And you'll be here all week....*tries the veal*.

hahaha solicitation of a miner!

with Nevada's unique 'social' laws, I bet there are quite a few miners (hopefully no minors) being solicited, you know? There's a whole separate industry that's probably growing as much as mining is...

Minor error with that
Chuck yuk Chuck

The bars in Elko are still suffering, they don't allow miners - yuk, yuk, yuk...

Now if we could just get the state of Nevada to tax the ore the mines are taking out. Billions in revenue missed for the state.

Dahly

If you don't have any facts, just feel free to make ridiculous statements about the EPA. The gold mining has been in progress near Elko for more than thirty years and your Rush Limbaugh-type criticism only displays your bias and lack of knowledge.

Dahly: Do you know when the EPA was created? You, do, don't you? 1970. Richard M. Nixon. Do you know WHY it was created? Because up until 1970, factories / businesses could do whatever they wanted to with their toxic waste. Are you aware that an entire river in the Northeast caught FIRE, due to the waste placed in it? Are you aware that Chattanooga, TN., was one of the dirtiest cities in the entire country?

Now, tell me again about how the EPA destroys jobs?

I expect you rail against Free Trade Agreements with equal gusto, correct? I guarantee you more jobs have been lost to outsourcing to cheap foreign labor than were ever lost due to the EPA. For some reason - some odd reason - Free Trade just doesn't make the blood boil like the EPA, does it? There's a reason for that. It's because you aren't supposed to oppose Free Trade - it helps business. The EPA? It just cuts into profit. If you go after the EPA over jobs, perchance you should go after Free Trade as well, eh?

Here's another thought: Perhaps having clean drinking water and clean air is worth a few extra dollars of cost.

The EPA has destroyed more job's, it has been a Disaster for this country. Job's are still flying out of this country to China and the rest of the world. The EPA would rather see this country go down the tube's than let a few dozen fish in the middle of the desert go extinct. And because of the EPA almost everything that is made in the U.S has tripled in price. The EPA should be dismantled and the sooner the better for this country. Bunch of ==== tree hugger's.

The EPA has begun it's assault on gun ownership in the US, by proclaiming the lead in bullets might pollute the environment. I knew this day would come, they can't take your gun because the US Constitution protects the right to own them, but it does not specifically address the right to own ammunition.

The EPA started with the best of intentions, but like all bureaucracies it has taken a life of it's own and seen fit to regulate every facet of our lives. They have gone way beyond protecting the environment to trying to stop any industrial progress. They have turned into a fascist organization, with no oversight.

Valhalla:

If, like "all bureaucracies" .... "seen fit to regulate every facet of our lives..." then explain the following:

a) Wall Street Being Deregulated and imploding, without interference

b) Runaway Free Trade Outsourcing Deals

c) Implosion of companies like WorldCom, several banks, EnRon, all on their own (where was government "bureaucracy" then, prey tell?)

Hey Tarzan:

What country were you living in when Obama signed into law a Democratic Bill which expressly gave gun carriers the right to carry inside Federal Parks? Just wondering, since you seem to be living under some odd conception that someone from the "guv'ment" is going to snatch your gun.

And here I thought that Janet Reno had already snatched all our guns up. That's what they said in the 90's, isn't it? That Reno was going to come and take our guns away so the "librurls" could have a fascist government (implied is that gun owners could readily use their fire arms to stop a fascist government).

Of course fascists governments don't use things like tanks, aircraft, drones, R/C armored robots, flak jackets, body armour, machine guns, bradley fighting vehicles, etc.

Otherwise, said firearms might prove as useful as a blunderbuss against a fighter jet.

Chat later. I have to run to an Illuminati meeting. (in a secret city in Switzerland).

Ivan : Thanks for verbally bitch slapping these ridiculous rightie idiots ...

Hopefully it knocked some sense into their atrophying dumb heads.

Way to go ...

Hey, the blind albino dust mite has genetic code that produces a protein that will cure alzheimer's disease. And you just let the gold miners wipe it off the face of the planet.

This text message was sent to me moments ago, from one of my friends in my home state of Ohio:

"Yeah, and the Alzheimer's cure coming from the study of just a trio of dust mites that eat gold flakes, was discovered and invented right here on this readers' comments section, how about that? So Fossil, be careful, your discovery might motivate the Religious Right to protest the evolution of such an insect. They might join forces with the miners to eradicate this science-fiction microscopic miracle that came to Earth millions of years ago, courtesy the grey-skinned, big-eyed aliens that live on the Tenth Planet. So...SAVE THE THREE BLIND DUST MITES!"

IF YOU HAVEN'T BEEN TO JAIL, CHANCES ARE YOU'VE NEVER FOUGHT THE GOOD FIGHT AND SPOKEN OUT AGAINST THE AUTHORITIES' RAMPANT ABUSES OF THE LAST 30 YEARS. THOSE RIGHTS THE "WAR ON DRUGS" DIDN'T TAKE AWAY THE "WAR ON TERROR" WILL. EVEN AT THE LOCAL LEVEL.

EVERY TIME I'VE BEEN IN JAIL, IT RESULTED FROM SPEAKING OUT AGAINST THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES. NO MATTER WHAT THE CHARGE WAS. THE "POLICE" NEVER HAVE TO LOOK TOO FAR TO FIND SOMETHING THEY CAN CHARGE YOU WITH WHEN THERE'S A LAW AGAINST EVERYTHING YOU CAN DO OR POSSIBLY THINK OF DOING.

THEY GET MAD WHEN I CALL THEM COMMUNISTS THEN GO AND PROVE THERE'S NOT A DIME'S WORTH OF DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THEM AND THE COMMUNISTS.

I HAVE NOW BATTLED ELKO COUNTY, NEVADA FOR SEVEN YEARS. Because I tell the truth about how bottomlessly corrupt the sheriff (Jim Pitts - elkosheriff@elkocountynv.net - fax: 775-753-9845) and the Elko County commissioners (Jeff Williams - my millionaire mormon bishop cousin - rjeffwilliams1@hotmail.com - 775-738-2405) are. As well as the local gold mines Barrick (nevadajobs@barrick.com - fax: 775-748-1255) and Newmont (fax: 303-837-5837) who regularly BRIBE THESE OFFICIALS.

THESE CRIMINALS HAVE:

- PLACED ME ON A COUNTY-WIDE BLACKLIST TO STARVE ME OUT (I left a great job in Sacramento to live with my 85 year old mother, ELLEN BERRY, who wants to spend her last years in the house where she raised her kids). THIS BLACKLIST IS THE REASON I DECIDED TO GO ALL OUT - NOW THAT 100,000+ PEOPLE ARE VISITING DEANBERRYMINISTRIES.US - AND LET THE WORLD KNOW WHAT'S HAPPENING TO MY FAMILY IN ELKO COUNTY, NEVADA, SUPPOSEDLY PART OF A "FREE COUNTRY". ONLY THE RICH AND THE AUTHORITIES WHO WORK FOR THEM ARE FREE. JUST LIKE EVERY OTHER COUNTRY ON EARTH - INDIA, MEXICO, SUDAN, MALAYSIA, ETHIOPIA, RED CHINA, AND THE BULK OF LATIN AND SOUTH AMERICA.
- Had deputies TRY to harrass me on several occasions. One redhaired female sergeant (I think you know who I'm talking about) even implied that she'd get ahold of the Dept Of Aging to have Mom removed from our home. A "conservative" cop, mind you, somebody who's supposedly against the encroachment of Big Brother Government. ELKOANS ARE ALWAYS WHINING ABOUT THE CALIFORNICATION OF NEVADA BUT OUR "LAW ENFORCEMENT" AND "PUBLIC SAFETY" AGENCIES ARE BEING MODELED AFTER CALIFORNIA'S.
- Used a "witness" in their employ and a MEXICAN ALIEN to convict me of battery even though the evidence and testimony clearly indicated I was DEFENDING myself. You can read those transcripts here:
- Recently had me placed under surveillance because I made them aware that MORE THAN 100,000 PEOPLE A MONTH ARE VISITING DEAN BERRY MINISTRIES and they can read how evil and corrupt the REDNECK MORMONS WHO CONTROL ELKO COUNTY, NEVADA, are.
- Subsequently arrested me for DUI, WHICH I'D NEVER BEEN PICKED UP FOR IF DEPUTIES HADN'T BEEN STALKING ME. (And, quite tellingly, I haven't see those two deputies again. Because they were only in Wells for one reason, to follow me until the could get something on me.)
- Then, to top it all off, Friday Dec 7th (FOUR DAYS AFTER MY DUI ARREST), Monroe of the Nevada Highway Patrol cited me for failure to yield, whatever that means. S/he most likely would have let me off with a warning if two of the local CHICKEN@!$%#S-DISGUISED-AS-DEPUTIES (one of them was PANTLOAD THORNAL, a mulatto) hadn't pulled up and put a bug in Monroe's ear about me calling them out as communists. WHICH THEY PROVE EVERY TIME THEY PLACE ME UNDER SURVEILLANCE AND ARREST ME. DUH! THE DOLTISH REDNECKS ARE NOT QUITE GETTING THIS. Also, when Monroe found out my DUI court date was Jan 7, 2012, s/he made sure my court date for the failure to yield ticket was the very same day. THIS IS WHAT THE RUSSIAN COMMUNISTS DID TO THE DISSIDENTS, THEY FOLLOWED THEM AND ARRESTED THEM TO KEEP THEM IN AND OUT OF JAIL, AND TO BREAK THEM FINANCIALLY BY FINING THEM CONSTANTLY. AND, OF COURSE, IF YOU HAVE THE "DEFENDANT" ISOLATED, YOU CAN BEAT AND TORTURE HIM AS YOU PLEASE AND NOBODY'S THE WISER. THIS IS THE ULTIMATE REASON WHY THE COMMUNISTS WANTED TO TAKE THE DISSIDENTS INTO CUSTODY. AMERICAN COPS HAVE LEARNED WELL FROM THE COMMUNISTS. ADDITIONALLY, OFTENTIMES THESE PRISONERS "HUNG THEMSELVES".
- In addition, DEPUTY BOBBIE ADKINS (who works at the Elko County Jail - elkosheriff@elkocountynv.net - fax: 775-753-9845) IMPLIED THAT I WOULD BE BEAT UP when I serve my mandatory 48 hours for DUI (which is PRESUMED GUILT, one of the reasons our Forefathers went to war with the British). I told Adkins to return the earring s/he stole from me at the jail, to which s/he pursed her lips and replied like an 8-year old, "I don't have to."

On Dec 3rd I WASN'T DRUNK in the first place WHICH IS WHY I REFUSED TO DO TRICKS OR TAKE A BREATHALIZER TEST (suppose one of these chicken@!$%# deputies had kept the breathalizer from a previous arrest; that person's alcohol blood level would be attributed to me). I opted for the BLOOD TEST because a company in Reno analyzes the sample, MEANING THE RESULTS CAN'T BE ALTERED BY A DEPUTY OR COURT FLUNKY as the breathalizer results can be (of course their kind would do that; they've pulled every other dirty trick). This is why the deputy (Shelley) went ballistic and BEGAN SEARCHING MY CAR ILLEGALLY to find everything s/he could to rack me up. I WASN'T "COOPERATING" IN SCREWING MYSELF.

THESE ARE THE TACTICS NAZI AND COMMUNIST COUNTRIES USE TO INTIMIDATE PEOPLE WHO SPEAK OUT AGAINST THEM. It didn't work seven years ago, and it won't work now. I will always speak out against COMMUNISM AND EVIL. "Oh, America has a long way to go before we become communist", as an "officer" once told me. AMERICAN POLICE ARE DOING THE VERY SAME THINGS COMMUNIST COPS DID FOR 70 YEARS. THE VERY SAME THINGS.

If you go to DEAN BERRY MINISTRIES (), you'll read why Elko County wants me in prison. OVER 100,000 PEOPLE A MONTH ARE READING HOW CORRUPT THEY ARE.

I SENT AN EMAIL TO THAT EFFECT TO THE SHERIFF AND ELKO COUNTY OFFICIALS. THREE DAYS LATER Elko deputies stationed TEMPORARILY in Wells stalked me and arrested me for DUI. Coincidence? WHEN THE SOVIET DISSIDENTS spoke out against the communist authorities then found themselves in prison for it, WAS THAT COINCIDENCE? ALSO, THEY WERE TWO DEPUTIES I'D NEVER DEALT WITH BEFORE. So as to avoid the appearance of harassment, American commies have learned - through harassment lawsuits - to never use the same "officers" twice.

SOON THE "POLICE" WON'T HAVE TO MESS AROUND AT ALL, they'll just come to our houses and drag us away. Our communist politicians are already passing laws (The Detainee Security Act and HR 347) making it a felony to disagree with or criticize them (Tell me again what free speech is.). JUST LIKE THE SOVIET UNION. The Soviets used "slandering the state" to imprison SAKAROV AND SOLCHENYZIN, the dissidents who told the truth about how evil the USSR was. Exposure of this evil was one of the factors that lead to the breakup of that system. I WANT ELKO COUNTY'S SYSTEM BROKEN UP AS WELL.

DEAN BERRY MINISTRIES: "When a goverment outlaws 'terrorism', it's planning something for which 'terrorism' is the only recourse. Obviously."

Kurt,

The Keystone pipeline is a disaster waiting to happen. One major leak and we destroy the Ogalalla aquifer, which supplies water to most of our farmland in the Midwest. The jobs will temporary, for construction, and all the tar sands oil will be refined into diesel and shipped off to China and India. We will not benefit in oil supplies from that project.

Kurt

I'll give you a hint. The number of jobs estimated for the Keystone Pipeline are less than 10% of what the Republicans have claimed. In addition, the economic estimates are that the price of gas will be unaffected because the oil produced because of the pipeline will not feed the domestic market.

My underemployed home town had a gas pipeline go through it. Jobs galore for a year, people renting out their garages in this little desert town in a county that's a fourth of the size of Ireland, with a population of less than 10,000. The pipeline construction moved on, and it's back to poverty with pride for the town, and no hope for anything else.

Whatever profits that might be made from the Keystone Pipeline will go for the CEOs and their purchased mouthpieces. It's not going to lower the price of gas in Oregon, that's for sure.

Hint hint hint:

In the name of jobs & employment, you also oppose Free Trade Job Outsourcing to foreign countries, right?

Yeah that's a good idea, let Canada build a pipeline across OUR country so that they can ship their oil OUT of the country. Yeah, good idea.

4 hints: ask yourself why the Canadian government is refusing the Canadian First Nations permission to build a $6.6 billion refinery in Alberta (google recent news) to refine tar sands oil, despite the hundreds of permanent jobs it would provide locally. Why? Because it will be a lot harder to sell the resultant refined product overseas if it's refined in Alberta instead of Texas.

The people in Florida and California VOTED,,, NO MORE OFFSHORE DRILLING. so you want Obama to Ignore the PEOPLE ???

a d foster perhaps its a fact that people other than First Nations that would have to put up the money for any big project First Nations would do

meaning it wont be their money

if alberta were to add a surcharge tax to every barrel of oil going south the province could build the refinery with tax dollars and send this oil south [oh yeh tax it as well]

and incase you havent figured it out I live right next door to the sands

RIP

What is sure to never end is the ridiculous, unfair and intelligence-challenged statements of people like you. The mining operation near Elko has continued for more than a generation and has been stopped only by the low price of gold ..... never by the EPA. You appear to have a problem with any issue that is not black and white.

You try to sway opinion by presenting the side you oppose as ridiculous ...... you only succeed in presenting yourself that way.

Sry Don all I heard was bloo blap blee bloop and hint of support for the EPA.

I'll continue presenting myself however I see fit, as will you. Where it becomes a problem, is when you fail to realize each person has an opinion, and sometimes, one that is presented in comic fashion.

Also, your statements about Elko never being "shut down" by the EPA are valid, but a quick google search will tell you they've faced some serious struggles to remain "compliant" with all of the over-regulating they are facing from the EPA ( as well as the rest of our plants and mines that have been over-regulated. ) It wont let me post my link :( Check out elkodaily.com/mining and read.)

One of the many, many, objectives from the EPA, was to get Mercury levels lower during the mining of gold. Around this same time they began removing the regular incandescent lightbulbs from shelves and demanding the market go with CFLS ( WHICH CONTAIN MERCURY AND NOW ARE FILLING UP LAND FILLS - LOGICAL.. ). So you have to ask yourself, whats the agenda? I'm all for smart regulation but it has to be just that, smart. Not one sided and biased. If mercury is the problem, you don't introduce another source of it and create another problem to fix later. Or, you stay steadfast in your reasoning, and go after all areas that could cut down on Mercury emission.

The EPA is indirectly ( hell, maybe directly) creating problems that are going to need to be dealt with in the future.

How about the recent discovery of the link of insecticides and the declining bee population? EPA approved insecticide.

Oh and by the way, tyhere is a reason China is skyrocketing to number 1, its not the chevy volt, and its not the EPA regulations. ( China have an EPA? NOW THAT IS FUNNY)

Stop worshipping at the altar of your false god, Raygun, who lied and cheated all the way through his MOST CORRUPT ADMIN EVER.

Iran-Contra anyone?

Tomorrow's Headline:

"Massive Oil Deposits in Iraq, U.S. Invades Against Those Who Hate Us For Our Freedoms".

It never ends, does it?

......

Around this same time they began removing the regular incandescent lightbulbs from shelves and demanding the market go with CFLS ( WHICH CONTAIN MERCURY AND NOW ARE FILLING UP LAND FILLS - LOGICAL.. )

Who are "they" because it's not the EPA. It was a act by congress:

wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_Independence_and_Security_Act_of_2007

Eh.... EPA, liberals, democrats, terrorists, they're all the same, right? Stop being narrow minded!

The EPA works for the good of the country. The congressional democrats work for the good of their pocketbook and reelection chances. That goes for the republican ones, too, btw.

The EPA protects us from the toxins and filth that cynical and thoughtless business owners would simply dump on us.

Now If you want to talk about jobs, lets talk about FREE TRADE first. Both parties have been pushing this jobs disaster known as globalism on us ever since Reagan.

One thing's for sure...the squirrels know where the nuts are.

I think the libs are going to have my house condemned!I saw two homosexual rats getting it on in my rear garden and reported they! I think they are very rare and maybe about to go extinct!OH,Such horror!

China has an EPA but it is spelled GUNS!

Liberal lies never end. Reagan cleaned up the Carter disaster so well he won his second term with the largest landslide in history, carrying 49 states. No amount of leftist propaganda will change that. He was not responsible for a global market, progress was. We were importing from Japan in the 50's.

We have trade agreements with many countries but free trade agreements with only a handful. We don't need less free trade agreements, we need more. It is free trade agreements that assure we get a fair shake.

The EPA USED to protect us, now they are a destructive force. That joke about squirrels was funny but then again not. It doesn't matter if that mine operated for centuries, if the EPA wanted it closed there is no end of organizations willing to falsify some environmental damage to provide the excuse. The EPA has turned into a rogue bureaucracy with no oversight.

Chirnobyl - I would love to see your alternative suggestion to the free trade systems you're apparently against in todays global society. You do realize this is a different economy today as it has been in the past, right? Also, please stop shopping at Wal-Mart, Target if you dont like the cheap goods due to free trade. You realize our entire economy is 70% based upon consumer spending, right? I'd love to hear your suggestions?

Bob - All presidents lie. You would notice this if you paid any attention. It's whether or not they lie for a noble cause. I take it you're disappointed Jimmy Carter wasn't re-elected? He would of done a better job, you're right. The only thing Reagan did that is horrible was the War on Drugs.

Jonathon - Iraqs over - get a new line. Regarding the oil, China outbid and received significant portions of those leases and contracts for a lot of those contracts over there, we could of claimed them all in a totalitarian/thuggish manner, but we instead held auctions for bidding and included the local administrations in on the profit for "rebuilding the country". With Iraqs war being over now, it appears you're just a broken record liberal repeating your anti-war lines. Replace Iraq with Afghanistan and replace oil with heroin and you might have a valid statement.

Valhalla PhilC

Reagan had the good fortune to be President while the Democrats had the majority in Congress, which cooperated with him to solve the economic crisis" and when he "cleaned up the Carter disaster" he did so with the largest tax increase in United States history. President Obama, conversely, has had almost no cooperation at all from a Congress which admitted that it's primary goal was to make him a one-term President. His re-election will be evidence that they have failed miserably as a legislative body.

RIPReagan:

You realized before Reagan became great he was a TV spokesman selling soap (amongst other things, right?)?

As far as Iraq being over.. well, isn't that fascinating. Seems to be in the news a lot lately. Bombings here, explosions there. But you are right:

For 10's of thousands it is over.

They're dead.

Say, whatever happened to those WMD?

As for being a broken record: What's that mantra about smaller government / deregulation? How'd that work out? Who created homeland security? As for deficits (another broken record I grant you) - which Presidents seem to run up the highest?

What was Reagans?

Bush?

Clinton?

Bush?

I'm really curious what fantasy land you live in that can ignore 10's of thousands of deaths as "old news", continue its love affair of deregulation (results notwithstanding), believe that lower taxes lead to job creation (you know what the rate was in the 40's, 50's, 60's, etc.., right?)...

It must be a happy land.

They hate us for our freedoms, right? Of course they do. All those deaths and destruction have nothing to do with it.

Ever heard of South America & Henry Kissinger? What about Vietnam? Cambodia? Venuezela? Chile? General Pinochet? Korea?

Lots of blood there. But it's old news, eh?

They hate us for our freedoms, don't they?

There actually are squirrels you Fracking Dumbass! Desert Mule Squirrels. There are also Sage Grouse! Both have been virtually wiped out in the area by mining. Here's what I propose for you since the methods between now and the 1800's haven't changed much. Take a ride up to Virginia City, Nevada and surrounding areas and see how 150 years hasn't made much difference in the recovery of the land, water, or the native species from the time when Mark Twain was living there. Carson River is still polluted and you can still find Mercury Balls that measure 3 and 4 feet in diameter. The largest one on record found in the 1970's was 10 feet. That mercury was from the late 1800's.

Two towns/communities have already filed lawsuits against Hailliburton for destroying the towns watershed. Get educated, don't be a Fracking Idiot!

Theo - I just choked on my lunch. Thanks for the laugh.

I just laughed so hard I sprayed diarrhea all over my co-workers and shot cerbro-spinal fluid out of my ears and all over my screen!

Seriously, people need to stop saying, "I just sprayed x all over my keyboard!" or "I just choked on x!" every time someone posts something mildly amusing on the internet. We all know you really didn't.

Hello - I'm currently eating a Digornio TV dinner ( Supreme flavor ). I was reading that and I laughed while chewing my pizza, maybe the word "choke" wasnt appropriate, but it definitely altered my breathing.

Thanks for your analysis, your contributions to society are dually noted.

but it definitely altered my breathing.

That's called a "chuckle" or a "snort". A simple "lol" will suffice in the future. I mean, if you're going to lie and say you choked, why not follow my example and at least make your exaggeration a little more hyperbolic?

These above comments are obviously from guys about my age (60's) who still believe the lies that Reagan told them about the "welfare queens" which are fed by Rush, Glenn and the fact-challenged morons at Fox News. The welfare system has not been increased under the Obama administration and, in fact, was reformed during the Clinton years. The size of government has also not increased under Obama. Unfortunately, what has increased is the increased is the number of willfully ignorant, but thoroughly outspoken critics of the President.

Theo - if it makes it easier, just think of social programs as Corporate Subsidies & Tax Breaks for unincorporated businesses.

Feel better?

Unfortunately, what has increased is the increased is the number of willfully ignorant, but thoroughly outspoken critics of the President.

News flash...the POTUS ain't God, regardless of party, color, gender, or anything else.

@Wm Sanders "the POTUS ain't God,"

We know. We can actually SEE him.

"The welfare system has not been increased under the Obama administration"

Well, that's a lie. Obama is even bragging we have a record number of people on food stamps.

"The size of government has also not increased under Obama"

And that's another lie. Federal payrolls have increased by hundreds of thousands. Obamacare has spawned 109 new bureaucracies, Obama is borrowing a trillion a year more that Bush did, and government spending is up from 19% to 25%. By every measure government has increased under Obama.

Talk about willfully ignorant.

Seems the libbies are just looking out for number 1, themselves.

Obummer gets re-elected everyone better start buying can goods and ammo, we're going to need it.

This idiot is so racist it isn't funny, I think he forgot he had a white mother and was raised by her white parents. Yet he won't acknoldge them, just his African Daddy. Give me a break, as George Jefferson would have said, HE'S A ZEBRA. And no I never voted for this man, he's not fit to be the President of this great nation. He's trying to tear it down. ANd no I'm not a Repub or Dem. I've been Independent for 57 years.

All the 2 parties can do is bicker among each other, they're both part of the problem, not the solution. But if I had to pick between the 2 I would pick the Repubs. I don't believe in Govt. controlling our lives, the dems do. ANd to the libs that want to spout off, go lie by your dish, obummer dinner will be there for you at 5 pm.

Valhalla Phil

The President was not "bragging" about the number of people on food stamps, but perhaps you should think a little bit about the President whose policies led us into the deepest recession and highest unemployment since the Great Depression. President Bush has the primary responsibility for the number of people on food stamps and the eligibility standard for food stamps have not changed. Your allegation to the contrary is preposterous.

This President saved the auto industry and millions a jobs and would have saved millions more without the consistent and obnoxious opposition from the Republican party, the party who proclaimed that their number one priority was to defeat President Obama.

You allegations about federal employment are false. The number of federal employees is almost exactly the same now as when President Obama took office.

Valhalla stoopid

Taxes are the lowest in 50 years.

Federal payroll is the lowest in 45 years

Obamacare will start getting implemented in 2014. The 109 new bureaucracies must have been create inside your dumbass.

Bush increased national debt from 5.83 trillion to over 10 trillion. In Obama's 3 years it has gone up from over 10 trillion to just under 15 trillion - That's an increase of less than 5 trillion. And that includes the cost of Bush's 780 Billion TARP and Republican insisted 460 billion dollar continuation of tax cut for the super rich and Bush's two wars.

It's all being provided for by borrowing money. Total Federal tax revenue in 2008 was 17 % of the GDP.

5% each of that 17% gets used up by defence, SS and income guarantee schemes and medicare/medicaid/veterens care. The remaining two percent is used to pay back the interest on the debt.

That leaves 0 dollars and 0 cents for doing anything else such as homeland security.

So where is the money to fight those two wars coming from ? Your ass ? What is Obama supposed to do ?

Stop spouting nonsensical rightie trash radio talking points and grow a @!$%#ing brain you blistering barnacle !!!

To Theo:

My dearest conservative brother, I must confess I am greatly moved by your tirades against government "handouts".

I'm especially moved by your focus on Corporate Tax Breaks, Corporate Subsidies (such as in the Farm Bill which makes corn cheaper than sugar, ergo we have corn syrup yummy!), Tax Breaks for Job Outsourcing (so much for patriotism, eh?), Federal Grants for Research to Pharmaceutical companies (sayyy... they don't share the profits from such research, do they?).

You are spot on in pointing out the laughable attacks against social programs when ignoring the gluttony of corporate America feeding at the trough - to American Families Detriment.

I must also congratulate you on pointing out how this ludicrous incessant attack on social programs while championing tax cuts completely ignores the fact that during America's greatest economic expansion the tax rates were MUCH higher and tax breaks / cuts far fewer.

Hopefully others will read your brilliant posts and realize that attacking social programs while defending the wealthy's ability to concentrate more wealth than what has been experienced since 1929 is the height of ignorance.

Thank you Sir.

It's about time someone offered up facts instead of rote repetition of corporate sponsored propaganda BS (for example: That Obama represents anything more than a continuation of the status-quo).

MrIndia

Your moniker says it all. It was NAFTA that opened the flood gates of outsourcing and the loss of jobs in the US. NAFTA is a pretty good example of Reagan/Bush piss on the 99% economics. 'Free Trade' was a huge GOPer political pitch, only Ross Perot told the truth about, saying 20 million jobs would be lost in the first 10 years. He was absolutely correct and therefore, Bush&Co. stomped on him. Somebody that uses a moniker like Mr India is well aware of the damage that NAFTA has caused the 99% and the wealth that NAFTA has created for the 1%. NAFTA's HB-1 Visa program is just the Cherry on the top of the economic Sundae we have created for the 1% is a Perfect Storm of ALEC created legislation passed by ALEC's Paid Political Puppets.

NAFTA has reduced corporate taxes being paid into the US by 60%. NAFTA makes it possible for companies like Apple, GE, Ford, Lear, etc. to Off Shore Patents, create Off Shore Shell Corporations that own the patent, Pay Royalty payments to those Off Shore Shell Corporations and then EXPENSE those Royalties on their US Tax Return. Apple received a 700 MILLION dollar refund in 2010. That is more than what it cost Stevie to run his Cult in Cupertino. Where did that money come from? From the 99%'rs. The reality here is that we cannot AFFORD to support these 1%'rs. We cannot AFFORD billions yearly in Corporate Welfare provided by NAFTA, the IRS, the repeal of Glass-Steagall Financial Reform Act of 1936, US Tax Returns for corporations who outsource and off shore the majority of their business and call it an EXPENSE!

I have no doubt that Steve Jobs daily HELL is working a neverending FOXCONN job!

I don't believe your are that ignorant, I believe you are either a profiteer from this Depression and/or a troller, no I mean Trader for the 1%.

That would be the Spanish, who wanted to steal the gold.

They wanna get my... Gold On The Ceiling, I ain't blind, it's just a matter of time, before they steal it...

it's alright, ain't no guard in my house...

SingBiker:

You are wrong. The Spanish did not steal the Inca's gold. They invaded and slaughtered them because the Incas hated the Spanish for their freedoms.

They also worshiped pagan gods, an added bonus for those religiously minded Spaniards who weren't quite convinced about the whole "hate us for our freedoms" line.

No they just got tired of trying to speak spanish everytime they turned around!

Now I aint shes a gold digga

But she aint messin wiff no broke ......

ain't no what...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp94_Q24CKo

Most of the jobs that are being hired for are for in the Elko area and these mines are mining off of the Carlin Trend. In Elko there is a Walmart which is a super center which is open 24 hours seven days a week. There are like three to four grocery stores and a couple of smaller mom and pop grocery stores. The miners do work some long hours and I have known some that will work like three weekly shifts straight but then get like one solid week off. I know a number of miners that part of their shift was travel time also. Some of their monthly bonuses can be over $2000 if the mine meets their quota and safety goals which they usually meet and exceed.

Elko has been a boom and bust town for years when it comes to the mining. During Clinton's presidency I saw my job and a lot of others go down to South America because of his administrations environmental and job safety regulation threats. The jobs came back under Bush's presidency but even then there were environmentalists and government agencies that wanted heavier taxes on a thriving industry that is providing a lot of people jobs in and out of the state of Nevada.

I've been to Tonapah many times and had no problem finding eveything to shop in besides big box stores,where I don't shop anyways!

Like, just a few hundred thumbs up for that information as presented. Please sent me a few copies. That really makes more business sense. jsuliot@gmail.com

Need an editor/publisher?

Obviously you're not working 12 hours a day six or seven days a week!! What a horses behind you are!!

I wish mine was like 400 miles away.

We just got a super center here and it's great! I was surprised by the high quality of the food, and prices lower than Costco. We do most of our day to day stuff at Safeway but we stock up with fruit, veggies, meat, and other bulk items at Wal-Mart.

they are cheaper... til the competition is gone... then they are high...

Our Wal-Mart just got 'stocked' with about 15 HB-1 Visa holders from China. These 'special' people were brought over by Wal-Mart under this NAFTA program to stock shelves and do inventory. Wal-Mart couldn't find any Americans to do this work and NAFTA's HB-1 Visa program allows 1% Corporations to 'insource' from Asia and India.

Plain Bob is right, they just got busted in China for price manipulation. China does actually have some regulations in place to protect the consumer from price gouging monopolies like Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart has more assets in China then it does in the US but NAFTA allows them to file a US Tax Return and claim all of their Chinese slave labor as an EXPENSE so they can dip right into the 99%'rs tax trough and take a big bundle per their Tax Return. We can't afford to treat Wal-Mart as an American Corporation any longer. It's costing the 99% much more then it brings to the table.

The cost of producing gold depends on a lot of factors. Some of the costs that some hear about is what it costs for them just to extract the gold from the ore but there are other costs that don't get reported. These companies spend a huge amount of money in exploration before the land may or may not become a mine. Plus there are costs associated with reclaiming the land after the mine shuts down. When gold was around $400 and ounce there were mines considering shutting down as the the cost of production was right around $400 per ounce. Gold is up a lot more but so is the labor that they are paying their employees plus the fuel that they need to operate the heavy equipment. One of the mines in the Elko area is said to use around the same or more amount of electricity that the Strip of Las Vegas, NV uses.

It helps to move if you want a job--moving your fingers on the keyboard to apply for a job helps. The Coast Guard is hiring. USAjobs.gov is hiring.

Or, you might try being inventive and figure out what people in your community need. Home health care givers--especially for elderly men--get a lot of money and a lot of work. There's work for morticians. Go to your nearest technology center and ask what corporations have come around recently asking the tech center to train some people so that they can hire them. Then, get that training.

There are two basic choices--take the jobs that are available that you know how to do, or train for the jobs that are available but there are too few people qualified. Or, you could start a business delivering groceries and pharmacy supplies to the elderly, or scoop poop, or clean up houses after people have been murdered in them (great money in that last one).

Or, you can just vegetate in that chair, staring at the screen. Your option.

No one likes a wise A$$...

What makes you think I just "vegetate"? I did my time, and I'm looking. That said, that doesn't mean I'll work for slave wages. Would you work for $8.00 an hour, few benefits?

I don't like it when people get snarky. I may be unemployed, but that doesn't mean I'm a "vegetable". I think I speak for a lot of folks who take umbrage to that.

Food stamps have been around for a very long time. Bailouts were started 6 months before Obama was elected, let alone serving as president. Could have been better, most certainly could have been worse.

Capitalism ? You mean like Wall Street and the BANKS that went broke and had to rely on SOCIALISM to bail it out ? Or the Savings and Loan bail outs when they got ROBBED by the employees.. Neal Bush ring a bell ???Air Lines went broke and had to rely on Socialism to keep running.. and those stinking rail roads.. Corp Welfare Checks by the BILLIONS is OK ????? How about we do the Romney trick...next ti,e let the banks go bankrupt...And Wall street too. And the Air Lines..And the Rail roads. and The Pharmaceutical Corps. If they cant operate without TAX PAYERS DOLLARS TO BAIL THEM OUT.. Let em go broke. Hell we survived a GREAT Depression..We can do it again... Cant we ?????

TN, socialism to bail it out??? What are you talkign about? The money that was used was payed from taxpayers that made their money from capitalism. Socialism is what Obama and all you lazy azz liberals want but it doesnt work. There is not one social program that is successful... or not going bankrupt... in this country. So if that is what you all want I suggest moving. Because it is not going to happen here.

Wait, WTF?

In Nevada you can Drink, Gamble and Whore 24/7! But don't you smoke Marijuana! Then you're a criminal! LOL!

The double standards of Nevada, maybe that is why we do have the WORST public school system in the Country. Last 'Grade' was F-. A Cheney/Rove dumbed down population dream.

I'm commenting quite a bit on Nevada but our Media sources want your Name and your First Child to sign up and comment for any media site in Nevada. The Nevada Appeal (sic) is the worst and did not allow commenting while the legislature was in session....... Whose their Daddy? Gives me the creeps, DHS runs free in Nevada, unlike the Wild Horses.

deero and mooseo...two other fine names...than were passed over...for that place....

"We have just as much as China. The government just is not talking about it. Our government and presidient have became trrue communists."

Could you please clarify how any of these sentences relate to each other?

WTF are you talking about??? Its private land... so not owned by anyone but the company that has the land title. Seriously, you need to get a clue because that is one of the most ignorant posts I have seen. And with all the liberals on this site that is saying a lot.

These companies do pay a huge amount in taxes plus they also donate huge amounts of money to the local organizations like schools and such. Some of the land is owned by the federal government but they do have to pay fees and other taxes for the right to use the land. Some of the land the mines either buy it or they pay royalties to the owner of the property. I know a few landowners that themselves and their kids will not have to work a hard job for the rest of their lives just because of the royalty payments from these mines.

thom-661865 - Yep, that's Nevada! Any 1%'r corporation from anywhere in the world can come here and buy the MINERAL rights along with the land. Any 99%'r CANNOT! Look at a standard property contract, you don't and cannot own the mineral rights to your property. Even large tracts!

Water rights are going the way of Mineral Rights as well.

Fracking Idiot!

The Gold Rush in Elko has created more than 600 jobs in the region actually. Years ago when gold prices dropped a lot of people in the Elko area lost jobs in the mining plus it filtered right down to other lost jobs including school teachers and the people that take your order in the local McDonalds there. It also hurt jobs in other areas of the countries that provided supplies to the mines. I heard of people in Las Vegas, NV that lost their jobs because they were working in a distributor that supplied needed inventory to the mines in Elko. Also people lost their jobs in region even further away. Those 600 jobs at the local mines there in Elko is probably more like 1000 jobs created at the mine and the other places that provide employment to people. I don't know how many people have moved to Elko from Reno or Las Vegas and these people don't even have the skills to work at the mines, so they instead just sit and collect unemployment like they did before they moved.

Exactly! What is it with these people defending mining when it's here today and gone tomorrow. They can only be profiteers or Robber Barons.

Vegas was a boom town too buckaroos!