July 12th, 2008 at 10:43 by MsUnderestimated
This is quite a look back, and an emotional one at that. I found this video tonight from the MSNBC website. This was taken while Tony Snow was still alive, and great compassion was shown by David Gregory. I truly believe that anyone who worked with Tony had a deep respect and admiration for him.
I just barely made it through the video without losing it completely. Can you?
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July 12th, 2008 at 07:13 by MsUnderestimated
Wow… we’ve lost another great one today. I was prepared to go straight to bed after having stayed up all night watching TV, but I turned on the TV to see that one of my favorite people, Tony Snow, had passed. I could not be sadder. He was only 53 years old, and colon cancer took his life. The world is missing a great friend today. Godspeed, Tony.
We all love you and miss you very much. A legend is gone.
Michelle Malkin has great coverage here.
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July 9th, 2008 at 08:09 by MsUnderestimated
In case y’all haven’t seen this commercial, you should. Everyone rails against “big oil,” but there’s no bigger oilman in American than T. Boone Pickens. No, he’s not running for any office, but he does want you to know that HE is the one who is paying for this ad and the upcoming investments he’s going to make. He’s putting his interests for this country above all his own private oil interests, and recognizes that we are in a crisis with our dependency on foreign oil.
I for one admire the man for this stand; do you see anyone else of his stature doing something like this? I don’t. He’s about to launch (and please check out his awesome production video here) his own plan toward our independence on foreign resources. Watch the now-famous commercial here.
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June 18th, 2008 at 07:01 by MsUnderestimated
Okay, so this is a re-post from April of 2006, but it could not be more relevant nor time sensitive, given the fact that the democrats are all saying “not in my backyard!” about drilling for our own natural resources. Bravo for President Bush today for putting the call out for more exploration in our own country - a call long overdue.
I have seen very few sites that have stated the case for ANWR more than the ANWR homepage itself. But, they have a new slick, very informative and compelling flashmovie, Narrated by a Native Inupiat Eskimo from that area. His name is Fenton Rexford, from Kaktovik, Alaska. I truly can’t improve on the website’s content, so I’m just going to share some of it with you here. I do urge you, however, to visit the site and look around.
Here’s a bit about the local support:
Organizations representing the residents of the Coastal Plain and surrounding area such as the City of Kaktovic, Kaktovik Inupiat Corporation, North Slope Borough, Arctic Slope Regional Corp., Doyon Regional Corporation and Alaskan Federation of Natives have all endorsed development based on their experience with Prudhoe Bay.
There are also facts to predict strong jobs growth; not just for Alaska, but for the entire United States.
ANWR.org has their OWN “Top 10,” and I think they’re worth considering:
TOP 10 REASONS TO SUPPORT DEVELOPMENT IN ANWR
1. Only 8% of ANWR Would Be Considered for Exploration: Only the 1.5 million acre or 8% on the northern coast of ANWR is being considered for development. The remaining 17.5 million acres or 92% of ANWR will remain permanently closed to any kind of development. If oil is discovered, less than 2000 acres of the over 1.5 million acres of the Coastal Plain would be affected. That¹s less than half of one percent of ANWR that would be affected by production activity.
2. Revenues to the State and Federal Treasury: Federal revenues would be enhanced by billions of dollars from bonus bids, lease rentals, royalties and taxes. Estimates on bonus bids for ANWR by the Office of Management and Budget and the Department of Interior for the first 5 years after Congressional approval are 4.2 billion dollars.
3. Jobs To Be Created: Between 250,000 and 735,000 ANWR jobs are estimated to be created by development of the Coastal Plain.
4. Economic Impact: Between 1977 and 2004, North Slope oil field development and production activity contributed over $50 billion to the nations economy, directly impacting each state in the union.
5. America’s Best Chance for a Major Discovery: The Coastal Plain of ANWR is America’s best possibility for the discovery of another giant “Prudhoe Bay-sized” oil and gas discovery in North America. U.S. Department of Interior estimates range from 9 to 16 billion barrels of recoverable oil.
6. North Slope Production in Decline: The North Slope oil fields currently provide the U.S. with nearly 16% of it’s domestic production and since 1988 this production has been on the decline. Peak production was reached in 1980 of two million barrels a day, but has been declining to a current level of 943,000 barrels a day.
7. Imported Oil Too Costly: In 2004 the US imported an average of 58% of its oil and during certain months up to 64%. That equates to over $150 billion in oil imports and over $170 billion including refined petroleum products. That’s $19.9 million dollars an hour! Including defence costs the number would be nearly a trillion dollars.
8. No Negative Impact on Animals: Oil and gas development and wildlife are successfully coexisting in Alaska ’s arctic. For example, the Central Arctic Caribou Herd (CACH) which migrates through Prudhoe Bay has grown from 3000 animals to its current level of 32,000 animals. The arctic oil fields have very healthy brown bear, fox and bird populations equal to their surrounding areas.
9. Arctic Technology: Advanced technology has greatly reduced the ‘footprint” of arctic oil development. If Prudhoe Bay were built today, the footprint would be 1,526 acres, 64% smaller.
10. Alaskans Support: More than 75% of Alaskans favor exploration and production in ANWR. The Inupiat Eskimos who live in and near ANWR support onshore oil development on the Coastal Plain.
If anybody can present a cogent argument to me to refute this veritable gold-mine, I invite you to do so - but please bring facts and ammunition. I will not debate with an intellectually unarmed idiot.
P.S. ANWR is not the total answer… but it is a necessary start.
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June 2nd, 2008 at 07:35 by MsUnderestimated
Today on Special Report, Brit highlighted the story of one very courageous hero whose parents were awarded their son’s Medal of Honor today, posthumously, at a White House ceremony. What did soldier Ross McGinnis do? He laid his body down over a grenade that was pitched into his Humvee, and he knew if he didn’t do it, his buddies would probably die, too. But McGinnis showed courage and valor above all else. Blackfive has a couple of terrific posts about McGinnis:
CENTCOM sent an email that describes McGinnis on patrol, on December 4th, standing in the turret. McGinnis was manning his armored humvee’s machine gun. His Platoon Sergeant, SFC Thomas, was the vehicle commander.
From a position above the humvee, an insurgent lobbed a grenade that arced through McGinnis’ hatch and fell to the humvee console lodging in the radio at McGinnis’ feet.
McGinnis shouted, “GRENADE! IT’S IN THE TRUCK!”
In attendance at the ceremony were those buddies whose lives he saved that day: Sergeant First Class Cedric Thomas, Staff Sergeant Ian Newland, Sergeant Lyle Buehler, and Specialist Sean Lawson.
Brit noted that McGinnis’ father remarked that Ross probably simply relied on kindergarten math: ‘he realized four is greater than one,’ but it was that one that was greater than the whole.
You can watch Brit’s report here.
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May 25th, 2008 at 07:11 by MsUnderestimated
From my favorite political cartoonist, Michael Ramirez, a fitting tribute to our military men and women - both past and present.
We all salute your service and sacrifice for our freedoms. Happy Memorial Day.
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April 11th, 2008 at 09:11 by MsUnderestimated
Tonight as Laura Ingraham sat in for Bill O on the O’Reilly Factor, Code Pink-O leader Medea Benjamin, and Vets for Freedom leader Pete Hegseth, went head-to-head about the recent protests in the halls of Congress; especially focusing on the recent Petraeus/Crocker hearings before Congress. I would say hilarity ensues, but only inasmuch as Medea gets whacked by Lt. Hegseth.
Watch the video here.
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