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    Quote Originally Posted by BoulderDawg View Post
    Just wondering why I'm seeing David Letterman on TV bending over and grabbing his ankles apologizing to Sarah Palin.

    He has nothing to apologize for. My guess is that half of Alaska has hit either one daughter or the other....probably the vast majority has done both!
    Man you are a sick bastarhd......it's apparent you have never raised any children.....if your a representation of a true liberal.....Help us all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    Looks like public hospitals in British Columbia, Canada, will have to cut patient services in order to comply with global warming laws established by the provincial government. The Surrey Leader reports:

    The Lower Mainland’s health authorities will have to dig more than $4 million a year out of their already stretched budgets to pay B.C.�s carbon tax and offset their carbon footprints. Critics say the payments mean the government’s strategy to fight climate change will further exacerbate a crisis in health funding.

    “You have public hospitals cutting services to pay a tax that goes to another 100 per cent government-owned agency,” NDP health critic Adrian Dix said.
    “That just doesn’t make sense.” The Fraser Health Authority will pay $616,000 in carbon tax this year, rising to $821,000 next year, officials there said.

    And by 2010 Fraser will also be paying $1.3 million a year to the province’s Pacific Carbon Trust to offset its projected 52,600 tonnes of carbon emissions release. Vancouver Coastal Health Authority also expects its costs will be close to $2 million next year in combined carbon tax and offset payments.

    And while human life is threatened, of course, the stated objective of global warming kooks is once again undermined:

    Dix warned that some of the potential cuts - such as closing the ER at Mission Memorial Hospital - would actually increase carbon emissions by sending patients further afield. “Obviously when you shut down regional centres it makes people travel ****her to get to their health care facility,” he said. Meanwhile a hospital executive states his greater concern for plant life than heartbeats:

    Vancouver Coastal chief financial officer Duncan Campbell said his health authority believes the payments are appropriate and isn’t asking for any exemption from Victoria. “For us to go back and ask for an exemption wouldn’t fit in well with our green care plans,” he said.

    Getting scary guys.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Baqualin View Post
    Man you are a sick bastarhd
    Yep! Totally f'ing wack!!!!!! Most of us liberals are.....That's the reason the neos love us so much!

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    Could Cap and Trade Cause Another Market Meltdown?

    By Rachel Morris, Mother Jones News

    You’ve heard of credit default swaps and subprime mortgages. Are carbon default swaps and subprime offsets next? If the Waxman-Markey climate bill is signed into law, it will generate, almost as an afterthought, a new market for carbon derivatives. That market will be vast, complicated, and dauntingly difficult to monitor. And if Washington doesn’t get the rules right, it will be vulnerable to speculation and manipulation by the very same players who brought us the financial meltdown.

    Cap and trade would create what Commodity Futures Trading commissioner Bart Chilton anticipates as a $2 trillion market, “the biggest of any [commodities] derivatives product in the next five years.” That derivatives market will be based on two main instruments. First, there are the carbon allowance permits that form the nuts and bolts of any cap-and-trade scheme. Under cap and trade, the government would issue permits that allow companies to emit a certain amount of greenhouse gases. Companies that emit too much can buy allowances from companies that produce less than their limit. Then there are carbon offsets, which allow companies to emit greenhouse gases in excess of a federally mandated cap if they invest in a project that cuts emissions somewhere else - usually in developing countries. Polluters can pay Brazilian villagers to not cut down trees, for instance, or Filipino farmers to trap methane in pig manure.

    In addition to trading the allowances and offsets themselves, participants in carbon markets can also deal in their derivatives - such as futures contracts to deliver a certain number of allowances at an agreed price and time. These instruments will be traded not only by polluters that need to buy credits to comply with environmental regulations, but also by financial services firms. In fact, a study (PDF) by Duke University’s Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions anticipates that if the United States passes a cap-and-trade law, the derivatives trade will probably exceed the market for the allowances themselves. “We are on the verge of creating a new trillion-dollar market in financial assets that will be securitized, derivatized, and speculated by Wall Street like the mortgage-backed securities market,” says Robert Shapiro, a former undersecretary of commerce in the Clinton administration and a cofounder of the US Climate Task Force.

    Banks like JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, and Goldman Sachs already have active carbon trading desks that deal in instruments connected to Europe’s cap-and-trade system and voluntary markets here. But business will explode if a cap-and-trade system becomes law. So it’s no surprise that the financial industry has taken an intense interest20in the fine print of the Waxman-Markey bill. According to data compiled by the Center for Public Integrity, the financial services industry has 130 lobbyists working on climate issues, compared to almost none in 2003. They represent companies like Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, and AIG (before it was shamed into temporarily halting its lobbying activities last fall). The industry “wants lawmakers to create a brand-new revenue stream for its bottom line, and cap and trade would do it,” says Tyson Slocum of Public Citizen, who is a member of a Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) advisory committee considering how carbon trading should be regulated.

    Lots of money getting ready to be made.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BoulderDawg View Post
    Yep! Totally f'ing wack!!!!!! Most of us liberals are.....That's the reason the neos love us so much!
    That wasn't the first time you've made comments regarding young girls....PERV....you need to be put on a list....you probably watch kiddie porn.....like little boys too?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Baqualin View Post
    That wasn't the first time you've made comments regarding young girls....PERV....you need to be put on a list....you probably watch kiddie porn.....like little boys too?

    Oh yeah.......Didn't you know all of us liberals are like that! We watch gay commie kiddie snuff films, eat dead babies and worship the devil!

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    In a word "NO"

    I'm actually regretting that i volunteered for the guy.

    He puts a charming smile on the new world order, and we get to pat ourselves on the back that he's the first non white person elected. I'd rather someone who knew what they were doing, white or black.

    ....and no it wasn't gonna be any different with McCain or Hilary.

    "better to reside in hell knowing the truth than to be blissfully ignorant in heaven."

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    I dare you to make less sense!

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    Is anyone here even a republican? I think most of the true conservatives went independent a loooong time ago.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Drake View Post
    Is anyone here even a republican? I think most of the true conservatives went independent a loooong time ago.
    You bet!!! Hey Drake what do you think about the reading of miranda rights to enemy combatants in the field.
    BQ

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    Quote Originally Posted by FuXnDajenariht View Post
    In a word "NO"

    I'm actually regretting that i volunteered for the guy.

    He puts a charming smile on the new world order, and we get to pat ourselves on the back that he's the first non white person elected. I'd rather someone who knew what they were doing, white or black.

    ....and no it wasn't gonna be any different with McCain or Hilary.
    I didn't vote for him for that reason...no experience, but I felt like I should support my President and have up until this point...now I have no confidence in him.

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    Maybe BD knows this guy!

    "FBI agents visited the offices of the conservative Weekly Standard magazine yesterday after a shooting at the Holocaust Memorial Museum and told employees they'd found the magazine's address.

    The magazine is about a mile north of the Holocaust Museum, and there's no other indication that von Brunn had targeted it. Von Brunn's published rants included attacks on "neocons," and the Standard has been at the heart of the neoconservative movement.

    The suggestion that the Standard may have been a target complicates any view of the racist shooter in contemporary left-right terms. Von Brunn's white supremacist roots put him under the rubric of a "right-wing extremist," but the substance of his views -- which included everything from believing that President Bush may have been in on the September 11 attacks to denying that President Obama is an American citizen -- are too far on the fringe to fit into conventional political classification.

    The focus on the Standard, though, appears to be of a piece with his central motivation: Anti-Semitism. In one essay, Von Brunn attacked "JEWS-NEOCONS-BILL O’REILLY," and the suggestion that neoconservatism is a specifically Jewish conspiracy is common on the racist fringe."

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    When given the choice between big business and big government, choose big business. Big business never threw millions of people into gas chambers, but big government did.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 1bad65 View Post
    Maybe BD knows this guy!

    "FBI agents visited the offices of the conservative Weekly Standard magazine yesterday after a shooting at the Holocaust Memorial Museum and told employees they'd found the magazine's address.

    The magazine is about a mile north of the Holocaust Museum, and there's no other indication that von Brunn had targeted it. Von Brunn's published rants included attacks on "neocons," and the Standard has been at the heart of the neoconservative movement.

    The suggestion that the Standard may have been a target complicates any view of the racist shooter in contemporary left-right terms. Von Brunn's white supremacist roots put him under the rubric of a "right-wing extremist," but the substance of his views -- which included everything from believing that President Bush may have been in on the September 11 attacks to denying that President Obama is an American citizen -- are too far on the fringe to fit into conventional political classification.

    The focus on the Standard, though, appears to be of a piece with his central motivation: Anti-Semitism. In one essay, Von Brunn attacked "JEWS-NEOCONS-BILL O’REILLY," and the suggestion that neoconservatism is a specifically Jewish conspiracy is common on the racist fringe."

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    http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmi...er_target.html

    Maybe it's his long lost brother

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    Yeah, I saw where the neo right is attempting to paint Von Brunn as a liberal....I just laugh.

    The truth is Von Brunn is so far gone in his mental capacity that he longer really cares how anybody might feel about his views and opinions. Because of this he simply cannot understand why his like-minded comrades can't come out in public and say "I hate Jews" or "The holocaust never happened." He simply can't comprehend that while probably about 90% of neocons totally agree with the above statements they can't come out in public and say so.

    I've seen similar accusations from crazies on the left. Normally it's a super radical who's view's are so narrowly ridged that no one could really support them.

    These people are so swept up in their cause that you're either 100% behind them or you are their enemy.


    Painting Von Brunn as a liberal........doesn't really surprise me. That's neo stragedy to automatically paint a murderer as a liberal...par for the course.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BoulderDawg View Post
    Yeah, I saw where the neo right is attempting to paint Von Brunn as a liberal....I just laugh.


    Painting Von Brunn as a liberal........doesn't really surprise me. That's neo stragedy to automatically paint a murderer as a liberal...par for the course.



    Originally Posted by BoulderDawg
    Interesting story about the shooting at the Holocaust Museum today.

    This shooting combined with the killing of Dr Tiller last week kinda shows a trend. Could it be an omen of things to come? All during the election and even to the present day the neos have been preaching the doomsday that will occur now that the Obama admin is in power........Is it now not surprising that the right is turning to terrorism and violence?


    HYPOCRITE

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    Quote Originally Posted by Baqualin View Post
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    Originally Posted by BoulderDawg
    Interesting story about the shooting at the Holocaust Museum today.

    This shooting combined with the killing of Dr Tiller last week kinda shows a trend. Could it be an omen of things to come? All during the election and even to the present day the neos have been preaching the doomsday that will occur now that the Obama admin is in power........Is it now not surprising that the right is turning to terrorism and violence?


    HYPOCRITE
    Once I again I remind you putting him on ignore will save you a ton of frustration.

    The guy is a racist, hypocrite, lying, space cadet who worships a white guy with a spray-on tan pretending to be an Indian.

    But yeah, you sure nailed him there. First the guy was this "Neo" who was "turning to terrorism and violence", then when it came out he was politically close to BD, his tune sure changed.
    When given the choice between big business and big government, choose big business. Big business never threw millions of people into gas chambers, but big government did.

    "It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men" -Samuel Adams

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