Oil Shortage

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There are a lot of folks who can't understand how we came to have an oil
shortage here in America.
Well, there's a very simple answer. "Nobody bothered to check the oil."
We just didn't know we were getting low. The reason for that is purely
geographical.
All our oil is in Alaska, Texas, California, and Oklahoma.
All our dipsticks are in Washington, DC.

And Washington is causing the shortage. We are putting back into The Strategic Storage, that's the oil the Air Force, and Navy, etc. use, all the oil they can and that why we have a shortage. Why so fast? Maybe because Caheney worked for Halliburton. Or because it's good for the Oil Co. or Texas, or Bush.
Unless we are going right back into war again we usually take year to bring those stocks back to full so as not to TAX the public for the need to do so by driving up prices.


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Halliburton admits giving faulty cost estimates - Gee, who woulda thunk

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The full story

Ya think they'll be charged some REAL money and if so what will the Bush Whitehouse do with it?


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From "J" in Maui

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Please don't shoot the messenger here. I am not promoting either party.
I just figure that if this is true, we should know about it.

Subject: Social Security... This is interesting no matter what your
>persuasion]
>
>SOCIAL SECURITY:
>(This is worth the read. It's short and to the point.)
>
>Since many of us have paid into FICA for years and are now receiving a Social
>Security check every month (or will soon be) -- and then finding that we are
>getting only 85% of the money we paid to the federal government to "put away,"
>you may be interested in the following:

>Q: Which party took Social Security from an independent fund and put it in
>the general fund so that Congress could spend it?
>A: It was Lyndon Johnson and the Democratic-controlled House and Senate.
>
>Q: Which party put a tax on Social Security?
>A: The Democratic party.
>
>Q: Which party increased the tax on Social Security?
>A: The Democratic Party with Al Gore casting the deciding vote.
>
>Q: Which party decided to give money to immigrants? immigrants? immigrants?
>A: That's right, immigrants moved into this country and at 65 got SSI (Social
>Security). The Democratic Party gave that to them although they never paid a
>dime into it.
>
>Then, after doing all this, the Democrats turn around and tell you the
>Republicans want to take your Social Security. And the worst part about it is,
>people believe it!
>
>2004 Election Issue
>
>This must be an issue in "04." Please! Keep it going.
>
>Perhaps we are asking the wrong questions during election years. Our Senators
>and Congressmen/women do not pay into Social Security and, of course, they do
>not collect from it.
>
>You see, Social Security benefits were not suitable for persons of their rare
>elevation in society. They felt they should have a special plan for
>themselves. So, many years ago they voted in their own benefit plan.
>
>In more recent years, no congressperson has felt the need to change it. After
>all, it is a great plan. For all practical purposes their plan works like
>this:
>When they retire, they continue to draw the same pay until they die, except
>it may increase from time to time for cost of living adjustments.
>
>For example, former Senator Byrd and Congressman White and their wives may
>expect to draw $7,800,000.00 (that's Seven Million, Eight-Hundred Thousand
>Dollars), with their wives drawing $275,000.00 during the last years of their
>lives. This is calculated on an average life span for each.
>Question: WHY are the WIVES receiving a check?????
>Their cost for this excellent plan is $00.00, Nada, Zilch. This little perk
>they voted for themselves is free to them. You and I pick up the tab for this
>plan. The funds for this fine retirement plan come directly from the General
>Funds-our tax dollars at work! >From our own
>
>Social Security Plan, which you and I pay (or have paid) into-every payday
>until we retire (which amount is matched by our employer) --we can expect
>to get an average $1,000 per month after retirement. Or, in other words, we
>would have to collect our average of $1,000. monthly benefits for 68 years and
>one (1) month to equal Senator Bill Bradley's benefits!

>Social Security could be very good if only one small change were made. That
>change would be to jerk the Golden Fleece Retirement Plan from under the
>Senators and Congressmen. Put them into the Social Security plan with the rest of us
>. . then sit back and watch how fast they would fix it.
>
>If enough people receive this, maybe a seed of awareness will be planted and
>maybe good changes will evolve. How many people can YOU send this to?
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Can we win at all?? I think not. D

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Tell the Supreme Court how you feel

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The fate of the Pledge of Allegiance rests in The Supreme Court!

To voice my support for the Pledge of Allegiance, I have signed
a Grassfire.net petition calling on the U.S. Supreme Court to
support the Pledge of Allegiance by reversing an earlier ruling
that found the Pledge to un-Constitutional.

This is a critical case that if not overturned, could affect other
critical foundational documents in our nation.

By adding my name to the 584,384 citizens who are
standing to save the Pledge, I am sending a message to the U.S.
Supreme Court that I expect them to do everything in their power
to protect and preserve our Pledge of Allegiance for the
generations of citizens that follow.

Please join me in signing this crucial petition and have your
petition delivered to the Supreme Court and Congress:

http://www.grassfire.org/14/petition.asp?PID=5873606

P of OR, USA
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I won't be signing it but we try to speak to all sides. If the word "God" is the problem, because that is too limiting why not replace "God" with "Our Supreme Being" as most limits would be gone then. We are a country of many kinds of churchs. But they, I think, believe in their SUPREME BEING.

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Salon.com has just broken a major story detailing

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Salon.com has just broken a major story detailing
how the Pentagon created a special office to
manipulate intelligence data on Iraq and WMDs. It's
written by Karen Kwiatkowski, a military officer who
watched this unit at work, telling us the inside story
in her own words.

Click here to read the full story:

http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2004/03/10/osp_moveon/

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Ask for Paige to be fired! Who is he? Read on...

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Last month, President Bush's Secretary of Education, Rod Paige, called America's largest teachers' union a "terrorist organization." Why? Because the union had the gall to insist that President Bush live up to his own promises to adequately fund education. Please sign our petition demanding that President Bush fire Secretary Paige.

Ask for Paige to be fired. Sign the petition

This is typical behavior for the Bush administration. It says one thing - "no child left behind" and does another - under-funding its promises to our schools by $9.4 billion in its latest budget proposal. And when people dare to disagree with its policies, it questions their patriotism or labels them terrorists.

Secretary Paige uses insult to defend the indefensible. Not only did the president break his promise to fund the reforms, his current budget calls for cuts in support for schools over the next five years. And he still wants to take billions from public schools to pay for private school vouchers. So Paige resorts to slurs: even in his supposed apology, he dismissed teachers' growing concerns as "obstructionist scare tactics."

We teach our kids that name calling is not the right way to win an argument - in fact, it’s usually a sign that you don't have the facts on your side. Making our schools better is a tough job. We need a Secretary of Education who sees teachers and their representatives as partners in this effort rather than as enemies. Join in in calling on President Bush to find a better person for the job.


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