WARNING! Contains explicit language.

Take it with a grain of salt if you must, but we’ll all get the after taste of this bitter sweet deal in the long run. Math and economics are not my forte so to speak, but I can tell you that this probably won’t work out in the long run.

The Thin Red White & Blue Line
10 Metaphors for a Broken Economy

James Macfarlane
23 Jun, 2008

One of our original Old War Dogs just passed away. This post is to pay tribute where it is due for a good man and one of the last of the “Greatest Generation”. I have the up-most respect for men of his caliber and will miss him more than he shall ever know. That’s the hard part.

1st LT Werntz, John D.
72nd TC Squadron, 434th Group
9th USAAF, EAME Theater
1943-1945

Old War Dogs: Russ Vaughn on the passing of “The Greatest Generation”.

We’ll miss you my friend……………

H/T to Mary Lamb for the link!

Rep. Poe can see the light at least.

Click on the image for the YouTube video.

Dick Durbin acting like a hapless fool in the background is the best part of the video.

Are these just words?

H/T to Flopping Aces for the link.

I really don’t have much spare time on my hands these days, so excuse the sporadic posting. The dog seems to have ate my homework again. Trust me, you don’t want to know the details.

Lets just say carbon credits are hard to collect and leave it at that for now.

Oh by the way, it’s the state of the matter that counts, not the matter of the state.

See ya on the flip flop.

Wayne White and Pat Buchanan on the possibility of war with Iran.

Anybody taking odds on this happening?

Can we fix it is probably a better question.

Dumb Or Ill-informed

What assumptions do congressmen make about the American people? Do they assume that we’re dumb or ill-informed about the energy problems we are experiencing? Every time there has been a huge spike in gasoline prices, Congress hauls oil company executives before their committees to accuse them of greed, obscene profits and price-fixing. One federal investigation after another of supposed oil company misconduct turns up nothing to substantiate congressional allegations. Unfortunately, the congressional hearings make front page news and lead the evening television news, but the results of federal investigations that follow are only casually mentioned deep in the body of newspapers and get little or no time on the evening television news. If news media people had an ounce of integrity, they would highlight the federal investigation findings that undermine congressional charges of oil company misconduct and they would question the congressmen who made those charges.

Americans might prefer heroes-and-villains explanations to problems to reality-based explanations. A politically satisfying explanation for today’s $4 a gallon price, when it was less than $2 a gallon a couple of years ago, is because oil company executives have all of a sudden become greedy in their pursuit of “obscene” profits. As such, congressmen, as our heroes, should call these greedy men on the carpet and take sanctions against them in the forms of windfall profits tax, price controls and other measures to take away their ill-gotten gains — never mind the effects of the 1980 windfall profits tax. According to the Congressional Research Service, the 1980 windfall profits tax had the effect of decreasing domestic production by 3 percent to 6 percent, thereby increasing American dependence on foreign oil sources by 8 percent to 16 percent.

Controlling the price of anything is very difficult and it can only be accomplished through the force of government, mostly by restricting supply. The U.S. Congress is a major player in oil supply restriction, and OPEC nations must be laughing all the way to the bank. Congress has banned energy exploration in 85 percent of our coastal waters. Ironically, China, in conjunction with Cuba, is drilling for oil nearer to our coastline than U.S. oil companies are permitted.

According to “We don’t have to take $4 gas prices — we can drill,” written by Sterling Burnett in the Houston Chronicle (5/21/08), “It is estimated that beneath America’s coast lies enough oil to fuel 60 million cars in the United States for 60 years and enough natural gas to heat 60 million homes for 160 years. … If allowed access to American oil reserves in Alaska and off our coastline, American oil companies could increase our country’s reserves an estimated fivefold, taking the United States from 11th place to fourth among the countries with proven oil reserves.”

You say, “What about the environmental impact?” Contrary to the hysterical claims made by environmental extremists, caribou and other wildlife have expanded and flourished in and around Alaska’s Prudhoe Bay, unaffected by the oil and gas development. What’s more, Burnett points out that the “two leading environmental groups, the Audubon Society and the Nature Conservancy, have allowed oil and gas production on several of their most important and unique nature preserves.”

Environmentalists come to their senses when non-drilling philosophy costs them something. It’s two-faced hypocrisy. At times I’ve suggested that the best way to get oil exploration in the Alaska National Wildlife Reserve is to give the land to environmentalists. You can bet they wouldn’t sit on billions of dollars of oil and gas.

The true villain in our having to cough up $60, $70 or $80 to fill our gas tanks is the U.S. Congress caught in the grip of environmental extremists. But if reality is too difficult to swallow, we can continue to blame and support the congressional attack on oil executives, turn food into oil and think of other crackpot “solutions.”

From Gateway Pundit

Here’s another fine example:

Keep the change buddy, you ain’t no Walter E. Williams……………..

With a tip of the hat to Scarlett over at Ironic Surrealism for the following quote:

” It is not fear that grips me… only a heightened sense of things.”

Life is a commodity just as is everything we use to sustain it is. It’s a zero sum game at best, and it’s the physics of the matter that you can’t ignore. The end result is always the same: Nothing in, nothing out, and an empty suit helps no one.
Barrack Obama may be for “change”, but that’s just ignoring the problems we’re already facing as a nation. You can’t burn socialism to fuel your economy regardless of what Al Gore and the anthropogenic global warming crowd try to tell you. Hot air still needs heat to get that way, and no amount of CO2 spewing from their mouths will change that equation. They just add to the problem with more of the same. Change should be what people get for their effort in life, and not what the government takes away from you and gives to someone else. Oil will still be greasing the wheels that didn’t come off in the long run, whether we like it or not.

The economic engine will be throttled if the false prophet (read profit) AGW crowd continue to dictate policy for a world looking for real time energy solutions. That’s just doing the same stupid shit and expecting different results. Carbon caps are about the same thing as wearing a tin foil hat and barking at the moon or voting for John Kerry or Obama. You’ll get the same results every time. We’re talking energy in the long run either way you look at it folks.

DrumBeat: June 6, 2008

Expider out/ stacking my carbon credits for a brave new world…….