The irony is that the fossil fuel boom in those two states could fall victim President Obama’s policies in a second term, says journalist and filmmaker Phelim McAleer.
Hollywood, CA—A new short five minute documentary, The Dinosaur Election, points out that Ohio and Pennsylvania—two significant swing states in the election—are currently experiencing localized economic booms due in part to a method for extracting oil and natural gas from previously inaccessible shale rock
The Dinosaur Election features Republican and Democrat analysts who emphasize just how important the two states are for President Obama and how their mini-booms amidst a national recession may swing the election toward him.
“Incumbent Presidents always do well when people feel optimistic, and at the moment—thanks to fracking and fossil fuels left by decaying dinosaurs—there is much to be optimistic about in Pennsylvania and Ohio,” says McAleer, who directed and produced the documentary.
The irony is that the fossil fuel boom in those two states could fall victim President Obama’s policies in a second term, warns McAleer, pointing out some of Obama’s words.
“Our continued dependence on fossil fuels will jeopardize our national security,” says Obama. “It will smother out planet, and it will continue to put our economy, and our environment, at risk.”
“I’ll pass a law that says 25 percent of our electricity has to come from renewable energy sources by the year 2025.”
Great. That’s just what we need. Shove energy costs through the roof – which will necessarily shove food prices through the roof – just as we’re headed into an ice age.
Don’t forget. Farmers use huge amounts of energy running those gigantic tractors and combines while planting and harvesting their crops. And truckers use huge amounts of energy moving that food to market. Does our president want to starve us to death?
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Obama will be re-elected.
Obama will lose in a landslide.
This article is wishful thinking.
And Tom O, The fossils in question that
are responsible for oil deposits are(or are thought to be) the tiniest animals of the oceans, foraminifera. Not Dinosaurs as you suggest, Geologists have NEVER posited Dinosaurs as the source of any “fossil fuel”.
Coal however is a definite fossil fuel, being the pressed remains of hundreds of thousands, perhaps even millions of years of compacted plant material that grew in vast swamps of the Hothouse world Permian and Carboniferous and other geologic ages past. Shale is a kind of mudstone which is logical to contain methane gas, When Shale is compacted and metamorphosed it becomes Slate, much harder and probably no gas
remains in it.
The Abiotic Theory of Oil generation is a relatively new theory which in my opinion has some merit. That the terrific heat and pressure of the plastic mantle can serve as a mecanism by which lithospheric subduction of seafloor provides the elements necessary to generate crude oils. Seems plausible to me. And we know there are plenty of methane hydrates(ice) on the sea floor.
see this sensationalist article:
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/10/24/14670511-climate-changing-methane-rapidly-destabilizing-off-east-coast-study-finds?lite&ocid=msnhp
No its not a new theory! The Russians explored this since the 1950′s already!
And where does all the hydro carbons come from then on other planets where no life whatsoever existed?
People will always argue on these type of questions and will end up asking where did Hydrogen and Carbon come from?
I said relatively new.
Anything under a lifetime is still a pretty new theory. Especially when it is still just a theory and not accepted hard fact. Where do you think the deep hot biosphere gets the elements necessary to generate crude oils? My contention is that it comes from sea-floor sediment being subducted -plunging- into the hot mantle. Where under extreme pressures and heat the methane hydrates(in the form of ices) from decayed organic matter of sea-floor sediments are modified into more complex hydrocarbons.
I am not discounting Abiotic oil generation completely. But it is only logical to me that the organic matter from subducting seafloor sediments end up becoming a part of the hydrocarbons that are generated deep in the mantle.
For Titan, which has liquid hydrocarbon lakes in its polar regions, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_(moon)
for a few hints at possibilities. Why Titan and other satellites and planets are composed as they are has to do with ‘Sequence of Condensation’ see the sequence of condensation of minerals paragraph and the associated table on this page:
http://www.globalchange.umich.edu/globalchange1/current/lectures/evolution_star/evolution_star.html
I thought by now we had rid ourselves of the “fossil fuel” belief. Oil is no more tied to decayed dinosaurs than is the main source of methane to cow farts. The Macondo well was all about getting to the “new oil” that is bottom feeding the old oil resevoirs that were running out of “fossil fuel,” which never came from fossils in the first place. To supply the known oil reserves, the dinosurs would have had to have been piled several hundred feet deep through the entire age of dinosaurs.
As for Obama being re-elected, well, people often support smiling politicians that promise them everything while stabbing them in the back.
Agree 100% with you there. For example..Saturn’s one moon Titan has a sea of hdro-carbons and definitely not from dinosaurs? The fossil-fuel thing is the same scam as global warming, Y2K, CFC’s etc…..
No we can call it A-biotic oil which is generated deep inside the earth as we speak now. Then it gets pushed up to “shallower” pockets from where we drill normally.Fossil or Peak oil is just to get control and make the world believe is has peaked. No Hydro carbon oil will be there forever!!!Exactly the Macondo they tried to go straight into the “oil magma”!!
Robert- What if oil and gas are abiotic? As well, what is the power source we use to counteract or at least allay the ice age effects? Have you explored the potential of the ionosphere as Tesla pointed to?
Actually, I think they are abiotic. And that’s exactly what I say in Magnetic Reversals and Evolutionary Leaps. See http://www.evolutionaryleaps.com/
…and power from the ionosphere with tesla tower at wardenclyffe? are you up on that… even a bit? lightning, hurricanes and tornados are electrically powered (electric universe theory) and the ions are charged particles just 60 miles up. Tesla built coils on stands with huge ground pins that taps that. Made numerous and big enough, that unlimited power source will help deal with the ice age no?
Coils are for Alternating Current
applications only. How can Tesla or anyone tap the Direct Current potential of the atmospheric capacitor with a coil?
The Wardenclyffe Tower was for transmission of power and never became fully operational. It was NOT for tapping power from the ionosphere. Doing a little research will help stop the spread of falsehoods.
Lightning is a manifestation of Electric potential discharge.
Hurricanes and Tornadoes are not powered by electricity but generate electrostatic potential difference through separation of charges, otherwise known as static electricity.
Have you explored the potential of the ionosphere as Tesla pointed to?
Tesla wanted to transmit Alternating Current via radio waves. Thus creating an entirely different distribution of electric power than our current method of High Tension/High Voltage AC power lines and step down substation delivery grids. But I think he was off the mark with that idea, otherwise it would be in use.
Can you imagine the interference this might cause across our current radio/tv spectrum?
Edison was definitely off the mark with his idea of providing electric power in the form of Direct Current, much more dangerous, lethal even, to the unsuspecting consumer. Seen those stories about drunken idiots urinating on the Third Rail of subways? That’s High Amperage Direct Current! Poof!
There is a whole different problem with tapping the ionosphere as a source of power.
One is Scale – MASSIVE!, how do you do it?
Two is Reliability, I think it falls into the category of Wind and Solar. The potential energy of Earth’s atmospheric capacitor is not at the same level everywhere geographically.
Three, Unintended Consequences, What would be the result of short-circuiting Earth’s Atmosphere?
Four, Conversion, This atmospheric potential difference between Earth Ground and Ionosphere is also a DC Voltage with an extremely high potential current flow. We simply do not have the equipment to handle this kind of electricity! Much less invert it into Alternating Current.
And Five, Instantaneousness, If the power potential of the atmosphere was constant, we’d have lightning strikes that once started, would perhaps never stop!? As it is they last only about 25 hundredths of a second on average.
Nice try Andrew. Are you Jewish? …or just Freemasonic?
Thanks, Robert for publishing my first question for Andrew. I don’t know how tolerant you are of the extension of your threads but I guess I’ll find out.
I looked at Andrews numbered responses again… and they’re quite telling aren’t they? I mean… where I’m coming from, it seems to me that Robert’s ice age argument is excellent… but the problem here is “what do we do in response?”. Well, obviously we need power. Now the first really big mistake Andrew has made with me (not knowing me of course since we just met here)… is the suggestion that we don’t have the technology to harness the ionosphere. I say that that’s a mistake because he ought to know, but the sounds of his response, that a key feature of human beings is their capacity to understand principles and to develop technologies that harness those principles.
But readers here will instantly see that, in fact, Andrew concurs with me in terms of my most salient point… that being that there is power in the ionosphere. Massive power. So much power that Robert himself, who approved my message above asking if Andrew is a Jew or a Mason (highly relevent)… that Robert himself ought to chime in here on the relevence of what Andrew himself just admitted… about the amount of power in the ionosophere. How about it Robert?
I’ll have more to say on this… but for now, I’m tickled pink that Andrew actually confessed that what I said was true… so true that he had to construct an artifical defense against it… a defense that has it’s own weaknesses that I’m tempted to point out right now– but without Robert joining in, I hesitate.
Excellent job on IceAgeNow, Robert…. so the question is… now that you see Andrew and me in agreement on the AMOUNT of power potention in the ionosphere, are you willing to entertain the notion that we humans can counteract ice age damage using that power potential? Are we on the same page here or not?
I’m Neither. What are you getting at? Are you an antisemite conspiracy theorist? Or just trying to insult me?
If your beef is with my Wardenclyffe comments, it was a Transmission tower and only a transmission tower: a) to transmit electricity, b)wireless communication(Radio).
http://www.teslascience.org/pages/tower.htm
And by the way, ions can be found just about anywhere there is air. For example, in a pine forest. The pointed structure of pine needles facilitates the emission of ions from their tips given the appropriate charge inducement from the atmosphere above. Any particle floating in the air has a relative electric charge. As do atoms and molecules that make up air. I don’t know if you know how Ion generator air cleaners work, but basically they expel negative ions into the air – these negative ions are attracted to their opposites in the form of positively charged dust and smoke particles, when they attach, the offending particle becomes heavier than air and falls to ground or is attracted to a collection plate in the air cleaner.
On Jew or Freemason:
The politics and philosophy of Jews and Freemasons is different than my own so I was merely asking.
On Wardenclyffe.
Where did Wardenclyffe get the power to transmit? I mean… if it was simply transmitting power, which power are we referring to here? Where did the power come from that you claim Wardenclyffe is merely transmitting? It had to have come from somewhere, right?
On Ions.
True, air is full of ions. However, the “ion-o-sphere” is particularly highly charged, isn’t it… moreso than the regular air at sea level around us? Or is it the case, in your view that that the ionosphere has been misnamed?
On your earlier post about the ionosphere.
Earlier, you wrote
quote by Andrew in his earlier post above.
Four, Conversion, This atmospheric potential difference between Earth Ground and Ionosphere is also a DC Voltage with an extremely high potential current flow. We simply do not have the equipment to handle this kind of electricity! Much less invert it into Alternating Current.
unquote
My comment on Andrew’s point 4. You yourself just wrote that the electrical potential difference between ground and “ionosphere” (your term) is “extremely high” and your argument was that we “can’t handle it”. Now you seem to be shrugging off the ionosphere saying that there’s ions in the air everywhere anyway. Isn’t this a contradiction or something?
So in conclusion Andrew, please tell me the following.
A) Where did Tesla think he was getting power to transmit at Wardenclyffe?
B) Is the ionosphere significantly higher in charge than ground level air or not?
Again, for the astute readers, please be aware that the entire Tesla “coil” (yes it’s a DC coil) is usually promoted as a discharge unit. But this is not what Tesla originally had in mind, primarily. Absolutely, you can “transmit” “longitudinal scalar waves” (transmit power) through the air with it. However, you need to generate the power to begin with. And as it turns out, everyone using Tesla coils these days are using them as circus performers, hooke up “backwards”! I realize this sound rediculous however this is, in fact, the case. Anyways… I’m a bit bored now with Andrew and I fully expected Robert to jump in on this by now.
So for Robert, yes I like the analysis you provide of the oncoming ice age. However, if you look into a reverse Tesla coil to tap the ionosphere, you might widen your audience by providing a basis for how humanity DEALS with the coming ice age. We need power from somewhere and obviously burning oil and gas or corn ain’t gonna work this time. Right? I’ll only answer Robert from here on. I think Andrew needs to go back to the drawing board and do his homework. Thanks anyway, Andrew– no put down intended here… I simply have to move on. Look up reverse Tesla coil as a way to further your understanding on this. It’s tricky so it’s not surprising you’ve been fooled by those who are attempting to cover up Tesla– the Jews and the Freemasons.
oh gee Rick55, you seem to know it all anyway so why don’t you come up with your own solution?
I actually have built a tesla coil, from scratch, many years ago. So I am familiar with the principles involved. I am also familiar with the principles of electricity and have an Electronics Technician Diploma from DeVry for what it’s worth to you (Not much I expect!).
You are correct however, in saying coils can be used in DC, but they are transparent to constant DC voltages and excited by changing DC voltages. But a DC voltage changing at a given frequency is still Alternating Current(AC) though it’s riding on a DC level as opposed to your typical line AC which cycles at 60Hz above and below (Ground)zero volts.
You picked out one, #4 of my several points I brought up as possible hindrances to actually getting usable power from the ionosphere, and attempt to hammer me with it indirectly by addressing Robert. Meanwhile ignoring some of the other points I made, not the least of which is SCALE.
I had said “…an extremely high potential current flow.”
The key word here is ‘potential’ meaning possible as opposed to actual. In fact it is ever changing.
Couple this with my point #2 Reliability “The potential energy of Earth’s atmospheric capacitor is not at the same level everywhere geographically.” And you just might realize the infeasibility of this misapplication of Teslas ideas, to garner “free energy” from the atmosphere.
I think Robert is just sitting back and reading and smiling. You don’t need to drag him into this exchange which has ranged rather off topic of the original article.
And since you’re now bored with me there’s really no need to reply! This has gotten rather ridiculous anyway.
Ok so answer me this– Where did Tesla think he was getting his power from, for his Wardenclyffe transmitter?
From the ionosphere right?
No, from the Long Island power grid as it was in 1901. By that time they were generating AC power using steam engines turning Alternators(generators). It was probably lower than the 60 cycles as we have today, perhaps 25 or possibly 50 cycles. When the farm owned by my grandfather got electric power sometime in the early 1900′s, it was 50 cycle.
Another reason Telsa’s idea to broadcast electric power failed was due to ‘Diffusion’.
The farther away one is from the broadcasting antenna, the weaker the signal, in this case,
the weaker the current. “He was an absolute genius,” Dennis Papadopoulos, a physicist at the University of Maryland, said in an interview. “He conceived of things in 1900 that it took us 50 or 60 years to understand. But he did not appreciate dissipation. You can’t start putting a lot of power” into an antenna and expect the energy to travel long distances without great diminution.
See: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/05/science/05tesla.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
for the full article.
Or perhaps Nikola was generating his own power at his Wardenclyffe labratory. He did have batteries, motors, and alternators in his lab, so could generate his own power off grid.
It’s worth noting here for other readers that the ‘Tesla Coil’ is a Step Up transformer.
Mine used a Neon Sign transformer which is also a step-up from 120v to 15,000v at very low amperage, this fed the tesla coil primary(exciter coil) and the secondary(the tall coil) was probably around 100,000 volts. If you’re familiar with older television circuitry, the tesla coil is essentially a very large Flyback Transformer(the device that provides the 15,000v bias to the side of the picture tube).
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4F929288E37D99B6
Wrong. Bye.
Just “Wrong. Bye.” with no explanation, and also odd, no reply link. Well y’all can do your own research and see who you think is wrong or not.
I see what happened, not odd after all, the comments just reached the nesting limit.
Rick55, a question for you: Was the Wardenclyffe Tower itself a Tesla (Air) Coil?
Or simply an antenna of some kind?
Apparently you think it was being used for Reception of Atmospheric energy, i.e. “reverse Tesla Coil”. But I ask how could it have been used for both transmission and reception at the same time?
“Tesla did suggest that this variation of the Tesla coil could utilize the phantom loop effect to form a circuit to induct energy from the Earth’s magnetic field and other radiant energy sources (including, but not limited to, electrostatics[36]). With regard to Tesla’s statements on the harnessing of natural phenomena to obtain electric power, he stated:
Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe. – “Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency” (February 1892)
Tesla stated that the output power from these devices, attained from Hertzian methods of charging, was low,[37] but alternative charging means are available. Tesla receivers, operated correctly, act as a step-down transformer with high current output.[38] There are, to date, no commercial power generation entities or businesses that have utilized this technology to full effect. The power levels achieved by Tesla coil receivers have, thus far, been a fraction of the output power of the transmitters.” : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_coil
So there you have it: a Tesla Coil operated as a receiver(in reverse) is a step down air-core transformer, while a Tesla Coil operatedd in the more conventional way is a step-up air-core transformer.
Notable here is the statement “There are, to date, no commercial power generation entities or businesses that have utilized this technology to full effect.”
Why you may ask? I posit two probable reasons in importance: 1-Dissipation/Efficiency,(also covered in a comment below this) there is far too much power loss as compared to the utilization of solid wire conductors. And 2- Difficulties with usage monitoring(metering). Power companies simply are not going to ‘give it away’. And there is no reason they should after investing in the means of gathering or generating electricity. Even if it was feasible to obtain unlimited electricity wirelessly AND also distribute it wirelessly, (something I doubt will ever come to pass) it would be idiocy for Tesla (to have given)or any other power providing company to give it away for nothing.
To transmit, you feed power into it and either blue sparks fly off or if you have a second tower you can recieve.
To recieve, you allow it to charge the earth from incoming protons from the ionosphere or another tesla tower in transmit mode. That’s why it was built over running water where negative ions are generated and why Tesla went to great lengths to ground it with a huge 300 foot deep pole and earth grabbers.
Apparently, as I understand it, the protons get more dense the higher you go… and they like curve metallic surfaces for some reason. Thus… the ball at wardenclyffe. I imagine they travel in helixes and you can attract a higher density flow with a curved surface.
Financing is a whole other matter that is irrelevent to the physics. Public finance would do it if private didn’t. That’s how you solve the ice age!
Your comment about running water and ions leads me to ask whether you are familiar with Whilhelm Reich and his Orgone hypothesis? Would have been interesting perhaps to get Reich and Tesla in the same room. -just having fun here;)
I’ll respond to my own post since there is no respond button on AndrewS post below for some reason.
Actually, Reich’s orgone is, in my opinion, Tesla’s radiant energy and todays’ physics protons which is also called cosmic rays. I think all of these are different names for the same thing… protons that move in helical fashion– a self-reinforcing double helix that is attracted to curved metallic surfaces.
I think that protons could have been used instead of electrons in our technologies. And I think protons would have been less dangerous because they’re bigger and move slower. I think Reich and Tesla were both suppressed for the same reason.. they unlocked the secrets of the photon.
Now, with the oncoming ice age, we should look at this in earnest and make something happen, realizing that the same forces that destroyed Riech and Tesla still have the upper hand.
Certainly we ought to replicate the wardenclyffe tower in “recieve mode”. If you can build a tesla coil as you say, this is the direction I would go to power earth through the ice age. Transmitting the power, once recieved is a whole different department.
The entire universe is powered with what I like to call protonic energy.. or moving helixes of protons, including galaxies and suns. Suns are not fusion reactors but rather proton electric arc lamps.
There are lots of angles to attack the problem from but one is Tesla’s patent for a radiant energy device… that is a radiant energy reciever… a simple version of what Wardenclyffe was going to be… in recieve move.
U.S. Patent No. 685,957
http://www.nuenergy.org/alt/tesla_energy.htm
WOW, IS EVERYONE ON DRUGS? WHY ARE WE DIGUSSING THIS? IF THIS MAN WINS, WE WILL ALL BE CRUSHED LIKE SHALE OIL.
If only for the hope of being free of ‘Hope and Change’, I am with AndrewS on the election.
I hope it’s a landslide, but I have my doubts. It might be very very close. Or, if the polls are as skewed as some are saying . . .
When I first was reading about abiotic oil, I read some accounts of coal having been found with things in it like tools, gold chains, etc.
The idea was that coal was formerly oil that rose closer to the surface, but conditions caused it to, um, dry out…I don’t think the articles expressed it that way, but you get it.
Did it explain why plant fossils are inextricably related to Coal deposits?
Here in Illinois there is a strip-mined area south of Chicago, Coal City, IL where you can find “Coal Ball” fossils, typically Ovate “flattish” Calcium Carbonate concretions that are found in most shallower (Brown coal) formations.
When you crack these open on their horizontal axis(and I have done this), what is revealed is some kind of plant impression, Fern leaves plant stems, etc.
http://www.palaeontologyonline.com/articles/2011/fossil-focus-coal-swamps/
I would be very suspicious about that particular article. Tools? Gold chains?
The only way that this would inpact Obama is if the price of gas at the pumps severely drop BEFORE the election. Let’s face it. All the average person knows is what they see at the pumps and at the grocery store. High prices? Bye bye Obama. End of story.
This has been a manic election season.
Western Pennsylvania is a strange place in a blue state. It is a former industrial powerhouse with a history of labor strife and also a rural culture that has long been a hotbed of anti- government sentiment going back to the Whiskey Rebellion of the late 1700s. You have probably heard the talk about the “Bitter Clingers” coming from President Obama and our late congress creature- John Murtha. What usually comes to mind is the Tea Partiers who cling to their guns and religion. But there is another kind of bitter clinger that has a different ideological bent that I know too well, having grown up among them and listened to their grumbles and gripes all my life.
They are the FDR Democrats and their descendants who have this populist chip on their shoulder and blame evil rich Republicans for all the ills of the region and country in general. They revered the memory of FDR and the New Deal and victory in war which cemented their reverence for the majesty of government and as things started to decline after the oil shocks of the 70s and shut downs of the steel mills in the 80s- those that did not bug out for better prospects in the Sunbelt states hung on trying to eke out an existence in a leaner economy- often sustained by the messianic hope of a Second Coming of FDR.
Well they got him in 2008!
Barak Hussein Obama- UHM- UHM- UMH!
To tell the truth I was actually glad to see him beat the Clinton Machine- that was until it became obvious that the Obama Machine was the Clinton Machine on steroids! When came the bits and peices of his shady, radical past- often in his own words- how he liked to hang out with the Marxist professors and the likes of the Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers and a whole circus freak show of Chairman Mao worshiping communists and ecofascist whack jobs,I began to worry. His promise to bankrupt the coal industry and make our electricity rates “necessarily skyrocket” was the icing on the cake and I promptly held my nose and voted for McCain.
After 4 years of Tea Parties and the economy of Jimmy Carter on steroids- which I have been fortunate so far to remain productively employed- I was hoping for some of the earlier candidates that were the pick of the Tea Parties- but the GOP machine for better or worse- picked Romney; who just might be able to beat Obama and who- in light of the gravity of our situation in regard to the unsustainable debt and energy security issues- just might get it that the GOP and America cannot afford business and politics as usual. That progressives and their top down, one size fits all approach to micromanaging the minute details of our daily lives is not only out of place in the age of the Internet- it is also a clear and present danger to life, liberty and the persuit of happiness that our society is founded on. If they play their cards right- Romney and Ryan could be the new Warren Harding / Calvin Coolidge who could turn the country back from the financial cliff and unleash the pent up demand of a dynamic economy of a society being repressed by over regulation and fear and uncertainty of even worse things that are likely to come if the people in charge are given four more years.
Big part of the problem here in Pa and other industrial swing states is the deep Populist sentiment that can be easily stoked by the demogugery which the Democrats have decided to run on- in light of their failure to turn things around. The need to believe this stuff is so strong that many of these blue state voters are willing to buy into the lies being peddled by the Left and their media sycophants as well as the false causality of states with Republican governors like Pa, Ohio and Wisconsin- that made some hard choices to balance budgets or that are enjoying a local oil or gas boom. Aside from the NIMBYs and environmentalists who are fighting tooth and nail against fracking- you have others willing to swallow the lies of the Administration- and give Obama credit for it. Anything to justify thir slavish devotion to a political party that runs on promises of free stuff and raising taxes on the evil rich to pay for it.
And there is another problem. In addition to the federal government facing a financial cliff- many states and cities including Pennsylvania are horribly insolvent. Harrisburg is broke and so is Pittsburgh. They face hard choices and naturally public employees which are unionized are going to fight tooth and nail to protect their jobs and pension benefits.
A lot of people want what has been promised to them, and there are others who would like to get on the gravey train too; and they know Obama will give it to them.
Yet there is still cause for hope. I see a lot of “Stop The War on Coal- Fire Obama” signs by the side of the road, along with Keith Rothfus for Congress and Tom Smith for Senate- and not many for Obama- Biden or Bob Casey and Creepy Mark Critz (the repacement for Murtha in a recent special election) who is actually running away from Obama and declaring his unconditional love of clean coal and gas drilling in addition to bring “Pro-life and Pro-Gun”! A commercial by a millionaire from Ohio who emigrated from the Soviet bloc is trying to educate the lunkheads as to where the “Eat the Rich” rhetoric being peddled to them is likely to lead.
The Romney Campaign ought to counter the charges about a proposal to cut FEMA with the realities that a financial collapse of America will entail come another major hurricane or earthquake and the interest payment on the debt is more than the outlay for military defense!
It is ironic that the leftists call us “climate deniers” when they are in denial of the debt bomb that left unresolved will detonate long before the global temperatures go up a few degrees and the seas rise over the next 100 years!