“SHOCK REPORT: Recoverable Oil in Federal Lands Worth Over $60 Trillion”
Unfortunately, money that takes the form of profitability — like coal and, in this case, shale and the oil extracted from it — is dirty dirty dirty, not like spending beyond our means for “fairness,” or, as an objective correlative, organically-harnessed green energy that, with the proper nudging from the most enlightened and best among us will one day propel all our cars and return the earth to its most natural state. Which is where we all wish to be. So that we can experience what it’s like to live in a world where man fights with bears and cougars and wolves for rabbit meat — and has to beat off badgers to find shelters that won’t befoul the landscape, should carbon-belching man make the obnoxious choice not to live in government-created eco-friendly human hives, where his poisonous gasses can be harnessed to feed the community herb garden.
Forward!
Quick takes [Darleen Click]
A Catholic university in Ohio said Tuesday it is being forced to end a student health insurance program over the Obama administration’s contraception mandate and costs associated with other provisions of the health care overhaul.
Mr Tingles meets karma
On at least four occasions, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews mocked Sarah Palin for how he felt she’d do if she were ever on the hit television game show Jeopardy!.In a delicious example of instant karma, the self-proclaimed brainiac got his chance to show America how smart he was in a special “Power Players” version of the show Monday, but came up quite short finishing dead last with the paltry sum of only $2,300
Elizabeth Warren, Woman of Color
[A] 1997 Fordham Law Review piece described her as Harvard Law School’s “first woman of color,” based, according to the notes at the bottom of the story, on a “telephone interview with Michael Chmura, News Director, Harvard Law (Aug. 6, 1996)
Even a lapdog occassionally nips.
CNN host Ashleigh Banfield ripped into Obama spokesman Ben LaBolt on Tuesday over a campaign ad criticizing Mitt Romney for his record at Bain Capital, telling him to “keep it clean. We hate that crap on television.”
Apology [McGehee]
A few days ago in a thread on a post I didn’t write, I edited a couple of comments by one of PW’s regulars, in a misguided and inappropriate attempt to correct yet another instance of that individual’s all-too-predictable behavior on a particular issue.
I should not have done that, and before I try to participate in anything further here I need to extend my apologies to Jeff, our host; to the co-blogger who wrote the post, and to the other commenters who were taking part in that thread.
I set my own rules for ten years on my own site, but this isn’t my site and the rules are Jeff’s, not mine. And I want to continue posting here so I’m saying, on the record, that it will not happen again.
Meanwhile, I’m on vacation and I want to enjoy it, so I’ll continue to do my best to avoid encountering any more passive-aggressive “I’m-only-thwee-and-a-half-years-old” shtick from grown men with full-time jobs.
“Evidence: Trayvon Had Bruised Knuckles, Zimmerman Broken Nose”
The medical report from George Zimmerman’s family doctor after the Trayvon Martin shooting shows that Zimmerman’s nose was broken; he also had a pair of black eyes, two lacerations on the back of his head, a bruised upper lip, and a back injury. He was examined by the doctor the day after the shooting. The three-page medical report will likely be used as evidence for the defense.
Meanwhile, the Trayvon Martin autopsy shows that other than his gunshot wound, the only injury on Martin was that the skin on his knuckles was broken. Combined with the evidence from Zimmerman’s medical report, the logical conclusion is that Martin was beating up Zimmerman severely before Zimmerman shot him.
Naturally, there’ll be quite a bit of triumphalism on the right side of the blogosphere.
But remember: it was Republican state officials who caved to the race pimps and brought in special investigators; and it is Republican state officials who charged Zimmerman with second degree murder — despite findings by local law enforcement that no such charges, let alone even manslaughter charges, were merited by the evidence.
And that’s because, as the Derbyshire and other incidents have shown us, Republican officials (and their contemporary GOP apparatus) are terrified of being tarred with the “racist” brush, and will climb over each other to avoid the charges.
Meaning, the GOP has already lost the “race” debate — and so the identity politics wars — and they don’t even realize it.
Is there really any wonder that the Democrats are teaching their operatives how to use race as a weapon, with the explicit acknowledgment that the only thing that really matters is that the charge of racism appear plausible — regardless of what the intent of may or may not have been, and regardless of whether the speaker him/herself is racist?
That question was rhetorical, by the way. Not a call for a reader poll.
(thanks to nr)
To borrow from Spinal Tap, the question is, how much more “historic” can Obama get?
— and the answer is none, none more historic.
Or none more black, if you prefer the original.
“Contentions: Obama Drops His Name Into the Other Presidential Biographies”
Well, shit, man: what’s the use of being “historic” if the rest of colonialist/imperialist/bitter-clinger history is going to disrespect you by pretending the world doesn’t begin and end with you?
The One is the loneliest number. But it needn‘t be. Racists.
(thanks to JD and geoffB)
“GAO: Recoverable Oil in Colorado, Utah, Wyoming ‘About Equal to Entire World’s Proven Oil Reserves’”
That is, were our government not the very thing actively preventing us from achieving it so that it can keep with the transnational progressivist plan to use junk-science environmentalism as the justification for global wealth redistribution and, if things go well, an end to the silly, jingoistic framework of nation states and sovereignty.
But I digress:
The Green River Formation, a largely vacant area of mostly federal land that covers the territory where Colorado, Utah and Wyoming come together, contains about as much recoverable oil as all the rest the world’s proven reserves combined, an auditor from the Government Accountability Office told Congress on Thursday.The GAO testimony said that the federal government was in “a unique position to influence the development of oil shale” because the Green River deposits were mostly beneath federal land.
It also noted that developing the oil would have an environmental impact and pose “socioeconomic challenges,” that included bringing “a sizable influx of workers who along with their families put additional stress on local infrastructure” and “making planning for growth difficult for local governments.”
“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,”Anu K. Mittal, the GAO’s director of natural resources and environment said in written testimony submitted to the House Science Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
“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,” Mittal testified.
“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,” Mittal told the subcommittee. “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.”
None of which matters to an ideological political movement that has embraced an anti-foundationalist philosophical stance (freeing them up to adopt a guilt-free, ends-justify-the-means intellectual framework) and that considers the “masses” a kind of perambulatory pollutant that needs to be managed, their very noxious exhalation is a poison to the earth itself meant for the enjoyment of the ruling class, who deserve exclusive vacation spots and rolling unspoiled vineyards for their pet Mexicans to work in. Because controlling the masses is hard work — and deserves to be rewarded.
Which in time perhaps the ungrateful herd will be made to understand. If things go well, that is.
FORWARD!
In belated response to the progressive scolds who wish to manage my health for me
Progressive premise (which we know to be serious, because the word “shit” is thrown in to show just how real we’re preparing to get up in here): “If we actually give a shit about people and their health, then we have to look at what we can do and what we can fix.”
protein wisdom response: “My health is most negatively affected by handing over its control and management to pseudo-intellectual progressive twatwaffles who believe that my free will, repurposed as self-reliance (or a ‘self-discipline framework’), is ‘a fetish’ — a kind of useful fiction marinated in Judeo-Christian godbotherism and packaged as a cultural imperative by slave-owning fascists ungrateful for the Crown of England’s colonial largess — that these materialist despots have determined I need to get over so that they can begin the important work of running my life for me. Though they will, of course, incorporate the notion so that the movement toward a rejection of self-discipline appears to rise spontaneously as part of some amorphous collective paradigm shift (SCIENCE!), if only to fend off the suggestion that they’ve simply replaced my ego with their own and thus are performing perfectly as little isolated pockets of authoritarianism that they will then group into a kind of free-floating hive mind they hope to disguise as a progressive stage in evolutionary history.
“Or, to put it another way, my belief in my free will and in my ability to potentially control my own destiny — that is, the essence of the American Dream — is what fuels my vigor and keeps me healthy and making the kinds of choices about my body that I wish to make. So if you do ‘actually give a shit about people and their health,’ you’re going to have to account for the health of those who don’t want any of your fucking ‘fixing’ in the first place.
“You filthy presumptuous skank.”
Kitchen table economics [Darleen Click]
While engaging self-confessed Leftists on Twitter and elsewhere, I’m less amazed than depressed that basic economics slip by. Indeed, when reading rants of naked, covetous Marxism in the New York Times Capitalists and Other Psychopaths, not once do these screeds against wealth ever consider what is easily observed by any parent with two brain cells to rub together.
My nine-year-old twin grandsons have just started getting a weekly allowance. Identical “wages” for identical twins in the same household.
The ice cream man rolls through the neighborhood over the weekend, one grabs two dollars from his allowance to buy goodies. The other doesn’t, he’s saving for a game for his Nintendo 3DS.
Personal choice has resulted in one twin now possessing more wealth than the other despite identical incomes.
Personal responsibility is a fetish? Only to those that want to eat their ice cream and have their brother’s Nintendo game, too.
Obama’s ‘gay for pay’ wide stance [Darleen Click]
I think it’s time to address why the Chicago Jesus suddenly went Gay for Pay. I’m happy to provide that analysis to you :) It turns out it’s more Gay for Pay, a Legacy and a Job After I’m Fired. [...][I]t dawned on me–Obama’s internal polls must show him losing to Romney, and handily. The latest Rasmussen certainly show the Golfer-in-Chief in trouble and behind the GOP nom. He must realize it’s over and is now simply looking to establish his “legacy,” while reinforcing leftist relationships he desperately wants to keep–like with Hollywood–after we kick his ass to the curb. For an obsessed, cynical and narcissistic president like Obama, he only makes moves that serve his agenda one way or another–and the only upside to this exists out of the White House. Liberal gays will vote for him anyway, and 1 in 6 of his top bundlers have already raised $500,000+ for him. I believe he’s frantic to not have his legacy be the truth–one of disaster brought by narcissism and incompetence, he hopes this sort of story, covers like Newsweek, will be the thing that allows him to walk away at least within his liberal/leftist base as not a complete pariah.[...]
Obama’s now thinking legacy and a job, and who’s gonna pay for that Obama Library in Chicago. Hey, liberal Hollywood and establishment gays sure do have lots of money and shouldn’t they give it to the First Gay President as opposed to the First President Who Really Hated the Country? And maybe with this little “evolution” the Obamas will be able to throw their own parties and still have people attend. [...]
Me? I’ll sending over a Gracious Parting Gift on November 7th–a Disco Ball and CD of Studio 54?s Greatest Hits.
