Category: Alaska
There were a lot of things over the past couple of days that I read and wanted to write about but couldn't quite fit into a post. So then I remembered that I could do a link roundup for you folks to read while you're pretending to work on this Wednesday.
It has been quite some time since last I posted. The mid term elections will be here very soon. There is so much I want to share. I find solace in that the readers who visit the Oasis are free thinkers. Whatever facts and figures I may think I have to offer can be found by all who seek them. I will offer all that is really mine to share - my opinion and my love of country.
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. Preamble to the United States Constitution
One can choose to interpret this beautiful sentence as merely "an introduction, and does not assign powers to the federal government," or one can see it as the penultimate mission statement of the fledgling United States of America (Wikipedia). These words express the struggle of the thirteen colonies to balance the needs of the many against the needs or desires of the one or the few. This struggle continues today in our society and its government, and will continue for many generations.
Original Author:
Brian Leubitz
Carly Fiorina has lots of issues with President Obama. She's a
Mama Grizzly after all, and they are protecting their ... ummm ... "nation" from the dangers of health care for all. You know, the really dangerous stuff.
Dangerous stuff like the possibility of a mosque several blocks down the road from Ground Zero, the site of the World Trade Center. Now, I understand the importance of honoring the tragedy of the events of 9/11, but are we to blame a whole religion for the actions of a few crazy zealots? The twisted and violent death cult that the 9/11 bombers are engaged in is not the religion that is practiced by the millions of American Muslims that are actively engaged in our civic life.
On June 14, 2010 Ron Johnson was asked by WisPolitics: "Do you want to open up more of the United States, top of the United States, to drilling? Would you support drilling, like in the Great Lakes, for example, if there was oil found there? Or anymore oil exploration in Alaska? ANWR and those kind of things..." Johnson responded: “You know, the bottom line is we are an oil-based economy. There's nothing we're going to do to get off of that for many years. I think we have to be realistic and recognize that fact and, you know, I, I think we have to, get the oil where it is, but we have to do it where it is.” The point of the question wasn't if he supported drilling in the Great Lakes. What the reporter was asking if there was any place that we should protect from drilling oil and used the Great Lakes as an example. A month after he made the "get the oil where it is" statement, he said that he didn't mean the Great Lakes. Therefore, we can gather, he meant ANYWHERE on the "top of the United States" EXCEPT the Great Lakes. Let's see... that means that Johnson still believes that we should "get the oil where it is" no matter how ridiculous: Lake Winnebago? "Get the oil where it is!" Lake Mendota? "Get the oil where it is!" Horicon Marsh? "Get the oil where it is!" ... Even Lambeau Field?!? "Get the oil where it is!"
Original Author:
jer45y@gmail.com (James Rowen)
Wisconsin Democrats are running
an online petition asking GOP Senate candidate Ron Johnson to sell his BP holding and done the proceeds to the Victims Compensation Fund.
More details in the release below:
DPW Chair Mike Tate Calls on Ron Johnson
(R-BP) to Divest From Big Oil Interests and Support
Compensation Fund for Gulf Oil Spill Victims
DPW Launches Petition to Have Ron Johnson Put His Money Where His Mouth Isn’t
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