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After having his minions scour the nation's infrastructure for problems, all the Obamaites could find were a couple of bridges with cracks in them, and they had already been fixed. That didn't stop your El Presedente from making up an audacious lie about them, though. Truth never gets in this man's way. And who do you think he blamed?

Glenn Kessler of the normally leftist Washington Post granted Obama four Pinocchios for "a huge whopper," the worst possible designation-for his lies about infrastructure projects. Here is the tale as Obama told it to the Building and Construction Trades Department conference:

Read more: Washington Post Awards Obama Four Pinocchios for His Malicious Lie Claiming America's Infrastructure is Crumbling
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Obama began a couple of months ago claiming 2 million jobs have been created during his 3 1/2 years in office. When he saw the Marxist media let him get by with that lie, he jumped the number to 2.4 million, and then last week in one speech to "over 4 million." He finished the weekend off by claiming 4.3 million. Wow. What a brazen liar. Look for all the lefist minions to repeat that latest figure in the coming weeks, because they jump on the lying train as fast as the Administration sets it in motion.

Read more: Gotcha! How the Obamaites Lie and Distort the Number of Jobs They Claim to Have Created
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I’m actually a part of the design team at MastersDegree.net, and we created a graphic highlighting the pollution in our oceans. I came across your site and wanted to pass it along in case you had any interest.

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Dear Concerned Citizens:

It's my view that federal spending at 18% of GNP is too high. For those of you who recall, that's what we were spending during the Cold War. When the Marxist Wall came crashing down in 1989, spending was supposed to come down. Under George "Papa" Bush it instead rose.

Now, we have Obama, the all-time big-post-WWII spender, who, if you listen to what he's saying, if elected to another term will spend even more than he did in his first term. Most of the monies he's splashed out over the world have gone to local and state governments, making them bigger and more powerful, and must we not forget the $2 billion to Brazil to help that nation with their offshore drilling. That certainly helped the US economy.

You should notice, too, that all the spending under Obama and Carter did not help the economy. Don't forget that Obama & Co. (especially Paul Krugman) claim that Obama's call for "stimulus spending" of what has amounted to over a trillion dollars in a little over three years was not enough; they've even hinted at spending more to "stimulate the economy." That's what leftists like the Bushes and Obama do: they spend and build the government. Clinton started out increasing spending, but got shut down after Hillarycare came crashing down and his own Congress wouldn't work with him to give him the funds he asked for.

Look how much of the "stimulus funds" went to building the government, to make it more powerful. Does adding 25,000 new IRS agents and oodles of new bureaucraces and Czars help the economy? Bah!!

Berry Jingles

Read more: Federal Spending Now at a 65-Year High 24% of GNP
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Three years after the Demonrats foisted this monster onto the American people, the Geeknerbs at the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently reevaluated the net cost of Obamacare: instead of the $940 billion cost over ten years that Obama claimed it would cost, the CBO now says that it will cost $2.6 trillion. 

If the US Supreme Court allows this horrid bill to stand as law, Obamacare will be the largest tax increase in American history and it will be the greatest intrusion into the American people's lives in history.  On top of that, the emergency taxes enacted after 9-11 will increase, and in some cases over 100%.

That will make for about a $700 billion tax increase on the American people in 2013. In the end, Obamacare looks more like a sneaky tax bill than one that aids the American people's health. These will be super burdensome, and will change the nation as nothing else has since FDR's presidency in the 1930s.

Below is a comprehensive list of the two dozen new or higher taxes that are included in Barack Obama's Obamcare. They include an massive expansion of government spending and an invasive interference between doctors and patients.

Individual Mandate Excise Tax(Jan 2014): Starting in 2014, anyone not buying "qualifying" health insurance must pay an income surtax according to the higher of the following

Read more: The Real Cost of Obamacare, and a List of the New Taxes it Requires
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Michelle Malkin has written an excellent article showing how deviously crooked the current Administration is. It also shows how defiant of authority the Obamaites are and how they skulk like cockroaches at night to carry out their lusts.  After getting caught lying and deceiving, they hide behind their appointments to bureaucracies that have become independently powerful and exclusive of the Congress. This is another reason that all bureaucracies are sacrosanct to statists - they squeal like poked pigs when anyone mentions abolishing one. 

However, Malkin seems a little more interested in the monetary effects of the drilling moratorium in the Gulf (that is certainly one of the problems), while we here want to know (as well) whether there are any real negative effects to the environment from that drilling-and she proves that you surely cannot trust the Obamaites for any honest information in that respect. That's news?

Though the moratorium has supposedly been lifted and oil companies have moved back into the Gulf, their rigs sit idle while they wait for permits. This is the method the Obamaites use to deceive the American people into believing they truly want more drilling, by claiming areas are open to drilling all the while stalling permitting. Permits are down over 35% under Obama, and more areas have been excluded from drilling under Obama than all the past presidents combined. And the people wonder why gas is $4.00 at the pump?

As to the effects of ocean drilling, there are no negative effects - other than from accidents, which can indeed occur, and do occur in all types of work with heavy equipment. This is why we should not be drilling in deep water at this time; we should be drilling in shallow waters, from about 20 - to 100 miles out and no deeper than a few hundred feet. 

A large amount of high-grade oils sit in those shallow coastal areas. The raving mad eco-maniacs have, however, managed to shut the drilling down in those areas-and if left to them would shut down drilling across the nation (and almost have). Oil production is down 45% since 1985, though we have had elephantine size oil discoveries of easily recoverable oil over the last twenty-years.

Had the Gulf Oil Spill occurred in shallow waters, it could have been fixed in a day. Had our own government inspectors carried out their inspecting duties correctly, it most likely would have never happened.

Another thing that folks should understand is, the Lord built a powerful cleansing system into our oceans - they thus cleanse themselves very quickly and very thoroughly. Another is that oil is natural to the earth and so, cannot harm the environment for any extended time. Even after a terrible accident, that powerful cleansing system does its work very quickly and very thoroughly.

The oceans' shores are their dumping grounds and their graveyards - check the shores out after every high tide and you will see that the seas have cleansed themselves once again. What goes into the marshes is slowly carried back out to sea and eventually dumped onto the shores. This powerful motion is locked and does its duty every day. 

If moronic apes that call themselves human want to wallow around in those polluted dumps, fine - that's just one of many idiotic things humans do. (just look at the last four men they've elected to run the nation; it's enough to make a cat sit up and bark) 

Therefore, when an accident occurs, we should allow the oceans to cleanse themselves - and dump any extraneous residue onto those shores. They will do it. Let God's perfect nature perform its duties.

Though they too have powerful cleansing systems as waters run down from the mountains to the seas from whence they came, what should be stopped is the constant dumping of waste into our waterways. 

We should also began to wean ourselves from the use of plastics (and other synthetics which the mad, knee-jerk-brained eco-maniacs are demanding we use in refined oil), the waste of which ends up buried in the earth - a negative caused by the eco-maniacs' demand back in the 1970s to move from paper usage (the trees are disappearing; those evil logging companies want to cut every tree off the planet so they won't have any more to sell, you know) to plastics. (a boondoggle to go over some other time, brought about by the eco-maniacs)

See Malkin's article for what honest people have to put up with when they are dealing with radical Marxists who have no qualms whatever when it comes to lying and deceiving to achieve their goals. 

Keep in mind that these radicals are appointed bureaucrats; and many of them work in bureaucracies where our own Congress has made it impossible for Congressional investigations to get at after they're caught carrying out unlawful and deceitful acts. 

Due to congressional complaints of stone-walling and such, an Administration often orders an investigation, that is, to investigate itself. 

Unless you are a camel living in Mongolia, you know how that always turns out: years after the investigation begins, perhaps a few bureaucrats get transferred to South Detroit, and that's about it. No one walks the plank. For the people have mostly forgotten about the particular incident or either that group of bureaucrats have hunkered down on K Street or in a Think Tank or at a Non Profit.

Oftentimes, after getting caught lying and deceiving, one radical will resign - without negative repercussions - and another radical will step right in to take the first one's butt-dusting seat, then go right to work where the first one left off: lying and distorting and deceiving to achieve some of the many radical, utopian goals that statists dream of.

Another fine reason why we need a much smaller central government - one that has much, much less power. One that it would be near impossible for an appointed bureaucrat to get by with deceiving, lying, distorting, and openly defying what should be the central power of the Federal Government: the Congress.

Berry Jingles

Read more: Exposing the White House Lies and Deception Regarding the Offshore Drilling Moratorium in the Gulf
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"I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground: That 'all powers not delegated to the United States, by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States or to the people' [this comprises the 10th Amendment of the Bill of Rights]. To take a single step beyond the boundaries thus specifically drawn around the powers given to Congress, is to take possession of a boundless field of power, no longer susceptible to any definition." (Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826; US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence; 3rd US President of the US; initiated the addition of the Bill of Rights, written by George Mason)

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Intro to the Paul Driessen Article

Paul Driessen is an expert on energy sources, and always presents well-reasoned writings to back up his positions - not wild claims of forthcoming doom to humanity and the earth that never materialize. He is "senior policy adviser for the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT), which is sponsoring the All Pain No Gain petition against global-warming hype."

He does not work for Big Oil. He does not work for Big Gas. He does not work for Big Coal.

The eco-maniacs hate him - obviously.

His points in this piece are widely unknown yet salient, and should be made known to all of society. 

It's my view that those who oppose his reasoning do so either because they are benefitting financially from Big Wind, Solar, Global Warming research funds or they are so brainwashed they can't possibly go against the propaganda they have swallowed.

Notice too that these are true subsidies Driessen is speaking of for Big Wind, which are direct costs to the taxpayers of billions annually. 

What leftists call "subsidies for Big Oil" are simply the same business expense write offs and equipment write downs that all businesses use. Obama has led the charge against "Big Oil," with shady comments like this one: "I think it's only fair to ask an oil company or a corporate jet owner that has done so well to give up a tax break that no other business enjoys."

(I think the president's wife and children should give up expansive and expensive vacations - at taxpayer expense - at a time when so many millions of people are suffering unemployment and starvation.)

Obama made the above statement in a State of the Union speech. It definitely takes a lot of nerve to lie like that; you have to give him that. Our Collection of Obama Lies shows that he has to be the most brazen liar ever to occupy the White House.

To hear Barack Obama's tale, you would think that oil companies aren't paying any taxes at all. The major US oil companies alone pay hundreds of billions in federal taxes, with billions more going to foreign nations. In 2010 (I've not seen the 2011 figures, which will be more, much more) one of the oil companies that the eco-maniacs hate the most, Exxon which donates millions to eco-maniac causes, paid $89 billion in taxes.

There are many other reasons to dislike "Big Oil" than the fact that they write off their expenses just as all businesses do. They lie about "global warming" and they sponsor the very eco-maniacs who bash them at every turn.

With wind and ethanol and solar, taxpayers are paying companies - often the biggest political donors to the Party in Charge - and providing them with special tax breaks and loans to produce the products and infrastructure for these types of energy. GE has been a beneficiary of contracts and special tax breaks - yet has sent jobs to China to carry out much of the work. Not a word about that from the Obamaites. Thus, what Big Wind and Solar are receiving are nothing but paybacks to political backers.

The result this wild "green spending" has been an economic catastrophe, the loss of jobs, jobs sent abroad, a bane to the environment, and the demonization of natural earth fuels (coal, gas, oil) to convince the people and the government they should chose the above-mentioned forms of energy instead.

Very informative article. A veritable study in energy sources by an honest expert. Would that our bought and paid off government would listen.

For the health of humanity and the planet: Berry Jingles  

Read more: Why the US Should Stop Subsidizing Big Wind
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Katie Pavlich has written an excellent book that presents a preponderance of circumstantial evidence that Obama and Holder not only knew exactly what was going on with "Fast & Furious"; they ordered it for the purpose of justifying their itch to regulate gun dealers even moreso than the Feds already do. 

Obama's history of memberships in anti-gun groups and statements that he would outlaw private ownership of guns are well known. Pavlich brings more of that to light.

Similar to the Global Warming Hoax and the Evolution Hoax, leftists who discover these are indeed hoaxes don't care one snip, because they follow the central edict of the father of all their ideologies: Karl Marx. For from materialistic atheism to a centralized government that has total control over the people all leftists succumb to Marx's creed: the end justifies any means it takes to get to that end. Warmers want to stop-by any means whatever-the use of any natural earth substances for energy: oil, gas, coal. Atheistic evolutionists want to secularize the world, and most especially the US. Neither cares what the route is that takes them to their goals.

In the case of gun ownership, anti-gun hacks such as Obama and Holder are exactly the same: they don't care how they get to the end of disallowing private gun ownership; they just want to get there. 

In that light, it thus makes sense that they would smuggle weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels through US gun dealers believing their actions would remain secret. They then could expose that most weapons in Mexico came from US dealers and squall the same line the ATF and Justice Department have been promoting for years: that US gun dealers supply Mexican Drug Cartels with the majority of their weapons. Next, more regulation on or even elimination of US gun dealers. A right-brained, dream of a couple of goony utopian pariahs, indeed. 

Now, is it not just like a character who, while in college, "sought out radical feminists and Marxist professors as friends" to think like that? Well, that's the kind of character we have running the nation. How the hell do we expect him to think? Like the local choir boy?

Knowing these facts makes Pavlich's circumstantial evidence much, much stronger.

Pavlich did not break the "Fast & Furious" scandal; Sharyl Attkinson did. And she caught hell for it from the Obamaites and other leftists in the media. The following article exposes that. 

Freedom First & Forever: Berry Jingles

Read more: How the Main-Stream-Media Covered Up Fast and Furious: Obama's Biggest and Bloodiest Boondoggle So Far