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Michelle Malkin has written an excellent article showing how deviously crooked the current Administration is. It also shows how defiant of authority the Obamaites are and how they skulk like cockroaches at night to carry out their lusts.  After getting caught lying and deceiving, they hide behind their appointments to bureaucracies that have become independently powerful and exclusive of the Congress. This is another reason that all bureaucracies are sacrosanct to statists - they squeal like poked pigs when anyone mentions abolishing one. 

However, Malkin seems a little more interested in the monetary effects of the drilling moratorium in the Gulf (that is certainly one of the problems), while we here want to know (as well) whether there are any real negative effects to the environment from that drilling-and she proves that you surely cannot trust the Obamaites for any honest information in that respect. That's news?

Though the moratorium has supposedly been lifted and oil companies have moved back into the Gulf, their rigs sit idle while they wait for permits. This is the method the Obamaites use to deceive the American people into believing they truly want more drilling, by claiming areas are open to drilling all the while stalling permitting. Permits are down over 35% under Obama, and more areas have been excluded from drilling under Obama than all the past presidents combined. And the people wonder why gas is $4.00 at the pump?

As to the effects of ocean drilling, there are no negative effects - other than from accidents, which can indeed occur, and do occur in all types of work with heavy equipment. This is why we should not be drilling in deep water at this time; we should be drilling in shallow waters, from about 20 - to 100 miles out and no deeper than a few hundred feet. 

A large amount of high-grade oils sit in those shallow coastal areas. The raving mad eco-maniacs have, however, managed to shut the drilling down in those areas-and if left to them would shut down drilling across the nation (and almost have). Oil production is down 45% since 1985, though we have had elephantine size oil discoveries of easily recoverable oil over the last twenty-years.

Had the Gulf Oil Spill occurred in shallow waters, it could have been fixed in a day. Had our own government inspectors carried out their inspecting duties correctly, it most likely would have never happened.

Another thing that folks should understand is, the Lord built a powerful cleansing system into our oceans - they thus cleanse themselves very quickly and very thoroughly. Another is that oil is natural to the earth and so, cannot harm the environment for any extended time. Even after a terrible accident, that powerful cleansing system does its work very quickly and very thoroughly.

The oceans' shores are their dumping grounds and their graveyards - check the shores out after every high tide and you will see that the seas have cleansed themselves once again. What goes into the marshes is slowly carried back out to sea and eventually dumped onto the shores. This powerful motion is locked and does its duty every day. 

If moronic apes that call themselves human want to wallow around in those polluted dumps, fine - that's just one of many idiotic things humans do. (just look at the last four men they've elected to run the nation; it's enough to make a cat sit up and bark) 

Therefore, when an accident occurs, we should allow the oceans to cleanse themselves - and dump any extraneous residue onto those shores. They will do it. Let God's perfect nature perform its duties.

Though they too have powerful cleansing systems as waters run down from the mountains to the seas from whence they came, what should be stopped is the constant dumping of waste into our waterways. 

We should also began to wean ourselves from the use of plastics (and other synthetics which the mad, knee-jerk-brained eco-maniacs are demanding we use in refined oil), the waste of which ends up buried in the earth - a negative caused by the eco-maniacs' demand back in the 1970s to move from paper usage (the trees are disappearing; those evil logging companies want to cut every tree off the planet so they won't have any more to sell, you know) to plastics. (a boondoggle to go over some other time, brought about by the eco-maniacs)

See Malkin's article for what honest people have to put up with when they are dealing with radical Marxists who have no qualms whatever when it comes to lying and deceiving to achieve their goals. 

Keep in mind that these radicals are appointed bureaucrats; and many of them work in bureaucracies where our own Congress has made it impossible for Congressional investigations to get at after they're caught carrying out unlawful and deceitful acts. 

Due to congressional complaints of stone-walling and such, an Administration often orders an investigation, that is, to investigate itself. 

Unless you are a camel living in Mongolia, you know how that always turns out: years after the investigation begins, perhaps a few bureaucrats get transferred to South Detroit, and that's about it. No one walks the plank. For the people have mostly forgotten about the particular incident or either that group of bureaucrats have hunkered down on K Street or in a Think Tank or at a Non Profit.

Oftentimes, after getting caught lying and deceiving, one radical will resign - without negative repercussions - and another radical will step right in to take the first one's butt-dusting seat, then go right to work where the first one left off: lying and distorting and deceiving to achieve some of the many radical, utopian goals that statists dream of.

Another fine reason why we need a much smaller central government - one that has much, much less power. One that it would be near impossible for an appointed bureaucrat to get by with deceiving, lying, distorting, and openly defying what should be the central power of the Federal Government: the Congress.

Berry Jingles

Read more: Exposing the White House Lies and Deception Regarding the Offshore Drilling Moratorium in the Gulf
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"I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground: That 'all powers not delegated to the United States, by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States or to the people' [this comprises the 10th Amendment of the Bill of Rights]. To take a single step beyond the boundaries thus specifically drawn around the powers given to Congress, is to take possession of a boundless field of power, no longer susceptible to any definition." (Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826; US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence; 3rd US President of the US; initiated the addition of the Bill of Rights, written by George Mason)

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Intro to the Paul Driessen Article

Paul Driessen is an expert on energy sources, and always presents well-reasoned writings to back up his positions - not wild claims of forthcoming doom to humanity and the earth that never materialize. He is "senior policy adviser for the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT), which is sponsoring the All Pain No Gain petition against global-warming hype."

He does not work for Big Oil. He does not work for Big Gas. He does not work for Big Coal.

The eco-maniacs hate him - obviously.

His points in this piece are widely unknown yet salient, and should be made known to all of society. 

It's my view that those who oppose his reasoning do so either because they are benefitting financially from Big Wind, Solar, Global Warming research funds or they are so brainwashed they can't possibly go against the propaganda they have swallowed.

Notice too that these are true subsidies Driessen is speaking of for Big Wind, which are direct costs to the taxpayers of billions annually. 

What leftists call "subsidies for Big Oil" are simply the same business expense write offs and equipment write downs that all businesses use. Obama has led the charge against "Big Oil," with shady comments like this one: "I think it's only fair to ask an oil company or a corporate jet owner that has done so well to give up a tax break that no other business enjoys."

(I think the president's wife and children should give up expansive and expensive vacations - at taxpayer expense - at a time when so many millions of people are suffering unemployment and starvation.)

Obama made the above statement in a State of the Union speech. It definitely takes a lot of nerve to lie like that; you have to give him that. Our Collection of Obama Lies shows that he has to be the most brazen liar ever to occupy the White House.

To hear Barack Obama's tale, you would think that oil companies aren't paying any taxes at all. The major US oil companies alone pay hundreds of billions in federal taxes, with billions more going to foreign nations. In 2010 (I've not seen the 2011 figures, which will be more, much more) one of the oil companies that the eco-maniacs hate the most, Exxon which donates millions to eco-maniac causes, paid $89 billion in taxes.

There are many other reasons to dislike "Big Oil" than the fact that they write off their expenses just as all businesses do. They lie about "global warming" and they sponsor the very eco-maniacs who bash them at every turn.

With wind and ethanol and solar, taxpayers are paying companies - often the biggest political donors to the Party in Charge - and providing them with special tax breaks and loans to produce the products and infrastructure for these types of energy. GE has been a beneficiary of contracts and special tax breaks - yet has sent jobs to China to carry out much of the work. Not a word about that from the Obamaites. Thus, what Big Wind and Solar are receiving are nothing but paybacks to political backers.

The result this wild "green spending" has been an economic catastrophe, the loss of jobs, jobs sent abroad, a bane to the environment, and the demonization of natural earth fuels (coal, gas, oil) to convince the people and the government they should chose the above-mentioned forms of energy instead.

Very informative article. A veritable study in energy sources by an honest expert. Would that our bought and paid off government would listen.

For the health of humanity and the planet: Berry Jingles  

Read more: Why the US Should Stop Subsidizing Big Wind
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Katie Pavlich has written an excellent book that presents a preponderance of circumstantial evidence that Obama and Holder not only knew exactly what was going on with "Fast & Furious"; they ordered it for the purpose of justifying their itch to regulate gun dealers even moreso than the Feds already do. 

Obama's history of memberships in anti-gun groups and statements that he would outlaw private ownership of guns are well known. Pavlich brings more of that to light.

Similar to the Global Warming Hoax and the Evolution Hoax, leftists who discover these are indeed hoaxes don't care one snip, because they follow the central edict of the father of all their ideologies: Karl Marx. For from materialistic atheism to a centralized government that has total control over the people all leftists succumb to Marx's creed: the end justifies any means it takes to get to that end. Warmers want to stop-by any means whatever-the use of any natural earth substances for energy: oil, gas, coal. Atheistic evolutionists want to secularize the world, and most especially the US. Neither cares what the route is that takes them to their goals.

In the case of gun ownership, anti-gun hacks such as Obama and Holder are exactly the same: they don't care how they get to the end of disallowing private gun ownership; they just want to get there. 

In that light, it thus makes sense that they would smuggle weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels through US gun dealers believing their actions would remain secret. They then could expose that most weapons in Mexico came from US dealers and squall the same line the ATF and Justice Department have been promoting for years: that US gun dealers supply Mexican Drug Cartels with the majority of their weapons. Next, more regulation on or even elimination of US gun dealers. A right-brained, dream of a couple of goony utopian pariahs, indeed. 

Now, is it not just like a character who, while in college, "sought out radical feminists and Marxist professors as friends" to think like that? Well, that's the kind of character we have running the nation. How the hell do we expect him to think? Like the local choir boy?

Knowing these facts makes Pavlich's circumstantial evidence much, much stronger.

Pavlich did not break the "Fast & Furious" scandal; Sharyl Attkinson did. And she caught hell for it from the Obamaites and other leftists in the media. The following article exposes that. 

Freedom First & Forever: Berry Jingles

Read more: How the Main-Stream-Media Covered Up Fast and Furious: Obama's Biggest and Bloodiest Boondoggle So Far
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As I have noted many times, the current Warmers were once Freezers. Yet, for both cooling and warming, they predict the same doom for humans and the planet. They must expect us suckers to believe that the weather ought not wax and wane. Just as leftists want the government to restrict the ups and downs of a capitalist economy, I suppose they want it to try to restrict weather extremes-even though it's not possible.

These kooks have never been right! Don't forget that when you hear their gloomy predictions, purposely ominous to scare people and politicians into creating more government, with more rules and regulations to restrict the lives and freedoms of what the Warmer's see as the unwashed masses who must be controlled. 

Compared to many of the articles and statements regarding the coming "global freeze" (often called the "nuclear freeze" in the `60s and `70s), this article is very mild, though still quite threatening. 

Look at these five doomsday jewels, all stated about 42-years ago; they are more typical of the Changers' claims and predictions:

1) "Scientists have solid experimental and theoretical evidence to support the following predictions: In a decade, urban dwellers will have to wear gas masks to survive air pollution; by 1985 air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching earth by one half." (Life Magazine, January 1970; this is all supposed to be due to "global freezing.")

2) "We are prospecting for the very last of our resources and using up the nonrenewable things many times faster than we are finding new ones." (Martin Litton, Sierra Club director, 1970)

3) "Air pollution bought about by the business industry is certainly going to take hundreds of thousands of lives in the next few years alone."  (Paul Ehrlich, an early Freezer and Overpopulation freak, and Al Gore's main mentor, 1970)

4) "Man must stop pollution and conserve his resources, not merely to enhance existence but to save the race from intolerable deterioration and possible extinction."  (New York Times editorial, May 3, 1970)

5) "It is already too late to avoid mass starvation." (Denis Hayes, Freezer, then Warmer, now Changer; Senator Gaylord Nelson chose him to be the chief organizer for the celebration of Lenin's birthday in 1970; as director of the Solar Energy Research Institute, 1979-1981, he was an early proponent of selling the feasibility of solar energy to the US. A great idea, sadly, solar power is in about the same viability and feasibility shape that it was in back in 1980. In 1999, Time Magazine named Hayes as "Hero of the Planet"; the Sierra Club has also awarded him its highest honors. One thing: these phonies give each other plenty of awards. To the dupes and fools they play to, honors, even self-given ones, provide them with credibility. Which-when one takes into account their wandering, error-ridden past-they need.) 

Having debated the Warmers many times over the years, you can see from these few crazy, failed predictions (and there are thousands more) why I have brutally belittled them-and still do. Knowing what their failed predictions are, the origin of their wild claims, how far off they've been, how they've changed their philosophy with the wind (and weather), all to restrict and/or eliminate the use of the earth's natural fuels, coal, gas, oil, certainly destroys any respect one might have for them. 

And so, I can honestly call them frauds and liars or either dupes and fools for positing the nonsense they espouse regarding the imminent demise of the planet, wildlife, plants, and humans, because of the use of the earth's natural fuels. For the frauds and liars know better and the dupes and fools are too lazy to research the origin and the history of the Changers' predictions and claims.

For the truth: Elmo Robbins

Read more: Back When the Ominous-Warning Warmers were Ominous-Warning Freezers: Newsweek's 1975 Article Warning of the Dangers of a Cooling World!
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"Billions of us will die from global warming and the few breeding pairs of people that survive will be [living] in the Arctic where the climate remains tolerable."

(Famous Warmer, James Lovelock, author of "The Gaia Hypothesis," who is now ostensibly writing a book retracting his "alarmist statements," because of the cooler weather around the world since 1998; the moron still believes in warming, but says it's just not happening as fast! What else?)

Tired of seeing NASA and GISS propound what is at best an unproven theory and at worst (in my view) at huge hoax, fifty astronauts at NASA (including four who traveled to the moon), engineers, and scientists have sent a letter to the space agency requesting that it stop including "unproven remarks" about global warming in its news releases and on its websites.

None of these people is backed by Big Oil or the Energy Industry. When leftist kooks throw that one at you (that anyone who does not believe in Global Warming is backed by Big Oil or the Energy Industry), be sure to point out to them the many commercials made by the Energy Industry and Big Oil stating their belief in Global Warming and informing what they're doing to stop it.

I suppose the eco-maniac Warmers will claim that Lovelock has been bought out by Big Oil when they read that he has said things like this: "The problem is we don't know what the climate is doing. We thought we knew 20 years ago. That led to some alarmist books-mine included-because it looked clear-cut, but it hasn't happened."

http://worldnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/04/23/11144098-gaia-scientist-james-lovelock-i-was-alarmist-about-climate-change

According to Live Science, a NASA spokesman confirmed that the agency received the letter. 

http://www.livescience.com/19643-nasa-astronauts-letter-global-warming.html

Select excerpts from the letter: 

  a.. "We believe the claims by NASA and GISS, that man-made carbon dioxide is having a catastrophic impact on global climate change are not substantiated." 

  b.. "The unbridled advocacy of CO2 being the major cause of climate change is unbecoming of NASA's history of making an objective assessment of all available scientific data prior to making decisions or public statements." 

  c.. "We request that NASA refrain from including unproven and unsupported remarks in its future releases and websites on this subject."

  d.. With hundreds of well-known climate scientists and tens of thousands of other scientists publicly declaring their disbelief in the catastrophic forecasts, coming particularly from the GISS leadership, it is clear that the science is NOT settled.

Entire Letter Here

Read more: Letter to NASA Chief Asking Him to Stop Promoting Catastrophic Manmade Global Warming in NASA's News Releases and its Websites
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Though the main culprits in Climategate have been fired and the IPCC has lost all credibility, the group carried out an investigation of itself and, you could not possibly imagine this out of a bunch of creepy Leftists, they found themselves innocent of any purposeful fraud - though the leaked emails and the IPCC's actions over the years clearly the opposite.

Sure, they shut down weather stations in the coldest areas and left the ones open that were in the warmest areas. Still, they could not get the warming figures that their models predicted. What a lot of balderdash! It's not worth mentioning these creepy frauds, but many people out there have no idea of these facts; others, goofy eco-maniac Leftists remain steadfast Warmers, though they're really Climate Changers. Most at the top of the leftist heap don't care one way or the other about the climate; they seek to destroy America as it stands today-global warming and the rules and regulations that go with it are merely tools.

Elmo Robbins
 

Read more: The Truth about Climate Science from the IPCC
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Why Are Oil Prices High?


President Obama should look in a mirror and blame his inept Mideast policy. Of course President Bush could do the same. 

The second reason gas prices are high is inept policy by central bankers around the globe, in particular the Fed. Liquidity did not go where central bankers are desperate for it to go (housing), instead it went into food, energy, and the stock market. The president and members of Congress blame speculators.

The third reason gas prices are so high is the US is in a constant state of war for 10 years. Iraq, Afghanistan,  and next up Iran. The amount of jet fuel wasted in these endeavors is staggering, so is the amount of gasoline and diesel transporting troops to 140 countries around the globe. 

Obama does not want to admit any of the above, so instead he blames the energy companies.

Read the rest at townhall.com

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NBC Apologizes for Showing Prejudicial Edition of the Zimmerman/911 Tapes

The most leftist of the three old Networks (which includes ABC & CBS), NBC News, apologizes for showing a very prejudicial edition of the Zimmerman/911 tapes. The original edition NBC showed was immediately picked up by the other Networks, cable channels, and FOX.

NBC News is the network that invented the new racial term-picked up quickly by the NY Times, Washington Post, the other Networks, and the cable channels-and obviously meant to stir racial fires: "White Puerto Rican." What else? 

The edited tape made it look as though Zimmerman was following Martin only because he was Black. The original unedited tape shows that is not the case.

We here have no opinion at all in this case. 

Read more: Focus Back on the Economy and Gas Prices