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Isn’t it great how the new Environmental Protection Bill is moving American automakers to produce green cars?

Chevy proudly announces the release of their new full size hybrid SUV. This environmentally designed SUV “only” weighs 5,600 pounds and will “only” put you back $52,000.. And BEST of all, it will provide the owner with a sound 21 mpg city and 22 mpg highway!

Isn’t this wonderful!!!

This technologically superior vehicle, designed with the latest in energy efficiency, barely meets the CAFE standard for new cars of 22 mpg - based upon the 1985 fuel economy standards.

It took 23 years, but we are moving now!

And this isn’t even the FUN part yet. Under the 2007 new federal regulations - which our new “green” thinking Congress, automakers have until 2020 to meet a “fleet-wide” average of a (hold your breath) 35 MPG!!! Yip-yippeee~!

Meaning, like Chevy reflects today - maybe after another 23 years - year 2043, they will announce an SUV which meets THE NEW HIGHER STANDARD!!

And with people keeping their cars longer, we will enjoy MILIONS of vehicles clogging our roads with less than 35 MPG for decades to come.

Of course our policitians will pat themselves on the back for being green, speeches will be made in their honor, and all of them will be out of office and retired without having changed a damn thing.

Pretty sad if you ask me. Today, in 2008 I am driving a 2003 hybrid from overseas which gets 44 mpg.

Let’s all gather together and give thanks for the BIG THREE US Automakers and our great green federal government. NOT.

Please don’t ask me to cry when the Ford’s and GM’s close down. Despite the loss of high paying union jobs - it may be the best thing to happen for our environment.

“Bill and Chelsea Clinton have been touting Hillary Clinton’s commitment to Africa on the campaign trail by telling voters that “Hillary was the first U.S. Senator to call Darfur genocide.”

Chelsea talked about her mother’s record on Darfur to Stanford University students, saying that she was “really proud that…mom was the first Democratic senator to call Darfur conflict genocide in May of 2004, and put a lot of pressure on the Bush administration to recognize it as genocide.”

As it turned out, the first senators who actually called Darfur genocide were Russ Feingold, D-Wisconsin, Mike DeWine, R-Ohio, and Sam Brownback, R-Kansas.

Hillary Clinton’s first press statement referring to Darfur as “genocide” wasn’t until March 16, 2006.

Some will say Hillary did not lieabout Darfur, it was Bill and Chelsea. Yes, but this was a part of her campaign strategy and she never distanced herself from their false statements.”

blogcritics.org

Hey cosmo,

Check this out from Snopes:

This is in regards to Al Gore’s mansion. Care to reply?:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/house.asp

Glass Houses

Claim: E-mail compares George W. Bush’s eco-friendly ranch with Al Gore’s energy-expending mansion.

Status: True.

Example: [Collected via e-mail, 2007]

LOOK OVER THE DESCRIPTIONS OF THE FOLLOWING TWO HOUSES AND SEE IF YOU CAN TELL WHICH BELONGS TO AN ENVIRONMENTALIST.

HOUSE # 1:

A 20-room mansion (not including 8 bathrooms) heated by natural gas. Add on a pool (and a pool house) and a separate guest house all heated by gas. In ONE MONTH ALONE this mansion consumes more energy than the average American household in an ENTIRE YEAR. The average bill for electricity and natural gas runs over $2,400.00 per month. In natural gas alone (which last time we checked was a fossil fuel), this property consumes more than 20 times the national average for an American home. This house is not in a northern or Midwestern “snow belt,” either. It’s in the South.

HOUSE # 2:

Designed by an architecture professor at a leading national university, this house incorporates every “green” feature current home construction can provide. The house contains only 4,000 square feet (4 bedrooms) and is nestled on arid high prairie in the American southwest. A central closet in the house holds geothermal heat pumps drawing ground water through pipes sunk 300 feet into the ground. The water (usually 67 degrees F.) heats the house in winter and cools it in summer. The system uses no fossil fuels such as oil or natural gas, and it consumes 25% of the electricity required for a conventional heating/cooling system. Rainwater from the roof is collected and funneled into a 25,000 gallon underground cistern. Wastewater from showers, sinks and toilets goes into underground purifying tanks and then into the cistern. The collected water then irrigates the land surrounding the house. Flowers and shrubs native to the area blend the property into the surrounding rural landscape.

HOUSE # 1 (20 room energy guzzling mansion) is outside of Nashville, Tennessee. It is the abode of that renowned environmentalist (and filmmaker) Al Gore.

HOUSE # 2 (model eco-friendly house) is on a ranch near Crawford, Texas. Also known as “the Texas White House,” it is the private residence of the President of the United States, George W. Bush.

So whose house is gentler on the environment? Yet another story you WON’T hear on CNN, CBS, ABC, NBC, MSNBC or read about in the New York Times or the Washington Post. Indeed, for Mr. Gore, it’s truly “an inconvenient truth.”

Origins: This e-mail comparison between the homes of President George W. Bush and former vice-president Al Gore began circulating on the Internet in March 2007 (shortly after the latter’s film on the global warming issue, An Inconvenient Truth, won an Academy Award as Best Documentary). Short and sweet, there’s a fair bit of truth to the e-mail: Al Gore’s Nashville mansion is something of the energy-gobbler the e-mail depicts, while President Bush’s Crawford ranch is more the model of responsible resource use the juxtaposition portrays it to
be.

According to the Associated Press, the Gore’s 10,000 square foot Belle Meade residence consumes electricity at a rate of about 12 times the average for a typical house in Nashville (191,000 kwh versus 15,600 kwh). While there are mitigating factors (further discussed in our article about the Gore household’s energy use), this is still a surprising number, given that the residence is approximately four times the size of the average new American home.

The Prairie Chapel Ranch ranch home owned by George W. Bush in Crawford, Texas, was designed by Austin architect David Heymann, an associate dean for undergraduate programs at the University of Texas School of Architecture. As the Chicago Tribune described the house in a 2001 article:
The 4,000-square-foot house is a model of environmental rectitude.

Geothermal heat pumps located in a central closet circulate water through pipes buried 300 feet deep in the ground where the temperature is a constant 67 degrees; the water heats the house in the winter and cools it in the summer. Systems such as the one in this “eco-friendly” dwelling use about 25% of the electricity that traditional heating and cooling systems utilize.

A 25,000-gallon underground cistern collects rainwater gathered from roof runs; wastewater from sinks, toilets and showers goes into underground purifying tanks and is also funneled into the cistern. The water from the cistern is used to irrigate the landscaping surrounding the four-bedroom home. Plants and flowers native to the high prairie area blend the structure into the surrounding ecosystem.
Other news articles published in 2001-02 provided expanded descriptions of the ranch house:
“By marketplace standards, the house is startlingly small,” says David Heymann, the architect of the 4,000-square-foot home.

Constructed from a local limestone, the house has eight rooms in a long, narrow design to take advantage of views and breezes. A porch stretches across the back and both ends of the house, widening at one end into a covered patio off the living room.

The tin roof of the house extends beyond the porch. When it rains, it’s possible to sit on the patio and watch the water pour down without getting wet. Under a gravel border around the house, a concrete gutter channels the water into a 25,000-gallon cistern for irrigation. In hot weather, a terrace directly above the cistern is a little cooler than the surrounding area.

Wastewater from showers, sinks and toilets goes into purifying tanks underground — one tank for water from showers and bathroom sinks, which is so-called “gray water,” and one tank for “black water” from the kitchen sink and toilets. The purified water is funneled to the cistern with the rainwater. It is used to irrigate flower gardens, newly planted trees and a larger flower and herb garden behind the two-bedroom guesthouse. Water for the house comes from a well.

The Bushes installed a geothermal heating and cooling system, which uses about 25% of the electricity that traditional heating and air-conditioning systems consume. Several holes were drilled 300 feet deep, where the temperature is a constant 67 degrees. Pipes connected to a heat pump inside the house circulate water into the ground, then back up and through the house, heating it in winter and cooling it in summer. The water for the outdoor pool is heated with the same system, which proved so efficient that initial plans to install solar energy panels were cancelled.

The features are environment-friendly, but the reason for them was practical — to save money and to save water, which is scarce in this dry, hot part of Texas.
(NOTE: The floor plans shown at the web site westernwhitehouse.org are not accurate reproductions of the size and layout Bush’s Prairie Chapel Ranch house. They are elements of a parody.)

Last updated: 28 March 2007

Shallow people read that stupid magazine.
Waste of trees.

Yeah bird, you can be anyone you want to be on a blog. Hell, I’m a rocket scientist with two masters,
a Naval aviator, Medal of Honor winner, Two silver stars, and a gold glove boxing champion.

You can be a genius if you want. Post away.

Pattie-cakes: IQ tests don’t lie. Trust me. But my goodness, if it makes you feel like a big man to denigrate me - go ahead! ‘Cause if I were a man,

Oh, never mind.

American:

I understand your concern here. My own feelings are certainly more complicated than they were a decade ago. Gender confusion - and the mental anguish which accompanies it - is a very painful and unfortunate condition.

And there are documented cases of humans being born with sex organs of both genders. In cases like these (they are rare, granted - but they do occur), what is a person to do? I’ve never experienced this excruciating dilemma - but I do know that life can be excruciating enough without gender confusion.

In summation - my feelings about this case are uneasy. Is this person now a man - after having been born a woman but confused all his/her life? Technological/surgical advances have allowed her to become a man.

Is this current situation somewhat troubling to me? It is. But I purport no moral authority, nor any desire to poke my nose into anyone’s personal life. But People magazine made it our business, so my complicated perceptions are a reality.

American:

Please - let us be respectful of those rare, but tragic, cases which do occur. Hermaphrodism has occurred throughout the ages. I am unsure as to the genetic(?) causes of this, but I have seen televised documentaries which prove evidence of both genders’ sex organs on a single individual.

Can one only imagine the anguish this inflicts?

As for People magazine, they are probably more accurate than, say, the National Enquirer. I would certainly not place the Eagle on a par with tabloid trashery.

In this current issue, I saw the pictures with my own eyes: It’s a pregnant man, who evidently retained his/her uterus from his days as a woman. I’m having some difficulty with this - it was disconcerting to see this. I don’t feel hateful or disdainful.

I am simply uneasy.

People magazine is probably not perfect - nor is the Eagle. But hermaphrodism is very real - and very rare. But the pain it inflicts on the individual afflicted - especially when puberty strikes - should not be discounted.

Pictures can be altered.

B-1 bomber burns after landing in Qatar

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/04/04/bomber.crash/index.html

How many of you know where Qatar is? I’ll be honest and admit that I didn’t until a couple of months ago, nor did I know:
(from the article)
Al-Udeid, about 20 miles south of Qatar’s capital of Doha, has the military’s (That’s U.S. military) longest runway in the Middle East.

About 3,300 U.S. troops, mostly Army, are stationed at the base.

And at least one USAF troop. My son-in-law. Can’t wait to hear the story on this one!

(Qatar is located just up the eastern coast of Saudi Arabia, northwest of UAE, across the Persian Gulf from Iran.)

American, of the USA
Posted April 5, 2008 at 11:06 am | Permalink
Songbird,

The person you spoke of earlier is still a man, no matter what surgery or hormones were given to supposedly change him.

Don’t you agree?
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Please read it again — It is a former female, now become male, who maintained HER uterus, and is now pregnant… So, he/she is now a HE who was heretofore a SHE

Herbie, how is your plan to have Sebelius impeached coming? Haven’t read about in the news - must be that pesky old liberal media that is not doing their job reporting on a Democrat, right?

Clinton Culture of Corruption Campaign Continues!

http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/politics/blog/2008/04/why_did_billionaire_pay_clinto.html

Why did billionaire pay Clinton $15 million?

The political reporter Thomas Edsall points out an interesting nugget in his column that the Clinton campaign seemed to gloss over when they released eight years of tax returns yesterday.

Bill Clinton received about $15 million in payments from billionaire Ron Burkle since 2002.

The Los Angeles-based mogul has long been tied to the Clintons and has been one of the most prolific fundraisers for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.

In a press statement accompanying the release of Clintons’s tax return, the campaign summarized where much of the couples money came from over the last eight years—a Senate salary, presidential pension, book royalties and a whopping sum of $51.9 million in speaking fees earned by President Clinton.

But glaringly missing from the summary was mention of $15 million in fees paid by Burkle’s Yucaipa Global Opportunities Fund since 2002. Forbes magazine listed Burkle as the 91st richest American last year.

The Clintons ties to Burkle have drawn scrutiny for some time. Last fall, the Wall Street Journal reported one of the former president’s aides had helped arrange a partnership between Burkle and young Italian businessman named Raffaello Follieri.

That partnership later fell apart and Burkle sued Follieri of misusing funds to keep up a lavish lifestyle of fancy meals and rides on jets for him and his girlfriend, actress Anne Hathaway.

Clinton Culture of Corruption Campaign Continues!

Colombian Government Terminates Contract With Clinton Adviser’s Firm
by FOXNews.com
Saturday, April 5, 2008

The Colombian government has terminated its contract with the lobbying firm of Hillary Clinton strategist Mark Penn after he publicly apologized, under pressure from the rest of the Clinton campaign, for meeting with Colombian officials earlier in the week.

Penn held the meeting to discuss a pending trade deal on behalf of his lobbying and public relations firm, Burson-Marsteller Worldwide — but Clinton aides were infuriated at him since the Democratic candidate is a staunch opponent of the deal. Penn backtracked, releasing a statement Friday calling the meeting “an error in judgment.”

But that response ticked off the Colombian Embassy, prompting the country to sever its contract Saturday.

The embassy statement said: “Mr. Mark Penn, President and CEO of Burson-Marsteller, responded to claims by Union representatives who questioned his relationship with the Colombian Government by declaring that it was an ‘error in judgment’ to meet with his client the Colombian Ambassador on March 31. The Colombian government considers this a lack of respect to Colombians, and finds this response unacceptable.”

The statement said Penn’s firm had been conducting “consulting services” for Colombia since March 2007, working toward the approval of the free trade agreement, but that the contract will be terminated.

The Clinton campaign learned of the meeting when The Wall Street Journal reported on it Friday.

Clinton officials were furious Penn would divert attention from Clinton’s campaign to curry favor with the Colombian government on behalf of the free trade deal. One chief concern was that Penn’s meeting conflicts with Clinton’s statements denouncing Colombia for using violence against union organizers.

The Clinton campaign stressed that Penn’s meeting did not shake its stiff resistance to the trade deal, and Penn later apologized.

Enough of this trivial stuff - tonight’s menu is barbecue, basketball and beer.

Later………………..

Go KU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Not 2007 Chas.

You been reading?

Say Chas, show me a link to the Clinton 2007 tax returns.

waiting

waiting

waiting

waiting

Admit it Chas, you were W-R-O-N-G !!!

109 Mill. in income since 2001
30% paid in income Tax
Approx. 10% given to charities!!

Maxc, its already public!! What are you missing here??? I just watched a whole segment on it within the past hour on CNN!! Geez, must you be so dense??

I tell ya what… you just go call CNN and tell them they dont know what they are reporting, OK?? I dont have time for your stupid flaming tonite!! LOL

Either Hillary Clinton’s web site is wrong, or Chas is LYING!

MAX Hillary been talking about her tax returns in every speech all day today!! Geez, you are sooooo irritating!!

Gotta get dinner ready now….

Chas,

You are correct sir. I had it reversed.

She, therefore, would still be a woman then.

“The campaign released tax returns from 2000 through 2006 and gave highlights from their 2007 return. The Clintons have asked for an extension for filing their 2007 tax returns, citing the dissolution of a blind trust last year.”

http://www.kansas.com/wireupdates/story/362718.html

Chas. maybe you should call CNN and tell them they could be wrong.

“…so what the hell are bitching about now???”

Did you miss the “The Clintons have asked for an extension for filing their 2007 tax returns…”

They are not going to file the latest until they do a little creative accounting.

Democratic or Republican, corruption is a “Party” in itself WSCLARK. Jenkins and Sebelius twisting and breaking the Law is not a Democratic Party measure, it is “Personal Agenda Party” matter. The “”P.A.C. or “”Personal Agenda Committee”"!!!! Herbert West III, west.herb@yahoo.com

Hud, it doesnt matter what Hillary releases… you will call it a lie whatever she releases!! It really doesnt matter!!

see — what di tell you??

The buzzword of this election is “CHANGE.”
Candidates toss it around without saying what they
want to change to.Years ago, there was an old tale in the Marine Corps
about a lieutenant who inspected his Marines and told
the “Gunny” that they smelled bad. The lieutenant
suggested that they change their underwear.
The “Gunny” responded, “Aye,aye, sir. I’ll see to it immediately.”
He went into the tent and said, “The lieutenant thinks
you guys smell bad, and he wants you to change your
underwear. Smith, you change with Jones, McCarthy,
you change with Witkowskie, Brown, you change with Schultz ….”
“Change, now get on with it.”
A candidate may promise change in Washington but the stink remains.

No I said it doesnt mattere what they release you and your little friends will call it a lie!! You really need to work on those reading skills!!

Nothing to comment on… thats a joke, dummy!!

they all went back into hiding again, PMama

First the Govt. breaks up the good times in Waco, and now this! The cons. are going to be pissed!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080406/ts_nm/usa_mormons_abuse_dc_3

Yeah isn’t it interesting CH dies, and the government is raiding a compound to save kids from gun weilding nuts.

Today, that’s all I know.

Good night; Good luck; God Bless;
Whatever you believe God to be!!

Blessings ALL!!

Blessings to the Hesston Family!

Good catch political mama.

Charleton Hesston is indeed dead.

His career had been dead the last 30 some years.

I guess he will cuddle his gun and eat soylent green while he fights apes and zombies in the afterlife.

Sick SOB Monkey.

Chas.
Posted April 5, 2008 at 10:33 pm | Permalink
That should cause massive mourning in the Gun Nut world!!
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More compassion from a phony lying pastor.

Posting any obituaries recently Chas?

WE Blog notes:

JR
Monkeyhawk
Chas
Political Momma

All four made fun of the dead.

Real class act.

Unfortunately, Hesston will more than likely be remembered more for his support of the NRA, than for his amazing acting ability!! He played so many really good roles!! And what a great voice!!

I did no such thing, POS…umm PTL… But, so what?? In some very sad ways, Hesston allowed himelf to be USED by a bunch of buffoons… Not totally his fault, though!!

PTL…wasn’t that Jim Bakker’s group? Didn’t that die after he was found to be such a big huge FRAUD.

A phony pastor on the WE Blog?

Say it isn’t so!

“A phony pastor on the WE Blog?”

A new nic for McCluer?

Say it isn’t so!

Make sure you BOLD the proper words Chas.

A hard day for the right tomorrow.

John the Baptist is dead. Moses is dead.

Taylor the ape fighter is dead.

I look forward to it!

Ding dong the merry oh another right winger is dead!

J R — Hesston hasnt acted in anything but commercials, for 20 - 30 years now…

Early Eucharist tomorrow… Nite All!!

Chas.
Posted April 5, 2008 at 11:19 pm | Permalink
LOL Monkey!!
Let’s have a bit of solemnity for the departed Alzheimers Victim… eh??

But,

Chas, the phony pastor, never makes fun of anybody who died.