This e-mail was forwarded from a friend. It is heartening to know so many of our citizens are studying the issues - if only congres was as informed. Here it is unedited.
Stupid isn't it that we are buying over half from the middle east supporting their terrorist programs.
Stupid also every time someone says we need to create more greet technology and that will create more jobs................who do you think drills, refines, delivers, sells oil? You'd be eliminating more jobs than you'd be creating..... want to fix the depression we're in, start drilling more and build two more refineries and oil prices would drop like a stone, jobs would be created and people like China could be buying our oil instead of us borrowing money from them.
Sound too simple I know.
DM
Here's an interesting read: and some important and verifiable information :
About 6 months ago, the writer was watching a news program on oil and one of the Forbes brothers was the guest. The host said to Forbes, "I am going to ask you a direct question and I would like a direct answer; how much oil does the U.S. have in the ground?" Forbes did not miss a beat, he said, "More than all the Middle East put together."
The U. S. Geological Service issued a report in April 2008 that only scientists and oil men knew was coming, but man was it big! It was a revised report (which had not been updated since 1995) on how much oil was in this area of the western 2/3 of North Dakota , western South Dakota , and extreme eastern Montana .....
The Bakken is the largest domestic oil discovery since Alaska 's Prudhoe Bay , and has the potential to eliminate all American dependence on foreign oil . The Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimates it at 503 billion barrels. Even if just 10% of the oil is recoverable. At $107 a barrel, we're looking at a resource base worth more than $5.3 trillion.
"When I first briefed legislators on this, you could practically see their jaws hit the floor. They had no idea." says Terry Johnson, the Montana Legislature's financial analyst.
"This sizable find is now the highest-producing onshore oil field found in the past 56 years," reports The Pittsburgh Post Gazette . It's a formation known as the Williston Basin , but is more commonly referred to as the 'Bakken.' It stretches from Northern Montana, through North Dakota and into Canada . For years, U. S. oil exploration has been considered a dead end. Even the 'Big Oil' companies gave up searching for major oil wells decades ago.
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Sunday, February 14, 2010
A Sad Death for Civilization
From time to time I get an e-mail that is actually profound. Most are the stupid -pass it on or you will have rotten luck ones- that I only forward to people who clog my e-mails with such nonsense. This one came from a lovely woman who seldom sends e-mails, but when she does I always open them. This is what she sent - I did not edit one word of it.
An Obituary printed in the London Times - Interesting and sadly rather true.
Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who has been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was, since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape.
He will be remembered as having cultivated such valuable lessons as:
- Knowing when to come in out of the rain;
- Why the early bird gets the worm;
- Life isn't always fair;
- and maybe it was my fault.
Common Sense lived by simple, sound financial policies (don't spend more than you can earn) and reliable strategies (adults, not children, are in charge).
His health began to deteriorate rapidly when well-intentioned but overbearing regulations were set in place. Reports of a 6-year-old boy charged with sexual harassment for kissing a classmate; teens suspended from school for using mouthwash after lunch; and a teacher fired for reprimanding an unruly student, only worsened his condition.
Common Sense lost ground when parents attacked teachers for doing the job that they themselves had failed to do in disciplining their unruly children. It declined even further when schools were required to get parental consent to administer sun lotion or an aspirin to a student; but could not inform parents when a student became pregnant and wanted to have an abortion.
Common Sense lost the will to live as the churches became businesses; and criminals received better treatment than their victims. Common Sense took a beating when you couldn't defend yourself from a burglar in your own home and the burglar could sue you for assault.
Common Sense finally gave up the will to live, after a woman failed to realize that a steaming cup of coffee was hot. She spilled a little in her lap, and was promptly awarded a huge settlement. Common Sense was preceded in death, by his parents, Truth and Trust, by his wife, Discretion, by his daughter, Responsibility, and by his son, Reason.
He is survived by his 4 stepbrothers; I Know My Rights, I Want It Now, Someone Else Is To Blame, and I'm A Victim.
Not many attended his funeral because so few realized he was gone.
SO TRUE SO TRUE!
An Obituary printed in the London Times - Interesting and sadly rather true.
Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who has been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was, since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape.
He will be remembered as having cultivated such valuable lessons as:
- Knowing when to come in out of the rain;
- Why the early bird gets the worm;
- Life isn't always fair;
- and maybe it was my fault.
Common Sense lived by simple, sound financial policies (don't spend more than you can earn) and reliable strategies (adults, not children, are in charge).
His health began to deteriorate rapidly when well-intentioned but overbearing regulations were set in place. Reports of a 6-year-old boy charged with sexual harassment for kissing a classmate; teens suspended from school for using mouthwash after lunch; and a teacher fired for reprimanding an unruly student, only worsened his condition.
Common Sense lost ground when parents attacked teachers for doing the job that they themselves had failed to do in disciplining their unruly children. It declined even further when schools were required to get parental consent to administer sun lotion or an aspirin to a student; but could not inform parents when a student became pregnant and wanted to have an abortion.
Common Sense lost the will to live as the churches became businesses; and criminals received better treatment than their victims. Common Sense took a beating when you couldn't defend yourself from a burglar in your own home and the burglar could sue you for assault.
Common Sense finally gave up the will to live, after a woman failed to realize that a steaming cup of coffee was hot. She spilled a little in her lap, and was promptly awarded a huge settlement. Common Sense was preceded in death, by his parents, Truth and Trust, by his wife, Discretion, by his daughter, Responsibility, and by his son, Reason.
He is survived by his 4 stepbrothers; I Know My Rights, I Want It Now, Someone Else Is To Blame, and I'm A Victim.
Not many attended his funeral because so few realized he was gone.
SO TRUE SO TRUE!
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Government Union Jobs Continue Growing
Thanks to five hundred “previously unreported just found” jobs, the unemployment figure has dipped slightly. Unfortunately, forty thousand more jobs were lost. When added to the underemployed (people who are working part time at anything they can find) and those who have stopped looking, unemployment is still closer to 17% than the 9.7% bogus figures being put out.
Not to worry. Government is hiring thousands and thousands of people. In fact, government jobs are the fastest growing job sector in our country. Government universities are encouraging graduates to go into “public service.”
Government jobs mean unions. Unions back regressives. They help write massive legislation. They are exempted from certain taxes such as those proposed on private sector employees with good health care plans in the massive health care bill the regressives are still trying to salvage.
Union membership in the private sector is about 8%. In government it is well over 50%. The regressives have to protect union members who do so much to get them elected, keep them elected and provide muscle to intimidate their opponents and detractors.
Unions continue to try to pass card check. That would mean no more secret ballots for private sector employees who have to vote on whether or not they want to become union members.
No more secret ballots means union thugs would know how a person voted. They are not above intimidation and physical harm if necessary. People who voted not to be in a union would have good reasons to be afraid. The reasons are called spouse and children.
Before retiring, my brother worked for the city. Never mind where; this story could and more than likely has happened in the majority of cities in the United States.
The Union he was forced to belong to if he wanted to keep his job, wanted to strike. Most of the city workers did not want to strike. They liked their jobs and were more than fairly compensated.
One worker said out loud he did not want to strike. A fire bomb was thrown through the front window of his house at night while he and his family were asleep. The rest of the employees, including my brother, got the message. They went on strike.
My husband asked how unions, especially the teacher's union that has absolutely decimated large city schools, including Milwaukee which is a money being sucked into a black hole failure, got so much power.
Wish I had an answer. The unions destroy businesses ( government motors come to mind) cities and the futures of hundreds of thousands of school children without recrimination.
Unions do not have to worry. In fact, if a private company goes under, the government will be glad to pick up these employees. After all, they have been well trained in dirty tactics.
Not to worry. Government is hiring thousands and thousands of people. In fact, government jobs are the fastest growing job sector in our country. Government universities are encouraging graduates to go into “public service.”
Government jobs mean unions. Unions back regressives. They help write massive legislation. They are exempted from certain taxes such as those proposed on private sector employees with good health care plans in the massive health care bill the regressives are still trying to salvage.
Union membership in the private sector is about 8%. In government it is well over 50%. The regressives have to protect union members who do so much to get them elected, keep them elected and provide muscle to intimidate their opponents and detractors.
Unions continue to try to pass card check. That would mean no more secret ballots for private sector employees who have to vote on whether or not they want to become union members.
No more secret ballots means union thugs would know how a person voted. They are not above intimidation and physical harm if necessary. People who voted not to be in a union would have good reasons to be afraid. The reasons are called spouse and children.
Before retiring, my brother worked for the city. Never mind where; this story could and more than likely has happened in the majority of cities in the United States.
The Union he was forced to belong to if he wanted to keep his job, wanted to strike. Most of the city workers did not want to strike. They liked their jobs and were more than fairly compensated.
One worker said out loud he did not want to strike. A fire bomb was thrown through the front window of his house at night while he and his family were asleep. The rest of the employees, including my brother, got the message. They went on strike.
My husband asked how unions, especially the teacher's union that has absolutely decimated large city schools, including Milwaukee which is a money being sucked into a black hole failure, got so much power.
Wish I had an answer. The unions destroy businesses ( government motors come to mind) cities and the futures of hundreds of thousands of school children without recrimination.
Unions do not have to worry. In fact, if a private company goes under, the government will be glad to pick up these employees. After all, they have been well trained in dirty tactics.
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Tea Parties and Congressional Pay
The following e-mail was forwarded to me. I could not identify the original sender or whose idea this is, but it is a good one.
Beginning of e-mail.
For too long we have been too complacent about the workings of Congress. Many citizens had no idea that Congress members could retire with the same pay after only one term, that they didn't pay into Social Security, that they specifically exempted themselves from many of the laws they have passed (such as being exempt from any fear of prosecution for sexual harassment) while ordinary citizens must live under those laws.
The latest is to exempt themselves from the Healthcare Reform that is being considered...in all of its forms. Somehow, that doesn't seem logical. We do not have an elite that is above the law. I truly don't care if they are Democrat, Republican, Independent or whatever. The self-serving must stop. This is a good way to do that. It is an idea whose time has come
.
Proposed 28 the Amendment to the United States Constitution:
"Congress shall make no law that applies to the citizens of the United States that does not apply equally to the Senators and Representatives; and, Congress shall make no law that applies to the Senators and Representatives that does not apply equally to the citizens of the United States. "
Each person contact a minimum of twenty people on their Address list, in turn ask each of those to do likewise.
Then in three days, all people in The United States of America will have the Message. This is one proposal that really should be passed around.
This came with another e-mail from the state chapter of Americans for Prosperity. It is an excellent organization and thankfully not affiliated with, nor endorsing the “National Tea Party.”
I am glad people are getting together but to me, it flies in the face of the Tea Party movement to appeal to grassroots people. The “National Tea Party” is charging a lot of money to people who want to hear Sarah Palin speak.
I am a Palin fan but I wish the organizing groups would not call their event what they are; a 549 dollar registration fee is not what grass root involvement is about. This does not include hotel accommodations. This smacks of east coast “Republicans” like Snowe and Collins.
I am sure this is a way for these Republican lite people to get together without running into the likes of Joe the plumber.
In March I will be attending the “American Dream” summit in Wisconsin Dells sponsored by Americans for Prosperity. Registration cost is 39 dollars.
Beginning of e-mail.
For too long we have been too complacent about the workings of Congress. Many citizens had no idea that Congress members could retire with the same pay after only one term, that they didn't pay into Social Security, that they specifically exempted themselves from many of the laws they have passed (such as being exempt from any fear of prosecution for sexual harassment) while ordinary citizens must live under those laws.
The latest is to exempt themselves from the Healthcare Reform that is being considered...in all of its forms. Somehow, that doesn't seem logical. We do not have an elite that is above the law. I truly don't care if they are Democrat, Republican, Independent or whatever. The self-serving must stop. This is a good way to do that. It is an idea whose time has come
.
Proposed 28 the Amendment to the United States Constitution:
"Congress shall make no law that applies to the citizens of the United States that does not apply equally to the Senators and Representatives; and, Congress shall make no law that applies to the Senators and Representatives that does not apply equally to the citizens of the United States. "
Each person contact a minimum of twenty people on their Address list, in turn ask each of those to do likewise.
Then in three days, all people in The United States of America will have the Message. This is one proposal that really should be passed around.
This came with another e-mail from the state chapter of Americans for Prosperity. It is an excellent organization and thankfully not affiliated with, nor endorsing the “National Tea Party.”
I am glad people are getting together but to me, it flies in the face of the Tea Party movement to appeal to grassroots people. The “National Tea Party” is charging a lot of money to people who want to hear Sarah Palin speak.
I am a Palin fan but I wish the organizing groups would not call their event what they are; a 549 dollar registration fee is not what grass root involvement is about. This does not include hotel accommodations. This smacks of east coast “Republicans” like Snowe and Collins.
I am sure this is a way for these Republican lite people to get together without running into the likes of Joe the plumber.
In March I will be attending the “American Dream” summit in Wisconsin Dells sponsored by Americans for Prosperity. Registration cost is 39 dollars.
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