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EADLINES FROM THE  YEAR: 2059 Ozone created by  electric cars now killing millions in the seventh largest  country in the world, Mexifornia, formerly known as  California     White minorities still trying  to have English recognized as Mexifornia's third  language. Spotted Owl  plague threatens northwestern United States crops and  livestock. Baby conceived  naturally! Scientists stumped.     Couple petitions  court to reinstate heterosexual  marriage.   Iran still closed off;  physicists estimate it will take at least 10 more years before  radioactivity decreases to safe  levels.    France pleads for global  help after being taken over by Libya . No other country comes  forward to help the beleaguered  nation!     Castro finally dies at age 112;  Cuban cigars can now be imported legally, but President Chelsea  Clinton has banned all smoking.    Postal Service raises  price of first class stamp to $17.89 and reduces mail delivery  to Wednesdays only.  85-year $75.8 billion  study: Diet and exercise is the key to weight  loss.   Average weight of  Americans drops to 250 lbs.  Global cooling blamed for citrus  crop failure for third consecutive year in Mexifornia and  Floruba.   Japanese scientists  have created a camera with such a fast shutter speed they now  can photograph a woman with her mouth shut.    Abortion clinics now  available in every High School in United States  .   Senate still blocking drilling in ANWR  even though gas is selling for 4532 Pesos per liter and gas  stations are only open on Tuesdays and  Fridays.   Massachusetts  executes last remaining conservative.    Illinois Supreme Court  rules in favor of atheists, makes Illinois 3rd state to be  declared a God free state, all churches must close by December  1.     New federal law requires  that all nail clippers, screwdrivers, fly swatters and rolled-up  newspapers must be registered by January  2060.    IRS sets lowest tax  rate at 75 percent.   Floruba voters still  having trouble with voting machines. Now, send this to whomever you want  and as many as you want, then, guess what....NOTHING will  happen. No miracles, no money, absolutely nothing, except you  might make someone smile or be very scared.  Stop organized crime.   Re-elect no  one.

A  lot of  folks can't understand how we  came   to   have an oil shortage here in our   country. 
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Well,  there's a very simple   answer. 
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Nobody  bothered to check the oil. 
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We   just didn't know we were getting  low. 
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The  reason for that  is purely  geographical. 
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Our  OIL is located  in: 
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ALASKA
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California
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Coastal    Florida
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Coastal  Louisiana 
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Coastal  Alabama 
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Coastal  Mississippi 
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Coastal  Texas 
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North   Dakota
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Wyoming
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Colorado
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Kansas
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Oklahoma
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Pennsylvania
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And
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Texas
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Our  dipsticks are located  in  DC
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Any  Questions?  NO? Didn't think  So
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Avoidable catastropheBy Lawrence Solomon, Financial Post
Jun. 26, 2010

Some are attuned to the possibility of looming catastrophe and know how to head it off.  Others are unprepared for risk and even unable to get their priorities straight when risk turns to reality.
 
The Dutch fall into the first group. Three days after the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico began on April 20, the Netherlands offered the U.S. government ships equipped to handle a major spill, one much larger than the BP spill that then appeared to be underway.  "Our system can handle 400 cubic metres per hour," Weird Koops, the chairman of Spill Response Group Holland, told Radio Netherlands Worldwide, giving each Dutch ship more cleanup capacity than all the ships that the U.S. was then employing in the Gulf to combat the spill.
 
To protect against the possibility that its equipment wouldn't capture all the oil gushing from the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, the Dutch also offered to prepare for the U.S. a contingency plan to protect Louisiana's marshlands with sand barriers.  One Dutch research institute specializing in deltas, coastal areas and rivers, in fact, developed a strategy to begin building 60-mile-long sand dikes within three weeks.
 
The Dutch know how to handle maritime emergencies.  In the event of an oil spill, The Netherlands government, which owns its own ships and high-tech skimmers, gives an oil company 12 hours to demonstrate it has the spill in hand.  If the company shows signs of unpreparedness, the government dispatches its own ships at the oil company's expense.  "If there's a country that's experienced with building dikes and managing water, it's the Netherlands," says Geert Visser, the Dutch consul general in Houston.
 
In sharp contrast to Dutch preparedness before the fact and the Dutch instinct to dive into action once an emergency becomes apparent, witness the American reaction to the Dutch offer of help. The U.S. government responded with "Thanks but no thanks," remarked Visser, despite BP's desire to bring in the Dutch equipment and despite the no-lose nature of the Dutch offer -- the Dutch government offered the use of its equipment at no charge.  Even after the U.S. refused, the Dutch kept their vessels on standby, hoping the Americans would come round.  By May 5, the U.S. had not come round.  To the contrary, the U.S. had also turned down offers of help from 12 other governments, most of them with superior expertise and equipment -- unlike the U.S., Europe has robust fleets of Oil Spill Response Vessels that sail circles around their make-shift U.S. counterparts.
 
Why does neither the U.S. government nor U.S. energy companies have on hand the cleanup technology available in Europe?  Ironically, the superior European technology runs afoul of U.S. environmental rules.  The voracious Dutch vessels, for example, continuously suck up vast quantities of oily water, extract most of the oil and then spit overboard vast quantities of nearly oil-free water.  Nearly oil-free isn't good enough for the U.S. regulators, who have a standard of 15 parts per million -- if water isn't at least 99.9985% pure, it may not be returned to the Gulf of Mexico.
 
When ships in U.S. waters take in oil-contaminated water, they are forced to store it.  As U.S. Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen, the official in charge of the clean-up operation, explained in a press briefing on June 11, "We have skimmed, to date, about 18 million gallons of oily water -- the oil has to be decanted from that [and] our yield is usually somewhere around 10% or 15% on that."  In other words, U.S. ships have mostly been removing water from the Gulf, requiring them to make up to 10 times as many trips to storage facilities where they off-load their oil-water mixture, an approach Koops calls "crazy."
 
The Americans, overwhelmed by the catastrophic consequences of the BP spill, finally relented and took the Dutch up on their offer -- but only partly.  Because the U.S. didn't want Dutch ships working the Gulf, the U.S. airlifted the Dutch equipment to the Gulf and then retrofitted it to U.S. vessels.  And rather than have experienced Dutch crews immediately operate the oil-skimming equipment, to appease labor unions the U.S. postponed the clean-up operation to allow U.S. crews to be trained.
 
A catastrophe that could have been averted is now playing out.  With oil increasingly reaching the Gulf Coast, the emergency construction of sand berms to minimize the damage is imperative.  Again, the U.S. government priority is on U.S. jobs, with the Dutch asked to train American workers rather than to build the berms.  According to Floris Van Hovell, a spokesman for the Dutch embassy in Washington, Dutch dredging ships could complete the berms in Louisiana twice as fast as the U.S. companies awarded the work.  "Given the fact that there is so much oil on a daily basis coming in, you do not have that much time to protect the marshlands," he says, perplexed that the U.S. government could be so focused on side issues with the entire Gulf Coast hanging in the balance.
 
Then again, perhaps he should not be all that perplexed at the American tolerance for turning an accident into a catastrophe.  When the Exxon Valdez oil tanker accident occurred off the coast of Alaska in 1989, a Dutch team with clean-up equipment flew in to Anchorage airport to offer their help.  To their amazement, they were rebuffed and told to go home with their equipment.  The Exxon Valdez became the biggest oil spill disaster in U.S. history -- until the BP Gulf spill.
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Lawrence Solomon is executive director of Energy Probe and author of The Deniers.

This is the truth.
Bob



Can’t verify the accuracy of whether or not Sarah has actually made these things happen, but it seems quite plausable they are correct…

IHS,

Mike



Don't blow this one off. You really should read all of this! Eye Opener. Think outside the Party.



By Dewie Whetsell, Alaskan Fisherman. As posted in comments on Greta's article referencing the MOVEON add about Sarah Palin.
The last 45 of my 66 years I've spent in a commercial fishing town in Alaska . I understand Alaska politics but never understood national politics well until this last year. Here's the breaking point: Neither side of the Palin controversy gets it. It's not about persona, style, rhetoric, it's about doing things. Even Palin supporters never mention the things that I'm about to mention here.

1- Democrats forget when Palin was the Darling of the Democrats, because as soon as Palin took the Governor's office away from a fellow Republican and tough SOB, Frank Murkowski, she tore into the Republican's "Corrupt Bastards Club" (CBC) and sent them packing. Many of them are now residing in State housing and wearing orange jump suits. The Democrats reacted by skipping around the yard, throwing confetti and singing, "la la la la" (well, you know how they are) Name another governor in this country that has ever done anything similar.


2- Now with the CBC gone, there were fewer Alaskan politicians to protect the huge, giant oil companies here. So she constructed and enacted a new system of splitting the oil profits called "ACES." Exxon (the biggest corporation in the world) protested and Sarah told them, "don't let the door hit you in the stern on your way out." They stayed, and Alaska residents went from being merely wealthy to being filthy rich. Of course, the other huge international oil companies meekly fell in line. Again, give me the name of any other governor in the country that has done anything similar.


3- The other thing she did when she walked into the governor's office is she got the list of State requests for federal funding for projects, known as "pork." She went through the list, took 85% of them and placed them in the "when-hell-freezes-over" stack. She let locals know that if we need something built, we'll pay for it ourselves. Maybe she figured she could use the money she got from selling the previous governor's jet because it was extravagant. Maybe she could use the money she saved by dismissing the governor's cook (remarking that she could cook for her own family), giving back the State vehicle issued to her, maintaining that she already had a car, and dismissing her State provided security force (never mentioning - I imagine - that she's packing heat herself). I'm still waiting to hear the names of those other governors.


4- Now, even with her much-ridiculed "gosh and golly" mannerism, she also managed to put together a totally new approach to getting a natural gas pipeline built which will be the biggest private construction project in the history of North America. No one else could do it although they tried. If that doesn't impress you, then you're trying too hard to be unimpressed while watching her do things like this while baking up a batch of brownies with her other hand..


5- For 30 years, Exxon held a lease to do exploratory drilling at a place called Point Thompson. They made excuses the entire time why they couldn't start drilling... In truth they were holding it like an investment. No governor for 30 years could make them get started... This summer, she told them she was revoking their lease and kicking them out. They protested and threatened court action. She shrugged and reminded them that she knew the way to the court house. Alaska won again.


6- President Obama wants the nation to be on 25% renewable resources for electricity by 2025. Sarah went to the legislature and submitted her plan for Alaska to be at 50% renewables by 2025. We are already at 25%. I can give you more specifics about things done, as opposed to style and persona. Everybody wants to be cool, sound cool, look cool. But that's just a cover-up. I'm still waiting to hear from liberals the names of other governors who can match what mine has done in two and a half years. I won't be holding my breath.

By the way, she was content to return to AK after the national election and go to work, but the haters wouldn't let her. Now these adolescent screechers are obviously not scuba divers. And no one ever told them what happens when you continually jab and pester a barracuda. Without warning, it will spin around and tear your face off. Shoulda known better.


You have just read the truth about Sarah Palin that sends the media, along with the democrat party, into a wild uncontrolled frenzy to discredit her. I guess they are only interested in skirt chasers, dishonesty, immoral people, liars, womanizers, murderers, and bitter ex-presidents' wives.

So "You go, Girl." I only wish the men in Washington had your guts, determination, honesty, and morals.

I rest my case.


Only FOOLS listen to the biased media.

AND NOW THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STORY.YOUR FRIEND IS FROM THE 20% THAT DONT APPROVE OF HER THIS IS FROM ONE OF THE 80% WHO DO APPROVE OF HER. -----LOVE GRANDPA




> >> From An Alaskan.

> >> I was watching CNN this morning and found out that Sarah Palin has
> >> been nominated as vice president. After further watching the Creative
> >> News Network, they've already started to put a spin on her
> >> qualifications.
> >>
> >> Well.. From first hand experience here in Alaska, this lady rocks! I
> >> don't know really where to start except that she does what she says and
> >> says what she does. When our guard units here packed up and went to Iraq
> >> and Afghanistan, she packed up and went to visit them, to find out how
> >> things were going, how were their families doing back home. It was a
> >> serious morale booster for them. She made sure she met with each and
> >> every one of her guard soldiers. From what the guys told me after they
> >> got home (and seeing first hand), Palin is down to earth, considerate,
> >> and caring. Palin exudes self confidence when she walks into a room.
> >>
> >> One of the reasons why she got into politics; Sarah was pissed that
> >> the mayor of Wasilla had his driveway paved by city money and all of his
> >> cronies driveways as well. Palin ran for the mayor's office and won. She
> >> put a stop to the BS and cronyism that was going on (she did NOT have her
> >> driveway paved!). Sarah thought about running for Governor, but the
> >> republican party in Alaska would not support her, they were supporting
> >> their GOB: Frank Murkowski. Palin made it on the ballot and won by a
> >> landslide. She has the biggest approval rating ever in this state. CNN is
> >> eluding to that she has no experience. Hmmmm.. I guess being the Governor
> >> for two years of a state is one third the size of the United States is
> >> just a little thing. Dealing with the Canadians, Japanese, Koreans, and
> >> Russians really doesn't count as foreign relations either.
> >>
> >> Gov. Palin is a Alaskan through and through. You open up Websters,
> >> flip to Alaskan; her picture is next to the word. Sarah Palin camps,
> >> hunts, fishes, snowmachines, 4wheels.
> >> When she was at the governors conference in Dallas and pregnant,
> >> labor pains came on, she called Alaska Airlines and scheduled a special
> >> flight home, so that her baby to be born in Alaska. Her take on it: her
> >> baby was going to be born in Alaska, not texas.
> >>
> >> When the oil company's started to dick around with the oil leases
> >> (big oil companies bought leases 30 or so years ago and sat on them,
> >> never to drill or explore), Palin told them to get off the pot or they
> >> can start paying taxes on the projected oil and gas that is in those
> >> leases. She gave them a deadline.. They're moving equipment to those
> >> leases now and drilling. Paying taxes on something they haven't pulled
> >> out of the ground was not a good thing.. ;) She sticks to her guns and
> >> doesn't let anybody scare her off, big oil companies or not. Every time
> >> something has gone on in this state, good or bad, Sarah is
> >> johnny-on-the-spot to see what is going on and how she can help.
> >>
> >> Side note: A company downtown has been printing up T-shirts that say
> >> "My Governor is HOTTER than your Governor!" with her pic on the front...
> >> ;)
> >>
> >> Take care Folks and have a GREAT weekend!

This guy gets it right!!!!!!! This will make you sick. Time for a voter/citizen revolt.

The real reason oil is $130 a barrel.


Where you see Democrats, be sure to also read Republicans. Neither
party did anything nor did the presidential leadership of either party.

Bill Hall's take on 'who is responsible.'

IBD Series: Breaking The Back Of High Oil

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' For the past 31 years, Congress repeatedly prevented us from
building any new oil refineries that we now badly need.

' More recently, congressional Democrats defeated and discouraged
any bill that would let us drill in the deep sea 100 miles out.
However, it's somehow OK for China to drill there.

' As a further indictment of our Congress, since the 1980s it has
continually stopped all building of nuclear power plants while
France, Germany and, yes, Japan, plus 12 other major nations, did
build plants and now get 20% to 80% of their energy from their wise
and safe nuclear plant investments.

' From 1990 to 2000, U.S. crude oil demand rapidly accelerated by
7.41 quadrillion BTUs, according to Department of Energy data. And
our rate of foreign oil dependency dramatically increased while our
domestic oil production steadily declined.

Under the eight Clinton years alone, U.S. oil production declined
1,349,000 barrels per day, or 19%, while our foreign imports
increased 3,574,000 barrels per day, or 45%.

During this time, President Clinton vetoed ANWR drilling bills that
would have clearly made Alaska our No. 1 state in the production of our
own vitally needed oil supply, not only for all Americans but also
for national defense emergencies.

So were Democrats and members of Congress together merely
short-sighted, with only a few having any real business experience?

Or were they just ignorant about economics the fact that the law of
supply and demand determines the price of all commodities such as
oil, steel, copper and lumber?

Or were they simply and utterly irresponsible and incompetent in
their actions that led us to become dangerously dependent on
increasing oil imports from foreign countries?

We think it was 'all of the above.'

The unintended consequence of the Congress members' poor judgment
and meddling micromanagement of U.S. energy policy is that they actually
hurt most the very people they always profess to be able to help the
average American consumer, lower-income workers and those in the
inner city who can't afford an extra $100 a month to drive to and from
their jobs.

Democrats kowtowed to the wishes of their environmental supporters
over the basic needs of 300 million American citizens.

It is a national disgrace that all they now know how to do is
relentlessly criticize, complain and condemn. They always attempt
to blame, investigate and scapegoat someone else, in this case U.S.
oil companies, when Congress is the true villain of ineptness for
constantly blocking and obstructing every effort for us to become more
productive and less dependent on foreign oil.

Do those now in Congress really think Middle America's voters are
so gullible that they will believe that its latest best and brightest
answer to increasing our supply of oil and gas is to slap a 25% windfall
penalty tax on oil companies and remove all other incentives for
oil companies to drill and explore for oil?

The right time to release oil from, or stop adding to, our
Strategic Petroleum Reserve is not now. That will do nothing to
increase our ongoing oil supply needs and will have limited affect
on oil prices while increasing our national security risks.

Only after we first announce to the world a bold new change in our
policy by proclaiming that we intend to begin drilling in ANWR and
selected outer sea areas, plus adopt new conservation programs,
will the release of oil from our reserves have a major impact on breaking the price
of oil.

If our congressional leadership can't muster the courage to begin
reversing past mistakes now and allow our companies to drill in
ANWR and off-limits offshore areas, and build essential refineries and
safe nuclear power plants, what will an even-more-discredited Congress
do in 2009, 2010 and 2011, when millions of new city dwellers in China
and India will be driving the cars their countries are now producing, thereby
materially increasing their already huge demand for oil and gas?

It's wake-up time for America. Maybe we should investigate the
blame-throwing investigators in Congress.

ANOTHER OF THE 80% HEARD FROM-----LOVE GRANDPA




Note: As you will read, the author of this has given permission for it to be
passed on so I am posting it in its entirety. The person who sent it to me
in an e-mail knows Deb from Alaska.

For anyone who wants my opinion on our new Vice President
....

Feel free to agree or disagree, but here is an Alaskan's viewpoint on our
new VP candidate (and I believe it is an opinion shared by the vast majority
of Alaskan residents).

Sarah Palin is the USA's answer to Margaret Thatcher!

Anyone who thinks she cannot handle the job or deal briskly and efficiently
with ANY issue, including foreign governments; well, they haven't met our
Sarah . She is not "just a woman", she is not "just a way to get
votes" and if anyone expects her to smile, simper and be quietly sweet -
they don't know Sarah. She is *more than* qualified for the job and the best
possible choice McCain could have made.

As an Alaskan resident as well as a resident of Wasilla, (AK), where Sarah
Palin was at one time Mayor, I feel I can speak with confidence. Governor
Sarah Palin of Alaska is exactly what she portrayed during her introduction
this morning and exactly what our US Government needs. She is ethical to a
fault (if there is such a thing), a refreshing change to the status-quo and
as smart and determined a PERSON (gender really isn't an issue here as far
as I'm concerned) as anyone could ask for at the head of government.

Sarah is no naïve "small town mayor" - she just *started out* there. Btw, as
Mayor of Wasilla, she brought this "small town" through a lot of GOOD
changes and left it at the end of her term having grown to the 4th largest
CITY in Alaska - a lot of growth and a stronger economic base than ever
before.

She has EXECTUTIVE experience *running a government* something NONE of the
other candidates can actually boast, even John McCain) as Governor of Alaska
and got there by defeating the *incumbent* Republican Governor, who was
definitely part of the "old school" and who WAS very much in the pocket of
the big oil companies. We in Alaska wanted change - and we got it in the
person of Sarah Palin!

Sarah Palin is everything she looks to be and more. Her approval rating as
Governor of Alaska has been as high as 95% and is currently leveled out
consistently in the upper 80 percentile throughout the state (and in both
parties) - the HIGHEST approval rating of ANY sitting Governor.

Sarah has been turning around corruption in the Legislature of Alaska -
turning things on their ear for that matter; cutting spending in spite of
the increased income the state is currently receiving due to the high oil
prices - she has insisted on putting a huge amount of the "windfall" into
savings for the future rather than spending, spending, spending - and has
insisted from the get-go on what she refers to as "honest, ethical and
transparent governing" - no more closed door meetings and dealings - the big
oil companies thought she would be a pushover and have learned better to
their chagrin.

She understands the "real people" and the economic issues we all face
(Alaskans along with the rest of the country) - she was one of "us" not long
ago. Rather than passing useless "laws" or throwing money at pet projects,
she (most recently) temporarily suspended the state gas tax (on gasoline at
the pumps, fuel oil and natural gas for homes, etc.) and has ordered checks
issued to ALL residents of Alaska this fall in an attempt to assist with the
burden of high fuel costs for the upcoming winter. I could go on and on, but
that's enough for now. She isn't doing these things to be popular - she is
doing it because her constituents are HURTING financially and she is in a
position to help.

She became Governor of Alaska by defeating the Incumbent Republican Governor
and doing it *without* the money or the support of the Republican Party,
which was amazing in itself - and she won by a landslide. The "powers that
be" at that time totally underestimated Sarah and learned better the hard
way. Let's hope Obama does the same. Sarah has done exactly what she claimed
she was going to do when elected and is just as popular today as the day she
was elected - perhaps more so since even the Democrats up here seem to like
her - she works well with both sides in the Legislature here.

Sarah "belongs" to us (Alaskans) ... and although we are going to be
terribly sorry to see her leave before she finishes the job she started here
(two years ago) straightening out OUR State ... we understand she is needed
for a bigger purpose and hopefully her Lt. Governor will be able to fill her
shoes here and continue the job.

As for worrying about what would happen if McCain were to die or step down
or whatever ... here in AK we've only been wondering how long we would be
able to KEEP Sarah in Alaska and have seen her as our first woman President
of the USA from the start. It's always been a matter of whether she would
wait until the end of her TWO terms as Governor (no doubt at ALL that she
would be re-elected if she ran for a second term at the end of her current
term) ... or end up in Washington sooner. She could do the job TODAY.

Personally, I feel a lot better about McCain now that I know he has someone
as savvy, as strong, as ethical and as steady as Sarah at his back. She will
be an excellent Vice President ... and my guess is will be our US Republican
Presidential candidate in four years - AND by then the country will KNOW her
- will love and respect her as we do here - and she'll win by as much of a
landslide as she did here in Alaska. I only wonder if McCain has a clue what
he is unleashing on the US of A . She is going to be a fresh wind, but
also a strong wind.

Is that enough of an endorsement? If not, I'll add this .... Jerry and I
have for many years felt the best "vote" was to vote for the lesser of two
"evils" and hope they didn't do too much damage. Two years ago during our
State Governor's race was the first time EVER that we actually asked for not
just a little sign to put in our yard showing our support of our candidate
(something we've never felt the desire to do at all before) - we asked for a
full 4' x 8' "SARAH PALIN FOR GOVERNOR!" sign and were proud to display it.
She hasn't let us or Alaska down. She will do the same for the USA if given
the opportunity.

Feel free to pass this on to anyone who may be interested (and spam those
who aren't!).

Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 9:31 PM
Subject: There is no oil shortage in the U.S.

Why are we still buying oil from people who hate us? We are sending Billions of dollars each month to Muslim countries for oil,
when there is no oil shortage in the U.S. Read the article below
by Mr. Schofield.

The U. S. Geological Service issued a report in April '08, and man was it big. It was a revised report on how much oil was in this area of the western 2/3 of North Dakota; western South Dakota ; and extreme eastern Montana......called "The Bakken"----- check THIS out:

"The Bakken" is the largest domestic oil discovery since Alaska 's Prudhoe Bay , and has the potential to eliminate all American dependence on foreign oil. The Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimates it at 503 billion barrels.. Even if just 10% of the oil is recoverable... at $107 a barrel, we're looking at a resource base worth more than $5.3 trillion. 'When I first briefed legislators on this, you could practically see their jaws hit the floor. They had no idea.' says Terry Johnson, the Montana Legislature's financial analyst.
'This sizable find is now the highest-producing onshore oil field found in the past 56 years.' reports, The Pittsburgh Post Gazette. It's a formation known as the Williston Basin , but is more commonly referred to as the 'Bakken.' And it stretches from Northern Montana, through North Dakota and into Canada ... For years, U. S. oil exploration has been considered a dead end. Even the 'Big Oil' companies gave up searching for major oil wells decades ago. However, a recent technological breakthrough has opened up the Bakken's massive reserves..... and we now have access of up to 500 billion barrels. And because this is light, sweet oil, those billions of barrels will cost Americans just
$16 PER BARREL!
That's enough crude to fully fuel the American economy for 41 years straight. And if THAT didn't blow your mind, then this next one should - because it's from TWO YEARS AGO!
U. S. Oil Discovery- Largest Reserve in the World!

From Stansberry Report Online -
4/20/2006 Hidden 1,000 feet beneath the surface of the Rocky Mountains lies the largest untapped oil reserve in the world. It is more than 2 TRILLION barrels. On August 8, 2005 President Bush mandated its extraction. In three and a half years of high oil prices none has been extracted. With this motherload of oil why are we still fighting over off-shore drilling? They reported this stunning news: We have more oil inside our borders, than all the other proven reserves on earth. Here are the official estimates:
- 8-times as much oil as Saudi Arabia
- 18-times as much oil as Iraq
- 21-times as much oil as Kuwait
- 22-times as much oil as Iran
- 500-times as much oil as Yemen -
and it's all right here in the Western United States . HOW can this BE? HOW can we NOT BE extracting this? Because some people do not want us to become independent of foreign oil. Again, we are letting a small group of people dictate our lives and our economy. .... James Bartis, lead researcher with the study says we've got more oil in this very compact area than the entire Middle East -more than 2 TRILLION barrels untapped. That's more than all the proven oil reserves of crude oil in the world today, reports The Denver Post. And lets not forget our untapped off shore reserves. Do you think 'OPEC' will drop its price? It's all about the competitive marketplace, They must drop their price.
By the way...this is all true. Check it out on your computer at the link below!!! GOOGLE it or follow this link. It will blow your mind.
http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=1911

Richard T. Schofield
First Vice President
Financial Advisor
Morgan Stanley
Toll Free: 800-752-3269
Direct Line: 435-634-2429

It's Garfield. Telling us to drill for oil in Pennsylvania. Hmm...
So this reminded me of a book I just finished called The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century by my favorite critic of suburban architecture, James Howard Kunstler. In this fascinatingly disturbing end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it reference, he described an imminent, drastically larger oil crisis requiring much grander actions than our pal Garfield here wants us to believe. (You might enjoy his detailed description of the bible-belt post oil.) -m


-----begin forward------

Garfield on the oil crisis

Quote from article in today's Wall Street Journal on Exxon and Chevron
profits:

    Kenneth Cohen, Exxon's vice president in charge of public affairs and
    lobbying, urged the US government Friday to open all offshore areas,
    as well as federal lands in Alaska and the Rocky Mountains.

    He argued the move would create 160,000 jobs and generate $1.7
    trillion in government revenue over two decades, citing a study
    commissioned by the American Petroleum Institute, an oil industry
    trade group.  "We can do this in an environmentally sage way," Mr.
    Cohen said.

    The request drew immediate criticism from Capitol Hill.  "At a time
    when we are seeking to reinvigorate our economy by moving America
    towards a renewable energy future, Exxon asking for more land to
    drill is just and embarrassment," said Rep. Edward Markey (D.,
    Mass.), chairman of the energy independence and global warming select
    committee.

So let's see if I got this right.  Here we have private companies with a
long term proven track record of delivering on their promises offering to
use their money (no bailouts here) to find domestic resources that will
create: 1) significant numbers of jobs; 2) reduction of dependence on
foreign oil (i.e. enhanced energy security); and a huge amount of revenue
for the government, all being done in a proven environmentally sound way.
And we have a Democratic leader saying this promise is an embarrassment
since he wants to spend our money (definitely a bailout or at least a huge
subsidy required here) to try to develop unproven or uneconomic technology.

This after the Democrats disingenuously paid lip service to drilling during
the election cycle.

NOW THIS IS CHANGE YOU CAN BELIEVE IN.

> BIDEN SECRET SERVICE CODE NAME: 'ASSASSINATION INSURANCE'
> by Ann Coulter
> October 1, 2008
>
> While Gov. Sarah Palin is being grilled on her position on mark-to-
> market
> accounting rules, the press can't bother to ask Joe Biden if he
> could give
> us a ballpark estimate on when Franklin D. Roosevelt was president
> -- or
> maybe take a stab at guessing the decade when televisions were first
> available to the public.
>
> Being interviewed by Katie Couric on the "CBS Evening News," Biden
> said:
> "When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the
> television
> and didn't just talk about the, you know, the princes of greed. He
> said,
> 'Look, here's what happened.'"
>
> For those of you who aren't hard-core history buffs, Biden not only
> named
> the wrong president during the 1929 stock market crash, he also
> claimed a
> president who wasn't president during the stock market crash went on
> TV
> before Americans had TVs.
>
> Other than that, the statement holds up pretty well. At least Biden
> managed
> to avoid mentioning any "clean" Negroes he had met.
>
> Couric was nearly moved to tears by the brilliance of Biden's brain-
> damaged
> remark. She was especially intrigued by Biden's claim that FDR had
> said the
> new iPhone was the bomb!
>
> Here is Couric's full response to Biden's bizarre outburst about FDR
> (a)
> being president and (b) going on TV in 1929: "Relating to the fears
> of the
> average American is one of Biden's strong suits."
>
> But when our beauteous Sarah said that John McCain was a better
> leader on
> the economy than Barack Obama, Couric relentlessly badgered her for
> evidence. "Why do you say that?" Couric demanded. "Why are they
> waiting for
> John McCain and not Barack Obama? ... Can you give us any more
> examples of
> his leading the charge for more oversight?"
>
> The beauteous Sarah had cited McCain's prescient warnings about
> Fannie Mae
> and Freddie Mac. But Couric, the crackerjack journalist who didn't
> know FDR
> wasn't president in 1929, demanded more examples from Palin.
>
> We are currently in the middle of a massive financial crisis brought
> on by
> Fannie Mae. McCain was right on Fannie Mae; Obama was wrong. That's
> not
> enough?
>
> Not for the affable Eva Braun of evening TV! "I'm just going to ask
> you one
> more time," Couric snipped, "not to belabor the point. Specific
> examples in
> his 26 years of pushing for more regulation?"
>
> This would be like responding to someone who predicted the 9/11
> attacks by
> saying: OK, you got one thing right. Not to belabor the point, but
> what
> else?
>
> Obama was not merely wrong on Fannie Mae: He is owned by Fannie Mae.
> Somehow Obama managed to become the second biggest all-time
> recipient of
> Fannie Mae political money after only three years in the Senate. The
> biggest beneficiary, Democratic Sen. Chris Dodd, had a 30-year head
> start
> on receiving loot from Fannie Mae -- the government-backed institution
> behind our current crisis.
>
> How does the Democratic ticket stack up on other major issues facing
> the
> nation, say, gas prices?
>
> Shockingly, Sen. Joe Biden was one of only five senators to vote
> against
> the first Alaskan pipeline bill in 1973. This is like having been a
> Nazi
> sympathizer during World War II. If Sarah Palin does nothing else,
> she has
> got to tie that idiotic pipeline vote around Biden's neck.
>
> The Senate passed the 1973 Alaskan pipeline bill by an overwhelming
> 80-5
> vote. Only five senators voted against the pipeline on final
> passage. Sen.
> Biden is the only one who is still in the Senate -- the other four
> having
> been confined to mental institutions long ago.
>
> The stakes were clear: This was in the midst of the first Arab oil
> embargo.
> Liberal Democrats, such as senators Robert Byrd, Mike Mansfield, Frank
> Church and Hubert Humphrey, all voted for the pipeline.
>
> But Biden cast one of only five votes against the pipeline that has
> produced more than 15 billion barrels of oil, supplied nearly 20
> percent of
> this nation's oil, created tens of thousands of jobs, added hundreds
> of
> billions of dollars to the U.S. economy and reduced money transfers
> to the
> nation's enemies by about the same amount.
>
> The only argument against the pipeline was that it would harm the
> caribou,
> an argument that was both trivial and wrong. The caribou population
> near
> the pipeline increased from 5,000 in the 1970s to 32,000 by 2002.
>
> It would have been bad enough to vote against the pipeline bill even
> if it
> had hurt the caribou. A sane person would still say: Our enemies
> have us in
> a vice grip. Sorry, caribou, you've got to take one for the team.
> But when
> the pipeline goes through and the caribou population sextuples in
> the next
> 20 years, you really look like a moron.
>
> We couldn't possibly expect Couric to ask Biden about a vote that is
> the
> equivalent of voting against the invention of the wheel. But
> couldn't she
> have come up with just one follow-up question for Biden on FDR's
> magnificent handling of the 1929 stock market crash?
>
> Or here's a question the public is dying to know: "If Obama wanted a
> historically delusional vice president, why not Lyndon LaRouche?" At
> least
> LaRouche didn't vote against the Alaskan pipeline.

Subject: Fwd: Who is Sarah Palin?
To: "Brian"
Date:

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