A 45 year old Chicagoan's observations and commentary on top news, pop culture and an accounting of the Obama Regime and their 'statist' power grab from my unabashed, right leaning/conservative point of view..
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"Obama will turn the entire US into the south side of Chicago" - Chicago Ray
God Bless America...
Coming from Buffalo Grove IL, 20 miles NW of King Richard Daley's
Fiefdom AKA Chicago,Illinois,USA the land of the free because of the brave..
Here's one of my first posts and observations on a then potential Obama presidency in Feb 07/ I'm no prophet believe you me..... it was all common sense far too many today simply 'lack',
George Mason explained, “(T)o disarm the people (is) the best and most effectual way to enslave them.” Noah Webster elaborated: “Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed
These people have incredible video of illegals, Armed terrorists, you name it invading the country each second of every day..
So far so good on the lifting of the drilling ban as the judge shoots 'em down again today, which is met from the left with cries of "he's got oil investments" when as far as I'm concerned, anyone with a mutual fund or IRA has some also, not to mention those big globs of steel most people have at least one of in a driveway, parking garage or what have you is an oil investment as well, if you really think about it.
You buy that car, you're investing in the oil industry, because you'll be paying them thousands and thousands of dollars a year until you either sell it, smash it or kill it.
Some tens of thousands. Oil investment.
There's a good comment thread at Newsvine which I find to veer left (but this one's ok) on Judge Feldman's so called 'conflict of interest'. I was actually laughing typing those three words btw.
June 24 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge refused on Thursday to put on hold his decision blocking the federal government from enforcing its six-month ban on deepwater oil drilling after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman in New Orleans rejected the Obama administration's request to stay his decision that allowed deepwater drilling to resume. The Interior Department suspended drilling after the ruptured BP Plc (BP.L) (BP.N) well began gushing oil into the Gulf more than two months ago.
Fifteen hours after the Justice Department appealed Feldman's ruling and requested a stay pending that appeal, Feldman issued a brief order denying the request for the same reasons he gave in his Tuesday decision.
In that opinion, Feldman strongly criticized the Obama administration's moratorium, saying that it was "indeed punitive" because it was too broad, arbitrary and was not adequately justified given the impact on thousands of oil industry workers and on local communities.
The Obama administration can still ask the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit -- also based in New Orleans -- for a stay as it seeks the appeal there.
Administration officials have defended the six-month moratorium as necessary to provide time to investigate the cause of the BP oil well spill and to ensure that other wells being drilled below 500 feet (152 meters) of water are safe.UPDATE 1-US judge denies stay on drill ban ruling | Reuters
First of all, this fund was going to be established ANYWAYS, and dems are simply trying to score political points by acting as if it 'was their idea'. (the photoshop came from a friend at Liberally Conservative, and I tweaked it just a bit btw)
I call it extortion Jesse Jackson / Don Corleone style.
This man from BP is going to spend the rest of his life in depositions and for the people of congress to drag him in there before any of this has hit a courtroom is ludicrous, because he's going to say what he has to in order to make sure they don't come back and charge him with perjury, since the damn thing is still leaking, and Obama, nor can any of those congressional crooks.
I'd bet most of them can't even make their own coffee.
I was going to write something to this effect on the BK issue after watching this Dog and Pony flogging today by the criminal Obama administration,, but found this 'Letter to the editor" that says everything I was thinking the whole time.
By now, we are all nauseous from watching oil-soaked pelicans and the well-cam for more than eight weeks. Everyone agrees that the Gulf is a disaster. Adding to the distress, we have to watch politicians trying to outdo one another expressing their outrage.
Suggestions that BP could fix this problem if it really wanted to are ridiculous. No one is more motivated to bring the situation under control than BP. Our government doesn’t have expertise in deep-water well operations. The deep-water-drilling moratorium is causing further economic damage. Politicians want to add this cost to BP’s liabilities when our government imposed the ban because its regulations and oversight are inadequate.
BP generates more than $25 billion in annual cash flow. Calls for sending BP into bankruptcy or nationalizing the assets are ill-advised. BP should be left intact in order to fund the 20-year cleanup of the Gulf.
Michael Hobbs, Northglenn
This letter was published in the June 15 edition. For information on how to send a letter to the editor, click here.
Thinking as these morons in congress have will cause the company, which has already kept BP from paying dividends and now British pensioners from paying their rent these coming months to go belly up, as if they even have the right to do this shit....... and when they DO help bankrupt this company, which they're already doing to the stock by continuing to bad mouth it and flog it like this, guess what happens then, you dumbassed, liberal Criminals in Congress?
No one will get a "G** Damn" thing.
Who does that help?
No one, because then WE then get the bill coming in both ends, as they either go BK and rename themselves to continue on, which they can easily do, or the company remains viable and everyone hurt legitimately injured in some way gets money.
But everyone knows how that went during Katrina as people in Jails were even collecting money, and who the hell says this Obama picked panel that has not one oil person on it won't screw everyone and enrich the already rich?
With these liberals it's not what they do, it's all the unintended consequnces of what they do that fuck the rest of us Barney Frank Style.
Remember these freaking things? How they were abused? Fraud inevitably happens when a behemoth rushes to hand out other people's money.
Haste Makes Waste, remember that? It happens every time. Without fail, rush into things like handing out free money and every slime from here to Saudi Arabia is looking for a chunk of it.
That's even conservative as the Exxon Spill was 250,000 gallons as and this one is a 'monstrous 17 million and counting' of untreated crude being dumped in the ocean, and remember they're spreading Tons and Tons of dispersant which has already made fisherman sick.
Literal tons of it. [video down below 1st]
Obama's Katrina? Karl Rove in the Wall Street journal says yes it 'tis...I don't know how helpful it is to blame him but it's much of his fault for ignoring the severity of it which he even admitted in his lengthy news conference I watched in it's entirety, as painful as it was.
Kevin McCarthy says this as well in this video
Greater estimates put it at 39 million gallons of crude oil not the conservative 17 or anywhere in between. You can check that with the widget you see to your right and steal it as well for your blog please. >>>>
To give you an idea, the barrels needed to clean up the Obama BP spill would hold 39 million gallons of crude, which would require 780,000 50 gallon drums at 3 feet across reaching 2,340,000 ft when divided by 5280 feet per mile comes to a line of barrels which would stretch 443 miles of 50 gallon drums.
That's beyond brutal and I'm the one who figured that by the way. Not hijacked elsewhere.
Not to mention as I we said, we now have fisherman already coming in ill from this shit that they're spreading like poison that could kill the entire ocean off for all they know.
So far, BP has told federal agencies that it has applied more than 400,000 gallons of a dispersant sold under the trade name Corexit and manufactured by Nalco Co., whose current leadership includes executives from BP and Exxon.
And another 805,000 gallons of Corexit are on order, the company said, with the possibility that hundreds of thousands of more gallons may be needed if the well continues spewing oil for weeks or months. [source NY Times]
They've never used this in this quantity and the real reason they're using it is to hide the spill and hope it somehow dissipates underwater and millions of dead fish don't come washing ashore.
That's the only plan other than to clean it up as it comes ashore and we've seem what that looks like from the Valzdez.
They've already hired 20,000 employees. There's Obama's job plan for you huh? It's going to take 5 times that easily to clean this mess up as it comes to shore and if it bankrupts BP nobody gets nothing and we get stuck with the bill so lawsuit filing folks need to keep that in mind as they rightfully I might add try to do exactly that.
However BP said this and they're right: "BP is very important to the American people and it's economy".
This is what the president was doing over the weekend while the country collapses and the Louisiana coast looks more like the fictional Jed Clampett's back yard after "up from the ground came a bubbling crude" than it does a pristine coastline
Strangely enough we just don't hear the same Katrina noise coming from all the dumb asses who blamed Bush and Cheney for an act of GOD, while not blaming this "midnight basketball' moron for laying in bed with BP since he's been in politics to the tune of 1 million US dollars and counting.
Remember that for 8 days this man did personally NOTHING about the BP oil release, not even declaring it an emergency again for almost 2 weeks.
2 Weeks that meant the world of difference to the Louisiana coastline and way of life and should be laid at Obama's oil stained feet along with the people "he dispatched to the region" not even visiting the area himself again for almost 2 weeks.
Here's what Laura Ingraham opened her show talking about this morning.......
Here's a little of what's washing up on the shore while Obama's giving this man (who's a convicted sexual fiend as we all remember) unfettered access on Obama's little inner city playground at our expense, sitting in back yard of the white house while he berates American citizens for standing up against criminal illegal aliens across the land, yet another thing he's doing "nothing about" despite the pleas of Arizonians along with the "sane and legal" Americans across the land..
TNT play-by-play announcer and Basketball Hall of Fame broadcaster Marv Albert conducted an exclusive interview on the basketball court at the White House with President Barack Obama today to discuss basketball, politics and other topics.
(click pic for a reminder of what Albert plead guilty to doing btw..cr note)
The interview will air on Tuesday, May 25, during NBA Tip-Off presented by AutoTrader.com, the network's pre-game show beginning at 8 p.m. ET, prior to TNT's exclusive coverage of Game 4 of the Western Conference Finals between the Phoenix Suns at Los Angeles Lakers at 9 p.m. ET.
A sneak peek of the interview will air on NBA TV and NBA.com beginning on Sunday, May 23, and will appear that evening during TNT's exclusive coverage of Game 3 of the NBA's Western Conference Finals between the Lakers and Suns at 8:30 p.m. ET.
The President shared his thoughts with Albert on his history and love of basketball, the future of LeBron James and the Phoenix Suns stand against the immigration law in Arizona, among other topics.
"We are very appreciative the President of the United States took time during the NBA's Conference Finals to sit with Marv to discuss a variety of topics that relate to basketball, as well as national issues that have recently crossed into the sports landscape," said David Levy, president of sales, distribution and sports, Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.
Not ridiculing their solution which obviously would be wonderful if this disaster were on a smaller scale, much smaller to be kind. They get an "A" for effort and many more are sending in their "answers to BP's Oil Screw Up" website hotline they got going online if you click the banner below I 'snagged' from their header.
I am personally aghast that these so called "brilliant minds" need you and me to come up with a trillion dollar golden clean up or plug up goose as if they're exhausted out of ideas already! We're all supposed to be "flyover rubes and rednecks".
Man Has "Down On the Farm" Answer to Obamatrina cleanup.... Hay
The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it.
H. L. Mencken
Instead of no blood for oil the libs can now start chanting "no dollars for oil" and see how they like the results of such a worldwide policy...
(Glenn Beck's One Thing covers this great today, and as soon as the video is available later I'll post it here.. but what he says is said by myself right below posted at1 pm cst.)
Here it is ...
_________ Original Post Below minus the photoshop above also done earlier.....__________
This will be the capper on the "glad you suckers voted in Obama so we could elevate our standing in the world at America's expense" hopes of the world.... as today word comes they all conspire together behind Obama's meaning OUR backs to dump the dollar for oil transactions, which means essentially everything.....
And any state denying this today are lying through their foreign, rotting away teeth as the markets down and gold prices soaring through the roof the world is laughing their asses off at American Stupidity today if they weren't already laughing at us, or at least the half that elected this guy president..
Suckers. This is what happens when you endlessly print money to give things to people who haven't worked for them and live far beyond our means which is what we're doing ...they like to call it "Monetizing our debt"......
Meanwhile back at the Obama bat cave he and the dimwit dems plan on sending the bill for his Health Care debacle to the Chinese, and their answer is already here as the world prepares for massive inflation leaving America holding the Obamabag.
And that answer is NO MORE DOUGH FOR THE BIG O.
Yahoo! Finance: "ISTANBUL/SYDNEY (Reuters) - Big oil producing nations denied on Tuesday a newspaper report that Gulf Arab states were in secret talks with Russia, China, Japan and France to replace the U.S. dollar with a basket of currencies in trading oil.
The U.S. dollar eased in response to the report, which was written by The Independent's Middle East correspondent Robert Fisk and cited unidentified sources in Gulf Arab states and Chinese banking sources in Hong Kong.
It said the proposal was for trade in crude oil to move over nine years to a basket of currencies including the Japanese yen, the Chinese yuan, the euro, gold and a new, unified currency planned for nations in the Gulf Co-operation Council, which includes Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.
But top officials of Saudia Arabia and Russia, speaking on the sidelines of International Monetary Fund meetings in Istanbul, denied there were such talks.
Oil states say no talks on replacing dollar - I say Bull..
The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it.
H. L. Mencken
Great job Ed Morrisey and Gateway on this one, a story that should be but won't be front page news for a week, as it sure woulda been had a Bush Administration allowed it 8 months ago/
Hot Air » "This should be good news for the Drill Here, Drill Now contingent, right? The Obama administration has committed $2 billion in loans to exploit offshore oil resources in hopes of extracting a major new source of petroleum.
Despite the White House pursuit of a cap-and-trade scheme to limit the use of fossil fuels, the new field could help bring lower energy prices, and their support of this exploration of American resources shows their flexibility on energy policy.
Wait — did I say American resources? That’s true, but only in the South American sense (via Gateway Pundit):" more
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June 24 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge refused on Thursday to put on hold his decision blocking the federal government from enforcing its six-month ban on deepwater oil drilling after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
