Choosing The Right Lane To Travel

These messages build on the foundation that asks all of us to set aside our differences and unite behind a message of constitutionally limited government, personal responsibility, and fiscal sanity. I appreciate that your time is valuable and for that reason I try to keep segments concise. Please Scroll through the headings below and read the segments that strike you as important or informative.

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The Energy Myth - Green Energy Now!

The harsh reality is that we have a hydrocarbon economy.  All well intended Americans see and value the need for a future of newer and cleaner forms of energy.  Where the chasm exists between those that see, understand and accept that the use of fossil fuels for huge sectors of our economy will exist past our lifetime and likely that of our children. Further, there is abundant research and even more emerging data that clearly confirms we have at least 100+ years of fossil fuel.  Our national security and economic security absolutely depends on the exploitation of these resources WHILE developing and maturing alternative, renewable and clean energy. Anyone saying otherwise is simply lying or admitting they are grossly uninformed.  Americans cannot sit by and observe the fringes of society drag our Nation down.  We must educate ourselves and vote accordingly.

·       According to the US Bureau of Transportation Statistics for 2009 there are 254,212,610 registered passenger vehicles

·       26.2 million trucks (Class 1-8)ix. Additionally, there are 9.0 million commercial trucks (with 6 or more tires and/or combination vehicles), 834,000 buses

·       The FAA said the total number of aircraft in the US commercial airline fleet (including regional carriers) stood at an estimated 7,185 at the end of 2011

·       U.S. census reported a total of 57,185 electric vehicles were registered in the United States. That accounts for 0.02% of the vehicles registered nationwide.

o   So what energy supplies the electricity of these EVs?  fossil fuel!

In 2011, the United States generated about 4,106 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity.  About 68% of the electricity generated was from fossil fuel (coal, natural gas, and petroleum), with 42% attributed from coal. Energy sources and percent share of total for electricity generation in 2011:

·        Coal 42%

·        Natural Gas 25%

·        Nuclear 19%

·        Hydropower 8%

·        Other Renewable 5%; Biomass 1.38%; Geothermal 0.41%; Solar 0.04%; Wind 2.92%; Petroleum 1%

The above does not include the many billions of dollars invested in industry large and small that are totally dependent upon Fossil Fuels!

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Obama: Carbon ‘Eating Our Planet,’ ‘A Threat to Our Children’s Future’ By Fred Lucas

President Barack Obama warned his supporters about the threat of global warming and vowed that more money to subsidize green energy firms would prevent it.  “By the way, yes, my plan will reduce the carbon pollution that is eating our planet because climate change is not a hoax,” Obama said at a campaign rally at the Bank United Arena at the University of Miami. “More droughts and hurricanes and wildfires, that’s not a joke. That’s a threat to our children’s future, and we can do something about it.” Obama said that he planned to spend more money to subsidize green projects such as wind and solar if elected to a second term. Obama’s Republican opponent Mitt Romney has criticized him for spending $90 billion on green energy companies, many of which went into bankruptcy. This week, the House Energy and Commerce Committee announced it is seeking information from the Department of Energy about a $400 million loan to Abound Solar, which recently filed for bankruptcy. Abound was the fifth stimulus-funded green energy firm and the third to file for bankruptcy after Solyndra and Beacon Power. Obama vowed to pay for the subsidies by taking away tax breaks to oil companies. “So, now you’ve got a choice. My plan would cut our oil imports in half and invest in the clean energy that has created thousands of jobs all across America,” the president said at the Florida rally.  All of this while U.S. citizens cannot even afford to pay for gas to go to work!

Pollster: Romney Will Win FL, NC, VA

According to Suffolk University pollster David Paleologos, Mitt Romney is a lock to win Florida, Virginia, and North Carolina. In fact, Paleologos is so certain of that eventuality that he’s stopped polling in those states. “In places like North Carolina, Virginia and Florida, we’ve already painted those red. We’re not polling any of those states again. We’re focusing on the remaining states,” he told Bill O’Reilly last evening.

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Election 2012: Florida President - Rasmussen

Mitt Romney has crossed the 50% mark for the first time to widen his lead to four points in Florida. Florida: Romney 51%, Obama 47%

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Obama Campaign Blames Romney/Ryan For Libya ‘Circus’

Today on CNN, Obama deputy campaign manager and serial liar Stephanie Cutter was shown a devastating montage of the administration’s mixed messages on the situation in Benghazi, Libya. She promptly said that the “only reason” that the murder of the US ambassador in Benghazi, Libya had become a political issue is “because of Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan. It’s a big part of their stump speech. It’s reckless and irresponsible what they’re doing.”  Only after being forced by CNN reporter to admit that it’s a national security issue did Cutter do so. Then she began nodding as the reporter stated that the American public has a right to answers.

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Trust on Issues: Obama v. Romney - Rasmussen

Voters Trust Romney 50% to 43% Over Obama on Economy

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Joe Was the Only One Laughing

Conventional wisdom says that vice presidential debates don't move the needle in elections, and last night's debate was probably no exception. That said, Thursday night's debate couldn't have contrasted two more different candidates. Paul Ryan, the respectful, serious and earnest policy wonk, against Joe Biden, who behaved like a drunken clown and a jerk and paid due homage to the mascot of the Democrat Party -- the Jackass.  On substance, Ryan held his own against Vice President Chuckles, despite having to face a second debate opponent in "moderator" Martha Raddatz of ABC News. Yet on style, whether the subject was the terrorist attack on our Libyan embassy, the ailing economy or abortion, Biden smiled, laughed, sneered, rolled his eyes and strategically interrupted Ryan every time the congressman hit his stride on an answer. And if it wasn't Biden interrupting, it was Raddatz. Biden is obviously a disciple of Saul Alinksy, who in his "Rules for Radicals," Rule No. 5, said, "Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage." Clearly, the Obama team decided that the president's failure last week was that he was "too polite," and that Biden had to use ridicule to shore up their anxious base. The result was appalling, but then again, Biden has been rehearsing his socialist obfuscation and diversion in Washington for 40 years.

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Economy:

We have to give Raddatz props for asking Biden why White House projections of unemployment under 6 percent were so wrong, but Biden immediately defaulted to blaming Bush. He then berated Mitt Romney for wanting to "let Detroit go bankrupt," in contrast to the administration, which "rescued General Motors." What he neglected to mention was that Detroit did go bankrupt -- the White House just made sure the unions came out okay.

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Top Ten Worst Lies by Joe Biden in VP Debate

10. "With all due respect, that’s a bunch of malarkey....not a single thing he said is accurate." At the outset of the debate, Biden tried to paint Ryan as a liar--when Biden, in fact, was the one lying. Ryan had pointed out: 1) that the White House had distanced itself from the Cairo embassy's apologies on 9/11; 2) that Obama had failed to speak up for Iranian protestors in 2009; 3) that the Obama administration called Syria's dictator a "reformer"; 4) and that the Obama administration is imposing defense cuts and projecting weakness. All of that is true.

9. "The president has met with Bibi [Netanyahu] a dozen times....This is a bunch of stuff." While they have met several times--not a dozen--that includes a meeting at which Obama made the Israeli prime minister enter the White House through a back entrance, refused to take a picture with him, and left him on his own for dinner.

8. "Just let the taxes expire like they’re supposed to on those millionaires." Biden's "millionaires" are actually households earning more than $250,000 a year, which includes many middle-class families with two earners, and small business owners in particular who report business earnings as personal income.

7. "You know, I heard that death panel argument from Sarah Palin. It seems that every vice presidential debate, I hear this kind of stuff about panels." Biden's cheap shot against Palin was an attempt to diminish both her and the man sitting across from him. But Palin never talked about "death panels" in her debate with Biden, for the simple reason that Obamacare had not yet been proposed.

6. "The congressman here cut embassy security in his budget by $300 million below what we asked for." Biden's lie about Ryan's budget was an attempt to dodge responsibility for lax embassy security--and to cover up that the Obama called for new cuts to embassy security just days after the 9/11 attacks.

5. "No, they are not four years closer to a nuclear weapon." Biden's attempt to lie about the glaring reality of the Iranian nuclear program fell flat. Iran is indeed four years closer to a nuclear weapon, and the Obama administration--believing it knew better than its predecessors--tried to reinvent the wheel on talks with Iran, causing frustration to our allies in Europe and the Middle East.

4. "No religious institution, Catholic or otherwise...has to be a vehicle to get contraception in any insurance policy they provide. That is a fact." No, it is not a fact--it is the opposite of a fact, and saying "that is a fact" does not make it any less a blatant lie.

3. "It came from this man voting to put two wars on a credit card...I was there. I voted against him." Biden voted for both the Iraq war and the Afghanistan war. He did not vote for George W. Bush's plan to extend coverage of Medicare to prescription drugs (though he voted for an earlier, similar proposal), nor did he vote for the Bush tax cuts.

2. "What we did is we saved $716 billion and put it back -- applied it to Medicare." Biden repeated the lie the Obama administration has been telling since before Obamacare passed in 2010: that cuts to Medicare today were savings that extend the life of the program. They would be--if the same $716 billion wasn't also being used to pay for Obamacare. As Ryan pointed out in 2010, and again last night, you can't double-count the same cuts.

1. "Well, we weren’t told they wanted more security again." Biden lied through his teeth about the fact that the administration--specifically, the State Department--had been told again and again that security on the ground in Libya, and in Benghazi in particular, was inadequate. The day before, in Congressional hearings on the Libya attacks, former regional security director Eric Nordstrom described his frustration with having those requests turned down by the government bureaucracy: "For me the Taliban is on the inside of the building."

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Jack Welch: I Was Right About That Strange Jobs Report By JACK WELCH

Imagine a country where challenging the ruling authorities—questioning, say, a piece of data released by central headquarters—would result in mobs of administration sympathizers claiming you should feel "embarrassed" and labeling you a fool, or worse. Editorial board member Steve Moore on the good and bad of the jobs report and whether it will help President Obama's campaign. Soviet Russia perhaps? Communist China? Nope, that would be the United States right now, when a person (like me, for instance) suggests that a certain government datum (like the September unemployment  rate of 7.8%) doesn't make sense. Unfortunately for those who would like me to pipe down, the 7.8% unemployment figure released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) last week is downright implausible. And that's why I made a stink about it.  Before I explain why the number is questionable, though, a few words about where I'm coming from. Contrary to some of the sound-and-fury last week, I do not work for the Mitt Romney campaign. I am definitely not a surrogate. My wife, Suzy, is not associated with the campaign, either. She worked at Bain Consulting (not Bain Capital) right after business school, in 1988 and 1989, and had no contact with Mr. Romney. Read on....

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Open Your Eyes to the Fraud of the Government Public School System

In early American history, a literate and well-educated majority of Americans thrived without a national, tax-funded educational program. In fact, few of the men who signed the Declaration of Independence and drafted the U.S. Constitution had ever seen a public school, and yet they benefitted from a free system of education vastly superior to the imagined benefits of today's state-controlled schooling. What happened over the course of the last two and a half centuries? Why did Americans surrender the educational freedom that produced such widespread academic excellence to embrace a state of functional illiteracy under complete government control? In his seminal book Is Public Education Necessary?, Samuel Blumenfeld unpacks two centuries of source material to present an accurate history of the religious and philosophical transformations that gave birth to the educational statism controlling America's children today.  From the New England Puritan experiments in compulsory schooling to the Unitarian crusades to perfect man with the strong arm of government, Blumenfeld shows that public education in America has always been more about religion than literacy. A colorful history full of fascinating characters and incisive commentary, Is Public Education Necessary? challenges American parents to discard the common wisdom concerning public schools, to reshoulder the responsibilities that are rightfully theirs, to fight to keep the liberties they inherited, and to teach their children to do the same. For more  ORDER NOW

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Duke professor confirms Arabic on Obama ring

WND’s report that Arabic-language and Islamic experts claim the gold band Obama has been wearing on his wedding-ring finger for more than 30 years is adorned with the first part of the Islamic declaration of faith naturally was met with skepticism in some circles, but Glenn Beck’s TheBlaze.com news service published a report citing a Duke professor who confirmed the WND experts’ assessment. Earlier today, before it published the report, four members of The Blaze editorial team, including Editor-in-Chief Scott Baker, cautiously discussed the Obama ring story in their “Blazecast Rewind” Internet broadcast, without mentioning WND. Baker, noting he had been inundated with links to the WND article, said he approached the story as he does other “memes” that float around the Internet and need to be either debunked or verified. TheBlaze.com reporter Billy Hallowell told Baker he spoke with a professor from Duke who read the article, examined the photos and affirmed the conclusion of the WND experts. “Based on what he saw, he said that this is, essentially, Arabic script on the ring and that it is the first part of the Shahada,” Hollowell said.

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Wasserman Schultz: Wrong Statements About Libya Doesn't Mean They Were False

Piers Morgan, CNN: The really important horse that should be flogged is the behavior and the statements of those who are in positions of responsibility and we would assume knowledge. And it's pretty unAmerican, pretty unAmerican to be putting up completely false statements before you know the facts, isn't it?
Debbie Wasseerman Schultz, DNC chair: Piers, it is not okay for you to be saying that the administration was putting out completely false statements. They put out information that they had at the time based on the intelligence that they were given --
Piers Morgan: That turned out to be completely wrong.
Wasserman Schultz: Well that doesn't mean it was false. It doesn't mean that it was deliberate. It means that.....

Morgan: What?! Now wait a minute. If you put out a false statement, then it's false, it's wrong. It's both of those things.
Wasserman Schultz: But you're suggesting that it's … Piers, what you're suggesting is that it was somehow deliberate. What's terrible unfortunate though, is that you do -- there's no around these investigations that Republicans in Congress and Mitt Romney have left to go after the administration questioning whether or not there was any deliberate attempt to mislead. We should be closing ranks, working together to prevent this from happening again.
Morgan: Well the answer to that Debbie, is -- the answer to that is to make sure that the original statements that were made are accurate.

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Diane Sawyer Lies for the Obama State Department Liars by Mark Horne

Even a cynic must be somewhat surprised. The most likely scenario until now was that the riot took place and the White House wanted to blame the protest for “getting out of hand.” It is amazing that the entire story was a lie. (And it obviously was a lie. What do you think? That with the resources of the CIA and the State Department that the Administration mistakenly thought there was a mass protest where there wasn’t one and there was no evidence of one? No, they made the whole thing up). But that is not the worst of the story. The fact that we have suffered an unprecedented attack, the fact that our Middle East policy is a failure, even the fact that the Obama Administration lied — all of it takes second place to what we learn about our media. Notice how Diane Sawyer introduces the story: “Breaking news.” “New details.” “Just as we came on the air.” “Standing by with this late news is Jon Karl,” their “political correspondent.” Sawyer says everything possible to make viewers believe that investigations had uncovered new facts about the Beghazi attack. And then Jon, all excited about this “news” tells us that there are new “details” (like, you know, the entire news story as reported on ABC and everywhere else), and “this is significantly different than what we were told at the time.” The whole two minute drive-by is full of passive voice “we were told.”  Watch here

Do you see what is happening? The news story here is that the State Department phoned up ABC and all their other media sources and lied through their teeth. The media dutifully reported this lie. Now, ABC has been called up, and they spin it as if it were real news dug up by a real investigation while the true story has been out for days. But it is really simply the reading of a new press release (or getting a new phone call and repeating it) on the air.

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