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We can kick his fat butt and drill for oil in ANWR all at the same time.

Let’s Kick Hugo’s Butt

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The first thing that came to mind when I read that Hugo Chavez threatened to stop exporting oil to the United States was that, right after Iraq, the next nation in need of liberating just became Venezuela.

Yes, I know we’re stretched a little thin these days when it comes to invading oil-producing nations and my response is hardly nuanced, but the plain fact is that by “nationalizing” Exxon Mobil’s considerable investment and holdings there, Chavez and his merry band of Commies is engaged in theft.

Most of the world’s oil sits under nations that have gone the same route, enriching a thin sliver of those in charge while rarely improving life for everyone else. Exxon Mobil, like other major oil companies, spends billions every year on exploration, extraction, and refining.

I suspect the reason they went to the courts to challenge the Chavez government’s right to nationalize one of its four heavy oil projects in the Orinoco River basin is to recover their investment and to make it clear that such behavior is a threat, not just to Exxon Mobil, but to the entire publicly traded oil industry.

These are the people who are frequently called “Big Oil” and widely criticized for risking billions to make sure the oil keeps flowing. The truth is they don’t control the price of oil. It is a global commodity whose price is set by mercantile exchanges on a daily basis.

As noted, Hugo Chavez has publicly threatened to cut off oil exports to the United States. Since Venezuela is the fourth largest supplier of oil to the U.S., that threat goes way beyond a dispute with Exxon Mobil.

Do you remember the public relations campaign Chavez staged by offering heating oil to low income Americans? He even had one of the Kennedy kids shilling for him in television ads. There have also been a number of Hollywood actors that found time to be photographed with Chavez. He thinks we’re stupid.

Chavez may also think the U.S. is too involved in Iraq and Afghanistan to spare a carrier group to park offshore or that we are too distracted by our national elections. Thugs tend to calculate such matters.

Saddam Hussein overplayed his hand and my guess is that Chavez may well do the same. It’s not like the place is on the other side of the planet. Check the map. It’s a lot closer than that.

What Venezuela needs is a whole new government, one that is not fashioned after Cuba’s. Chavez is making life very unpleasant for Venezuelans who value freedom and the United States, sooner better than later, needs to demonstrate our support for them.

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That O.J…. Some guys will do anything not to buy their girlfriend a Valentine’s Day present!

O.J.’s girlfriend hospitalized after fall

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Longtime O.J. Simpson girlfriend Christie Prody, 32, was hospitalized this week with a head injury after slipping and falling at a Southwest Miami-Dade gas station, according to police and Simpson’s attorney.

The incident happened Monday morning near Southwest 88th Street and 99th Avenue, and Prody was taken to Baptist Hospital’s intensive care unit, a Miami-Dade police information report shows.

Officers went to the hospital Tuesday to speak with Prody’s mother, who told them Prody and Simpson recently returned from a trip to San Antonio, where they attended a Super Bowl party. Local media there reported Simpson sightings around town, including what he ate at a sushi restaurant with friends.

Investigators interviewed Simpson, who told them he and Prody flew back from Texas separately. Simpson, 60, returned to his Kendall home on Feb. 4, but Prody didn’t come back until Sunday night.

They didn’t fly together because Prody ”was unable to fly back with [Simpson] due to being intoxicated and having a dog on the flight,” according to the police report.

During the interview with police, Simpson “advised this officer that [Prody] was intoxicated and always falling down during the duration of their stay in San Antonio.”

Miami-Dade police spokesman Detective Juan Villalba had no comment beyond what was provided in the information report. He declined to say whether an investigation was ongoing regarding the incident.

Simpson’s attorney, Yale Galanter, said his client was not under investigation and had nothing to do with Prody’s injury. A National Enquirer report Wednesday cited anonymous sources in saying police believe Prody was beaten.

”It’s crap,” Galanter said. “The people at the National Enquirer should be ashamed of themselves. Here a woman is badly injured, and they’re trying to make money from it.”

Galanter complimented Miami-Dade police for investigating the incident and ”quickly determining” Simpson “had no involvement.”

A Baptist Hospital spokeswoman did not have any patient-condition information about Prody late Wednesday.

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All the while, the limp wristed Nations of the world will wait…and wait…and wait…and pontificate, and make excuses, and draw lines in the sand, until Iran tests an old-fashioned World War II era fission device on a Western city.

But don’t worry about their missile capabilities. There’s plenty of room in a tanker or cargo ship to deliver even the bulkiest nuclear device to a Western port city.

Sleep well everyone!

‘Iran’s centrifuges processing gas’

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Iran’s new generation of advanced centrifuges have begun processing small quantities of the gas that can be used to make the fissile core of nuclear warheads, diplomats told The Associated Press on Wednesday.

The diplomats emphasized that the centrifuges were working with only minute amounts of the uranium gas used as the feed stock for Iran’s uranium enrichment program. And one of them said Teheran had set up only 10 of the machines – far too few to produce enriched uranium in the quantities needed for an industrial scale energy or a weapons program.

Still, the information revealed previously unknown details of the state of the Islamic Republic’s experiments with its domestically developed IR-2 centrifuges, which can churn out enriched uranium at more than double the rate of the machines that now form the backbone of its nuclear project.

The existence of the IR-2 was made known only last week by diplomats accredited to the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency probing Iran’s nuclear program for suspicions it may have been designed to make weapons.

But diplomats back then told the AP that the machines appeared to be running empty and could not quantify the number of the centrifuges had been set up at the experimental facility linked to Iran’s growing enrichment underground enrichment plant at Natanz.

Fleshing out previous information, one of the diplomats said Wednesday that the centrifuges were set up Jan. 20 and began processing minute amounts of the uranium gas soon afterward as part of testing the machines. He and others accredited to the IAEA demanded anonymity because their information was confidential.

Iran is under two sets of UN Security Council sanctions for refusing to suspend uranium enrichment, which it started developing during nearly two decades of covert nuclear activity built on illicit purchases and revealed only five years ago.

That secrecy heightened suspicions about Iran’s intent, but Iranian leaders argued the country has a right to run a peaceful enrichment program to generate electricity and dismissed the UN demands, saying they planned to expand the project rather than freeze it.

Until last week’s revelations that Iran had developed its own advanced centrifuge, Iran had publicly focused on working with P1 centrifuges – outmoded machines that it acquired on the black market in the 1980s. More than 3,000 of the older centrifuges are operating in the large underground hall near Natanz, a city nearly 500 kilometers south of Teheran.

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Barack Obama supporters should know one thing. Regardless of who wins, Hillary Clinton is going to be the nominee.

Obama could win it, but the Clintons are going to find a way to get this. Why? Because they want and need this more than anything in their lives! They have been planning on it and will do anything to get back in the White House. This is their last chance to get their arms around this great country and bend it, shape it, as they want it. This is what she has lived for! This is why she put up with all of Bill’s shenanigans all those years. She’s not going to sit there and let some young upstart like Obama take it away from her. So if she has to do something about the Michigan delegates and the Florida delegates, she will.

I believe they’re going to make a play for Florida and Michigan delegates to be seated based on outcomes of the election even though they were not sanctioned and the delegates were not going to be seated as by DNC rules. But who controls the DNC? The Clinton machine runs that party. She’s the machine candidate. Super delegates, I don’t know if it will come down to that. But if it does, she has Chelsea out there lobbying them. You know damn well that they’re going to do whatever it takes. If there are riots at the Democrat convention, so be it. If that’s what it takes for these two to get this nomination and get back in the Oval Office, then they’ll do it. It doesn’t matter what it takes; they will destroy anybody and any institution to get this. It’s how badly they want it.

My advice to Barack Obama, watch your back!

Update:

It’s starting already!
NAACP’s Julian Bond calls for DNC to seat FL, MI delegates

Energy Morons

The ugly little secret of Election 2008 is that it does not matter which candidate becomes your next President because all of them, Democrat and Republican, have energy policies that will keep America moving down the road to an inevitable lack of electrical energy and the oil, i.e., gasoline and diesel, needed to keep cars and trucks on the road.

Throw in the need to heat homes and other structures in the winter and cool them in the summer, and you have a bad choice no matter who your choice may be.

In a recent Washington Times editorial, the energy proposals of the candidates were compared. All subscribe to the hoax of global warming and, with it, the notion that carbon dioxide (CO2), a greenhouse gas, has to be reduced or sequestered. Given that CO2 constitutes 0.038% of the Earth’s atmosphere, this might seem strange to anyone with any sense, but we are talking about politicians here.

John McCain is the biggest believer in global warming among those still running. He has co-sponsored a bill with Sen. Joe Lieberman that would impose an economy-killer in the form of a “cap-and-trade” arrangement on American business and industry that would have them wasting money on emissions “credits” they could use, trade or sell. This plan has been a total failure in Europe and, of course, ignores all the emissions being produced in places like China, India, Russia, the continents of Africa, South America, etc. It is idiotic.

Hillary Clinton hates “Big Oil”, possibly because they may not be among her biggest contributors. She is calling for increased fuel-efficiency standards, but I keep telling people there is just so much energy that can be squeezed out of a gallon of gasoline. It’s called the Law of Thermodynamics. Much of the current energy is wasted in the form of heat and the rest keeps your pistons providing power to the wheels. This isn’t rocket science, but there are limits to efficiency, even if there are no limits on stupidity.

Barack Obama, when he isn’t peddling “hope” and “change” like the Pied Piper, claims to be ready to introduce a “green economy.” He, too, wants a cap-and-trade system. Apparently green economy means an economy in a permanent Recession or worse. And it does get worse, because he wants to require that 25% of the nation’s electricity come from wind and solar generation. The problem with this airhead solution is that wind and solar currently represent less than 1% of the electricity the nation uses and can never produce anywhere near 25%. It is the most inefficient form of energy on Earth, no pun intended.

Mike Huckabee has energy plans, too, but who really cares what this hayseed has to say about anything? He’s promising “energy independence by my second term.” That kind of talk comes right out of a bottle of good ole Arkansas moonshine. No nation on Earth can or will be energy independent. You may have noticed that the U.S. imports a lot of its oil and gas from other places. You may have noticed we haven’t built a new nuclear plant in thirty years?

Put them all together or rearrange them any way you want, this group of morons are going to send your energy bills soaring. No matter which one gets to the Oval Office, when it comes to energy, they don’t have solutions. They haven’t even got a sixth grader’s grasp of the issues.