faith and while it doesn’t matter to a lot of people, it violates the First Amendment of the Constitution.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=69693

Global economy facing ‘perfect storm’ as inflation hits 16-year high - and the worst is yet to come

Panic gripped the City and Wall Street as the global economy drifted towards ‘a perfect storm’, adding to pressure on Gordon Brown a week before a crucial by-election.

The shock rise in inflation to 3.8 per cent in [Britain] means it has more than doubled since Labour came to power in May 1997. In a double blow for cash-strapped families, economists warned the cost of living will keep on rising and interest rates will not come down.

No respite from rising energy and food prices

Bank of England policymaker Andrew Sentance warned yesterday there will be no respite from the pain of rising energy and food prices.

He said: ‘Inflation is being pushed up in the short term, and it will take time to get it back under control.

‘That will require a squeeze on spending and incomes in the UK and other economies, with consequences for economic growth and employment in the short term.’

In a speech in Windsor, he said the good times are over for Britain as the country enters a ‘significant’ slowdown in economic growth.

He said: ‘In the face of the current oil and commodity price pressures, we cannot expect to sustain the benign world of steady growth and consistently low inflation that has characterised the last decade and a half across many developed economies, including the UK.’

If public expectations for rising prices get out of control, an even sharper downturn may be needed, he added

Yes, this comes from the British Media, but I am asking our resident economists at SAB if they see the global economy in this kind of crisis and if so, could it mean a global depression in the near future.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1035373/Global-economy-facing-perfect-storm-inflation-hits-16-year-high--worst-come.html

If Obama still feels ambiquous about the insitution of marriage, despite being pushed into it by Michelle; what does that say about what policies we might expect from him as POTUS?

Barack Obama’s Struggle Over Whether Marriage Had Become ‘An Outdated Institution’

A new detail about the courtship of Michelle Obama:

It took two years for Obama to finally propose. Though she knew he didn’t fear commitment, Michelle had become a bit irritated with his struggle over whether marriage had become an outdated institution.

Wow. And with this offhand comment, a thousand new excuses are born. “Honey, it’s not that I fear commitment. It’s that I’m struggling over whether marriage has become an outdated institution.”

I recall from that other Obama profile in the New Yorker, this one on Michelle:

Barack had a more bohemian attitude toward romance. “We would have this running debate throughout our relationship about whether marriage was necessary,” Obama told me. “It was sort of a bone of contention, because I was, like, ‘Look, buddy, I’m not one of these who’ll just hang out forever.’ You know, that’s just not who I am. He was, like”—she broke into a wishy-washy voice—“ ‘Marriage, it doesn’t mean anything, it’s really how you feel.’ And I was, like, ‘Yeah, right.’ ”

Richard Starr asks, “Wasn’t it a little, um, outdated, to be doubting the institution of marriage in the early 1990s?”

From National Review: http://campaignspot.nationalreview.com/post/?q=OTRhNzk0YzI5OTQ2M2Q0ODRlMWRjYjFmODI5NDgxMzU=