Simple Man Politics

While we are waiting to find out whether or not the 410 Billion Dollar omnibus spending bill gets passed today in the Senate, I think we should take about something as important energy. Specifically I think we should talk about oil and how we can end our dependence on foreign oil, and the activist group responsible for blocking the ability to do so.

In April 2008 the USGS (United States Geological Survey) issued a revised report based on how much oil is in the North Dakota, South Dakota, and Montana. The original report which was completed in 1995 didn’t even come close to the numbers contained in the 08 report and the numbers are amazing.

The Williston Basin or as it is more commonly known as “The Bakken” is the largest domestic oil discovery since Alaska’s “Prudhoe Bay”. The information contained in the report states that “The Bakken” has the potential to eliminate all dependence on foreign oil for the US. The EIA (Energy Information Administration) estimates the yield at 503 Billion Barrels of oil. The beautiful part of this is that the oil is light sweet crude, which would only cost Americans 16 Dollars per barrel, and could fuel the American economy for the next 41 years.

As if this isn’t enough good news the Stanberry Report Online reported the find of the largest oil reserve in the world and it is hidden 1,000 feet beneath the surface of the Rocky Mountains. It has been said that the size of this field is as much as 2 Trillion barrels of oil. In 2005 President George W, Bush mandated the extraction of oil from this field, but to date none of these resources have been recovered. With all of this oil within our land based borders why are we arguing over off shore drilling.

The reason the fight to become independent of foreign oil, off shore drilling, and land based drilling is still going on is because of a small group of environmentalists and a few others who have decided it is in our own best interest to pay exorbitant oil and gas prices rather than energize and power our own economy.

James Bartis, the lead researcher with the study says we have more oil within this compact area than the whole of the Middle East with a total of more than 2 Trillion barrels making the US the holder of more oil than all of the proven oil reserves of crude oil in the world today. If tapped this could force OPEC to drop its prices dramatically. There is a rumor that OPEC funds the environmentalist movement in this country anyway to stop the extraction of these reserves.

Here are the official estimates comparing these finds to the oil producing nations of OPEC.

8 times more oil than in Saudi Arabia
18 times more oil than in Iraq
21 times more oil than in Kuwait
22 times more oil than in Iran
500 times more oil than in Yemen

Remember folks all of this oil is right here in the continental United States, shocking isn’t it.

If you wish to check out this information yourself please feel free to do so. You can either Google it or follow the link at the bottom of this post. I hope you all have a fantastic day and I will be back again soon, CIAO4NOW!!!!!

http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=1911

I was driving along Friday listening to one of my favorite conservative talk radio shows when the host brought up something that made me sit up and take notice to what he was saying. He brought up the fact that Barack Obama is the first American President ever allowed to carry a personal communications device. I am not talking about a cell phone either I am talking about his personal Blackberry device.

The reason I found this so disturbing is that all Presidential communications including his personal communications are considered matters of public record under the FOI (Freedom of Information) Act, except for matters of National Security, and the host corroborated my thoughts. Of course not even those of National Security are completely confidential as those with the required Security clearances have access to them.

Another interesting tidbit of information that I learned was the fact that all Blackberry communications are untraceable, WOW can you imagine that untraceable. Does that mean that not even our friends at the NSA with their state of the art listening technology and intelligence gathering apparatus can bug a Blackberry? What can President Obama possibly need with a device like that and who is he secretly communicating with?

Now I know what you are all thinking, this sounds like I’m about to become a conspiracy theorist. Well normally I am not one of those kinds of people, but it seems to me that Obama is being accorded a privilege that no other US President has ever enjoyed. President George W, Bush has even acknowledged that he ceased sending emails to his daughter’s from his computer at the White House because they were not private, so why should Obama not have to be scrutinized under the same microscope?

Does Obama regularly communicate with people that the citizens of the United States might not find appropriate? Maybe Obama consults with the homegrown terrorist Bill Ayers on matters of education policy, or with the Reverend Jeremiah Wright on matters of domestic policy. Who knows maybe Obama even consults with terrorists like Rashid Khalidi or Khalid al Mansour on matters of defense and security policy. Maybe he even has Tony Rezco on speed dial up at the penitentiary so he can get economic and financial advice. These are just the sort of people we need looking out for our best interests.

Now I don’t pretend to know what Obama is doing with his Blackberry device and chances are it is not something as devious as the scenario I just mentioned, but since I just professed to not having the necessary knowledge to tell you what he is doing with the device, then who does?

I will say this though and that is that President Obama should not be shown any special consideration that hasn’t been shown any past President. It will cloud his promise of transparency and we can’t have him breaking a campaign promise now can we? Of course who am I an American and tax paying citizen to demand that my President be open and forthcoming about his day to day affairs in the White House I help to pay for?

That is all I have for now, but you need to think about what I just said and decide what you think and believe. Have a great day, CIAO4NOW!!!!!

Well what do you know, the Republican members of the US Senate finally got up the backbone to challenge the 410 Billion Dollar spending bill that had made its way to the Senate for a full vote. I wonder if the RINO’s were involved in forcing the Democrats to put off the final vote so they can sweet talk enough Republicans to get the votes they need or if the Blue Dog Democrats were the cause of the pause.

Who ever was the catalyst for this disruption has my thanks as long as they can keep the bill from passing as is. If the RINO’s alone are responsible for making the Democrats come up 1 vote shy of the 60 needed to send it to the President to sign off on I would be surprised. More than likely some of those Democrats I mentioned help to stall the measure before the final vote that forced Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to put it off at least until Monday of next week.

In the meantime the Senate will have to vote on and pass a stopgap budget bill so that the government can continue doing business until they sort out this pork laden monstrosity and get enough votes to pass it. Part of the problem appears to be the way it impacts changes in US policy towards Cuba. Of course it also appears that the cost of this thing has a few of the Democrats nervous about it as well.

What is surprising to me also is that Obama’s resident yes man inside the GOP former Republican Presidential candidate and still Senator from Arizona John McCain had come out against the bill a few days ago and came out strongly against it yesterday. I have to wonder if the new leader of the Conservative Movement Rush Limbaugh has finally gotten the message through to those knotheads on Capitol Hill and put the fear of the voter into them.

That’s all for this week I hope you all have a marvelous weekend. I will see you all next week, CIAO4NOW!!!!!

I am not sure, but I think I might have been partially wrong about our new President and his administration when I called them a socialists. That does not mean that I don’t believe that he has any socialist policies, because he obviously does. He has also appointed some admitted and committed socialists to high posts within his administration. The reason I believe that I may have been partially wrong about him and his administration being socialists is that they may very well be communists at least to a degree.

Take it easy now and don’t pop a blood vessel just yet and let me explain. As you are probably aware I receive a vast amount of political emails from people and organizations. Some of these are humorous, some are stupid, and some are serious, but I look through them all in an attempt to find the gold nugget of news worthy truth in every one of them. The information I am about to give you came from one such email a friend and fellow blogger who has written for my blog a time or two, and her name is Joy and you can find her blog here.

The email that Joy had sent me contained a link to a site called American Thinker and you can find the page I am talking about here. The title of this particular blog is “Bingo! Call It Communism”. What it basically talks about is the CPUSA’s (Communist Party of United States of America) platform and support of Barack Obama’s election and now administration you can find them here. What I found on both of these websites sent a chill up my spine and it was 83 degrees here in the Valley of the Sun yesterday.

According to the American Thinker there are 44 items in the CPUSA’s platform that they advocate and promote for our government to achieve their agenda of a new communist government for the United States of America. Randall Hoven who wrote this blog for the American Thinker posted the 44 item platform in his blog as well as a link to the CPUSA site with their manifesto in PDF format that you can download there.

In the Randall Hoven blog he clearly shows the reader the platform, what things in the platform that have already been achieved, and what still needs to be implemented according to the CPUSA manifesto. According to the information that he supplied and my research I have found his blog to be factually accurate. Out of 44 items in the CPUSA platform 22 items have already been implemented, 21 are in the progress of being implemented, and only 1 of these items have been violated.

What this means for the citizens of the United States is that we are half way towards becoming the ideal communist country and workers paradise. Now I am not going to sit here and tell you that I know what is going on in the Mind of Barack Obama, because even I am not that twisted, well at least I don’t think so. But I have been extremely suspicious of the anointed one Barack Obama since he first appeared on the horizon as a Presidential hopeful.

All I ask of you my readers is that you take a look at the information I have given you and make your own decisions as to what you think or believe about this. As for me I feel that I believe what is said about this subject and that he may actually be a committed communist although he will never admit it. I already know that is at the very least a socialist and that is dangerous enough.

I hope you all have a great day and I will see all of you again very soon, CIAO4NOW!!!!!

It now appears that President Obama is attacking anther Bush rule that was enacted in the last days of his administration. This rule reinforced protections for medical providers who would refuse to perform abortions or other medical procedures on moral grounds, such as religious beliefs.

DHHS (Department of Health and Human Services) said that the administration will publish the notice of its intentions early next week, while at the same time opening up a 30 day comment period for advocates, medical groups, and the public.

It came as no surprise that President Obama while running for the Presidency criticized the regulation, and his aides promised that if he were to be elected he would review the rule. What that meant was that he would rescind the rule because it could interfere with his nationalized healthcare plan by subverting government’s authority to force medical providers to comply in order to receive federal funds.

If we are to recognize freedom of religion and speech of all faiths then I believe that we should recognize Christianity as well. If a physician has a moral objection to performing certain medical procedures then the physician should not be forced by the government to perform them.

I also realize that abortion is legal in this country and women have the right to choose how to deal with a pregnancy that is wanted or unwanted. This is a decision that also should not fall under the purview of government bureaucracy. By rescinding the rule you might not only violate the physician’s constitutional rights, but you might violate the rights of the woman as well.

I am here to tell you that I am not a man that is quick to hate another human being, and I am known by those that know me well to be extremely tolerant of other people, even those I think are stupid. However I can honestly say that every day I am drawing closer to being able to say that I hate our President and I don’t want to.

I am totally disgusted with this administrations attempt to do everything in its power to compromise this nation in every way. Whether it is on matters of defense, economic stability, tax payer money, healthcare issues, or faith he is leaving no stone unturned in an effort to bring us to a socialist government similar to France or worse yet Venezuela.

That is all I have to say for now, all of this makes me feel dirty and my conscience needs a cleanse to dispel all of this evil that is being thrust upon us. Have a good day my friends and I will see you again soon, CIAO4NOW!!!!!

This week Barack Obama finally showed a little bit of transparency in government. I think that transparency in our government is a good thing, because it can produce trust between our President, lawmakers, and citizens. I firmly believe that we should exactly what our government unless it involves matters of national security, which could be compromised by making the information public. However I don’t think that in this case Obama did this for the good of the country.

Here is what our President did that was so transparent. He released a series of documents that had previously kept secret by the Bush administration that involved the war on terror. I think it may have been good to release these documents, but not for the reasons that I think Obama did so. I think Obama released these documents to divert attention from himself and his political agenda.

Some of these documents dealt with the detainee situation in Gitmo, and the interrogations there. They also contained information on extraordinary rendition, which means that our intelligence apparatus sent certain terrorist detainees to other countries in order to use more aggressive interrogation techniques. The documents also contained information on the wiretap policy of the Bush administration regarding terrorist conversations involving people inside the US. There was also data showing that the CIA had destroyed 92 videos of interrogations that they performed.

Personally I have no problems with the Bush Administrations policy regarding the war on terror. I don’t care anything about the Gitmo detainees other than they get what they deserve for going to war against us. By the same token I don’t care how we came by the information, because the bad guys would do even worse to us to get what they want. As far as wiretaps go if it gets the Islamofascists that we are fighting then it works for me I have nothing to hide in my phone conversations. I also think that the CIA should have aired those video tapes to show the American people what it takes to keep our nation safe.

Fortunately for us there was almost no new info in the documents that Obama released and most of it was common knowledge amongst the American population. The 92 videos information was new, but I don’t care that they destroyed them, because I don’t are to what light entertainment at dinner time. Like I said this was just Obama’s attempt to deflect attention from him so he can fly under the radar a little bit. This action was not transparency for transparencies sake, but transparency for Obama’s sake, so that he can try to hide the damaging policies he is instituting.

That is all for now and I am sorry you are getting this so late this evening, but like every other American I got to pay the bills first. I will be back again soon have a great evening, CIAO4NOW!!!!!

Well my friends I have to tell you that CPAC (Conservative Political Action Committee) 2009 was definitely off the chain and I for one was extremely pleased with. I was very impressed with Newt Gingrich and the way he ripped on Obama’s policies and backed it up with the truth supported by actual facts. However I don’t think that he was the star of CPAC this time, I think the star this year is conservative radio talk sow host Rush Limbaugh.

That’s right I said Rush Limbaugh and here is why. Not since Ronald Reagan have I seen a conservative public figure speak as passionately or eloquently about the philosophy and values that a true conservative holds true to. Whether you like the man or not, you cannot deny that he really believes in his idea of the conservative American and what it means to believe in the core values of a true conservative.

Unfortunately he pointed out one flaw within the conservative movement and the Republican Party. That flaw is the willingness to toss the Reagan era into the waste basket as gone in order to attempt to appeal to the American people as forward thinkers and change brokers within the movement.

The conservative movement does not need to change its philosophy it needs to change its leadership and find a candidate that will best represent them as the party of compassion that they actually are. It is not evil to reward success, nor is it fair to punish success either.

Let us be honest here. Ronald Reagan inherited a recession worse than the one we have now from Jimmy Carter. The funny thing about that is that of all the financial catastrophes that Obama likes to point to in our history this is the one that he doesn’t ever mention why because a Republican President was the one who saved the economy.

Reagan did this by applying if you will pardon the term liberal tax breaks and incentives to all tax payers as well as business. He also shrunk the size of government and promoted the private sector/capitalism where ever possible. The result of these efforts was the largest peacetime economic growth in modern American history.

The best part of this was that it wasn’t accomplished by outrageous government spending at the expense of the tax payer creating debt that the next three generations would be responsible for. We didn’t have to go into debt to foreign countries either. We also didn’t have to print more and more money than we had and devalue the dollar. What Reagan did was to empower the people to be productive and as a competitive people we answered the call, accepted the challenge, and kicked some serious economic butt.

What that tells me is that Rush got it right at CPAC on Friday. It also tells me that Obama is horribly wrong. I personally hope that if Obama’s plan would truly help the people and the economy that it would succeed, but knowing that it is destined for abject failure I will have to side with Rush and hope that it fails miserably and fast, so that we can set about the business of doing the job right.

That is all I have for this bright and cheerful Monday and I hope you all enjoy this post. I am also adding a couple of videos for you all to watch so enjoy them to. One is the Rush Limbaugh at CPAC there are 10 parts all together, and the other is a Glenn Beck video that you might find interesting, especially since we are bailing out AIG…..again. I will be back again very soon so have a marvelous Monday, CIAO4NOW!!!!!