Say Anything Blog

Nancy Pelosi says,

““You can’t drill your way out of this problem”

OK, I guess she’s the speakerette of the house and we must abide by the third most powerful woman in the USA.

Then, according to her word:  Let’s stop.  All drilling.  Now.  Today.

There’s no point drilling another hole in the ground.  Ms Pelosi says so.  It won’t solve any problems

Full stop.  Not another hole.

Democrats are such idiots.

Here’s a platform that if Republicans had any brains at all should be one that they can run against.

Let’s hope.

From GOPachy

By Hugh Hewitt

The choice in November is clear. A vote for any Democrat from Obama on down the ticket is a vote for $10 a gallon gas. Obama and his allies don't care now and they won't care next year even if Obama wins. The change you will get if the Democrats get the presidency plus the Congress will be prices at the pump skyrocketing.

It’s time some truth came out about Barak Hussein Obama.  He lies.  Pants fully in flame.

Here’s a list of 38 of his lies, untruths, half truths and downright misleading statements.

Does anyone anywhere really want him as our President? 

A couple that concern me most are numbers:

1. Selma Riots got me Born (lie)
3. My dad was a simple goathearder
4. I come from a long line of African Freedom Fighters
6. My name is not arabic, but Swahilli
7. I never practiced Islam
8. I attended a Christian School in Indonesia
9. I was fluent in Indonesian
22. This one is an outright lie in spades

He is a prevaricator of the first order and not worthy to lead this country.  Read the whole list.  It will shake you.

This is my opinion, but since this is Say Anything, I have something to say.

I am so discouraged by our situation a la the election. How did we get here??

When we had the chance to unify behind a candidate we didn’t. We all had a favorite. So did the talk show Gurus. The problem is none of them were fully acceptable to all of us. So we didn’t get behind any ONE.  And now we have McCain and Obama.

Hugh Hewitt was Romney all the way
Rush flipped and Flopped - Thompson, then too late Romney
Michael Medved was McCain all the way
Mark Levin was against everyone, then late for Romney
and Micheal Savage only savaged Bush.

The end result is no unity. No one candidate ever emerged. Every one had a major problem. The Christian Conservatives had a candidate some liked but even that was fractured. Pat Robertson was endorsing Rudy Gulliani.

Meanwhile the Left was captured by a less than perfect charismatic candidate. Plus, and here’s the point, the left is not the brightest bunch in the crate (read Daily Koss or Huffington Post to see how bright these folks really are). Since they are easily fooled they were fooled into nominating an inexperienced equal opportunity candidate. Kind of like they do at the DMV.

I think we have ourselves to blame for this mess. I hope that the talking head opinion makers will get a clue. We did this to ourselves because we are bull headed. I count myself in that. Can this happen again? I don’t know if Obama is elected that we won’t have Robert Mugabe elections like in Zimbabwe.  IF we ever get a chance again to vote in free in fair elections I hope we don’t blow it.

We are so screwed.

I have NEVER EVER thought wind power made any sense.  I think it’s a waste of time, money, takes up land, screws up the environment visually and in every way makes no sense whatsoever.  IF they had to create wind farms on a free market basis there would be NONE which would be the exactly correct number.

Let’s cut it out.  Birds by the thousands are ground to death by these behemoths.  It’s time to stop the insanity.  Defund all of these stupid schemes.  Oh, that goes double for Hybrid Cars.  Another big scam.

From The Heartland Institute

Bird Brains

Wind farms produce only a fraction of the energy of conventional power plants while requiring hundreds of times the acreage. Two of the biggest wind farms in Europe have 159 turbines and cover thousands of acres between them, but together take a year to produce less than four days’ output from a single conventional power station. Similarly, a proposed wind farm off the coast of Massachusetts would require 130 towers and more than 24 square miles of ocean.

Anti-wind farm activists also object to the harm done to migratory birds and bats. Wind farms must be located where the wind blows fairly constantly, areas also favored by migratory birds, including protected species like bald and golden eagles. Ironically, wind farms act as both bait and executioner—prey animals taking shelter at the base of turbines multiply with the protection from raptors, while in turn their greater numbers attract more raptors to be killed by the turbines. “Windmills are taking a horrendous toll on bird populations unaware that the spinning blades will slice them in midflight,” said Jay Lehr, science director for the Heartland Institute. “Windmill advocates claim that wind power is environmentally friendly power, but such assertions ignore the significant dark side of wind power,” Lehr added.

—H. Sterling Burnett, National Center for Policy Analysis, for the Heartland Institute
Blame Game

From Steve Forbes Comments Column this week

Windbags

Politicians these days, especially Senators Obama and Clinton, routinely bash the oil companies and call for more efforts to come up with cleaner alternative fuels. But it turns out that, as with most political rhetoric, this is easier said than done.

One favorite energy alternative loved by greenies is windmills. The problem is that these things kill birds by the thousands. One notorious example is a wind farm in Altamont Pass, Calif. In their 27-year lifetime these wind turbines have dealt a grizzly end to upward of 130,000 birds. And these aren’t just plain, everyday birds. For example, between 75 and 116 golden eagles are sliced to death each year. H. Sterling Burnett, a senior fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis, points out a basic conflict: Wind farms have to be places the winds blow steadily, which often also happen to be areas favored by raptors and migratory birds.

Problems with the use of corn ethanol, another energy- alternative favorite, are also becoming more widely recognized. The energy needed to produce a gallon of corn-based ethanol can exceed the energy generated by the ethanol itself. Last year U.S. farmers planted more corn and fewer soybeans. To take up the slack, Brazilian farmers are clearing more of the Amazonian rain forest to plant soybeans. Those global-warming worriers are acknowledging that many biofuels ultimately result in more carbon dioxide wafting into the atmosphere. Nevertheless, many environmentalists fiercely resist any moves to ease arbitrary, prohibitive barriers to the construction of the best non-carbon-dioxide-producing energy source of all: nuclear power plants.

Can we just STOP - PLEASE?

In a post just below the recession seems to be waylaid.

Now the Oil prices are getting confusing?

OH, you didn’t know. Course not the all Bush bashing all the time networks failed to mention things like a good market, a lower oil price, a healthier dollar and good news from the war front.

Oil is now ten bucks off it’s high. 

The word on the street is that the bubble is bursting.

When the Chicago tribune finally begins to recognize the bubble that is oil we are about to see Seventy Dollar Oil and 2.50 at the pump.

It’s a good time to buy an SUV

Double Standard, double standard.

Muslims in American routinely engage in Polygamy.

I guess that’s ok. I mean religion of Peace and all.

Baloney

Not Bush’s Policies.  I wish McCain could carry on four more years of Bush.

If only John McCain had the courage of convictions that George W Bush has.  He doesn’t.  He takes a poll and does that.  Just like Clinton the male did. 

His latest is disavowing Rob Parsley and John Hagee for “Controversial” remarks was the last straw. I looked into what that controversy was.

Parsley said that the Allah of Islam is not the God of Christ Jesus.  Is he?

Hagee said that God allowed Hitler’s Holocaust to drive people back to restore the Nation of Israel in fulfillment of Prophecy.  Didn’t He?

The fact that McCain is so spineless makes me now believe that if Hillary Clinton doesn’t get the nod that Obama and all the evil he will bring may be what our country deserves. Obama will be the worst possible case.  A thin skinned, connected with all kinds of evil, charming deceitful, amateur running the country. 

He’ll make Carter look good.

My only hope now is that someone with a real spine would be ready to take over if something happened to McCain before the convention.  I can only hope.

We are so profoundly in trouble and it’s all the fault of weak spineless republicans.

The Anchoress has it right.  If the Republicans don’t stand up and fight, I’m cutting and running.  To where I don’t know.  I said I would only vote R.  I’m not even sure of that anymore.

I’m a little dispirited this morning.

How lucky can we get.  Jimmy Carter isn’t even dead and he’s already been reincarnated. 
Obama makes Carter look tough.

Jimmy Carter FOUR MORE YEARS.

I’m gonna be sick.

Big shot Obama takes a swipe at McCain’s Record.

It’s easy for him since he has none.

He’s a blank slate and the picture of 65,000 in Oregon are a blank slate as well.  They are imputing to him whatever they believe they want. 

He’s an empty suit with clean hands because he has an empty record.

Does the USA really want this guy to be President.

BOB, Would you hire a man for your shop who knew NOTHING at all about your craft?  That’s what you are doing here.  And you want to make him Manager.

I have been watching the whole uproar over things that offend liberals.
Bush gives up playing golf because it doesn’t seem like it’s right for him to be at leisure when there are men and women dying in Iraq.  That offends Liberals.  Keith Olbermaniac for example.
Why?  Because they gave up nothing.  They are whiners. They only know how to complain.  They are selfish weasels.  I’m not talking about anyone we all know and love like RBBOB, but the weasels on TV and politicians.
The left starting with Joe Biden are all offended because Bush points out the dangers and results of appeasement in the past and how it endangers us today.
Liberal commentators on the Obama News Network (formerly Clinton News Network), MSNOBAMA and other places all over the net are a verklempt about this.  Why.  Because they are appeasers.  They are weak.  They are dangerous to America.  The intensity of their anger is proportional to the truth of the issue.  Bush is
The National Newspaper, WSJ, has a great editorial about this.  In part it says:

  If nothing else, we now know what it takes to make a Democrat go nuts. One word: “appeasement.”
  When the party’s top four Democrats come roaring out of the blocks in unison, something has hit a nerve.

   

Whatever offends the mind reveals the heart.  What are you offended over? What does that say about you?  Just asking.  I’m offended about a lot of things.  Mostly I’m pretty happy what it says about my heart.  It’s what I’m not offended by, what I’m tolerant of that I’m concerned about.

I’m always amused how phony Liberals are.

Now a NYT columnist is in favor of invading Burma to force them to take aid.

I am compassionate, but a few days ago I said that this tragedy had the earmarks of reform all over it.  Forced compassion will not do anything.  What must happen now is for the people and sponsors of this country (like China) to rise up against and overthrow this evil government.

Only then will this be the last time this kind of tragedy can happen.  Remember the earthquake in 1976 in China.  They wouldn’t receive aid then.  That was the beginning of faster and more aggressive reform going on to this day.

Let’s hope and pray the same thing happens in Burma.

Listening to NPR this morning about the battle in Sadar City half in sympathy to the Mahdi Army. I started to think about what reportage would have been if the same press flunkies would have been in force back before and during WWII.

Bill Moyers interviews Adolph Hitler and pronounced him a decent compassionate human being.

Stories of Death Camps are chalked up to warmongering NEOCONS. Kieth Olberman has it on good authority that no death camps exist.

Demands for congressional hearings by Harry Reid after the story of George Patton shooting a mule to clear the road for troops. Katie Couric does a week long special series on the pain and suffering of those impacted by the troops moving thru the countryside. An hour long interview with the man who owned the mule with tear filled stories of how much they miss that mule is on in prime time.

Live on the scene reports from Dresden Germany after Bombing. Stories of looting and historical sites being destroyed by right wing bombing. News reporters also say people died as well.

The bravery of Hitler as he committed suicide along with Eva Braun is polled by Jack Cafferty on CNN.

French Resistance fighters are called Rebels by the press.

I suspect that if I had any imagination whatsoever i could come up with a couple dozen more. But, I’m convinced that we would have LOST the Second War If the Media had behaved as they do today.

Some dare call it treason.

I mean, she put up a great fight. She made the case for her agenda as close as it was to Barak’s, pretty well.

She’s a tough ol bird and this was her last hurrah.

So, we got your basic Obama McCain match. Let’s assume McCain lives long enough to finish the campaign which is not a given in my book. He probably will beat Obama.

I mean, White crossover from conservative Dems, the home of Racism, will come to McCain.
Some Liberal disgusted with the Dems..
Hillary Disenfranchised.

Now, if McCain can just get Conservatives to vote for him he’d be in like Flynn. I’m not convinced that’s gonna happen any time soon. But, faced with the death of America as we knew it or McCain I guess we’ll choke down our oatmeal in November, put our extra duty nose clips on, and vote R. I said I will. I guess I will.

I’m just gonna miss the Hill. She’s been like that crazy girlfriend we all had once. Fun but not someone you’d wanna take home to momma.

McCain in O8 (if he lives that long) is my motto.

Then what if something happens and McCain takes a not so premature dirt nap, are we all gonna end up arguing about Huckabee, Gulianni, Thompson or Romney again?

What a bunch of dopes we are. McCain or Obama. We are sooooo Screwed.

This is a peek into the mind of people who want to take away your guns.  They mean well.  They are just misguided.  The first is a letter from Saturday’s Chicago Tribune letter’s to the editor.  The second was right below it.  If you read them both you see what this debate looks like in Chicago.  So you don’t think this is isolated, what happens here creeps out to the rest of the country slowly.  I think our second amendment rights are on the endangered species list. 

FIRST LETTER

Tobacco is legal. But it is also harmful. After compelling evidence showed the growing number of unintentional deaths and disease caused to nonsmokers by cigarette smoke, strict health laws were enacted in Chicago, which now severely restricts public use of tobacco.

So why aren’t more restrictive gun laws seen in the same way?

Unconstitutional?

Surely the Constitution guarantees a citizen’s right to light up a legal substance.

But the Constitution also guarantees life and liberty—or the right not to have cancer blown into your lungs by others.

When called upon to protect citizens from the harmful effects of modern innovations, our laws are meant to be equally innovative for the greater protection of all.

I applaud Mayor Richard M. Daley’s fist-pounding and frustration over the continued lack of understanding of this basic concept. Excessive cigarette smoke in our community kills people who do not smoke. Guns in our community kill people who do not own guns.

It’s time for owners’ rights to take a more measured, reasonable importance. Theirs is not a right that should supersede all others, particularly life.

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SECOND LETTER

Then what?

Many people (and not just criminals and crazies) will never turn in their weapons.

How do we find all those guns?

We can’t just wait until a gun is used and then confiscate it.

Then it’s too late.

It’s easy to say we should get rid of guns.

But can we really do it?

Say we forbid all private ownership of guns.

And we don’t know who has guns or where they are kept.

Where does that leave us?

I’m afraid that the police must have the power to do the following:

* Set up roadblocks at random and search every car and its occupants.

* Board buses and trains at random and frisk everybody.

* Search houses and businesses at random.

* Cordon off public areas such as malls and frisk everybody.

In short, the police must be allowed to search any person and any property at any time, with no probable cause needed.

Are we ready to give the police such sweeping power?

And will anything less do the job?

If, like me, you don’t want to live under a government with such power, then face it:

We won’t ever rid of the guns.

Instead we will have to analyze our society to find out why we are so ready to kill each other and then figure out how to change ourselves. And that will be a difficult job.

It’s so much easier to just spout off about getting rid of guns.