To me the title really details the critical point of the issue. The story starts with Obama's church. The leader Rev Wright is a fire and brimstone pulpit pounder, but not the usual sort. Imagine if Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and Louis ...

The media has been gloating for days over news that a Pentagon report found no ties between Saddam and Al Qeada.

I wondered though, because there have been plenty of documents (out of the millions found) the bloggers have posted on in the past tha...

I do not off hand know where he stands on the subject of earmarks, but surely something as obvious as conflict of interest should be an easy one.

One of Obama's Earmarks Went to Hospital That Employs Michelle Obama

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Dude, I said you were a loon, not that CO2 doesn't benefit plant growth. I mean, anyone with high school biology knows that. But it isn't the *only* thing that CO2 does. It's also a green house gas and enough of it in the atmosphere and it won't matter that it's good for plants. Given that we're burning more than 200000 acres of rain forest per *day* and the amount of plant material which could "benefit" - as you say - from all this wonderful C02, is *decreasing*, you end up with a massive surplus of C02 rather than a wonderful fairy land of happy plants cycling your C02 in equilibrium. I mean, really. Wikipedia is not a substitute for basic high school science.

If there is so little domestic energy deposits potential in U.S. then why fight it. If it so small then it can’t hurt the environment much now can it.

Geebus. You really have no idea of the scale of global energy consumption, do you? Your simple mind is equating the relative value of increasing domestic supply - which is very tiny - to the environmental damage to produce this increase which is like saying "a nuclear bomb is tiny compared to the energy of the earth receives from the sun every day so what's the harm with blowing up a few of them". I mean, you're just serving as a poster child for why it's so dangerous to be scientifically illiterate.

Get your facts right.

Dude. Do your research. Again, you're making these simple minded arguments, trying to claim similarities between different things. Geebus.

The Federal Government is not keeping California from creating there own rules

Yes, it is. This is *explicitly* what the federal government is doing.

The Bush administration said Wednesday night that it would deny California's bid to set stricter vehicle emissions standards than federal law required as part of the state's efforts to fight climate change.

Dude. You need to stop comparing things which aren't the same and arguing from analogies which have no relevance.

If there is so little domestic energy deposits potential in U.S. then why fight it. If it so small then it can’t hurt the environment much now can it.
You claim that “The latest, of course, was the fiasco of the EPA saying we couldn’t regulate C02 production”. That’s funny Kansas Department of Health and Environment has. Get your facts right. The EPA said “they” are not going to regulate CO2 emissions not that the states can’t.
http://kansas.sierraclub.org/Wind/HolcombRuling-GreenhouseGas.htm

The Federal Government is not keeping California from creating there own rules. Only deal is if they try to impose those standards, other state Manufacturers won’t deal with them. California will have to rely on their own production. Please show the rest of the nation how it is done. Fat chance!

WTF? No such thing. Nice try, bucko.

President Bush pushed conservation as well as more production.

Name three.

Increase domestic production would increase world supply and also would lesson the threats of other oil producing countries

Well, it will increase world supply by 0.001%. Hardly a threat reducing amount. It's literally a drop in the bucket. Stop talking qualitatively and start talking quantitatively.

CO2 is use by plants for growth which farm communities like.

My, you really are a loon.

Why doesn’t California start leading by example and become a green energy independant state?

We are. Unfortunately, the Bush lead agencies are completely thwarting this. We're suing to allow it to happen but the supposedly states rights backing Republicans are in fact "states rights" only WRT slavery and abortion laws.

We were supposed to have 2% of the cars as zero emission vehicles and low and behold your buddies the car companies blocked that with the help of the Republicans. I can go on and on for days listing similar issues. The latest, of course, was the fiasco of the EPA saying we couldn't regulate C02 production.

You really should educate yourself more on the subject you're trying to be sardonic about *before* you try to be sardonic about it.

Dude. I bet you could have found out half of this from Wikipedia if you'd had bothered.

President Bush pushed conservation as well as more production. His house is very conservation conscience. However very few others listen. Many ride in their private jets, limousines, SUVs and have very large energy consuming houses. Remember most people reaction when Carter suggests wearing a sweater? I for one do and I look for ways to conserve energy and water without changing my lifestyle radically.

Increase domestic production would increase world supply and also would lesson the threats of other oil producing countries. That would have a stabilizing affect on the U.S. which would help stabilize the rest of the world.

I have a coal plant less then five miles from my house. It puts much less pollutants in air than many other pollutants industries in our area. CO2 is use by plants for growth which farm communities like.

It cracks me up that Californians are so green but when their energy supply gets interrupted, it is “we want our energy and we want it now”. Why doesn’t California start leading by example and become a green energy independant state?

After stating something everyone knew, Geraldine Ferraro was skewered as a racist, and has quit from Hillary's campaign.

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As I said, you can increase domestic production by a factor of 10 and it won't make any dent in what we feel given that the oil that would be theoretically extracted won't be sold exclusively to the US - it's sold on the market. Consequently, given that any rise in domestic production would have almost zero relative effect on the global supply, it wouldn't do jack for prices or supply. Just for grins, just guess at how much that huge discovery in the Gulf is going add to to the global supply. Extracting the whole field won't even add more than a year or three at current rates of usage and I can guarantee you we can't extract the field in anything approaching three years

Clean coal is just a wet dream currently, and is clearly not clean as far as CO2 is concerned. Maybe you don't give a flying donut about it , but it's a pretty darn big deal to most everyone else. And the damage that will result from that much influx of CO2 is going to have to be accounted in your budget - I mean, that takes energy and resources, too - and when you do you find it ain't so "clean".

If we did pursue it back then, we would have a major oil field at almost full production now.

Yea, and if we had toughened CAFE standards a decade ago - even moderately, we'd be saving probably more than any domestic rise in production on a yearly basis. But hey, I remember our Dear Leader telling us Californians during the energy crisis that conservation doesn't work and we needed to add production.

As I said, please - by all means - make it the republican platform to consume ever more, build more power plants, strip mine whole mountains for the coal so we can pump up atmospheric CO2 to levels close to that of Venus. Whatever you do, don't try to take away gas guzzlers or get usage down because increasing consumption is the Republican way.

I'm sure it will be a big hit and having the 80 year old man sing a snappy tune about it will make it a sure lock on getting the voters.

Well, until we start bombing the world's gas station - aka Iran. I'm sure that will pretty much have effects on the market that will make even giving you your wildest wet dreams of expansion look like a tiny little dot compared to the black economic hole that'll be opened up.

Still, go for it. Push it all the way.

America or Israel need not “shmooze”, have tea or talk to terrorists. What we need be doing is fighting and defeating them: permanently.
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http://mjperry.blogspot.com/2007/11/in-euros-and-uk-pounds-oil-prices-arent.html

Look at the following link and you will find a common reason for oil price increases and that would be supply.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_price_increases_of_2004-2006

There are three large oil deposits that we know of including places in Alaska, off the coast of California and the Gulf of Mexico. We have places in Kansas that many suspects have oil deposits but are off limit to explore.

We use Petroleum and natural gas for electric power generators. If we replace those with clean coal plants then we could use the petroleum and natural gas save to help fuel our vehicles. Wind power also relies on other power plants. For example, in Kansas they want to build some wind farms. However they can’t without an upgrade of the power lines and an alternative pack up power. The Dem Governor Appointee turn down the coal power plant this in turn prevents the power line upgrade which in turn prevents the wind farms.

http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/epa/epat1p1.html

The excuse that we won’t see the full benefits for many years is pretty lame. Many libs said back before Bush took office that the ANWR exploration would take 10 years to reach full production so it was pointless to pursue. If we did pursue it back then, we would have a major oil field at almost full production now.

All I can say is that it’s a darned good thing I didn’t have a mouthful of hot coffee when I read about the western worlds greatest proponent of secret prisons, extraordinary rendition, arbitrary detention, torture, wiretapping, eavesdroppi...