Let’s export Ken Salazar to Brazil

By Michelle Malkin  •  March 23, 2011 09:39 AM

Since day one of the Obama administration, I’ve chronicled Loathsome Cowboy Ken Salazar’s War on the West, War on Jobs, and War on Science/Rule of Law. His eco-radical sidekick Carol Browner is gone, yet Salazar remains in place — and has launched a new public campaign to demonstrate his purported moderation on energy policy. Yesterday, he announced a new coal mining push in Wyoming and for the past month, he has been touting the administration’s long-delayed, stingy, and misleading drilling permit approvals.

My column today cuts through the baloney, bring you up to date on all the White House legal wrangling to delay economic recovery in the Gulf, and offers a modest proposal: Since President Obama is now so enamored of sending U.S. taxpayer dollars to Brazil in the name of creating jobs and energy innovation, why don’t we send Ken Salazar over there, too? Permanently.

Related:

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Drill, Bebê, Drill…
IBD: Drill, Brazil, Drill!

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Drilling Ken Salazar
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2011

After two years of practicing unrepentant contempt for science, jobs, law and truth, why should Interior Secretary Ken Salazar’s words mean anything anymore? While President Obama promotes offshore drilling overseas thousands of miles away in Brazil, Salazar now promises to revitalize America’s oil and gas industry. It’s like Jack “Dr. Death” Kevorkian promoting himself as a lifesaving CPR specialist.

This week, Salazar announced that the administration has just approved the first deepwater oil and gas exploration plan since last spring’s BP/Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Mind you: This is not a granting of permits, but a green light for Shell Offshore to seek drilling permits for three new exploratory wells off the Louisiana coast. Shell first submitted and received approval for its original exploration plan in 1985 — 26 red tape-wrapped years ago.

Salazar’s make-believe resurrection of American offshore and onshore drilling began a few weeks ago, when the Interior Department Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement issued a deepwater drilling permit to Noble Energy for a well at the Santiago project about 70 miles off the Louisiana coast. But as Louisiana political analyst and blogger Scott McKay pointed out, “This isn’t a permit for a new project. The permit issued to Noble was for a bypass of an obstruction in a well they’d already drilled before the Deepwater Horizon accident. It took 314 days to get that well back online with this administration.”

Nevertheless, Obama oil czar Michael Bromwich claimed credit for the decision and insisted the project be treated as a new well. So this is how Democrats win the future: crushing industries with one hand while patting themselves on the back for saving them.

The measly Noble Energy permit approval came months after the Obama administration purportedly “lifted” its junk science-based drilling moratorium — and only after federal courts repeatedly spanked Salazar and the White House for their “determined disregard” of judicial orders and “increasingly inexcusable” action on stalled deepwater drilling projects.

More than a month ago, U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman ordered the Obama administration to decide within a month whether to grant a set of five permits for deepwater drilling projects in the Gulf of Mexico. Feldman wrote that the foot-dragging administration’s “time delays at issue here are unreasonable” and told the feds to act in an “expeditious” manner to “restore normalcy to the Gulf region and repair the public’s faith in the administrative process.”

The Obama administration’s response? Last week, just under the wire on the judicial time limit, the White House won a stay from the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals. Delay, baby, delay.

Unsurprisingly, the man who misled the public about scientists’ support for his overreaching moratorium now faces more charges of data doctoring. Louisiana GOP Sen. David Vitter called out Salazar and Bromwich for publicly low-balling drilling application figures. While the pair informed Congress that the administration has received fewer than 50 shallow water permits and that only six to seven deepwater permits are pending, the Obama Justice Department asserted in legal filings that “there are 270 shallow water permit applications pending, and 52 deepwater permit applications pending.” Which is it?

Jim Adams, president and CEO of the Offshore Marine Service Association (OMSA), further skewered Salazar’s book-cooking on the permit-orium: “There were 32 deepwater drilling operations already permitted when the president imposed his moratorium last year. Interior Secretary Salazar is merely allowing existing permit holders to resume their operations.”

OMSA reports that there are more than 100 deepwater development plans that have yet to be cleared to even become eligible for a permit. Salazar is “treating Gulf workers like peasants, tossing us work crumb by crumb and expecting us to be grateful,” Adams said. “We’re tired of fighting for scraps. We want to get back to work — all of us, not just a handful of crews.”

At least 13,000 jobs have been lost, according to Louisiana State University professor Joseph Mason’s latest estimates. Isn’t it high past time to send Salazar and his misery-inducing eco-radicals packing? How about exporting them to Brazil?

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  1. #1
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 9:43 am, Virginia Patriot said:

    Can we also export The Usurper back to Indonesia, where is likely still a citizen?

    Who is Barry Soetoro?

  2. #2
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 9:46 am, Captain Blasto said:

    If you look at their overall energy strategy, there can only be one conclusion:
    They are using everything in their arsenal to redistribute the wealth of the American people to the poorer countries of the world.

    When Jesse James did the same thing, they called it robbery.

  3. #3
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 9:48 am, spaceycakes said:

    Louisiana GOP Sen. David Vitter called out Salazar

    oh now you’ve done it, Michelle!

    cue the requisite troll moral equivalencies:

  4. #4
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 9:50 am, OK_Loyalist said:

    This isn’t just Louisiana issue. I personally know someone right here in Tulsa, OK that lost a GOOD job with Schlumberger because of the Gulf moratorium.

  5. #5
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 9:52 am, Virginia Patriot said:

    They are using everything in their arsenal to redistribute the wealth of the American people to the poorer countries of the world.

    Correct.
    The left doesn’t view redistribution as theft, in their twisted worldview, it fairness.

  6. #6
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 9:59 am, cheapseat said:

    Amen Michelle! I watched Fox and friends this morning and some democrat strategist showed the fine art of lying with statistics, as well as outright disembling. He kept saying we don’t subsidize alternatives to the level needed, which is total BS. We have been subsidizing wind/solar/biofuel out the wazoo for over 30 years, since Carter. Carter lied to us saying that by the year 2000 the world would be out of oil in order to start subsidies of solar etc. Then the lying weasel told us we are pulling up more American oil now than we did 7 years ago. That time frame was when oil was cheap and american producers weren’t running the pumps. You have a story on hot air today about how Media Matters are training these weasels to go on Fox News and lie with a convincing face.

  7. #7
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 10:00 am, ShoreDor said:

    I’ve been thinking more and more that they should just start drilling and let the Feds try to stop them. Too radical?

  8. #8
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 10:07 am, mchristian said:

    It’ll be okay. Mr.Soros President Obama says we can buy oil from Brazil.

  9. #9
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 10:07 am, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

    Yes indeed Captain Ken Salazar and President Obama are doing what they can to “redistribute the wealth” and lay this country low; punish us for past sins I suppose. As with President Clinton they are locking up huge portions of the western states thus preventing us from development, oil and gas AND Rare Earth mineral exploration. Bambi did promise to fundamentally change America.

    Yes Ken Salazar does belong in Brazil–many criminals go there to enjoy their ill gotten gain.
    ===
    Let Your Sidearm Be Like American Express:
    Don’t Leave Home Without It.

  10. #10
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 10:10 am, OK_Loyalist said:

    On March 23rd, 2011 at 9:59 am, cheapseat said:

    Amen Michelle! I watched Fox and friends this morning and some democrat strategist showed the fine art of lying with statistics, as well as outright disembling. He kept saying we don’t subsidize alternatives to the level needed, which is total BS.

    You were probably seeing the result of
    this

  11. #11
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 10:10 am, cheapseat said:

    Even Barry understands that money is fungable and can go anywhere to produce a profit. Jobs however are far less transportable. So yes, investors like Soros and Barry can put their money into oil companies in Brazil, just as 3M can put it’s money into plants in Indonesia, but the workers left behind can’t relocate to Brazil or Indonesia. They are left here to go on unemployment and riot. This is whathappens when you follow the logic of environmentalists, Osha experts, liberal tax the rich beaurocrats who have never worked in the real world. The rich get taxed, right up until they take their money and go elsewhere.

  12. #12
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 10:19 am, swmntman said:

    MM said:…Delay, baby, delay…

    C’mon – let’s just give Salazar his medal for courageous restraint and move on!

    http://michellemalkin.com/2010/05/14/a-medal-for-restraint/

  13. #13
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 10:22 am, Iowa Guy said:

    Unfortunately…we can’t export Ken Salazar to Brazil. Dangerous goods are prohibited commodities. Won’t clear Customs.

  14. #14
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 10:23 am, Marshall_Will said:

    OK_Loyalist said:
    This isn’t just Louisiana issue

    No it certainly isn’t. Probably lots of “Keesler Grad’s” here ( Biloxi, MS ) and I can’t tell you just how reliant the Gulf Coast is on Drilling employment. Easily the best thing going ( unless you’re in the Dixie Mob? )

  15. #15
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 10:28 am, Dexter Alarius said:

    At least 13,000 jobs have been lost dependents have been added to the Government’s welfare rolls, according to Louisiana State University professor Joseph Mason’s latest estimates.

    Obama: All part of the plan…

  16. #16
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 10:28 am, babiesgrandma said:

    As a Coloradan, I am ashamed of him and his actions (or non-actions). When he departed the US Senate for his new cushy job, I thought that we were rid of him. But, he has made his presence known in Colo. and we are all the worse for it.

    His brother didn’t do so well for his re-bid for US Representative, representing Western Colo. He tried to make it sound like he was for all the “little people” in the Western Slope region, but in reality, he and his bro were cutting back on drilling and oil and gas exploration in that very region. Lots of people depended on that business for their livelihood, not just in the oil business, but also for grocery stores, motels, gas stations, etc.

    Thanks, Ken. How do you say “Get lost!” in Brazilian?

  17. #17
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 10:32 am, Dexter Alarius said:

    Probably lots of “Keesler Grad’s” here…

    Present!
    Tech school ’79 (cleaned up after Frederick), and PCS ’87- ’92.
    I had a neighbor that worked on the drilling rigs.

  18. #18
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 10:33 am, Marshall_Will said:

    How do you say “Get lost!” in Brazilian?

    Se manda ( I think? )

  19. #19
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 10:37 am, Marshall_Will said:

    Dexter Alarius said:

    Present!
    Tech school ’79

    Class of ’89 myself. Basic Electricity & Electronics/Avionics. Unlike other parts of the country, Southerners you get to know real fast. My neighbor worked the rigs too. I recall b/c he would ask us to look after his mother while he was workin’ da’ RIG dontcha’ know?

  20. #20
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 10:38 am, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

    On March 23rd, 2011 at 10:22 am, Iowa Guy said:

    Unfortunately…we can’t export Ken Salazar to Brazil. Dangerous goods are prohibited commodities. Won’t clear Customs.

    Spoil sport-smugglers wanted.

  21. #21
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 10:38 am, babiesgrandma said:

    Thanks, Marshall_Will: Si, se puede! Se Manda!! Adios, Ken!

  22. #22
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 10:41 am, MonoPed said:

    Can we export the entire Obama administration to Brazil? They’d fit right in!

  23. #23
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 10:44 am, Marshall_Will said:

    babiesgrandma,

    http://www.microsofttranslator.com/?ref=TThis

    Sssh!

    I’m taking Hebrew thru the Guard and It.Is.Tough! But it’s also fun, looks good on your promotion package. Everyone puts down Spanish and The Board takes a gander and thinks “Yeah, I go thru the Drive-up window at Taco Bell too!

  24. #24
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 10:48 am, Dexter Alarius said:

    On March 23rd, 2011 at 10:37 am, Marshall_Will said:
    Basic Electricity & Electronics/Avionics.

    Same. I was a Comm guy.
    My PCS there was with ABCCC (7 ACCs).
    I was there while you were in school!
    Christmas time ’89 was when we invaded Panama, Just beCause. The cold snap at that time killed the palm trees in our yard. Must have been global warming, even back then!

  25. #25
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 10:52 am, Canadian Mike said:

    I have to believe this idiotic non-energy policy is partly retribution against those that voted the wrong way in the last election. As I recall, the Government Motors dealership closures followed the same pattern. What a small, pathetic man.

  26. #26
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 10:54 am, ThackerAgency said:

    It is amazing to me the gall of Obama. I can’t believe he’s sending tax dollars to BRAZIL to help their offshore drilling, but refuses to help Americans by merely allowing us to drill and pay taxes on what we drill.

    It’s as though Obama doesn’t like America. It’s so sad because he would be a nobody anywhere else.

    I want to like and support the president. I want the president to succeed. But he has done nothing but spend money America doesn’t have while ensuring that American competitiveness is diminished in nearly every single industry.

    If someone wanted to dismantle America, this is how they would do it.

  27. #27
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 10:57 am, babiesgrandma said:

    Marshall_Will said:
    babiesgrandma,

    http://www.microsofttranslator.com/?ref=TThis

    Sssh!

    I’m taking Hebrew thru the Guard and It.Is.Tough! But it’s also fun, looks good on your promotion package. Everyone puts down Spanish and The Board takes a gander and thinks “Yeah, I go thru the Drive-up window at Taco Bell too!

    muchas gracias.

  28. #28
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 11:08 am, canb0nly1 said:

    On March 23rd, 2011 at 10:54 am, ThackerAgency said:

    It’s as though Obama doesn’t like America.

    …yes…almost as if…

    I often wonder just how many pieces of evidence it takes to convince people that Soetoro Obama and his ilk mean us harm.

    And how much more it will take for people to actually take action to stop it.

    I’m not saying you don’t get it, TA, just saying that a lot of people don’t.

  29. #29
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 11:11 am, Iowa Guy said:

    MonoPed said:
    Can we export the entire Obama administration to Brazil? They’d fit right in!

    Please refer to post #13.

  30. #30
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 11:11 am, hawkeye54 said:

    spend money America doesn’t have while ensuring that American competitiveness is diminished in nearly every single industry.

    If someone TEH WON wants to dismantle America, this is how they he is would do doing it.

    Ahhh, you figured out their plan for us. Diabolical.

  31. #31
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 11:19 am, Marshall_Will said:

    canbonly1 said:

    I’m not saying you don’t get it, TA, just saying that a lot of people don’t.

    Thus making my claim yesterday that perhaps Teh Won was clinging to a Cold-War mentality of “He who has oil last, wins!” ( all the more ridiculous? ) Hey I never said I was a ‘god’, just a man like everyone else! )

  32. #32
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 11:24 am, Green eyed Lady said:

    Isn’t it high past time to send Salazar and his misery-inducing eco-radicals packing? How about exporting them to Brazil?
    Michelle, Salazar is not the root of the problem.
    Barry Soetoro’s anti American oil, communist background is.
    Why is Obama anti-American, and anti American oil? Like everything else about the child-president – and all narcissists – it is all about personal motivation. He was coached by his twit-brained communist mother; this latest episode is another example of how thoroughly her indoctrination controls his thinking and motivates his actions:
    From “Dreams From My Father”, pages 46-47, a bit of insight into life with mother dearest and step-father Lolo Soetoro [caps mine]:
    “…[Lolo] landed a new job in the government relations office of an AMERICAN OIL COMPANY.” “Sometimes I would overhear him and my mother arguing in their bedroom, usually about her refusal to attend his company dinner parties, where AMERICAN BUSINESSMEN FROM TEXAS AND LOUISIANA would slap Lolo’s back and BOAST ABOUT THE PALMS THEY HAD GREASED TO OBTAIN THE NEW OFFSHORE DRILLING RIGHTS…”.
    “He would ask her how it would look for him to go alone, and remind her that these were her own people, and my mother’s voice would rise to almost a shout. THEY ARE NOT MY PEOPLE”.
    “SHE HAD always encouraged my rapid acculturation in Indonesia; It had MADE ME relatively self-sufficient, undemanding on a tight budget, and EXTREMELY WELL-MANNERED WHEN COMPARED TO OTHER AMERICAN CHILDREN.”
    “SHE HAD TAUGHT ME TO DISDAIN THE BLEND OF IGNORANCE AND ARROGANCE THAT TOO OFTEN CHARACTERIZED AMERICANS ABROAD.”
    Last year’s oil spill in the Gulf gave him the opportunity his “dreams from his mother’ were made of: he slammed shut all offshore drilling in the Gulf.
    Take THAT, Texas oilmen! Take THAT, Louisiana oilmen!
    Why is he all for offshore drilling for Brazil but not for Texas and Lousiana? Because Brazilians are not Americans. Payback from Barry comes in MANY devious forms.

  33. #33
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 11:29 am, ITookTheRedPill said:

    Spread the wealth, swallow the crap sandwiches
    By Michelle Malkin • October 13, 2008

    Can it be any more obvious that Obama and his administration are
    using oil as a tool to redistribute wealth on a Global scale?!

  34. #34
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 11:31 am, PatriotGal2257 said:

    On March 23rd, 2011 at 10:10 am, OK_Loyalist said:

    On March 23rd, 2011 at 9:59 am, cheapseat said:

    Amen Michelle! I watched Fox and friends this morning and some democrat strategist showed the fine art of lying with statistics, as well as outright disembling. He kept saying we don’t subsidize alternatives to the level needed, which is total BS.

    You were probably seeing the result of
    this

    Reading the article at the link below reminds me of another recent article which claimed that some on-air voice talent company (can’t remember the name right now) were hiring actors to call the various talk-radio hosts – Rush, Hannity, Beck, et al – and pretend to be “conservative” or “liberal” callers to presumably spice up the conversation.

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/media-matters-boot-camp-readies-liberal-policy-wonks-for-the-cameras-close-up/2011/03/15/AB4TI9EB_story.html

    This TV attempt at the same ruse is as thinly transparent and laughable as the radio version. Most well-known and renowned actors and actresses spend decades learning and honing their craft, and Media Matters thinks they can train people in a few weeks to sound convincing enough to counter conservative policy wonks?

    I hate to break it to Media Matters and their lackeys on the Left: whatever you do is going to be an epic fail for two reasons, 1.) average Americans are smarter than you think and can see through the BS and 2.) facts are stubborn things and the truth will always out.

    Not only that, but I bet the whole thing will implode for an additional reason: the ratings for CNN and MSNBC are already in the basement and their believability index is in solid negative numbers as it is. If FOX tries to accommodate these people on a regular basis, their ratings will tank just as the other cable “news” outlets. Somehow, I don’t think Roger Ailes will put up with that for long.

  35. #35
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 11:34 am, plymouthacclaim said:

    Let’s all pool our money and buy one of these failing leftist media outlets. Then we’ll show the world what a conservative news network REALLY looks like!

  36. #36
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 11:35 am, ITookTheRedPill said:

    On March 23rd, 2011 at 9:46 am, Captain Blasto said:
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 9:52 am, Virginia Patriot said:
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 10:07 am, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

    I should have read your comments first.
    I agree with all three, as echoed by my prior comment.

  37. #37
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 11:37 am, winterhawk said:

    The obama regime is a total disgrace to the United States. The criminality within it is breathtaking.

  38. #38
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 11:42 am, Ilovemycountry said:

    I thought this was a funny depiction of you people:

    Libertarian Reluctantly Calls Fire Department

    CHEYENNE, WY—After attempting to contain a living-room blaze started by a cigarette, card-carrying Libertarian Trent Jacobs reluctantly called the Cheyenne Fire Department Monday. “Although the community would do better to rely on an efficient, free-market fire-fighting service, the fact is that expensive, unnecessary public fire departments do exist,” Jacobs said. “Also, my house was burning down.” Jacobs did not offer to pay firefighters for their service

  39. #39
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 11:47 am, hawkeye54 said:

    Can it be any more obvious that Obama and his administration are
    using oil as a tool to redistribute wealth on a Global scale?!

    Not just oil. ALL resources and commodities are in play.

  40. #40
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 11:58 am, Rogue Cheddar said:

    How about exporting them to Brazil?

    If we’re going to engage in Acts Of War, why don’t we pick on somebody of substance? That way we can bring out the big toys!

  41. #41
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 12:02 pm, RedDog said:

    This is the time to make an example of these people and prosecute them or ramp up pressure to fire them. Federal bureaucrats must be held personally accountable. In any event, Louisiana should tell the Feds to take a hike and grant permits of it’s own, even if only symbolically.

  42. #42
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 12:06 pm, Marshall_Will said:

    Green eyed Lady said:

    Michelle, Salazar is not the root of the problem.
    Barry Soetoro’s anti American oil, communist background is.

    GEL, not that I’m doubting you, but as conservatives we’re very strategically being forced to deal w/ each issue/individual/czar one.at.a.time or run the risk of being branded Extremists. ( Not that we haven’t already? )

    In thinking about that very conumdrum just yesterday, I likened it in my mind to being strategically sabotaged by a neighbor that -refuses- to address his dandelion problem? Doesn’t matter how it all started or why, he feels slighted and this is a great way of “settling an imaginary score” without any effort or expense on his part!

    The more frustrated you become, the more furiously you SWAT, the more easily the seeds of destruction disperse! Just UN-doing all this assures MM’s children job security!

  43. #43
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 12:07 pm, RedDog said:

    On March 23rd, 2011 at 9:52 am, Virginia Patriot said:
    The left doesn’t view redistribution as theft, in their twisted worldview, it fairness.

    They believe that wealth is a naturally occurring compound like water. It needs to be conserved and shared like a lifeboat food locker.

    Wealth has to be created, it does not grow or flow. This is why the Left views money and wealth as something to be regularly divvied up – a zero sum game.

  44. #44
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 12:11 pm, Regulus said:

    On March 23rd, 2011 at 11:29 am, ITookTheRedPill said:

    Can it be any more obvious that Obama and his administration are using oil as a tool to redistribute wealth on a Global scale?!

    It may be partly that, but I suspect that another, possibly greater motivation is ecological: why not let the Brazilians take all of the risks associated with drilling, as well as the cleanup if anything goes wrong? We get the oil, they get to clean up the mess.

    After all, when your concept of “economics” is to borrow and spend trillions of dollars that you don’t have, and to print greenbacks until the presses melt down, what’s a few billion to keep from having to get your hands dirty?

  45. #45
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 12:17 pm, spaceycakes said:

    Ilovemycount said:
    I wonder when the testes are supposed to drop? Mum said they should be here by now, but I’m not to touch myself anymore.

  46. #46
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 12:24 pm, dan708 said:

    One thing that is painfully clear about little Kenny is that he’s not just a part of OweBowMao’s lawless administration; he’s a part of the new-world-order crowd that is doing everything necessary to undermine our future.

  47. #47
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 12:36 pm, Marshall_Will said:

    Regulus said:

    why not let the Brazilians take all of the risks associated with drilling, as well as the cleanup if anything goes wrong? We get the oil, they get to clean up the mess.

    Not 24 hrs. ago I would have agreed without hesitation. Now I’m not so sure? What assurances do we have Teh Putzident and Che`vez haven’t already cut a backroom blank check deal for said clean-up efforts?

    And what assurances have we FLOTUS won’t show up sporting a high-end, designer oil-smeared blouse on their shores?

  48. #48
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 12:37 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

    On March 23rd, 2011 at 11:42 am, Ilovemycountry said:

    It’s my light saber and my soap and I’ll wash it as fast as I want!

  49. #49
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 12:41 pm, AlohaGuy said:

    They are using everything in their arsenal to redistribute the wealth of the American people to the poorer countries of the world.

    It’s what Marxists do.

  50. #50
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 12:44 pm, ramblingman said:

    On March 23rd, 2011 at 11:42 am, Ilovemysocialists said:

    Another thread where I can’t contribute because I am on the wrong side AGAIN!

    Oh, well, guess I’ll just grab some made up stuff by some left wing wackos, toss it out, and pretend that scores some points.

  51. #51
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 12:53 pm, NotTheMama said:

    On March 23rd, 2011 at 12:17 pm, spaceycakes said:
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 12:37 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 12:44 pm, ramblingman said:

    re: Ilovemy..

    Aren’t you wasting time and energy acknowleging that this .. whatever .. has said anything. If it contributes … kinda maybe, but otherwise don’t encourage it.

  52. #52
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 12:54 pm, ShoreDor said:

    I Love My Commies said:

    Jacobs did not offer to pay firefighters for their service

    It’s a PUBLIC fire company, so he is ALREADY paying for the service through his property taxes. Not something I would expect you to know about, being the basement-dwelling moocher that you are.

  53. #53
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 1:05 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

    On March 23rd, 2011 at 12:11 pm, Regulus said:

    On March 23rd, 2011 at 11:29 am, ITookTheRedPill said:

    Can it be any more obvious that Obama and his administration are using oil as a tool to redistribute wealth on a Global scale?!

    It may be partly that, but I suspect that another, possibly greater motivation is ecological: why not let the Brazilians take all of the risks associated with drilling, as well as the cleanup if anything goes wrong? We get the oil, they get to clean up the mess.

    The whole “Green” movement is not about the environment. It is about Power and Control. As David Horowitz quotes from the “New Left Notes” newsletter:

    “The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.”

    I agree with Dr. Theo who said:

    Environmental regulation, health care, and virtually every cause championed by the Left is really about advancing the socialist revolution by taking ever greater control of the lives of ordinary people.

    If the green movement were about the environment, they wouldn’t be trying to force us to put poisonous light bulbs in every residence in America. What happens if bomb’s shock wave shatters light bulbs in every home in a given radius? Wouldn’t that increase any bomb’s lethality because any light bulbs shattered by the bomb’s blast wave would then become a chemical weapon attacking the inhabitants?

    CFL bulbs are neither humanitarian nor environmentally sound.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_poisoning#Fluorescent_lamps

  54. #54
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 1:34 pm, spaceycakes said:

    ITTRP–why has Horowitz’s video been pulled at that site?

  55. #55
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 1:46 pm, Hiraghm said:

    If the green movement were about the environment, they wouldn’t be trying to force us to put poisonous light bulbs in every residence in America.

    I heard yesterday that the last incandescent lightbulb manufacturer in American moved to China.

    So, now they can drop the ban on incadescent lights.

  56. #56
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 1:55 pm, Virginia Patriot said:

    GE’s last incandescent plant in Winchester VA closed in Oct 2010.

  57. #57
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 2:01 pm, spaceycakes said:

    VA Patriot–I used to live right there in Stonebrook/Jones Rd. near that GE plant…

  58. #58
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 2:08 pm, Marshall_Will said:

    spaceycakes said:
    VA Patriot–I used to live right there in Stonebrook/Jones Rd. near that GE plant…

    We had a heated CFL Debate on our local Portland conserv. blog. All the Progs simply operate from the stance that if EPA/OSHA/Gov. Agency tell us they are good for the env., well that’s all the ‘proof’ they need!

    My observations as a homeowner are that CFL’s don’t come anywhere close to the the much vaunted service ‘life’. Not even close guys. In fact I’ve had them burn out in as little as few weeks! At least initially none of us knew of the hazards and I’ve swept up broken bulbs -just- as if they were trad. bulbs. I recall telling Mrs. Will “If these damned things lasted any shorter ( we’d be better off w/ candles! )”

  59. #59
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 2:10 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

    On March 23rd, 2011 at 1:34 pm, spaceycakes said:

    ITTRP–why has Horowitz’s video been pulled at that site?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBiutQznDCA&feature=player_embedded

    This video is no longer available because the YouTube account associated with this video has been terminated.

    So the real question is why did YouTube terminate the account?!?!

    Those who can’t handle the truth,
    try to silence those who speak it.

  60. #60
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 2:11 pm, spaceycakes said:

    I think you’re right, ITtRP

  61. #61
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 2:19 pm, drbulb said:

    Ilovemysocialism said:

    Absolutely nothing relevant, per usual.

  62. #62
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 2:30 pm, Ilovemycountry said:

    Hey look – all of these states you people come from are the laziest-fattest states in the union:

    http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/112390/states-most-couch-potatoes

  63. #63
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 2:52 pm, Marshall_Will said:

    ITookTheRedPill said:

    because any light bulbs shattered by the bomb’s blast wave would then become a chemical weapon attacking the inhabitants

    Right, and if they present only “minimal risk to occupants” ( why do some states advocate the use of a face mask and adequate time and ventilation when disposing of a broken CFL? )

    The more I read about these things the less I like about them? At present, I’ve gotten rid of the last of them. For all the touting of ‘savings’ our power bill never budged. Well, in the right direction anyway? I’m done.

  64. #64
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 3:06 pm, mondamay said:

    On March 23rd, 2011 at 2:08 pm, Marshall_Will said:

    To say nothing of the bulbs that are DOA right out of the pack.

  65. #65
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 3:09 pm, T-Bone said:

    Follow the money. Who invested in CFL’s?

  66. #66
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 3:20 pm, J-Bone said:

    I love that image of Salazar wearing a cowboy hat…..may as well put a KKK hood on Al Sharpton or an American flag pin on Barack Obama’s lapel.

  67. #67
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 3:23 pm, NJ-Aviator said:

    Ilovemycountry said:

    Hey look –

    Hey….

    STFU.

  68. #68
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 3:24 pm, GraniteMan said:

    Oil is our life blood–like it or not. Shut it off and we live like cavemen if we’re lucky. It is insane to depend on the middle east for oil. The ME is ready to go up in flames and be ruled by people with a world view popular back in 800 A.D. Choice? Drill for oil and prosper or live like cavemen? Oh, Sylvester let’s save the environment! What is wrong with us as a nation that it is happening?

  69. #69
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 3:26 pm, RedDog said:

    Barry Soetoro…. Want to go surfing Barry?

  70. #70
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 3:27 pm, NJ-Aviator said:

    Obama, Salazar and the rest of them need to be gone as soon as possible. I’d suggest an Argentinian or perhaps Colombian prison would be most appropriate.

    Obama is EVERY BIT the radical zealot of the likes of Salazar, Browner and the communist that has to leave. but while Obama is “playing President” he has to keep up the “not so radical” guise.

    They are all enemies of America. Just like our guest troll…. ILove[NorthKorea].

  71. #71
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 3:33 pm, spaceycakes said:

    ilovemysmegma said:
    Hey look–I found a moonrock in my nose!

  72. #72
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 3:41 pm, OK_Loyalist said:

    I’m tellin’ ya, the quickest way to emasculate °O° is to kick Ilovemycountry in the jaw.

  73. #73
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 4:01 pm, EROWMER said:

    These ‘people’ were described fully in Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. Salazar is an insult to Colorado and America.

  74. #74
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 4:04 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:
  75. #75
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 4:05 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

    On March 23rd, 2011 at 2:30 pm, Ilovemycountry said:

    Hey Ma look! I can make farting noises with my hand in my armpit! ppbhpbhpbphbphp!

  76. #76
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 4:05 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

    The Trumpster is a birther!

  77. #77
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 4:10 pm, J-Bone said:

    I love my country said:

    Hey look – all of these states you people come from are the laziest-fattest states in the union:

    For the fact that the laziest, fattest States are full of blacks, who coincidentally are among the highest per capita fatass slobs in the country, I consider your comments to be extremely racist. How dare you!! I guess the next thing I should expect is for you to demean the IQ’s of those very same people. You make me sick!

  78. #78
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 4:18 pm, rocketman said:

    ***
    HI OK_LOYALIST–#74. Thank you for the more germane update on the old Aggie Joke:
    ***
    How do you break an Aggie’s finger? Punch him in the nose!
    ***
    And as far as the Department of (no / foreign) Energy’s Ken Salazar–buy him a bad guy black hat. White hats are for good guys. Bad guys like black hats–and the Texas sun quickly frys what few brains the good Lord gave them!
    ***
    And I wonder what Comrade Obama’s (PBUH) end game will be in the Nov. 2012 elections. Continued high unemployment due to his bad energy decisions. High fuel prices–and just wait until the fuel bill for the U.S. Military shows up–many tons per day for no fly / tank plinking aircraft. Big bills for new cruise missiles, aircraft, etc. as the Libya actions drag on.
    ***
    Jimmy Carter looks brilliant by comparison!
    ***
    John Bibb
    ***

  79. #79
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 4:26 pm, ramblingman said:

    On March 23rd, 2011 at 2:30 pm, Ilovemywhatever said:

    the usual drive by droppings.

    ILMC, whenever you are ready to actually participate in a discussion, let us know. Otherwise, you will continue to be taken as serious as a Yugo at a Nascar race.

  80. #80
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 4:29 pm, rocketman said:

    ***
    HI J-BONE–#79. What do Black People have to do with the current thread? And also–lazy / overweight / stupid comes in all races and ethnic groups–it’s an equal opportunity thang! See Michael Moore for more details.
    ***
    John Bibb
    ***

  81. #81
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 4:31 pm, flmom said:

    Ilovemycountry said:
    Hey look – squirrel!

  82. #82
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 4:35 pm, Virginia Patriot said:

    On March 23rd, 2011 at 4:05 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:
    The Trumpster is a birther!

    Somebody pointed out the other day that Trump is immune to many of the threats that cause others to cower in fear of speaking the truth. Alinsky doesn’t seem to frighten him. Good for him, I hope he keeps it up. So few have the courage to speak up about

    Who is Barry Soetoro?

  83. #83
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 4:56 pm, Virginia Patriot said:

    Barry is tellng El Salvador he wants amnesty for illegal aliens.

    http://nation.foxnews.com/president-obama/2011/03/22/obama-tells-el-salvador-hes-committed-amnesty

  84. #84
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 5:02 pm, spaceycakes said:

    Let’s send this o back to the abyss

  85. #85
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 5:11 pm, txvet2 said:

    On March 23rd, 2011 at 4:18 pm, rocketman said:

    A caller on Rush’s show yesterday pointed out that it takes something like 18 KC-135 tanker sorties to support one flight of 4 F-15′s for one day of this “no-fly” operation.

  86. #86
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 5:14 pm, txvet2 said:

    On March 23rd, 2011 at 4:56 pm, Virginia Patriot said:

    Barry is tellng El Salvador he wants amnesty for illegal aliens.

    That may surprise the Salvadorans, but I don’t think anybody in this country is laboring under any illusions.

  87. #87
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 5:16 pm, Bruce said:

    On March 23rd, 2011 at 12:53 pm, NotTheMama said:

    On March 23rd, 2011 at 12:17 pm, spaceycakes said:
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 12:37 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 12:44 pm, ramblingman said:

    re: Ilovemy..
    Aren’t you wasting time and energy acknowleging that this .. whatever .. has said anything. If it contributes … kinda maybe, but otherwise don’t encourage it.

    Beat me to it. +100!!!!! DON’T FEED THE TROLLS!!!

  88. #88
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 5:34 pm, hawkeye54 said:

    Barry is tellng El Salvador he wants amnesty for illegal aliens.
    That may surprise the Salvadorans, but I don’t think anybody in this country is laboring under any illusions.

    Hey, no problem. A quick executive order, instant citizenship before the ink dries and automatic voter registration gets the Dems 12 million+ new legal voters just in time for 2012.

  89. #89
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 6:02 pm, Pasadena Phil said:

    On March 23rd, 2011 at 4:05 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:
    The Trumpster is a birther!

    Not only that, he is polling neck-and-neck with Palin and Huckabee. He has little shot to win the GOP nomination but he is definitely in a good position to run 3rd 2nd party. Ignore him at your own peril.

  90. #90
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 6:06 pm, Pasadena Phil said:

    Trump polling link.

  91. #91
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 6:50 pm, Green eyed Lady said:

    On March 23rd, 2011 at 12:06 pm, Marshall_Will said:

    Got your point.
    Sorry to post and not return for awhile as I work as well hunt for information about ‘you know who.’ I am almost tired of typing the name but will continue to unmask the fraud, especially with his own words, whenever the opportunity avails itself.

  92. #92
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 7:09 pm, Marshall_Will said:

    Green eyed Lady said:

    I am almost tired of typing the name but will continue to unmask the fraud

    And who among us ‘isn’t'? Lol, yeah and I was just kidding about “job security”. I’m pretty sure when MM’s kids ask her “Mo…m, why do you have to be working all the darned time!?” ( The pat answer is; “So hopefully you kids won’t -have- to!” )

    Prog-Free In Our Time People! Great God, Prog Free at last..!

  93. #93
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 7:14 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

    On March 23rd, 2011 at 5:16 pm, Bruce said:
    Beat me to it. +100!!!!! DON’T FEED THE TROLLS!!!

    Please, what you call feeding the trolls, I call poking a hognosed snake with a stick. It’s FUNdamental! You may choose to engage the trolls or not, but please don’t dissuade me from one of my life’s little pleasures. It’s like snipe hunting, you like snipe hunting don’t you?

  94. #94
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 7:29 pm, Virginia Patriot said:

    Hey, no problem. A quick executive order, instant citizenship before the ink dries and automatic voter registration gets the Dems 12 million+ new legal voters just in time for 2012.

    I said before the last election that his blank slate schtick would work once and he’d need the foreign vote to get reelected. Is the Stupid Party so stupid they would help him get it?

  95. #95
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 7:58 pm, spaceycakes said:

    NotTheMama said:
    Bruce said:

    Nah; it’ll just make me do it more. I know it can’t read.

  96. #96
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 11:08 pm, Bruce said:

    Rogue Cheddar said:

    On March 23rd, 2011 at 5:16 pm, Bruce said:
    Beat me to it. +100!!!!! DON’T FEED THE TROLLS!!!

    Please, what you call feeding the trolls, I call poking a hognosed snake with a stick. It’s FUNdamental! You may choose to engage the trolls or not, but please don’t dissuade me from one of my life’s little pleasures. It’s like snipe hunting, you like snipe hunting don’t you?

    Have it your way, knowing that all it does is encouyrage the puke to get on here even more – just to annoy people. Not real smart in my view, but …

  97. #97
    On March 23rd, 2011 at 11:24 pm, OK_Loyalist said:

    On March 23rd, 2011 at 11:08 pm, Bruce said:

    Have it your way, knowing that all it does is encouyrage the puke to get on here even more – just to annoy people. Not real smart in my view, but …

    I find it’s best to do preemptive troll targeting … See

  98. #98
    On March 24th, 2011 at 8:56 am, BayouKiki said:

    I am a Louisiana citizen and my husband has been an employee for nearly 30 years of that company-that-shall-remain-nameless formerly headed by our former Vice-President. I am here to tell you that the jobs that are offered by the drilling industry — offshore and on — are great, great jobs providing great benefits to the employees who are willing to put up with the hardships of the industry (being gone for extended periods of time, living in bunks — fine when you’re 25, not so great when you’re in your 50s). And these jobs are being slowly but surely destroyed. While these workers can follow the jobs to Africa, Brazil, wherever, why should they have to? We need the oil, we have it here, exploration and production of it creates jobs and wealth — WHY DON’T THESE PEOPLE SEE THIS???

    It makes me sick and guys, it’s really important that someone step up to the plate in the name of true conservative, stay out of my house and pocketbook government to take these nutjobs on next year. Really.

  99. #99
    On March 24th, 2011 at 9:17 am, Rogue Cheddar said:

    On March 23rd, 2011 at 11:08 pm, Bruce said:
    Have it your way, knowing that all it does is encouyrage the puke to get on here even more – just to annoy people. Not real smart in my view, but …

    Hey, ILMC may be a troll but he’s our troll. Much like RSS, lgm, zzzygg, and others that came before. We’ve been poking them for a long time. It’s our form of entertainment. You’re new here aren’t you? You’ll find that Michelle doesn’t run an echo chamber here. Diverse viewpoints are welcomed and responded to with the appropriate level of respect they deserve, which varies greatly. Not everybody loves the trolls, but we love lockstep groupthink even less.

  100. #100
    On March 24th, 2011 at 10:24 am, spaceycakes said:

    ILMC never responds anyway. Nothing we write will make it do so.

    Hey remember Rusty, nyc and mistressjustice? Man those were the days…

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