THE CALM BEFORE THE STORM {Edited}

 

 

 

 

YES, HURRICANE SANDY IS BLASTING THE UNITED STATES.

LET’S HOPE THAT THIS DEADLY SUPER STORM IS NOT SUPERSEDED BY A MORE FATAL FRANKENSTORM ON NOVEMBER 6, 2012.

VOTE FOR BARACK OBAMA…

NOT MITT ROMNEY!

LET MR. SMIRKING ROMNEY LIVE IN ONE OF HIS MANY MANSIONS, OR GO RETIRE ON ONE OF HIS MONEY-SHELTERED ABODES.

 

Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney (right) stands with coal lobbyist Jim Talent, one of his senior advisers, during the Pledge of Allegiance before speaking at a luncheon in Council Bluffs, Iowa.

 

IT’S THE OIL STUPID!

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From "Mitt Romney's Dirty Dozen"

By Tim Dickinson

October 22, 2012 10:00 AM ET

Dozen http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/mitt-romneys-dirty-dozen-20121022

 

Not so long ago, Mitt Romney used to blast deadly coal-fired power plants and talk up emission caps to curb the "dramatic warming of our planet." But as the GOP nominee for president, Romney has become dirty energy's biggest cheerleader. As his running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan, slams federal investment in wind and solar energy as "green pork," Romney is loudly championing Big Oil, Big Coal, fracking and the disastrous Keystone XL pipeline that will bring climate-killing Canadian crude to the global export market.

What accounts for Mitt's extreme energy makeover? Millions of dollars in campaign spending from fossil-fuel titans and advice from the drill-baby-drill crowd might have something to do with it. Here's a look at Romney's Dirty Dozen – the lobbyists, CEOs and advisers who are driving his radical dirty-energy agenda.

Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/mitt-romneys-dirty-dozen-20121022#ixzz2Ak9vtp31