This is just a partial list of products made from Petroleum (>6000 items). Leftists and environmental extremists want to roll back modern life, conveniences, products and amenities that you and I use every day. They want to send us back into the dark ages, back into the cave.

Although the major use of petroleum is as a fuel, (gasoline, jet fuel, heating oil), and petroleum and natural gas are often used to generate electricity, there are many other uses. One 42-gallon barrel of oil creates 19.4 gallons of gasoline. The rest (over 50%) is used to make thousands of other products, staples of modern-day life.

All plastic is made from petroleum and plastic is used almost everywhere: in cars,houses, toys, computers and clothing. Asphalt used in road construction is a petroleum product as is the synthetic rubber in the tires. Paraffin wax comes from petroleum, as do fertilizer, pesticides, herbicides, detergents, phonograph records, photographic film, furniture, packaging materials, surfboards, paints, and artificial fibers used in clothing, upholstery, and carpet backing.

Over 6,000 products are made from petroleum –> Here is a partial list:

Adhesives
Ammonia
Anesthetics
Antifreeze
Antihistamines
Antiseptics
Artificial limbs
Artificial Turf
Aspirin
Awnings
Ball Bearing Grease
Balloons
Ballpoint Pens
Bandages
Basketballs
Beach umbrellas
Bicycle Tires
Boats
Cameras
Candles
Car Battery Cases
Car Enamel
Car sound insulation
Carpeting
Cassettes
Caulking
CD Player
CD’s
Clothes
Clotheslines
Cold cream
Combs
Cortisone
Crayons
Crayons
Credit cards
Curtains
Dashboards
Denture Adhesive
Dentures
Deodorant
Detergents
Dice
Dishes
Dishwashers
Dishwashing liquids
Disposable diapers
Dolls
Dresses
Drinking Cups
Dyes
Electric Blankets
Electrical Tape
Enamel
Epoxy Paint
Eyeglasses
False teeth
Fan Belts
Faucet Washers
Fertilizers
Fishing Boats
Fishing lures
Fishing Rods
Floor Wax
Folding Doors
Food Preservatives
Football Cleats
Football Helmets
Footballs
Garden hoses
Gasoline
Glue
Glycerin
Golf Balls
Guitar Strings
Hair Coloring
Hair Curlers
Hair curlers
Hand Lotion
Hearing aids
Heart valves
Heart Valves
House Paint
Ice buckets
Ice Chests
Ice Cube Trays
Ink
Insect Repellent
Insecticides
Life Jackets
Linings
Linoleum
Lipstick
Loudspeakers
LP records
Luggage
Milk jugs
Model Cars
Mops
Motorcycle Helmets
Movie film
Nail Polish
Nylon Rope
Oil Filters
Paint Brushes
Paint Rollers
Pajamas
Pantyhose
Parachutes
Percolators
Perfume
Permanent press clothes
Petroleum Jelly
Pillows
Plastic Wood
Plywood
Purses
Putty
Refrigerant
Refrigerator linings
Refrigerators
Roller Skates
Roofing
Roofing shingles
Rubber Cement
Rubbing Alcohol
Safety glass
Safety Glasses
Salad bowls
Shag Rugs
Shampoo
Shaving Cream
Shoe Polish
Shoes
Shower Curtains
Shower doors
Skis
Slacks
Soap
Soap dishes
Soft Contact lenses
Speakers
Sports Car Bodies
Sun Glasses
Surf Boards
Sweaters
Synthetic Rubber
Telephones
Telephones
Tennis Rackets
Tents
Tires
Toilet seats
Tool Boxes
Tool Racks
Toothbrushes
Toothpaste
Toys
Transparent Tape
Trash Bags
TV Cabinets
TV cabinets
Umbrellas
Unbreakable dishes
Upholstery
Vaporizers
VCR tapes
Vitamin Capsules
Wading pools
Water Pipes
Wheels
Wire insulation
Yarn

The lesson to be learned — we should not be influenced by Left wing idealogues who dismiss facts, science and history.  They are on an emotional jag, likely one that was brought on by rabid, leftist professors and teachers that were bent on brainwashing and indoctrinating our children for the last generation.

Best Ever Layoff Letter

Posted: 11/22/2020 in Economics

by Anonymous

Dear Employees

As the CEO of this organization, I have resigned myself to the fact that Joe Biden is our President and that our taxes and government fees will increase in a BIG way. Additionally, I can see that a lot of your jobs are going to be outsourced to China. To compensate for these increases, our prices will have to increase by about 10%.  But, since we cannot increase our prices right now due to the dismal state of the economy, we will have to lay off 60 of our employees instead.

This has really been bothering me since I believe we are family here and I didn’t know how to choose who would have to go.  So, this is what I did.  I walked through our parking lots and found 60 ‘Biden Harris’ bumper stickers on our employees’ cars and have decided these folks will be the ones to let go.  I can’t think of a more fair way to approach this problem. They voted for change……I gave it to them.  I will see the rest of you at the annual company picnic.

So why do Canadians Feel the Urge to Cheer for him?

Why are Canadians voicing their two cents on the US 2020 election? Is it hatred for a family member or friend who happens to live in the USA that supports Trump, or are they so bored with Trudeau’s shenanigans and socialist machinations — that they comment out of sheer boredom, or clearly find US politics to be far more interesting than their own singular ideological bent on full display to the North? Or are they so brainwashed by a government-run media that only permits worship of the bureaucracy and politicians above anyone else, that they accept as normal — high taxes, excessive regulation, government run rationed healthcare, and a media that denigrates any sort of critical independent thinking. Canada clearly doesn’t trust its own citizenry to think for themselves. Brainwashing and indoctrination are the main strategies the Canadian political system uses to control the masses and keep them in compliance with government acceptable norms.

Back in the U.S., Biden stole the election. Election night, it was clear that President Trump was leading in every battleground state by hundreds of thousands of votes, as in the case of Pennsylvania. Then suddenly vote counting stopped, ballots were snuck in after the mandated deadline, by the hundreds of thousands (whether legal or not), we had underage people voting, illegals voting, dead people voting and people who no longer live in the county voting. These are all illegal votes which are considered a Felony, punishable by fine and mandatory prison sentence. They must be adjudicated in a court of law. It’s the only way to salvage a jaded election process and expose the corruption engaged in by the Democrat Party.

So, those Canadians cheering for Biden must be okay with cheating, lying, and stealing elections and sanction such unscrupulous, unethical acts, i.e. the ends justify the means. No standards of decency apply. What world do they live in? It’s a shame those same vocal Northern neighbors are so eager to embrace a corrupt candidate, whose own family members engaged in pay-to-play schemes to enrich the Biden family. Being out of politics for 4 years with no apparent source of income, one has to question how Biden’s income tax return for 2016 showed an income of $396,456, then $16,596,979 in the years 2017-2019. Biden wrote no book, is no financial genius and held no job during the last three years. It’s no wonder that the likeliest source of income came from Hunter Biden’s business deals in Ukraine, Russia and China that we’ve read about in his emails.

But the mainstream media (left-leaning) was complicit in the corruption of Biden, the Deep State, Obama and Clinton. They defended them and their crimes at all costs. Instead, the media did a huge disservice by hiding facts, preventing stories (about Hunter Biden and the Biden family’s pay-to-play schemes) and pretending the corruption did not occur. For those of us who consume news and information from multiple sources to determine what’s news, we know that the leftist media, e.g. CNN, MSNBC, NY Times and Washington Post, did a great disservice by protecting the Biden’s foreign entanglements with Russia, Ukraine, China and other countries.

Hopefully, these matters will be sorted out in the courts, during discovery, when election day practices are examined under a microscope and revealed for all to see, if indeed, there was a fair and honest election. Only then, will the jaded left wing media, and our Canadian neighbors to the North have their eyes opened to the truth!

Obama: It Was You!

Posted: 07/23/2019 in Politics

Mike Gallagher, the 8th most recognized talk radio personality, in the U.S.A., is heard by over 2.25 million listeners weekly. He compiled and wrote the following essay entitled:


“Obama: It was You.” 
* It was you who spoke these words at an Islamic dinner – “I am one of you.” 
* It was you who on ABC News referenced – “My Muslim faith.” 
* It was you who gave $100 million in U.S. taxpayer funds to re-build foreign mosques. 
* It was you who wrote that in the event of a conflict- “I will stand with the Muslims.” 
* It was you who assured the Egyptian Foreign Minister that – “I am a Muslim.” 
* It was you who bowed in submission before the Saudi King. 
* It was you who sat for 20 years in a Liberation Theology Church condemning America and professing Marxism. 
* It was you who exempted Muslims from penalties under Obamacare that the rest of us have to pay. 
* It was you who purposefully omitted – “endowed by our Creator ” – from your recitation of The Declaration Of Independence. 
* It was you who mocked the Bible and Jesus Christ’s Sermon On The Mount while repeatedly referring to the ‘HOLY’ Qur’an. 
* It was you who traveled the Islamic world denigrating the United States Of America. 
* It was you who instantly threw the support of your administration behind the building of the Ground Zero Victory mosque overlooking the hallowed crater of the World Trade Center. 
* It was you who refused to attend the National Prayer Breakfast, but hastened to host an Islamic prayer breakfast at the White House 
* It was you who ordered Georgetown Univ. and Notre Dame to shroud all vestiges of Jesus Christ BEFORE you would agree to go there to speak, but in contrast, you have NEVER requested the mosques you have visited to adjust their decor. 
* It was you who appointed anti-Christian fanatics to your Czar Corps. 
* It was you who appointed rabid Islamist’s to Homeland Security. 
* It was you who said that NASA’s “foremost mission” was an outreach to Muslim communities. 
* It was you who as an Illinois Senator was the ONLY individual who would speak in favor of infanticide. 
* It was you who was the first President not to give a Christmas Greeting from the White House, and went so far as to hang photos of Chairman Mao on the White House tree. 
* It was you who curtailed the military tribunals of all Islamic terrorists. 
* It was you who refused to condemn the Ft. Hood killer as an Islamic terrorist. 
* It is you who has refused to speak-out concerning the horrific executions of women throughout the Muslim culture, but yet, have submitted Arizona to the UN for investigation of hypothetical human-rights abuses. 
* It was you who when queried in India refused to acknowledge the true extent of radical global Jihadists, and instead 
profusely praised Islam in a country that is 82% Hindu and the victim of numerous Islamic terrorists assaults. 
* It was you who funneled $900 Million in U.S. taxpayer dollars to Hamas. 
* It was you who ordered the United States Postal Service to honor the MUSLIM holiday with a new commemorative stamp. 
* It was you who directed our UK Embassy to conduct outreach to help “empower” the British Muslim community. 
* It was you who funded mandatory Arabic language and culture studies in Grammar schools across our country. 
* It is you who follows the Muslim custom of not wearing any form of jewelry during Ramadan. 
* It is you who departs for Hawaii over the Christmas season so as to avoid past criticism for NOT participating in seasonal White House religious events. 
* It was you who was uncharacteristically quick to join the chorus of the Muslim Brotherhood to depose Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak, formerly America’s strongest ally in North Africa; but, remain muted in your non-response to the Brotherhood led slaughter of Egyptian Christians. 
* It was you who appointed your chief adviser, Valerie Jarrett, an Iranian, who is a member of the Muslim Sisterhood, an off-shoot of the Muslim Brotherhood. 
* It was you who said this country is not a Christian nation.

PLEASE! Distribute far and wide.

In October 2008, I wrote: Communism is Coming – and Obama is Delivering It. I still think this is true today in 2012, maybe even more so.

Obama has plans to redistribute more wealth, this time, he plans to rape the suburbs of tax money and shift it back into the cities, thereby abolishing the suburbs as we know them today. Read more about Obama’s hostility towards the suburbs here.

With a persistent 8+% unemployment rate, Obama has already added millions to the welfare rolls, gutting all the reforms that President Clinton so proudly put into effect in 1996 together with the help of Speaker Newt Gingrich and the GOP house majority. Clearly, this president is taking us backwards. He wants more people on welfare. He calls that progress.

I am so ashamed of this president and the arrogance with which he is demanding dependence on government, that it’s the right thing to do. Really? He thinks that getting more people relying on government handouts is progress. That’s the most convoluted thinking I’ve ever come across.

November can’t come soon enough for me. This hateful man is running our country, ruining millions of lives, and destroying the very institutions that made it prosperous and great. He’s got to be stopped on November 6th.

I believe this election will be a referendum on the shrinking influence of the Mainstream Media.

Mainstream Media is losing ground with American TV audiences.  Instead of defending Americans against an over-bearing government intent on regulating and taxing every aspect of our lives, it has become the henchmen for the big-government agenda of the Left aka the Democratic Party.  For that reason, it’s losing viewers in historic proportions.

Already suffering their lowest ratings in decades, talking heads like Erin Burnett, Andrea Mitchell, Soledad O’Brien, Diane Sawyer, keep spewing their garbage to an ever-shrinking Leftist audience.  People are basically sick and tired of mainstream media kissing Obama’s ass and propping up his Communist Agenda.  The 4th estate was originally put in place to guard our freedoms against an overbearing government.  Today, the MSM, is their propaganda arm.

Today’s mainstream media are seen as anti-American screwballs who have been brainwashed by liberal professors into believing and projecting an increasingly Communist/Marxist worldview.  Is it because those in mainstream media are stupid?  Do they lack critical thinking skills? Or are they brainwashed by leftist ideology to the point of no return?  Do they really think that stealing from the rich to give to the poor actually solves any economic problems?  Is the LEFT really THAT STUPID?

The manner in which the LEFT reflects bias can be found in its current attempt to harass Mitt Romney about previous tax returns (which he’s not required to do) — yet will not question Obama or any of his associations about his college applications, grades or papers he’s written.  They don’t even want to ask Why is Obama spending millions on hiding all this information from the media and the public?  Why aren’t the media even curious about Obama’s background?

My theory  – the media has a political agenda, which happens to coincide with the big government, leftist view of the world – that government should run every aspect of our lives.  A few good journalists exist that haven’t drunk the Marxist Koolaid – John Stossel comes to mind.   He still believes in individual freedom, limited government, lower taxes and free markets.  Andrew Breitbart was another New Media pioneer who fought the hypocrisy of Left Media with every breath he took, until his dying day.  I also think this is how most Americans (and immigrants) feel.  And the recent explosion of conservative media outlets (breitbart.com, newsmax.com, dailycaller.com, newsmax.com, theblaze.com etc.) and bloggers like Michele Malkin, to name a few, is nothing more than a retaliatory phenomenon to the extreme left-wing view of the big networks.  At least now Americans can choose the media they wish to consume.  Unfortunately, media’s transformation from being impartial guardians of our freedoms to reflecting partisan political points of view on both sides is a direct result of liberal professorial tenure at our public colleges, which allows people who have never owned a business or engaged in commerce to pontificate on how the world should work.  An old saying comes to mind, “Those that can’t do, teach.”

It’s my contention that most Americans still believe in the Constitution, American Sovereignty, limited government and free markets.  For that reason, we are seeing more activism on the right, more mothers and grandmothers and small business owners getting active on social media, starting blogs, joining discussions, tea party groups etc. to network with other like-minded Americans.

If the mainstream media is a reflection of mainstream American – then we can kiss our liberties goodbye this election as Obama wins a 2nd term.  But, if mainstream media is NOT a reflection of the concerns of real Americans, then I believe Mitt Romney will be our next President winning easily.  I’m betting on the latter.

Digg Inc., once the media darling of the Leftist Huffington Post, was at one time, a social-media pioneer once valued at more than $160 million.  Today it is selling for the deeply discounted price of about $500,000 – basically worthless, and I’ll tell you why that is the case.

Like CNN, NPR, and AirAmerica, Digg is proving once again, that mainstream America, tech-savvy America, is not the leftist haven as HuffPo and other rabid leftist bloggers who flooded Digg with nasty posts, imagined it to be.

In a free market, the cream rises to the top, the best products are innovative and responsive to user demands (Apple), the success of some media over others clearly is a reflection of its audience and their preferences.  We now know, without a shadow of a doubt, that Conservative Talk Radio has grown, while Air America (the Left’s attempt at liberal radio programming) is struggling to stay on the air.  CNN’s skewed programming has left it but a shadow of it’s former self due to abandoning fair and balanced journalistic reporting for a Leftist point of view.  Viewers and listeners can discern when they’re hearing slanted reporting.  And I think Americans are basically intelligent enough to be distrustful of government bureaucrats and politicians.  So when media outlets defend, support, promote and even advocate for one candidate over another, it’s clear that viewers will walk away.

Americans don’t want to be force-fed a big-government agenda, especially not by the media (once heralded as the 4th Estate and protector from all evils of government). Instead, mainstream media, and their Social Media henchmen, like Digg, have become nothing more than a propaganda arm for Big Government advocates like President Obama and the Democrats.

Americans are distrustful of government by nature.  So even when a new phenom social media and news-sharing site like Digg shows up, people are attracted by its novelty & it’s potential as a source of news dissemination.  Instead, Digg became the propaganda arm of the LEFT (Democrats, Socialists, Obama etc.).  It was only a matter of time when it’s demise would be imminent, much like Air America and now CNN.

Lesson to be learned:   Sites purporting to be one thing (impartial disseminators of news), while in reality, became whores for the Left’s Socialist agenda (which is inherently anti-American), are doomed for the dustbin of history, and in this case, made Digg a worthless entity, and a real find for the bargain hunting investor.

 

We’ve seen what socialist (big government) policies have done to Europe – countries are going broke, wasteful spending on entitlement programs to ever-growing number of recipients (unions, universal healthcare, lavish pension plans and early retirement programs) are crippling economic growth leaving taxpayers with less discretionary money to spend and save for their own family’s needs and wants.  People are getting poorer, while business owners are creating fewer jobs due to lower demand for their products and services.

Call them Democrats, Socialists, Statists or Leftists.  Their ruling agenda is the same – take as much money away from private individuals who work, and from corporations, in order to give this money to people who don’t work – just to buy a few more votes so the statists and their bureaucrats can remain in power.

And the Left disguises this theft as social justice, fair share, compassion and caring.  In reality, it’s nothing but THEFT veiled in lies.

Cheap Tomatoes?  This should make every American think about the costs of illegal immigration, regardless of political affiliation — from a California school teacher:

“I am in charge of the English-as-a-2nd-language Department at a large southern California High School which is designated a Title 1 school, meaning that its students average lower socioeconomic and income levels

“Most of the schools you are hearing about, South Gate High, Bell Gardens , Huntington Park , etc., where these students are protesting, are also Title 1 schools.

“Title 1 schools are on the free breakfast and free lunch program. When I say free breakfast, I’m not talking a glass of milk and roll — but a full breakfast and cereal bar with fruits and juices that would make a Marriott proud. The waste of this food is monumental, with trays and trays of it being dumped in the trash uneaten.

“I estimate that well over 50% of these students are obese or at least moderately overweight. About 75% or more DO have cell phones. The school also provides day care centers for the unwed teenage pregnant girls (some as young as 13) so they can attend class without the inconvenience of having to arrange for babysitters or having family watch their kids.

“I was ordered to spend $700,000 on my department or risk losing funding for the upcoming year even though there was little need for anything; my budget was already substantial. I ended up buying new computers for the computer learning center, half of which, one month later, have been carved with graffiti by the appreciative students who obviously feel humbled and grateful to have a free education in America ..

“I have had to intervene several times for young and substitute teachers whose classes consist of many illegal immigrant students, here in the country less then 3 months, who raised so much hell with the female teachers, calling them “Putas”(whores) and throwing things, that the teachers were in tears.

“Free medical, free education, free food, free day care etc., etc, etc. Is it any wonder they feel entitled to not only be in this country but to demand rights, privileges and entitlements?

“To those who want to point out how much these illegal immigrants contribute to our society because they LIKE their gardener and housekeeper and they like to pay less for tomatoes: spend some time in the real world of illegal immigration and see the TRUE costs.

“Higher insurance, medical facilities closing, higher medical costs, more crime, lower standards of education in our schools, overcrowding, new diseases.  For me, I’ll pay more for tomatoes.

“Americans, We need to wake up.

“It does, however, have everything to do with culture:  It involves an American 3rd-world culture that does not value education, that accepts children getting pregnant and dropping out of school by 15 and that refuses to assimilate, and an American culture that has become so weak and worried about”political correctness” that we don’t have the will to do anything about it.

“If this makes your blood boil, as it did mine, forward this to everyone you know.

“CHEAP LABOR? Isn’t that what the whole immigration issue is about –Business doesn’t want to pay a decent wage.  Consumers don’t want expensive produce.

“Government will tell you Americans don’t want the jobs.  But the bottom line is cheap labor. The phrase “cheap labor” is a myth, a farce, and a lie. There is no such thing as “cheap labor.”

“Take, for example, an illegal alien with a wife and 5 children. He takes a job for $5.00 or 6.00/hour. At that wage, with six dependents, he pays no income tax, yet at the end of the year, if he files an Income Tax Return, he gets an “earned income credit” of up to $3,200 free.

“He qualifies for Section 8 housing and subsidized rent.  He qualifies for food stamps.  He qualifies for free (no deductible, no co-pay) health care.  His children get free breakfasts and lunches at school.  He requires bilingual teachers and books.  He qualifies for relief from high energy bills.

“If they are, or become, aged, blind or disabled, they qualify for SSI. If qualified for SSI they can qualify for Medicaid. All of this is at (our) taxpayer’s expense.

“He doesn’t worry about car insurance, life insurance, or homeowners insurance. Taxpayers provide Spanish language signs, bulletins and printed material. He and his family receive the equivalent of $20.00 to $30.00/hour in benefits.

“Working Americans are lucky to have $5.00 or $6..00/hour left after paying their bills and his.

“Cheap labor? YEAH RIGHT!”

THESE ARE THE QUESTIONS WE SHOULD BE ADDRESSING TO THE CONGRESSIONAL MEMBERS OF EITHER PARTY. AND WHEN THEY LIE TO US AND DON’T DO AS THEY SAY, WE SHOULD REPLACE THEM.

Please pass this on, on Facebook, Twitter, blogs, email and Pinterest. It’s important to working Americans, our economy and our American culture and heritage..

For those who are listening to the liberals propagating the fallacy that everything is “Bush’s Fault,” here’s the reality:   Jan. 3rd, 2007 was the day the Democrats took over the Senate and the Congress.  At the time:

The DOW Jones closed at 12,621.77
The GDP for the previous quarter was 3.5%
The Unemployment rate was 4.6%

George Bush’s Economic policies SET A RECORD of 52 STRAIGHT MONTHS of JOB GROWTH!

Jan. 3rd, 2007 was the day Barney Frank took over the House Financial Services Committee and Chris Dodd took over the Senate Banking Committee.

The economic meltdown that happened 15 months later was in what part of the economy? —  BANKING AND FINANCIAL SERVICES!

The FINANCIAL CRISIS began when Financial Institutions began dumping $5-6 TRILLION Dollars of toxic loans on the economy which were backed and approved of by Govt-run institutions –Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac!

President Bush asked Congress 17 TIMES to stop Fannie & Freddie – starting in 2001 sensing this was was financially risky for the US economy.  Barney Frank told Bush that Fannie & Freddie were in good shape and didn’t need reforming.

And who took the 3rd highest pay-off from Fannie Mae AND Freddie Mac?  OBAMA.  And who fought against reform of Fannie and Freddie?  OBAMA and the Democratic Congress.

In that 1st year, Democrats had to contend with George Bush, which caused them to compromise on spending and spending increases.  For 2009 though, Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid by-passed George Bush entirely, passing continuing resolutions to keep government running until Barack Obama could take office.  At that time, they passed a massive Omnibus spending bill to complete the 2009 budgets.  And where was Barack Obama during this time? He was a member of the very Congress that passed all of these massive spending bills, and which he signed as President to complete 2009.

If the Democrats inherited any deficit, it was the 2007 deficit, the last of the Republican budgets.  That deficit was the lowest in 5 years, and the 4th straight decline in deficit spending.  After that, Democrats in Congress took control of spending, and that includes Barack Obama, who voted for the budgets.

If Obama inherited anything, he inherited it from himself.  In a nutshell, what Obama is saying is “I inherited a deficit that I voted for and then I voted to expand that deficit 4-fold since Jan. 20, 2009.”

For details on the legislation and events that led up to and caused the 2008 financial fiasco, read economist Thomas Woods’ book:  Meltdown.

Aside  —  Posted: 07/02/2012 in Politics
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