And this “asbestos conspiracy” stuff is nothing but plaintiffs’ lawyer’s bullshit. The companies who where actually responsible for asbestos have long since been bankrupted, so the legal parasites are scrambling for ways to extract money from ongoing enterprises. The conspiracy story is nothing but a way to extort even more money from the Grace company than they have been in the past.

You should be ashamed of this post.

Truth is always stranger than fiction.

the_nile on April 5, 2009 at 12:57 PM

Indeed.

Deliberate impoverishment and foreign dependency that only Leftists believe in.

Maquis on April 5, 2009 at 7:43 PM

But…but…we gots LOTS more National Parks!!!

/sarc

It won’t be long before the annual budget deficit exceeds $2 trillion.

zmdavid on April 5, 2009 at 1:04 PM

It won’t be long — It is happening this year!!!

I beleive The Bakken field is being put of limits by the state and federal governments. Change we can believe in.

davod on April 5, 2009 at 7:00 PM

Deliberate impoverishment and foreign dependency that only Leftists believe in.

And that commercial is pretty cool looking, I liked his work on Bladerunner as well. George Lucas didn’t have to wait all that time to make the Star Wars prequels, the technology was plenty capable of producing a film full of eye candy. He could have just hired Scott back then.

1986 totally rocked. Those were the days…sigh.

The U. S. Geological Service issued a report in April (’08) that only scientists and oil men knew was coming, but man was it big. It was a revised report (hadn’t been updated since ’95) on how much oil was in this area of the western 2/3 of North Dakota ; western South Dakota ; and extreme eastern Montana ….. check THIS out:

The Bakken is the largest domestic oil discovery since Alaska ‘s Prudhoe Bay , and has the potential to eliminate all American dependence on foreign oil. The Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimates it at 503 billion barrels.. Even if just 10% of the oil is recoverable… at $107 a barrel, we’re looking at a resource base worth more than $5.3 trillion.

‘When I first briefed legislators on this, you could practically see their jaws hit the floor. They had no idea.’ says Terry Johnson, the Montana Legislature’s financial analyst.

‘This sizable find is now the highest-producing onshore oil field found in the past 56 years.’ reports, The Pittsburgh Post Gazette. It’s a formation known as the Williston Basin , but is more commonly referred to as the ‘Bakken.’ And it stretches from Northern Montana, through North Dakota and into Canada . For years, U. S. oil exploration has been considered a dead end. Even the ‘Big Oil’ companies gave up searching for major oil wells decades ago. However, a recent technological breakthrough has opened up the Bakken’s massive reserves…. and we now have access of up to 500 billion barrels. And because this is light, sweet oil, those billions of barrels will cost Americans just $16 PER BARREL!

That’s enough crude to fully fuel the American economy for 41 years straight.

2. And if THAT didn’t throw you on the floor, then this next one should – because it’s from TWO YEARS AGO!

U. S. Oil Discovery- Largest Reserve in the World!
Stansberry Report Online – 4/20/2006

Hidden 1,000 feet beneath the surface of the Rocky Mountains lies the largest untapped oil reserve in the world. It is more than 2 TRILLION barrels. On August 8, 2005 President Bush mandated its extraction. In three and a half years of high oil prices none has been extracted. With this motherload of oil why are we still fighting over off-shore drilling?

They reported this stunning news: We have more oil inside our borders, than all the other proven reserves on earth. Here are the official estimates:

- 8-times as much oil as Saudi Arabia
- 18-times as much oil as Iraq
- 21-times as much oil as Kuwait
- 22-times as much oil as Iran
- 500-times as much oil as Yemen
- and it’s all right here in the Western United States .

HOW can this BE? HOW can we NOT BE extracting this? Because the environmentalists and others have blocked all efforts to help America become independent of foreign oil! Again, we are letting a small group of people dictate our lives and our economy….WHY?

James Bart is, lead researcher with the study says we’ve got more oil in this very compact area than the entire Middle East -more than 2 TRILLION barrels untapped. That’s more than all the proven oil reserves of crude oil in the world today, reports The Denver Post.

Don’t think ‘OPEC’ will drop its price – even with this find? Think again! It’s all about the competitive marketplace, – it has to. Think OPEC just might be funding the environmentalists?
Got your attention/ire up yet? Hope so! Now, while you’re thinking about it …. and hopefully P.O’d, do this:

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By the way…this is all true. Check it out at the link below!!!

GOOGLE it or follow this link. It will blow your mind.

http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=1911

Deficit History

I say Weimar by 2012.

Stuart Varney, WSJ

The government wants to control the banks, just as it now controls GM and Chrysler, and will surely control the health industry in the not-too-distant future. Keeping them TARP-stuffed is the key to control. And for this intensely political president, mere influence is not enough. The White House wants to tell ‘em what to do. Control. Direct. Command.

Think about it: If Rick Wagoner can be fired and compact cars can be mandated, why can’t a bank with a vault full of TARP money be told where to lend? And since politics drives this administration, why can’t special loans and terms be offered to favored constituents, favored industries, or even favored regions? Our prosperity has never been based on the political allocation of credit — until now.

Which brings me to the Pay for Performance Act, just passed by the House. This is an outstanding example of class warfare. I’m an Englishman. We invented class warfare, and I know it when I see it. This legislation allows the administration to dictate pay for anyone working in any company that takes a dime of TARP money. This is a whip with which to thrash the unpopular bankers, a tool to advance the Obama administration’s goal of controlling the financial system.

The Dictator Obama has no allegiance to our Constitutional Government and no sense for “legality”.

IMPEACH sooner than later.

Obama burns down your house and reminds you that Bush once lit a match.

Jim Treacher on April 5, 2009 at 3:26 PM

I’d love to see that on billboards across America.

Kids in That Commercial

1986: helping grownups score political points over the deficit.
2009: cashing in on the “stimulus”.
2017: finding their 1986 fears really did come true, but not how they originally thought.