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Harry Reid: Real American Nozzle

July 1, 2008 gags

Harry Reid’s newest claim; coal and oil make us sick. Harry Reid, is one of the major reasons gas is $4 a gallon and rising. Does he do anything or just complain about the way things are?

“The one thing we fail to talk about is those costs that you don’t see on the bottom line. That is coal makes us sick, oil makes us sick; it’s global warming. It’s ruining our country, it’s ruining our world. We’ve got to stop using fossil fuel.”

Wrong Harry, it is you and your Liberal cohorts that make us sick! What a nozzle!

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The Truth about Drilling in ANWR

June 30, 2008 gags

The following e-mail was sent to me the other day, and it’s just too good not to republish.

The bottom line is this; when you hear Democrats saying drilling in ANWR won’t solve all of our oil problems. Until some alternative form of energy is developed to replace oil, we must take many proactive actions. ANWR, shale, coastal drilling etc. — altogether these solutions will relieve us of the horrible dependence we have on jihad oil.

Who the hell is Congress working for? We elected them – they are public servants. They work for us.

First, do you know what ANWR is?

ANWR = Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Now, a comparison:

And some perspective:

Note where the proposed development area is (in the ‘ANWR Coastal Plain’):

This is what the Democrats, liberals and ‘greens’ show you when they talk about ANWR. And they are right, these are photographs of ANWR:

Isn’t ANWR beautiful? Why should we drill here (and destroy) this beautiful place?

Well, that’s not exactly the truth.

Do you remember the map?

The map showed that the proposed drilling area is in the ANWR Coastal Plain.

Do those photographs look like a coastal plain to you?

What’s going on here?

The answer is simple.

That is NOT where they are wanting to drill!

This is what the proposed exploration area ACTUALLY looks like in the winter:

And this is what it ACTUALLY looks like in the summer:

Here are a couple screen shots from Google Earth:

As you can see, the area where they are talking about drilling is a barren wasteland.

Oh, and they say that they are concerned about the effect on the local wildlife.

Here is a photo (shot during the summer) of the ‘depleted wildlife’ situation created by drilling around Prudhoe Bay. Don’t you think that the Caribou really hate that drilling?

Here’s that same spot during the winter:

Hey, this bear seems to really hate the pipeline near Prudhoe Bay, which accounts for 17% of U.S. domestic oil production

Now, why do you think that the Democrats are LYING about ANWR?

Remember when Al Gore said that the government should work to ARTIFICIALLY raise gas prices to $5 a gallon?

Well, Al Gore and his fellow Democrats have almost reached their goal!

Now that you know that the Democrats have been lying, what are you going to do about it?

You can start by forwarding this to everyone you know, so that they will know the truth.

P.S.: Drilling does not “destroy.” It creates jobs, resources and strengthens our economy — all while protecting our environment. Everyone benefits, even caribou.

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The Oil Jihad Continues: OPEC President Predicts the Price of Oil Will Climb to $170 a Barrel before the End of the Year

June 30, 2008 gags

The major fact is that the world runs on oil and OPEC knows it. OPEC keeps the price of oil rising and the world goes out of kilter like a spinning top that when you touch it as it spins begins to wobble crazily.

Throw together corrupt politicians and a constant supply of Global warming hysteria and the result is wrecked economies. The sad fact is that members of Congress have helped engineer this so that we would be dependent on OPEC for our energy needs. It is a problem borne solely of US political greed and corruption! We need to vote out all the incumbent bozos before we are forced into the second American Revolution!

OPEC President Chakib Khelil predicted that the price of oil will climb to $170 a barrel before the end of the year, citing the dollar’s decline and political conflicts.

“Oil prices are expected to reach $170 as demand for fuel is growing in the U.S. during the summer period and the dollar continues to weaken against the euro,” Khelil said today in a telephone interview. The leader of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries also serves as Algeria’s oil minister.

Political pressure on Iran and the depreciation of the U.S. currency have caused a surge in oil prices, Khelil said. New York- traded crude has more than doubled in a year and touched a record $142.99 a barrel yesterday on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

OPEC ministers generally say that oil output is sufficient, even as Saudi Arabia, the biggest producer, pledged to pump an extra 200,000 barrels a day next month to calm the market. “The market is completely supplied,” Venezuelan Oil Minister Rafael Ramirez said yesterday. Libya announced possible production cuts, calling the market oversupplied.

The rising cost of crude is not linked to supply, Khelil said today. “There is more than enough oil in the market to meet the international demand,” added the OPEC president, who will take part June 30 in an international energy forum in Madrid.

Prices, which are up 38 percent this quarter, are heading for the biggest quarterly gain since the first three months of 1999, when oil traded between $11 and $17.

Declining Dollar

“The decisions made by the U.S. Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank helped the devaluation of the dollar, which pushed up oil prices,” Khelil said.

Oil may extend gains if the ECB boosts rates on July 3, further weakening the U.S. currency. The dollar has declined 15 percent against the euro in 12 months.

ECB President Jean-Claude Trichet reiterated June 25 that policy makers may increase the main refinancing rate by a quarter-percentage point next month to contain inflation. The Federal Reserve left the benchmark U.S. rate at 2 percent on June 25. On Sept. 18 the Fed began cutting rates to bolster an economy already reeling from the credit crisis.

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Ponderisms: Part Two

June 28, 2008 gags

Here is another list of things to ponder if you’re tired of wondering why the greatest country in the world is dependant on dictators and people that hate us for our energy needs.

Why are there flotation devices under plane seats instead of parachutes?

Why are they called apartments, when they’re all stuck together?

Why are they called buildings, when they’re already finished? Shouldn’t they be called “builts”?

When you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn?

Why do scientists call it research when looking for something new?

Why do they call it the Department of Interior when they are in charge of everything outdoors?

Why do they put Braille dots on the keypad of the drive-up ATM?

Why do they sterilize the needles for lethal injections?

How did a fool and his money get together in the first place?

Could someone ever get addicted to counseling? If so, how could you treat them?

How does a shelf salesman keep his store from looking empty?

If the plural of tooth is “teeth,” why isn’t the plural of booth “beeth”?

How many people thought of the Post-It note before it was invented but just didn’t have anything to jot it down on?

Why is it, whether you sit up or sit down, the result is the same?

Would a fly without wings be called a walk?

When an agnostic dies, does he go to the “great perhaps”?

Why are there interstates in Hawaii?

When cheese gets its picture taken, what does it say?

Why do croutons come in airtight packages when it’s just stale bread to begin with?

If a firefighter fights fire and a crime fighter fights crime, what does a freedom fighter fight?

Does fuzzy logic tickle?

Why do we recite at a play and play at a recital?

Why do we wait until a pig is dead to “cure” it?

Why do women wear evening gowns to nightclubs? Shouldn’t they be wearing nightgowns?

Why don’t they call moustaches “mouthbrows”?

Why is a person who plays the piano called a pianist, but a person who drives a race car is not called a racist?

Why, when I wind up my watch, I start it, but when I wind up a project, I end it?

Why isn’t “phonetic” spelled the way it sounds?

Why do “fat chance” and “slim chance” mean the same thing?

Why are there interstate highways in Hawaii?

Why do you need a driver’s license to buy liquor when you can’t drink and drive?

Do you need a silencer if you are going to shoot a mime?

When they ship Styrofoam, what do they pack it in?

Is it possible to be totally partial?

Shouldn’t there be a shorter word for “monosyllabic”?

What’s another word for “thesaurus”?

Why do skydivers wear helmets?

Why do we put suits in a garment bag and garments in a suitcase?

If a parsley farmer is sued, can they garnish his wages?

If the funeral procession is at night, do folks drive with their headlights off?

Why does your nose run and your feet smell?

What’s the speed of dark?

Why is it that when you transport something by car, it’s called a shipment, but when you transport something by ship, it’s called cargo?

Ever stop to think, and forget to start again?

Where do forest rangers go to “get away from it all”?

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OPEC’s Oil Jihad

June 27, 2008 gags

Oil jumped to a new record high near $142 a barrel on Friday unabated even after Saudi Arabia’s pledge to pump out more supplies. There is just no logic to it all.

We were too blind to see that radical Islam was at war with us before September 11th. Is the same thing happening now in the form of an Oil Jihad?

There just may be an element of truth in this fictional “open letter” circulating around the internet

The OPEC minister may look you in the eye and say,
“We are at war with you infidels and have been since the embargo in the 1970s. You are so arrogant you haven’t even recognized it.

You have more missiles, bombs, and technology; so we are fighting with the best weapon we have and extracting on a net basis about $700 billion/year out of your economy.

We will destroy you! Death to the infidels!

While I am here I would like to thank you for the following: Not developing your 250-300 million barrels per year supply of oil shale and tar sands.

We know if you did this, it would create thousands of jobs for U.S. citizens, expand your engineering capabilities, and keep the wealth in the U.S. instead of sending it to us to finance our war against you infidels.

Thanks for limiting defense dept. purchases of oil sands from your neighbors to the north. We love it when you confuse your allies.

Thanks for over regulating every segment of your economy and thus delaying, by decades, the development of alternate fuel technologies.

Thanks for limiting drilling off your coasts, in Alaska , and anywhere there is an insect, bird, fish, or plant that might be inconvenienced. Better that your people suffer. Glad to see our lobbying efforts have been so effective.

Corn based Ethanol. Praise Allah for this sham program! Perhaps you will destroy yourselves from the inside with these types of policies. This is a gift from Allah, praise his name! We never would have thought of this one! This is better than when you pay your farmers NOT TO GROW FOOD. Have them use more energy to create less energy, and simultaneously drive up food prices. Thank you U.S. Congress!

And finally, we appreciate you letting us fleece you without end. You will be glad to know we have been accumulating shares in your banks, real estate, and publicly held companies. We also finance a good portion of your debt and now manipulate your markets, currency, and economies for our benefit.

THANK YOU AMERICA !”

You stupid fools!

Praise Allah!!