Drill now! Nuke the caribou!

How’s that for a provocative quote! It is from Michael Barone’s article on how $4 gas finally got people’s attention and caused us to step back from what he calls “enviro-lunacy” which he rightly attributes to the enviromentalists and their lobbyists:

…[L]obbyists and litigators for environmental restriction groups have produced energy policies that I suspect future generations will regard as lunatic. We haven’t built a new nuclear plant for some 30 years, since a Jane Fonda movie exaggerated their dangers. We have allowed states to ban oil drilling on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS), prompted by the failure of 40- or 50-year-old technology in Santa Barbara, Calif., in 1969, though current technology is much better, as shown by the lack of oil spills in the waters off Louisiana and Mississippi during Hurricane Katrina.

We have banned oil drilling on a very small portion of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) that is godforsaken tundra (I have been to the North Slope oil fields — similar terrain; I know) for fear of disturbing a herd of caribou — a species of hoofed animals that is in no way endangered or scarce….

Now all that is in danger, because the pain of paying $50 or $60 for a tank of gas has convinced most Americans to worry less about the caribou or a recurrence of an oil spill that happened 39 years ago.

It’s sad that its taken this much pain to wake people up, but at least more are finally starting to pay attention.  I don’t really have anything against the caribou, but I am convinced that more [safe] drilling is a major part of the eventual solution to this mess!

The Messiah’s world tour

It is really quite nauseating to see the MSM networks falling all over themselves to portray Obama’s trip as the greatest thing that has occurred in our lifetime when in reality it is just one non-stop photo op.

It is more than a little pathetic to hear nightly network news reporters talking about Obama’s overseas trip in terms of his gaining needed national-security experience and foreign-policy credentials. As if a few days abroad can miraculously give anyone the experience to be commander in chief in a time of war.

The irony is that the much-improved situation Obama observed in Iraq and the lessons he learned in a few hours of briefings from Petraeus were the result of a war strategy the junior senator has repeatedly rejected and ridiculed throughout his campaign. Bush approved the surge, but it has McCain’s name written all over it.

That strategy came out of numerous trips to the war zones, constant nagging to change a war policy that wasn’t working, and a heroic lifetime of military service.

McCain’s message this week, partially blunted by the withdrawal debate, is that Obama lacks the judgment and experience to think strategically in a time of war. One does not get that kind of experience in a quickie photo-op tour of the battlefield.

(See the rest of Donald Lambro’s column here.)

What is particularly galling is to hear the Messiah try to claim credit for the stability which now exists in Iraq when he fought tooth and nail against the very policies that made it possible. Here is a more realistic portrayal of what things would look like if we had listened to him:

Absolutely nailing The Annointed

As this election campaign continues, the depth of Obama’s hubris becomes more and more breathtaking. With the thinnest list of actual accomplishments of any presidential candidate in recent history, he seems to have the most grandiose opinion of himself and his abilities. He will “stop the rise of the oceans” and “heal the planet” along with the more mundane tasks of repealing the basic laws of economics (higher taxes will spur economic growth, increased oil supply won’t lower prices, etc.)

Charles Krauthammer (a psychiatrist BTW) absolutely nails this arrogance and hubris in his column today titled Who does Obama think he is? Don’t you know, Charles? He’s the Savior, the Annointed One, the Great Hope of Humanity…. sorry, I had to stop to throw up.

While the Four Horsemen may not be here yet, I think I see them saddling up offstage left!

Just a little over the top

Does this make anyone else as uncomfortable as it makes me?

Barack Obama isn’t just conducting a political campaign; he’s launching his very own religious cult…

One of the key elements in many religious cults involves a name change – like transitioning from Richard Alpert to Baba Ram Dass, or from Malcolm Little to Malcolm X. To Obama’s true-believers, adding an Islamic middle name is a small price to pay for connecting with a candidate who qualifies as a “lightworker” and “an enlightened being,” according to San Francisco Chronicle columnist Mark Morford.

“Many spiritually advanced people I know,” he writes, “identify Obama as a Lightworker, the rare kind of attuned being who has the ability to lead us not merely to new foreign policies or health care plans or whatnot, but who can actually help usher in a new way of being on the planet, of relating and connecting and engaging with this bizarre earthly experiment. These kinds of people actually help us evolve. They are philosophers and peacemakers of a very high order, and they speak not just to reason or emotion, but to the soul.”

See the rest of Michael Medved’s column here

Who lied???

How interesting that the following passed thru almost under the radar last week:

It appears that American troops found the 550 metric tons of uranium in 2003 after invading Iraq. They had to sit on this information and the uranium itself, for fear of terrorists attempting to steal it. It was guarded and kept safe by our military in a 23,000-acre site with large sand beams surrounding the site.

This is vindication for the Bush administration, having been attacked mercilessly by the liberal media and the far-left pundits on the blogosphere. Now that it is proven that President Bush did not lie about Saddam’s nuclear ambitions, one would think the mainstream media would report the story? Once the AP released the story, the mainstream media should have picked it up and broadcast it worldwide.

This never happened, due in large part I believe, to the fact that the mainstream media would have to admit they were wrong about Bush’s war motives all along.

(See rest of article here.)

I’m waiting for someone in the MSM to man up and admit that Bush didn’t lie about this after all. I know…. I’ll be waiting until Hell becomes an extremely cold place!