“You don't lead a country this size with tiny things.”

Okay, that's the second time today you guys have mentioned that quote, which makes it the second time today I've had this mental picture of Newt and Mitt and Rick standing around comparing the sizes of their.....umm.... right, their delegate counts. Yep, that's what I was thinking.....

If these students stayed for the full hour it must have been for credit. How many dozed off by the time he went off on a riff about "loving life?" It's so nice to see that Newt loves animals and interacting with people when he has to. If the kids were looking out the window behind Newt, they could have seen Mitt climbing a tree with a yard stick.

JoAnne---maybe someone can come up with pictures of each of their.....thumbs. Isn't that supposed to correlate to .... delegate counts?

Too funny Feisty.

Perhaps after he is eliminated from the GOP field he'll change his name to MacGingrich or McGingrich?

If he wants a good future for America, Mr. Grinch has to stop ignoring the FACTS.

Under President Obama, our dependence on foreign oil is way less - we are now importing less than 50% foreign oil.

Mr. Grinch has to stop laughing and chuckling about biofuels, wind and solar and high tech. Time for him to acknowledge that they are the real future of America.

Let's stop subsidizing Big Oil $4Billion dollars every year, while being held hostage to gas prices at the pump - that they dicker around with predictably EVERY SINGLE YEAR without fail.

Mr. Grinch, stop misleading. Stop leading the GOP charge backwards.

Time for America to invest in a clean energy FUTURE.

Whoops ... I read 'Gingrich glows reflective' ... never mind. Next story please FR.

Gingrich grows reflective in speech to students

And the mirror shattered.

“You don't lead a country this size with tiny things.”

Oh lord, I'm squelching my inner-sinner and leaving that one alone.

Oky myboy, I don't understand your post.

With no disrespect to Romney who I support wholeheartedly, knowing he will be one of the great Presidents to ever hold office, I'm in a quandry.

As it becomes more and more apparent that Obama is heading for a crushing defeat by his own doing (evidenced by his utter and complete mismanagement of our domestic and foreign affairs), I'm tempted to switch my support to a Newt Gingrich/Sarah Palin ticket.

Just the prospect of having the moonbats watch Chris Matthews announce that Gingrich Palin win makes me giddy with joy. Imagine the Moonbat hysteria!

What a wonderful world it would be!

None the less - I stand with my man MITT!

Romney/Rubio or Martinez 2012

I'm in a quandry.

You finally woke up and realized something the rest of us have known for a very long time - oh, and Clueless is a more apt word.

[...I'm in a quandry...]

Uh oh...can't decide what "non-troversy" to pin all your hopes and dreams on today Raab?

Seems you've abandoned the Keystone XL pipeline "non-troversy" (after getting your ass handed to you) as well as the Fox "news" Obama/American flag "non-troversy"...

Hold the torch high, Raab...

54% of Americans think the President can do "a lot" to bring down gas prices.

Obama thinks Americans are STUPID. Now he is going to tap the strategic oil reserve because he's on the hot seat and getting blamed for higher gas prices (rightly so). Ed Henry asked the President a week or so ago about his statements indicating that he wanted higher gas prices. Obama replied in effect...who in this room thinks any President would want higher gas prices during an election year? The logical course follows that he WOULD NOT care if it was not an election year. Now we have this Rueters report below with election year mentioned.

Reuters) - Britain has decided to cooperate with the United States in a bilateral agreement to release strategic oil stocks, two British sources said, in an effort to prevent high fuel prices derailing economic growth in an election year

Stop playing politics Mr Obama. The strategic reserves are not intended for this purpose. We need an effective energy policy not one based on pie in the sky green energy that is decades away. Democrats can not be trusted. Right after the election the democrats will be back at it wanting to raise taxes on gas. Hell, the government makes more off gas thru taxes then the people producing it.

REPEAL THE JONES ACT STAND UP TO THE UNION AND HELP AVERAGE AMERICANS!

Obama often says, “Under my administration, America is producing more oil today than at any time in the last eight years.” That’s true: It’s also true that under Obama’s administration, Snooki from “Jersey Shore” got pregnant and Charlie Sheen lost his job. And he can take about as much credit for those developments too. --- Boston Herald Editorial

http://bostonherald.com/news/opinion/op_ed/view/20220315obama_energy_policy_a_real_loser

NOW THAT"S FUNNY!

Rob in ma-3189632 ... We need an effective energy policy not one based on pie in the sky green energy that is decades away.

I guess the DOD does not agree with you-

In February 2010, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency announced that the U.S. military was about to begin large-scale production oil from algal ponds into jet fuel. After extraction at a cost of $2 per gallon, the oil will be refined at less than $3 a gallon. A larger-scale refining operation, producing 50 million gallons a year, is expected to go into production in 2013, with the possibility of lower per gallon costs so that algae-based fuel would be competitive with fossil fuels. The projects, run by the companies SAIC and General Atomics, are expected to produce 1,000 gallons of oil per acre per year from algal ponds.

Those scientists and other folks at DARPA are amazing. I am continually astonished at what they come up with. Seriously.

Ok, ok, ok,

1,000 gallons per YEAR from an ACRE of swamp!

According to the US Defense Energy Support Center Fact Book 2004, in Fiscal Year 2004, the US military fuel consumption increased to 144 million barrels. This is about 40 million barrels more than the average peacetime military usage.

so it's 100 million BBls per year PEACETIME usage,

lets see, my antique education being what what it is, 55 gallons in a barrel, 1,000 gallons per year from 1 acre of swamp, 1,000 divided by 55 equals--- 18 barrels of oil per Year per acre, 100,000,000 bbls per year divided by 18 bbls per year per acre equals------ 5.56 million acres of swamp for '04's peacetime military consumption alone!

Not only is it impractical, it is a financial nightmare, how much will it cost to set up all the infrastructure to just start, and remember this is just for the military?

This is why corn ethanol as a fuel for cars is a losing proposition, for the same exact reason, it fails massively on the financial end without massive subsidies....

I hope this was a joke.

Egilman ... did someone say that the entire need could be taken care of ... and what strain of algae were they estimating on? We Canadians are quite bright ...

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/30/business/energy-environment/30iht-renalg.html?_r=1&src=busln

so, no this is not a joke ... what might be a joke is if the US continues to sit on its ass

Ideology,

I certainly hope that you understand I wasn't trying to insult anyone, I was expressing the known figures from what I knew, I'm readily able to admit when I am wrong.

If this company has generated a strain of Algae that produces in this fashion, they have solved the major blocking point of all the rest of the attempts to do this, quantity production in a viable strain.

Reading the post (currently 18 months old) it seems like they have, this IS the end of our dependence on hydrocarbons for energy, or, at least the end is in sight. A great day for the world. I just hope it isn't monopolized to make a bunch of other people wealthy beyond all common sense at our expense.

And YES if the US doesn't jump all over this we are absolute FOOLS!

The past three years have destroyed my dreams and hopes for the future. I have lost so much ground on so many fronts that I will never recover before retirement, and probably will never get to retire. So much for following the rules, being a decent human being, working hard, not going out of my way to harm anyone or anything, treating everyone the same regardless of where they came from, who they are, what they believe. And now, I can pretty safely say that my kids dreams are pretty well up in smoke before they even get out of the box to try. And that seems to be what this administration wants from everyone, that we be content with the status quo, that we feel guilty for wanting to work and achieve some of the nicer things in life (makes us greedy and selfish), that we are good little sheeple looking to the government to tell us how to live every single aspect of our life, and in exchange, we will get food stamps, and free health care until we can no longer produce tax income for them to spend at which point we will get "end of life counseling".......And yes, I fully believe that all this talk of green energy is merely a power play to remove those who currently profit by our energy needs via fossil fuels, and replace them with governmentally friendly green energy companies.

I am not even allowed to be proud of being an American anymore. According to my government, we are despicable beyond measure.....Used to be that we worried about other nations view of us, now we have to worry about how our own government views us. This is so unbelievably sad. Where there is no hope, where there is no incentive, there is not progress, no innovation, no improvement-all you have to do is look at third world nations to see that. Many of those nations have become as dependent upon the food and medical care packages from other nations as our own nation's welfare recipients and illegal aliens.....

Political Republicans seem to judge the masses by their own base's views and philosophy's. Their base is full of dim-witted self destructive folks. They are for the most part, God toting, gun clinching good folk who live in fear of their government and all kind of them colored folks and knows where a woman's place is. They prefer to be told what to do and what to think, not all them facts or truth crap. Besides, they really don't understand all that stuff anyway and ante got time for it. They're hard workers and damned proud. They don't want no hand-outs cuz they don't mind being poor and besides they get by OK. Just leave their medicaid, medicare, SS checks that they get from the good corperation fairies alone. And get that half breed out of the white-house cuz he's a Muslim from a Kenyanor some place. Jesus wan't no socialist, commie liberal, he was a good man who cared about folks.

That's all they know and that's all they want to know and nothing else matters.

Is there any wonder why their politicians do what they do? Maybe they really think they are doing the will of the people. Maybe they just don't get it either...ha ha ha ha

Newt may be learning new things every day--he is just not applying what he is learning. Somehow, I don't think the lesson is taking!

"We have met the enemy and he is us!" Pogo by Walt Kelly

A very simple solution to your problem Pike Lake, is to take your 3rd grade level blogging elsewhere.

WAAAAY too funny here, nomore!! This isn't a political blog - it's pure comedy!!

Yes Pike Lake, and the joke is on the GOP.

Just when you guys show up and then most often it gets hilarious.

Politics is not comedy? At times it is tragedy. Be a good fellow and learn to playact Pike ... this is but a stage.

And all of us just players upon that stage................

I work with the set designer.

@ Phine: Some of us get better reviews than others.

Ideology,

You work with a mighty powerful set designer, my friend!

Wayne,

You know, some critics love you and others don't. But, this critic likes you. :)

Thanks Phine, I like you too!

Looks like bob bought the lies and just could help bringing his nasty self over here to repeat them.

From all I have heard Derrick Bell was a good decent man, more than I can say about you.

Derrick Bell is coming to get you Bob ... what are you going to use against a dead man? Your gun won't work and you brain is too small to hit him with.

But what if he is a zombie? Out to eat Bob's brain? I will let the others answer that one. I just set them up, let the others hit it out of the park:)

Bob's in luck if the zombie is after brains.

Thanks, AF. I would have said it, but figured I would let someone else have the fun!

Thank Phine, great to have friends.

Will people stop telling me that Planned Parenthood is essential to my personal rights as a human being. If we wish to provide these services, then they can just as easily be provided through institutions that only offer preventative screenings. It is not essential to have the necessity of mammograms or pelvic exams coupled with centers that offer abortion or birth control products. Mammograms are to detect and treat cancer, not pregnancy. To say that I haven't rights because a private institution such as Planned Parenthood, does or does not exist is ridiculous. Planned parenthood has a tax exempt status as a private social service organization......should we then view their tax exempt status as being equal to a church? After all, they have a specific moral ideology regarding the definition of life and whose rights are more important (and that is their privelege).....You are quick to bash anybody who speaks in defense of the unborn child (Oooops!, I forgot that it isn't a child until it is convenient for you to acknowledge it as such), but you don't see that you enjoy the same freedom to say what you feel. It doesn't diminish women, nor take away their constitutional rights defined in law, to have a belief that differs from what appears to be the mainstream mentality that states children are ony children when they are actually wanted and planned for. It would be really interesting to know, among those who write here regularly, and try to scare women into agreeing with you by vague threats of loss of rights, how many of you were "planned" and "wanted" children. By your own definitions, many of you would not exist today if the churches, the community, or your family itself, held that children were living and sentient beings deserving of protection. Many of you are here to scream about the unfairness of the church, but your existence itself is predicated on the church telling people to respect life in all forms. I know of many people-thousands, who have signed petitions and pledges to eliminate Planned Parenthood clinics from their community. I have watched hundreds at time, gathering to express their freedom of speech in protest of an institution which they feel is a negative influence.....and yet the clinics still stand and the doors are still open. An opinion, in and of itself, cannot change law.

Political Republicans seem to judge the masses by their own base's views and philosophy's. Their base is full of dim-witted self destructive folks. They are for the most part, God toting, gun clinching good folk who live in fear of their government and all kind of them colored folks and knows where a woman's place is. They prefer to be told what to do and what to think, not all them facts or truth crap. Besides, they really don't understand all that stuff anyway and ante got time for it. They're hard workers and damned proud. They don't want no hand-outs cuz they don't mind being poor and besides they get by OK. Just leave their medicaid, medicare, SS checks that they get from the good corperation fairies alone. And get that half breed out of the white-house cuz he's a Muslim from a Kenyanor some place. Jesus wan't no socialist, commie liberal, he was a good man who cared about folks.

That's all they know and that's all they want to know and nothing else matters.

Is there any wonder why their politicians do what they do? Maybe they really think they are doing the will of the people. Maybe they just don't get it either...ha ha ha ha

So far the states have passed some 110 laws around the country limiting women's rights. What do you think all the vaginal probe stuff is about? The government mandating and making the woman pay for an unnecessary medical procedure and a 24 hour waiting period just to access her constitutional rights.

Then the blunt/rubio amendment was intented to keep women from contraception.

Republicans made it real clear with their support of rush that they too think women who speak out for her rights are nothing but sluts and whores.

The main problem republican have is that they think women are so stupid that they couldn't possibly know that the republicans plans are to make women into second class citizens. All hail the new republican taliban.

Don't forget the latest War on Women Law passing through the legislature in Arizona. It goes beyond the Blunt Amendment into brand new misogynistic territory that will make Santorm a happy camper.

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/03/14/arizona-employers-could-fire-...

You have waiting periods to purchase guns....that is a waiting period to exercise a constitutional right. I don't see any difference