Drill Baby, Drill

"How often do we hear that oil is a source of incredible value to human life, past, present and future? How often do we hear about the forward-looking ingenuity of the oil industry...? [or] the great benefits of international trade in energy? Almost never. It's time to start talking about these positives and talk about liberating, not restricting oil production. Otherwise, in the name of being 'clean' and 'green' we will adopt policies that will sentence ourselves and our children to energy poverty."

 - Alex Epstein, FOX Opinion, 12.29.10

A friend of mine linked to THIS article today. It destroys all the evil myths you've heard about oil. It's GREAT.  I love it. And it comes perfectly timed with THIS article from Heritage about gas prices under the Bush and Obama administrations. You've noticed they're going up, right??  Well, they will continue upwards thanks to the government handcuffing the oil industry. The sad part is our president WANTS gas prices to rise. It's his way of coercing the public to think more like him: oil is evil, we can't afford it, we are gluttonous users of it, and we must restrict our drilling and pay the cost of our sins.

We have oil, people. LOTS of oil. We have SMART oil engineers. Our country could be mostly independent of foreign oil (if that's what you want), if we could drill. The government regulations tie the hands of our energy industry forcing them into "green" energy that is NOT an equal substitute for oil and costs this country more money than you can fathom.  

And, here is Heritage:

From Heritage: "Fact: President Barack Obama's Energy Secretary Steven Chu wants to 'figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.' At the time he made the statement, gas cost $7-$8 in Europe."

It will not going away. The regulations, the drill banning, those stupid light bulbs, rising energy costs, rising gas prices, ALL OF IT...is a way for the government to control the way we live our lives. If allowed to continue on this course to destroy oil, they will cripple our freedom in the name of energy. Rising gas prices are just the tip of the iceberg, my friends.

Sources:

Fox Opinion, The 6 Myths About Oil, 10/29/10

The Heritage Foundation, Gas Prices Under President Obama, 1/7/11

Don't Believe the Hype

I have children.  I have vaccinated them.  Five years ago when my first child was born the vaccine decision was hard for me. At the time I consulted with my pediatrician on this decision and now I'm glad I did...

"Vaccine link to autism further discredited", click for full article.

Autism is a serious problem. I know children and parents who struggle with this disability and its wide-ranging scale of symptoms and therapy challenges. But the original (small) publication from the UK linking autism with the MMR vaccine has been completely discredited. 

The Associated Press article today talks about the panic that ensued and how the vaccination scare it caused will probably never go away. From Dr. Paul Offit, an infectious-diseases expert at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia: The original Wakefield report "scared people and it's hard to unscare them."

Just wait...give it ten years and all of this "research" about how greenhouse gas emissions are cause for climate change will be discredited as well. Although it may be too late. The government might take away my big rig before then...

I'm just sayin...

Don't get sold so easily. Don't change your life based on small-scale research with obvious deficiencies and don't let the government tell you how to think. 

Don't go buy that Prius just yet.

Climate Change Needs a Bigger Umbrella

"The White House wants the public to start using the term 'global climate disruption' in place of 'global warming' -- fearing the latter term oversimplifies the problem and makes it sound less dangerous than it really is."

- Fox News, 09.16.2010

This made me, literally, laugh out loud. Check out the article. The government basically wants any reason to panic and point to the desperate need for "Cap and Tax" legislation any time the weather changes from rain to sun to snow to wind. Any "disruption" in our weather will be cause for alarm.

I live in Seattle for goodness sakes...we have odd weather patterns.  The environmentalists around here are going to be in heart-attack mode each night when the weatherman gives his evening report: Oh my gosh! It's been sunny and now...it's going to RAIN!!  Call Al Gore!  

It doesn't surprise me.  If you haven't noticed...there's a lot of re-branding going on (see my previous post...and did you know the Democratic party announced it's re-branding today? New slogan, new website, new logo.  See it here.).

Source:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/09/16/white-house-global-warming-global-climate-disruption/

Global Warming: You're Hired!

"No Snow, too much snow.  It does not matter to the enviroleft crowd.  For them, global warming always is to blame."

- Conn Caroll, The Heritage Foundation

There is nothing Global Warming can not do.  Man, if Global Warming were actually a person, he'd  have no problem getting a job.  He'd be ridiculously hire-able considering he's a "can do it all" kind of a guy.

Have you watched the Olympics?  The commentators repeatedly talk about the lack of snow...and who's to blame?  Global Warming, of course.  And what about Snowmageddon in the East?...who's to blame?  Global Warming, of course.

In Conn Caroll's article he links to this website, which tracks all things caused by Global Warming.  Examples include: "Atlantic ocean less salty, Atlantic ocean more salty, Earth slowing down, Earth spinning faster, fish bigger, fish shrinking..." 


Do you see a trend?  No matter how you slice it, Global Warming is always the cause.  It's pretty much running our lives.  Next thing you know our President will be blaming his proposed tax hikes as a result of Global Warming....

...oh wait...

...he already is!!!  Have you heard of a little thing called Cap and Trade?

I'm telling you, Global Warming is just another way for our government to control our lives.  There's a lot of money at stake.  Businesses hang in the balance.  Our livelihoods are at stake.  Cap and Trade will literally affect every line item in your personal financial budget.

But there's a glimmer...the flawed research is beginning to be exposed, although it's difficult to tell considering it's getting relatively no publicity in our mainstream media.  Thank goodness for media outlets such as The Wall Street Journal which had an Op Ed today about the continuing downward spiral of the climate research:

"Phil Jones, who stepped down as head of the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit amid the climate email scandal, told the BBC that the world may well have been warmer during medieval times than it is now.  This raises doubts about how much our current warming is man-made as opposed to merely another of the natural climate shifts that have taken place over the centuries.  Mr. Jones also told the BBC there has been no 'statistically significant' warming over the past 15 years..."

This is the guy who was a part of the entrenched team of scientists who have literally cooked the books on Global Warming.  But people are starting to smart up.  Even Donald Trump called for Al Gore to be stripped of his Nobel Peace Prize.  Wouldn't that be awesome!!

Soooo awesome!  And maybe Trump could be there and say, "You're Fired!" Because, honestly, if Al Gore loses Global Warming, he's got nothing.

Sources:
A Complete List of Things Caused by Global Warming
The Continuing Climate Meltdown - WSJ
Donald Trump Says Al Gore Should Lose His Prize
Is There Anything it Can't Do? - Heritage Foundation

Washington Closed...until the fall?

"Even before the storm arrived in the nation's capital, the House announced it was scrapping the rest of its workweek.  Several hearings and meetings were postponed."

 - Associated Press

Lots of snow in the East.  It's front page headlines.  "SNOW shuts down Washington!"  I was a tad disappointed Obama's drop in the polls didn't earn front-page consideration.  His ratings dropped...again...but you may not have heard.  But so goes the mainstream media.  They are too busy talking about Sarah Palin's hand (post coming soon).  

Is it just me or would it be amazingly awesome if the snow closed up shop in DC on a bit more permanent basis?...like, until the Fall elections?  I figure the more time passes without our looney Congress unable to pass even more fiscally irresponsible legislation the better.

And apparently some people are concerned about the waste in tax-payer dollars due to the loss of productivity.  But, here's my thinking: our government wastes a couple hundred million bucks at lightning speed, so maybe they could actually IMPROVE the deficit by simply NOT working.

I'm serious. Somebody crunch the numbers. Congress: stop working.  It will be better for the American People.

Also, is this more evidence of those ridiculous global warming claims?...which are continuing to unravel at the seams.  Do you know parts of the Nobel Peace Prize winning research on Global Warming were based on two non-published student dissertations?  And others were based on reports from environmental pressure groups?  Now doesn't that just sound super objective.  And still others were based on an article in a Mountaineering Magazine.  Seriously...THIS is the research that is changing the way we live our lives.  I refuse to accept flawed, biased and elementary research as proof of man-made global warming.

So, while we prep for more rain and cooler temps here in the Northwest, I send along the best of luck to my east coast friends.  Snuggle up with some hot cocoa and know we are only praying for the snow to stall our government's progressive agenda...not yours (as long as its not progressive).  

Source:
Global Warming Errors
Snow Buries East
Snow Shuts Down Federal Government
Obama's Poll Results