Freedom-Fighters Forum

By Paul Galyean

In 2010, there were 149 operable U.S. refineries with a combined capacity of 17.6 million barrels (2,800,000) per day. Something odd started happening in late 2010-early 2011. The US oil refinery industry quietly announced the closure of numerous US oil refineries. Many are completely unaware the US ships oil overseas to be processed. We do so as we do not have enough refineries to process the vast amounts here, and we are barred from building anymore refineries. All refineries perform three basic steps: separation, conversion, and treatment. Pretty simple.

Several reasons include technical and economic factors as to why we ship it overseas to be processed.

1. The crude petroleum is sold to the highest bidder, NOT the nearest bidder.

2. There are different kinds of crude oil, such as sweet/light and dark/heavy. They have different applications and uses.

3. Different kinds of refining processes are needed to make different products from the crude oil. Petroleum is processed to make lots of products other than gasoline, like plastics and asphalt.

4. Politics, unions and the “environmentalists”.

How many of you are aware Sunoco, Conoco Phillips and The HESS Corp are all closing US oil refineries?

Not many, as the media refuses to give this HUGE story coverage. My guess is that if Americans understood (more…)

EPA is at it again with the Green Agenda!

http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/03/27/10886373-end-of-coal-power-plants-epa-proposes-new-rules

by Jim Harbison
Editorial in the Las Cruces Sun-News on Thursday, March 22, 2012

We are in a world of shifting political and social concepts and institutions. Hilary Clinton told us that it “takes a village” and we are all part of that village. The current conceptual term for this “village” is “Communitarianism”. Its generally accepted definition is that it is a political and social philosophy that emphasizes the rights of the “community common good” above those of the individual. Others would say it is the balancing of the rights of the individual against those of the community and “civil society”. I contend communitarianism subordinates the rights of the individual to the collective community. Communitarianism is also the current politically correct term for socialism. Many of its social programs are implemented through unelected “councils”.

There is a growing trend across America in all levels of government to turn control over to unelected councils, commissions or organizations. The road to socialism is littered (more…)

By Jim Harbison 2/23/12

President Obama in his State of the Union address, his daily press briefings and even an editorial in the Sun-News continues to attack American society and claim it is unfair and therefore it is necessary to impose constraints on individual freedoms in order to implement his concept of fairness.

Who defines “fairness”? The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines fairness as marked by impartiality and honesty: free from self-interest, prejudice, or favoritism. www.vocabulary.com defines fairness treating people without prejudice – non-discrimination. www.thefreedictionary.com defines fairness as: Having or exhibiting a disposition that is free of favoritism or bias; impartial: a fair mediator, b. Just to all parties; equitable: a compromise that is fair to both factions.

Where is the “fair mediator” that ensures this fairness? Who is deciding that it is fair to take stuff from one who earns it and give it someone who hasn’t? The dictionary definitions above would label that favoritism not fairness. George Orwell would appreciate the “doublespeak”.

Many Democrats and their Occupy Movement surrogates claim that the 99% are (more…)

By Dr. Thomas Sowell

“The current Occupy Wall Street movement is the best illustration to date of what President Barack Obama’s America looks like. It is an America where the lawless, unaccomplished, ignorant and incompetent rule. It is an America where those who have sacrificed nothing pillage and destroy the lives of those who have sacrificed greatly.

“It is an America where history is rewritten to honor dictators, murderers and thieves. It is an America where violence, racism, hatred, class warfare and murder are all promoted as acceptable means of overturning the American civil society.

“It is an America where humans have been degraded (more…)

William J. Dell
Amore Dei, Familiae, Patriae ducit !

Our Founding Fathers stated in the Preamble of our Constitution that one of its purposes was to “secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.” In 1937, Stephen Vincent Benét wrote a short story called The Devil and Daniel Webster. From it I have taken the following quote:

Yes, Dan’l Webster’s dead – or, at least, they buried him. But every time there’s a thunderstorm around Marshfield, they say you can hear his rolling voice in the hollows of the sky. And they say that if you go to his grave and speak loud and clear, “Dan’l –  Dan’l Webster!” the ground’ll begin to shiver and the trees begin to shake. And after awhile you’ll hear a deep voice saying, “Neighbor, neighbor, how stands the Union?” Then you better answer, “The Union stands as she stood – oak-bottomed and copper-sheathed, one and indivisible!” or he’s liable to rear right out of the ground.

Daniel Webster (January 18, 1782 – October 24, 1852) was a leading American Statesman, Senator and prominent conservative from Massachusetts during the period leading up to the Civil War. He served 29 years in the Congress and as Secretary of State for three presidents. How would We the People answer his supposed query from the grave today? How would we respond to, “Neighbor, neighbor, how stands the Union?” Could we truthfully answer, “The Union stands as she stood – oak-bottom and copper-sheathed, one and indivisible?!” I think not. (more…)

By Gus

NOTE: Accuracy of the following is NOT validated, but the food storage info is good for internal disasters also, particularly for those on fixed income.

Just my thought…the need for fresh water in our country could be coming quicker than we thought. Debris from Japan’s earthquake should be hitting the West Coast anytime in late 2013 and impacting the entire western coast from southern Alaska, Washington, Oregon and California (I heard it is the size of Texas and one commentator said it is 2x the size of Texas.). And with it comes all of the building and natural debris but also all of the radioactive waste as well. If it contaminates the beaches in those areas and breaks off…it could get into those fresh water sources. The other problems…if you like seafood…the fish from those areas could be contaminated too and unfit to eat. Tainted/spoiled fresh water, contaminated sea food, birds eating the contaminated sea food and depositing their feces along the shorelines and hundreds of miles inland from the ocean. Wildlife being affected as they eat the sea food and birds. Even though not expected to hit the US shoreline until sometime in late 2013 and impacting hard in 2014.

Just thought you might like to know. I know you are on a fixed income. When we first started we put $20 a month on canned/boxed food. Look at what you need for your diet and conform around that. We picked some that we could eat straight out of the can should we have the need. And some others if we have electricity. We have the following foods put back:

1. Canned meat (tuna, chicken, Spam, Treat, Prem, Chili) (We try what ever is on special every month) (more…)

In the line at the store, the cashier told the older woman that plastic bags weren’t good for the environment. The woman apologized to her and explained, “We didn’t have the green thing back in my day.”

That’s right, they didn’t have the green thing in her day. Back then, they returned their milk bottles, Coke bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, using the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycled. But they didn’t have the green thing back her day.

In her day, they walked up stairs, because they didn’t have (more…)