An interesting note the current administrations demand of the border patrol to only carry bean bag shot instead of real bullets means that a border guard's death was and is still inevetiable. nobody in their right mind would bring a BB gun to a gun fight. If our guards had real bullets they might have had a shot.
For the longer more detailed version.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0tZm90DcjM&feature=share&list=PL3C13E3C48D1DED7F
Sunday, June 24, 2012
Fast and furious summed up.
A program designed by idealogues to create gun voliance to shutdown gun ownership in the USA.
Along with conservative commentators like Rush Limbaugh, Issa suggested as late as April that Fast and Furious may have been part of a policy by the White House to flood the Mexican market with guns to foment violence, which would then put political pressure back on the US to curb its wide-open border gun bazaar and weaken Second Amendment rights…
“Could it be that what they really were thinking of was in fact to use this walking of guns in order to promote an assault weapons ban?” Rep. Issa said. “Many think so. And [the administration] hasn’t come up with an explanation that would cause any of us not to agree.”…
[W]hile the political lines around Fast and Furious are thus clearly drawn, allusions to Watergate-sized conspiracy theories do, at the very least, also help bolster Issa’s central point: If only to quell such theories, Americans deserve to know whether it was really a hapless bureaucratic blunder or whether administration officials lied about the extent of their involvement in what became a deadly scandal.
Monday, May 14, 2012
If you add this "newly discovered" oil field find, to the balklands oil field, and the gulf oil field discovery, we have by far the most oil and natural gas in the world. We already are the leader in coal. We just need to use our own natural resources. Refering back to T-boon pickins producing our own resources would stop the 2.5 trillion bleed of our money from this country to OPEC. The federal goverments take from full development of the Balklands oil fields is in the trillans as well. Add to it there cut on the new discovery's production. What a kick in the economy that would be. Add to that all the high paying jobs we would have to have to do the drilling and refining. The refineries would have to be built and the drills as well. Lots of good paying jobs. Especially if we use american steel to do it. The american steel companies would love that. Ought to be really good for their local econamies as well. Would it be great to see all thoes old steel towns coming back to life. We can do it.
per Statement of Anu K. Mittal, Director Natural Resources and Environment Testimony The United States of America has the worlds largest oil reserves, in the trillions of Barrels!! If we develope it we can kiss the national debt goodby!!
UNCONVENTIONAL OIL
AND GAS PRODUCTION
Opportunities and
Challenges of Oil Shale
Development
Statement of Anu K. Mittal, Director
Natural Resources and Environment
Testimony.
Before the Subcommittee on Energy and
Environment, Committee on Science,
Space, and Technology, House of
Representatives.
Not to Be Released
Before 9:30 a.m. EDT
Thursday, May 10, 2012
GAO-12-740T
United States Government Accountability Office
Our October 2010 report found that oil shale development presents
significant opportunities for the United States. Potential opportunities
associated with oil shale development include increasing domestic oil
production and socioeconomic benefits.
• Increasing domestic oil production. Being able to tap the vast amounts
of oil locked within U.S. oil shale formations could go a long way
toward satisfying the nation’s future oil demands. The Green River
Formation—an assemblage of over 1,000 feet of sedimentary rocks
that lie beneath parts of Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming—contains the
world’s largest deposits of oil shale. USGS estimates that the Green
River Formation contains about 3 trillion barrels of oil, and about half
of this may be recoverable, depending on available technology and
economic conditions. The Rand Corporation, a nonprofit research
organization, estimates that 30 to 60 percent of the oil shale in the
Green River Formation can be recovered. At the midpoint of this
estimate, almost half of the 3 trillion barrels of oil would be
recoverable. This is an amount about equal to the entire world’s
proven oil reserves.
The thickest and richest oil shale within the Green
River Formation exists in the Piceance Basin of northwest Colorado
and the Uintah Basin of northeast Utah. Figure 1 shows where these
prospective oil shale resources are located in Colorado and Utah.
• Socioeconomic benefits. Development of oil shale resources could
also yield important socioeconomic benefits, including the creation of
jobs, increases in wealth, and increases in tax and royalty payments
to federal and state governments for oil produced on their lands. Our
October 2010 report did not attempt to quantify these potential
socioeconomic benefits because of current uncertainty surrounding
the technologies that might be used to develop oil shale resources,
which would influence the ultimate size of a future oil shale industry.
Friday, March 30, 2012
9 dollar gass.
Among the charges against Obama: gas prices have doubled during his presidency, he opposed drilling in ANWR, channeled taxpayer dollars to politically connected Solyndra, rejected the Keystone XL pipeline, and picked an energy secretary who supports European prices for gasoline (topping $9 in some countries).
See this
http://www.americanenergyalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/AEA-Nine-Dollars-Ad1.pdf
Monday, March 26, 2012
Obama oil war: His state department giving away US territory with billions in known oil reserves.
BLACK-GOLD BLUES
OBAMA'S GIVEAWAY: OIL-RICH ISLANDS TO RUSSIA
Exclusive: Joe Miller sounds alarm over deal to put land in hands of Putin's Kremlin
Published: 02/16/2012 at 7:55 PM
By Joe Miller
The Obama administration, despite the nation’s economic woes, effectively killed the job-producing Keystone Pipeline last month. The Arab Spring is turning the oil production of Libya and other Arab nations over to the Muslim Brotherhood. Iraq is distancing itself from the U.S. And everyone recognizes that Iran, whose crude supplies are critical to the European economy, will do anything it can to frustrate America’s strategic interests. In the face of all of this, Obama insists on cutting back U.S. oil potential with outrageous restrictions.
Part of Obama’s apparent war against U.S. energy independence includes a foreign-aid program that directly threatens my state’s sovereign territory. Obama’s State Department is giving away seven strategic, resource-laden Alaskan islands to the Russians. Yes, to the Putin regime in the Kremlin.
The seven endangered islands in the Arctic Ocean and Bering Sea include one the size of Rhode Island and Delaware combined. The Russians are also to get the tens of thousands of square miles of oil-rich seabeds surrounding the islands. The Department of Interior estimates billions of barrels of oil are at stake.
The State Department has undertaken the giveaway in the guise of a maritime boundary agreement between Alaska and Siberia. Astoundingly, our federal government itself drew the line to put these seven Alaskan islands on the Russian side. But as an executive agreement, it could be reversed with the stroke of a pen by President Obama or Secretary Clinton.
The agreement was negotiated in total secrecy. The state of Alaska was not allowed to participate in the negotiations, nor was the public given any opportunity for comment. This is despite the fact the Alaska Legislature has passed resolutions of opposition – but the State Department doesn’t seem to care.
The imperiled Arctic Ocean islands include Wrangel, Bennett, Jeannette and Henrietta. Wrangel became American in 1881 with the landing of the U.S. Revenue Marine ship Thomas Corwin. The landing party included the famed naturalist John Muir. It is 3,000 square miles in size.
Northwest of Wrangel are the DeLong Islands, named for George Washington DeLong, the captain of USS Jeannette. Also in 1881, he discovered and claimed these three islands for the United States. He named them for the voyage co-sponsor, New York City newspaper publisher James Gordon Bennett. The ship’s crew received a hero’s welcome back in Washington, and Congress awarded them gold medals.
In the Bering Sea at the far west end of the Aleutian chain are Copper Island, Sea Lion Rock and Sea Otter Rock. They were ceded to the U.S. in Seward’s 1867 treaty with Russia.
http://www.wnd.com/2012/02/obamas-giveaway-oil-rich-islands-to-russia/
OBAMA'S GIVEAWAY: OIL-RICH ISLANDS TO RUSSIA
Exclusive: Joe Miller sounds alarm over deal to put land in hands of Putin's Kremlin
Published: 02/16/2012 at 7:55 PM
By Joe Miller
The Obama administration, despite the nation’s economic woes, effectively killed the job-producing Keystone Pipeline last month. The Arab Spring is turning the oil production of Libya and other Arab nations over to the Muslim Brotherhood. Iraq is distancing itself from the U.S. And everyone recognizes that Iran, whose crude supplies are critical to the European economy, will do anything it can to frustrate America’s strategic interests. In the face of all of this, Obama insists on cutting back U.S. oil potential with outrageous restrictions.
Part of Obama’s apparent war against U.S. energy independence includes a foreign-aid program that directly threatens my state’s sovereign territory. Obama’s State Department is giving away seven strategic, resource-laden Alaskan islands to the Russians. Yes, to the Putin regime in the Kremlin.
The seven endangered islands in the Arctic Ocean and Bering Sea include one the size of Rhode Island and Delaware combined. The Russians are also to get the tens of thousands of square miles of oil-rich seabeds surrounding the islands. The Department of Interior estimates billions of barrels of oil are at stake.
The State Department has undertaken the giveaway in the guise of a maritime boundary agreement between Alaska and Siberia. Astoundingly, our federal government itself drew the line to put these seven Alaskan islands on the Russian side. But as an executive agreement, it could be reversed with the stroke of a pen by President Obama or Secretary Clinton.
The agreement was negotiated in total secrecy. The state of Alaska was not allowed to participate in the negotiations, nor was the public given any opportunity for comment. This is despite the fact the Alaska Legislature has passed resolutions of opposition – but the State Department doesn’t seem to care.
The imperiled Arctic Ocean islands include Wrangel, Bennett, Jeannette and Henrietta. Wrangel became American in 1881 with the landing of the U.S. Revenue Marine ship Thomas Corwin. The landing party included the famed naturalist John Muir. It is 3,000 square miles in size.
Northwest of Wrangel are the DeLong Islands, named for George Washington DeLong, the captain of USS Jeannette. Also in 1881, he discovered and claimed these three islands for the United States. He named them for the voyage co-sponsor, New York City newspaper publisher James Gordon Bennett. The ship’s crew received a hero’s welcome back in Washington, and Congress awarded them gold medals.
In the Bering Sea at the far west end of the Aleutian chain are Copper Island, Sea Lion Rock and Sea Otter Rock. They were ceded to the U.S. in Seward’s 1867 treaty with Russia.
http://www.wnd.com/2012/02/obamas-giveaway-oil-rich-islands-to-russia/
Saturday, March 17, 2012
OBAMA CARE LAW
Talked with the CEO of our powerplant in an 'unoffical discussion of what he sees going on / comming up' (No offical policy but here is what is going on in my world type of discussion). It is a nice thing we get to do this occasionally. When the topic of health care came up he said the people in his circle say that most if not all the companies will drop there insurance when the new government insurance law takes effect and the government exchanges are in place. (OBAMA-CARE)He said we currently have good insurance and he does not want to see it going away, but that decision is above him. We like the catholic church are self insured. As all of us are ex navy, none of us, wanted to go back to VA care as we all have direct or indirect VA horror stories. Then today I found this in the politico:
Four hard truths of health care reform
By: David Nather
March 16, 2012 05:41 PM EDT
President Barack Obama promised over and over during the health care debate that “if you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan.”
It turns out that, for a lot of people, that isn’t true.
A Congressional Budget Office report issued this week says that 3 to 5 million people could move from employer-based health care plans to government-based programs as the Affordable Care Act takes effect. And in the worst-case scenario, it could be as many as 20 million.
For Obama, it’s an inconvenient truth at a really inconvenient time.
The link has the rest of the story.
http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=163606BD-07A1-434B-B5CD-EF6825A7DA32
Four hard truths of health care reform
By: David Nather
March 16, 2012 05:41 PM EDT
President Barack Obama promised over and over during the health care debate that “if you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan.”
It turns out that, for a lot of people, that isn’t true.
A Congressional Budget Office report issued this week says that 3 to 5 million people could move from employer-based health care plans to government-based programs as the Affordable Care Act takes effect. And in the worst-case scenario, it could be as many as 20 million.
For Obama, it’s an inconvenient truth at a really inconvenient time.
The link has the rest of the story.
http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=163606BD-07A1-434B-B5CD-EF6825A7DA32
usa-an-oil-rich-nation-after-all
Not including the oil in the montana.
At least 86 billion barrels of oil in the Outer Continental Shelf yet to be discovered
About 24 billion barrels in shale deposits in the lower 48 states, according to EIA.
Up to 2 billion barrels of oil in shale deposits in Alaska’s North Slope
Up to 12 billion barrels in ANWR, according to the USGS.
As much as 19 billion barrels in the Utah tar sands
A stunning 1.4 trillion barrels of oil shale the massive Green River Formation in Wyoming
The main problem is that most of these resources are roped off. Just knowing the oil is there comes as little comfort if there are never going to be any leases issued by the government for energy companies to explore. And our ability to access the shale oil – while technically well withing our capability today – will be significantly hamstrung as long as activists continue to fight fracking and horizontal drilling.
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