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C.

GOP members in congress have a novel idea. Allow oil companies to drill for oil here in the United States! How shocking! The agenda behind opening up drilling in our nation, is to help drive down gas prices. Now this may seem extreme to any liberal minded reader who happens across my blog, not that I get many readers, but I digress. We have been told for decades that drilling would not bring down oil prices, or get us off dependency on foreign oil. It will take years they like to say. (Fox News).

“We are kidding ourselves if we think we can drill our way out of these problems,” House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey, D-Wis., said during the bill mark-up session.

“The disappointing part about some of the energy policies being promoted (is) that it calls for more drilling when drilling really is the problem. And all we’ve got to show for pretty aggressive (domestic) drilling for the last 35 years is, again, $4 for a gallon of gas,” Manuel said, adding “since the first Arab oil shock in the 1970s, the U.S. has produced almost 90 billion barrels of oil since then, so we’ve tried drilling our way out of the problem and it just hasn’t worked.”

This is a fallacy, We have so limited drilling that we are forced to import oil, and we have refused to drill in places like Alaska National Wildlife Refuge. In the years between 1973 and 2008 have seen dramatic increases in population and increases on demand for products that require oil for production, such as plastics. But the statement by Manuel doesn’t reflect this does it. Not, it is simply out of context, and truth be told simply a liberal lie.

Liberals think the way to address the current artifically high gas prices, is to institute more taxes on the companies which do business getting gas to the pumps and running those pumps. “Americans are furious about what’s going on,” declared Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D. He said they want Congress to do something about oil company profits and the “orgy of speculation” on oil markets. (Hebert) The House bill number 2977 introduced by a Seattle liberal democrat, Bob Hasegawa. Fortunately it was defeated, in the Senate as well, by getting a vote of 51 falling short of a required 60.(HEBERT) Seven so-called Republicans voted with the liberals to support the bill.

Here is a problem with taking more money from Oil companies. Taxes do not fill barrels with oil. Perhaps Harry Reid and Byron Dorgan do not realize this. Further taking money from oil companies will not lower the pump price we are paying. It will not be returned to the tax payers, nor will it likely go to support anything worth while but will instead go to pay for the pork barrel spending by congress.(Riedl, Acosta-Fraser) (Note the Farm Bill and Byron Dorgan’s handy work there in)

WASHINGTON - Saved by Senate Republicans, big oil companies dodged an attempt Tuesday to slap them with a windfall profits tax and take away billions of dollars in tax breaks in response to the record gasoline prices that have the nation fuming.

GOP senators shoved aside the Democratic proposal, arguing that punishing Big Oil won’t do a thing to lower the $4-a-gallon-price of gasoline that is sending economic waves across the country. High prices at the pump are threatening everything from summer vacations to Meals on Wheels deliveries to the elderly.

The Democratic energy package would have imposed a 25 percent tax on any “unreasonable” profits of the five largest U.S. oil companies, which together made $36 billion during the first three months of the year. It also would have given the government more power to address oil market speculation, opened the way for antitrust actions against countries belonging to the OPEC oil cartel, and made energy price gouging a federal crime.

By H. JOSEF HEBERT , Associated Press Last update: June 11, 2008 - 1:39 AM

Read the rest here.
Photo Credit Seth Perlman, Associated Press.

Occasioned by the fall an apple…

I think this is going to be a title of my posts that are essentially “Random Thoughts on the Passing Scene” as Thomas Sowell would say.

The title comes from the the book by Stephen Hawking called a “Brief History of Time”

In it there is a discussion about Sir Issac Newton and how he was “Occasioned by the fall of an apple” while contemplating things on his mind.

People are sporting loads of Obama08 stickers, and yard signs and what not. He is the candidate of change and has the “Audacity of Hope.” What seems to be getting lost in the gushing of the mainstream media is that there is not a single new idea or any hope that things tried in the past are going to work this time. In April 1979 then President Jimmy Carter said,

“Unless we tax the oil companies, they will reap huge and undeserved windfall profits,” Carter declared in a nationwide address. Americans had a right to recapture some of that windfall and put it to good use. Carter suggested that the revenue be earmarked for mass transit, oil price relief for poor families, and the development of alternative energy sources.” (Thorndike)

Does this sound familiar? This is just one example of the utterly dishonest campaign being run by the Obama. He also says he would be ready to meet with our enemies. So did Neville Chamberlain,

(Cape Cod Today)

(FreeRepublic)

Some times in life we have to stand up for what is right, and not act like dhimmi’s as former President Carter does when he takes it upon himself to deal with a terrorist organization like Hezbollah, who is directly connected to Iran. (Shihri)

What keeps the survivors of the cyclone which struck Myanmar from rising up against the military junta that is preventing the world from rushing aid into help the people? (Associated Press) They should oust the so-called leadership which inflicts this kind of suffering on the people of the nation and assist the world aid organizations in helping distribute the supplies of aid/food/water/sanitation which are piling up as I write this.

C.

P.S. I am having some kind of trouble getting my links to work in this posting. If you go to Tifosi1f1.blogspot.com the links do work there, for the citations and references.

I found this over at SayAnythingBlog.com. It is a conservative political blog from North Dakota. Credit goes to Rob Port and ‘Pilgrim’ on this one. Check out the site, it is really good.

A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

Lawyers for Mayor Bloomberg are asking a judge to ban any reference to the Second Amendment during the upcoming trial of a gun shop owner who was sued by the city. While trials are often tightly choreographed, with lawyers routinely instructed to not tell certain facts to a jury, a gag order on a section of the Constitution would be an oddity.

“Apparently Mayor Bloomberg has a problem with both the First and the Second amendments,” Lawrence Keane, the general counsel of a firearms industry association, the National Shooting Sports Foundation, said.

The trial, set to begin May 27, involves a Georgia gun shop, Adventure Outdoors, which the city alleges is responsible for a disproportionate number of the firearms recovered from criminals in New York City. The gun store’s owner, Jay Wallace, says his store abides by Georgia and federal regulations and takes steps to avoid selling firearms to gun traffickers. Mr. Wallace’s store is one of 27 out-of-state gun shops sued by New York City, and the first to go to trial.

Their reasoning that the Second Amendment should be ignored in the lawsuit on out-of-state gunshops?

City lawyers, in a motion filed Tuesday, asked the judge, Jack Weinstein of U.S. District Court in Brooklyn, to preclude the store’s lawyers from arguing that the suit infringed on any Second Amendment rights belonging to the gun store or its customers. In the motion, the lawyer for the city, Eric Proshansky, is also seeking a ban on “any references” to the amendment.

“Any references by counsel to the Second Amendment or analogous state constitutional provisions are likewise irrelevant,” the brief states.
Many Americans believe that the Second Amendment provides an individual the right to own a gun. Others believe that it provides no right to private gun ownership, but gives states the power to keep militias.

In a recent court deposition, Mayor Bloomberg said he believed “the Second Amendment of the Bill of Rights gives you the right to keep and bear arms.” But in a recent brief to the Supreme Court, lawyers for Mr. Bloomberg argued that the amendment “was not intended to vest armed power in citizens acting outside of any governmental military effort — either federal or state.”

Yikes!

That’s one of our elected representatives telling a court that the Second Amendment is basically meaningless and can be ignored in a trial about…..the Second Amendment.

Pretzel liberal logic at its best.

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What this video shows is the intolerance of the left in our nation. It is especially prevalent on college campuses. I do not know what college this was filmed. The people who organized the pro life demonstration, seem at least on the film to have gotten permission, from the school allowing them to stage the scene in the video.

Along comes some intolerant fascist liberal, who says they don’t have the right to disagree with abortion. Not only that he feels his freedom is being diminished because someone else exercises theirs. So what we have is a sophomore college student that has literally no grasp of what constitutional rights we are afforded, who and how they can be exercised and no understanding of the point the demonstration is trying to make. He is up set that someone who had or may be considering an abortion might be tremendously affected by the demonstration. Isn’t that the point? To get them to re think their decision, and thus not kill a baby?

In the Blow back section of the column on HotAir many people were saying, ‘what does it prove’ why don’t they do something else, and on and on. That is the point, it very clearly is effective and useful to point out that abortion actually kills a person, no matter how much the leftist moon bats try to claim otherwise. Perhaps it is a liberal arts school, who knows!

This video was found at Hotair.com

C.

So May Day or International Workers Day, or Celebrate Socialism Day, whatever, but of course here in Olympia we had riots. What fun!

Images and videos from The Olympian may be viewed here.

Not only was their a ‘march’ to support workers rights or something, it was an opportunity for the communists/socialists/liberals to demand that Olympia become a sanctuary city. Going one better than other cities in the county they also want to be a safe place where war protesters can hide from the law, and military personel can desert from the military branch they chose to enlist with. (We have all branches very close here, USAF,USN,USMC,USArmy) These people who took to the streets to march and give speaches and generally disrupt people trying to actually work and go about thier lives, they want to remake this city in a fashion they feel is ’safe’ and ‘fair’ and equal. But that is not what the result would be of course. Usually people are smart enough to understand that we have the rule of law for a reason. What no city needs is foolish policies which directly contradict federal law. One can make the argument that an unjust law is no law at all. If you believe that, fine, but having laws which make it a crime to desert the military to break a contract you have made voluntarily, is a just law. Laws which establish a rule of law for those outside our nation, establish a border and a regulated means by which you can enter our country legally is also just.

No what these fools want is to alter society into an a moral circus of chaos. Olympia has a culture which is ultra progressive, and is continually in direct conflict with the police, sheriffs, and elected government. We saw this in November when the military tried to move equipment to Fort Lewis through the port and resulted in riots. We saw it when a person assulted another at a “Dead Prez” concert and they attacked law enforcement and did $50,000.00 worth of damage to a patrol car.

The protesters activly supported those who dressed in black, hiding thier faces attacked banks, and the state capitol. They went to city hall to demand release of those who were arrested. We even have reporters in our local fish wrap… er… newspaper who report that some poor pedestrian just trying to pick up their bicycle was hit with a baton by an officer and hit with three ‘pepper bullets’. We here in Olympia have people who have posted comments on this blog like Robert Whitlock, who believe that these criminals are just ‘expressing themselves’ but they supposedly abhor violence. We have people, and a lot of them who will pretend the problem was just a minor subset of people in a larger group. What they deliberatly try to obfuscate is the fact that the larger group give explicit and implicit permission for this behavior. Did any of the people try to perform a citizens arrest, when the windows at Bank of America were smashed? How about when the capitol was vandalized? Not a single instance or report have I been able to find on line. I have seen the Moon Bat Left try to perform a citizens arrest on a truck driver leaving the port with a load of military equipment. They will do it if they disagree with whom they are arresting. But if they agree with the action, the issue, the motivation, or the ‘feeling’ they don’t intercede.

C.

There is lots of info out there, look at the TheOlympian.com. I will post more later as I get time.

Posted by Tchsida

Tonight in Olympia Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson will be giving a lecture.

If you are interested in Science as I am, you may recognize Dr. Tyson from Science Channel, Discovery, PBS, The Learning Channel, and his book, ”

Here is some text previewing his visit to “http://www.evergreen.edu/” The Evergreen State College

Tyson Neil

(Olympia, Wash.) The Evergreen State College welcomes Neil deGrasse Tyson, one of today’s premiere leaders in science, astronomy, and education to Olympia for a presentation and question and answer session on April 29, 2008 at 7:30 p.m. at Evergreen’s College Recreation Center (CRC). Renowned astrophysicist, director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, and host of PBS’s Nova ScienceNow, Dr. Tyson is a leading voice in astronomy who has appeared alongside Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. The presentation is being offered in cooperation with KCTS9 Television and the Pacific Science Center in Seattle.

Tickets for the April 29 presentation are on sale now. The public can purchase tickets by phone at (360) 867-6833, online at <a href=”http://www.buyolympia.com/events”>www.buyolympia.com/events,</a> or in person at The Evergreen State College book store, Rainy Day Records in Olympia, or the Communications Building Box Office at The Evergreen State College. The latter is open from noon to 3 p.m. on weekdays. Advance tickets are $20 for reserved section seating (not available at the door), $10 for adult general admission ($13 at the door) and $5 for student general admission ($8 at the door). Student prices apply to youth under age 16 or anyone with valid student ID (e.g. high school or college students). KCTS9 members receive a discount when they purchase online at “http://www.buyolympia.com/events”>www.buyolympia.com/events

My son and I are going to attend the lecture at the College Recreation Center at TESC. I will try to report back on how it goes. I am very excited about this. My son is celebrating his eleventh birthday around now, and he is very scientifically minded and some day wants to either be an engineer for NASA or a chemical company. He is excited as well, to get to see Dr. Tyson.

Posted by Tschida

NYPD officers cleared in killing; rights leaders want probe

NEW YORK - Civil rights leaders demanded a federal investigation and vowed to march through the streets in protest after three police officers were cleared of all charges Friday in the killing of an unarmed man cut down in a hail of 50 bullets on his wedding day.

Full story here.

Okay folks, I’m not anti cop, but I am anti stupid.  Let me get this straight.  One unarmed man.  Three cops.  50 FREAKING ROUNDS OF AMMO!  Holy Cow!  One officer fired 31 TIMES!  That looks like one 15 round mag with one in the pipe, PLUS another FULL 15 ROUND MAG!  That ladies and gentlemen is excessive force plain and simple.  Perhaps Sarah Brady should look into restricting the capacity of NYPD magazines.  Seems like they can use high capacity magazines to some insane ends.

I’m not sure what is crazier.  Firing 50 rounds, including at least one reload at a poor unarmed schmuck, or the fact that all three officers were cleared of any wrongdoing.  I know New York City has a lot of people living there, but has life become so cheap?  Or is the city fearful of huge lawsuits?

When cops make mistakes they should be held accountable, and corrupt politics and/or a government’s unwillingness to accept responsibility should not allow people to get away with murder.

These three officers reflect badly on cops in general.  The good guys are never remembered, but the ones who make fools of themselves are remembered all too long.

He wrote a very nice post about doctor shortages based off an op-ed piece from The Olympian. Wordpress is picky and you have to select an area to publish it in, otherwise it goes to a default area. I deleted his post and didn’t save a copy like I thought I did, which is a shame as it was well thought out and in depth. I’m sorry T, I owe you beer.

This whole webpage admin thing is new to me, and things are in a bit of a flux with the site, so if something stupid happens, it’s not on purpose.

Guns are fun and/or necessary - when they’re in responsible hands. Meat is good. There’s nothing wrong with Religion. Unauthorized grafitti is vandalism. Single-family homes with big yards are the American Dream. Cars are more convenient than bikes. Some people need to just get off their ass and be willing to work.  The streets are mine too, so don’t block them.  The Police should arrest bad-guys - even when they’re not Caucasian.  Abortion stops a beating heart.

Whew! As long as I don’t talk about Palestine we’ll probably be alright.

[EDIT: I see this doesn’t automatically identify us ~ Merwyn]