Libya

The bottom line in all of the comments is race. We can send our troops to liberate a predominately white country, but we refuse to help the African countries that have been begging for decades for help. Our elected officials continually play the race card in their dealings with Africa.

Facebook's third finger

Facebook gave the third finger to all of it's supporters with it's "private IPO."

Troops on the ground

Even with a black president, we cannot get around racist policy's when dealing with Africa. We will send African American troops to liberate predominantly white countries, but we refuse to commit any troops to liberate predominantly black countries.

TIPS ON PUMPING GAS

I don't know what you guys are paying for gasoline.... but here in California we are paying up to $3.75 to $4.10 per gallon. My line of work is in petroleum for about 31 years now, so here are some tricks to get more of your money's worth for every gallon:
Here at the Kinder Morgan Pipeline where I work in San Jose, CA we deliver about 4 million gallons in a 24-hour period thru the pipeline.. One day is diesel the next day is jet fuel, and gasoline, regular and premium grades. We have 34-storage tanks here with a total capacity of 16,800,000 gallons.
Only buy or fill up your car or truck in the early morning when the ground temperature is still cold. Remember that all service stations have their storage tanks buried below ground. The colder the ground the more dense the gasoline, when it gets warmer gasoline expands, so buying in the afternoon or in the evening....your gallon is not exactly a gallon. In the petroleum business, the specific gravity and the temperature of the gasoline, diesel and jet fuel, ethanol and other petroleum products plays an important role.
A 1-degree rise in temperature is a big deal for this business. But the service stations do not have temperature compensation at the pumps.
When you're filling up do not squeeze the trigger of the nozzle to a fast mode. If you look you will see that the trigger has three (3) stages: low, middle, and high. You should be pumping on low mode, thereby minimizing the vapors that are created while you are pumping. All hoses at the pump have a vapor return. If you are pumping on the fast rate, some of the liquid that goes to your tank becomes vapor. Those vapors are being sucked up and back into the underground storage tank so you're getting less worth for your money.
One of the most important tips is to fill up when your gas tank is HALF FULL. The reason for this is the more gas you have in your tank the less air occupying its empty space. Gasoline evaporates faster than you can imagine. Gasoline storage tanks have an internal floating roof. This roof serves as zero clearance between the gas and the atmosphere, so it minimizes the evaporation. Unlike service stations, here where I work, every truck that we load is temperature compensated so that every gallon is actually the exact amount.
Another reminder, if there is a gasoline truck pumping into the storage tanks when you stop to buy gas, DO NOT fill up; most likely the gasoline is being stirred up as the gas is being delivered, and you might pick up some of the dirt that normally settles on the bottom.
To have an impact, we need to reach literally millions of gas buyers. It's really simple to do.
I'm sending this note to about thirty people. If each of you send it to at least ten more (30 x 10 = 300)...and those 300 send it to at least ten more (300 x 10 = 3,000) and so on, by the time the message reaches the sixth generation of people, we will have reached over THREE MILLION consumers !!!!!!! If those three million get excited and pass this on to ten friends each, then 30 million people will have been contacted!
If It goes one level further, you guessed it..... THREE HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE!!!
Again, all you have to do is send this to 10 people. How long would it take?

Barbour defends comments on race

Tue Dec 21, 12:03 pm ET
Barbour defends comments on race, but is the damage done to his potential 2012 bid?
By Holly Bailey

To make matters worse, Politico's Ben Smith dug up a quote from a Barbour profile in the New York Times from 1982 in which Barbour warned an aide about making racist remarks with a questionable statement of his own. According to the Times, Barbour "warned that if the aide persisted in racist remarks, he would be reincarnated as a watermelon and placed at the mercy of blacks."

Anthropology Professor Terry Buffington

Gov Barber has supported legislation guaranteeing Mexican labor more pay than American workers doing the same job. He has also supported the denial of unemployment compensation to farm workers and has shown a propensity for vetoing any legislation that he thinks will help Afro-Americans even at the expense of the white majority.

Is Remorse a Legal Entity

Most people do not wear their feelings on their sleeves. The idea that some one most show remorse to be remorseful was conceived by idiots and should not be a consideration in any legal disposition..
Jordan Brown, was just 11 at the time of his alleged crime, to young to fully grasp the concept of remorse. Now add to that the elapsed time between the crime and the demand by the idiots that he show remorse. If he is in the minority and shows remorse, then how long should he show it and how should he show it. Is their a standard for judging remorse, if not why?

Wall Streeters want what Fannie's having

I posted this information a few months back. Bank of America brought Country Wide and is sitting on an enormous amount of property waiting for exactly what the author of this article is saying. Their is Billions of dollars in bundling loans and the big banks are trying to get a larger share at Fannie Mae's expense.

6.) Wall Streeters want what Fannie's having -- "Wells Fargo and some other large banks would like private companies, perhaps even themselves, to become the new housing finance giants helping to bundle individual mortgages into securities — that would be stamped with a government guarantee," reports the New York Times. Some big pigs have lined up at the federal trough: Wells Fargo, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse have all publicly met with Treasury officials in hopes of being able to do what private student loan companies no longer can. While the Treasury has remained quiet about its plans, former Treasury undersecretary and Rubin protege Michael S. Barr has called it a bad move. “I don’t think that private shareholder-owned entities should issue federal government guarantees,” Barr said. “I think that creates the same conflict we had in the past.” You know something's up when a Rubinite speaks out against giving special treatment to Wall Street.

Just The Facts

It would seem that the Japanese are reading my post. I attempted to forward a nearly identical plan to President Obama to include in the proposed Stimulus Program.

Japanese Companies to Build 100 Hydrogen Stations by 2015

A group of Japanese oil, gas and car companies have committed to put in place the infrastructure needed to run hydrogen fuel cell vehicles by 2015; fuel cell cars are intended for commercialisation by a number of automakers, including Toyota, Nissan and Honda within that timeframe.

JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corp, Idemitsu Kosan Co and Tokyo Gas Co. are working alongside the automakers in the scheme and intend to begin negotiations with regional governments to develop infrastructure in Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka and Fukuoka by 2015.

Source: Fuel Cell Today