Today on Laura Ingraham’s “Just In,” David Bellavia of VetsForFreedom and Jon Soltz of VoteVets were on to discuss Wesley Clark’s comments this past weekend on Face the Nation. Things went nuclear with Soltz, and he tried unsuccessfully to get his tepid point through. Two against one is never a good fight, especially if the two are specifically armed with accurate facts.
Watch the exchange here.
Wow. I am just shocked. What can I say? I just stumbled on this new show, hosted by Al Roker, while busy doing other things in the kitchen and the laundry. The first two families were the Joan Rivers’ family and the family of the rapper, Ice-T. Check out the latest in terrorist chic!
Many crass things have been said and done before on Law & Order, but this just stunned me. Ice-T Jr. (???) came out, and as he was approached and given the microphone, his t-shirt became more apparent. I thought “So You Think You Can Dance” was bad, but sheesh! Ice-T goes further down on my list of ‘actors I will no longer watch.’
Here is a series of screen caps. Can anyone decipher what is said on either the front or back of his t-shirt? The coloring is obvious, as is the crescent shape, but I don’t read jihadi.
*sigh*… the ignorance of Hollywood elites never ceases to amaze me. Can anyone read what is on the back of Jrs.’s t-shirt? Or on the front, for that matter.
Couldn’t have demonstrated it better. Murtha is a foul pig and deserves to be sued for all the money he’s worth (and considering all his kick-backs from lobbyists, that’s a lot). We now can see what a “cold-blooded” person really does.
A picture is worth… well, you know the drill. Thank you Michael Ramirez, my favorite political cartoonist.
Okay, so this is a re-post from April of 2006, but it could not be more relevant nor time sensitive, given the fact that the democrats are all saying “not in my backyard!” about drilling for our own natural resources. Bravo for President Bush today for putting the call out for more exploration in our own country – a call long overdue.
I have seen very few sites that have stated the case for ANWR more than the ANWR homepage itself. But, they have a new slick, very informative and compelling flashmovie, Narrated by a Native Inupiat Eskimo from that area. His name is Fenton Rexford, from Kaktovik, Alaska. I truly can’t improve on the website’s content, so I’m just going to share some of it with you here. I do urge you, however, to visit the site and look around.
Here’s a bit about the local support:
Organizations representing the residents of the Coastal Plain and surrounding area such as the City of Kaktovic, Kaktovik Inupiat Corporation, North Slope Borough, Arctic Slope Regional Corp., Doyon Regional Corporation and Alaskan Federation of Natives have all endorsed development based on their experience with Prudhoe Bay.
There are also facts to predict strong jobs growth; not just for Alaska, but for the entire United States.
ANWR.org has their OWN “Top 10,” and I think they’re worth considering:
TOP 10 REASONS TO SUPPORT DEVELOPMENT IN ANWR
1. Only 8% of ANWR Would Be Considered for Exploration: Only the 1.5 million acre or 8% on the northern coast of ANWR is being considered for development. The remaining 17.5 million acres or 92% of ANWR will remain permanently closed to any kind of development. If oil is discovered, less than 2000 acres of the over 1.5 million acres of the Coastal Plain would be affected. That¹s less than half of one percent of ANWR that would be affected by production activity.
2. Revenues to the State and Federal Treasury: Federal revenues would be enhanced by billions of dollars from bonus bids, lease rentals, royalties and taxes. Estimates on bonus bids for ANWR by the Office of Management and Budget and the Department of Interior for the first 5 years after Congressional approval are 4.2 billion dollars.
3. Jobs To Be Created: Between 250,000 and 735,000 ANWR jobs are estimated to be created by development of the Coastal Plain.
4. Economic Impact: Between 1977 and 2004, North Slope oil field development and production activity contributed over $50 billion to the nations economy, directly impacting each state in the union.
5. America’s Best Chance for a Major Discovery: The Coastal Plain of ANWR is America’s best possibility for the discovery of another giant “Prudhoe Bay-sized” oil and gas discovery in North America. U.S. Department of Interior estimates range from 9 to 16 billion barrels of recoverable oil.
6. North Slope Production in Decline: The North Slope oil fields currently provide the U.S. with nearly 16% of it’s domestic production and since 1988 this production has been on the decline. Peak production was reached in 1980 of two million barrels a day, but has been declining to a current level of 943,000 barrels a day.
7. Imported Oil Too Costly: In 2004 the US imported an average of 58% of its oil and during certain months up to 64%. That equates to over $150 billion in oil imports and over $170 billion including refined petroleum products. That’s $19.9 million dollars an hour! Including defence costs the number would be nearly a trillion dollars.
8. No Negative Impact on Animals: Oil and gas development and wildlife are successfully coexisting in Alaska ’s arctic. For example, the Central Arctic Caribou Herd (CACH) which migrates through Prudhoe Bay has grown from 3000 animals to its current level of 32,000 animals. The arctic oil fields have very healthy brown bear, fox and bird populations equal to their surrounding areas.
9. Arctic Technology: Advanced technology has greatly reduced the ‘footprint” of arctic oil development. If Prudhoe Bay were built today, the footprint would be 1,526 acres, 64% smaller.
10. Alaskans Support: More than 75% of Alaskans favor exploration and production in ANWR. The Inupiat Eskimos who live in and near ANWR support onshore oil development on the Coastal Plain.
If anybody can present a cogent argument to me to refute this veritable gold-mine, I invite you to do so – but please bring facts and ammunition. I will not debate with an intellectually unarmed idiot.
P.S. ANWR is not the total answer… but it is a necessary start.
None other than my favorite political cartoonist, Michael Ramirez, can put the Supreme Court of the United States’ recent decision on WOT detainees’ “habeus corpus rights” in proper perspective. Without further adiue:
My God, what is happening to my country?
I don’t even think I need to comment on the content of the article, as the picture says it all. And insomuch as the picture has nothing to do with the article, it’s just too significant not to share.
Un-freakin’-believable.
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