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| Dave Marlett, Editor | theconservative@usa.net | Number 40 |
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| Dave Marlett, Editor | theconservative@usa.net | Number 40 |
http://www.wilderness-cry.net/tcn | ||
Crude oil prices did drop, two weeks ago, when President Clinton released 30 million barrels of crude from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Now, though, the Energy Department admits that only a third of the extra home heating oil refined from government crude may reach U.S. customers.
The lion's share could wind up in Europe, where oil fetches a higher price.
"If you think of the oil market as a global market, what you're seeing happen is 30 million extra being put on the global market. Some of it sticks in the United States. Some of it displaces oil to some other portion of the world," says Mark Mazur of the Energy Information Administration.
Critics are outraged - at the oil companies' greed and the Clinton Administration's failure to anticipate or stop it.
Because of a June fire at a critical export refinery in Kuwait, Europe's home heating oil supplies are even tighter than here. Still, inventories in New England are 65 percent below normal, and weather forecasters are predicting a far more severe winter than last year.
The translation: despite more crude in the pipeline, consumers will be paying 25 percent more than last winter for heating oil, and 44 percent more for natural gas.
By dipping into the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, President Clinton hoped to lower Americans' fuel bills and help Al Gore win the White House. If any of the oil winds up in Europe, though, the strategy may come back to haunt him.
Dov Hikind, a Democratic state assemblyman representing Brooklyn, N.Y., is outraged over remarks that VP candidate Joe Lieberman made during a recent appearance on the Don Imus show.
Lieberman, an Orthodox Jew, was asked by Imus if traditional Judaism bans "interracial or interreligious marriage or dating or that sort of thing." Lieberman's response to Imus was categoric: "No, there is no ban whatsoever. Certainly not on interracial. And not on interreligious."
Hikind, writing in today's editions of the New York Post, calls Lieberman's answer a deliberate "lie."
He adds: "In trying so hard to appeal to everyone, Joe resorted to patent dishonesty."
Hikind, who is considered the most influential political figure representing Brooklyn's Orthodox community, said Lieberman's claims were "shocking. ... Judaism is open to everyone, but intermarriage is clearly not allowed."
Hikind also took Lieberman to task for agreeing to meet Louis Farrakhan, who once referred to Judaism as a "gutter religion."
Lost in all the commentary on last week's FDA approval of the abortion pill RU-486 is an inconvenient and extraordinarily chilling detail about the company that invented the drug, Rousell-Uclaf.
Rousell, based in France, developed RU-486 in the 1980s, and after extensive testing the French government approved it for use in 1988. But Rousell's West German parent company, Hoechst AG, did not.
Hoechst had two problems with the idea of making easy abortions available to a mass market. Not only was abortion illegal in largely Catholic pre-unification West Germany, but RU-486 was sure to conjure up memories of the darkest chapter in German history - the Holocaust.
The chiefs at Hoechst AG, now one of the largest chemical companies in the world with over 145,000 employees, did not want their overseas customers to be reminded - or perhaps learn for the first time - about Hoescht's direct link to the Nazi death camps of World War II.
Hoechst itself was born of the Nuremberg War Tribunal, which disbanded its precursor, the Nazi chemical giant IG Farben. The tribunal convicted twelve Farben executives of war atrocities, including "crimes against humanity, murder, extermination and enslavement."
Hoechst, Bayer and BASF became Farben's direct postwar corporate descendants. Farbenworks factories at Hoechst, Degesch and Leverkusen worked overtime producing toxic gases for the Third Reich, including the deadly agent Zyklon B - the very poison that was used to exterminate millions in Hitler's gas chambers.
The Buna Rubber facility at Auschwitz was also part of Farbenworks' Nazi operations, which even included a special corporate concentration camp at the site known as Monowitz. But Monowitz was just one of several slave labor camps operated by Hoechst's corporate ancestor throughout the Nazi empire before Hitler's defeat in 1945.
No wonder today's pro-abortion journalists don't want to remind their readers about the connection between America's new abortion pill and the deadly history of the company that invented it.
1. "This is a 90-minute debate, Mr. Vice President. I hope you didn't drink too much iced tea."
2. "Albert, you have had eight years to fix all the things you say are wrong with our nation. You haven't. Additionally, the moral deficit Joe Lieberman used to talk about has flourished under you and the man you call 'one of our greatest presidents.' Please explain...."
3. "Albert, please show me where in the Constitution it says (fill in the blank)." Repeat often! (Variants on this theme: "Albert, do you plan to enforce the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution?" "When you read the phrase, 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' how does that affect prayer at a high school football game?" "When you read the phrase, '[T]he right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed,' where does it say 'except for the 30,000 gun laws now on the books'?" At some point in the debate, walk over to Gore and ask him to sign a pledge to uphold the United States Constitution -- to its letter.)
4. "Albert, you claim that tax cuts exploded the deficit. But most Americans know that government deficits are the result of spending, not taxing. That is the same 'algorithmetic' that created all those deficits when you were a member of the Democrat controlled Congress. Do you balance your own checkbook?"
5. "Speaking of tax cuts, please identify the 'right people' watching tonight so everybody else can turn their TV off."
6. "Now that we have a projected $2 trillion budget surplus over the next decade, you want to spend all $4 trillion of it. You're spending money that American workers haven't even earned yet! You can invent the Internet, but can't find a cure for the common tax!"
7. "Earlier in your political career you stated that you believed that abortion was 'arguably the taking of a human life.' What new information have you come across that was significant enough to alter that belief?"
8. "Why do you think it is that the media cares so much about the word 'RAT' appearing in a broken advertisement frame, but seems to overlook your acceptance of $800,000 from a lawyer to veto tort reform?"
9. "What provisions would your proposed campaign finance reforms include to ensure that foreign entities -- say Red China -- will not be able to unduly influence the U.S. electoral process?"
10. At the JFK Library debate: "Al, you have promised everything to everybody and have spent all the surplus and more.... JFK said 'ask not what your country can do for you' but your theme is 'ask what your country can do for you'."
11. "It seems like one rule for you, Albert, another rule for working families. Your kids go to private school, middle class kids have to go to public school; you can manage the investment of part of your government pension, working families can't manage the investment of part of their Social Security; you have armed guards to protect you, regular folks can't carry a gun...... Albert, if it's good enough for you and your family, why don't you want it for those good people listening to us tonight? Or, are they just not 'the right people'?"
12. "Who are 'the rich' you keep talking about? The median household income is about $40,000, and the median two-earner household now brings in about $55,000. All taxpayers benefit equally from the tax breaks I am proposing. While you claim to 'fight for the people, not the powerful,' I propose to let working families keep their hard-earned money so they will be the powerful."
13. "Albert, government will never -- ever -- solve a problem that will put itself out of business."
14. "Interesting you bring up Big Oil and the price of fuel. Have you read your book 'Earth in the Balance'? Long before gas hit $2.00 / gallon, you proposed a $.50/gallon tax increase on fuel to force the development of alternate energy and force the use of mass transportation."
15. "Albert, you said you'd give Hollywood a set time then get tough, but if you are genuinely appalled by Hollywood's cynical attempt to target our children to sell violent, depraved entertainment, do you support a class action lawsuit against Hollywood, the way you supported such a suit against 'big tobacco' or gun manufacturers?"
16. "Do you really expect Americans to believe that you will 'clean up Hollywood' when the purveyors of entertainment smut are among your most loyal supporters and have you groveling at their feet for table scraps?"
17. "Folks, are you sure you want the central government bureaucracy to be your HMO? And are you sure you want this man (pointing at Albert) to be in charge of your HMO? Are you sure about that?"
18. "You identify yourself as a Christian. In what the media call a 'certain late-term abortion procedure,' the baby is partly delivered, the doctor pierces the back of the child's skull and evacuates the baby's brain, and then the dead child is 'fully delivered.' If Jesus was presented with a bill to stop partial birth abortion, What Would Jesus Do?"
19. "Albert, some very fine Eagle Scouts, serving as the Honor Guard, were booed by your delegates during the Democratic National Convention. Was that an appropriate way to treat Boy Scouts in America? And will you now apologize to those Scouts on behalf of the Democrat Party?"
20. "Albert, I resent your calling me anti-choice; I am for choice in education, and you're not. I am for choice in health care, I am for choice in how to fund retirement, I am for choice in how Americans can spend more of their hard-earned money. Albert is pro-choice only when the choice is his!"
2. "What makes your kids more deserving of a first rate education at an elite private school than the kids of 'working families'?"
3. Every time Albert proposes a new solution for some "problem," ask, "Where have you been for the last eight years?"
4. "Albert, Bill Bradley asked, 'If we can't trust you to tell the truth as a candidate, how can we trust you as president?' I didn't hear your answer...."
5. "Please explain just what 'no controlling legal authority' means...."
6. "With all the 'Big Rhetoric' about 'Big Oil,' 'Big HMOs,' and 'Big Business,' you have said surprisingly little about 'Big Government' and 'Big Brother' -- Big Albert!"
7. "Albert, you are a risky scheme! What wouldn't you do or promise to get elected?"
8. "You spend a lot of time campaigning on 'women's issues;' did Juanita Broaddrick tell the truth?"
9. "Why does money in the American workers' pocket constitute a greater risk than when their money is in the government's pocket?"
10. (After Gore cites some out-in-left-field statistics): "Al, did you just invent that number?"
11. "Speaking of 'working families,' would you veto a measure to end the unfair marriage tax penalty?"
12. "Speaking of prescription drugs, how is your mother-in-law's dog?"
13. "America doesn't want to swap its core values for Gore values!"
14. "Why don't you think all Americans should be treated the same?"
15. "Does that depend on what the meaning of 'is' is?"
16. Answer one of Albert's quips in Spanish!
17. "Why do you expect Americans to have confidence in you as a president and commander-in-chief when you can't even fix the plumbing in your tenant slum?"
18. "Albert Gore's next book 'Credibility in the Balance'."
19. "How is it that a guy who only gives $353 dollars to charity as Vice President of the United States, is so generous with all the taxes paid by hard-working Americans?"
20. "Albert, you are a major-league Adam Clymer!"
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