Simply brilliant.
…the Obama Administration is financing oil exploration off Brazil.
The U.S. is going to lend billions of dollars to Brazil’s state-owned oil company, Petrobras, to finance exploration of the huge offshore discovery in Brazil’s Tupi oil field in the Santos Basin near Rio de Janeiro. Brazil’s planning minister confirmed that White House National Security Adviser James Jones met this month with Brazilian officials to talk about the loan.
[Policy] doesn’t allow the U.S. to explore in Alaska or along the East and West Coasts, which could be our equivalent of the Tupi oil fields, which are set to make Brazil a leading oil exporter. Americans are right to wonder why Mr. Obama is underwriting in Brazil what he won’t allow at home.
Comment by happyfeet on 11/17 @ 8:02 pm #
That has Soros’s fingerprints all over it. Daddy Soros has a tiny little hungarian hardon for dirty socialists in South America.
It’s a thing.
Comment by JD on 11/17 @ 8:10 pm #
meya is a lying twat.
Comment by Joe on 11/17 @ 8:10 pm #
I doubt they will send the Olympics back to Chicago.
Comment by Joe on 11/17 @ 8:12 pm #
Soros is Magneto with the bile and bitterness, but without the style. Instead of having superpowers, he just has super piles of cash.
Comment by JHo on 11/17 @ 8:14 pm #
Yeah, I know meya. Slow news day but one needs that fresh wingnut meat, right?
Comment by B Moe on 11/17 @ 8:15 pm #
More energy brilliance.
Comment by JD on 11/17 @ 8:17 pm #
So, it is unanimously stupid, meya/RD. Is that your point?
Comment by Bob Reed on 11/17 @ 8:26 pm #
Change!, only the kind I can’t believe is true…C’mon, this is some of that “Literature of the Absurd”, right? Or, maybe Firesign Theater or Monty Python?
Gee, that trade defecit thing, you know, the phenomenon where all our national wealth keeps going out of our nation instead of in, has worked out so well with China and the Arabs that we’re going to do it with the Brazilians now too..?
Really, between this, the Chinese drilling under licensce from Cuba just 50 miles off of Florida, and the de facto absolute prohibition of drilling for our own sources, or exploiting the shale and tar sands deposits, is astonishing and makes me need to duct tape my head to keep it from exploding…
I mean, who need the cap-n-trade connivance when we can simply redistribute our national wealth this way; to nations like the Chinese and Arabs who essentially dislike us…
Must be more of that new kind of politics; that, and Smart Power!…
Comment by B Moe on 11/17 @ 8:26 pm #
You might need to adjust the dosage on your incoherence pills, meya.
Comment by JD on 11/17 @ 8:27 pm #
Remember folks, meya/RD is only mendoucheous on days that end in y.
Comment by Mark A. Flacy on 11/17 @ 8:27 pm #
Then again, I’d prefer to use everyone else’s oil first.
Comment by happyfeet on 11/17 @ 8:28 pm #
The little president man has him plenty of pet Republican whores. Meghan’s coward daddy for example has more than done his part to prevent our little country from producing oil. It’s a big part of why the little president man is the little president man and Meghan’s coward daddy is a smudged footnote in history.
Comment by Kresh on 11/17 @ 8:31 pm #
How long have you been trolling here? You think you would have learned by now that because a republican did it doesn’t mean we’re gonna let it wash under the bridge. We’re not lying little mind-dead socialists here.
*facepalm*
You’re a troll. I forgot. You don’t care, you’re just here to hear your own voice and pretend to speak truth to the unwashed masses.
*yawn*
Comment by Darleen on 11/17 @ 8:32 pm #
Oh cool, American taxpayer dollars to make jobs for Brazil and STILL keep American energy outside of this country.
and with Obama refusing to turn on the water in CA’s Central Valley, FOOD is going to be something we need to import, too.
Comment by Joe on 11/17 @ 8:39 pm #
I know this much, being an American wildcatter in Brazil would be friggin awesome. Even if you are out on the rig for weeks at a time, you have to come into port eventually.
Comment by Joe on 11/17 @ 8:40 pm #
As for the wisdom of Team Obama…not so much.
Comment by Pablo on 11/17 @ 8:41 pm #
Yeah, but that means they’re using our money. We’re mostly insane for not drilling the shit out of our oil, especially when unicorn powered cars are just around the corner, next to the wind powered airliners.
Comment by happyfeet on 11/17 @ 8:42 pm #
I’m on Pablo’s side.
Comment by Snowcone on 11/17 @ 8:44 pm #
American taxpayer dollars to make jobs for Brazil and STILL keep American energy outside of this country.
Um, our tax dollars are going to jobs in the very Red States that make the oil drilling equipment.
Oh, I forgot: “conservative” = somebody on the government payroll who whines about government spending.
Comment by JD on 11/17 @ 8:48 pm #
How do you manage to feed yourself, snotnose?
Simple concept – Barcky and his minions ban Activity A, an activity that would generate lots of jobs and energy domestically, and then proceed to spend taxpayers dollars to fund Activity A for another country. Defend that, snotnose.
Comment by happyfeet on 11/17 @ 8:50 pm #
The little president man actually canceled job-creating oil leases here in our little country. He did it the very first week he moved into our little White House. Probably cause he knew Brazil needed the equipment.
Comment by Pablo on 11/17 @ 8:55 pm #
Oh, like He canceled our guilty pleading filthy murdering scumbag trials so he could move them to New York.
He did that on his first day.
Comment by Snowcone on 11/17 @ 8:55 pm #
Defend that, snotnose.
You piggies don’t want to leave anything for our kids, do you?
Comment by Pablo on 11/17 @ 8:56 pm #
I don’t think He likes us very much. No, no, no.
Comment by Pablo on 11/17 @ 8:57 pm #
Are you counting debt, snotty?
Comment by Snowcone on 11/17 @ 9:00 pm #
Are you counting debt, snotty?
Everything I know about Red State family law I learned watching “Cops.”
Comment by B Moe on 11/17 @ 9:03 pm #
Drilling for oil is profitable isn’t exactly a news flash.
Comment by B Moe on 11/17 @ 9:05 pm #
She is actually probably right.
Unless it involves giving a speech, making a public spectacle of himself, or playing golf.
Comment by JD on 11/17 @ 9:08 pm #
It just means it’s not quite right to call it something Obama did.
Oh good Allah. It is something Barcky did. Period. End of discussion. He cancelled the contracts that happyfeet referenced above, and now we are funding the exact same thing for Brazil. Only a lying fucking asshole like you and snotnose would try to defend that.
Comment by happyfeet on 11/17 @ 9:09 pm #
link
Comment by Pablo on 11/17 @ 9:10 pm #
I live in a very blue state, snotty. What the fuck are you talking about?
Aside from debt, what is it you’re leaving our children?
Comment by Rougman on 11/17 @ 9:10 pm #
Everyone knows that burning Brazilian oil produces no CO2.
Comment by JD on 11/17 @ 9:12 pm #
Pablo – They are giving them HOPE! and CHANGE!
Comment by Snowcone on 11/17 @ 9:13 pm #
Aside from debt, what is it you’re leaving our children?
The right to have an abortion and the ability to study evolution?
Comment by Mark A. Flacy on 11/17 @ 9:16 pm #
What a shame that your mom did not avail herself of one.
Comment by Hvy Mtl Hntr on 11/17 @ 9:18 pm #
The right to have an abortion
Yes! THAT is why in the future… there will be only conservatives.
Comment by Rusty on 11/17 @ 9:25 pm #
17.2% unemployment,trolls. Your godhead owns it and refuses to do anything about it. Maybe they’re hiring in Brazil.
Comment by happyfeet on 11/17 @ 9:28 pm #
Looks like Goldman Sachs bought itself its very own Associated Press propaganda whore for Christmas. No byline though must be shy.
Comment by JD on 11/17 @ 9:30 pm #
The estupido exhibited by alphie/snotrag has to be intentional.
Comment by Darleen on 11/17 @ 9:45 pm #
snotty
who is going to provide that “right of abortion” when doctors are scarce and don’t want to do ‘em?
Comment by happyfeet on 11/17 @ 9:45 pm #
I wouldn’t do an abortion and I’m not even a doctor.
Comment by Pablo on 11/17 @ 9:46 pm #
snotty sounds a bit dead-ender, doesn’t he?
Comment by Joe on 11/17 @ 9:58 pm #
Snowcone, this guy is clearly one of your retards.
Then again, you never know, he might be some appointee fill in of the RNC!
Comment by SBP on 11/17 @ 10:05 pm #
It just means it’s not quite right to call it something Obama did.
Right. He’s not responsible for ANY action of his administration.
His job is just to look pretty and read the words that appear on the little teleprompter thingie.
I hope he studies up on Brazilian etiquette before he visits, ’cause bending over in front of those tranny hookers they have down there would be embarassing, no matter how much he’d enjoy it.
Comment by The Sanity Inspector on 11/17 @ 10:05 pm #
Back on topic for a moment (you’re welcome, JHo). I seem to remember a flurry of news a couple of years back, about the Chinese buying up drilling rights around the Caribbean basin. The concern was that they would be drilling oil fields that extended into our territorial waters, but which our greenies had gotten the government to put off limits for us to exploit.
Comment by SBP on 11/17 @ 10:08 pm #
and with Obama refusing to turn on the water in CA’s Central Valley, FOOD is going to be something we need to import, too.
Oh, he’ll turn it back on once all the farmers have lost their land to his government-controlled banks. They’ll rename the Central Valley People’s Collective Vegetable Farm #911 or something like that.
Worked brilliantly in the Ukraine, circa 1932-33, or so I hear.
Comment by SBP on 11/17 @ 10:10 pm #
Which has what to do with what, SFAG, other than you being an incompetent crapweasel?
I mean, we already knew that, m’kay?
Comment by JD on 11/17 @ 10:12 pm #
How does the partisan make-up of this Board change the fact that this was done under Barcky’s watch, after he had banned same domestically, and revoked the licenses? Do you use kevlar or titanium to keep your head from assploding?
Comment by B Moe on 11/17 @ 10:13 pm #
Obama is only responsible for private banks. He doesn’t have anything to do with the government. You guys really need to pay more attention.
Comment by SBP on 11/17 @ 10:13 pm #
Why don’t you regale us with some more factoids from your vast expertise on Japanese diplomatic protocol?
‘Cause I for one really enjoyed that, rube that I am.
Comment by Snowcone on 11/17 @ 10:16 pm #
who is going to provide that “right of abortion” when doctors are scarce and don’t want to do ‘em?
Nurses?
Comment by SBP on 11/17 @ 10:17 pm #
Classical scholars: how do you say “It’s not my job” in Latin? That would make a wizard motto for Doctor Utopia, don’t you think?
Comment by sdferr on 11/17 @ 10:19 pm #
The latino guys I got to know in the kitchen would say “Thas no my yob” SBP. I doubt the Latin is too far from that. ;-)
Comment by SBP on 11/17 @ 10:19 pm #
#53, #54: Right. Obama and the Dems aren’t responsible for dick, even though they control both the executive and legislative branches. Conversely, anything bad that happens is the fault of Bush and the Republicans, even though Bush hasn’t been in office for nearly a year and the Republicans haven’t controlled Congress for going on three.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 11/17 @ 10:26 pm #
Comment by Snowcone on 11/17 @ 10:16 pm #
You’re a regular black hole of Stoooopid, you know that snotspill?
Comment by N. O'Brain on 11/17 @ 10:31 pm #
Just reading Cold Fury blog, and Mike used a term so perfectly apt for meya that I had to share.
meya, you’re naught but a grotesque termagant.
Comment by SBP on 11/17 @ 11:07 pm #
You know, I haven’t responded to NippleNut in weeks, and it hasn’t exactly left a major hole in my life.
SFAG is occasionally vaguely entertaining in a smacking-the-spoiled-five-year-old-who-wants-her-pony-right-now-goddammit sort of way, but NippleNut is like the Special Olympics of online discourse.
(reminder: it’s okay to make fun of the Special Olympics now… Doctor Utopia has given his imprimatur!)
Comment by JD on 11/17 @ 11:09 pm #
Dr Utopia is a great phrase.
Comment by JD on 11/17 @ 11:18 pm #
Anyone know anyone in Indiana that installs hardwood flooring?
Comment by SBP on 11/18 @ 12:41 am #
I think “Dr. Utopia” should be credited to the boyz at HillBuzz, JD. At least, that’s where I first saw it.
Comment by JD on 11/18 @ 12:43 am #
Regardless of where it originated, it is a keeper.
Comment by Rusty on 11/18 @ 6:42 am #
The Ex-Im bank is an independent agency. At the time this was voted on, there was a 3-2 GOP-DEM leadership. Likely once Obama made it 2-3, it would still have gone on and made this loan.
I could not stop laughing. I don’t know where or if you’re educated, but if you were, you need to get some money back.
Comment by Old Texas Turkey on 11/18 @ 8:28 am #
Obama has the power to stop these decisions too. Which he didn’t Meya. That makes him culpable. Stir that into your wheaties.
Remember when China Oil wanted to buy Unocal?
Comment by SBP on 11/18 @ 8:34 am #
It means it wasn’t his decision.
Liar.
I think
Liar.
Comment by SPC Jack Klompus on 11/18 @ 9:24 am #
“You piggies don’t want to leave anything for our kids, do you?”
The idea that there exists someone who would procreate with a douche like you is beyond hilarity. “Our” kids. HA!
Comment by Gerald Walpin on 11/18 @ 10:22 am #
Go fuck yourself, meya.
Comment by Obstreperous Infidel on 11/18 @ 12:35 pm #
Whatever happen to “The Buck Stops Here”? Harry Truman would stomp the life out of you, meya. You can be sure of that.
Comment by greginsewa on 11/18 @ 4:31 pm #
Hey, snotcone! If all the womyn(R) get abortions like you shitheads want, there won’t BE any kids to leave shit TO. So, what’s the point of saving it?
Comment by JD on 11/18 @ 4:40 pm #
OI – It is “The Buck Stops Over There” with Barcky.
Trackback by Maggie's Farm on 11/18 @ 5:40 pm #
Some Weds. evening links…
Hard words from VDH: When reality catches up to rhetoric
Dems alarmed as Independents bolt
Sure makes it sound like a show trial:
Americans who are troubled by the decision to send alleged Sept. 11
mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to …
Comment by SBP on 11/18 @ 5:42 pm #
Gotta love the way SFAG comes up with a transparently incompetent lying spin and then sticks to it.
Comment by SBP on 11/18 @ 5:47 pm #
Yo, SFAG: there’s a reason why you’re in a series of piss-girl jobs that leave you unable to pay your student loans. Hint: it isn’t because you’re the reincarnation of Clarence Motherfucking Darrow. You suck at this, honey. Bad.
Comment by SDN on 11/18 @ 9:11 pm #
One of the first major casualties of the O! recession was the oil exploration companies in Houston moving their HQ’s (and jobs) overseas. They decided that being incorporated in a country run by anti-business goons wasn’t worth the risk.