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The president continues to promote technologies that are years or even decades away from becoming available in order to distract the American people from the devastating realities of today resulting from his failed energy policy.


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ALEXANDER POPE Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand.
ALEXANDER POPE Our rural ancestors with little blest, Patient of labour when the end was rest, Indulg'd the d...
ALEXANDER POPE In cold December fragrant chaplets blow, And heavy harvests nod beneath the snow.
ALEXANDER POPE The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.
ALEXANDER POPE Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.
ALEXANDER POPE Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; Bliss is the same in subject or in king.
ALEXANDER POPE To Kerke the narre, from God more farre.
ALEXANDER POPE Who builds a church to God, and not to Fame, Will never mark the marble with his Name.
ALEXANDER POPE