http://www.wnd.com/2014/05/another-obama-project-lands-in-toilet/

I, for one, would like to see the justification for these type of expenditures. I am a firm believer in the old maxim "charity begins at home". Cities going bankrupt, lack of health care, high unemployment, children underfed and all this in the USA. Our tax dollars are being spent overseas in countries that don't give a damn about the USA, actually h**e us and many dominated by Muslims. Glad to see another project from Obummer go down the toilet. Too bad we couldn't flush him along with it. :hunf:

Canadian oil

For those that think the Republicans are the fat cats of politics, please read this........(Eye opener)
Hmm... this is 'interesting'. Kind of adds a little 'dimension' to the topic--
like "the Rest of the Story". Kind of tarnishes the 'environmental' platform!

Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad owns all of the rail lines in the US connecting to western Canada and they haul 80%+ of the crude from Canada to the midwest and Texas or charge other Short Line railroads a fee to use their tracks.
BNSF charges $30 per barrel to haul the oil where the Keystone would cost $10 by the State Departments own estimates. BNSF is owned by Berkshire Hathaway whose chairman is Warren Buffet.
In the last e******n cycles Buffet gave extensively to democrat causes and candidates including $40K+ to Obama in 2012. He also bundled and hosted numerous fundraisers for Obama. If anyone here believes the pipeline isn't being blocked by Obama on Buffet’s behalf you're nuts.
Buffet could stand to lose $2B+ a year if the pipeline goes in and he makes the same amount every year it's delayed. This is crony capitalism at its finest and what is making people mad at our government and capitalist system.

As the B******i lies unfold, we will find several moving parts:

(1.) Hillary Clinton was involved in turning down Ambassador Chris Stevens' request for more security
for our diplomatic facilities in Libya.

(2.) The extra security was declined because it was essential for the Administration's narrative that Libya be seen as being secure.

(3.) When the crap hit the fan on Sept.11, Hillary realized the danger a coordinated al Qaida attack presented to Obama's ree******n and the danger it represented to her 2016 p**********l ambitions.

(4.) She resorted to her best friend to save her...THE BIG LIE.

(5.) The press release issued by the State Department around 11 pm EDT on September 11 locked in the story of the internet video, even though Hillary knew at the time IT WAS A LIE.

(6.) During the week leading up to Susan Rice's television appearance on September 16, Ben Rhodes, with the assistance of Jay Carney, David Plouffe, and others, drafted a set of talking points which were patently false. The purpose being to freeze interest in investigating B******i until after the e******n in less than two months.

Hopefully Tray Gowdy will provide Hillary Clinton with the answer to her question she put before the Congress.

Are Obama-Linked Operatives Covering Up EPA Abuses?
Written by Joe Wolverton, II, J.D.


Are Obama-Linked Operatives Covering Up EPA Abuses?


A “rogue” group within the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that is run out of the White House is operating outside the law and for years has “blocked independent investigations by the EPA’s inspector general,” according to an Associated Press account of an EPA investigator’s prepared congressional testimony.

In testimony at a hearing of a House oversight committee scheduled for Wednesday, May 7, Patrick Sullivan, an assistant EPA inspector general for investigations, is expected to provide compelling evidence of an extraordinary abuse of power — even for Barack Obama — by the all but unknown EPA Office of Homeland Security.

The Associated Press reports:

The office of about 10 employees is overseen by EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy's office, and the inspector general's office is accusing it of impeding its independent investigations into employee misconduct, computer security and external threats, including compelling employees involved in cases to sign non-disclosure agreements.

"Under the heavy cloak of 'national security,' the Office of Homeland Security has repeatedly rebuffed and refused to cooperate with the OIG's ongoing requests for information or cooperation," Sullivan wrote in prepared testimony obtained by The Associated Press. "This block unquestionably has hamstrung the Office of Inspector General's ability to carry out its statutory mandate to investigate wrongdoing of EPA employees.”

In other words, a unit within the EPA that is under the direct control of the White House and its political associates is using the “national security” trope to actively prevent investigations into EPA violations of the law. Given the high profile of their benefactor, this group fears no repercussions.

According to the Associated Press, it seems a similar situation exists, or until recently existed, inside the Departments of Homeland Security and Defense. The article outlines the following problems with political influence over the supposedly independent inspectors general:

Two weeks ago, the Homeland Security Department secretary put the agency's former inspector general on administrative leave after senators said he was too cozy with senior agency officials and improperly rewrote, delayed or classified some critical reports to accommodate Obama's political appointees.

Last year, the Defense Department's inspector general removed material from a draft report that concluded then-Defense Secretary Leon Panetta had improperly disclosed classified information about the raid that k**led Osama Bin Laden to a producer for the movie "Zero Dark Thirty.”

Representative Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), a frequent foe of the Obama administration, is advantageously positioned to put the screws to the president in this scandal, as well. As chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Issa will be heading the investigation in the White House’s secret EPA squelch squad. "It's disturbing that even investigations by this administration's own nonpartisan watchdogs are being blocked by political appointees,” Issa said, as quoted by the AP.

Given the EPA’s egregious disregard for the Constitution and the formerly unalienable rights of life, liberty, and property, it is little wonder that the president’s political team has spiked any investigation that might expose to the light of public notice the t***h of the agency’s reign of terror. The evidence is overwhelming.

Two years ago, the Supreme Court handed the EPA (and the Obama administration) an unfavorable ruling in the case of Sackett v. U.S., but it's the events leading up to that high court hearing that boil the blood of constitutionalists and property owners. As reported by William Jasper, senior editor of The New American:

How long would your bank account hold out if an agency of the federal government were fining you $75,000 per day? A couple of hours, maybe — or a few minutes? Not many homeowners could handle that kind of crushing financial blow. Even a Bill Gates, a Warren Buffett, or a George Soros might blanch at such astronomical fines.

But that was the potential cost facing Idaho couple Mike and Chantelle Sackett ... who ran into the iron fist of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) when they began building their home in 2007 on a two-thirds acre parcel in a residential neighborhood of Priest Lake. Like their neighbors who had already built homes next door, the Sacketts got their permits from the county and began laying gravel and preparing the ground for building. That’s when the EPA came in and, without hearings or notice, declared that the property is “wetlands” and ordered the Sacketts to restore it to the EPA bureaucracy’s satisfaction.

The Sacketts, having good reasons to believe their property is not a wetlands, were determined to contest the EPA order. However, the EPA denied their request for a hearing. They sought judicial relief, but the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals sided with the EPA, ruling that the Sacketts had no right to immediate judicial review of the matter. The Ninth Circuit held that the couple would first have to go through the EPA’s years-long wetlands permit process, which would end up costing the property owners many times the value of their land!

Basically, a group of unelected and unaccountable federal officials has shattered the dreams of the Sackett family, robbed them of the due process of law guaranteed to every citizen by the Constitution, and charged them $75,000 a day for the privilege.

The Sacketts understood the enormity of the issue raised by their pouring of a little gravel on less than an acre of land. Said Mrs. Sackett in the days leading up to the Supreme Court decision, "The EPA can come in and turn your life upside down. They can make you feel really small and insignificant. And they take away from you your sense of America.”

The EPA is not content to obliterate property rights, however. Recent actions taken against the country's last lead smelting facility will affect the right to keep and bear arms, as well, by substantially impacting the production of ammunition. On December 31, 2013, the lead refining plant closed for good.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported just before the shuttering of the plant:

About 145 employees of the Doe Run lead smelter [in Herculaneum, Missouri] learned they will lose their jobs at the end of December because of the plant’s closure, the Doe Run Co. said Wednesday. An additional 73 contractor jobs also will be eliminated.

By forcibly closing this plant, the Obama administration took yet another unconstitutional step — one that will severely impinge on the nation's ammunition-manufacturing capability.

Why would the Doe Run Company, the owners of the Missouri lead smelting facility, agree to being run out of business by the EPA? One word: extortion.

In a document published on its website, the EPA explains that in order for Doe Run to continue its operations, the company would have to agree to pay “$65 million to correct violations of several environmental laws at 10 of its lead mining, milling and smelting facilities in southeast Missouri. The settlement also requires the company to pay a $7 million civil penalty.”

In a statement to the press, Doe Run said the fine and the required upgrades to its facilities were “too financially risky.”

In cases such as those of the Sacketts, the Doe Run smelting facility, and scores of others nationwide, the EPA’s heavy handed, unconstitutional tactics should have been investigated and the nearly unbounded power should have been reined in.

They carried on without oversight, however, and perhaps now we know why.

Many who have felt the wrath of the president’s shadowy EPA division are hopeful that the House’s committee hearings will finally expose the group’s many misdeeds.



Joe A. Wolverton, II, J.D. is a correspondent for The New American and travels nationwide speaking on nullification, the Second Amendment, the surveillance state, and other constitutional issues. Follow him on Twitter @TNAJoeWolverton and he can be reached at jwolverton@thenewamerican.com.
Like Clock work the EPA closed the Doe run plant down Dec. 31 2013, this was the only lead smelter that melts lead ore from mines so if we go to war where will we get ammunition ??????????????? Its all about CONTROLING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE !!!!!!!!!!!!!

I couldnt resist this post. Ive seen many like it and should have spoke before now. There are 2 sides to the left and right game. First there is the side we all should consider and that is we all claim we want freedom. Freedom comes from single choices on each topic that ends with being free or not. You cant split freedom. You are or you arent. So there can be no left or right when defining freedom. You either believe in freedom or you dont. There is no gray, no left no right.

The second issue is this and let me begin by saying i posted info leading to "stormcloudsgathering" on youtube and he also has a website. He published a few vids on crowd psycology. What does this have to do with right and left you ask? The whole concept of left and right is a tool to keep us the people devided on the issues so that we dont unite and take our contry back. To fully understand i suggest you watch the vid.
The t***h is there is no left and right anymore in washington. There is only one criminal organization that takes care of each other and plays left right games to keep us devided and believing they are representing our views. They arent. Its an act. Many many bills, laws plans and orders have passed in washington since obama took office. Every single bill and i challenge anyone to show me 1 that has not either stripped us of freedom, bankrupted us and weakened us both militarily and finacially. And guess what both sides passed these things. The left and the right v**ed for them. You are 2 parties cause thats how they want it but make no mistake they are one party in a united act to pretend they are trying to fix things but while they all fight over what is right to fix it so we think they are trying. They all are passing things without argument that weaken us.

I couldnt resist this post. Ive seen many like it and should have spoke before now. There are 2 sides to the left and right game. First there is the side we all should consider and that is we all claim we want freedom. Freedom comes from single choices on each topic that ends with being free or not. You cant split freedom. You are or you arent. So there can be no left or right when defining freedom. You either believe in freedom or you dont. There is no gray, no left no right.

The second issue is this and let me begin by saying i posted info leading to "stormcloudsgathering" on youtube and he also has a website. He published a few vids on crowd psycology. What does this have to do with right and left you ask? The whole concept of left and right is a tool to keep us the people devided on the issues so that we dont unite and take our contry back. To fully understand i suggest you watch the vid.
The t***h is there is no left and right anymore in washington. There is only one criminal organization that takes care of each other and plays left right games to keep us devided and believing they are representing our views. They arent. Its an act. Many many bills, laws plans and orders have passed in washington since obama took office. Every single bill and i challenge anyone to show me 1 that has not either stripped us of freedom, bankrupted us and weakened us both militarily and finacially. And guess what both sides passed these things. The left and the right v**ed for them. You are 2 parties cause thats how they want it but make no mistake they are one party in a united act to pretend they are trying to fix things but while they all fight over what is right to fix it so we think they are trying. They all are passing things without argument that weaken us.

Thank you beark and all the others not cloaked in a hammer and sickle. Sadly you cant fix stupid and you cant talk to someone like alabuck that ignores facts stated returns with things you never said and closes with insults (or what they believe are insults) to complete what was really no argument or retort at all.
Its really very sad and hard to keep in mind that the real issue with our countries blindness isnt for the most part stupidity. Its ignorance. It is the inability for all of these ppl to think like a criminal.
They hear about all these new bills and laws that remove our rights and freedoms and truly believe our government would never use them on us. Its all just for the criminals. Because they cant think like the gov they blindly believe they are doing what is best for us.

As for opinions like ppl have no need to own assault weapons... well that is stupidity. There are thousands of examples of ppl thinking you shouldnt have the right to do or own something. That is the very opposite of freedom. It is only a matter of time before someone else thinks they shouldnt have the right to own or do something themselves and when that happens they all (both sides) jump on a forum and start b***hing. But they cant see what they did to someone else is what they did to another. And because we as a nation have a mentality of we cant ever be wrong both sides will win at once and no one will be free. Oh wait.... thats where we are isnt it????

Bush was at least an American, Buch at least had balls, Bush sent help when he could, Bush showed more than passing, arrogant indignance...He acted like an American...He didn't leave the building...

You socialists, c*******ts, blame-America-firsters (summed up as DEMOCRATS), have nothing but diversion, deception, misdirection and intimidation to defend your pathetic positions. Blame...blame...blame. Blame the other guy, your primary weapon.

You all also love the mantra 'everybody does it, all presidents do it, they do it so we can do it'...Your guy is the one who stood in front of the American people for years and promised such behavior would end with him...he would change Washington. He promised the hope and change behavior. He was lying.

Bin Ladin is dead and General Motors is alive - sums up the entire reason for leaving Americans to die with no...that's no, zero, nada attempt to even appear concerned.

Obama can't be compared to any other U.S. president...he is by far the most corrupt, evil to ever sit in the big chair. 65% of Americans (that's real Americans) want answers. Why? Because he has established that he is not an American, does not have America's interests at heart and, and, and...is a confirmed liar. He has pissed everybody off and they smell blood.

I sincerely hope and pray that Democrats do as they threaten and not participate in this committee. That sends the loudest possible message 'don't trust Democrats - don't elect Democrats'.

The socialists, c*******ts, blame-America-firsters - Democrats, fear is thick and palpable. No level of outrage, deception or demeaning of real Americans will save your boy from the light of day.

Try that s**t on for size.