Sunday - May 15, 2005

Thought For The Day

Randall Nunn at The American Daily has an interesting observation: If companies can setup over 90 wells to drill for natural gas directly under Ft. Worth, TX without bothering the 1 million people living there, why can’t we do the same in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR)? The answer: Liberal obstruction. Nothing more.

A couple of weeks ago, The Wall Street Journal ran a front page article concerning the U.S.’s largest gas field that lies under Fort Worth, Texas, saying that there are now 90 natural gas drilling rigs boring holes in and around Fort Worth, some of them in residential neighborhoods and under golf courses. The thought occurred to me that if we have the capability of drilling wells in and around a city of over 1 million people without destroying property values and degrading the environment, surely we can do the same on a couple of thousand acres of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (“ANWR”).

Those who oppose drilling in ANWR generally do so on the basis that such activity would destroy the “pristine” environment and harm plant and animal life there. They attempt to use the myriad of environmental laws and regulations to stop such activity without regard to the fact that we have the capability to drill without significant adverse impact on the Refuge or plant and animal life located there. Also ignored is the fact that this country needs to develop such resources in order to help preserve our economy and enhance the survivability of the greatest protector of species (including humans) in the world today—the United States. Most of the opponents of drilling in ANWR are motivated by their irrational dislike of the Bush administration and everything it advocates. Others are motivated by a congenital dislike of anything that advances the United States, economically or otherwise.

The liberals have taken over much of the “environmental” movement in this country and, following their typical elitist tendencies, are dictating to the rest of us by imposing their views and positions on all matters dealing with protection of the environment. Competing views are not tolerated if they advocate engaging in development of almost any type in areas previously free of development. We must accept liberal dogma and opinions regardless of the existence of scientific facts and data to the contrary. Reason, logic and experience are thrown over for political grandstanding and quixotic notions lacking in scientific support.

Posted by The Skipper     on 05/15/2005 at 08:36 AM   
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   Wednesday - May 04, 2005

Most Ridiculous Item Of he Day

Grreenpeace is being sued for violating environmental laws. Oooooh, the humanity! How could this happen to such a good organization ....?

(now extracting tongue from cheek)

Posted by The Skipper     on 05/04/2005 at 08:24 PM   
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   Sunday - May 01, 2005

Restaurant At The End Of The Tsunami

If you wanted to build the world’s First All-Glass Undersea Restaurant which spot under the sea would you choose? Off the coast of Greece or Italy? Or maybe off shore from Los Angeles or New York? Wrong! That’s why the Hilton Hotel chain is rich and you’re poor. They are smart enough to build the damned thing less than a hundred miles from the epicenter of the huge earthquake that created the tsunami that destroyed Southeast Asia last December.

The Maldives - 15 April marks the day that the first ever all-glass undersea restaurant in the world opens its doors for business at the Hilton Maldives Resort & Spa. Ithaa will sit five meters below the waves of the Indian Ocean, surrounded by a vibrant coral reef and encased in clear acrylic offering diners 270-degrees of panoramic underwater views.

“We have used aquarium technology to put diners face-to-face with the stunning underwater environment of the Maldives”, says Carsten Schieck, General Manager of Hilton Maldives Resort & Spa. “Our guests always comment on being blown away by the colour, clarity, and beauty of the underwater world in the Maldives, so it seemed the perfect idea to build a restaurant where diners can experience fine cuisine and take time to enjoy the views – without ever getting their feet wet.”

Posted by The Skipper     on 05/01/2005 at 05:00 AM   
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   Monday - April 25, 2005

The Snow In Ohi-OH

.... falls mainly outside de DO! Fer SHO! Here it is, almost May and the midwest is dragging the snow plows out of storage. Global warming? What f**king global warming? Someone page Al Gore-zilla and tell him we want a word with his sorry ass. Sheesh!

John Rukosky clears snow from his driveway, Monday, April 25, 2005, in University Heights, Ohio. The wet, heavy snow snapped tree branches and power lines, leaving about 80,000 FirstEnergy customers in the Cleveland area without power Sunday. About 54,000 customers were still without power Monday, and some might have to wait until Tuesday to get electricity back. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)

Posted by The Skipper     on 04/25/2005 at 07:45 PM   
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   Friday - April 22, 2005

Enviro-weenies Mull Their Future

On the 35th anniversary of Earth Day, Environmentalists debate the future of their movement.

SAN FRANCISCO Apr 22, 2005 — As the world marks the 35th anniversary of Earth Day on Friday, environmentalists are debating the future of a movement that seems to be losing the battle for public opinion.

Let’s see, you burn down houses, cars and businesses and wonder why you might be loosing the battle for public opinion.  Hmmmm. [scratching flea-infested head]

President Bush’s re-election, the failure to slow global warming and the large number of Americans who dismiss them as tree-hugging extremists have environmental leaders looking for new approaches.

Translation:

Some think it’s a message problem that environmental groups simply need to improve their communication with the voting public. Others are calling for more fundamental changes in how the groups operate.
The challenge goes beyond the environmental movement, said George Lakoff, a University of California, Berkeley linguistics professor who has written about how language colors political discourse.
Lakoff argues that the entire public agenda has been seized by what he calls a “right-wing ideological political movement that’s extremely powerful and well-funded.”

Bwaaaaa.  All your base are belong to us!

The Bush administration’s environmental philosophy has centered on the idea that most environmental decisions are better made by the marketplace, landowners and state and local governments.

Uhhhhhhh, yeah.  And?  Come on.  What else?

Many green leaders say they deserve some of the blame for the situation.

Bang! Zoom!  Outta the park!

Posted by Drew458     on 04/22/2005 at 07:55 AM   
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   Friday - April 08, 2005

The Governator Takes on The EPA

I wish him lots of luck on this one.  Ah-Nuld wants to relax EPA rules that stand in the way of developers trying to build more housing for the Californicators populating that state.

Tip to the Guv:  call them.  Warn them.  Then start picking them off one by one starting at the top.

You’ll have more housing built than you can shake a stick at.

Posted by Ranting Right Wing Howler     on 04/08/2005 at 04:03 AM   
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   Tuesday - April 05, 2005

Weird Bits and Snippets

Weird Bits and Snippets

Greedy bitch.  That’s all there is to it.  A man and woman decide to divorce.  She gets half in a settlement but just short of the court finalizing the divorce he croaks.

She goes to court trying to nullify the divorce in order to keep everything,

Greedy bitch.  Piece of crap vermin.  And to think she’s old enough to be a grandmother to some of our readers.  What a disgrace.

She lost. He divorced her ass......from the grave.

Some time ago there was a story about Mark Thatcher (son of Margaret) getting involved in rather nefarious activities in Africa.  Something about a coup in New Guinea.  Well, Marky boy wanted a visa to come to the US.

No way.

Colorado is doing what Florida should be doing....getting the retards out of the left hand lane.

If there’s one thing I can’t stand is some dumb son of a bitch blocking the left lane.  If he or she is doing under the speed limit it really drives me bat-shit.  That’s when I start laying on the horn and using “sign language.”

Stupid fucks act like they own the road.  When I took my driving lessons the book specifically mentioned that left hand lanes must stay clear and be used only for passing.

Apparently it’s not the same book used down here.

Then again, it could be like lots of the laws in the books---there only for decoration.  No one enforces them.

Maybe a few drivers some sub-machine guns strafing the roadways would get the attention of law enforcement.

Hell, it seems to be working with the INS!

The Swedish government recently reduced work-out sessions for prisoners.  I guess they were getting too bulked up.

How do they respond?  They go on a hunger strike.

Good!  Let them starve to death.  I hope no one will put feeding tubes in them.  They did, after all, decide to die this way.

Surely the leftists can agree to that, right?  It’s the prisoner’s right to choose his manner of death and deny extraordinary measures to keep them alive.

But I will bet you $10 to a donut the left will scream they need to be put on life support since prisoners have more rights than Terri Schiavo.  Any takers?

It took me a while to find it and the title does not lend itself to this topic but go here first and find comment #8.  Start there and go through to the end.

Now, go here and read this.

Could BobF be right?

Stand up and take a bow, Bob!

Posted by Ranting Right Wing Howler     on 04/05/2005 at 06:14 AM   
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   Saturday - April 02, 2005

Really Odd Bits

Another example of socialized medicine at its best. 

And we wonder why people are always saying Brits have horrible teeth?

Check this out.

Somehow I can not see an American going up to our President and handing over their teeth.

Remind me never to ride horses in Australia.  I could get attacked by birds.

They always said you could go blind from it.  Apparently there may be SOME truth to the saying except the manner of execution leading to the blindness is different.

So the next time you grab for the “little blue odd-shaped pill” ask yourself this:  “Do I get my rocks off or do I go blind?  Rocks off?  Blind?  Rocks off?  Blind?  Rocks off?  Blind?”

Remember, only you can prevent blindness.  On the plus side, if you can’t see what you’re humpin’ then your chances of getting any improve, right?

Re-defining, “going clubbing!”

And don’t forget to wear your fur hat.

It’s bad enough you can’t find a dentist in England.  But apparently you can’t find cops, either.

So the next time you’re there and you get robbed, do the investigation yourself. They don’t have time.

Posted by Ranting Right Wing Howler     on 04/02/2005 at 06:47 AM   
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   Friday - April 01, 2005

How To Solve a Couple Of Problems Together

Somehow we need to convince “Earth Mother Gaia” (I don’t know. What?  Sacrifices of liberals?) to unleash some of her pent up energy RIGHT HERE.

We’d kill off a bunch of those pesky MOOSLIMS plus we’d get those asshole environmentalists off our back with the ice-age that would result.

No more chants of “Halliburton!  Global Warming!  It’s all Bush’s Fault!!  Sign the Kyoto Accords!”

All that crap would stop instantaneously.  And the upshot?  It could snow again in Florida for Christmas.

Posted by Ranting Right Wing Howler     on 04/01/2005 at 07:52 AM   
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   Saturday - March 26, 2005

Amazing Story

Amazing Story

I got this forwarded to me late last night and it is an amazing story of endurance and survival skills.  After the tsunami in late December, stories abounded of people being discovered on deserted islands weeks afterwards.  Or of people found in the jungles; lost, confused, dazed but alive.

There were even stories of people being found floating on makeshift rafts out in the ocean weeks afterwards, too.

Even more amazing, though, is this one of a lone survivor recently found in the ocean with NO raft, NO logs, NO boat.

How did it happen?

Hat Tip: DickDickDick

GET ME OUT OF HERE ...

Posted by Ranting Right Wing Howler     on 03/26/2005 at 08:03 AM   
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   Thursday - March 24, 2005

Nekkid Bullshit From PETA

MADRID (AFP) - The annual “running of the bulls” in the northern Spanish town of Pamplona could get some serious competition this year, in the form of a rival run by naked humans protesting cruelty to animals.

The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) group, which has protested against the event in the past, even announced that it was asking the town authorities to replace the traditional bull-chase with its “running of the nudes.”

The nine-day San Fermin festival, due to start on July 6, traditionally involves hundreds of runners, including many tourists, trying to outrace a herd of bulls, who chase them throught the town’s narrow streets in a tradition that goes back centuries.

But PETA, which last year unleashed several protesters wearing nothing but fake horns and sandals into the streets of Pamplona, said it wants to turn the ‘Running of the Nudes’ into the official event this year to protest cruelty against animals.

The group is also concerned about last year’s outbreak of blue tongue disease, a virus which forced restrictions on livestock movements in southern regions of Spain.

“In light of the outbreak of blue tongue disease and the negative press reports of the disease… we have asked the mayor to make PETA’s Running of the Nudes’ the official event this year, PETA’s campaigns coordinator Yvonne Taylor told AFP.

A spokeswoman for Pamplona mayor Yolanda Barcina Angulo would not comment on PETA’s plans, but said that: “as far as we know the bull-running will go ahead as usual” in the absence of advice to the contrary following the blue tongue outbreak.

“People are free to express their own opinion. But the criticism only comes from Britons and Americans, not Spaniards,” she sniffed.

PETA tried a celebrity approach last year, with Chrissie Hynde, singer with rock group The Pretenders, urging an end to the “medieval” practice of “tormenting and slaughtering” the bulls, who last year gored 16 race participants.

Amid the controversy the organisers promise only that “the running of the bulls is an unforgettable experience for the spectator and above all for anyone who runs ahead of the bulls.

“It’s a spectacle defined by risk and one’s physical capacity.”

Posted by The Skipper     on 03/24/2005 at 01:06 PM   
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   Saturday - March 19, 2005

Science and Energy News

A few days ago I finished reading a book called Fire Ice by Clive Cussler which was based on a premise of using methane hydrates, called “fire ice” to wreak death and destruction on the US.

Prior to reading the book I knew nothing of this “science.”

But...........lo and behold! Here we have a study which shows we have more energy in the sea stored as methane hydrates than all our oil reserves---something like 200,000 trillion CF.

The stuff, if released in an indiscriminate manner is highly volatile and upon release generate methane gas which is a serious global warmer.

This is a great read.  And so is the book.

And following on its heels, we have another study whose premise states that even if we stopped generating ALL greenhouse gasses, the fact that oceans work at their own slow pace means THEY’D be contributing to global warming for the next 100 years on their own.

Posted by Ranting Right Wing Howler     on 03/19/2005 at 02:39 AM   
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   Friday - March 18, 2005

More On ANWR

If you want to know more about ANWR, how much oil is expected to be found there, what the proposed drilling area looks like (as opposed to those pictures of mountains and streams the enviro-wacko, tree hugging, Birkenstock wearing, patchouli smelling, dope smoking, long haired hippie types show you), then click here.

Let’s be clear.  We WILL NOT see any of this oil for 10 years or more.  But for every year we wait, that 10 years gets pushed forward again.  So if we want to see oil somewhere around 2017, we better start now.

Also, did you know that futures prices are hovering at $57 a barrel right now?

The reason for this is that traders are concerned about supply disruptions causing a shortage in the future since most countries are maxxing out their pumping today.  There is little slack in the system.  Not much more can come out.  The littlest disruption (Venezuela or Nigeria primarily as those are political hotspots right now but even the Arabian Gulf or Canada or Mexico) can be catastrophic.

Then you throw China into the mix, which by itself is already consuming a third of all production and increasing demand almost 8% per year---well, it’s a formula for a real shitstorm in prices.

Yet does anyone notice how the enviro-wacko crowd are not demanding China reign in its consumption?  That they develop alternative fuels?  That they increase their efficiencies?

That’s right.  Only the US must do all that.

Drill, baby, drill!!!!

Posted by Ranting Right Wing Howler     on 03/18/2005 at 06:45 AM   
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   Thursday - March 17, 2005

Media Distortions and ANWR

If you’ve followed this ANWR drilling drama long enough you also realize that the enviro-wacko, granola munching, Birkenstock wearing, patchouli smelling, tree hugging, Gaia loving, long haired, dope smoking crowd will show you pictures like this of ANWR:

Those of us passingly familiar with the area know better especially as it relates to what it looks like where the drilling will take place.

It looks more like this:

So when I saw this headline:  ”Alaskans Wary of Vote on Oil Drilling” I was naturally curious.

Wanna bet which picture was shown for the story?

Go on, guess!!!!

And, OBTW, this is what the village that’s SO CONCERNED looks like:

Oh, and one more OBTW:  recall the title of the news article.  Read it.  Is it just me or did you also NOT find much reference to this “concern?” And why was it titled, “Alaskans” implying the whole state when they were referring to the 284 (yep, grand total: 284) residents?

Posted by Ranting Right Wing Howler     on 03/17/2005 at 11:44 AM   
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