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Posted by Tina

Offshore oil rigs are not dangerous to the environment. This isnt just an opinion, it’s backed up by 60 years of incredible success in Louisiana. Front Page Magazine offers the facts mixed with a fun look at Hollywood and environmental skeptics from LSU:

Hollywood Once Hailed Offshore Drilling, by Humberto Fontova

Louisiana has been well ahead of the learning curve for decades, and offers ready proof regarding its much-hyped “perils.” The first offshore oil production platforms went up off the Louisiana coast in 1947.
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National Geographic….

Everybody loves a good story, and when it’s finished, this will be the greatest one ever told. It begins in Africa with a group of hunter-gatherers, perhaps just a few hundred strong. It ends some 200,000 years later with their six and a half billion descendants spread across the Earth, living in peace or at war, believing in a thousand different deities or none at all, their faces aglow in the light of campfires and computer screens.

For more on this story click here.

When will the alarmists who worried about “losing rights” because of Bush’s wiretap method for defense of the nation start screaming foul about these lefty moves?

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A Desperate Man Investors Business Daily

Radicalism: In another example of junk science run amok, NASA scientist James Hansen wants oil executives put on trial for giving “misinformation” about his global warming theory. Is this where society is headed? ** If so, we are headed for a dangerous place. Only in totalitarian systems is dissent a criminal offense. ** Out of this has emerged a madness that has divided Westerners into “us,” the believers, and “them,” the skeptics who are looked down upon as socially irresponsible reprobates. ** That’s not enough for Hansen, though. He now wants to ratchet his machine up a few notches. ** Put the oil men on trial, he says, because it’s “a crime” for them to “have been putting out misinformation” that places doubt on his unproved and unprovable premise that man’s use of fossil fuels is warming Earth. ** We wonder: Will it be up to NASA’s secret police to make the arrests that will be necessary to drag these men before the tribunal?

Congress’s Fingerprint Fine Print, by John Berlau WSJ

Fingerprints have long been considered to be among the most personal of information. Proposals for creating fingerprint databases are usually controversial and often lead to a spirited public debate. Even when a fingerprint registry will likely help fight terrorism or crime, many still fear it will lead to a surveillance state. ** Yet this week a measure creating a federal fingerprint registry totally unrelated to national security or violent crime may clear the Senate with little debate. The legislation would require thousands of individuals not suspected of any wrongdoing to send their prints to the feds. ** What issue is so important that it warrants creating a fingerprint database without public debate? Believe it or not, the housing slowdown. The database and fingerprint mandates are contained in the housing bailout bill that will likely come to a vote on Tuesday.

The answer, of course, is that they won’t. It’s up to us to notice the hypocrise.

Posted by Tina

Berlin – An American hiker stranded in the Bavarian Alps for nearly three days was rescued after using her sports bra as a signal, police in southern Germany said Monday. Berchtesgaden police officer Lorenz Rasp said that he helped lift 24-year-old Jessica Bruinsma of Colorado state to safety by helicopter on Thursday after she attracted the attention of lumberjacks by attaching her sports bra to a cable used to move timber down the mountain. – AP

Clever lady!!

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Events from days gone by are rarely remembered with clarity and as weve discovered, the press is often more interested in distorting past events than in keeping the historical record. Its useful, therefore, to be reminded of past events in order to keep an accurate perspective in the present. Arthur Herman, history professor at Georgetown University, has written a great piece for Commentary Magazine outlining the realities and challenges of Saddams Iraq during the last years of Bill Clintons term as president and the democrat support of Clintons policies. I urge you to read the entire article

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Monday – 23 Jun: A hedge fund manager and a top adviser to oil companies said Monday they believe oil prices could quickly fall by half if new regulatory changes limiting the role of speculators were adopted.

Michael Masters, of the Masters Capital Management fun, said that – with greater regulation – oil prices could drop to $65 or $70 within about 30 days.

“That’s half of where prices are today, and gas prices would reflect that,” he said.

by Tina Grazier

Bushco, as Libby calls themthe former BIG OIL men in the White Housewent to war for OIL. They couldnt wait to get their hands on the huge PROFITS they would make from taking Iraqi oil. They schemed and plotted and lied to make it happen. At least that has been the “Bushco theory”.

Iraq will award contracts to 41 foreign oil firms in a bid to boost production that could give multinationals a potentially lucrative foothold in huge but underdeveloped oil fields, an official said on Sunday. “We chose 35 companies of international standard, according to their finances, environment and experience, and we granted them permission to extract oil,” oil ministry spokesman Asim Jihad told AFP.

Those who claimed President Bush’s motive was oil were dang liars then and they are dang liars now. It should have been obvious to them when Bushco decided to assist the Iraqis in setting up their own government while continuing to defend the fledgling democracy, that Bushco was up to something quite different than self interest or money. It should have been obvious when 70% of the Iraqis proudly displayed purple fingers to show they had voted. It should have been obvious when Prime Minister Maliki visited Washington to praise and thank President Bush and the American people and spoke of the strides being made by his government. It should have been obvious when the Iraqi government requested that we stay in Iraq to defend their country. But their own twisted intentions were not so honorable.

Please note that Iraq is in charge of it’s own affairs and is awarding contracts to companies in many nations. Contracts are legal agreements entered into by willing signatories…things like that often happen in free countries. George Bushs intentions were always exactly what he said they wereperiod.

In England laws instituted by the compassion crowd to assist those who cannot help themselves have become, in practice, just as nutty as ours are.