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Teatime Totty...............

Obama's War on U.S. Energy

 By Alan Caruba

September 19^th was an anniversary you did not read or hear about in the nation’s news media. It marked six years—2008—since the first permit application for the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline was submitted to the federal government. Can you imagine how many jobs its construction would have created during a period of recovery from the 2008 financial crisis? President Obama is universally credited with delaying it.

Thomas Pyle, the president of the American Energy Alliance, pointed out that World War II, the construction of the Hoover Dam, and the Lewis and Clark Expedition all took place in less time. In a September Forbes article, he noted that “Earlier this year a Washington Post/ABC News poll found that 65 percent of Americans support building the pipeline, while only 22 percent oppose it. In Washington three-to-one margins are usually referred to as mandates.”

In contrast, in March 2013 the then-Interior Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar, boasted “In just over four years, we have advanced 17 wind, solar, and geothermal projects on our public lands.”  It is not these projects that Americans depend upon for energy. The opposite is a stark explanation why coal, oil, natural gas and nuclear energy remain the heart blood of the economy.

The Daily Caller reported in July that the “U.S. Bureau of Land Management is currently sitting on a backlog of 3,500 applications that need approval to move forward on drilling for oil and natural gas on federal land,” just part of Obama’s war on U.S. energy.

According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, fossil fuels met 82% of U.S. energy demand in 2013.

Petroleum, primarily used for transportation, supplied 36% of the energy demand in 2013. Natural gas represented 27%. Coal represented 20% and generated almost 40% of all electricity. In the six years since Obama took office that is a loss of 10%!

The much ballyhooed “renewable sources” of energy, justified by the false claim that carbon dioxide emissions are causing global warming or climate change, are a very small part of the nation’s power providers. Wind power represented 1.6% and solar power represented three-tenths of 1%! Hydropower supplied 2.6% making it the largest source of so-called renewable energy.

Politically, it has been Democrats advocating renewable sources and siding with the President’s delay of the oil pipeline and the Environmental Protection Agency’s assault on coal-fired plants to produce electricity. By contrast, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives has been busy putting forth legislation to fix aspects of our energy problems and needs.

Some of the bills that were introduced included H.R. 2728: The Protecting State’s Rights to Promote American Energy Security Act; H.R. 3: The Northern Route Approval Act (regarding the keystone XL Pipeline; H.R. 1900: The Natural Gas Pipeline Permitting Reform Act; H.R. 2201: The North American Energy Infrastructure Act; and H.R. 6: The Domestic Prosperity and Global Freedom Act, intended to expedite the export of liquefied natural gas to our allies around the world. The global market is growing at a colossal pace.

These bills will likely all die in the U.S. Senate, controlled by the Democratic Party. The Nov 4 midterm elections can change that if enough Republicans are elected to gain control.

It’s not just natural gas that is helping the economy improve. The Financial Times reported in late September that “The U.S. is overtaking Saudi Arabia to become the world’s largest producer of liquid petroleum, in a sign of how its booming oil production has reshaped the energy sector.” Why? “The U.S. industry has been transformed by the shale revolution, with advances in the techniques of hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling enabling the exploitation of oilfields, particularly in Texas and North Dakota.”

The only places you won’t find oil drilling are on federally controlled lands. The same holds for coal and natural gas.

This is in keeping with a virtual war on U.S. energy waged from the White House. Consider what we have witnessed:

# Obama has refused to let the Keystone XL pipeline be built.

# Billions wasted on loans to renewable energy companies, many of which like Solyndra and Solar Trust of America went bankrupt.

# Obama made electric cars like the Chevy Volt part of his energy policy, providing subsidies but their high cost and low mileage capacity has resulted in few sales.

# Obama and the EPA advocated a cap-and-trade tax on greenhouse gas emissions when there has been no global warming for 19 years and carbon dioxide plays no role whatever in the Earth’s climate.

# The Obama administration terminating the construction of a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada despite nearly $15 billion already spent on this necessary repository.

These are just a few examples, but in the meantime, the U.S. still requires that a valuable food commodity, corn, be turned into ethanol, an automotive fuel additive, that (a) reduces the millage in every gallon and (b) increases its cost at the pump. As Seldon B. Graham, Jr., a longtime energy industry consultant and observer, notes that “Ethanol production peaked in 2011 at 6% of total oil demand.” Favoring replacing imported foreign oil with American oil, Graham says “Americans would have saved $64.7 billion on the oil price since 2009.”

Americans are afflicted by a President and his administration that for political and environmental reasons are costing them trillions in needless, senseless energy costs, loans and subsidies, and efforts to impose laws that have no basis whatever in science.

© Alan Caruba, 2014

The Sunday Best...................

US struggles to turn the tide in war against IS

The Left's Worst Crime in the Middle East

The 'Peace Process' Maintains the Conflict

What Islamic State hostages endured before beheadings

Britain's war in Afghanistan ends

PM urged to press Qatar's Emir on terror funds

A liberal elite wants to brush Ukip aside

Celebrated British warships being stripped bare for scrap metal

American Way: Republicans beware, midterms are not always a sign of things to come

Ebola crisis rekindles concerns about secret research in Russian military labs

How Likely is Deradicalization?

The Kurds in Turkey and the Fight for Kobani

America’s Death March

Sacramento-Area Cop Shooting Suspect Had Already Been Deported -- Twice

and finally........

Cranberry Harvest

Cartoon Round Up....

82 Yr Old Grandmother Voting Straight Republican; Tired of Democrats................

H/T Bob C

HNIC memorial ceremony w 2 other rinks. New Jersey Devils vs Ottawa Senators Oct 24 2014 NHL hockey................

H/T Mark H

H/T Paul B

About that "recovery"​............................from Rico

Does anyone remember the "recovery Summers" that weren't?
- You know, the ones endlessly repeated by Barry What's-his-name and his ventriloquist's dummy Joe Biden.

Their loyal MSM finally declared that the "recession" was over to spare them the continued humiliation of repeating what was so obviously untrue, while giving the tag-team destroying America fresh 'talking points' like "the economy is doing fine."

Meanwhile, the Social Security Administration has just released data 'proving' the "recession" is over (well, for those who still have the wool pulled over their eyes):
- 63% of American workers earn less than $40,000 per year.
- 50% of American workers earn less than $28,033 per year.
- 39% of American workers earn less than $20,000 per year...for Democrat voters read: that's working a full-time job at $10/hour with two weeks off, for a YEAR.

Now let's talk about that "recession" being over shall we?
- Or "do" something about it in the voting booth in about a week?

Sunday Totty.................

Who should get the next U.S. jobs? More new immigrants or America's jobless?

This ad is part of a national campaign informing Americans that nearly all U.S. job growth since the year 2000 has gone to new immigrants while the number of Americans working has fallen. The ad questions whether Congress should continue to add 1 million more immigrants every year to compete for jobs or if the priority should be for the jobs to go to the Americans and legal immigrants already here who are still looking for work



H/T Glenwood

Cpl. Nathan Cirillo's final journey home.................

The body of Cpl. Nathan Cirillo, killed during Wednesday's shootings in the nation's capital, was transported in a procession along the Highway of Heroes from Ottawa to Hamilton. At the same time, a ceremony in Ottawa marked the return of ceremonial guards at the National War Memorial.



H/T Pete H

Is Obama a Muslim?

I tend to be a skeptical person.  I was skeptical that a person with no background whatever in governing, could be president but I obviously was wrong as everyone unfortunately knows.

After Obama was elected, rumors started to circulate that he was a Muslim.  Again I was skeptical. but then certain things started to be noticed, and now I am not so sure.  After all he was born to a Muslim father and later he had a Muslim stepfather.  He attended a madrasa while growing up and that is a Muslim school that indoctrinates young children in the Muslim faith.  

Since becoming president he never once has attended a church.  

He disappears during Xmas to Hawaii and is practically invisible during that holiday.

On Ramadan, Muslims are forbidden to wear Jewelry.  During Ramadan he is always seen without his wedding ring and wrist watch, which he always wears except for Ramadan.

And of course his hatred of Israel and his bowing to Muslim rulers.

I guess I am starting to lose my sceptism about his being a Muslim.

 

LW

Read below to see other reasons why he is in all likelihood a practioner of Islam.

 

Barack Obama: Grand Caliph of Islam?

By Paul R. Hollrah  

 

October 24, 2014

Overnight News................

NYC: 'Open for business' despite Ebola case

Europe's bank test aims to strengthen economy

DC’S DIRTY SECRETS: Dems Move To Regulate Internet Campaigns, Blogs, Drudge

Epic fail: Giant walls wouldn't stop tornadoes

Report: Army Plied Football Recruits With Alcohol, Women

As Ebola spreads, states enact stricter quarantine​s

Ex-CBS reporter's book reveals how liberal media protects Obama

U.S. condemns Iran's hanging of alleged rape victim

The View attacks Catholics

Experts: Quarantine​s may dissuade Ebola volunteers

7 things the middle class can't afford anymore

State Farm seeks to test drones in Illinois

H/T Old Dude

False Idols: Israelis Still Put Their Faith in Obama...................from Dan Friedman

[Can you think of another country on earth where advocating dependence on another state run by a hostile leader is a viable election strategy? (Didn’t think so.) df]

timesofisrael.com, 10/15/14

 

 

Lapid: We must fix ‘crisis’ in ties with Washington

 

Centrist finance minister says relations with US must urgently be repaired; Opposition head Herzog demands new elections

 

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[On the other hand, this trend is waning because each day hard reality makes left-leaning Israeli hysteria look ... well... hysterical. df]

 

theguardian.com, 10/25/2014

India spurns US offer and purchases guided missiles from Israel for $525m

Deal for at least 8,000 missiles and 300 launchers comes amid border tensions with China and exchanges of fire with Pakistan

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Sunday Morning is Bath Night................

Sorry it's late but had long lunch yesterday..........



H/T Mark H

VIDEO: Elizabeth Marxs, Cybergirl of the Year 2014, at Playboy

And it's safe for work: "VIDEO: Elizabeth Marxs."

Very hot too!

'Fury'

You gotta see this movie, and when you do, take off your "presentist" blinkers. Americans executed Nazis. These things happened without the blink of an eye. Leftists are now all up on their moral horses about how terrible --- terrible! --- the movie is, when in fact this is perhaps the best war movie ever made.

See, "The Scene from 'Fury' That Drives Pansy-Assed Progs Into the Arms of Their Metrosexual Mommies":

If you think "Fury" represents the vision of war that victimizes its soldiers, turns them into hulking carcasses of PTSD, consigning them to a life of depression, ever sulking from their committal of human rights "abuses," then you might be a pacified progressive, brain-addled pansy-assed leftist loser...

More.

Teatime Totty.................

Ray Stevens - Rayality Webisode 28 "The Return of Rayality TV"..............

Einstein on Obama!...from TPC

In a politically incorrect way Albert Einstein comments on the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections.

At The Political Commentator here.

Now pull the other one....................from Rico

No, this is NOT about who wears 'blue' neckties or 'red' ones. Arguing Democrat (C) vs. Republican (D) today is like choosing between the Bloods or the Crips (who happen to use the same gang colors btw) or which gang is less criminal.
- They are both part and parcel of the same problem.

It IS about Government OVER the People, and not Government OF the People.
- The Government IS the problem.

The Federal Government has just announced a 1.7% COLA adjustment for 2015.
- Cost Of Living Adjustment is predicated on the 'official' rate of inflation (which does not include food, energy, or anything much that the People need) and caps increases to military pay and Social Security payments...but it has a LOT to do with how much it costs to finance the debt of the Government which spends roughly twice what it harvests in taxes [for "progressives" read: it keeps the national mortgage payment so low it will never be paid off).

Figured the 'old' way (pre-1992) without accounting gimmicks or politics, the REAL rate of inflation was 9.4% and NOT the fraudulent 'official' rate of 1.7%.
- The difference, or spread, between the two is what the Federal Government SAVES and what the rabble (aka the People) get rammed up their ass.

Does anyone (Joe the Plumber is excused from answering, since he already 'got' it) still 'think' that the Government is their friend, and the answer/solution to all things?
- If you DO, then you have graduated from Obamabot to "ready for Hillary" and are certifiably brain dead.
- For the REST of us: Now pull the other one, it plays "Jingle Bells."

Cartoon Round Up....

News..................

Fullbore Friday

Jihadist training camps proliferate in Iraq and Syria

PGA of America president ousted over tweet

Sarah Palin Blasts Shameless CNN; Carol Costello for Laughing at Female Assault Victim

My Top Five Superfoods

Like a virgin: Python births 6 sans mate

Can This Drone Bring Peace to Ukraine?

You Spot, I Shoot: Aegis Ships Share Data To Destroy Cruise Missiles

No Strategy to Counter ISIS Propaganda in the U.S.

U.S. ups Ebola screening as virus hits Mali

Islamic State Defections Fracture Pakistan Taliban

Relax, China's Aircraft Carrier Is Fine

US General: North Korea Can Miniaturize Nuke Warheads

US investigate claims Islamic State used chemical weapons

New York axe attacker: Navy veteran who converted to Islam

Turkey: The "Great Muslim Democracy"

Why the Welfare State Isn't Well and It Isn't Fair

Federal Judge Dismisses Tea Party Lawsuits Against IRS

Video: Megyn Kelly on race-baiter Eric Holder!...from TPC

A video of Megyn Kelly discussing a man, Attorney General of the United States Eric Holder, who could work and thrive in a White House where divisiveness and race-bating seem not only to be tolerated but actually encouraged! 

Watch at The Political Commentator here.

Will wonders never cease?.................from Rico

It does make one wonder.

a. - Can a person REALLY be that stupid?
b. - Does she really think OTHERS can be that stupid?
c. - Does her ass ever get jealous ot the shit that comes out of her mouth?
d. - All of the above.

The HillBillary "Beast of Benghazi" actually said today:

...'don't let anybody tell you' that 'businesses create jobs'...

Anyone stupid enough to buy that line is obviously 'ready' for Hillary in 2016.
- Hey, the same idiocy 'worked' twice for Barry Whomever, so why not for her Marxist Majesty?

At Least O Can Claim Libya Was a Success....................from Dan Friedman

[Aside from that little dust up in Benghazi that killed four Americans, things have sure been going Obama’s way since he led from behind in Libya. df]

 

CAIRO (AP) — Libya's newly appointed foreign minister said Thursday that he hopes to see a negotiated solution to the standoff in the capital, Tripoli, where Islamist-allied militias have taken over the city and forced out the elected lawmakers.

The dramatic developments have further mired Libya in its worst turmoil since Moammar Gadhafi's ouster in 2011, with the country deeply fractured and having two rival governments and parliaments

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I Still Believe - Veterans Day Song 2014.....................

Tussing Elementary's new song of thanks and hope for our military heroes and America!

Rex Murphy: Ottawa Shooting.............

H/T Pete H