Obama: ‘I never cared much for ethics’

Obama lets us know he didn’t care much about ethics. This happened while speaking to some kids in School this week. He says, when he was in school….(we are not sure where) he preferred basketball, but anyway, Michael Savage lets it rip. Obama goes on to talk about that it is important, (to be fair to him in the full story), but this from one of the most corrupt individuals is a gagger..The first couple of minutes are worth the trip. Enjoy! More about his remarks can be found at CNS

“I did not love every class I took. I wasn’t always paying attention the way I should have,” Obama said. “I remember when I was in 8th grade I had to take a class called ethics. Now, ethics is about right and wrong, but if you’d ask me what my favorite subject was back in 8th grade, it was basketball. I don’t think ethics would have made it on the list.”

Phildadelphia Oil Refinery coming to an end

Unless China steps in and buys our refineries, Obama’s wish via the EPA has made it cost prohibitive to Refine our crude oil apparently. “Level of investment needed”  was the operative statement for the closure of the facility. Anyone who has been through the Philadelphia area knows what  huge Oil farms and refineries there are. Now thanks to Obama, there will be no refineries. Where are the jobs?   Here is a hint: We can have all the oil in the world, and without the capacity to refine it, it is worth zilch. Sunoco, BP, Conoco Phillips, gone in a year.

By next summer, Philadelphia could switch from being the center of the East Coast’s oil-refining industry to a historical footnote.

Willie Chiang, ConocoPhillips’ senior vice president of refining, marketing, transportation, and commercial, said in a statement that “the decision to sell is based on the level of investment required to remain competitive.

Even though the economy is down and there are concerns about the oil industry, Meehan (House Representative for the District)  said, the demand for oil in the region and across the country will increase as the economy strengthens. The country needs to keep its production up, he said.

“We’re surrendering this industry to Nigeria, to China and to India,” Meehan said, adding that deals would likely need to be struck in the next six months to a year.

ConocoPhillips’ announcement Tuesday that it plans to sell or shut down its Trainer, Delaware County, refinery was expected, especially after Sunoco Inc. announced a similar decision three weeks earlier.

But that does not lessen the impact of the potential loss of 410 jobs at the 91-year-old refinery that ConocoPhillips has owned since 2002, when Conoco Inc. acquired Phillips Petroleum Co.

The shutdown has already begun. Spokesman Rich Johnson said that by the end of the week the Trainer refinery would no longer process crude oil. All employees will work through the end of the year, he said. Philly.om

Back in February we posted about the sad state of our Refineries:

BP to sell two U.S. Refineries-who will be the buyer

There are two major refineries in the United States going up for sale and people are wondering who will buy them. BP has decided to sell two of the refineries it owns, one in California and the other in Texas. From USA Today:

“The market may be slightly underwhelmed by the lack of a more radical restructuring plan, but with Macondo still an ongoing issue it may be too early for BP to implement more radical plans,” said Richard Griffith, analyst at Evolution Securities.

BP did not say how much it expected to gain from the sale of its U.S. refineries, which include the Texas City refinery where 15 workers died in an explosion in 2005.

It said it had spent more than $1 billion modernizing the Texas City plant, but noted it “lacks strong integration into any BP marketing assets.” However, BP said it will keep the chemicals complex at Texas City.

The company said it also hopes to sell the Carson refinery near Los Angeles along with its marketing business in southern California, Arizona and Nevada. The company plans to concentrate its U.S. refining and marketing activity at Whiting, Ind., and Cherry Point, Wash., as well as in its 50% stake in the Toledo, Ohio facility…

H/T:Blue Collar Philosophy

Bahrain medical staff sentenced 15 years over protests

 

I decided to look outside the U.S. for news this day. The story line here in the States, seems to drone on with the unthinkable happening to our constitution. Perhaps I am getting numb to it, anyway, today, I find no energy on this front. So I thought, let me wander around the world and see how the rest of the folks  are doing. Bahrain. Isn’t that one of our allies? So in conclusion, as bad as we think we have it now here, Free Speech is a precious commodity that few have, and we are still blessed to have what we have. So here we go on a gloomy Thursday that reflects the more morose feelings of mine this day. Liberty, a precious thing. We won life’s lottery by being born here, living here and having all that we have. Thank you Lord for this precious gift we have been given. Let us treasure it. Fight for it. Die for it.

 

Thirteen doctors and nurses who treated anti-government protesters given 15-year jail terms for crimes against state.

 

Seven other medical professionals were given sentences of between five and 10 years by a special tribunal that was set up during the emergency rule that followed the demonstrations.

The doctors’ trial has been closely watched and criticised by rights groups for Bahrain’s use of the security court, which has military prosecutors and both civilian and military judges, in prosecuting civilians.

Speaking to Al Jazeera, Sheikh Mubarak bin Abdulaziz al Khalifa, a top member of Bahrain’s information affairs authority, said that the medics were not “practicing their profession in the manner that all doctors and nurses should have been abiding to”.

Thursday’s sentences came a day after the tribunal upheld sentences for 21 activists convicted for their roles in the protests, including eight prominent political figures who were given life terms on charges of trying to overthrow the kingdom’s Sunni rulers. More Al Jazeera

Come on down and get yourself some Obama money!

Did you get yourself some water in your basement? Power go out? Come on down.  There are folks expecting new water heaters as well as furnaces I read elsewhere. Look, I try to be a compassionate soul, but when is enough, enough? Am I being too hard on these guys? I do not recall thousands of people being without  power, but what do I know.

 Susie Blank, 74, of North Philadelphia, said she was without power for about 24 hours during Irene and lost about $250 worth of food, including everything in a deep freezer. “Ours was packed,” she said while filling out an affidavit and claim form outside the welfare office.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) opened a second disaster-relief center in Philadelphia on Monday after a crush of people overwhelmed the one Center City intake office over the weekend.

The problem stemmed from a wave of residents applying for financial assistance to cover the cost of food destroyed during storm-related power outages, said Michael Wade, a FEMA spokesman.

“At one point Sunday morning, we had 2,000 people standing in line” at the FEMA center at 111 S. 15th St. in Center City, Wade said.

Nearly 12,000 residents from Philadelphia and its surrounding Pennsylvania and South Jersey counties have registered for federal help following the summer’s back-to-back storms.

In Burlington, Camden and Gloucester Counties, more than 6,400 residents signed up for relief following Hurricane Irene.

In addition to disaster relief, Pennsylvania has received a national emergency grant of up to $10 million to create about 2,165 temporary storm cleanup jobs for workers in Philadelphia and nine other counties, including Chester and Delaware. From Philly.com

World Trade Tower – Steel from Germany, Glass from China

It does not take an I.Q of any merit to figure out why the U.S. is in the state it is in. As long as we continue to allow America not to be first, we will continue our slide into oblivion. How about time for our own self-interest? What a disgrace for the new American Icon– the new World Trade Center to be composed of Steel from Germany and Glass from China. And of course, the GOP candidates are all for any and all “Free Trade” deals. It has been working swell for the American worker now hasn’t it!

The American people need to learn the facts.  The United States has lost a staggering 32 percent of its manufacturing jobs since the year 2000, and over 42,000 manufacturing facilities in the United States have been closed down since 2001.

Between December 2000 and December 2010, 38 percent of the manufacturing jobs in Ohio were lost, 42 percent of the manufacturing jobs in North Carolina were lost and 48 percent of the manufacturing jobs in Michigan were lost.

Thank you George W. Bush and Barack Obama for such a wonderful economic miracle!

The new World Trade Center tower will contain 250 tons of steel from Germany and the lower floors will be surrounded with blast-resistant glass from China.  This is yet another example of how the U.S. economy is being hollowed out.  Once upon a time, the United States produced more steel and glass than anyone else in the world.  But now we are being deindustrialized at a blinding pace.  We have lost tens of thousands of factories and millions of jobs over the past decade.  We are going to have a trade imbalance of about a half a trillion dollars this year.  Meanwhile, our federal, state and local governments are going into massive amounts of debt in order to keep funding government activities at a level that our hollowed out economy simply cannot support any longer.

Well, if you don’t care about where our national symbols are made, you should at least care about the millions of jobs that we have been losing.

Since 1975, the United States had run a total trade deficit of more than 7.5 trillion dollars with the rest of the world.

All of that money could have gone to U.S. businesses and U.S. workers.  In turn, those businesses and workers would have paid taxes on all of that wealth.

But instead, all of that wealth went out of the United States. H/T and more at: End of the American Dream

EU, World Bank brutalize Africans for Carbon Credits

Here is a story that Al Gore and his henchmen, the Liberal wacko’s, the Progressives, who care so much for the environment, that they will not let you know about it. And the EU and the World Bank are equally responsible. But this is their M.O. for the uninitiated. Our lives are nothing to them, we have no value. In fact, we are a burden to their precious planet. For you see, they think there are far to many of us. So for these sad folks it is too late. Let this be our wake up call. Because sooner or later, they will come for us. Yes indeed.

The government of Uganda and the U.K.-based “carbon credits” firm New Forests Company — accredited by the United Nations and largely financed by the World Bank and the European Union — are under intense public pressure after evidence emerged that over 20,000 poor Ugandan farmers were brutally evicted from their lands in order for New Forests Company to plant trees. The atrocities, publicized in a September 22 report by the non-profit aid group Oxfam, have made headlines around the world. But not in America. They are still trying to ram the credits down our throats, and this is bad press.

“We were beaten by soldiers. They beat my husband and put him in jail,” Naiki Apanabang, who obtained her family’s land in recognition of her grandfather’s military service, told Oxfam investigators. “The eviction was very violent.” Apanabang and her eight children no longer have enough food to eat — let alone money for schooling.   …..unanimously telling investigators horror stories of brutality, shootings, wanton destruction of livelihoods, and more. “The communities Oxfam spoke to describe the evictions as anything but voluntary or peaceful,” the report noted.  

Ugandan authorities granted the UN-accredited carbon-trading firm a license to plant trees on the land in 2005. So-called “carbon credits” earned from the plantation would then be sold to companies to offset their emissions of CO₂. The problem was that tens of thousands of people had been living off of the land for decades.

Read the full appalling story here: New American

Here is a refresher as to what the Progressives are all about. Let us not forget for a nanosecond.

Federal Reserve to follow ‘key bloggers’, Facebook, Twitter

Well, it was a nice weekend off. Time to get back in the saddle.They are bearing down big time. Just who does the Fed think they are? I think we know the answer. By the way, if you have not visited Adriennes Corner Blog, you are missing a good one. Wander over.

Adriennes Corner brings us the news:

The Federal Reserve Plans To Identify “Key Bloggers” And Monitor Billions Of Conversations About The Fed On Facebook, Twitter, Forums And Blogs

 The Federal Reserve wants to know what you are saying about it.  In fact, the Federal Reserve has announced plans to identify “key bloggers” and to monitor “billions of conversations” about the Fed on Facebook, Twitter, forums and blogs.  This is yet another sign that the alternative media is having a dramatic impact.  read the rest

If this does not put a chill down our spines, I don’t know what will/

“The solution should provide an alerting mechanism that automatically sends out reports or notifications based a predefined trigger.”

You can read this “Request for Proposal” right here.  Posted below are some of the key quotes from the document (in bold) 

“The intent is to establish a fair and equitable partnership with a market leader who will who gather data from various social media outlets and news sources and provide applicable reporting to FRBNY. This Request for Proposal (“RFP”) was created in an effort to support FRBNY’s Social Media Listening Platforms initiative.”

“Social media listening platforms are solutions that gather data from various social media outlets and news sources.  They monitor billions of conversations and generate text analytics based on predefined criteria.  They can also determine the sentiment of a speaker or writer with respect to some topic or document.”

“The solution must be able to gather data from the primary social media platforms –Facebook, Twitter, Blogs, Forums and YouTube.”

“The solution must provide real-time monitoring of relevant conversations.  It should provide sentiment analysis (positive, negative or neutral) around key conversational topics.”

Obama: ‘Billionaire should pay same as a Jew’..oopsie

In Obama’s continuing class warfare rhetoric, which is reaching a fever pitch these days, makes this slip… he meant Janitor. What the heck, he considers them the same anyway.

Do you have a fundamental right to choose your food?

WI Judge to Zinniker, FTCLDF: No “Fundamental Right” to Own a Cow, or Consume Its Milk…Am I Making Myself Clear?

From The Complete Patient

“This court is unwilling to declare that there is a fundamental right to consume the food of one’s choice without first being presented with significantly more developed arguments on both sides of the issue.” Gee, I thought they both had to do with the right to decide what to do with your own body.

As if to show how pissed he was at being questioned, he said his decision translates further that “no, Plaintiffs to not have a fundamental right to own and use a dairy cow or a dairy herd;

“no, Plaintiffs do not have a fundamental right to consume the milk from their own cow;”

And in a kind of exclamation point, he added this to his list of no-nos: “no, Plaintiffs do not have a fundamental right to produce and consume the foods of their choice…”

I thought the debate was about raw milk and your “legal” right to drink the stuff. Looks like a Wisconsin Judge, land of the dairy cow, has a different take on it. Now all food is up for grabs.This is just one example of what happens when we start going down the Statist road of others deciding your liberty. Make no mistake, that is what it is about.

From Food Renegade:

You grow a garden; you expect to be able to harvest the food from that garden and eat it. You raise a cow; you expect to be able to milk that cow and consume the milk. You raise chickens; you expect to gather eggs and eat them. It’s uncomplicated, simple, a fundamental right. Perhaps you wouldn’t feel this way if you lived under some other form of government, but here, now, in America and other democratized countries, this is what you expect.

According to Wisconsin Judge Patrick J. Fiedler, you do not have a fundamental right to consume the food you grow or own or raise. The Farm To Consumer Legal Defense Fund, the pioneers in defending food sovereignty and freedom, recently argued before Judge Fiedler that you and I have a constitutional right to consume the foods of our choice. Judge Fiedler saw no merit to the argument and ruled against the FTCLDF. When they asked him to clarify his statement, these were his words.  More (source)

Elizabeth Warren on ‘fair taxation’ and debt’

Ace of Spades has a vid of Elizabeth Warren on the stump trying to capture Scott Brown’s Senate seat. Laura W. posts the high lights of the comments, and they are rich indeed. Having grown up in a family business that ran 7 days a week, 24 hours a day, this one comment nailed it  big time. For more great comments on the Video, wander over to The Ace. First, Ms Warren:

I hear all this, you know, ‘Well, this is class warfare, this is whatever. No. There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own — nobody.

“You built a factory out there? Good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police-forces and fire-forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn’t have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory — and hire someone to protect against this — because of the work the rest of us did.

Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific, or a great idea. God bless — keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is, you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along.” Hot Air

Ace of Spades:

Comment 267 Is she f*cking insane?I gotta ask.

Its the taxes *I* pay as a small business owner, and as a private citizen, that funds the roads, the police, the army, and so on. I pay for this now. Right f*cking now.

And you don’t think I built my goddamned business on my own? You don’t think I am the only one who was willing to take a f*cking risk on my vision? You think that society as a whole contributed to my business growing and being successful?

So, in the deepest dark of the credit crunch, where was society with the capital to back the asset purchases I needed to fulfill orders when the banks wouldn’t? The banks that are partially publicly owned, too big to fail, yet probably should?

What grew my business was the intense backbreaking labor I put into my business. The complex financial arrangements, and the risks *I* f*cking took. The danger to my families well being by literally risking every f*cking thing we had in order to pursue this, while this idiot and her fellow travelers were busy raping larger versions of businesses and denying their rightful owners their assets handing everything over to their buddies.

Lady, you have no business being in government. You have no business teaching. You have no f*cking clue what it takes to start, grow, run a business.

OMFG

Posted by: John Galt at September 22, 2011 12:12 PM (9NQ6I)

Yes, it is quite galling to work 6, sometimes 7 days a week, get F*CKED by the government six ways to Sunday in ways that employees never get to know about, and be told about all this wonderful ‘help’ we received.  More comments at Ace of Spades