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House Floor Drilling Update

TGWShark Oh, this is funny. And turning out the lights pretty much sums up Pelosi's policies. http://tinyurl.com/6jkrvj
johnculberson johnculberson Closing press conf now
johnculberson johnculberson Pelosi's House thrives on secrecy and is going on vacation and ignoring the need to bring down gas prices
johnculberson johnculberson Qikking and Twittering now
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Latest Twitter Post from House

 

johnculberson I just told the House chamber We the People can take back the Capitol with these new media tools by networking and shining sunlight everywhe 16 minutes ago from TwitterBerry

johnculberson Press conf live now on qik.com 2 minutes ago from TwitterBerry

johnculberson Twitter posts have been a big part of driving this important news story 2 minutes ago from TwitterBerry

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House Drilling Press Conference

http://qik.com/video/147408
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Drilling House floor debate

 

johnculberson I just told the House chamber We the People can take back the Capitol with these new media tools by networking and shining sunlight everywhe 2 minutes ago from TwitterBerry

steveegg retweet @petehoekstra I just spoke. Ds believe this is their House. They're wrong. It's the people's. To bad some have forgotten. 25 minutes ago from web

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House Floor Update from Twitter

 

johnculberson Go to cong Pete Hoekstra's Twitter page.and retweet his messages to your followers about 1 hour ago from TwitterBerry

abbyalger Just heard Pelosi's comments inbox is full. Wonder how long that took. 8 minutes ago from twhirl

johnculberson I just took a big group of Americans into the gallery to see this historic day on the House floor that you heard about first on Twiitter 5 minutes ago from TwitterBerry

johnculberson Cong Todd Platts of Penn up now - he was driving home heard about this and turned around and is here calling for Congress to get to work 6 minutes ago from TwitterBerry

abbyalger I will donate money to any member of Congress carried out by Capitol police. That is all. 5 minutes ago from web

RocmanUSA EVERYBODY -Call Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi at 202 225 0100. Demand vote on energy legislation. 4 minutes ago from web

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Drilling Info from House Floor (Pelosi turned off CSPAN

 

House floor and gallery are full of Americans who came to the Capitol to see Congress work yet Speaker Pelosi sent us all home

johnculberson Cong Rob Bishop says we have to solve energy problem for poor Americans who cannot afford 4 dollar a gallon gas 15 minutes ago from TwitterBerryjohnculberson

This cong mike rogers. Please stand up for an american made energy!! For our national security and our economic security!! Your voice counts 32 minutes ago from TwitterBerry

johnculberson This cong mike rogers. Please stand up for an american made energy!! For our national security and our economic security!! Your voice counts 34 minutes ago from TwitterBerry

johnculberson Cong Mike Rogers says every day Pelosi wastes America sends 50 million to Putin 200 million to Saudi Arabia 180 million to Hugo Chavez 37 minutes ago from TwitterBerry

johnculberson We are not leaving the House floor - Cong Mike Pence points out this is a House filibuster 41 minutes ago from TwitterBerry

gopconference The people's House is the people's House again! 44 minutes ago from TwitterBerry

johnculberson Go to cong Pete Hoekstra's Twitter page.and retweet his messages to your followers about 1 hour ago from TwitterBerry

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Pelosi has turned off CSPAN on House Republicians

Members of the House Republicians are on the floors of the talking about drilling and the CSPAN cameras have been turned off. I am following reports from John Culbertson from his blackberry on Twitter. If your republican rep is not on the floor, asked them why?
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Messiah's Energy Plan

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Book Obama Fears

   

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The OBAMA Energy Plan, put air in your tires?

   

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Nancy, Get off your AS* and PASS GAS

"I'm trying to save the planet," declares House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, which is a lot for one person. Maybe she should just try to save herself from the embarrassment that comes with spouting such inanities.
 
 
 
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Nancy, It's Time to PASS GAS (VIDEO)

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A Country At Mercy Of Environmentalists

By WALTER E. WILLIAMS from IBD

Let's face it. The average individual American has little or no clout with Congress and can be safely ignored. But it's a different story with groups such as the Environmental Defense Fund, Sierra Club and Nature Conservancy.

When they speak, Congress listens. Unlike the average American, they are well organized, loaded with cash and well positioned to be a disobedient congressman's worse nightmare. Their political and economic success has been a near disaster for our nation.

For several decades, environmentalists have managed to get Congress to keep most of our oil resources off-limits to exploration and drilling.

They've managed to have the Congress enact onerous regulations that have made refinery construction impossible.

Similarly, they've used the courts and Congress to completely stymie the construction of nuclear power plants. As a result, energy prices are at historical highs and threaten our economy and national security.

What's the political response to our energy problems? It's more congressional and White House kowtowing to environmentalists, farmers and multibillion-dollar corporations such as Archer Daniels Midland.

Their "solution," rather than to solve our oil supply problem by permitting drilling for the billions upon billions of barrels of oil beneath the surface of our country, is to enact the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007. That mandates that oil companies increase the amount of ethanol mixed with gasoline.

Anyone with an ounce of brains would have realized that diverting crops from food to fuel use would raise the prices of corn-fed livestock, such as pork, beef, chicken and dairy products, and products made from corn, such as cereal.

Ethanol production has led to increases in the prices of other grains, such as soybean and wheat. Since the U.S. is the world's largest grain producer and exporter, higher grain prices have had a huge impact on food prices worldwide.

Congress and the environmentalists aren't through with us. If you're bothered by skyrocketing food and energy prices, wait until Congress reintroduces its environmentalist-inspired Climate Security Act, so-called cap and trade.

Cap and trade is deceptively peddled as a free-market solution to the yet-to-be-settled issue of man-made climate change. Under its provisions, companies would be able to emit greenhouse gases only if they had a government allowance.

The Congressional Budget Office estimates that a 15% cut in emissions would raise the annual average household's energy cost by $1,300.

Since energy is an input to everything we use, we can expect everything to become costlier, resulting in a reduction in economic growth.

There's a hateful side to cap and trade that's revealed by asking the question: How will it be decided who received how much allowance to emit greenhouse gases?

Congress could sell the allowances and/or give them away to favorite constituents. You can bet the rent money that a new army of lobbyists, with special pleadings, will descend on Washington to lobby Congress. And you can be sure that campaign contributions and favoritism will play an important role in the decision of who receives what allowances.

Much worse than that is the massive control government would have over our economy and lives. Congress might decide that since tobacco use is unhealthy, it might not issue allowances to tobacco companies.

While many Americans might applaud that, how many would like Congress to refuse to issue allowances to companies that produce food that some people deem unhealthy such as french fries, sodas, canned soups and potato chips?

Congress might deny, or threaten to deny, allowances to companies that in its opinion didn't hire enough women and minorities. The possibilities for control over our lives would be endless and could include nuisance-type edicts such a requiring us to buy a permit to barbecue in our backyard.

The thirst to wield massive control over our economy helps explain the near religious belief in man-made global warming and the attacks on scientists and others who offer contradictory evidence.

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Eco Fraud in Australia -from Drillinginfo

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24036736-7583,00.html

There is within it an idea we should expand upon... he suggests that the Australian Labour Party should tread lightly here because the consequences of their being wrong, which is looking more and more likely every day, would lead to their being non-electable in the future.

Hmmmm.  Having been a bit of a student of class action lawsuits against evil corporations brought to their knees for fraud and deception, often times for nothing at all, ala Dow Corning, it seems like dangerous territory.  Could a class-action tort be brought to bear on Al Gore, so many of the non-profit anti-capitalist propogandists, and legislators who vote on the basis of this sleight of hand to defraud us all? 

Of course, government exempts itself from fraud liability... with the attendant standards towards veracity for those in government reflecting this clemency. In fact, it is unlikely that any agency head or legislator would last more than 4 weeks in the private sector because what is standard operating procedure WITHIN the Borg itranslates into prison time and shareholder lawsuit fodder in corporate America. 

But Al Gore, his corporations, the Friends of the Earth, and all the rest... massive damages?  Biggest ever, in fact?  $50 billion spent in the last 18 years and the conclusions are more and more suspect...

Consider that Nobel Laureate Gore in front of that impressive image in "inconvenient truth" showing us how global temperatures and CO2 concentrations mimic one another.  Causality, he showed and said.  Zooming in on the graph, though, the CO2 lags temperature by 800 years across the board... but he DIDN'T zoom on the graph.  He, how to best put this... Lied. Not in a GW Bush "I really think and hope these are WMD plants, because the CIA said they might be", or "Al Qaida has some folks in Iraq, so they are in cahoots" kinda lie.  No, Al laid a Billy Sol Estes fertilizer tank misdirect kinda LIE on all of us.  Temperature drives carbon uptake, not the other way around.  Mr. Gore is an expert.  He has won a Nobel Prize for his propog... I mean, expertise. Did he not know?  Was it an honest mistake?  C'mon.  Inconceivable. 

Had Mr. Gore been, say, a Tobacco Executive, and had he intentionally lied as clearly and distinctly about his product as he did in that movie in that one particular instance (soon to be an opera, I am told), he would be in jail, and his company or industry would be paying out, say, 250 billion in damages.  

Mr. Gore, with a lifetime of public service, believes, like most long-time public servants I encounter, that you and I are stupid and because of that, lying to us is alright, because we don't know any better.  We would be much happier if we just didn't question them so much.  As a marketing guy and a senate aide told me over beers one night in DC... there are two rules of (marketing) (politics).  The first is that the People Are Stupid.  The second is "See Rule Number One".  I am not kidding about this.

The damages of this particular lie are easy to quantify... 2% of the GDP.  That is what it is calculated to institute our useless cure to a unsolvable "problem". In fact, a lawsuit, or idea of one is not without precedence.  Several have been quoted, a young Kennedy representative a recent example (Patrick, perhaps? His generation of the bloodline is particularly unsuccessful), that Americans who voice their skepticism towards the, ahem, "purity" of massively funded research by those with an endgame agenda, and no, I don't mean the oil companies, should be sued or arrested.  For doubting!  This seems extreme to me.  Kind of Fascist.  Or National Socialist, if you get my drift.

This should interest a clever plaintiff attorney...

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