"Bush lifts offshore drilling ban, urges action; Move will take effect only if Congress backs it" by Steven Lee Myers and Carl Hulse, New York Times News Service | July 15, 2008
WASHINGTON - The lifting of the moratorium - first announced by Bush's father, President George Bush, in 1990 and extended by President Bill Clinton - will have no real impact, because a congressional moratorium on drilling enacted in 1982 and renewed annually remains in force.
The son really is going to everything the exact opposite of the father, huh?
Since 1982, the ban on offshore oil and gas leases on the outer continental shelf has been renewed by Republican and Democratic presidents and Democratic and Republican Congresses."
Of course, we KNOW WHY THIS IS!!!
Please see: The New 007
LONDON - Five of eight men accused of plotting suicide-bombing attacks on several trans-Atlantic airliners with explosives disguised in soft-drink bottles changed their pleas at the last minute yesterday, pleading guilty to lesser charges but maintaining that they never intended to attack the flights.
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Gee, that must be an updated story, because here is what drew my attention:
Testimony in the trial of eight defendants in London has shown little evidence that they were prepared to strike immediately or of any link to Al Qaeda.
The testimony has shown little evidence that the suspects were prepared to strike immediately, or of any link to Al Qaeda. British investigators are convinced that the size, scope, cost, secrecy and ingenuity of the plot bear the Qaeda signature.
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That would be "Al-CIA-Duh," right, Brits?
Also see: Occupation Iraq: British Black Ops in Basra
Occupation Iraq: British Bombers
Prop 101: Al-CIA-Duh and the OSI
Prop 101: Al-CIA-Duh's Greatest Hits
Prop 101: The "Terrorism" Business
Prop 102: Iraq and Government Lies
Al-CIA-Duh
Who Invented "Al-CIA-Duh?"
And as if I needed any more evidence, the Boston Globe proves my point with the agenda-pushing.
If it's not immigrants, it is gays!
Morality, personal liberty, and constitutional law have been the usual battlegrounds in the fight over gay marriage. Now Governor Deval Patrick's administration is injecting something a bit more pedestrian to the debate: economic development.
A study conducted for the state's Executive Office of Housing and Economic Development predicts that an economic boomlet in hotel bookings, banquets, and wedding cakes would result from repealing a 1913 state law that prevents gay and lesbian couples from most other states from marrying in Massachusetts.
Pffffttt!
Those estimates were produced by the Williams Institute, a nonprofit organization at the University of California at Los Angeles School of Law that studies policies, including economic issues, relating to sexual orientation.
The study, prepared at no expense to Massachusetts taxpayers, is one of several the Williams Institute has completed for states considering same-sex marriage and civil union laws.
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Translation: It is a PRO-GAY MARRIAGE outfit!!!
You know, it is not that I am against the idea per se; I am just TIRED of having the GAY AGENDA rammed down our throats by the divisive, agenda-pushing AmeriKan MSM whikle ANTIWAR and other sentiments that gather 80% approval (like universal health care) are IGNORED!!!
Besides, marriage is a PERSONAL ISSUE of which the state has NO BUSINESS!!!!
And just to emphasize the point, the issue is SO IMPORTANT it needs an editorial, too: A long way since 1913
PFFFFFFFTTT!
