All this off-shore drilling talk is just last minute pandering to the big oil companies before Bush/Cheney leave office.
Interesting reading this morning......
"How many acres are currently leased out, but mysteriously unexplored? Separate studies by the House Committee on Natural Resources and the Wilderness Society, a conservation group, show that roughly three-quarters of the 90 million-plus acres of federal land being leased by the oil companies onshore and off are not being used to produce energy. That is 68 million acres altogether, among them potentially highly productive leases in the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska.
Of the 36 billion barrels of oil believed to lie on federal land, mainly in the Rocky Mountain West and Alaska, almost two-thirds are accessible or will be after various land-use and environmental reviews. And of the 89 billion barrels of recoverable oil believed to lie offshore, the federal Mineral Management Service says fourth-fifths is open to industry, mostly in the Gulf of Mexico and Alaskan waters.
Clearly, the oil companies are not starved for resources. Further, they do not seem to be doing nearly as much as they could with the land to which they’ve already laid claim." |
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to the question I asked on en earlier blog post of yours.
Why, KMC, have you never worn the uniform of our armed forces?
Not worth your time? |
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The US Armed forces is a VOLUNTEER army in case you haven't heard. Therefore, Kevin does not need to give you any explanation if he has not worn a uniform. Those soldiers who are in Iraq, Afghanistan, etc are there because they VOLUNTEERED to be!!! |
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I know it is a VOLUNTEER military.
I know this because I VOLUNTEERED.
Why haven't you?
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Dear Commander --
If you spend a bit of time on KMC's blog, you'll notice that he lacks the you-know-what's to answer such a direct, simple question.
Yet, it's still kinda fun to yank his chain. I can't explain it. Every day I check in with my two gay boys (Andrew Sullivan and Matt Drudge), then I have to run over here and see what absurd thing KMC has posted. |
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"The US Armed forces is a VOLUNTEER army in case you haven't heard. Therefore, Kevin does not need to give you any explanation if he has not worn a uniform."
Don't you just love how the younger ones who call up neocon talk radio use this as a shield to hide their cowardice? You'd think some of these fire breathing "patriots" would love to have a first hand opportunity to close with the "islamo-fascists".
"Those soldiers who are in Iraq, Afghanistan, etc are there because they VOLUNTEERED to be!!!"
Right, particularly for those who were already in prior to the Iraq stupidity who thought they were going after Bin Laden, but got sidetrack by the Israel Firster neocons to Iraq instead. |
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Commander (me thinks a bit projectionist for a screen name) what causes you to believe I didn't wear the uniform?
It is easy to throw around terms like coward. It is another thing to carry oneself with character.
I personally would rather find myself asking questions than drawing assumptions... |
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You are such a coward that you won't go kill the muslims that you hate so much. Look: you all but outright admitted that you hate ALL muslims (and don't you dare lie and say that you don't) because you lost friends on 9/11. You cheer their deaths because you want to get even with the dead hijackers.
Well they're DEAD, crackpot. D. E. A. D. DEAD. You can't get even with them.
So stop being a coward by having them murdered by proxy and pick up a weapon and go kill them yourself. |
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tell us what branch of service you served in.
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Why don't you two get a room?
Some of us would like to actually disucss this article and the MYTH that if only we would grant more leases to the oil companies our problems would magically vanish. |
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KMC the chickenhawk "owns" this room.
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Oh now, don't be a killjoy. It's more fun to ask Kevin about this stuff. If you think you are going to get a serious discussion here you are sadly mistaken. TH is a cyber-Jonestown.
By the way, the US should drill more and use other means of energy as well. Yes, that includes ANWR and any other place you can run a pipe through. |
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