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USA Today, 7-25-10, Pg 6A
Not found in the Roanoke Times – would be totally inconsistent with their declaration that the war is over:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2010/05/roanoke-times-declares-end-of-war.html
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“We are at war with al-Qaeda” Prime Minister Francois Fillon said, a day after President Sarkozy announced the death of hostage Michel Germaneau, a humanitarian worker in Niger.
http://politifi.com/news/Sarkozy-blasts-AQIM-slaying-of-Frenchman-974112.html
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Are the French jumping to a premature knee-jerk reaction?
Is this a French John Wayne, George Bush, Cowboy thing?
After many Frenchmen have died in embassy and night-club bombings over the last 10 years, including three who died in the WTC 9/11 attack and the French troops that have died on the battle field why this rush to judgment and declaration of war now?
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This is very curious and certainly inconsistent with Obama’s strategy of making friends with the Radical Extremist Muslims as so well articulated by his NASA Administrator, Charles Bolden.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2010/07/obama-nasa-islam.html
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Does a "declaration of war" mean that France is actually going to do something?
Certainly puts them in a better position to surrender should things go badly!
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Roanoke Times, 7-9-10, Pg 5 & 7: Study says 100 degree heat waves are likely to increase and thousands of people may die – (and it’s your fault for using hydro-carbon fuels and making CO2!).
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During one of the longest and coldest periods in the Roanoke area, with two months of continuous snow cover and subfreezing temperatures, the Roanoke Times quoted their sources that assured us that “there’s no connection between short term weather and climate”. But now the reason we're having some hot summer days is proof of the Gore Global Warming CO2 hypothesis.
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Back on Pg 7 there’s some interesting Roanoke record temperature data:
Aug 5, 1930: Roanoke record high: 105 degrees
June 24, 1930 to Sept 3 1930: 14 days of 100+ degrees
July 10, 1936: Roanoke matched the record high again: 105 degrees
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How do our record high temperatures track against CO2?
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It would also be of interest to reflect on the amount of people, buildings, concrete, blacktop, vehicles and I-581 that have been added to Roanoke since 1930. That begs the question: shouldn't it be a lot hotter now than in 1930?
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It would be helpful if the liberal media who are promoting the Alarmist-Gore-IPCC-Hypothesis would stop publishing junk-science and stick to the facts and publish all this type data in the historical perspective that we are in a 250 year warming cycle of unknown cause, that started at the end of the little ice age in 1750, and that there is significant amounts of natural variability locally and globally.
Stop propagating the patently false alarmist hype that every daily weather event is a direct result of man-kinds activity. Even the IPCC rejects that tripe!
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Some Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2010/07/science-and-ideology.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2010/06/more-climategate-doublespeak.html
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The Obama directive that a primary objective of NASA is to suck-up to the Muslim world was even more gross than the Editors of the Roanoke Times could bring themselves to print.
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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/07/05/nasa-chief-frontier-better-relations-muslims/
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NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said in a recent interview that his "foremost" mission as the head of America's space exploration agency is to improve relations with the Muslim world.
Bolden said in an interview with Al Jazeera that strengthening those ties was among the top tasks President Obama assigned him.
“When I became the NASA administrator -- or before I became the NASA administrator -- he charged me with three things. One was he wanted me to help re-inspire children to want to get into science and math, he wanted me to expand our international relationships, and third, and perhaps foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science ... and math and engineering," Bolden said in the interview.
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It is difficult to comment on this gross malfeasance of office without using profanity!
The NASA that JFK missioned to send Americans to the moon is now missioned by Obama to suck-up to the people that harbors and supports our enemies who have declared war upon us and killed thousands of Americans and continue to attack us in every way they can.
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2010/05/roanoke-times-declares-end-of-war.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/09/obama-commander-of-unilateral.html
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Roanoke Times, 7-4-10, Pg Horiz 1: Not blinded by science, but ideology.
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The author, Chris Mooney, unsuccessfully tries to make the point that the public is not responding to the scientific community on “selected subjects” because they are either ignorant or ideologs who have an economic or political agenda.
The author further opines that the most egregious nonbelievers are college educated conservatives. His primary example of his political thesis is those really bad global warming Skeptic people.
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The author clearly doesn’t comprehend that real educated people are Critical Thinkers who are by definition Skeptics! On the other hand, those other educated people who just regurgitate the pabulum offered by many liberal college professors are programmed to repeat back and accept the material served up by the “all knowing” media and so called “experts by consensus.”
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Perhaps the 30,000+ signers of the Petition Project: http://www.petitionproject.org/
who represent all sectors of science and engineering aren’t ideologs but are instead educated Skeptics who understand earth science, the long-term variability of earths climate and who differentiate between global warming, the effects of greenhouse gases and human activities. Perhaps they are not prone to jump on a “consensus bandwagon” but instead question the real science available from all sources and also question why none of the Alarmists will engage in meaningful technical debate.
The debate forums are available from organizations like Heartland Institute at:
http://www.globalwarmingheartland.org/index.html
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A key statement included: “the scientists often fail to realize that a more scientifically informed public is not necessarily a public that will more frequently side with scientists.”
Image that! Educated people questioning the thesis being proposed by scientists!
Just how arrogant can this author and his scientific associates be? Apparently things are better for them when there is a population covered by a blanket of ignorance and superstition standing ready to buy the alchemists gold or the medicine man’s elixir.
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Instead of lamenting and trying to marginalize the Skeptics, why not engage them in open and fair debate on the scientific facts and the uncertainty of the hypothesis of man-made global warming.
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How trusting can the “common man” be when even Jon Stewart points out the total lack of creditability and professionalism of the Alarmists?
http://www.roanokeslant.org/ClimateGate/ClimateGate.swf
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2010/05/challenging-global-warming-alarmists.html
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2010/06/more-climategate-doublespeak.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2010/05/hypocrisy-of-uva-faculty.html
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Roanoke Times, 6-23-10, Pg 1: McChrystal delivering resignation to Obama.
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The Democrat and White House thrashing machines are in full gear.
How could General McChrystal be disrespectful to Obama, his crown of Chicago hoods and his army of Czars who have been injecting themselves into situations for which they have no Constitutional or Congressional authority or business?
The White House spin is how ungrateful he is! We gave him everything he asked for and made him chief and now he does this!
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Over a year ago McChrystal asked for 60,000 troops ASAP.
After months of delay Obama agreed to 30,000. (The muller-in-chief)
The 30,000 still aren’t there!
Instead of getting the assets he requested, McChrystal has had to cow-tow to a steady stream of Czars, minions and political hacks who bounce around Kabul and kiss-up to Karzi’s tantrums and empower his corrupt crowd.
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The height of Obama-team malfeasance is that US troops are directed not to disturb the poppy fields that supply millions of dollars of drug money to the enemy. Obama and Karzi don’t want to upset the farmers and they sure don’t want to stop all the corrupt payoffs going to Karzi and associates.
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General McChrystal certainly did make one major error.
It was his obligation to resign before Blasting the Obama-team.
As a military General Officer that was his duty and obligation.
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Prior Item:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/10/obama-muller-in-chief.html
Obama The Muller-in-Chief October 4, 2009
Roanoke Times, 10/3/09, Pg 1, 3: White house considers narrower war effort.
Roanoke Times, 10/4/09, Pg 1, 10: US strategy at a crossroads in Afghanistan as Obama mulls what to do.
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Apparently Obama is trying to vote “present” on his responsibilities as commander-in-chief as our troops fight and die in a war he declared is the “right war”.
In March Obama replaced the army commander in Afghanistan with his choice and declared that Bush had low-balled that war and his (Obama’s) new strategy would fix yet another Bush mess!
Now, six months later, he proclaims to our troops and the world that “we don’t have a strategy in Afghanistan” and he is trying to find one. His key in-putter is none other than Joe Biden. He’s the guy who demanded two years ago, that we break Iraq into three separate countries! Now he wants to fight the Afghanistan war with drone missiles and much fewer troops than Bush deployed!
This Biden brain-storm was publicly shot-down and discredited by Gen. McChrystal, Obama’s general choice, from whom Obama now refuses to accept his input for the requirements to fight Obama’s March-strategy War!
Can you imagine the Democrat and left-wing media rant if this mess were being done by Bush? Instead, the liberal media tells us this mulling-mess is a good thing! Good for who – our enemies?
What if your son were killed in Afghanistan in a war the president says has no strategy and “will not have a defined mission accomplished”; how would you feel then about our new: CHANGE YOU CAN BELIEVE IN!
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/11/obama-nero.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/10/obama-white-house-advisors-conclude.html
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Roanoke Times, 6-19-10, Pg 14: Obama team monitoring the Internet.
Janet Napolitano says fighting homegrown terrorism by monitoring Internet communications is a civil liberties trade-off that the government must make to beef up national security.
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This major item buried back in small print on Pg 14 on a weekend!
This monitoring is not just inter-country of suspected bad guys, it is intra-country!
During the Bush years the Roanoke Times and their associates in the liberal press put every Patriot Act activity on the front page in BIG letters bashing Bush for violating The Constitution and our Civil Rights and the ACLU was in court demanding this all be stopped. And Senate Democrats were filing bills of censure against the President.
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Apparently now the Editors of the Roanoke Times and their associates at the ACLU aren’t concerned about monitoring internal US communications anymore! Apparently it’s not a civil rights or privacy issue if Obama does it! After all, what’s the chance that a bunch of guys from Chicago would use intercepts of private communications for other than legitimate national security protections?
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The level of Hypocrisy by the Roanoke Times, their associates at the ACLU and the major media in general is very disturbing. There are no checks and balances for Obama; just a continual suckingup to their prince.
Apparently Pravda is alive and well in the US.
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Just more hope and change we can believe in!
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Prior Items:
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How does this relate to Sen. Dem Leader Reid’s March 2006 proclamation that:
"The Patriot Act is Dead"
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/03/close-vote.html
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Dem. Sen. Feingold’s formal motion in the US Senate to censure Pres. Bush for the NSA surveillance of terrorist communication into and out of the country
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/03/censure-bush_22.html
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The RT Editors should have apologized to all Americans and our allies for their efforts to kill the Patriot Act,
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/08/roanoke-times-misdirected-hostility.html
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The ACLU sought out Judge Taylor to "hear" the ACLU’s case that the interception of calls between suspected terrorists abroad with persons in the US to be unconstitutional.–The highlight of her learned legal opinion was that:"THERE ARE NO HEREDITARY KINGS IN AMERICA" and that these interceptions are unconstitutional.
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/08/wiretap-judge-continued.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/08/wiretap-judge.html
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Roanoke Times, 6-16-10, Pg 10: Rules put new limits on card companies. The Federal Reserve adopted new rules aimed at protecting credit card customers from getting socked by lofty late payment charges (more than $25) and other penalty fees.
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What an incredible and gross hypocritical pile of heifer-dust!
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Want to see late charges, interest and penalties?
Just be late filing and paying your income taxes!
And we’re not talking about $25 !
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And one of the biggest Government financial-atrocities of all:
The penalties for senior citizens who fail to take the Required Minimum Distribution from their 401’s or IRA’s.
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THE PENALTY IS 50% (FIFTY PERCENT) !
This is without warning, without notice, without remorse!
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These draconian and confiscatory penalties are extracted from senior citizens, many of whom may not even be aware or understand or comprehend the requirement to make yearly minimum withdrawals based on a federal table they may not even have.
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Example: A senior has a $100,000 IRA that is the major asset to his/her retirement that they have accumulated over a life-time of work.
A typical distribution factor (divisor from an IRS table) would be 25.
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$100,000 / 25 = $4000 the RMD (required minimum distribution)
50% penalty X $4000 = $2000 penalty for this senior citizen example
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And these jerks in this news article are talking about a $25 penalty!
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Just more hope and change and hypocrisy we can believe in!
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2010/06/obamanation-continues.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2010/06/more-obamacare-lies-and-deception.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2010/06/obama-farmer.html
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Roanoke Times, 6-13-10, Pg 1: At lease 18 dead from flood waters at Albert Pike Recreation Area in the Ouachita National Forest.
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A nature induced disaster enabled by the National Forest Management who build rental cabins in a floodplain close to a river and who had no warning system to alert sleeping campers of the coming disaster.
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Obama wanted to kick butt for the Katrina disaster.
Obama wants to kick butt for the West Va. mine disaster.
Obama wants to kick butt for the BP Gulf drilling disaster.
Don’t hold your breath for Obama to kick butt for the Albert Pike disaster.
After all, government is the answer to all problems and can do no wrong!
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And what’s with Obama’s Politics over Science with the Gulf drilling moratorium?
Obama’s political hacks, Carol Browner and friends, added their own spin paragraph to a report written for the White House by a selected team of scientists.
The scientists are now being trashed by the White House because they have “gone public” with their rejection of the Browner addition to their report, which they reject and had not seen until after it was published.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/06/11/white-house-rejects-claim-skewed-expert-opinion-justify-drilling-ban/
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The Gulf Oil spill is NOT Obama’s Katrina. At least for Katrina, Bush tried!
Obama dallied over a month before taking this problem seriously. After 8 weeks he still has not waived the Jones Act of 1920 that is prohibiting foreign-owned ships and skimmers from being employed to help clean-up the oil! Pres. Bush waived the Jones Act immediately during Katrina.
Obama doesn’t want to annoy the Maritime Unions! This is his idea of doing everything possible to address the problem?
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http://cnmnewsnetwork.com/120212/jones-act-of-1920-barring-bp-gulf-of-mexico-oil-spill-2010-cleanup/
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2010/05/obamas-gulf-oil-actions-of-ill-repute.html
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Bush 50% vs. Obama 35%:
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Louisiana voters think President George W. Bush did a better job handling the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina than President Obama has done in the wake of the BP oil spill, according to a new poll.
The Public Policy Polling survey showed 50 percent of state voters rated Bush's performance in 2005 as better than Obama's. Just 35 percent picked Obama.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/06/16/louisiana-voters-obama-performance-oil-spill-worse-bush-katrina/?test=latestnews


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Spirit Airline Union members walked off the job leaving 16,680 passengers per day stranded. Didn’t Obama just impose a $27,500 fine on the airlines per passengers who are delayed by more than 3 hours?
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2010/04/obamaairlines-snafu.html
No action now on behalf of the traveling public; it’s a union thing.
Obama is NOT going to court for an injunction against the unions no less fine them consistent with his draconian approach to the airlines. How pathetic & hypocritical!
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/06/12/discount-carrier-spirit-airlines-cancels-flights-pilots-strike/
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Just more hope and change and hypocrisy we can depend on!
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Roanoke Times, 6-12-10, Pg 7: Alvin Greene wins South Carolina Democratic primary for US Senate.
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Alvin Greene had: no campaign, no money, no visible experience or history and no one vetted him to determine his qualifications for US Senate or for any public office. However he did have a current sex related charge pending against him that no one saw.
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This is the new norm. The Tea Party is backing candidates with just such a non-resume. Here in Franklin County, Va. there is a new PAC devoted to supporting just these type candidates.
“Our PAC will be seeking to find candidates who have never run for public office before, but who share our conservative values and desire to serve our country in its time of need.” Sounds just like an Alvin Greene type candidate, doesn’t it!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/09/alvin-greene-felony-charg_n_606599.html
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http://www.midlandsconnect.com/news/story.aspx?id=468878
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This is all very interesting. During my professional life I hired a number of technicians, programmers and engineers. I never hired anyone whose claim to fame was that they had no education, experience, background or references that related to the job.
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This is made even more problematic by an attitude that “the good guys” must avoid negative campaigning but there seems no bound on the “other guys” as was very evident in the recent 5th District Republican Primary in which six of the seven candidates were never vetted by anyone; we still don’t know who they really are!
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Apparently the “good guys” have to adhere to The Socrates Test of Three:
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In ancient Greece (469 - 399 BC), Socrates was widely lauded for his wisdom. One day the great philosopher came upon an acquaintance who ran up to him excitedly and said, "Socrates, do you know what I just heard about one of your students?"
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"Wait a moment," Socrates replied. "Before you tell me I'd like you to pass a little test. It's called the Test of Three."
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"Test of Three?"
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"That's right,"Socrates continued "Before you talk to me about my student let's take a moment to test what you're going to say. The first test is Truth. Have you made absolutely sure that what you are about to tell me is true?"
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No," the man said, "actually I just heard about it."

"All right," said Socrates. "So you don't really know if it's true or not. Now let's try the second test, the test of Goodness. Is what you are about to tell me about my student something good?"
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"No, on the contrary..."
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"So," Socrates continued, "you want to tell me something bad about him even though you're not certain it's true?"
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The man shrugged, a little embarrassed.
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Socrates continued. "You may still pass though, because there is a third test - the filter of Usefulness. Is what you want to tell me about my student going to be useful to me?"
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"No, not really..."
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"Well," concluded Socrates, "if what you want to tell me is neither True nor Good nor even Useful, why tell it to me at all?"
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The man was defeated and ashamed.
This is the reason Socrates was a great philosopher and held in such high esteem.
It also explains why he never found out that Plato was sleeping with his wife.
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In Reflection:
Isn't this exactly how we elected Obama and Perriello into office?
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2010/05/panic-at-roanoke-times.html
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Roanoke Times, 6-12-10, Pg 8: Maybe you can’t keep your current health plan (after all)! New requirements will affect insurance for more than half of US workers. In just three years 51% will be impacted by new federal requirements.
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ObamaCare has become the old “Chinese water torture” method of incrementally driving the victim insane. Bit by bit, day by day we find out that the major claims and accolades were bogus and the reality is that ObamaCare will be disruptive, costly, rationed and policed by the IRS.
What could possibly go wrong with that picture?
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That’s why Pelosi said “let’s pass it so we can then read it!”
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There are ample and valid reasons why good taxpaying people are so upset!
And it’s not the racism – stupid!
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Take the time to click-back through some of these items:

http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2010/06/obamacare-reality-starting-to-sink-in.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2010/04/obamacare-hows-it-working-out-for-you.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2010/04/obamacare-doctor-is-out-nurse-is-in.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2010/03/obamacare-vote-getting-panic-and.html
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Roanoke Times, 6-10-10, Pg 13: Lies won’t set us free.
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The RT article title is true – so why don’t you stop?
A convoluted paper by Ms. Oreskes of UC San Diego who’s claim to fame is “establishing a consensus” of global warming and climate change alarmists.
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How do you establish a scientific consensus, and if you could, why would you?
Einstein, Galileo, Edison, Newton and the other outstanding scientific minds of history developed a hypothesis, developed the factual data to upgrade their hypothesis to a theory and where possible upgraded their theory to scientific fact.
They didn’t need snake-oil salesmen to sell their hypothesis, couched in a so-called consensus, and become personal millionaires by doing so.
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If one were to go for consensus, why not go with the 30,000+ scientists and engineers who have signed the Petition Project and whose name and ID are identified on the web site. “The purpose of the Petition Project is to demonstrate that the claim of “settled science” and an overwhelming “consensus” in favor of the hypothesis of human-caused global warming and consequent climatological damage is wrong. No such consensus or settled science exists. As indicated by the petition text and signatory list, a very large number of American scientists reject this hypothesis.”
http://www.petitionproject.org/
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Ms. Oreskes devotes much of her paper to cigarette smoking. I don’t remember 30,000 scientists and engineers signing a petition that smoking is OK. So what’s her point?
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Of all the alarmist tripe and mis-&-disinformation the most egregious is the 1984 Doublespeak that “global warming” means temperature change that’s caused by mankind. For millions of years the earth’s climate has been changing and the temperature and atmospheric CO2 have gone through many large cycles.
At no time, including now, has CO2 or mankind caused significant temperature change or climate change!
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It’s noteworthy that the Alarmists like Ms. Oreskes never participate in open debate with Skeptic scientists such as those at the Heartland Institute and at the recent
Fourth International Conference on Climate Change
Held May 16-18, 2010 in Chicago, Illinois
http://www.globalwarmingheartland.org/
Apparently it’s more comfortable to stay tucked away in their consensus groupie and have their liberal media peddle their elixir.
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A commentary article by Cal Thomas, Roanoke Times, 6-9-10, Pg 17: Sinking climate change outlined the current demise of the “science behind manmade climate change” including the NY Times lamenting the lack of creditability of the alarmists and their misdirected consensus.
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A little historical reflection: there was also a consensus among the crowd that yelled “give us Barabus”!
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Some prior items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2010/05/hypocrisy-of-uva-faculty.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2010/05/challenging-global-warming-alarmists.html
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/
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Senator Robert Hurt won the July 8 Republican Primary in the 5th Congressional district of Virginia.
He will need our help to beat liberal Democrat Tom Perriello. Despite Perriello being wrong on the issues, the Democrats are giving him big money to try to keep Nancy Pelosi as head of the US Congress.
I encourage you to visit Senator Hurt's website, sign up for his email alerts and donate money!
http://www.roberthurtforcongress.com/

RPV Chairman Pat Mullins issued the following statement:

"I want to offer my heartfelt congratulations to Senator Robert Hurt for winning the Republican nomination in Virginia’s 5^th Congressional District. I know that Robert will be an excellent Congressman, and will represent the 5th District well in the coming years," Mullins said. "But I also want to thank the other six candidates for their efforts."

"There were times when Virginia Republicans didn't have a very deep bench to work from — sometimes it wasn't a bench, it was a stool," Mullins joked. "But that's certainly not the case in the 5th District. When faced with disastrous leadership in Washington, D.C. and a Congressman who has blatantly voted against the will of the people time and time again, an unprecedented number of candidates answered the call to public service. To all of them, I offer my sincerest thanks."

"Any one of these men and women would have been better for the 5th District than Tom Perriello," Mullins said. "From his first day in office, Perriello has shown himself to be inseparable from Nancy Pelosi and her liberal agenda. Whether it was Obama's red-ink soaked budget, cap and trade, the GM bailout or the $1 trillion 'stimulus' we've borrowed from China and our grandchildren, Perriello has been there every step of the way, digging the hole deeper with every vote. He voted not once, but twice for the federal takeover of our healthcare system despite overwhelming opposition to it in his district."

"Now, the voters have spoken, and Republicans all across the 5^th District will stand united behind Robert Hurt as he moves on to November, when we will finally pink slip Tom Perriello," he said. “The Republican Party of Virginia is looking forward to being a partner with Robert Hurt in the months ahead, pink slipping Perriello, and replacing Nancy Pelosi as Speaker.”

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Roanoke Times, 6-8-10, Pg 14: Helen Thomas was caught on video saying Jews should “get the hell out of Palestine”
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She also said they all should be sent back to Poland and Germany, a not so veiled reference to Auschwitz and Dachau.
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Helen Thomas has been the darling of the liberals, left-wingers and Democrats for half a century. They reveled and cheered her nasty behavior during both of the Bush Presidencies.
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Her friends in the liberal media kept her right up in the front row of the Presidential Press Briefings, she served their purposes well, even though she no longer qualified under their own rules for that position.
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Obama and Clinton enjoyed her support for them thereby encouraging and enabling her gross and biased journalist misbehavior.
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Goodbye and good-riddance to a very vile and nasty liberal-press person.
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Perhaps this was a Jewish wake-up call!
At what point will the American-Jewish community figure out that their history of liberal and left-wing political affiliation is not in their best interests? What left-wing governments, throughout history, have ever treated them as well as American free enterprise and capitalism?
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2010/05/panic-at-roanoke-times.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2010/01/liberal-media-starting-to-get-obama.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/obama-abc-and-new-pravda.html
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D-Day June 6, 1944
Memorial Bedford Va
http://www.dday.org/

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Roanoke Times, 6-5-10, Pg Bus 7: Big Print Headline: May brings 5th consecutive month of job growth.
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The devil and the slant and bias are in the fine print!
43,000 private sector jobs in May
400,000 GOVERNMENT jobs
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Is this what we are getting for $1-Trillion in taxpayer funded stimulus money?
The investment community was so impressed that the Dow dropped 323 points on the news.
Professor Obama told folks at a truck plant in Maryland that “This report is a sign that our economy is getting stronger by the day” and “the recovery is moving in the right direction”.
Just more ObamaJive that we can believe in.
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The list of serious national issues continues to pile-up on the Obama desk but he and Pelosi and Reid continue with their socialist jihad of:
DEPENDENCE ON THE GOVERNMENT
DEVELOPMENT OF A PERVASIVE ENTITLEMENT MENTALITY
SOCIALISM REPLACEING PERSONAL INITIATIVE AND RESPONSIBILITY
GOVERNMENT CONTROL AND MANAGEMENT OF BUSINESS
And then they wonder why businesses aren’t expanding and developing good free-enterprise jobs.
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Taxes and Debt are like anchors
nailing our ship of state to the bottom
where socialism and stagnation
hold us securely to mediocrity
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Some prior items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2010/05/greece-obamas-new-america.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/economic-reflections-revisionism.html
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Virginia wind energy could become a reality if only the hot air and wind from Richmond and Washington and GoreLand would blow upon a wind-turbine.

Roanoke Times, 6-4-10, Pg 1 & 8: SCC takes wind from Appalachian’s sails
The Kaine-appointed SCC Commission rejected two wind farm purchase agreements because they were too costly for consumers.
Hello Commission Members! We all know that renewable energy is more costly than Virginia’s primary source of coal power.
However don’t we have a goal for all investor owned utilities to increase the percentage of renewable energy every year achieving 15% by 2025. Pray tell how that’s going to happen without increases in electric rates and development and installation of new generation and distribution facilities?
http://www.dsireusa.org/incentives/incentive.cfm?Incentive_Code=VA10R&re=1&ee=1
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Roanoke Times, 4-9-10, Pg 9: Wind farm construction set to resume in Highland County.
The highland wind-farm project has been in the regulatory swamp for over 5 years and now we’re set to start. Don’t hold your breath waiting for all those green jobs and a reduction in our energy dependence on our enemies!
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/02/wind-power-regulatory-swamp.html
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Roanoke Times, 5-2-10, Pg Horiz 1: Wildlife and wind fare better at sea.
Have wind farm plans not been rejected off the coast of Massachusetts since before 2005 by the Kennedy-family-environmentalists. They even had none other than Walter Cronkite make anti-wind TV ads for them. Click to be enlightened:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2005/05/wind-turbines-on-highlands-of-va.html
A somber nautical thought: When you observe the devastation of hurricane driven winds and waves destroying everything in their path one can only imagine how wind mills will fare out in the open sea.
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Roanoke Times, 4-9-10, Pg 9: Poor Mountain is rich in wind.
Since the passage of the Va Energy Plan in 2007, Va has taken a leadership role nationally to achieve energy independence.
Have you ever read such a pile of heifer-dust?
What leadership role? The only real Virginia renewable energy project is Highland and that’s been on hold since well before 2007 by the state SCC and government bureaucracy.
We will all indeed be poor from imported energy before Poor Mountain generates enough power to light the display you’re looking at.
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Roanoke Times, 5-30-10, Pg Horiz 2: A U-turn on wind farms, by a Mr. Mills who lives on Poor Mountain and who comments: “It seems no one wants to be near these things, apparently for good reasons.”
Don’t worry Mr. Mills, based on the past and current track records, you and I will be history before any turbine blades rotate on Poor Mountain.
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The fact is we cannot talk our way to energy independence and conversion to more renewable assets. We need leadership not talk and platitudes and not CO2 carbon credits, nor Cap&Tax.
We went to the moon with grit and leadership and technology innovation and yes Virginia, some good men and women died making it happen.
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Some prior items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2010/01/aep-rates-reality-of-democrat-energy.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/10/smart-power-grid-needs-supply.html
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Some items on the dismal green energy history of the Roanoke Times
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2010/03/wheres-roanoke-times-carbon-footprint.html
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Roanoke Times, 6-1-10, Pg 1: Medicaid costs to take bite out of Va.
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A bite as in a nibble? No that’s not it!
ObamaCare costs are not a bite, they are a tsunami of rules, regulations and costs to individuals, taxpayers, employers and all levels of government!
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The Virginia current Medicaid costs are equal to public school funding. The impacts of DOUBLING the recipients will more than double the demands on the taxpayers as costs escalate under ObamaCare.
Of course the liberal and Democrat answer is simple – just raise more taxes!
Obama, Pelosi, Reid and Perriello are all for that!
Then they all wonder why businesses are not expanding and hiring more people.
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The reality of the ObamaCare requirement that adult-children up to 26 are to be included in the family healthcare package is now sinking in. Many parents don’t want their 26 year old to depend on them and increase their premiums and costs. However, the 26 year old can demand and get onto their parents policies at the parents expense.
Something about personal responsibility and leaving the nest, not hanging on to it!
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The mandates that everyone must buy insurance under penalty of fines and harassment are an unacceptable intrusion on individual rights and freedoms.
Deploying the IRS as the ObamaCare enforcement police is the ultimate insult!
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There are ample and valid reasons why good taxpaying people are so upset!
And it’s not the racism – stupid!
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2010/04/obamacare-hows-it-working-out-for-you.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2010/04/obamacare-doctor-is-out-nurse-is-in.html
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Not a word about Memorial Day on Memorial Day until Page 12!
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The Editors of the Roanoke Times once again demonstrate their clear and undeniable expression of their values and character.
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In their defense, they are in complete harmony with Obama who instead of honoring our fallen at Arlington is on vacation in his Chicago hood.
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Vacation? Aren’t we at war on four fronts?
Iraq
Afghanistan
Pakistan
Radical Muslim Extremists attacking our Homeland
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Do we not have a major environmental problem in the Gulf?
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Isn’t our economy and unemployment in crisis?
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Isn’t the Obama government running up the Nation Debt by $4 BILLLION PER DAY placing our people and country in great peril?
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Aren’t Iran and North Korea getting ready to launch long-range missiles with nuclear warheads?
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Apparently the Editors of the Roanoke Times and their liberal media associates think that Obama deserves a vacation; most American are looking forward to his permanent furlough!
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Just more hope and change and hypocrisy we can believe in!
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For a fitting tribute to our fallen soldiers click-on: (Sound ON)
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/TAPS.wmv
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2010/05/memorial-day.html
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http://www.nragive.com/ringoffreedom/index.html
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http://www.resistnet.com/forum/topics/gene-simmons-from-kissa
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http://www.virtualwall.org/
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Roanoke Times, 5-29-10, Pg 3: Obama at Louisiana beaches; and recent news conference.
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The Gulf Oil spill is NOT Obama’s Katrina. At least for Katrina, Bush tried!
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You are not alone.
I am responsible.
Daddy, did you plug the hole yet?
These are the major media headlines and news stories about the Gulf Oil spill after one month (30 days) of Obama’s position: Not my problem!
One can only imagine the venom and hostility pouring out of the Editors of the Roanoke Times and their friends in the liberal media if Bush were still President.
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Based on the anemic response and absence of the Navy, Coast Guard and contract ships with the largest and best skimmers and containment capabilities in the world one would conclude that the Federal Government doesn’t consider this to be a big deal.
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Extract: Wall Street Article, May 27, 10; Comprehensive Opinion Article
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704717004575268752362770856.html
The federal response to Katrina was governed by the 1988 Stafford Act, which says
that in natural disasters on-shore states are in charge, not Washington.
The federal obligation is to "support . . . State and local assistance
efforts" by providing whatever resources a governor requests and then
writing big checks for the cleanup. Mr. Bush had to deal with a
Louisiana governor and a New Orleans mayor who were, by federal law, in
charge.
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But BP's well was drilled in federal waters. Washington, not Louisiana,
is in charge. This is Mr. Obama's responsibility. He says his
administration has been prepared for the worst from the start. Mr.
Obama's failure to lead in cleaning up the spill could lead voters to
echo his (Obama's) complaint in Katrina's aftermath:
"I wish that the federal government had been up to the task."
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Just more hope and change and hypocrisy we can believe in!
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You know Obama has a big problem when pseudo-Creole James Carville is mad as hell and isn’t going to take it anymore – click:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtvoLrQBxis
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Prior Item:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/02/still-stuck-on-stupid.html
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Obama sending 1200 National Guard troops to Mexican border.
That’s 400 troops per shift (3 shifts per day).
There’s 700 miles of US-Mexican border
That’s two (count them if you can) 2 troopers per mile
Wow! Be scared illegal immigrants and smugglers!
Obama’s going to get you!
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What a pathetic response to a major, serious and chronic problem.
And now Obama is challenging Arizona’s new law that mirrors US laws that Obama is not enforcing. Didn’t he take an oath to uphold the laws? Apparently not!
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2010/05/obama-and-arizonas-immigration-law.html
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The last time the National Guard was sent to the border they were chased away from their post without firing a shot by Mexican drug and smuggling dealers with guns.
The Guard’s rules of engagement were:
If you see any Mexicans’ with guns – RUN!
How pathetic! Have we become the French army or what?
http://www.realpolice.net/forums/border-immigration-issues-119/63052-gunmen-attack-national-guard-border-patrol-site-arizona.html
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Here’s a thought: Just finish the fence, Stupid!
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Just more hope and change and hypocrisy we can believe in!
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/03/more-clinton-hypocrisy.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/06/democrats-for-homeland-insecurity.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/04/immigration-dilemma.html
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Where are the Roanoke Times Editors, ACLU, and all the other liberal hounds that bayed for years about Bush’s detention of enemy combatants?
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Now Obama has obtained court permission to hold these and additional detainees at US base Bagram in Afghanistan indefinitely with no access to lawyers or any form of legal standing or review (something about enemy combatant legal history).
And from the left and liberals we now have “the sound of silence”!
Apparently indefinite detention is OK if Obama is doing it!
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/22/world/asia/22detain.html
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Where are the trials and resolution of the awful Bush GITMO detainees?
Wasn’t that a top number one priority a year and a half ago?
Isn't it ironic that Obama wanted to bring terrorists to Manhattan and the terrorists accommodated him by driving a bomb into Times Square?
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2010/05/roanoke-times-declares-end-of-war.html
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And what’s with this hunt down and “shoot to kill” American-born Anwar Awlaki?
When Bush issued that order for Osama bin Laden (not an American citizen) the liberal media mocked him as “a cowboy”. Apparently when Obama issues the same order its OK because he’s just one of the boys from the Chicago hood.
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Just more hope and change and hypocrisy we can believe in!
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/inconvenient-terrorist-attack.html
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Congratulations to Trixie Averill, new chairman of the 6th Dist Republican Party...elected in Lynchburg by a vote of 871 to 326 (weighted votes).
Also a big congratulations to Morgan Griffith, our new 9th district Republican nominee for the US Congress. Morgan was elected today in Ft. Chiswell, VA at the 9th district Convention.
Morgan needs our support and help to beat Slick Rick Boucher!!
Visit Morgan's Website to register for email updates!
http://morgangriffithforcongress.com/

It is the VETERAN,
not the preacher,
who has given us freedom of religion.
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It is the VETERAN,
not the reporter,
who has given us freedom of the press.
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It is the VETERAN,
not the poet,
who has given us freedom of speech.
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It is the VETERAN,
not the campus organizer,
who has given us freedom to assemble.
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It is the VETERAN,
not the lawyer,
who has given us the right to a fair trial.
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It is the VETERAN,
not the politician,
Who has given us the right to vote.
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Author unknown
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Prior Appropriate items:
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Christmas at Arlington
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/12/christmas-at-arlington.html
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Army Cpl. Jared William Kubasak of Franklin County Virginia
http://www.lars1.com/Kubasak/
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Two days that live in infamy
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/12/pearl-harbor-day.html
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Some gave all, All gave some
http://www.roanokeslant.org/SomeGaveAll/Some.html
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John 15:13
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/10/john-1513.html
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A Marine's Final Rest
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/10/marines-final-rest.html
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Roanoke Times, 5-19-10, Pg 13: 800 UVA Faculty sign letter protesting Va. AG Cuccinelli probe of former professor Michael Mann, now at Penn State.
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Roanoke Times, 5-18-10, Pg 13: Commentary by Frank Peck ably pointing out that there is more than adequate reason to investigate possible fraud in Prof. Mann’s grant applications for tax-payer funds.
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Once again the Editors of the Roanoke Times abuse their public responsibility to present a truthful and fair and balanced news story. Their biased and slanted article hides the blatant hypocrisy of the UVA Faculty to wit:
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1. The UVA Faculty stood silent when Democrat Gov. Kaine stripped the distinguished Prof. Michaels of his position as Virginia’s Climatologist and then drummed him out of the University all because he refused to support Al Gores’ patently false and outlandish global warming and climate change statements. Now the UVA Faculty are suddenly moved to action to support a former colleague who has been clearly exposed as a charlatan by the release of the ClimateGate Emails and his totally debunked “hockey stick” manipulation of temperature data. Even the UN’s political IPCC group has disclaimed Michael Mann’s fabrications that included excluding the “medieval warm period” and the “little ice” age data from his calculations in order to generate false results to enhance his position within the Alarmist community.
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Click to view the Daily Show’s View of Prof. Mann’s contributions to science:
http://www.roanokeslant.org/ClimateGate/ClimateGate.swf
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2. The UVA Faculty and the Editors of the Roanoke Times have not expressed any reservations or objections by the action of UVA to release all of Prof. Michael’s academic records and materials to the Greenpeace organization. Greenpeace has absolutely no standing what so ever to obtain the files of any UVA faculty member and represents an unprecedented and obscene action.
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The Global Warming Alarmist community and the liberal and left-wing community will surly obstruct shining any light on Prof. Mann’s work because in every case where the public has gained an insight into the Alarmist processes, procedures and manipulation of data the public has come to realize that global warming and climate changes are primarily the result of natural processes and variations and are not “man-caused”.
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Prior Items Include:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2010/05/challenging-global-warming-alarmists.html
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http://www.heartland.org/events/2010Chicago/index.html
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/
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US Senator Inhofe Calls 2009 "The Year of the Skeptic"
http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Speeches&ContentRecord_id=08d7b2d2-802a-23ad-41d8-332a1ef4715e
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Roanoke Times, 5-11-10, Pg 1: High court pick called pragmatic, analytical.
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No that’s not it!
Elena Kagan is another Obama and Perriello like candidate for high office with no experience or history of accomplishment in the job they are seeking.
In Texas they call it: All Hat, No Cows!
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No time on any court at any level! What a distinguished resume!
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Elena Kagen’s major legal accomplishment was, as a key player at Harvard, to continue to block ROTC and military recruiting in spite of a unanimous Supreme Court decision.
Yes, that’s the same Supreme Court she now aspires to join!
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It’s interesting that as a manager one hires and or promotes someone based on a history of accomplishments achieved over a significant sustained time period.
Apparently the current process is to reward those resembling the “chooser in-chief”.
Qualified candidates need not apply.
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Sunday, May 9, 2010 Items:
Headline: Va. AG questioning global warming alarmists about ClimateGate
Terrorists focusing on and attacking America
Recession hard for working mothers (where are the jobs?)
American’s unhappy with ObamaCare
Obama’s “not my problem” approach to the Gulf oil spill & Katrina accusations
Does Homeland Security know where Nashville is?
And Mother’s Day – not quite compatible with “the other lifestyle”
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The Roanoke Times editorial staff is spooked! Big editorial/commentary articles defending their liberal and left-wing ideology and the leaders of their misguided socialist agenda. Lots of good liberal spin woven into what is presented as “news”.
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Sixteen months into the Obama, Pelosi, Reid saga and the wagon doesn’t look so good!
The ordinary people have figured out that big government, big spending, big debts, big borrowing and BIG BROTHER were not the change they were expecting or want.
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Now the administration’s media minions are left to convince us that: all is well, that our health care will be better and cheaper, that the borders are secure, that all is on track to bigger and better things, that the future is bright, that our children will be better off than we are, that the world now loves us, that Al Gore and friends are truly prophets and that the Radical Terrorist Muslims are no longer trying to kill us.
GOOD LUCK to the girls at the RT editorial board on this assignment!
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We have been waiting for the major media to wake up and smell the coffee! At some point we thought they would revisit their real mission to be the true 4th Estate and not just another Pravda rag for a socialist jihad.
Apparently we have expected too much of those who are blind and cannot see.
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For some perspective on all this, browse through this blog and website:
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http://www.roanokeslant.blogspot.com/
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/
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Roanoke Times, 5/4/10, Pg 9: Commentary by Dan Casey: Virginia AG subpoena to UVA for data concerning the expenditure of taxpayer money for global warming and climate change research is: “downright scary”.
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Gibbs, an 81 year old VT professor, gave Casey “a brief lesson on the way science works. To boil it down, scientific research is a long quest for knowledge that takes many wrong turns along the way, by design.”
This is the professional expert that Casey used for this article? And at any time have any of the global warming alarmists indicated any “wrong turns” or have they instead demanded that the debate is over and the science settled and the entire world energy systems be redirected to unproven alternatives at hugely elevated costs and taxation!
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“The potential for harm is vast in terms of the chilling effect the investigation could have on Va. scientists whose work is funded by state grants.”
What’s chilling is the diversion of taxpayer grants to only those who subscribe to the alarmists hypothesis that our 250 years of natural global warming is man-made.
What’s chilling is the major media support of alarmists and their hypothesis and their black-listing and marginalization of highly competent scientific skeptics.
What’s chilling is the firing by Democrat Gov. Kaine of Prof Patrick Michaels, the distinguished and highly renowned UVA researcher and climatologists, because he would not endorse the Al Gore “Inconvenient Truth” diatribe.
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/04/purging-deniers.html
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Click to view why Prof. Michaels has been vindicated and is in very good company:
Al Gore at Congressional Hearing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqUHM2gf5g4
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Not evil, just wrong:
http://www.noteviljustwrong.com/blog/general/218-the-nine-lies-of-al-gore
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Are Casey and the Editors of the Roanoke Times unaware of the gross malfeasance of so called scientists associate with ClimateGate?
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2010/01/climategate-heats-up-into-glaciergate.html
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Are they unaware that center to this situation is Michael Mann of UVA, the focus of this particular inquiry.
For an informed article on this item click-on:
State of Virginia to Investigate Global Warming Scientist Mann
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/04/30/virginia-attorney-general-global-warming-michael-mann/
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The Hypocrisy of the UVA Faculty
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2010/05/hypocrisy-of-uva-faculty.html
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Appropriate Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2010/03/global-warming-conference-chicago-may.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2010/03/obamas-epas-conflict-with-virginia-ag.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2010/02/obama-climategates-and-snow-jobs.html
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/
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Roanoke Times, 4-7-10, Pg 3, Clashes follow as Greek lawmakers vote to implement austerity cuts. Prior day’s rioters attacked and burned a bank in which three employees died.
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Greece is the poster example of the Obama, Pelosi, Reid plan for America.
DEPENDENCE ON THE GOVERNMENT
DEVELOPMENT OF A PERVASIVE ENTITLEMENT MENTALITY
SOCIALISM REPLACEING PERSONAL INITIATIVE AND RESPONSIBILITY
GOVERNMENT CONTROL AND MANAGEMENT OF BUSINESS
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So what went wrong? The same things that happened to other Marx’s socialist societies.
At some point the takers over take the givers and the system degenerates.
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The fix is to reduce the massive benefits and subsidies and entitlements. The receivers rebel with anger and hostility at what they perceive as broken promises and forfeited commitments. By this time they are much too emasculated to show individual initiative and entrepreneurship.
All this is not unlike a drug addict going through withdrawal and drug rehabilitation and exiting a beaten and disheartened shell unable to cope with reality.
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America did not become the greatest country and society on earth by the grace of socialism and fascism. But America certainly can become a second-rate country and society by implementing those economic, social and political policies that lead to mediocrity.
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Taxes and Debt are like anchors
nailing our ship of state to the bottom
where socialism and stagnation
hold us securely to mediocrity
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/economic-reflections-revisionism.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2010/01/professor-obama-gives-yet-another.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/01/socialism-wins-big.html
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Roanoke Times, May 5, 2010, Pg 18: Editorial: “The terror fight isn’t a war”

The editorial board of the Roanoke Times has graciously announced that the war that has been declared and carried out against us by the Radical Muslim Extremists is now over!
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It’s difficult to comprehend this great victory because I missed the announcement that apparently must have been made by those who launched this war against American over a dozen years ago. I remember V-E day and V-J day and this just doesn’t seem the same!
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Also the recent attacks within the US by Radical Muslim Extremists at Ft. Hood, the Christmas Day airliner and just this week the Times Square bomber and their operations in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan and many other countries just doesn’t indicate that they have declared a peace nor have they agreed to an armistice.
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The editorial board marginalizes the recent attackers with their “poorly constructed bombs”. They conclude terror is a tactic, not an enemy. We have had three major public terrorist attacks in the 16 months of the Obama administration.
Many find it very disturbing that all three attacks were carried out by Radical Muslim Extremists who had significant contacts with foreign elements and who should have been under close surveillance consistent with the Patriot Act.
Why isn’t the system working that is supposed to protect Americans?
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Obama finds it appropriate to court martial the three Navy Seals that captured the murderers of our Backwater soldiers but quickly Mirandizes the terrorists who kill and try to kill Americans! No military tribunals for them; just sock it to the Seals.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2010/05/obama-blackwater-and-navy-seals.html
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Isn't it ironic that Obama wanted to bring terrorists to Manhattan and the terrorists accommodated him by driving a bomb into Times Square.
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Some Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2010/04/hyping-domestic-political-violence.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2010/02/obamas-muslim-political-correctness.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2010/01/obama-team-still-not-terrorist-ready.html
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Click to learn why Obama is so upset about Arizona's Immigration Law
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/ObamaArizona.jpg
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NEW ITEM: 5-8-10
Ariz Governor Jan Brewer sponsors an ad responding to Obama's remarks making fun of Arizona's new law pertaining to illegal immigrants.
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Click to view:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLgZ1LWLlko&feature=player_embedded
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Congratulations to the committee chairs of these local Republican units:
Roanoke City: Jim Delong (new) Roanoke County: Mike Bailey (re-elected) Salem City: Kjersten Croke (new) Botetourt County: Christine Broughton (new)
A big THANK YOU to outgoing chairs Adam Boitnott (Roanoke City), Greg Habeeb (Salem City) and Doug Gimbert (Botetourt County).....thank you for the hard work you have done to build our local parties!!

Roanoke Times, 4/22/10, Pg 1: GM repays $8 BILLION in bailout subsidies; The Obama administration lauded a “turnaround” by the automaker.
Big front-page with lots more (Jones-cool-aide) on Pg 20.
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Yet another Obama-Roanoke Times huge pile of heifer-dust!
GM didn’t earn the $8 BILLION they returned to the government!
They simply took $8 BILLION of $ 50 BILLION GM bailout taxpayer money and turned it back in and said they earned it!
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The FTC is investigating General Motors for running ads on all the major networks this week claiming it has repaid its bailout from the taxpayers "in full." But the claim isn't standing up to scrutiny from lawmakers and government watchdogs who have found that the automaker was able to repay the bailout money only by dipping into a separate pot of bailout funds.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/04/23/gm-hot-water-ftc-truth-advertising/
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If you’re looking for a big retraction and mea culpa by Obama and his associates in the editorial board of the Roanoke Times – don’t hold your breath! After all, the big front page story has already served its purpose of mis-&-disinformation.
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Click for the theme song for Obama, GM and their media supporters:
http://popup.lala.com/popup/432627047851505090
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2010/02/obamas-gm-government-motors.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2010/02/obamas-government-motors-gm-propaganda.html
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Roanoke Times, 4/21/10, Pg 9: Tarmac rule won’t fix it all

“The misery index for airline passengers is definitely going to go up” an expert said!
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The editors of the Roanoke Times didn’t have to wait for some unnamed “expert” to give them a realistic assessment of what the results of the Obama Tarmac rules were going to do. All they had to do was read the timely blog items:
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Airline Travel: Nine Thousand Dollars Per Hour; 12-22-09
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/12/airline-travel-nine-thousand-dollars.html
and
Obama Owes Thousands of Fliers $27,500 Each; 1-4-2010
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2010/01/obama-owes-thousands-of-fliers-27500.html
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The truth is simple: the major tarmac delays are caused by FAA control of the take-off and landing slots that they change by the minute and bad weather that changes by the hour.
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Isn’t it typical that there is no penalty or reprieve against the FAA and National Weather Bureau (your government services) for their major and primary contributions to this problem.
Perhaps that’s one reason why only 22% of the American people trust the ObamaGovernment.
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Perhaps the only way to penetrate the density of the media on this subject would be to initiate a government penalty program in which the paper is fined $100 per subscriber for every incident in which the paper is not delivered within one hour of the scheduled time and the paper would have no recourse against the weather bureaus or VDOT for their primary contributions to the reasons why the carriers can’t deliver.
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On second thought, that probably wouldn’t penetrate either.
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Roanoke Times, 4/12/10, Pg 3: Obama lectures world on nuclear proliferation
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Obama and his major media outlets portrayed this nuc-fest as a major new initiative on nuclear materials and weapons proliferation.
No agreement was documented or signed; just lots of Obama-jive.
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However, the real news is not what was said and done but what wasn’t :
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1. President Bush had already established and signed an agreement with Russia covering this subject that was immediately and soundly rejected by Congressional Democrats:
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MOSCOW, May 6, 2008 -- The United States and Russia signed a long-sought agreement Tuesday on civilian nuclear cooperation, which officials said would offer Russia lucrative new business while limiting the risk of material being used for weapons.
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"It would be a mistake for the United States to provide Russia an important civilian nuclear benefit while Moscow itself continues to assist Iran's nuclear and missile programs," Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, wrote
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/06/AR2008050602564.html
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2. Preaching to the choir is easy; reaching the heathens - not so much!
The two biggest world nuclear risks are North Korea and Iran.
They were not a party to the Obama nuc-fest; so much for engaging our adversaries.
These are the countries that have declared their intent to destroy us and our friends.
These countries have long range missiles and either have or soon will have nuclear weapons to launch at their will that can hit American cities.
Other than 15 months of Obama-jive, nothing has been done to contain these threats.
Isn’t this the real news! Apparently not for the Obama-press.
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3. Obama also has unilaterally announced that enemies striking our people with poison gas and biological weapons will be exempt from nuclear retaliation as long as they sign up with him as nice guys before hand!
Has Obama ever viewed the military films on the effects of poison gas and viewed the films of the 200,000 Kurds that Sadam gassed? Apparently not!
Has Obama ever contemplated the effects of an enemy launched contagious virus similar to the 1918 worldwide influenza pandemic? Apparently not!
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The bad news is the ongoing series of bad policy and bad decisions being made by Obama and associates;
the really bad news is that the American major media continue to cover for and enable his actions without ever fulfilling their responsibilities as the 4th estate.
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Some prior items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/09/obama-commander-of-unilateral.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/07/thank-you-president-reagan-for-our.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2005/05/bushs-star-wars.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2005/02/north-korea-nucs.html
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Roanoke Times,m 4/14/10, Pg 1: Nurse practitioners could become the new doctors as doctor shortage looms after health care reform (ObamaCare)
Pg 18: Nurses: Few patients object
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After years of searching for and exploiting examples of health issues associated with doctors and proposing all those who have complaints against doctors to post them on the internet, the editors of the Roanoke Times have now concluded that under ObamaCare doctors are not important and can be replaced by nurse practitioners. Their wonderful and flowery description of all this warms the cockles of the heart.
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No talk now of suing for unfavorable medical outcomes. How can you get anything by suing a nurse without insurance or a home in Hunting Hills? Clearly no need for medical labiality insurance reform now! If your health care outcomes are not OK, you’re just going to have to suck it up and move on. No need to worry about a shortage of doctors, it takes a fraction of the time to get a nurse into uniform compared to the time to develop a board certified doctor. And under ObamaCare, apparently they’re defined to be equivalent.
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The reality is that while ObamaCare Government Committees implement the $500 BILLION dollar reductions in Medicare funding and redefine the definitions of proper and adequate care, our new army of nurse parishioners will be ready to serve your medical needs. With the “new dumbed-down” definition of “proper care” we all should be out of the clinic and home in no time. What a joy! Why didn’t we think of this before? That Obama is such an innovative Yale thinker!
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Just more hope and change we can believe in!
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Click for a youtube video (iPod vs ObamaPad) that every young person who will live by and pay for this program should watch.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3qiSXc1g3M
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2010/04/obamacare-hows-it-working-out-for-you.html
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Interesting list of ObamaCare details:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2010/03/obamacare-vote-getting-panic-and.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/11/obamacare-part-2.html
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Roanoke Times, 4/8/10, Pg 17: Commentary by L. Pitts: American’s Christian terrorism
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Roanoke Times, 4/10/10, Pg 6: Lawmakers report spike in threats of violence.
Note: Only confirmed case is a gun shot into Republican Eric Cantors home in Va.; very unlikely caused by a Republican or Tea Party member!
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Roanoke Times, 4/19/10, Pg 4: Only 22% of all Americans trust the Obama-government.
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Roanoke Times, 4/19/10, Pg 1: Patriots to “open carry” arms at rally near DC
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Obama and his associates, supported by his media machine, have kept up a steady drum-beat for weeks accusing the Republicans and FOX-folks and Tea Partiers of “inciting” violence against the Obama-government. This has culminated in clearly obscene and inappropriate remarks by Bill Monica Clinton who has major personal responsibility for initiating serious domestic violence during his tour.
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As a perspective: Some reflections on political violence over my life-time would include:
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Lee Harvey Oswald: clearly not a Republican and his group affiliation was the “Fair Play for Cuba Committee” not the Tea Party.
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Sirhan Sirhan: clearly not a Republican and his group affiliation was not the Tea Party but may actually have been our first Radical Muslim Terrorist.
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The Family of Ruby Ridge: clearly not Republican or Tea Party member but members of a hillbilly hunt-club. The government action was based on a dull Bubba who had no history of violence or breaking any laws. The entire event was government initiated when he was duped into cutting several inches off the barrel of a shotgun as a personal favor to an undercover ATF agent. The following horrific event was a siege of his mountain camp in which the result was viewed by Clinton’s AG, Janet Reno, as “we shot the dog, we shot the boy, we shot the mother”; let’s call it a day!
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The Oklahoma Federal Office Building Bombing by Timothy McVeigh who was clearly not a Republican or a Tea Party member but a highly disturbed and psychotic person driven over the cliff to a horrible action in reaction to Clinton’s AG Janet Reno’s siege of the Koresh Cult in Waco Texas in which only nine people survived, 75 perished either by gunshot or by fire inside the compound. Twenty-five of the dead were children.
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The Rioters that destroyed much of Chicago in the 1968 Democratic Convention were clearly not Republican or Tea Party members.
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The Rioters that destroyed much of Newark in 1967 and 1968 were clearly not Republican or Tea Party members.
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The Watts Riots of 1960, 1964, 1965, 1968, and 1992 were clearly not Republican or Tea Party members.
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The members of the Black Panther Party were clearly not Republican or Tea Party members.
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The members of the Symbionese Liberation Army were clearly not Republican or Tea Party members.
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The KKK were clearly not Republican or Tea Party members.
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It’s worthy of note that all those who “incited violence” against George Bush and his administration for eight years were not labeled by the liberal media as potential domestic terrorists but wonderful patriots; including those who produced and distributed a movie about the assassination of President Bush while he was in office.
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It’s also amazing that the liberal media sees no problem or issue with Obama’s personal friend, neighbor and fellow education board member Bill Ayers, a founder of the radical Weather Underground, (Weathermen) which was involved in several bombings in the early 1970s, including the Pentagon and the Capitol. Bill Ayers is clearly not Republican or a Tea Party member.
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Another prime example of the media hypocrisy is the gleeful and jovial manner they treated the attack upon Ann Colter while she was giving a speech at a University. The liberal clowns on late nite TV found the attack lots of fun. Clearly not the media reaction if a left-wing liberal (like one of the girls of the Roanoke Times Editorial staff) suffered a similar attack.
Click to see this domestic political violent attack and see if you think it's funny:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cb45riuH9WQ
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More hypocrisy and dishonesty by Obama, his associates and especially the liberal media! Didn’t he claim he would be a uniter and not a divider?
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Just more hope and change we can believe in!
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Some prior items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2010/03/danger-of-arrogant-disregard-for.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2010/02/obama-arrogance-reaches-new-level.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/09/obama-ayres-team-teaching.html
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Roanoke County Republican Committee Chairman Election Results Thank you to everyone who participated in tonight's Roanoke County Republican Mass Meeting. Special thanks goes to all of the volunteers that did the tough work that allowed for an orderly mass meeting with 200+ enthusiastic Republicans! Congrautulations to Mike Bailey who was elected Chairman of the Roanoke County Republican Committee by a 152-52 vote.