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Obama blocks oil drilling at home but promotes it in Columbia, Mexico and Brazil

Posted on September 23, 2012 | Comments Off on Obama blocks oil drilling at home but promotes it in Columbia, Mexico and Brazil

Think Obama wants to please the Greens and protect the environment by blocking the Keystone pipeline and American oil development? Think again.

“On May 9, 2011, the Obama White House announced that it was providing $2.84 billion in American taxpayer money to finance oil drilling and oil refining in the South American nation of Columbia…

“One might expect that oil to come to the United States [but] the oil would be used for Columbia and the Columbians could sell the surplus on the export market.”—–from Obama’s America: Unmaking the American Dream by Dinesh D’Souza.

Likewise, Obama has put taxpayer billions into Gulf of Mexico oil development by Mexico [while blocking new drilling there by American companies] and offshore Atlantic oil development by Brazil. It’s only our oil development that he resists.

D’Souza’s book shows that it’s not the environment Obama wants to protect, or global warming he wants to prevent, but the U.S. economy he intends to downsize considerably in the name of anti-colonialism. We are to be punished for the “sins” of our fathers.

Ready for unemployment to climb higher? Especially—ironically—for young blacks and Hispanics? For gas prices to rise above $4? For possible national bankruptcy?

Not to mention climbing electricity prices due to Barry’s “war on coal” which soon will be affecting West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Virginia and North Carolina with the closure of more than 200 coal-fired electricity generators. A Republican wouldn’t be doing this, but if he were, the media would have lynched him by now. (Yes, lynched. We don’t play the race word game around here.)

For all this and who knows what other disaster, all you gotta do is re-elect Barry, the food-stamp president, who wants all Americans on welfare and will see to it in his second term. Forward!

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The Amateur, aka Obysmal

Posted on September 7, 2012 | Comments Off on The Amateur, aka Obysmal

This is a very good book which you should read before you vote for this faker who spends his time playing golf, partying and vacationing while the economy continues to deteriorate. It will tell you far more about him than any Democrat media outlet (which is just about all of them).

One thing you’ll learn is that Mr. Hopenchange really doesn’t know much about politics. (See his empty acceptance speech last night.) So he can’t work with other politicians.

Doesn’t bother his party leaders, though. They want an executive whose strings can be pulled by experienced hacks like Pelosi and Reid and Obysmal is a good marionette. See “Obamacare” which is so toxic to so many that he dared not mention it last night. It bears only his name, none of his work.

You will learn in this book that he’s even dumped the people who helped get him to the White House, such as Oprah Winfrey. Oprah Winfrey! He doesn’t like very many other people. That’s what narcissists are about, after all. And this one is not just self-centered but very, very smug about it.

My favorite of the Republican anti-Obysmal campaign ads is this one which shows that this fellow who’s supposedly so brilliant (if you believe the Democrat media) is, in fact, so stunningly lazy that he keeps giving the same speeches over and over again.

So why does he famously need a teleprompter? Could be that he’s still so high on the pot and cocaine he extensively consumed in high school and college (as that same Democrat media hid from us in 2008 and we only, finally, learned here) that he can’t memorize anything—even his own words. Assuming they are his own. But who else would write such bland, uninspiring pablum?

My Amazon review of the book is here, and it and this post certainly have my endorsement.

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Waiting for the reviews

Posted on August 25, 2012 | Comments Off on Waiting for the reviews

Finishing a novel and then waiting for the reviews, according to Keith Ridgeway, isn’t fun.

“It’s a little like crawling from a car crash to be greeted by a panel of strangers holding up score cards.”

Ain’t it the truth. So far I’ve been lucky, but with more than a hundred copies taken when the novel was on Amazon’s free promotion list, there’s bound to be some contrary ones out there just waiting to hold up their score cards. Stands to reason.

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Our corrupt federal government

Posted on August 13, 2012 | Comments Off on Our corrupt federal government

Other than the occasional multi-billion-dollar Mars landing, from a famously-bloated federal agency which has impeded manned space exploration with politically-motivated safety requirements, what have we got?

While Obozo pursues his retreaded class war against the rich (which was old when FDR did it in the 1930s), his preferred Big Government is spending our money with careless abandon. Not to mention he and his extravagant wife and their pricey vacations.

The worst part is how obvious the federal thievery has become and that it’s the “little guy” Democrats who are profiting the most, not the “rich” Republicans:

“As the average net worth of Congress has increased since 2004, and held about even from 2007 to 2010, the average American family net worth dropped 40 percent from 2007 to 2010 to an average of $77,300.

“In 2010, the average net worth for a U.S. senator was $13,224,333. The average net worth for a Democratic senator was $19,383,524, compared to $7,054,258 for a Republican senator. That’s a difference of $12.3 million.”

These guys are stealing, plain and simple. They’re allowed to do such things as “insider trading” for which they have passed laws that would send the rest of us to prison. We need to make them all one-termers stat.

It hardly matters whether there’s a Big Government-promoting Democrat in the White House or a Big Government-diminishing Republican. Just as FEMA will screw up (again) if a hurricane hits New Orleans (again). And how will Congress react? Why, they’ll pass more laws to make FEMA even bigger, of course, and to create more opportunities for insiders to spend (and steal) tax money.

Via Instapundit.

Here’s irony for you: All of this was old news more than two hundred years ago. It can actually be found in the Declaration of Independence: the Brits of the day were continuing to erect “a multitude of new offices” and sending “swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.” —from the late conservative economist Milton Friedman’s ever-popular book Free To Choose.

So popular that the TV series of the same name is still available on YouTube. The vid is long on emotion and short on ideas, though. Get the book.

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Night Train To Rigel

Posted on August 5, 2012 | Comments Off on Night Train To Rigel

I enjoyed this space opera, from beginning to end and never put it down for long. It’s a fluffy story, sure enough, but the way author Timothy Zahn structured it, I kept reading to find out what the latest twist was all about.

I love the idea of a train to the stars—which is very H.G. Wells but also hangs on a point of theoretical physics—down to the connecting vestibules between the cars which I could easily visualize, coming as I do from a time when American passenger trains were more common than they are today.

Perhaps because I’ve never read any other Zahn adventure, I wasn’t plagued by the comparison some other Amazon reviewers can’t seem to help but make with his other books, which I will now go on to read, starting with the more popular The Icarus Hunt.

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Propping up the Democrat narrative

Posted on August 3, 2012 | Comments Off on Propping up the Democrat narrative

This is pretty disgusting: the non-profit Ford Foundation giving $1.5 million to the profit-making WaPo and LA Times, chief purveyors of the Democrat “news” narrative. I suppose the NYTimes, the narrative’s exalted cyclops is next.

The FF has long been part of the Left-Wing money machine, according to conservative author David Horowiz:

“If you read articles by liberal journalists, they’ll be warning about the dangers of the Koch brothers. The Koch Foundation has $239 million. Ford is 40 times as big as Koch.”

The WaPo, L.A. Times grants are for so-called specialty reporting, they say, though more probably they’re simply to help them keep their financial heads above the rising tide of red ink drowning newspapers (and WaPo’s Snoozeweak mag) across the country—the rest of which happily reprint these leaders’ latest Democrat-inspired “news” on their front pages day after day. It’s for sure they won’t be getting any millions from the effing FF.

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Who invented the Internet? Xerox

Posted on July 24, 2012 | Comments Off on Who invented the Internet? Xerox

I suppose we can’t expect Obozo to know better than to think his precious big feds invented the Internet since almost everyone else does. But would it be too much to ask a POTUS to do more research than clip newspaper and magazine articles? Looks like that’s about all that this one and his clown act of advisers does.

“If the government didn’t invent the Internet, who did? Vinton Cerf developed the TCP/IP protocol, the Internet’s backbone, and Tim Berners-Lee gets credit for hyperlinks. But full credit goes to the company where Mr. Taylor worked after leaving ARPA: Xerox. It was at the Xerox PARC labs in Silicon Valley in the 1970s that the Ethernet was developed to link different computer networks. Researchers there also developed the first personal computer (the Xerox Alto [above]) and the graphical user interface that still drives computer usage today.”

And, yep, even the mouse

Not that everyone agrees, of course. Really, it depends on how you interpret it. The government funded a lot of the early research. But all that did was lay the stepping stones. And it isn’t the same thing as inventing it.

Via the WSJ and Instapundit

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