Some Democrat will suggest allowing refineries to actually be built instead, but so far, nothing...Oh, and the beginning of socialism  already happened. It was the Fed's bailout of a firm called "Bear Stearns," and it had nothing to do with dumb refinery-socialism proposals.
JMR

The tax & spend drug war looks racist in the real world.

the poor folks in New Orleans, those who don't have any way to get out of the city? Will we see more complaining, like all those who are complaining now? Where's the Government? How come GW didn't see this coming?

There is no sense in being stupid, if you can't prove it! - my dad V

Unfortuantely yes, yes, and yes.

Obama has said We can't drill our way out of the problem

Apparently he thinks we can control or mandate our way out of it:

....Well, here's the problem. We account for about 3% of the world's oil reserves. We use about 25% of the world's oil. We can't drill our way out of the problem. It's estimated that if we in fact opened up drilling despite the environmental consequences which are irreversible, but let's say we decided You know what, we'll drill in Alaska and we'll drill off the continental shelf, its estimated that it would take five years before you saw any impact, in terms of actual world oil supplies, minimum, I mean, that's optimistic. But even then, the experts estimate maybe you'd see four cents, three cents per gallon reductions. So then one of the questions we have to ask ourselves is, Is it worth it for us to damage the environment permanently that our children are counting on when we could obtain much bigger reductions in gas prices just by increasing fuel efficiency standards on cars to 40 miles per gallon for example.

What happened to the Democrats' "common sense plan to reduce the price of gasoline"?

He says it would take years. He thinks nothing would happen until the oil actually gets to the pumps. How long does he think it will take to have even 25% of cars on the road getting 40 mpg? Does he think THAT will happen overnight???

And this is the guy who wants to run the country?

Its an oxymoron.  If BHO wins and puts the gov. incharge of oil flow, get ready for $10-$20 a gallon gas as he will steal it all for himself.  He'll be Hugo Chavez in America.  Anytime the government plans a take over its the beginning of the end.  When has the government successfully run anything without going into debt or making people wait forever?

Let's review BHO presidential goals:

-Pull troops out of Iraq, leaving Iran and other terrorists to take over and then we are in REAL trouble.
-Have the gov. take over oil companies so no one will have gas or heat for their homes.
-Those that do will be regulated to 65 degrees in their homes all year round, and limited in the miles they drive.
-Gov. run health care where our doctors will be subpar and have to wait 5 years to get a check up. 

Did I miss anything?  Sounds glorious, if you live in Cuba.

HOW LONG DO WE HAVE?

This is the most interesting thing I've read in a long time. The sad thing about it, you can see it coming. I apologize for it's length ahead of time.

I have always heard about this democracy countdown. It is interesting to see it in print. God help us, not that we deserve it.

How Long Do We Have?

About the time our original thirteen states adopted their new constitution in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh , had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years earlier:

"A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government."

"A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury."

"From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship."

"The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years"

"During those 200 years, those nations always progressed through the following sequence:
1. from bondage to spiritual faith;
2. from spiritual faith to great courage;
3. from courage to liberty;
4. from liberty to abundance;
5. from abundance to complacency;
6. from complacency to apathy;
7. from apathy to dependence;
8. from dependence back into bondage"

Professor Joseph Olson of Hemline University School of Law, St. Paul , Minnesota , points out some interesting facts concerning the 2000 Presidential election:

Number of States won by: Democrats: 19 Republicans: 29

Square miles of land won by: Democrats: 580,000 Republicans: 2,427,000

Population of counties won by: Democrats: 127 million Republicans: 143 million

Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by: Democrats: 13.2 Republicans: 2.1

Professor Olson adds: "In aggregate, the map of the territory the Republicans won was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of this great country. Democrat territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in government-owned tenements and living off various forms of government welfare..." Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the "complacency and apathy" phase of Professor Tyler's definition of democracy, with some forty percent of the nation's population already having reached the "governmental dependency" phase.

It wont be pretty

Refing and delivery isn't the problem (other than the fact that we need to upgrade the refineries we have and build more away from hurricane prone areas). How will nationalizing them help when we will still be buying our crude on the global market as we do now?

We need to remove the moratorium on drilling and expand drilling off shore and in ANWR. Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less

Socialism is a dictatorship by committee. That's why the Soviet Union's 5-Year Plans were such failures.

And now, today's Shrub Report®:

Happy Juneteenth, everybody!

Sue away, boys. Sue away!

So, the bringer of hope and change is surrounding himself with Clinton retreads?

The Not-Ready-For-Prime-Time-Player shows us, once again, he is not ready…, well, you know what I mean. Plus, this is not the half-brother he has known for 40 years.

Uh-oh, Al. Prepare to grab those ankles.

Speaking of ankles, a 6th foot (ankle included!) has washed ashore in Canada…

Pennsylvania's teamster thug governor watches his bid to sell the PA turnpike lose in the state House by a razor thin margin of 185-12.

Mugabe unveils his re-election strategy.

The slippery slope?

It's was 32 years ago today that one of the greatest albums in rock and roll was released. I got a fever!....

Today's Religion of Peace Update.

In Pittsburgh, mass transit has been a black hole, swallowing up tax dollars like Sally Struthers does Zingers, so, like good liberals, what is their solution? This.

First, no free speech, now this? Wow, Canada.

Wha? It is now illegal to fire illegals?

The Picture of the Day.

On this date in 1982, God's Banker was found hanging from a bridge in London. Yes, it was the same guy from Godfather III…

And, finally, experts react to Bush's call for more drilling…

The 30 year old Refineries are doing a Yoeman's job in keeping up with our 20% increase in demand while not getting any help thanks to the libs and the enviro-whackos.

What we need is more options for them to buy their crude oil from domestic sources rather then have to purchase from foreign sources.

If the Federal Government actually owned and controlled the refineries, they would be run like the BLM or ICE...80% overhead and 10% for operations (the remaining 10% would be mysteriously missing).

The day that "politician" became a career choice is the day we started losing the Republic. Let's get it back! Alan Keyes '08.

It's absolutely amazing, America won the Cold War at the cost of immeasurable blood and treasure against Communist totalitarianism only to surrender it to the Marxist Democratic Party of Change.  Two hundred thirty two years of freedom cast away for a smooth talker that sold out his grandmother.

All of this.....is heading south.  Guess where it ends?

You got it.  The land of FEMA trailers.  

Postatem obscuri lateris nescitis

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Obama has decided to opt out of public financing for the general election! Any guesses why?

Those Wascally Wepublicans of course!!

....John McCain’s campaign and the Republican National Committee are fueled
by contributions from Washington lobbyists and special interest PACs.
And we’ve already seen that he’s not going to stop the smears and
attacks from his allies running so-called 527 groups, who will spend
millions and millions of dollars in unlimited donations."

"so-called" 527 groups???????

Back in November, he told Common Cause:

If I am the Democratic nominee, I will aggressively pursue an agreement
with the Republican nominee to preserve a publicly financed general
election."

According to the McCain, campaign, they are still waiting to hear from him.....

The Democrats are once again fretting that their candidate may win the popular vote but lose the election.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20080619/pl_politico/11182

Oh how I hope the good Colonel overcomes the remainder of his legal issues (note the government is going to appeal the exoneration of this fine man...the rat finks!).

It would be a fine, fine thing to make Murtha pay for his slanderous remarks, and I, for one, will contribute to this brave man's legal bills if he goes forward with this.

....the New York Times featured the case on the front page when it was being compared by war critics to the infamous My Lai massacre in Vietnam. But now, with evidence the Haditha accusations were a smear, the story has been relegated to the back pages.

What, the MsM hasn't reported on this, have they?  What bias, nevermind, nothing to see here. 

David Gregory, do you know which damn network you lie for? ~ Uncle Jimbo, @Blackfive

Can we just reload the Mayflower and ship us all to France where things are set up socialist already? Maybe Venezuala? Cram us all into the boat, let us live under socialism and let us see how happy we'll be THEN we can see if the American people will still vote Obama or Kerry or Castro or whatever joker they put up. I'm getting really, really tired of the slow bleed to socialism and when we get hit with health care & global warming legislation, it's going to get 100 times worse.

Supreme Court stages coup d'etat

There's only one thing to do when a Supreme Court ruling appears to
be outrageously unjust and wrongheaded – as was the case in Boumediene
v. Bush, in which the court found in the Constitution a right of
foreign enemy combatants to access hearings in civilian U.S. courts
during wartime.

I decided to read the ruling for myself.

After doing so, I found there were two important but overlooked aspects of the decision:

• The court not only found unconstitutional carefully crafted
  congressional legislation governing the way the rights of prisoners in
  Guantanamo Bay would be protected, it also reviewed a law specifically
  exempted by Congress from challenge by any federal court.
• The court found the Constitution, and all of the protections it
  affords U.S. citizens, extends to the territory of Guantanamo Bay under
  U.S. jurisdiction and to any other foreign land so controlled by the
  U.S. military.

It is clear Congress, at the request of President Bush, set up a
mechanism to ensure innocent men were not held at Guantanamo. Democrats
and Republicans alike understood that, in wartime, special rules need
to be developed to guard liberties while maintaining the nation's
security. In so doing, Congress, apparently fearing just such a
challenge by a federal court, specifically exempted its legislation
from review by any court, as it is empowered to do in the Constitution... More >>

Source: WorldNetDaily

The Supreme Court has said by virtue of its ruling in the Gitmo case:

The Congress be damned,
The President be damned,
Democracy be damned,
Those killed on 9/11 be damned
Our troops be damned,
Our Allies be damned,
The American People be damned.

As I said here, we need an Amendment to the Constitution that makes these unelected Supreme Court Justices accountable to the people, and removable by ballot. 

Don't you agree?

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Communist vs. Statist '08

Q. Is Panamanian born John McCain a "Natural Born Citizen"