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#337853 - 06/14/08 11:16 PM
Pork, pork and more pork.
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Porn Jesus
Registered: 03/22/06
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Loc: 2004 - the glory days
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what ever happened to "the first 100 hours" and the dems promise to reform congress back in '06? it baffles me why people are buying obama's "change" message. Quote:
A bill recently passed by the House increases the number of Defense Authorization earmarks by more than 20% from last year, according to a new analysis by Taxpayers for Common Sense (TCS), a national budget watchdog organization.
The House and Senate Defense Authorization bills are two of the first pieces of legislation to disclose earmarks for Fiscal Year 2009. This is the second year that Congress has disclosed earmarks under the new ethics rules. TCS found the House Defense Authorization bill contains 539 earmarks totaling over $9.9 billion, a substantial increase from last year’s 449 earmarks worth $7.7 billion. This represents a more than 29% increase in the cost of earmarks and a 20% increase in the number of earmarks from the bill the House passed last year. The Senate Defense Authorization bill fared better, with 435 earmarks totaling $5.4 billion. This represents a slight decrease from last year’s Senate bill dollar amount of $5.6 billion, but the number of earmarks increased 126 from last year's 309.
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Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Senator Carl Levin (D-MI) requested an astounding 49 earmarks totaling over $198 million. Two earmarks of $5 million each went to General Motors, one of his top contributors with over $29,000 contributed so far this election cycle. The $5 million earmarks would go to the “next generation non-tactical vehicle propulsion technologies” and “Navy/USMC fuel cell non-tactical vehicle initiative,” which benefit Senator Levin’s home state of Michigan.
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#337854 - 06/14/08 11:50 PM
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Porn Jesus
Registered: 01/07/06
Posts: 4268
Loc: Portland
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If only the Repubs were in complete charge of all three (or four, if you buy Cheney's legal argument) branches of government to stamp this shit out. Wait...they were...2001-2006...Bridge to Nowhere...National Debt increased from $5 trillion to $9 trillion...manufactured excuses for invading and mismanaging Iraq...Blackwater, Halliburton and an oddball assortment of mercenaries/Republican party donors...heckuva job Brownie...$4 per gallon for gasoline; first I've heard about it...Duke Cunningham/Tom Delay/Larry Craig/Rick Santorum...Karl Rove's dream of single-party rule in America...free speech zones...swift boats...faith-based funding...faith-based political appointees...Liberty "University"...stagnant wages...fuck habeas corpus...Cheney shooting lawyers in the face...Tom Ridge admitting he cranked up the Threat Level for political purposes...Phase II report...Enron/Ken Lay...outing CIA operatives, also for political purposes...5 million missing White House emails...Siegelman...giving up golf in times of "war"...ad infinitum... 
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#337855 - 06/15/08 12:32 AM
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Porn Jesus
Registered: 03/22/06
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Loc: 2004 - the glory days
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typical bullshit talking point dodge. it's easy to point fingers for 01-06 when you weren't in power. what about 06-08 and all the pork barrel projects your party promised to end? 100 hours....CHANGE! dems block every attempt at refining/drilling for oil domestically but blame the admin for high oil prices, nice try.
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#337856 - 06/15/08 12:50 AM
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Porn Jesus
Registered: 01/07/06
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Sigh...time for some more facts... http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5111184/"But with so much public land already available for exploration, environmental groups and local landowners are questioning why the Bush administration is pushing to lease still more federal land to the oil and gas industry, particularly in areas that the groups and some lawmakers want protected as federal wilderness areas."
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#337857 - 06/15/08 01:27 AM
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Porn Jesus
Registered: 03/22/06
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facts. good one. a four year old article. timely as usual and about as relevant. Quote:
Nearly three-fourths of the 40 million acres of public land currently leased for oil and gas development in the continental United States outside Alaska isn’t producing any oil or gas
maybe there isn't any oil or gas present? or it's not cost effective to drill for it? the article certainly doesn't give any answers other than showing their true colors on the issue by using these objective statements -
"Bush administration pushes to open more environmentally sensitive public lands", "pushing to lease", "aggressive leasing of public land pushed by the Bush administration", "land grab" "the full force of the draconian Bush energy policy".
what a joke. so what have the dems done about this since they took over congress two years ago? anything?
and then this drops
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How much exploration has occurred on the nearly 30 million acres of non-producing public land leases is difficult to say. BLM officials could provide no details on the number of exploratory wells drilled on those leases
so the entire article is pointless. well not really, we'll fire up the old associated press computer shoot out a few models till we get what we want for the article and the facts speak for themselves. sure.
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An Associated Press computer analysis
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#337858 - 06/15/08 08:33 AM
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Porn Jesus
Registered: 09/23/04
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Damn, and I thought this was going to be a thread to discuss cooking pigs. I'll be roasting a whole hog and hiring a bluegrass band for the 4th of July.
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#337859 - 06/15/08 02:10 PM
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Porn Jesus
Registered: 12/28/05
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Loc: The City That Never Sleeps, Tr...
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Damn, and I thought this was going to be a thread to discuss cooking pigs. I'll be roasting a whole hog and hiring a bluegrass band for the 4th of July.
That sounds pretty fucking cool. 
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#337860 - 06/15/08 03:52 PM
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Porn Jesus
Registered: 01/02/05
Posts: 5750
Loc: ATLANTIC CITY
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I gotta side with Bornyo here...Pork is the other "White meat' Lean Pork, ideal for you fat fucks trying to lose weight, chock full of all the shit that will help.
As for the other aspect, Pork in Government spending, Burg did a double at H in Government and Economics, so I am sad to say I know all about whst is going on ... The Dems are responsible for more increases in defense and military adventures than the repugs in our fucked up nations history. Pick up a history book, judge for thyself. True it was FDR and Harry S. but still, Gerald Ford found the intestinal fortitude to leave pol Pot alone, why couldnt FDR, a known anti-semite in 1929, leave Adolph alone and let him prevent the current global domination of the Zionist conspiracy to control EVERYTHING??? why? huh?
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