Maybe a local storage facility, but there ain't a damn thing there other than barrels to indicate that it's a refinery.

Bingo. De-industrialization has been the goal of the Marxist movement since it became a movement. If you read Marx you'll see that he essentially advocates for an egalitarian agrarian society, because it is the only logical conclusion to the idea of ensuring equal distribution of the means of production. Once Dude A (by way of technological advance) has a better way of producing something than Dude B, you can no longer ensure "equality". In the Communist Manifesto he even laments the discovery of America because it created economic opportunities. How "progressive".

That's why the Eco movement are increasingly Marxist in ideology. I've heard them referred to as the watermelon movement; green on the outside, red on the inside.

The most transparent administration ever wants YOU to be transparent FIRST, before its own transparency kicks in. They are dedicated to chipping away at the first, second, fourth, ninth and tenth amendments, instead of upholding them in accordance with their oath of office. That's half of the Bill of Rights that they treat as obstacles to exercising their power, instead of critical rights the people have charged them to protect.

Yeah. At least in the case of ENRON people went to jail (Andy Fastow, Jeff Skilling, Ken Lay) and at least one committed suicide before going to jail. Once you totally remove the line between corporations and government, there's no accountability whatsoever. There was still a line in the ENRON case. Not so much anymore, with all the bailouts.

You mean a Junior Varsity fruitfly that's killing thousands of people pretty much every where they go? It's more like a plague of locusts.

Yes. I like all those things. I don't like having to feed children I didn't have the pleasure of making (in addition to my own), and then told I'm not compassionate because I should feel sorry for them and their irresponsible parents. I don't like paying for contraceptives for people who want to have sex. If it's not for procreation, it's for recreation, and I don't go to work every day so you can exercise your crotch. I also don't like buying $800 hammers for contractors, or $800M tanks for dictators.

Again, if government stuck to those basic things you mentioned then we would have a better government. But you want to throw in the kitchen sink disguised as necessities because somehow that's more "progressive", when instead it's regressing back to the point where we serve the state that is supposed to be serving us.

Fundamental question with what should be a simple answer. We pursue enterprise to benefit ourselves and profit. Not to serve as revenue generator to the state. The state is supposed to serve the people; not the other way around, but we keep coming around and forgetting the lessons of history and the basic nature of man.

If the state were not exceeding its mandate to serve the people, taxes would be acceptable and nobody would put that much effort into avoiding them because their result would continue to appeal to our interests. But there's never enough money for the state to be all the things it is promising to be, so the states are inventing structures for self-preservation of systems fundamentally doomed to fail.

They said you can borrow their foreign policy, free of charge. Just call them back when you're done with this round of golf.

Let's see who gets a FOIA request for their entry criteria and see what it takes to get into this DB. I've read of at least 2 stories (Army and FBI) where government sensitivity training is already classifying some conservatives or Christians as "extremist", somehow forgetting about the people with the black flag that have a stated goal of terminating all of us.

—Muslim Brotherhood founder Hassan al-Banna

—Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Guide Muhammed Badi

http://fas.org/irp/world/para/docs/880818.htm

That's the Hamas charter. It won't take long to get to the part in the preamble where it quotes Muslim Brotherhood founder Hassan al-Banna:

Also check out articles seven and thirteen for a brief but concise education on Hamas and their foundational beliefs regarding dealing with Israel.

Another choice quote from al-Banna:

Let's try this one from Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Guide Muhammed Badi:

Muslim Brotherhood's mission statement:

This may not clear up your hatred of the Jews, but it will at least help you deal with my "big lie".

Bonus round: This is the photo of the grand Mufti of Jerusalem meeting in with Hitler in 1941, in case you want to deny the Islam-Nazi connection too. You wanna guess what they were talking about?

http://www.lookingattheleft.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/_husseni-hitler.jpg

That's assuming these athletes and rappers can even read. http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/07/...

Good stuff! Just switched to Verizon FiOS, so Comcast is hopefully a thing of the past. I'll use this if I ever have to get on the phone with Verizon, but my previous experience with FiOS included 0 support calls.

I tried the Google DNS servers with no luck. At first I too thought it was the intermittent Win7 stuff coming out of hibernation because that was my use case, but my wife's iPad and our cell phones were also taking forever to load a page, mostly hanging at the very beginning of the request.

Anyway just cancelled Comcast yesterday and my pages load blissfully fast at 15Mbps as opposed to taking forever at 50Mbps.

I can understand wanting to save money by putting tech script as the first line of tech support, but it gets a little tiring when want to skip to the advanced folks and still they want to stick to their script and ask me to reboot the modem as if I hadn't done that 3 times already. If it isn't low hanging fruit for the script readers it's not going to be a very successful or efficient support call.

Seems some DNS issue that isn't solved by reboot kept all of the devices in my network from getting reliable connections for about 10-15 minutes after starting to browse. I did some of the obvious stuff; reboot modem, try other DNS servers, etc. Doesn't matter now. Switched to FiOS and now pages load before I can blink.

The racist extermination war is currently being waged by Hamas, Muslim Brotherhood, et al who actually, as a point of fact, have jihad and the extermination of the Jews in their charter. If Israel wanted to take over Gaza for oil they would have done it already, and they would not have pulled out all their settlements for the last peace "agreement" that always seem to only go one way.