truth, now I just have to laugh at you. You can't see the truth that Obama is a far-left moonbat because you are so far left you couldn't even see the middle. How is Obama a leftist? How is he not. Do you have a Che T-shirt? Unbelievable how you think (don't think).

Obamascam will do us in.

GF-

Hope you catch a jewfish and reel it in and then release!

Just like O'bama: a flipper and flopper!

BTW= A Che is a new flavor of coffee in honor of the rescue of the Columbian hostages. Better than Juan Valdez!

Colin Kelly sees the sugar scam more clearly than any of the officials currently in office. Sugar was known as a crop ill-suited for the United States as far back as the early 1800s. Florida is the only state with a climate that is conducive for sugar growing -- but the only land available is environmentally sensitive and unique in the world.

Sugar subsidies have an ignominious history: in 1820, sugar growers sought help from politicians on the grounds that if their industry were allowed to fail, the value of slaves would plummet throughout the south. We taxpayers have been propping up this unsavory industry ever since -- with the small exception of the years between 1974 and 1982. In return for our grant of subsidies, protectionist tariffs, and import quotas, we are rewarded with the highest sugar prices in the world. Much of the candy industry has fled to Canada -- taking with it nearly as many jobs as now exist in the sugar business.

The sugar industry, in order to maintain its artificial life support all these years, has maintained a huge lobbying effort. But that too is running out of steam, as public opinion and court decisions finally pile up against Big Sugar. The most recent round of protective legislation in the Congress barely passed -- and only because high-pressure lobbyists successfully arm-twisted a few freshman House members.

That, along with recent adverse court decisions, just about spells the end of this unneeded and destructive industry. Left to its own devices, Big Sugar will breathe its last and fold -- perhaps even in a shorter time frame than that allowed by the $1.75B fleecing of taxpayers our governor is being praised for.

So we've paid through the nose for sugar products all these decades -- with our money used to line the pockets of the cigar-chompers of Big Sugar as they continued to ever more profoundly pollute the lake and the Everglades.

Now, we get to pay one more time -- almost 10 grand an acre -- to buy the land of an industry at death's door, land we could soon get for back taxes. And the polluters get another 6 years to continue fouling the environment!

Where's the outrage?

bsdetetector,
Haven't you seen the pattern here?? Charlie Crist isn't a wolf in sheep's clothing, he's a snake who'll shed his skin any time for political advantage. I, for one, am truly sorry I voted for him(her).

Re Colin Kelly, he says:

"In keeping with this American tradition of letting large corporations manufacture and sell at a profit their product to the naive public..."

Does he expect a private corporation to sell at a loss? Then he goes on to say:

"They want me and you to pay U.S. Sugar $1.75 billion....to clean up the mess they created."

Geez, I thought that payment is for the value of the land on which U.S. Sugar would otherwise be making a profit. Furthermore, if the State doesn't buy the land, other agriculture interests would. Kelly sounds sorta socialistic to me!

Having said the above, I've been very much opposed to the current outrageous sugar subsidies. Unless a crop/product is essential to national security, there ought not be any subsidies. We ought to be getting our sugar from the Dominican Republic and other low cost producers. But US jobs and property taxes are at stake and that's what drives the politics of sugar and most everything else.

In a secret transaction and removal mission from Iraq, it was revealed over 550 metric tons of yellowcake uranium was sold to the Canadian government for several tens of millions of dollars.

We can all rejoice knowing Saddam Hussein had such a huge stockpile of yellowcake, the seed material for higher-grade nuclear enrichment at his disposal and never intended to use it for anything but peaceful purposes?

How do I know this? Just ask the peacemakers. Saddam was never a threat...was he?

ReJoice,

I guess if Saddam had all that yellow cake Valerie Plame's husband must have been right that Saddam's efforts in Africa to acquire such yellowcake were non-existent. If he had sooo much, why go to Africa? Wilson was right than, the intelligence Bush/Cheney used was cooked. It is only logical to conclude that Bush and Cheney did in fact out a CIA agent in their rush to war. In their world it wasn't "darn the torpedoes" but "darn the truth."

TIME FOR CHANGE AND INDICTMENTS!!!!!!

#6 That is big news. I expect to see in on the Front Page tomorrow.

But that is assuming your original statement about the Canadian transaction is true. I'm sure you will be proud to back it up with something more than a Rush (oxycotin) Limbaugh show. LMAO. Your proof?

#6, Just ask the peace makers? That would be Bush jr--Cheney--Rummy--Rice-- and Wolfy?
Even those WMD's experts on this forum, fish, fein, vicki, etc. might not believe this crap.

Colin, Great Letter!
BS, Good post, maybe your best.
Question : Where does Cuba fit into this sugar scam?

I’m Voting Republican!

www.imvotingrepublican.com

the story about the yellow cake from Iraq to Canada is true.....it had been in a warehouse since before the 1991 war deteriorating in leakt barrels... a the job of removing and safely storing it in the proper containers was a joint USA/Canada effort taking two years as they were afraid of the convoys being attacked ..it took 37 flights to remove it to a US base in a remote island and then put on a freighter to Montreal....the yellowcake will be processed at the nuclear plant in kincardine Ontario and will be used for energy supply

AP Exclusive: US removes uranium from Iraq

Let us all rejoice there was never a threat.

Turns out the Iraqi yellow cake source was the good ol' USA. When Rumsfeld was playing Santa Claus and gave Saddam all of the chemical weapons (remember the famous handshake picture?)he used to murder the Kurds, Rummy tossed in the yellow cake to seal the deal. The neocons are firm believers in containing WMD's unless they are doing the dispensing. Interesting method of "peacemaking."

If your local police gave an individual a murder weapon, then proceeded to break into his house and kill him for possesing that same weapon, might that raise a few eyebrows?

This is just one more reason the world is questioning our leadership.

TIME FOR CHANGE!!!!!!!

billy, here's a link about the yellowcake.

http://www.suntimes.com/news/world/10...

Ms. Gressani there are already oil leases in the gulf of Mexico that no company is drilling yet because of the costs and risks involved. It's an over simplification of the realities of exploratory drilling to suggest that if drilling is approved somewhere it will happen.

The death of corn-based ethanol?

http://www.ecogeek.org/content/view/1...

"Some Christians will find it shocking - a challenge to the uniqueness of their theology - while others will be comforted by the idea of it being a traditional part of Judaism..."

http://iht.com/articles/2008/07/06/mi...

Ms. Gressani,
Can you please pass me some of that Kool-Aid?

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gonefishin....following is what the US papers ommited from the yellowcake story:

Toronto Star...July 6/08

"Tuwaitha and an adjacent research facility were well known for decades as being at the centre of Saddam's nuclear efforts. Israeli warplanes bombed a reactor project at the site in 1981. Later, UN inspectors documented and safeguarded the yellowcake, which had been stored in aging drums and containers since before the 1991 Gulf War."

why would they leave out the fact this yellowcake had been in storage since before the 1991 Gulf war??

it is an important part of the story

"Why should the East and West coasts get a complete pass on drilling?"

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/e...

GoneFishin is still tryin' to justify an unjust war Canuck. He just can't beleive the neocon leadership would have so blatantly lied about the reasons for the war.

President Bush's first instinct was to call it Operation Iraqi Liberation (O.I.L.).

Gonefishin still thinks it was about WMD and mushroom clouds over an American city. No, wait, they than changed it to regime change. Oh wait, no, next it was spreading democracy to the region. Oh wait, no, it was then about containing Iran. LOL.....

Gonefishin, can you say OIL?

What ever happened to Sept. 11 and getting those responsible? Didn't want to offend Bush's cousins in Saudi Arabia I guess. Too profitable of a partnership developed over generations between the Saudi Royal Family and the Texas Royal Family. Not a whole lot of limbs on this incestuous family tree.

But now, the times, they are a changin'.

boulder, you are so lost in yourself that you don't know shinola. You asked for the article, I gave it to you because you can't research for yourself or think for yourself.

All you have is a false opinion of a phony candidate.

gonefishin....the site you give in post #27 says amongst other things...that there has been no accidents of oil spills or loss of life....what do you make of this story filed by the International Herald Tribune, October 2007:

"MEXICO CITY: At least 10 oil workers were killed when a drilling platform hit an oil rig, spilling gas and oil into the Gulf of Mexico, the state-owned oil company said Wednesday. Some other workers were still missing.

Rescuers have pulled 58 oil workers from storm-tossed waters but have yet to control the oil leak, Mexico's oil monopoly Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, said in a news release.

Ten workers were killed and at least 18 other employees of the state oil company were still either floating at sea in life rafts or were unaccounted for, it said. The company said it had located a raft but "weather conditions in the area have made it impossible to reach the vessel."

just asking

Canuck, that seems to be about Mexico. The article also leaves out that there was a major leakage of US oil during Katrina & Rita.

I think the gist of the story, however, is why do we get a pass?

The yellow cake sale from Iraq to Canada must be true. I know a guy whose cousin has a friend who saw it on the internet.

Ms. Graselli - I love the way you imply that the energy crisis is the fault of the two Democratc presidents that held office a combined 12 years out of the past 40 years. Certainly wouldn't blame the present administration, which is headed by two oil men who are close, personal friends and business associates of the Saudi and Kuwait royal families. Now that we shut off the supply of oil in Iraq and drove the price up, think what fortunes the Saudis will make when we destroy Iran's oil production.

Justtersting

In opposing Drill now pay Less, Democrats claim that there are already thousands of leases already given out to the the oil companies but are not using for whatever reason

if so, why are Democrats afraid of giving out some more? Just curious.
Tom Macchia

Gonefishin....I believe the story talked about no oil spills or fatalities in the Gulf....although this story emanated out of Mexico city the accident happened in the Gulf allbeit with Mexico's national oil company

can you imagine the devastation to the economy of Florida if a similiar accident was to happen off the coast of Florida

perhaps the world is just a little smarter since the permission was given for drilling in the places mentioned in the story and that is why there is reluctance to drill in Florida and Alaska

#6/Rejoice,
I've seen the story. Just wondering what they've got cooking.

Ms Gressani,
So many strong opinions, so few facts!
How did you miss all the stories about Enron and the energy companies gouging California after they got the laws changed ...did you forget it happened immediately after Bush got in office and it took him months to intervene thus allowing gouging for his buddy Ken? I guess you did not hear the recordings of the energy traders gleefully laughing about "gouging Granny."
Try doing some research...fascinating stuff!

Headlines:
Hearings reveal Enron at center of California energy crisis

Watch "The Smartest Guys In The Room" on youtube.

Should be required viewing by all those casting a vote.

Bethany hit the nail on the head concerning deregulation.

Bush and the whole neocon philosophy exposed.