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Mmmmm. Mississippi Congressman compares oil slick
to chocolate milk

Mississippi Congressman Gene Taylor boarded a small airplane for a flight around the Gulf of Mexico and from an altitude of 1000 feet viewed the ominous oil slick that is threatening much of his district.

Mississippi Congressman Gene Taylor boarded a small airplane for a flight around the Gulf of Mexico and from an altitude of 1000 feet viewed the ominous oil slick that is threatening much of his district.

To the best of our knowledge, Taylor has no particular expertise in chemical engineering, fluid dynamics nor dairy farming. Yet that didn’t stop him from making some “interesting” comments upon touchdown.

The Sun Herald reports on the Democrat’s brilliance:

Taylor told a group of reporters waiting at Atlantic Aviation he was less concerned about the spill after witnessing its movement firsthand.

“This isn’t Katrina. It’s not Armageddon,” Taylor said. “A lot of people are scared and I don’t think they should be.”

He described the spill as a light, rainbow sheen with patches that look like chocolate milk.

Of course, we hope that the estimations of the esteemed Mr. Taylor are correct and that much of the worry is unfounded.

But if he has any doubt about how important it is to be prepared for the worst in the face of an impending disaster, perhaps he should consult with Ray Nagin. You know, that other southern politician with something really stupid to say about chocolate.

Source: SunHerald.com

You can count on the Obama administration starting on Day Twelve. But let’s pretend it’s Day One.

There’s a famous ad campaign for Rolling Stone Magazine that compared “reality” to “perception.” Remember that when you compare the perception and reality of the Obama administration’s reaction to the Gulf oil blow out.

There’s a famous ad campaign for Rolling Stone Magazine that compared “reality” to “perception.” Remember that when you compare the perception and reality of the Obama administration’s reaction to the Gulf oil blow out.

Here’s the New York Times (yes, believe it or not, the New York Times) damning the President and his cohorts:

gulf oil blowout
Day One. Day Two. Day Three. Day Four. Day Five. Day Six. Day Seven. Day Eight. Day Nine. Day Ten. Day Eleven. Day Twelve. Hi there, Mr. President.

…it takes the administration more than a week to really get moving.

The timetable is damning. The blowout occurred on April 20. In short order, fire broke out on the rig, taking 11 lives, the rig collapsed and oil began leaking at a rate of 40,000 gallons a day. BP tried but failed to plug the well. Even so, BP appears to have remained confident that it could handle the situation with private resources (as did the administration) until Wednesday night, when, at a hastily called news conference, the Coast Guard quintupled its estimate of the leak to 5,000 barrels, or more than 200,000 gallons a day.

Only then did the administration move into high gear.

That’s reality. But the perception the Obama administration would like you to have is somewhat different:

…that’s why the federal government has launched and coordinated an all-hands-on-deck, relentless response to this crisis from day one.
– President Obama, May 2nd

And if that “Day One” phrase was good enough for the President, it’s good enough for the rest of his administration, damn it:

We had DOD resources there from day one. This was a situation that was treated as a possible catastrophic failure from, from day one…And so the physical response on the ground has been, from, from day one, as if this could be a catastrophic failure.
– Janet Napolitano, Meet the Press, May 2nd

And if Day One is good enough to say once, it’s good enough to say twice:

Continue reading “You can count on the Obama administration starting on Day Twelve. But let’s pretend it’s Day One.”

Bill Maher thinks they don’t use petroleum in Brazil

Bill Maher is a moron. He always manages to sound relatively intelligent (yeah, yeah, we know, but please go with that concept for the purposes of this story) when he’s delivering a monologue read off a Teleprompter. But Katie bar the door when he’s left to his own devices.

Bill Maher is a moron. He always manages to sound relatively intelligent (yeah, yeah, we know, but please go with that concept for the purposes of this story) when he’s delivering a monologue read off a Teleprompter. But Katie bar the door when he’s left to his own devices.

Like yesterday. Maher turned into a babbling idiot when George Will challenged Maher’s ludicrous contention that Brazil is some kind of paradise where that evil petroleum is a thing of the past.

You owe us a big favor on this one. We could have shown you a six minute clip of this exchange, but we chose not to subject you to any more Maher than was absolutely necessary.

Some day, you will be called upon to repay that favor.

Palin pounces on Obama plan to give Brazil’s state-owned oil company $2 billion for off-shore exploration

Why would the United States government give $2 billion of your tax dollars to fund off-shore oil exploration by Brazil’s state-owned oil company, but make it virtually impossible for American companies to explore for oil here? Sarah Palin flat out nails the hypocrisy on her Facebook page.

$2,000,000,000 to help Brazil's government explore for oil, not a penny for American oil
$2 billion to help Brazil's government explore for oil, not a penny for American oil

We’re used to some strange decisions on the part of the Obama administration, but this one is a doozy.

Why would the United States government give $2 billion of your tax dollars to fund off-shore oil exploration by Brazil’s state-owned oil company, but make it virtually impossible for American companies to explore for oil here?

Sarah Palin flat out nails the hypocrisy on her Facebook page:

Today’s Wall Street Journal contains some puzzling news for all Americans who are impacted by high energy prices and who share the goal of moving us toward energy independence.

For years, states rich with an abundance of oil and natural gas have been begging Washington, DC politicians for the right to develop their own natural resources on federal lands and off shore. Such development would mean good paying jobs here in the United States (with health benefits) and the resulting royalties and taxes would provide money for federal coffers that would potentially off-set the need for higher income taxes, reduce the federal debt and deficits, or even help fund a trillion dollar health care plan if one were so inclined to support such a plan.

So why is it that during these tough times, when we have great needs at home, the Obama White House is prepared to send more than two billion of your hard-earned tax dollars to Brazil so that the nation’s state-owned oil company, Petrobras, can drill off shore and create jobs developing its own resources? That’s all Americans want; but such rational energy development has been continually thwarted by rabid environmentalists, faceless bureaucrats and a seemingly endless parade of lawsuits aimed at shutting down new energy projects.

Palin’s inescapable logic continues:

Buy American is a wonderful slogan, but you can’t say in one breath that you want to strengthen our economy and stimulate it, and then in another ship our much-needed dollars to a nation desperate to drill while depriving us of the same opportunity.

Source: Sarah Palin

Cold cash cures global warming. Cool.

Every time we hear someone huckster bemoan the big bucks Exxon-Mobil pays to fund studies that debunk global warming, we wonder how much the government is spending to “bunk” the theory.

global warming spending world is cooling

Every time we hear some huckster bemoan the big bucks Exxon-Mobil pays to fund studies that debunk global warming, we wonder how much the government is spending to “bunk” the theory.

Finally, thanks to Aussie blogger Joanne Nova, all the numbers have been compiled in one handy, dandy report. It clearly demonstrates that Exxon’s dollars pale in comparison to what’s being spent by the American government’s global warming research machine.

Be prepared to be pissed off.

  • The US government has provided over $79 billion since 1989 on policies related to climate change, including science and technology research, foreign aid, and tax breaks.
  • Despite the billions: “audits” of the science are left to unpaid volunteers…
  • Carbon trading worldwide reached $126 billion in 2008. Banks are calling for more carbon-trading. And experts are predicting the carbon market will reach $2 – $10 trillion making carbon the largest single commodity traded.
  • Meanwhile in a distracting sideshow, Exxon-Mobil Corp is repeatedly attacked for paying a grand total of $23 million to skeptics—less than a thousandth of what the US government has put in, and less than one five-thousandth of the value of carbon trading in just the single year of 2008.

These charts clearly demonstrate an inverse relationship between money spent on global warming research and temperature. The more we spend, the lower temperatures go.

Liberals, of course, will undoubtedly consider this validation that their philosophy works.

Source: JoanneNova.com.au via Andrew Bolt

Obama takes control of auto companies, Chavez tops him by taking control of oil companies

"Good work, mi amigo. How about if I take over the healthcare industry next and you take over the media."
"Good work, mi amigo. How about if I take over the healthcare industry next and you take over the media."

Please allow us to talk out loud while we try to make sense of this:

When Hugo Chavez nationalized the oil companies in Venezuela and said he was doing it for the good of the country, that’s bad. But when Barack Obama nationalized the car companies in the United States and said it was for the good of the country, that’s good.

Here’s how CNSNews.com reports events in Venezuela:

The BBC recently carried this headline: ‘Chavez seizes oil service firms.’ The article describes how the president of Venezuela “sent troops to take over companies that provide services for the oil industry.” This is the kind of stuff which used to make headlines, back in the days when it was rare for central governments to take control of private companies. But, these days it passes almost without comment. Chavez didn’t try to couch the takeover in terms of TARPs or Stimulus Packages or Stress Tests. Chavez said, “This is a revolutionary offensive.”

Oh, just imagine the laughs these two amigos will share the next time they get together.

Unfortunately, the laugh’s on us.

Source: CNSNews.com

Diary of a Mad Black Woman
(with apologies to Tyler Perry)

California Democrat Representative Maxine Waters comes out in this 2008 video clip and admits the truth. “This liberal” wants to nationalize all the oil companies. She wants the government to run them.

Now that this administration has used the financial crisis to get its hands on the banks, Wall Street, and the auto companies, what sounded so preposterous a year ago suddenly seems far more ominous.

It never hurts to remind everyone what’s really on the minds of liberals.

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