Do the math.

These are the people who elected Obamie and who now will cheer him on towards destroying our energy policy.

A containment system is siphoning up some 15,000 barrels of oil a day to the surface via a mile-long pipe but flow estimates indicate the same amount of crude could still being leaking into the Gulf and feeding the giant spill.

X - 15,000 = X.

Yeah. Sure.

Journalist should never be let near numbers.

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A nickel here a billion there

And they would have the benefit of the Big Ten's Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC), which claims to receive 12 percent of all federal research funds for its members, totaling $3.5 billion in 2006-07.

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Now that means that the grand total is about $29.25 billion.

And we got what for this money?

No one can figure out how to cap the oil leak. No one can provide us with a cheap substitute for gasoline. No one has a cancer cure...

Heck, outside of getting immediately drunk again they can't even find a hangover cure.

Yet we are spending $100. per person each and every year on research.

I'm serious. Somebody tell me what we're buying with all this federal money being dumped on the universities. I mean besides scare papers on the man made global warming hoax designed to get more money next year.

I think we should just stick it up a pigs butt and yell "Soooey!"

Wait. To a great extent that's what we have done.

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Paypal shuts off Atlas Shrugged

The little money that Atlas generates (I have no large donors) is about to be cut off. Apparently the jihad is hard at work trying to kill free speech (and the bus ads and the 911 no mosque movement), preventing it from making its way to those in pursuit of truth. Paypal contributions help pay for bus ads, rallies, live coverage (everything), and I so much as said so when asked repeatedly by the press who paid for the bus ads. Readers do and did.

Paypal is calling Atlas a "hate" site and will close my account if I do not remove the paypal option from my website. Accurate reporting and news is hate.

Truth is the new hate speech:

Please email or call paypal and let them know Atlas Shrugs is a news site and political blog. I am not responsible for the bad news in the world. I just report.

Great, another lawsuit. Want to make a contribution to my fight?



UPDATE: Wait, it get's better. Paypal's policy is for " items that promote hate, violence, racial intolerance or thefinancial exploitation of a crime."

I am not selling anything. But this this ebayer is. He is selling imam Awlaki's incitement to racist, violent jihad screeds. Awlaki is the imam to the the worst of the jihad stars, like the 911 Muslim terrorists, the Fort Hood jihadi Hasan, the Times Square car bomber, Christmas balls bomber, et al.

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Whether or not you completely agree withor believe everything AS posts, and I don't, the double standard of this is obvious. Plus, Paypal is in the business of facilitating payments over the Internet. Primarily for Ebay who owns them.

If they think that a transaction violates the law then they should say so, stop the transaction and turn the matter over to the proper law enforcement agency.

Other than that they should stay away from the content business. You wouldn't want your bank to have the right to approve what you buy or read before they process the check, would you?

Would it be okay for your cellphone company to shut down your account because you've been using it to say things someone doesn't like?

I sent Paypal an Email last night saying that if this continues I will not use them. And since all I do use them for is Ebay transactions, personal checks and/or money orders work fine, if slower.

This is similar to what we see on newspaper forums where posts/comments re radical Muslims and Islam in general often just disappear after two or three readers hit the "abuse" button. And while the moderator can bring the post/comment back it is rarely done. The moderator doesn't want to get involved in a fight plus rarely has the time to devote to such.

So the censors win.

Unless we act.

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Sleepy time pal..................................

I've heard this trash before.

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Be careful what you ask for

you just might get it.



Hat tip to Mike L!

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Obama administration tells lies

Of course this is no surprise.

Allen was among a group of experts who read and signed a May 27 statement by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announcing new safety measures for offshore drilling, as well as a six-month moratorium on some drilling.

"The recommendations contained in this report have been peer-reviewed by seven experts identified by the National Academy of Engineering," Salazar said in the report.

However, as Allen and the others said in a statement, Salazar changed two key recommendations after they'd signed it.

The version they'd signed said Salazar recommended a six-month moratorium on permits for new exploratory wells in water deeper than 1,000 feet.

The final version recommended a six-month moratorium on "new wells being drilled using floating rigs." That included rigs in water deeper than 500 feet and covered more of them, Allen said.

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Same thing we see in the UN's IPCC. Use the names but not the facts.

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Taliban hang 7 year old boy

Just when you swear that we've seen it all.... we get something like this.

Twisted Taliban militants took terror to a new low by accusing a 7-year-old boy of spying - and hanging him high.

That outrage drew immediate condemnation from the Afghan president, who called the execution a "crime against humanity."

"I don't think there's a crime bigger than that, that even the most inhuman forces on earth can commit," Hamid Karzai said Thursday. "A 7-year-old boy cannot be a spy. A 7-year-old boy cannot be anything but a 7-year-old boy

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