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The facts |
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High gas prices are the result of
a lack of domestic drilling in places such as ANWR |
Drilling
the largest continuous oil formation ever discovered in the U.S. would
represent only a five to seven month supply of oil for the United States
at 2007 rates of consumption. |
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More: House Natural Resources Committee
Report: The
Truth About America’s Energy |
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Lawsuits
filed by environmental groups have prevented any new construction of
refineries since the 70's |
The
oil industry closed down 50% of its existing refineries starting in the
80's to boost profits. |
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China is drilling for oil
off of the coast of Florida (Examples: 1
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5) |
While
it's true that as many as 4.6 billion barrels of oil and 9.8 trillion
cubic feet of natural gas may lie off Cuba's coast, no country, including
China, is drilling for a drop of it. Florida
Sen. Mel Martinez – a Republican who served in Bush’s cabinet, even took
time on the Senate Floor to debunk the lie. |
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Obama
was endorsed by Hamas |
A
Hamas spokesperson made a general observation that Sen. Obama promises to
bring a foreign policy leadership marked by respect not
"arrogance." Also... Hamas
slammed Obama, saying he confirmed US "hostility" to Arabs and
Muslims. |
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Ethanol is responsible for the recent
spike in food prices. |
Critics
say biofuel responsible for 8.1% hike in grain costs, diverting attention
from oil's much larger impact |
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Bush's "abstinence only"
programs have been a success. |
Abstinence-only
programs have not cut teen pregnancies or sexually transmitted diseases
or delayed the age at which sex begins. |
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The
planet has been cooling since 1998
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This claim has been thoroughly
debunked every time it’s popped up. The oil-backed global warming
denier Dennis Avery
first made the claim — which hinges on the fact that 1998 was an
exceptionally warm year (but not the warmest ever) — in 2006. source: Think
Progress |
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Obama
Attended "anti- America" Sermon. |
The
truth is that Obama did not attend church on July 22. He was on his way to
campaign in Miami. |
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Barack Obama is a Muslim who was
schooled in a madrasa who won't put his hand over his heart for the
national anthem/pledge of allegiance who belongs to a radical black
church, has his presidential campaign funded by Hugo Chavez and is endorsed
by the KKK. |
Barack Obama is a Christian
who went to a secular school, has led the pledge
of allegiance in the Senate, belongs to a normal Christian
Church in Chicago and has never been funded
by the KKK or Hugo
Chavez |
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Waterboarding is not torture and has no
long term effects
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Waterboarding is considered to be torture
by a wide range of authorities, including legal experts, politicians, war
veterans, intelligence officials, military judges,
and human rights organizations. Some victims are still
traumatized years later'. One victim couldn't take showers, and panicked
when it rained. Water-boarding or mock drowning can result in immediate
and long-term health consequences. There is a real risk of death from
actually drowning or suffering a heart attack or damage to the lungs from
inhalation of water. Long term effects include panic attacks, depression
and PTSD. Source: Wikipedia |
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Bill Clinton
was quoted saying we must 'slow
down US economy' to stop global warming.
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It’s a moment taken out of context in
such a way as to change the meaning of the sentence. Consider what Clinton
actually said:
“And maybe America, and Europe, and
Japan, and Canada — the rich counties — would say, ‘OK, we just
have to slow down our economy and cut back our greenhouse gas emissions
’cause we have to save the planet for our grandchildren.’ We could
do that.
But if we did that, you know as well as I
do, China and India and Indonesia and Vietnam and Mexico and Brazil and
the Ukraine, and all the other countries will never agree to stay poor
to save the planet for our grandchildren. The only way we can do this is
if we get back in the world’s fight against global warming and prove
it is good economics that we will create more jobs to build a
sustainable economy that saves the planet for our children and
grandchildren. It is the only way it will work.”
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Iran is a major source for insurgents
and foreign fighters in Iraq.
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Around
60% of all foreign militants who entered Iraq to fight over the past year
came from Saudi Arabia and Libya, according to files seized by American
forces. The files also gave details of 68 Yemeni nationals, the
third-biggest source. There were 64 fighters from Algeria, 50 from
Morocco, 38 from Tunisia, 14 from Jordan, six from Turkey and two each
from Egypt and France. |
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More
than 40% of the foreign fighters who entered Iraq to join the insurgency
in the past year were citizens of Saudi Arabia |
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Nancy
Pelosi included
a provision in a water redevelopment bill that would
benefit property her husband owns in San Francisco.
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The
waterfront improvements were requested by the Port of San Francisco and
the four rental properties in question are at least a mile
away.Republicans, who raised the issue more than two weeks after the bill
passed the House, offered no evidence of benefit to Paul Pelosi's real
estate holdings.
"I don't have any facts to say anything untoward has been done
here," said Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, chairman of the Republican
Study Committee. |
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| Joe Wilson had said his wife was not a clandestine officer
when Bob Novak blew her identity.
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Wilson's comment was meant to reflect that
his wife lost her ability to be a covert agent because of the leak, not
that she had stopped working for the CIA beforehand. His wife's
"ability to do the job she's been doing for close to 20 years ceased
from the minute Novak's article appeared; she ceased being a clandestine
officer," he later said. |
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| The Bush administration scandal
involving the firing of U.S. prosecuting attorneys for political reasons
is a non-story because Bill Clinton also replaced US attorneys upon
assuming office.
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Clinton did fire all 93 US attorneys
upon assuming office. So did Bush 41 and Ronald Reagan. Previous U.S.
attorney selections were subject to Senate confirmation. Bush's are not
thanks to a loophole secretly inserted into the PATRIOT Act. Also,
previous presidents bumped all their old attorneys when they first
took office, not in the middle of their second term when the opposition
party was preparing investigations and serving subpoenas into evidence of
corruption as Bush had. |
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| YouTubed
video of Al Gore in
1992 arguing that the policies of Presidents Reagan and H.W. Bush had
actually strengthened Saddam Hussein shows that Gore “flip-flopped”
and was a “warmonger. |
Gore’s
point, in the context of the 1992 presidential campaign was clear — if
H.W. Bush wants credit for the 1991 Gulf War, he ought to also accept
responsibility for helping enable Saddam Hussein for the better part of a
decade. |
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| Al Gore is
part owner of/is invested in/benefits somehow from Occidental Petroleum
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Gore has never owned any Occidental Petroleum stock. His father worked for the company for several years and his parents used to own some stock. All of it was sold years ago. |
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| Former vice president Al Gore receives royalties from a
heavily polluting zinc mine on his property in Tennessee despite his environmental advocacy.
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He no longer does, as the mine was closed in 2003.
Additionally, State environmental officials say the mine has had a good environmental record and there is no evidence of unusual health problems in the area. |
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| Iran has
repeatedly rejected U.S. offers for discussion on stabilizing the region
and halting it's uranium enrichment program |
2003:
Cheney Rejected Iranian Offers To Help Stabilize Iraq. Iranian
concession package was close to what US is asking for now |
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Rove
Received and Ignored Iranian Peace Offer |
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| The ACLU has
proven to have an anti-Christian stance, particularly in matters
concerning schools |
ACLU's position on religion
in school |
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| Al Gore is hypocritical in his
stance on reducing carbon emissions due to his energy use and
travel.
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In
addition to purchasing carbon offsets, Gore’s family has taken numerous steps to reduce the carbon footprint of their private residence, including signing up for 100 percent green power through Green Power Switch, installing solar panels, and using compact fluorescent bulbs and other energy saving technology. |
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| Nancy Pelosi had demanded access to the military equivalent of a 757 to fly her back and forth between Washington, D.C., and her San Francisco home. |
Pelosi
offered to fly domestic and pay for any guests accompanying her, the military
plane was requested by the House Sergeant at arms, and the plane size was
dictated by the pentagon. |
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| Thomas Jefferson owned and/or utilized his Koran in order to understand his "enemy", i.e., the Barbary Pirates that were threatening American commerce between the 1780's and early 1800's. |
Jefferson bought his Koran on October 5, 1765 -- when he was a 22-year old law student at William & Mary College in Williamsburg, Virginia. Barbary Pirates were hardly an issue for Americans in 1765 |
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| Nancy Pelosi exempted a mega
corporation based in her home district and operating in Samoa from the new
minimum wage laws |
American
Samoa has ALREADY been exempt from those laws for some time, including for
12 years under a Republican majority. Currently wage floors in
American Samoa are set by the US Department of Labor. Nancy Pelosi has
nothing to do with that. |
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Pelosi
moves to close Samoa wage loophole. |
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| George W.
Bush called the Constitution "Just a god damned piece of paper". |
The
source of this story is unable to verify the statement claiming "...I
heard from two White House sources who claim they heard from others present in the meeting...".
This isn't acceptable by any journalistc standards |
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| Iranian President Ahmadinejad has repeatedly threatened to destroy Israel |
The most infamous quote, "Israel must be wiped off the map", is the most glaringly wrong. In his October 2005 speech, Mr. Ahmadinejad never used the word "map" or the term "wiped off". According to Farsi-language experts like Juan Cole and even right-wing services like
MEMRI, what he actually said was "this regime that is occupying Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time."
His message was, in essence, "This too shall pass." |
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| The New York Times disclosed
vital secrets in the War on Terror™ by publishing an article on the
gov't secretly monitoring financial transactions without a warrant. |
Not
only has the administration been bragging about their funds transfer
tracking system, they've been publicly giving our far more details than
the NYT |
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| Tax cuts generate revenue and
pay for themselves |
A host of studies, some of them written by economists who served in the Bush administration, have concluded that tax reductions
lose more revenue than they generate. |
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Virtually
every economics Ph.D. who has worked in the Bush Administration
acknowledges that the tax cuts of the past six years haven't paid for
themselves. |
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| The Bush administration had no
idea that a 9-11 type attack would occur. |
US aviation received 52
al-Qaeda warnings before 9/11 |
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Censorship of Aviation Warnings Leading up to 9/11 |
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A point-by-point analysis of
Condoleeza Rice's statements versus the truth |
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| Electronic voting machines are
secure and there is no evidence to suspect rigged elections |
Programmer Clint Curtis claims that four
years ago Rep. Tom Feeney (R-Florida) asked his then-employer to write
software to alter votes on electronic voting machines in Florida. |
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Evidence
of rigged elections in the United States |
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| Peak oil is just a myth |
Saudis
admit peak oil |
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| No one expected the levees to fail.
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2001 Houston Chronicle: FEMA
ranked the potential damage to New Orleans as among the three likeliest, most castastrophic disasters facing this country. |
| Mediamatters.org's full list
of examples of the well known potential for levee failure |
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| LA
Governor didn't take the steps necessary to request emergency and major
disaster declarations: |
Blanco pushed all the paper she was supposed to push, prior to the storm
hitting, to rouse FEMA into action. (.PDF) |
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Governor Blanco asks President to Declare an Emergency for the State of Louisiana due to Hurricane Katrina |
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| Social Security is going to
collapse and republicans will save it by privatizing it. |
A
memo written by an aide to Karl Rove, about how to sell Social Security privatization. The public, says Mr.
Wehner, must be convinced that "the current system is heading for an iceberg."..."For the first time in six
decades, the Social Security battle is one we can win." |
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President
Eisenhower called Texas oil millionaires "stupid" for wanting to
abolish social security |
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| Cheney has
severed his ties to Halliburton |
Cheney's
Halliburton Ties Remain |
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| Valerie Plame was not deep
undercover |
CIA SAYS WILSON WAS UNDERCOVER: “But within the
C.I.A., the exposure of Ms. Plame is now considered an even greater instance of treachery. Ms.
Plame, a specialist in nonconventional weapons who worked overseas, had ‘nonofficial cover,’ and was what in
C.I.A. parlance is called a Noc, the most difficult kind of false identity for the agency to create.” [New York Times, 10/5/03] |
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MSNBC
confirms that Plame was working on Iran nuke counter-proliferation when
she was outed. |
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| It was the
Democrats who stopped the vote count in 2000
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The man Bush tapped to fill Karl Rove’s spot as his policy
advisor is none other than Joel Kaplan, who took part in the infamous “Brooks Brothers riot” of 2000. That’s when a bunch of Washington GOP operatives, posing as outraged Floridians, waved fists, chanted “Stop the fraud!” and pounded windows in an effort to intimidate officials engaged in the Florida recount effort. |
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| John Bolton:
"I'm with the Bush-Cheney team, and I'm here to stop the count." |
| Bush gave plum jobs to supporters who worked recount |
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| Al Gore claimed to invent the
internet |
"During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system." |
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| Republicans are the party of
smaller government and fiscal responsibility |
ha ha ha ha ha Do I really need to
provide a link? |
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