Anyway, I will try to make a point to see this documentary “Shooting Michael Moore”. Sounds interesting. But it may be hard for me to stomach it since apparently it has an old high school friend of his. To me, it’s hard to take seriously a personal grudge. Like the documentary “Heckler” by Jamie Kennedy. It posed a lot of good points in the start, but the last half just felt like a piss and moanfest on part of Kennedy because he couldn’t handle his critics.

“Religious belief is, as implied, a belief in a religious system, formal or informal that one puts their faith in and uses to guide his/her life. It does not need to have God, or a supernatural figure as its object of worship since it could also apply to humanism, Marxism, even atheism. The choice of ones religious belief may be caused by feelings of fear, resignation, admiration, approval or trust and depending on the individual, reaches various strength in level of adherence and reverential dependence. It carries with it a psychological confidence in the person(s) or thing(s) trusted and has the expectation of certain proscribed behaviors unique to that belief system.”

By the way, since your bio says you possess a Ph.D. and have accolades from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, can you answer me this. What is the difference between religious philosophy and religiuos belief?

In summary:
The statements alleged to be Obama’s are, in fact, fabrications. Also, the proposal in question was ONLY for veterans WITH NO SERVICE-RELATED INJURIES OR ILLNESSES to be required to get their own insurance.

By publishing this fabrication and claiming it as fact, you are committing a textbook casde of libel and leaving yourself open to a lawsuit. Furthermore, considering the “article” was in fact written by someone else, by claiming it as your own (which, by posting it without proper attribution, you are ipso facto doing) you are opening yourself to plagiarism and/or copyright infringement lawsuits.

Than again, I suppose the fact that you haven’t been sued shows just how little regard anyone has for anything you “say” (and by “say” I mean posting on your blog things other people have written).

My greater concerns are the foreign economic behaviours. It has also become apparent that the likes of Russia, China and the rest of the BRIC savers plus the Middle East Oil countries have all clocked that America’s dollar is running on empty regarding gold backing or, indeed, any backing at all - as evidenced by these nations plus, surprisingly, France dumping the petro-dollar for the euro so openly last year. Which is why China — soon to be joined by the other saver nations — is currently fighting the dollar/gold battle on the gold markets and, as far as I can see, China has already gained control of the gold price and therefore now controls the dollar’s value. So, one less monetary toy that the FED can play with…

China and the savers will continue to discreetly but significantly buy gold as well as other valuable commodities to build up their tangible assets and they will keep gold good and steady is my guess until they have rid themselves — slowly — of all their toxic dollars and US Treasuries. Our beloved Ben will have to turn up the speed of his printing presses a few notches it seems to cope with this dollar disappointment, because there are no other options for Keynesians here, except to invest in debt, whatever the hell that means……

So, while the US govt and the FED try to manipulate the dollar value so desperately upwards by selling gold to strengthen the dollar, China and the rest of the Mercantilists will gleefully spoil this intent by re-purchasing this same as real bullion on the market bounce to maintain the gold price rock steady in dollars - and only to their own preference and benefit. Such is the nature of the wealth that is transferring — from West to East now. It’s simple really, as China collects tangible assets like Gold, America just collects more Debt. And they will continue to do this until the markets eventually refuse to except anymore worthless, over-leveraged and over-printed paper gold contracts, such that the fall in the dollar will be likened to that of the Archangel Gabriel being cast down into the depths of Hell. The dollar has a few more years to run though, but this slow process must happen, so that all these devoted Mercantilist savers can safely slip out of all their various Dollar Traps. One thing’s is for sure — and you’ve gotta hand it to them — these primitive Mercantilists have certainly learned “The Dollar Game” fast and well, haven’t they ?

Meanwhile, and between the Pacific and Atlantic shores of America, the educated and parboiled media urgently takes note from their learned economic experts, and we hear from the likes of a bewhiskered Krugman screaming faintly but confidently from a very safe distance in the shadows, “No, no !! Don’t worry !!….Spend more….SPEND MORE..!!”. Well, yes, while you can I suppose. A bit like a VISA card ad isn’t it ?

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and

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Enhanced Oil Recovery is a $20 Trillion market in the U.S., and a way for America to produce the oil it needs, saving ober $1 Billion/DAY for buying oil from foreign countries.

When an oil well or oil field reaches the end of its normal life, as much as 75% of the “original oil place” is still left underground in the oil wells. That’s because recovering the “stranded oil” is either too difficult or too expensive, or both.

According to the Department of Energy, there are nearly 400 Billion Barrels of “Stranded Oil” in the U.S. and that 60%, or 240 Billion barrels of oil are recoverable through Enhanced Oil Recovery.

At $80/bbl, Enhanced Oil Recovery represents a $20 Trillion market opportunity in the U.S., for producing America’s oil and creating jobs.

Enhanced Oil Recovery is the “green” way to produce America’s oil.

Enhanced Oil Recovery helps make the U.S. energy independent.

Enhanced Oil Recovery helps end our dependence on foreign energy suppliers and importing our oil from OPEC & the Middle East, Venezuela, Iran China & Russia.

Even the libs and global warmers should love Enhanced Oil Recovery because Carbon Dioxide Emissions are used, and then injected into the oil reservoirs through CO2 Injection which releases the stranded oil and then brought to the surface. When finished producing the oil from the stranded oil well, the CO2 is “sequestered” in the well, and the oil well plugged, leaving the CO2 in the ground.

At present (January 2010), over 48 million metric tons per year of CO2 are used for enhanced oil recovery. Of this total, about 25 percent (12 million tons) is anthropogenic in origin i.e., produced by human activities such as oil refining or fertilizer manufacturing (Trinity 2006). The rest is extracted from naturally occurring deposits.

The CO2 that is used to increase oil production via enhanced oil recovery is an expensive commodity, and for this reason oil companies are motivated to ensure that up to three quarters of the CO2 that is injected remains underground in the oil field. The amount of CO2 sequestered is highly dependent on whether the field is blown-down following any CO2 operations. Further research and development in this area is expected to improve the storage rate to close to 100 percent.

Estimates made by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) show that depleted oil and gas wells in the United States and Canada have the potential to sequester over 82 billion tons of carbon dioxide in total.