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Guest post by: Cane_Loader!
LAFAYETTE, LOUISIANA, 7/21/2010
Eleven thousand angry and fearful south-Louisiana residents packed a Gulf-coast arena last Wednesday to join Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal and 11 other speakers in condemning the Obama administration’s controversial and economically devastating offshore oil-drilling moratorium that threatens to collapse their state’s economy.
The “Rally for Economic Survival,” – held at the Cajundome in Lafayette, Louisiana, located on the critical U.S. 90 “energy corridor” that is at the very heart of the nation’s offshore oil and gas industry – gave voices and names and faces to some of the anonymous tens of thousands of working-class men and women who for decades have toiled in mud and sweat and grease to bring gasoline, natural gas and heating oil to the cars and homes of America.
The near-capacity gathering bristled and booed at the mention of President Obama, and loudly cheered a sustained indictment of obstruction by the federal government, including Lafourche Parish President Charlotte Randolph‘s half-joking threat to “turn off the valve” supplying the eastern United States, should Louisianans continue to lose their jobs over the federal moratorium.
Bobby Jindal took the stage and the crowd roared. He denounced the Obama moratorium as “arbitrary and capricious,” and then delivered a blunt message to Washington. Backed by the shouts of embittered Gulf-coast citizens, Jindal hammered it home. Thousands of working-class Americans, many wearing well-worn coveralls, stood up and cheered and joined their tireless young governor as he issued a stark challenge to whom many perceive as a tyrannical president who doesn’t care about them:
“We don’t want a BP check; we don’t want an unemployment check…LET US GO BACK TO WORK! LET US GO BACK TO WORK! LET US GO BACK TO WORK! LET US GO TO WORK! WE DON’T WANT AN UNEMPLOYMENT CHECK – LET US GO BACK TO WORK!”
Most Americans have never heard of Highway 90, formerly called the Old Spanish Trail, yet it is the life-giving artery of the modern American dream. Cutting through the marshes and swamps of coastal Louisiana, it is an old road. Union and Confederate troops fought and bled and died in its dirt in rolling skirmishes from New Orleans to Morgan City to New Iberia to Mansfield. It has always been front and center in the history of this land.
Today, if you live in the eastern two-thirds of the United States, this old road fills your tank and heats your home. As it winds it way along the curve of the Louisiana coast, it carries a non-stop cargo of the men and machines that power America – hard men and women, and heavy metal. Providing access to four of America’s 10 largest ports, it is lined with the energy service companies and pipeline networks that supply the eastern United States with oil and gas. Cut off Highway 90, and the business of energy production in the Gulf of Mexico would stop.
Casing crews, downhole services and divers. Helicopter pilots, deckhands, pipefitters and cooks. Accountants and truckers and salesmen and waitresses. Twenty-four hours a day, they work as a team to bring you your modern life.
For faceless decades they have endured punishing hours and left their families for weeks at a time to keep America moving. For decades – as Americans have blithely assumed that gasoline is born in a gas pump at the street-corner market, that natural gas wafts from a rusty meter on the side of the house, and that heating oil comes from a grimy truck with a long hose – these people have devoted generations of lives to keep the flow of gas and oil moving in the giant pipes and ships and trucks to all of America that lies east of the Rockies.
These men and women, together, are the beating heart of the American post-war lifestyle.
Your car that gets you places. The Ziploc bags that preserve your food. The fuel that brings your food to the supermarket. The computer keyboard that lets you emote and the shiny device that distracts you as you text and drive. That energy came from somewhere. It came from the energy farmers of south Louisiana who harvested it for you. Farmers who need roofs over their heads and whose children and aged parents must be fed, just as yours.
These are the people who streamed into the Cajundome from all corners of the state on July 21, 2010, in coveralls, pantsuits, boots and Polo shirts, to show their faces to America and help Bobby Jindal shout their anger at an administration that seems deaf to reason or facts, and instead seems hell-bent on destroying their lives.
Companies like Halliburton are not monoliths. They are real people working hard to power America. Despite the left-wing caricature of the company as an evil Cheney-golem bent on world tyranny, the Halliburton crews get down and dirty to turn on your lights.
They came because they had to. They have no choice. The president of the United States has made a decision that very possibly will give them their pink slips, and the rest of the country is not paying attention.
In the heat of the summer of 2010, the media, even conservative outlets, such as Fox News, have fallen into a collective, self-perpetuating, racial fever-dream, and the Hamlet-like drama of the firing and possible re-hiring of one woman has sucked all the air out of the media and the blogosphere. Those who try to exercise their freedom of speech are portrayed as racists, and those on the Gulf coast trying to spread the news about the economically devastating drilling moratorium are just plain being ignored. “What are you people whining about? The well is capped, isn’t it?” Back to your regularly scheduled programming.
Meanwhile, while the race card blares an off-key and unserious dissonance throughout the land, shrilling from television screens 24/7 like an elementary-school orchestra, Americans outside of the Gulf coast are not being informed of a second man-made disaster in the Gulf of Mexico that, before long, will affect them directly for years to come: With the American discussion fixated on the spilled oil and Race TV, Utility-Worker-in-Chief Barack Obama has strolled around the side of the house to shut off the power to their modern lives, with barely a ripple in the national news….
“Honey, did you just see a man walk by the kitchen window?” Never mind.
The offshore drilling moratorium is driving rigs away to foreign countries. Say hello to increased reliance on foreign energy. American jobs are being lost that won’t come back. The rig owners have to make money to stay afloat. Financial decisions will have to be made in the next month that will send even more American rigs to Africa, Brazil and elsewhere as – all the while – China and Russia continue to drill full-throttle in the Gulf, unchecked! Should not the moratorium apply to these countries, or has Obama not yet appointed a Czar to board and inspect their rigs?
President Obama’s apparent delusion that the gas and oil engine of America can be flipped on and off like a light switch would be laughable in its naivete, were it not for the fact that the economic naïf who has been madly flipping switches in the control room of America since January 20, 2009, has finally hit America’s main circuit-breaker.
The question of the hour: Is it naivete, or opportunistic intent?
After a warm-up act of nationalizing banks, private automotive companies, health care, mushrooming the debt and breaking seemingly all of his campaign promises (except to spread the wealth around), Obama’s moratorium is the latest act of seeming sabotage to plague the American economy. The president’s handpicked panel of experts concluded that a moratorium would actually make drilling in the Gulf less safe. His lawyers then twisted this conclusion to falsely claim that the panel favored a six-month drilling moratorium. Not only did the experts oppose the moratorium – they subsequently issued a statement saying that the president and Interior Secy. Ken Salazar had misrepresented their conclusions. The New Orleans federal judge, when voiding the first moratorium, concurred that the Obama administration had misrepresented the conclusions of its own experts.
But wait – it gets worse: What this same federal judge called an “arbitrary and capricious” moratorium on deepwater oil drilling permits, has now extended to the unofficial, administrative, stealth moratorium on shallow-water drilling permits. As wells play out, they must be capped, the rigs moved, and new wells drilled. President Obama’s people have slammed the brakes on this critical replacement process. Secretary Salazar had said he would put a “boot of the neck” of BP. Well, read this chart – only four shallow water drilling permits have been approved since April, 2010:
What the media and the rest of America have not yet realized is that, by refusing to lift the unjust, “arbitrary and capricious” moratorium of drilling in the Gulf of Mexico – imposed in contravention of his own panel of experts – Obama’s boot is now on the collective neck of America.
How did that boot get there? Because the conclusions of the president’s own appointed experts did not match his political aims, his lawyers attempted to deceive a federal judge about the panel’s conclusions. And then, after the judge voided the moratorium, calling it “arbitrary and capricious,” the Feds simply re-labeled the moratorium a “suspension” – in defiance of the court – with no consideration of the detrimental impact on jobs and safety. And that semantic end-run around the justice system, in an America with a functioning press, should be a scandal large enough to wipe even Race TV off our screens.
In inflicting the disruption of an unsupported moratorium on a large portion of the nation’s domestic energy supply, Obama has flipped off the master switch to the American economy. All of us, most of us unsuspectingly, are now running our daily lives on what’s left in the pipelines and in the remaining wells – which, due to the moratorium, are not being replaced as they play out.
Study the faces of these men and women who have been powering your lives. Among them are some of the first victims of the Obama Energy Shutdown of 2010. Some of them have already lost their jobs, with many more to soon follow. As President Obama’s exercise in economic demolition proceeds, their faces will become more familiar to all Americans.
These hard-working Louisianans are your countrymen – my neighbors – who have made your lives comfortable for a long time now. Most of them are smiling because we are a warm-hearted people who try to make best of things. But if the destructive policies of President Obama are allowed to stand, these faces may soon become as mirrors to your own.
CORRECT links to Bobby J.’s speech, featured great crowd noise (the footage I shot):
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5hyE3FUm6w
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Czk8Lqs7yNM
-cane_loader
You can see all of the pictures at the slideshow linked here.
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It is the Obama Administration and the Democrat’s intent to put as many people out of work as possible. You can see that in this small presentation, posted earlier on Blogmocracy. Getting people on unemployment is the first step in getting them dependant on government largess for their livelihoods entirely, and that is a step towards getting them to voting Democrats like the slaves that they have become. This is the genius of the Obama Administration. You can see it in action daily.
There’s a precedent for this. Remember the Northern Spotted Owl?
They have this to say about the jobs lost:
Get ready for the snake oil peddling sociologists to start peddling “green jobs”. You guys in Louisiana aren’t the first to get it in the end from the greens; they raped the PNW loggers a long time ago.
I’m on the east coast…don’t turn my shit off. I didn’t vote for the bastards. I’m on your side!!! Give ‘em hell!
Do I need to point out who stands to benefit from a reduction in US oil production? (**cough cough Saudi VenezIran cough **)
@ Iron Fist:
It is not just a desire to put people out of work, but to devastate the economy beyond recovery is also operating here.
Fundamental Transformation of America indeed.
snork wrote:
Canada and Mexico will reap economic benefits as well when we buy more oil from our neighbors.
I’m sending a link to this post to friends by email. This needs to get out there!
@ FurryOldGuyJeans:
Yeah. I figure the economy will collapse from the debt and entitlements sometime between 2020 and 2025, but Obama is trying to get it to collapse more in the 2015 timeframe. It will be hard for him to push it much closer than that, though. They US economy is a mighty engine, even now. He simply can’t bring it all crashing down in a day. But he is doing his level best to bring it down. Of that I no longer have any doubts.
FurryOldGuyJeans wrote:
The net benefit gets spread over all the oil producers. The price goes up for everyone.
Wow! Great people! I am proud of them
I would have liked to attend that rally.
@ Iron Fist:
It isn’t just Barry that is trying to bring down the American economic engine, it is a lot of the Dems and RINOs in Congress as well, with Reid and Pelosi taking point.
@ snork:
I thought that’s why we went war against Iraq?/
@ FurryOldGuyJeans:
Boycott Mexico.
excellent post cane loader, well done!
so at what point do the states tell fedgov to shove off.
coldwarrior wrote:
we tried that in the 1860′s…didn’t work out too well.
The plight of these hard working awesome Americans brings tears to my eyes. This Commie President has declared war on the South.
rain of lead wrote:
But it might not turn out the same if there is a next time.
@ Grimcargo:
one can only hope
@ Grimcargo:
Less than 3 months until the October Surprise.
rain of lead wrote:
Which raises a point I have been making almost from day one with Barry in the WH:
We are living through quite similar experiences as those in the late 1850′s, with just as disastrous results looming.
Hope this made all those folks feel good because it won’t do jack shit to help them.
coldwarrior wrote:
How about now? Time to ignore Obama and the Corruptocrats.
@ coldwarrior:
I think that point is coming soon. Perhaps as early as next year, when they will have a much more favorable House of Representatives (at the least) to give them a measure of cover. Obama ain’t Lincoln. He isn’t going to go to war with the States over Federal Supremacy. He ain’t got the balls. That is the only thing good about our Stalin-wannabe President: he ain’t got the balls to be a true totalitarian dictator.
A very eloquently written post.
@ Grimcargo:
Hey! Not all of us yankees are nuts! This isn’t a north vs south thing.
savage wrote:
I still say the oil rig explosion weren’t no accident. Yeah I know I am mocked.
Grimcargo wrote:
Not just the south, but every citizen that opposes statism.
NoThreat2U wrote:
I know I am mostly directing this at Obama admn.
NoThreat2U wrote:
really.
kick the fed b’crats out of the states…ignore the regulations. hold all fed taxes at the state level and release it to DC only if the state says its OK to do so.
People who demonize BP and demonized Haliburton seem to forget about the people who make up these companies.
One wonders whether, between Arizona and Louisiana, we are seeing the first birth-pangs of a massive revolt against federal over-regulation, which might end up clogging the courts with an overwhelming series of lawsuits by the federal government against companies and states that basically tell the federal regulators, “Go to hell—and bring it on.”
Grimcargo wrote:
They don’t forget, they don’t give a shit about other people. All they want is those other people’s money.
what would the feds do if the gulf states OK drilling and some daring companies decided to do it.
what is DC gonna do, invade?
hold the fed tax follars. the peeps would go for that methinks
..the Obama administration’s controversial and economically devastating offshore oil-drilling moratorium that threatens to collapse their state’s economy.
Who benefits from such a moratorium? Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. (brazillian oil concern) does and so does their biggest shareholder.
No need for a conspiracy theory, they do it out in the open and don’t care.
@ Grimcargo:
I just wanted to make that clear. I sure as hell didn’t vote for hope and change.
@ coldwarrior:
Frak the Fed. That is going on my plate. lol
@ buzzsawmonkey:
I like that idea
Grimcargo wrote:
As I said in #2, this isn’t the first shutdown of a regional industry by the greens. The loggers of the Pacific Northwest received that honor a quarter century ago. But the fact that this is the South was a bonus.
Ya, but,these are just your worker bee Christians, hell their not even counted in the census, get me some on the dole Democrats with
“Save the Planet” Greenpuss leaders leading them to the dole trough.
Then it will be on the 5:00 LieNetWorks.
snork wrote:
It is alreay on, there are more in the fight than any one knows.
We the People are already wining, you can tell by the panic in the eyes of the MSM Kommie Kook Klustger F’ers.
things like
http://www.blowoutcongress.com
and more every day
@ buzzsawmonkey:
I hate to jack the thread, but please read this regarding the ROE:
http://www.infidelsparadise.com/?p=3558
@ buzzsawmonkey:
We are also seeing it on Second Amendment issues with the “Firearms Freedom Acts” that havbe been passed by several of the States. While it is mostly symbolic at this time, if all (or almost all) of the States would do it it would send a strong message to the Federal Government to back off. This is, of course, just one fight on that front. I am going to be watching what the Republican Congress does (not says, but does) on the issue over the next two years.
coldwarrior wrote:
If you back someone into a corner and not let them make a living what else are they going to do. Same thing happened right before the civil war.
Grimcargo wrote:
except now its all states, not just half.
every state suffers from fed regulations and the divine right of bureaucrats.
coldwarrior wrote:
Good phrase.
I feel like I am in Pink Floyd’s The Wall….probably because I am watching it on Fuse.
They have used the EPA to put in rules here in Texas to prevent any new refinery’s being built, the rules the feds have are awful and to costly, the Texas rules are fine just not to bad the refinery can not be built and made to make money.
They are also useing the EBA and the Open Border to screw up the Texas ecomony.
“Traitors All” the Commie Democrats IMHO.@ coldwarrior:
I am amazed this pos didn’t seize the moment when the coal mine accident happened. He must not have been paying attention at that time.
@ Grimcargo:
I’m sure he is think of how to best screw the coal industry. Remember when he said he would tax them out of existence??
Iron Fist wrote:
Grimcargo wrote:
Listen to NPR. They’re using the coalmine accident as a lever too. NPR is very important to listen to; they are so in the bag for the Administration that they happily, joyfully announce things that never make it to the commercial media.
Grimcargo wrote:
the whores in the UMW backed him.
NoThreat2U wrote:
Yes and the morons voted for him anyhow. I blame the ones who pulled the lever for him more than I blame him.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Juan Williams is their perfect example. They ought to shut that ***down.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
gathering enemy intel…
@ Grimcargo:
Yeah, He never would have been able to do this stuff if he wasn’t voted in. (I still question the methods used)
coldwarrior wrote:
The problem is, they have to lease the site from the Department of the Interior. If they don’t have a valid lease, nobody in their right mind is going to spend the kind of money it takes. These things are up to a million a day. And you have to lease the floating rig from somebody else. The Coast Guard would tell the rig owner to stop, and it would stop, contract or no contract.
The real danger is the opposite; once these leased rigs start finding work overseas, it may be years before we can schedule one back here. They go were there’s paying work.
Grimcargo wrote:
any UMW member that voted for 0 is a whore and a traitor to his union, regardless of what their leadership said to do.
NoThreat2U wrote:
Just wait. There will be much more to question in the coming months. Voter fraud. He probadly has a secret voter fraud czar. You know to stack the dick.
DECK!!!
Grimcargo wrote:
A better crisis came along and made him a better offer. He’ll be back attacking the coal industry soon enough.
Grimcargo wrote:
Remember that many, many people were suckered in by the promise of a “post-racial” presidency; they believed that what they were voting for was a nation where the Sharptons, Jacksons, Wrights and their ilk would finally be sidelined for good. Never mind that this was patently false; it was heavily sold by the media on which most people rely, and they bought it the way they buy “New, Improved!” laundry detergent.
What they did not know, of course, was that “post-racial” meant one thing to sane people, and something quite different to Marxist ideologues; to them, it meant a promise of revanchist payback by the Never-Racist People of Color (and their melanin-challenged allies) against the Always-Racist White Society.
@ Buckeye Abroad:
That is Obama’s real motivation.
@ snork:
the coast guard will what, issue paper?
they sure as hell wont fire on anyone, these cats have to live in the communities.
eventually there has to be some real pushback or we might as well sign on to the 0 plan now and save the whining and bitching
if there is violence against bureaucrats and agents, so be it.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Like how they’d get their rocks off watching Rush Limbaugh having a heart attack?
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
yes I think you are correct.
Grimcargo wrote:
ROFLMAO*********************
But yes, there will be more. Voter Fraud Czar? Probably a member of the NBPs.
@ coldwarrior:
Pretty much, yes. It’s astounding what they are willing to chortle about.
I don’t know if I mentioned it here, but the other day the NPR talking heads were discussing planned US responses to “our rivals, Iran and North Korea.” Not enemies; not opponents. Rivals. I am not making this up.
If we have sunk to the point where the US is merely a “rival” of North Korea, or Iran, we are in worse shape than I thought—but that is how the NPR reporters described it.
coldwarrior wrote:
They won’t fire on their damm family that’s for sure. And they better check the numbers of Southerners serving in the military. That might just shock them.
@ coldwarrior:
They’ll order the captain of the rig to cease and desist. And the captain isn’t going to resist, because they have guns. They’ll impound and confiscate and tow the quarter billion dollar rig. Then it goes to auction. You don’t know what the feds have the authority to do.
And the rig owners have no dog in the fight; they’re probably Asian, and would be just as happy drilling in the Persian Gulf.
NoThreat2U wrote:
@ Grimcargo:
in the end, it all comes down to the barrel of a rifle.
Would someone please post this where it would be most heard/helpful?
Grimcargo wrote:
I seem to recall someone now ensconced in the White House making some offhand references to the need for a new civilian defense corps that was “as well armed as our military.”
Can’t think of his name offhand.
@ snork:
force the feds to do it.
thats the point, make them threaten force and get national with it.
force the feds to make utah stop mining in the grand esclante
keep doing it over and over again
@ Grimcargo:
Yes I am juvenile…it made me LOL
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
I think he has them for the most part. The unions. That remark should have scared the ell out of sane people.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Suppose extreme unemployment might help him get to that goal?
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Was his name Mr. Socialist Bastard?
Grimcargo wrote:
It did. There are a lot of crazy people.
NoThreat2U wrote:
My teleprompt went down
there is a funky law in Pa form way back that allows the county sheriff to throw out agents of the federal government…i need to look this up, it sounds interesting
coldwarrior wrote:
There’s an unrepentant ex-terrorist of the Maoist persuasion who doubtless remembers the line from the Little Red Book: “Every Communist must grasp the truth; political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”
Some say the current President began his political career in that terrorist’s living room.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
try never paying your property taxes…eventually you will be removed from your house at the point of a gun.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
@ Grimcargo:
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Blackberry hey thats racist. Maybe its whiteberry
coldwarrior wrote:
That’ll get thrown out in court the first time somebody tries to use it.
@ NoThreat2U:
I heard that all the way down here.
snork wrote:
I liked it back during the moonshiner days when they just made them disappear.
the crux is that if the states are not willing to protect their citizens against the overpowering tyranny of fedgov, then why should this charade continue?
let fedgov handle everything and remove the states from the equation, they are duncile.
Is Cane_loader a member here? The reason I ask is, I know a lot about loading cane.
Grimcargo wrote:
and how will the feds enforce it if the state tells them to shove off?
eventually it may (should) come down to these kinds of questions.
@ Grimcargo:
Yes, one of the original ones actually. But he has an old machine and can only access us from the library now! ~:(
I’m hoping when MightyConservative gets finished, he’ll be able to post again.
coldwarrior wrote:
coldwarrior wrote:
That’s what they want. The states to be like the SSRs. Local administrative districts.
@ Grimcargo:
I bet you did! What a slip up. lol
@ m:
I am sorry about that. Wish he had access. Is that the one who did this website?
rain of lead wrote:
If at first you don’t secede, try, try, again.
I had that as my signature over at GCP, before I was banned.
BBL bad bad storms approaching from Mississippi… Great Post Cane Loader.
coldwarrior wrote:
The important thing is that the federal gummint no longer has the practical wherewithal to enforce its will if enough States tell them to shove off, and mean what they say.
@ Grimcargo:
i see that!
STAY SAFE!
1389AD wrote:
there it is.
Grimcargo wrote:
These days, power (in another, perhaps more important sense) comes out of a wall outlet.
Before it gets to the wall outlet, it comes from fossil fuel.
Obozo is trying to monopolize that sort of power as well as the type that comes from the muzzle of a gun. We cannot allow him to succeed at either one.
wow, for the first time in a week i have the windows open and the attic fan running full bore!
it aint 90F with killer humidity. it felt like the south up here.
snork wrote:
And only the politically favored will be allowed to take part, natch.
1389AD wrote:
gulf states get together, buy a drilling rig and use it, make the feds stop them from using it. make it public and loud.
coldwarrior wrote:
Exactly.
That’s why the way to defy excessive taxation is through the Tea Party movement, rather than simply not paying them as an individual. Only the politically connected seem to be able to get away with that.
1389AD wrote:
Facile fools are attacking our use of fossil fuels.
@ Grimcargo:
Yep!
1389AD wrote:
like someone said upthread, it would be the SA all over again. but this time up against an armed populace
coldwarrior wrote:
That is why elections at the State level are sooooo important now.
It matters who your governor and State legislators are. Big time.
Grimcargo wrote:
LOL…my mother’s father was a West Virginia coal miner. During Prohibition, he made his own beer. Didn’t do any distilling that I know of, though.
1389AD wrote:
not if they wont move against the fedgov they arent.
is jindal going to anything other than hold some hearings?
hearings and protest wont do much, real action has to start form somewhere.
@ coldwarrior:
Dude there was a giant cloud over my house last night. It was like I was sucked into a vortex. lol lol
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Give Obama a Second Term, and National Pravda Radio will be calling the Norks and Iran our “superiors“. Possibly even our “betters”. That is what they feel them to be, anyway, even if they don’t quite dare to say it.
1389AD wrote:
heh, i can brew (and repeat the excellent results) and i know how to distill.
(mad booze skillz)
some of us decided to make a still in honor of the whiskey rebellion which started just over there—>
(looks out window)
NoThreat2U wrote:
i was watching that from my deck…great stuff last night.
Iron Fist wrote:
In the meantime, as I said above, what they say and how they say it is very telling indeed.
@ coldwarrior:
I even took pictures!
It freaked me out. I was heading home up past Sheetz. You could feel the change in the air. lol Dodged a big storm though
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
If it gets to that point, NPR itself will bear a considerable part of the blame for making it so.
Russia, China, Japan, and India are “rivals” in that they are our competitors in the world of trade and commerce. They want to expand their commercial spheres of influence at the expense of the US and of each other. That’s just part of the human condition; I don’t consider them “enemies” because they are not bent on wiping us out.
That is a far different matter from what we see in North Korea, Iran, Venezuela, and, let’s face it, Saudi Arabia, who actively want to do us harm for ideological reasons, without regard to economic self-interest on their part.
coldwarrior wrote:
I need to stop by and visit!
@ coldwarrior:
Yeah, we are coming to a time when some kind of open resistance is necessary. If the Federal Courts strike down Obama’s moritorium on drilling, and he just changes the name to something else and presses onward, what choice is there? He makes drilling impossible, because the businesses involved won’t take the risks involved to drill here. They’ll go to Libya and drill there, creating jobs for the Libyans doing the jobs Americans are not permitted to do. All part of Obama’s plan. Even if he ultimately fails (i.e., the Supreme Court tells him to go pound sand) he wins because once they are gone, these jobs are not coming back. Not in two years, or even five years. Maybe never. And that is exactly what Obama wants. The States need to act to protect their people, and the Republicans need to act on both a State and a National Level to counter this. They need to explicitly call Obama out on this bullshit. But I doubt they have the stones to do it.
NoThreat2U wrote:
it looked great form here too!
we had in line winds that knocked over one of my tomato plants
Grimcargo wrote:
Post-racial to us means “color-blind society”.
Post-racial to them means “no white people”.
@ Iron Fist:
u said it better than i did.
62. Rodan
That is Obama’s real motivation.
Thats it in a nutshell. He pushes through specialist interestes, especially the ones that got him elected, and cashes out after 4 years.
The man is a common, Chicago political thug with no scrupels or intellect. Thats all he knows and will ever live up to. He is a whore for those with more grandiose, sinister plans.
He is throwing democrat congressmen under the bus on the way out.. hence their hostility.
Iron Fist wrote:
That is why each affected State needs to elect legislators and a governor who DOES have the stones to stand up to the Feds.
@ coldwarrior:
Talking about Prohibition, my uncle Harold (Grandpa’s brother) used to run moonshine through the backwoods of Kentucky and Indiana in the 1920′s and 30′s. Drove a Mack truck balls to the wall at night with no headlights. Never got caught by the police.
1389AD wrote:
i am only as racist as the black leaders are. i use them as an example.
@ coldwarrior:
My son’s mater plants made it through thank goodness. I have a great view of the Target/Lowes area from here. That was the only place it was still light out. The rest was a cloud. *shiver*
@ coldwarrior:
The term “racist” means almost nothing to me anymore. It has been used and abused to the point where it is devalued to nothing. That is not to say that there aren’t thoe whose racial attitudes I find unacceptible. There are. A lot of them work for the Obama Administration.
@ Grimcargo:
I thought Reagan was one of our cruelest Presidents with his capricious budget cuts against the handicapped. Congrats Obama now you have superseded him. I lived in Lafayette for 3 months in 2007 and the people are very nice. They had recovered well from Rita and Katrina. What in God’s name have the Southern states done to you other than express their constitutional right to vote for John McCain over you? Why do you hate us? Where is your conscience? BTW, I thought the courts lifted the moratorium.
Can someone email me instructions on how to change my photobucket GIANT link into a little one? I am slow sometimes.
savage wrote:
prolly paid off the police
@ 1389AD:
Yes, at the end of the day the government that is closest to the people should be the one with the most authority over them. States Rights, local government, call it what you will, it is the way that this country was intended to operate. We need to get back to that, instead of an Imperial Federal Government that is not accountable to anyone telling us all how we should live.
NoThreat2U wrote:
the tomato plant the blew over was in a pot that has 60lbs of dirt in it!
@ savage:
My God. The Demo☭rats would SHIT if he ran!
mtc wrote:
they lifted it and then fedgov re-files the suit under a different name…rinse, repeat
@ NoThreat2U:
You can add (width=”50%” height=”50%”) or 25% if it’s huge. Or if you know the exact dimensions you want — same thing.
(width=”640″ height=”480″) ~ something like that!
@ coldwarrior:
Holy moly! Well I am more in a valley. You are up in Mountain Goat territory. lol
@ m:
No no no…not that way. I mean how you take a link and make it say something else like “Here” or whatever.
@ mtc:
Obama re-named it, and went on with it. It’ll be a big dust-up in the Courts, and he’s really setting himself up for the Supreme Court to smack him dowqn hard on a number of issues. That won’t matter to the people of the Gulf, though. The risk and uncertanty will drive the jobs off, and once they are gone they will be gone. This is, as I have been saying, exactly what Obama wants. He isn’t incompetant or stupid. He is getting the results he desires.
Iron Fist wrote:
He’s just fulfilling his oath of office, and “taking care that the laws be faithfully executed.”
That “faithful execution” in this instance amounts pretty much to sawing the heads off the laws in a manner reminiscent of a terrorist video is merely an interesting coincidence.
1389AD wrote:
Some states prefer to just wait for a belly rub from Uncle Sugar after he extorts money and kicks them.
Grimcargo wrote:
Exactly.
Score at half time:
USA: 1 CSA: 0
Excellent post.
Note that a “six month moratorium” is a fantasy. It costs about $500,000 per day to maintain a deepwater rig on standby. Few will remain at that cost. They will go were then can work,and once there it is unlikely they will ever return.
It takes at least two years to build a new rig, and there are long waiting lists, with Brazil in the que for 27 new rigs. Likely they will aquire, or lease the rigs idled by this moratorium. A huge win for Brazil.
This means a minimum of three years before new deepwater exploration could resume in the gulf, and likely a decade before things could get back to where they were. A disaster for the US drilling industy and the hundreds of thousands of workers it employs. A much larger disaster for the US economy as the oil price is sure to rise, and that money will be going overseas.
I’ll write more on this once I’ve finished my current travels. My laptop having packed it in last night.
More to follow later in the week…
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Yeah, pretty much.
#145 Bagua
It takes at least two years to build a new rig, and there are long waiting lists, with Brazil in the que for 27 new rigs. Likely they will aquire, or lease the rigs idled by this moratorium. A huge win for Brazil.
I refer you to my post #34.