Pretty humorous, yet in an odd sense … so very true.
Although, as already noted here, the nose-holding might not quite be enough.
You’d also need the Jameson’s-pounding, whippet-huffing, and a ten-joint townhall to ensure you make it to the polls in November, followed by an Indiana Jones movie marathon just to keep the ol’ conscience preoccupied.
The Democrats have told us that ANWR is off limits because the size of the 16 billion barrel deposit is too small to risk the absolute purity of the barren, frozen waste up there. Considering that existing pipelines have NOT changed the caribou migration patterns nor have they had any appreciable effect on the herd size one can only wonder what the fuss is all about. The track record of these pipelines is excellent; yet the the claim of the environmental activists is that the opening of ANWR would destroy the wilderness. The likes of Green Peace, and other environmental activists along with OPEC lobbyists have found the Democrats in congress eager to do their bidding and keep ANWR closed.
When one takes into account the shale oil reserves in the Rockies, the United States has more than three times the amount of oil than the Saudi Arabians.
The United States has an oil reserve at least three times that of Saudi Arabia locked in oil-shale deposits beneath federal land in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming, according to a study released yesterday.
One would imagine that this resource is big enough to bother with. Though the study was recently released the US has known of this reserve for some time.
The vast extent of U.S. oil shale resources, amounting to more than 2 trillion barrels, has been known for a century. In 1912, the President, by Executive Order, established the Naval Petroleum and Oil Shale Reserves.
This resource is enough oil to last us to the next Century. The only trouble with this potential resource is that the Democrat controlled congress does not want to make it accessible to development. They and their masters in the Green lobby would prefer to see us paying $4 dollars or more at the pump.
We need a new energy source now. Windmills are for Don Quixote to tilt at, and are not meant for industrial energy production. The Indian and Chinese economies are growing fast. This economic growth has greatly improved the lot of the average Indian and Chinaman, but, these same folks are now competing with us for ALL the worlds resources. The time has come to increase the size of the pie. With Al Gore increasing his electric bill by 10%, we need to act fast.
Shell Oil Corp has a new idea for the extraction of oil from shale that potentially has a lower environmental impact than traditional methods. This new method is called the en situ extraction process. Since this is a new approach, there are risks in both development costs and schedule. As the method is new, the claim that this will be a more ecologically friendly approach remains to be proven.
The other trouble with this potential bonanza of energy is that our Democrat lead congress has recently voted to stop development of this resource.
The Senate Appropriations Committee today narrowly defeated Sen. Wayne Allard’s attempt to end a moratorium related to oil shale development in Colorado.
Apparently the need for oil is not great enough yet. We need to suffer, when the people start giving up their cars, living without heat or air conditioning then our betters in Green Peace and the Democrat party might be satisfied.
We have an energy crisis in the making; the world wide demand for oil is growing. Actually it has doubled every 20 years for the past 80. We are sending money to dictators and religious fanatics who hate us, in short we are financing our enemies. This is hubris on a grand scale. The Democrats in congress are in the pockets of special interest groups like ELF, PETA, The Sierra Club and Green Peace.
The only domestic sources of energy currently available for expansion are coal and natural gas. Coal is not an energy source known for being ecologically friendly, so why are we being forced into a corner to use it? Natural gas production cannot make up the need for more energy alone and foreign oil is getting more and more expensive.
Shale oil was not economically viable when oil was below $35 a barrel; at $100 a barrel we need to invest in this resource and clear the way for this to get to market. It will take time, so the longer we wait the worse our economic situation will get.
Woods has a torn anterior-cruciate ligament, and two stress fractures.
I have had my ACL replaced. I was about the 75 patient to go through this particular procedure, which involves replacing the ligament with a freeze-dried one from someone who doesn’t need it anymore. Then one’s own ligament grows into and replaces the freeze-dried one in a process called “creeping substitution.” The result is a ligament that is all your own, as opposed to Gore-Tex, but it is never as tight as the original.
The really bad part is that one can put no weight at all on the knee for six weeks, and then slowly work up to full weight over the next six weeks. One also has to wear an adjustable knee brace that regulates how far the knee can bend. Getting full mobility back is very painful. (A female friend has told me that the surgery itself is more painful than childbirth. After all, a woman is supposed to have children — a knee is not meant to be cut open and inflated with saline solution.)
I do know that Woods can come back from this. Although it gets a little sore, I can still go through batting practice, which puts tremendous torque on the lead knee. (Fortunately, I am a switch-hitter, so when it gets really bad, I can hit from the other side of the plate.)
We wish Tiger all the best.
Hope you are ok, dude. It is always scary in this realm of obscured identities that someone could fall off the grid for one reason or another and no one would ever know.
I can think of a million reasons you would no longer be participating on this blog, and that is fine. But I am worried. You have my e-mail address; please let me know if you are still kicking butt in Ann Arbor, biatch (The General’s first post here – oh my how time flies).
[UPDATE: Dan Genz of the Examiner reports the crackdown won't be all it's cracked up to be or all that Sheriff Simpson requested. This does not bode too well for much change in eastern Loudoun.]
Loudoun County Sheriff Steve Simpson announced yesterday that the federal bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has approved the Loudoun Sheriff’s Office for participation in the federal 287(g) program, which provides authority and additional tools for local government agencies to enforce federal immigration laws.
It’s about time.
Help Save Loudoun presented a detailed proposal on the 287(g) program to the Loudoun Board of Supervisors in October, 2006.
NVTH readers may recall that the Sheriff’s changing stance on 287(g) was a controversial issue in the county last year. The Joseph Passarelli tragedy highlighted the spectacular failure of local law enforcement agencies, who had the illegal alien, hit-and-run driver in custody 23 times and let him go in every single instance. Let’s hope the new, formal relationship between our Sheriff’s Office and ICE will also lead to a reversal of what is perceived in Sterling to be a very hands-off approach to illegal aliens by local law enforcement.
The problem as we see it in Sterling appears as follows: Illegal aliens are a sticky wicket for certain local government agencies – specifically, the Sheriff’s Office and the Zoning Enforcement Team – to deal with, so representatives of those agencies routinely give illegal aliens a free pass for infractions that would land citizens in a heap of trouble. If you or I had a DUI incident, turned our residence into a boarding house or began running a construction-related subcontracting business out of our home, we would be spanked legally and financially in short order. Illegals, however, seem to get away with stuff like this all the time. At a “community meeting” a few weeks ago, that was the dominant complaint from the citizens – of ALL ethnic groups – who attended. What we want is for our Sheriff’s Office to apply the same rules to illegal aliens that apply to us, and the new agreement with ICE provides an opportunity for hope that infractions under the jurisdiction of the Sheriff’s Office will now be dealt with more effectively. (The Zoning Enforcement Team, alas, may be beyond hope, and that is a blog post for another day).
So let’s hope that the continual DUI infractions, assorted related crimes, and crimes of every sort will now begin to abate as the Sheriff’s Office takes a more proactive stance on apprehending and processing illegal aliens suspected of violations. When word gets out that Loudoun County is once more under the rule of law, our community may become a less attractive location for illegal migrant workers.
As reported in today’s New York Times, even the Bush administration has been taking a harder line on illegals which is nothing short of a miracle; so while we can’t expect him to be transformed into Sheriff Joe overnight, we should expect Sheriff Steve Simpson to instill a culture of enforcing the rule of law throughout his department.
In case any of our readers are not clued in about why it is important for local government agencies to have all the necessary tools and authority to apprehend illegal alien criminals rather then let them slip through the net, this seems as good a time as any for another illegal alien recent crime round-up. Most of these links, below the fold, are from our vigilant, esteemed reader Lynn.
Almost lost in the excitement of Tiger’s dramatic win at Torrey Pines was the fact that Dale Earnhardt Jr won the Michigan 400, his first victory since 2006.
As a kid I did not really appreciate the strategic “fuel mileage” victories – I always wanted to see a flat out dash to the finish. But now the fuel mileage race is as interesting to me as most others. There are so many variables, so many moving parts, to putting together a NASCAR victory: driver, pit crew, machinery, drafting, and definitely fuel management. The entire process of making a green flag pit stop can cause such a huge shakeup in the field because the efficiency of the slow-down prior to entering pit road has as much an impact on the car’s eventual position on the track as the quickness of the pit stop itself. It’s fascinating how such subtle vicissitudes can result in such substantial changes on the race track. Similarly, on those tracks where fuel management can come into play, after the halfway point the crew chief can start calculating fuel mileage backwards from the end of the race, get the car out of sequence from the rest of the field, and have a decent shot at stealing a win by having his driver running at top speed for the last 20 or 30 laps while the leaders have to hit the pits for a quick top-off of fuel.
That’s exactly what Tony Eury Jr. pulled off for his driver on Sunday – though just barely. A caution with two or three laps to go meant that Dale Jr. had to stay out on the track for two more laps than expected (so NASCAR could provide a green-white-checkered competitive finish of two laps after the 400 miles were completed). Two laps at Michigan is four miles, which requires roughly a gallon more fuel than calculated. Dale had to cruise practically on the grass during the caution laps to shorten the distance, turn the car on and off repeatedly to do the maximum coasting possible, and then hope against hope that there were enough fumes in the gas line to permit two laps of full-speed racing.
It worked, though Dale ran out of gas on the way to Victory Lane. Good, suspenseful action.
There was some controversy over the fact that Dale, in his shut-off, switch-on caution laps zipped ahead of the pace car twice, and was not punished for it. But no one would have been punished for such a minor violation, in my view. NASCAR can be strict, but I’ve never seen a driver punished for a couple incidental violations of that nature.
Dale is having a heck of a year in his first season with Hendrick Motorsports. In terms of Cup points, it is his best year ever so far and a vindication of his decision to leave DEI. Good weekend for TV sports.
In the communist Post today was a story about faith based drugstores starting to crop up around the states. One will actually be opening soon in Chantilly. This is nothing more that an alternative to your society stores that also carry the profanity magazines as well “other” sexual aids. Here in part is the article.
“The United States was founded on the idea that people act on their conscience-that they have a sense of right and wrong and do what they think is right and moral” said Tom Brejcha, president and chief counsel at the Thomas More Society, a Chicago public interest law firm that was fined and reprimanded for refusing to fill prescriptions for birth control pills. “Every pharmicist has the right to do the same thing,” Brejcha said.
But critics say the stores could create dangerous obstacles for women seeking legal, safe and widely used birth control methods. “I’m very, very troubled by this,” said Marcia Greenberger of the National Women’s Law Center, a Washington advocacy group. “Contraception is essential for women’s health. A pharmacy like this is walling off an essential part of health care. That could endanger women’s health.”
Say WHAT? This is liberal speak for ” we got to ban guns because they are a public health risk.” Yeh, I get it. Here’s more.
Some pro-life pharmicies are identical to typical drugstores except that they do not stock some or all forms of contraception. Others also refuse to sell tobacco, rolling papers or pornography.
Some critics question how such pharmicies justify carrying drugs, such as Viagra, for male reproduction issues, but not those for women. “Why do you care about the sexual health of men but not women?” asked Anita L. Nelson, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. “If he gets his Viagra, why can’t she get her contraception?”
Viagra is a contraceptive? Oh, please tell me it’s not soooooo!
“in general, I think product differentiation expressive of differing value is a very good thing for a free, pluralistic society,” said Loren E. Lomasky, a bioethicist at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. “If we can have 20 different brands of toothpaste, why not a few different conception of how pharmicies ought to operate?”
Others maintain that pharmicists, like other professionals, have a responsibility to put their patients’ needs ahead of their of their personal beliefs. “If you are a health care professional, you are bound by professional obligations,” said Nancy Berlinger, deputy director of the Hastins Center, a bioethics think tank in Garrison, N.Y. “You can’t say you won’t do part of that profession.”
Excuse me? You mean that anyone that takes the hippocratic oathe should violate the oathe and their own beliefs so that you could, say, have an abortion because it is legal to do so?
What is being said from the opposition is that they want it their way. How dare we try to have any morals or seek to cater to a specific group. Get this:
Critics also worry that women might unsuspectingly seek contraceptives at such a store and be humiliated, or that women NEEDING the morning-after pill, which is most effective when used quickly, may waste PRECIOUS time. “Rape victims could end up in a pharmacy not understanding this pharmacy will not meet their needs,” Greenberger said. STOP! What is a rape victim doing in a pharmacy? They should be at the hospital or police station. Rape is a crime-not a wound in need of some antiseptic and a band-aid! Continue. ” We’ve seen an alarming developement of pharmicists over the last several years refusing to fill precriptions…” (What kind of prescriptions would that be?)
You get the gist. Now let the fun begin. I say if you’re Chik-filet and you don’t want to do business on Sunday for religious reasons then GOD bless you!
