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No Shortage of Hypocrites and Nincompoops In Jacksonville
I'll be glad to pay for special services
City sends workers and prisoners to sandbag Council member and Congresswomans house - calling it humane gesture.
During the recent Hurricane Fay most Jacksonville, Florida residents fending for themselves - except for U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown, D- Jacksonville who had her house sandbagged by City workers and prisoners. A neighbor’s foundation flooded but when she asked for help she was ignored.
The same people wouldn’t help me and they denied it was going on,” the neighbor said. “I had prisoners laughing at me when I approached them about it. They knew what was going on. It was hilarious to them.”
The Mayor chief of staff apparently made the decision because Brown was “a single woman living alone.” He also sent a crew to City Councilwoman Denise Lee’s home, but Lee later determined she did not need their help.
A city councilman on Sunday joined what has become a storm of controversy over the special treatment extended to U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown, D-Jacksonville, when city work crews sandbagged her home as Tropical Storm Fay was bearing down on Jacksonville while hundreds of other residents were in even greater strife.
Hypocritically the aide says he knows he is a steward of taxpayer dollars, but he is also a human being. He said if he went beyond standard protocol, he apologizes. Brown said she will pay for services received - we shall see if she gets a bill and then pays it.
Democrat Convention Staff Hypocritically Slurped up $644,000 in Untaxed Free City Gasoline
$644,000 Bill To Be Paid After Mayor’s Meltdown
Howard Dean assured Denver taxpayers they wouldn’t be on the hook for one cent due
to the Democratic National Convention to be held there next month.
Turns out since March, staffers working on the Democratic National Convention have been using the city of Denver’s tax-free gas pumps to fill up their cars for personal and business use - and using its carwashes to the tune of $644,000 so far.
A dispute about this prompted city officials Tuesday to promise that the local host committee will reimburse the city at a market rate for gas - and pay state and federal taxes on the fuel. “It was never the intent of the city not to properly charge the Democrats for the fuel or its taxes,” said Katherine Archuleta, mayoral liaison to the convention.
When Denver’s Mayor was cornered about his city’s largess to a political party he said, “The Republicans are doing the same thing in Minneapolis.” City officials and the GOP stopped short of calling him a liar but did say that is absolutely untrue.
A new survey shows a five-point lead by Barack Obama over John McCain wiped out over the past few weeks among Colorado voters. Obama tour has not produced any bounce in the polls in America and his “Ich bin ein Beginner” in Berlin is generally being panned as substantively lacking. Fox/Opinion Dynamics and Resmussen polls released Thursday have the race tied.
GOOD NEWS! Or bad news?
Most media outlets have widely reported the discovery by Petroleo Brasileiro SA, also known as Petrobras, the state controlled Brazilian oil company, of a new oil field 155 miles off shore and close to the Tupi oil field found two years ago. The Tupi field was the largest “find” since 1976 in the world
I wonder if they will develop the fields, extract oil, deliver it to downstream users and refiners etc etc? I wonder if they will make a lot of money doing that? Will they gain political power along the way?
In CNN reports this morning there was excitement over the find because it holds the prospect to help in the supply and demand balance currently out of whack from our price perspective only, due to massive increases in oil use in Asia with insufficient corresponding increases in production and because Brazil is closer to the US and more politically stable than the Middle East.
Hundreds of millions of once poor people overseas are now enjoying capitalism and are spending it on cars, gas and so on. Why couldn’t they just be happy remaining poor?
How is it, that “we” are happy when foreign countries find and exploit very profitable polluting energy sources that would be called BIG BAD OIL if it were a US company, owned by shareholders?
It is interesting that these “finds” are the result of aggressive “looking” for oil sources that was unknown to the world before the “find.”
The US, on land and offshore, ostensibly in the interests of environmentalism, has put vast amounts of old energy “finds” off limits which discourages US bases BIG BAD OIL from “looking” for new sources. That forces them to try to negotiate with Foreign Governments to replace waning oil fields and to access new sources for their legitimate business.
How would you like to negotiate to drill for oil in Venezuela, Russia, Iran or other state monopoly circumstances? Think these Capitalist Countries have any conflicts of interests in the deal? Think they meld foreign policy into the deal. They have too much power and US based publicly owned shareholder oil companies enjoy no such advantage although the anti oilers make it sound like US based oil companies are the devil.
Seems we would rather continue to compromise energy security and Hypocritically applaud and continue to use oil found and exploited by foreign governments who will use that oil as a weapon to get what they want.
I am an environmentalist and I thing politically partisan environmentalist deserve all the disdain I hope is heaped on them as our voters, hopefully wake up.
Recently I met a very liberal Canadian who complained that under NAFTA Canada is obligated to delivery a certain amount of oil to the US while they have to buy some from foreign countries. He blamed it on the Bush Administration! Another reason to impeach him.
Were it true I would help pay for the filing of impeachment papers. We need to “impeach” those who force the US to pursue a suicidal oil avoidance policy.
So, is it good new or bad news?
Is Al Gore a hypocrite if he uses Petrobas oil to continue his disproportionate use of energy? Yes, and he should be retroactvely impeached for doing nothing about energy security as a powerful VP in the Clinton Administration,. Nothing except prepare to get rich enough to use egregious amounts of polluting energy which is enriching our enemies.