tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5213291.post2923820415646097064..comments2023-06-28T09:59:42.375-05:00Comments on The Clue Batting Cage: Of Independence Day, Dirty Jobs, and Best Friendsphilmonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10385793223534322848noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5213291.post-51477447799845212462010-06-24T07:40:02.857-05:002010-06-24T07:40:02.857-05:00"... those nasty oil companies (and their bou..."... those nasty oil companies (and their bought-and-paid-for Congressional Republicans) would get out of the way."<br /><br />Heh. You didn't happen to catch Glenn Beck's monday TV show, didja?<br /><br />One of the few outside of the "Founders Fridays" I've caught recently.<br /><br />If you're having arguments about Republicans bought and paid for by oil, I highly reccomend you do a YouTube search for <i>Glenn Beck 06/21/10</i>. As usual, it's split into 4 parts, so you have to make sure you find all four. <br /><br />Well worth watching. Yes, there is <i>some</i> speculation in there but there are also a lot of stubborn facts that would have "convicted" any Republican president long ago.<br /><br />Incidentally, if solar and wind could produce energy on the scale we need with the reliability we need, nobody could get in their way.philmonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10385793223534322848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5213291.post-79701310553340581402010-06-23T22:52:38.784-05:002010-06-23T22:52:38.784-05:00What I wish American people everywhere, right and ...What I wish American people everywhere, right and left alike would realize:<br /><br />We're not going to burn less oil in the US, at least not as a result of the oil spill in the Gulf. <br /><br />That means one thing. It means that less oil being pumped out of the Gulf via offshore deepwater rigs...by definition means more oil being imported from foreign countries. (I don't see increased shallow water drilling or drilling on land, to compensate for the deepwater rig shutdowns.) There's only one alternative - bring in more of the stuff from other countries.<br /><br />I was explaining this to someone earlier today. And I added - increasing the percentage of oil imported from other countries merely gives those countries additional leverage over the US economy, and some of those same nations don't have our best interests in mind. <br /><br />I went on to mention that during the Saddam era, the US was actually importing some of its oil from Iraq as per the UN's Oil-For-Palaces program...er, I mean, Oil-For-Food.<br /><br />I had to explain this to my cousin when he tried to debate Charles Krauthammer's observation that part of the blame for the Gulf mess can be laid at the feet of environmentalists and their restrictions on shallow-water and on-land drilling. (My cousin tried to argue that those methods have their own spills.) I pointed out, via Facebook post, that shutting down drilling in the Gulf merely means buying more of it from countries like Nigeria, who drill a lot dirtier than we do and are even less equipped to contain the damage from a major spill.<br /><br />There's just no getting through to liberals. When you smack them with this clue-by-four, they fall back to their default stupidity about how wonderful wind and solar would be, if only those nasty oil companies (and their bought-and-paid-for Congressional Republicans) would get out of the way.Cylarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5213291.post-72666299767372753942010-06-18T15:34:55.921-05:002010-06-18T15:34:55.921-05:00:-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7NzBTRzCkg:-)<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7NzBTRzCkgphilmonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10385793223534322848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5213291.post-30469798132227352302010-06-18T15:34:50.276-05:002010-06-18T15:34:50.276-05:00Ah! You might be a real wizzard! Problem is that s...Ah! You might be a real wizzard! Problem is that sounds too American.Whitehawkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13655992902329694045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5213291.post-23837095473064630762010-06-18T15:08:14.387-05:002010-06-18T15:08:14.387-05:00How about this solution?
Whatever oil company oth...How about this solution?<br /><br />Whatever oil company other than BP gets in here and caps this thing first gets the well and all new gulf permits & contracts for the next decade.philmonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10385793223534322848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5213291.post-62760626216177891032010-06-18T15:03:59.862-05:002010-06-18T15:03:59.862-05:00Great post. Covered a lot of ground. Regarding the...Great post. Covered a lot of ground. Regarding the oil spill, I have had the feeling that we have stumbled into a storyline that is a cross between Alice in Wonderland and The Wizzard of Oz. The answers we are given have nothing to do with the questions asked. Sometime soon the president is going to have to come out from behind the curtain of "experts" and "media image builders" and provide a real life solution. It will happen as soon as he realizes he is just a dude from Illinois not a real wizzard.Whitehawkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13655992902329694045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5213291.post-39649818727272677492010-06-18T14:39:35.733-05:002010-06-18T14:39:35.733-05:00Yes, an excellent point I left out. "The lit...Yes, an excellent point I left out. "The little people" (a term they have problems with when OTHER people use it, but not when THEY "stick up" for "the little guy") are their -- the experts, the intellectual elite's ... lab rats to experiment on. They are not and cannot be among the governed. Definitely ireconcilable.<br /><br />I would argue, though, that today's progressives use their disdain for American exceptionalism as a "Goodperson" badge. At least for the moment, they have a tendency to elevate the non-American above the American, if only as a tool to subvert "American Culture" (which they would call "white" American culture) to suit their ends. And secretly they want the entire world ruled by the U.N. <br /><br />You know, the body that created the Israel they love to hate.<br /><br />Full of contradictions they are, mmm, yes?philmonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10385793223534322848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5213291.post-83456793294776313732010-06-18T14:26:47.081-05:002010-06-18T14:26:47.081-05:00Wow, you got all that from one of Mr. Emmerich'...Wow, you got all that from one of Mr. Emmerich's most lackluster efforts?<br /><br />Nice coverage with the strafing run, but you missed just one, and it's like the itch under the cast that the coat hanger cannot quite reach:<br /><br />You cannot have these experts in a world in which everyone is resolutely equal. Both of these articles of their faith are non-negotiable, and each is irreconcilable with the other. Since this creates an unworkable contradiction, it makes them all the more powerful; once the plan is implemented, it must be interpreted. It cannot be left un-interpreted, since it does not make sense on its own. We're absolutely, positively, purely equal and yet we have these superhuman experts at the top? To say nothing of, on the other end of the spectrum, these awful evil Gun-n-Bible clinging Republicans whose opinions aren't supposed to count for anything?<br /><br /><a href="http://www.peekinthewell.net/blog/complete-victory-would-ruin-them/" rel="nofollow">A complete victory here would ruin them</a>.<br /><br />Regarding the "Make 7/4 an international holiday," I don't think that's progressivism talking, it's Hollywood; which is slightly different, since Hollywood is (lest anyone forget) a rich greedy evil capitalist-pig business with the best of 'em. See, in London and Paris, it seems they like to watch movies. They vacation more than we do, so it's pretty big money.<br /><br />Glad to see you back, Phil.mkfreeberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13265933747192068934noreply@blogger.com