A Generation Of Indignant Butter-Butts

Many of the issues that our culture collectively wrings its hands over and wails about today, on a comprehensive scale, can be tied directly to the rise of the self-centered behemoth that is 'The Boomer Generation', its coming of age and the rise of it's influence on the Nation. This is not to say that I'm assigning all the ills and angsts of past, present and future to a single Generation; but I can't help but notice some patterns – in economics, in the arts, in legislative and regulatory enactments and practices, in educational standards and practices, health issues, societal 'norms', language, every and all aspects of day-to-day existence in our country - how our aggregate intellectual and physical standards (and we ALL whine about it no matter the side of the political fence) have steadily declined over the course of the last 35 years or so? How can there not be a correlation between the unraveling of what I'll call for the purposes of this topic, 'The American Dream' (you know, that idyllic place in our mass memories that looks stunningly similar to television in the 50's and 60's) and the entry into the workplaces and legislatures of the largest population spike in American history? This generation that loves to bombard us with the message that it changed the world through its collective identity based on revolution, defiance, imagination, (not innovation) the destruction and dismantling of institutions and traditions, that there are no 'rules', (and if there are they need to be changed to suit the wants and desires of the minority and the majority be damned) that has built it's philosophy on clever song lyrics and fictional characters from television and film than the historic record, that has placed a higher value on 'protest' than practice, revision over review, hubris over humility, rationalization over reason.
The generation that couldn't or wouldn't be bothered with the by-products of free love and living for the moment (what the marketing geniuses among you dubbed 'Generation X' because the brain trust around the board table couldn't scrape together enough letters to form a word) and is now in a staring contest with mortality and insisting that the children that they neglected or abandoned physically or emotionally is asking, no – demanding, that we foot the bill for their aberrant, short sighted, self-centered ways and means. It strikes me as somewhat of a cry to shelter them in a building that they worked so hard to destroy, have deemed the tools to do so too dangerous to work with and are insisting that if we would just do it their way (which got us into this mess to begin with) everything will be just fine. And while you're at it, refill my half empty glass before you get to work – we're terrified, waiting, and need to take the edge off.

Hello

What started out as a few casual remarks in a comment box and an offer for a ‘guest piece’ from Kermit...well, it’s come to this. My name is Holster, and I’m the newest contributor here at The Anti-Strib. Thank-You Kermit, and Thank-You Il Duce’ for the opportunity and keys to the kingdom…I’m flattered, really, a round of adult beverages on me at some point in the future. Allow me, readers, to first introduce myself and establish thematic expectations.
My fields of expertise (and vocations) are in the building trades and the visual arts. I don’t call myself an ‘artist’, (though others have granted me this title) I prefer the term ‘creative’ being that the label of ‘artist’ has become synonymous with lazy, undisciplined, unskilled, addled in practical abilities, etc. I’m just a blue-collar guy that happens to be able to make something out of nothing and get paid for it in two fields. I’ve resided in a number of cities and small towns across this great land of ours (they used to call that being an itinerant laborer) and have no patience for radicals of any stripe.
That said, my posts will be concentrating on the following –

1. The Arts
2. The Devises of Distraction and Division
3. Intellectual Bigotry
4. Yellow Journalism
5. Those Damned Dirty Hippies

Dig? Thanks again Anti-Strib staff. Looking forward to the experience. Time to drop the kids off at the pool and keep the wife on her toes. Cheers.

Bloggers that Blog about YOU....part III.-HCF, is it really attracting web hits?

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Stolen from:
http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/friday_night_babe7/
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"okay little boys, I just have to say, this is childish and GROSS misuse of the American Flag. However well intentioned. There is another blog I avoid on Friday’s because its to gross when they do Hot Chick Friday http://www.anti-strib.blogspot.com/ although going there for your benefit today I noticed their HCF is Kelly Ripa and she has clothes on, usually they don’t and frankly its too gross.

FYI- yes I am female and don’t really find your childish posts like this funny, instead I take them with the sigh of having to put up with the typical 12 year old male mind. Go keep them on your own blog which I don’t read. Otherwise SAYanything will just become another one to avoid Fridays. And no, I don’t want quid pro quo and photos of Brad Pitt or Mel Gibson."

patriot on July 11, 2008 at 03:47 pm
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I find the picture above quite tasteful-No privies showing, good composition, bright colors.
I don't recall Anti-strib having nude photos? You guys make use of black tape in certain places right?
In fact... I'm contemplating lifting the composition and idea for an Art Nouveau Style like illustration.

Some women need to lighten up;if she was my daughter I would have framed it already. And yes I'm female also.

A family affair

Powerline alerts us to some of the other activities that the “Evans family” has been up to.
El Duce sarcasticlay noted that the family must be so proud when he saw that many of the ValleyFair animals were from the same family. It turns out that the family may indeed be proud of the criminal activities of these thugs. After all, crime is the family business.
Here's a news story from 2000.

ST. LOUIS -
Six men have been convicted of operating a juvenile
prostitution ring that prosecutors said stretched across nearly half the country and a Canadian province.
The members of the so-called Evans family were found guilty Tuesday of all 45 counts listed on a grand jury indictment. Police said the verdict ended the largest federal prosecution of a juvenile prostitution ring in U.S. history.
(…)
Authorities said that organizers for 17 years had recruited girls
mostly between 14 and 18 years old, mostly from Minnesota and Wisconsin, and employed them under fake names in escort services and massage parlors nationwide.
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The jury ordered them to forfeit property, including $1 million in cash, four homes in the Minneapolis area and five luxury automobiles.
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Twelve of the indicted are members of the Evans family, all from the Minneapolis area. Six Evans family members and three family
acquaintances pleaded guilty to federal charges earlier this year. Assistant U.S. Attorney Howard Marcus called Tuesday's verdict a victory for the women who worked as prostitutes. He compared life with the Evans family to slavery.
The women and girls, some as young as 13, testified they were beaten if they violated a strict set of rules and had guns held to their head. In one case, a witness testified that a member of the family forced her into an automobile trunk and said he was taking her to a place where he planned to kill her.

Any other high profile crimes commited by Minnesota Evanses?
Well, there’s Harry Evans who shot and Killed Officer Vick in St. Paul. Same Family? What are the chances?
Here’s Harry’s brother Davion insisting his brother is innocent.
That Davion Evans sure looks a lot like Some other criminal Evans boys. Below we have Cop killer Harry Evans left and Derry Evans of the ValleyFair7 on the right. Harry and Derry... What are the chances?








If anyone can confirm or refute that the cop killer Harry Evans is part of the now infamous Evans crime family, I’d appreciate a heads up.

Poor name choice haunts loser

A St. Paul man convicted of raping a woman in an apartment hallway last summer -- while onlookers peered out doors but didn't stop him -- was sentenced today to 12 years in prison.

Rage Ibrahim, 26, has lived a tragic life, said Ramsey County District Judge Michael Fetsch, having reportedly witnessed the murders of his father and two brothers while growing up in Somalia. But, he said, "the present facts are another tragedy."

If you name your kid Rage, you might condeming him

Ibrahim, sobbing, told the judge: "One wrong choice to consume alcohol has cost me." He added that he was haunted by what had happened in the hallway, and that he hoped one day to ask the victim in person to forgive him.

Here is yet another problem with Islam. Islam teaches men that they are powerless to control themselves in many areas. They don't drink any alcohol as they don't think they will be able to have just one or the effect of even one will drop all of their defenses. These leaves any Muslim under the influence with a free pass to do what ever he wants as Islam has siad that he is powerless over alcohol.

They are also powerless over partially clad women, Jews, Americans, dogs, etc. Sound like a bunch of pussies if you ask me!

Note to Rage, I have had alcohol many, many, many time and I have never raped anyone. You are to blame, not the alcohol, loser.

The victim was not in the courtroom, and did not offer a written statement. Gerber said the woman was being shunned by the Somali community.

Nice freaking "community" they have there. Blame the victim for a actions of a rapist. Any more questions as to why I give Somali's such a hard time?

Open Thread, Insult Or Otherwise

Anything to get JimW's masturbatory fantasy pics down the page.
Summbitch has a tough week and takes it out on us. Typical!

A two for one! Van Damme Friday and The Hoff!!!

Fine, I caved to peer pressure. I've had a shitty week and needed something to laugh about.

You need to click here, then click here, and finally click here to enjoy Jean Claude Van Damme dancing. Seriously, this guy is a massive douche. Not to the level of EL Douche, but close.

And then, there is The Hoff. In German, I'm pretty sure Hasselhoff stands for "He who loves his own chest".


















And apparently he loves puppies. [shudder]

But these have me a bit perplexed.

peek-a-boo!

Early Bird HCF: Carol Alt

Carol Ann Alt (born December 1, 1960) is an American model and actress.

Alt's first big break in modeling in 1980, when she was featured on the cover of Harper's Bazaar magazine, but she gained real fame in 1982 when she was featured on the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. During the 1980's she appeared on over 500 magazine covers, becoming one the most famous models of her era. Alt was referred to as "The Face" by Life Magazine. During the height of her popularity, she was the face of ad campaigns for Diet Pepsi, General Motors, Cover Girl Cosmetics, Noxema, Hanes and numerous others. She was the first model to produce her own posters and calendars. As the eighties were winding down, Alt very publicly abandoned the fashion industry in favor of acting, which she said was her passion.

Since 1986 she has been in a variety of movies. Most were Italian, but one of her recent starring roles was in the Canadian movie Snakehead Terror. She played "Karen Oldham" in the TV adaptation of Peter Benchley's "Amazon" (1999). Her TV guest appearances include a 1996 episode of Wings were she plays a stripper and a voice role in the "Peggy's Pageant Fever" episode of King of the Hill, first broadcast November 10, 1998.

She has returned to her roots and taken on a number of model/spokesperson projects of late, including becoming a consultant with the "Le Mirador" skin-care line and appearing on late night TV infomercials. Alt has written two best-selling books, promoting her own raw food diet plans. She has been the cover girl for travelgirl Magazine both in 2004 and 2008. She placed #5 on askmen.com's list of "Top 10 Models Of All Time", behind only Kathy Ireland, Christie Brinkley, Gisele Bündchen and Cindy Crawford.

Alt was a contestant on NBC's 2008 The Celebrity Apprentice, with Donald Trump, competing for her charity, the Tony Alt Memorial Foundation, which raises funds for scholarships that will allow young adults to continue their studies. She ended up in third place before being fired, but was brought back for the final task of the show and was chosen by finalist Piers Morgan to help him to become the Celebrity Apprentice.

50,000 Physicists agree with us, Jeff is wrong!

The American Physical Society, an organization representing nearly 50,000 physicists, has reversed its stance on climate change and is now proclaiming that many of its members disbelieve in human-induced global warming. The APS is also sponsoring public debate on the validity of global warming science. The leadership of the society had previously called the evidence for global warming "incontrovertible."

What? I wonder if these 50,000 Physicists are real scientists? I bet the MMGW cultists will dismiss them all as quacks.

In a posting to the APS forum, editor Jeffrey Marque explains,"There is a considerable presence within the scientific community of people who do not agree with the IPCC conclusion that anthropogenic CO2 emissions are very probably likely to be primarily responsible for global warming that has occurred since the Industrial Revolution."

"very probably likely"?? Those are weasel words for we fucked up! What happened to incontrovertible?

The APS is opening its debate with the publication of a paper by Lord Monckton of Brenchley, which concludes that climate sensitivity -- the rate of temperature change a given amount of greenhouse gas will cause -- has been grossly overstated by IPCC modeling. A low sensitivity implies additional atmospheric CO2 will have little effect on global climate.

The IPCC is a UN organization. They lie! If the UN ever told the truth, that would be news. There never has been proof that CO2 increases cause global warming. There is a ton of evidence that CO2 increases when the globe gets warmer, as it has done many time throughout the last 4 billion years.

So what we have is reality smacking the MMGW cultists in the face and a few honest scientists aren't willing to lie any longer just to save face for some political hacks.

The world should thank everyone that fought this lie from day one. MMGW is the biggest scam every perpetrated on humanity and it was done by the most evil, low disgusting, pieces of shit that walk the Earth; Environmentalists.

if you take one thing away from this, never, ever, ever listen to an "environmentalist" again. They are merely communists and socialists that are trying to get you to agree to sacrifice your freedoms. If you listen to any of them, YOU ARE A FOOL!

Need a new laptop, again

Some black criminal from North Minneapolis stole my briefcase this week, so I need a new laptop again.

I know that the criminal was a black male from north as they were caught on tape at the parking garage and they charged 7 tanks of gas in North Minneapolis, Brooklyn Center and Brooklyn Park an 3 stolen credit cards.

I'd type more, but I need to get past wishing that we could just wipe out these three areas. No one can disagree that eliminating them would be a very good thing for our state. I'm sure some good people live there, but it is the breeding place for a culture of crime.

Another Climate Scientist Embraces MMGW Apostasy

Posted without comment, the link is in the title and the article is well worth the read.

I DEVOTED six years to carbon accounting, building models for the Australian Greenhouse Office. I am the rocket scientist who wrote the carbon accounting model (FullCAM) that measures Australia's compliance with the Kyoto Protocol, in the land use change and forestry sector.

FullCAM models carbon flows in plants, mulch, debris, soils and agricultural products, using inputs such as climate data, plant physiology and satellite data. I've been following the global warming debate closely for years.

When I started that job in 1999 the evidence that carbon emissions caused global warming seemed pretty good: CO2 is a greenhouse gas, the old ice core data, no other suspects.

The evidence was not conclusive, but why wait until we were certain when it appeared we needed to act quickly? Soon government and the scientific community were working together and lots of science research jobs were created. We scientists had political support, the ear of government, big budgets, and we felt fairly important and useful (well, I did anyway). It was great. We were working to save the planet.

But since 1999 new evidence has seriously weakened the case that carbon emissions are the main cause of global warming, and by 2007 the evidence was pretty conclusive that carbon played only a minor role and was not the main cause of the recent global warming. As Lord Keynes famously said, "When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?"

There has not been a public debate about the causes of global warming and most of the public and our decision makers are not aware of the most basic salient facts:

1. The greenhouse signature is missing. We have been looking and measuring for years, and cannot find it.
(read more in the link)

2. There is no evidence to support the idea that carbon emissions cause significant global warming. None.
(read more in the link)

3. The satellites that measure the world's temperature all say that the warming trend ended in 2001, and that the temperature has dropped about 0.6C in the past year (to the temperature of 1980).
(read more in the link)

The world has spent $50 billion on global warming since 1990, and we have not found any actual evidence that carbon emissions cause global warming.

There is much more in the link, but it's too long to post.

Dr David Evans was a consultant to the Australian Greenhouse Office from 1999 to 2005.

Where is the Hate Crime legislation when you need it?

What should have been a fun day at the park has left a Twin Cities man and his family recovering from a horrible ordeal. During the July 4th weekend, the 41-year-old was severely beaten at Valleyfair amusement park in Shakopee.

Also in recovery mode is our larger community, shaken to its soul by this assault on its sense of safety and security. If such random, senseless violence can happen at a family park, where can any of us feel safe?

Six young men and one juvenile are accused of taking turns kicking the victim in the head until he was unconscious. The group jumped him after he yelled at them for groping his 12-year-old daughter. Witnesses said some of the attackers punched others randomly as they left the park.

The seven now charged with the vicious assault include one 14-year-old boy and men ranging in age from 18 to 22. All of the accused are African-American.

Seven black men attack a white man and other white patrons, I'd say that we should use our hate crime legislation against these racist criminals.

Double "thinking" Democrats

In the novel 1984, George Orwell used the word “doublethink” to describe the process of believing two contradictory ideas simultaneously. The concept invites an appropriate but superficial comparison to congressional Democrats’ current approach to gasoline prices.

Idea Number One: High gasoline prices are good. A high price, imposed through federal carbon taxes or carbon caps, is precisely the mechanism by which Democrats hope to curb carbon emissions. We know that this mechanism works because it is already working: As gas prices rise, American consumption is down right now, year over year (a historical rarity). CO2 emissions from gasoline are down from 2007 by a modest 84,000 tons, or roughly 2 percent.

Idea Number Two: High gasoline prices are bad. With constituents irate over gasoline prices that are pushing $5 a gallon, Democrats complain that high prices are a bad thing. They have dreamed up a number of boogie men responsible for high prices and drafted silver-bullet bills to kill them off.

This is more a case of cynicism than irrationality, however. Democrats only pretend to believe in Idea Number Two. Their presidential nominee, Barack Obama, lamented in mid-June that high gasoline prices have hurt Americans, but he later gave a much more accurate representation of the party line: “I think that I would have preferred a more gradual adjustment,” he said in an MSNBC interview. It should be noted that the Kyoto treaty calls for emissions reductions some 15 or 20 times as great as those induced by higher gas prices. Its goals would presumably require much higher gasoline prices — perhaps $7 or $8 a gallon, or even more — over a very long period of time.

Recent polls show that between 57 and 67 percent of Americans want to drill for oil on the OCS. The U.S. Minerals Management Service (MMS) has estimated that there are 85.9 billion barrels of oil (11 years’ worth of U.S. consumption) and 420 trillion cubic feet of natural gas (an 18-year supply) sitting out there. And there could be much more, since many areas off the coasts remain unexplored.

Democrats are screwed on this one as voters know that they are responsible for drilling bans. The Republicans would easily win in November if they told the American public that the Environmental lobby is responsible for high gas prices, high food prices and slow economic growth.

Al Gore, The Sierra Club and the other Enviro-Nazis are way overdue for some scrutiny.

This makes me happy

A company that owns 11 McDonald's restaurants in Nevada was fined one million dollars Wednesday after pleading guilty to employing 58 illegal immigrants.

The company, Mack Associates Inc., knew the employees were illegal immigrants and had offered them names and social security numbers belonging to other people, the US Justice Department said.

The company pleaded guilty in federal court in Las Vegas to conspiracy to encourage and induce an alien's unlawful residence in the United States and aiding and abetting an alien to remain in the country, the department said.

The company's director of operations also pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting an alien to remain in the country.

And the former vice president of Mack Associates pleaded guilty to inducing an illegal alien to remain in the United States and faces a possible sentence of up to five years in prison and a 250,000 dollar five.

If we can send a few CEO's to jail for hiring illegals, we'd see a huge response from the business community. If we destroy the demand for illegal labor, we'd not only start solving our illegal immigration problem, we'd also see higher wages for US citizens.

When I'm 94

When I'm 94 I hope I have to hire a lawyer to defend me from from soliciting a hooker charges.

I hope I have the money to solicit a hooker and the wood for one to work on.

In fact, I would like to die being shot in the back at 94 yrs old by an irate husband as I'm climbing out his bedroom window. Nekkid! Woohoo!

Komrade Nick Hits One…But It’s Foul

To say that I hate Nick Coleman would be an understatement. It isn’t so much that I want him to die, I would just like him to go away and never been seen or heard from again. But, every now and then, like a blind squirrel finds a nut, Nick does a piece that has parts that are worth posting…like this one:

With 'facility' next door - so much for new ballpark smell

Justin Morneau scores from third on a sacrifice fly to win the 2014 Major League Baseball All-Star Game at the SimonDelivers Park in downtown Minneapolis, the beautiful new home of the Minnesota Twins, as fans jump to their feet and shout:

"What is that awful smell?!"

OK, SimonDelivers is going belly up. But the rest could happen: The Twins are good bets to host the All-Star Game in 2014 or 2016 to showcase the new park, scheduled to open in 2010. And Minnesota's Morneau did score in the 15th inning Tuesday night to win this year's midsummer classic at Yankee Stadium. And -- this is the problem -- the new ballpark is only a soggy pizza box's throw away from the county's Energy From Waste Facility.

Don't say "garbage burner."

"It's not a garbage burner," says Glenn Schmidt, chief engineer at the plant, which burns 1,000 tons of, um, "waste" daily. "It's Energy From Waste."

So…we have a sales tax stuck to the citizens of Hennepin County that was never allowed to be voted on, to build a ball park for a billionaire. We took the land under imminent domain from people who didn’t want to sell it, and who didn’t get the price that they were looking for…and now…ONLY NOW…are we worried about the garbage burning that goes on behind the 3^rd base bleachers?

Government at it’s finest…and people want to get their healthcare from these clowns?

Thursday night trivia at Keegans

Trivia at 6:30, and 8:00.
Time to drink beer, smoke cigars, play trivia, and hold a memorial service for Scooterboy.
So who's in?

Ich Bin Loser

It takes 5 Al's to be this wrong!

NEW YORK - Oil prices have settled sharply lower for the second straight day, capping a dizzying drop that has left crude more than $10 cheaper in just two days of frenzied trading.

Light, sweet crude for August delivery fell $4.14 to settle at $134.60 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, after earlier sinking as low as $132.

The drop follows a $6.44 sell-off Tuesday, meaning prices have plummeted over $10 since Monday.

The two-day slide marks a dramatic turnaround in crude prices, which as recently as Friday traded at record highs above $147 a barrel. Analysts are unsure whether the drop represents a long-term shift in sentiment or simply a correction to crude's bull rally.

Be prepared to see a futher drop when Congress approves drilling. The speculators know that when America is unleashed from our insane regulatory burdens, oil will flow.

Scooter Boy Rides No More

I just have to Channel Il Duce' on this one:

One man died after a semi truck collided with a scooter Tuesday afternoon. The victim has been identified as 21-year-old Tommy Earl White of St. Louis Park.

Just after noon a semi truck was traveling west on University Avenue in Minneapolis. The truck was trying to make a right-hand turn onto Malcolm when the side of the semi collided with a scooter that White was driving.

According to the Hennepin County Medical Examiner, White died as a result of "multiple blunt force injuries" suffered in the accident.

Minneapolis Police is still investigating this accident.

What kind of f'ing idiot tries to outrun ANYTHING on a scooter? Let alone a tractor with a 40 foot trailer. Maybe the signs reading "This truck makes wide turns" wasn't obvious enough. Maybe Scooter Boy was adjusting his IPod. Maybe there was a hot chick in an Obama 08 t-shirt walking down the sidewalk.

Here's a lesson for all those who wish to ride bicycles or a two-wheeler with lawn mower engines on the street. Your virtuous decision does not absolve you from the responsibility of watching where you are friggin going.

Semis 1, scooters 0

New Yorker Al Franken is Just Like You!

By now you may have seen Fast Al Franken's latest campaign ad. It's the one where he tells us (has anyone else noticed how Al talks out of the side of his mouth? Man, that is irony.) that "In Washington they are debating whether a politician should wait one year or two after office before becoming a lobbyist. I say never!" Al then presents the all-purpose bogeyman of Big Oil and other "special interests" (conveniently omitting Big Education). The next shot has New York's Al Franken standing by a gas pump saying "No wonder gas is four dollars a gallon".

There are two major points here. The first being that Al must not be aware that the price of gas is based on the price of a barrel of oil, and that 90% of oil is owned by national oil companies, not Exxon Mobile. That doesn't surprise me. Al has spent the last 20 years riding around New York in taxis and limos. It's the second point that is most insidious.

Being a good liberal, Al's first instinct is to restrict. To regulate. To prohibit. So it's perfectly natural for Al to think that he should be able to use the power of government to dictate who can work where and when they can do it. It's not just that, Al wants to dictate to private industry whom they can and cannot hire.

American corporations have a right to lobby Congress. It's actually crucial, as many of those lawmakers are largely clueless on much of what makes this country run. In a global economy, international interests need to communicate with lawmakers as well. There are voluminous laws already on the books regulating these interactions.

But Al takes a cynical position hoping to play on electorates lack of knowledge. Mr. Franken could benefit from a course of study on the subject.

I doubt Al got too worked up over Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle's (D - SD) wife being a lobbyist for the airline industry. We didn't hear a word out of the New York carpet bagger then. Now that he's in a race against Norm Coleman, suddenly it's an issue. Al has to have a brickbat for Norm, and corporate contributions appear to be it. Al needs to convince the average Minnesotan the he's Just Like Them. In other words, Al has to be as phony as the Democrat candidate for President. Good luck with that, Al.

1 year away from pumping new oil!

This article is great for 2 reasons.

1. There is new info in here that shows that we could increase our supply of oil in less than a year.

2. It confirms what I said yesterday!

Bush Says Drill, Drill, Drill — and Oil Drops $9! [Larry Kudlow]

In a dramatic move yesterday President Bush removed the executive-branch moratorium on offshore drilling. Today, at a news conference, Bush repeated his new position, and slammed the Democratic Congress for not removing the congressional moratorium on the Outer Continental Shelf and elsewhere. Crude-oil futures for August delivery plunged $9.26, or 6.3 percent, almost immediately as Bush was speaking, bringing the barrel price down to $136.

Now isn’t this interesting?

Democrats keep saying that it will take 10 years or longer to produce oil from the offshore areas. And they say that oil prices won’t decline for at least that long. And they, along with Obama and McCain, bash so-called oil speculators. And today we had a real-world example as to why they are wrong. All of them. Reid, Pelosi, Obama, McCain — all of them.

Traders took a look at a feisty and aggressive George Bush and started selling the market well before a single new drop of oil has been lifted. What does this tell us? Well, if Congress moves to seal the deal, oil prices will probably keep on falling. That’s the way traders work. They discount the future. Psychology and expectations can turn on a dime.

I swear I read that somewhere yesterday... Oh yeah, I wrote that!

The congressional ban on offshore drilling expires September 30, so that becomes a key date. A new report from Wall Street research house Sanford C. Bernstein says that California actually could start producing new oil within one year if the moratorium were lifted. The California oil is under shallow water and already has been explored. Drilling platforms have been in place since before the moratorium. They’re talking about 10 billion barrels worth off the coast of California.

So, who are you going to trust, guys on Wall Street that put real money behind thier predictions, or some liberal enviro-asshole that hates capitalism, your way od life and America?

Drill here, Drill Now, Pay Less!

It's never enough

The headline reads as follows: Despite gas tax hike, money slows MNDot. Gee, who'd of thought? Those of us with a little common sense understand that you can't tax the drivers out of the drivers seat, and that is exactly what is happening. Next legislative session, this will be the perfect DFL excuse to raise taxes even more.

Even though lawmakers pushed through a state gas tax hike this year, transportation officials say there isn't enough money for some expansion projects in central Minnesota.

Lawmakers overrode Gov. Tim Pawlenty's veto and passed a state transportation bill this year.

But that money will go mostly toward repair and preservation of existing state roads and bridges and for transit -- leaving few dollars for anything new to improve safety or reduce congestion.

Repair and preservation of existing roads? A small amount. The rest of it goes to public transportation, from buses to the boondoggle trains that we can't afford. We don't have a revenue problem, we have a spending problem. This state wants to provide all things to all people, and we can't afford it.

So, 6.6 billion dollars wasn't enough. God Damn! How much is enough then?

Call For Support

Ok, this is a half formed idea.
We've heard of the assault on a father defending his family. His 12 yr old daughter from the blatant disrespect and manhandling by a group of thugs.

From the sparse details of the condition of the father, it sounds as though there may be an extensive recovery period involved for this Man.
Time that he will be out of work, and unable to provide for his family.
The paper is protecting his name out of fear of retaliation from the thugs who are currently out on bail.
For those of you in the know, and or with the know how, is there any chance we could contact the family via Abby Simons • 612-673-4921 of the StarTribune so we could either set up a fund, and or send donations individually to a family that has had to deal with this nightmare?

Animals in our midst

The father of a 12-year-old girl who tried to keep a young man from groping his daughter at a popular Shakopee amusement park was seriously hurt late on July 4 after he was allegedly kicked and stomped by a group of men in an attack police called "brutal."

The attack on the unnamed man, which happened just outside Valleyfair Amusement Park, resulted in charges against at least six Twin Cities-area men. They were among several people the initial attacker called on his cell phone to summon them to join the assault.
The group beat up the father as his wife and daughter looked on, police said. The man was seriously injured and unconscious when police arrived.

"We see assaults, but that's brutal," Shakopee police Sgt. Jay Arras said.

The six charged with third-degree felony assault in Scott County District Court were Devondre Evans-Lewis, Andrew Shannon, Darris Evans, Terry Arnold, Derry Evans and Anthony Gildersleeve, according to media reports.

I'd like to see pictures of the assailants, I'm guessing that they are complete scumbags bred and fed by our corrosive welfare system. The Evans side of the breeding must be so proud, as they have 3 brutal POS offspring.

Cowards with Printing Presses

The Red Star hates bloggers. They can't stand that mere citizens can question the work of "professionals". So today they take a swipe at us by way of the very respected and very liberal New Yorker

Cowards with keyboards have advanced relentless, scurrilous Internet allegations that have dogged and distorted not only the Obama campaign but the backgrounds and intentions of Sens. John McCain, Hillary Clinton and others. But the allegations against the Obamas -- that he is really Muslim instead of Christian, has associated with radicals and that he and his wife are unpatriotic -- have been especially virulent, often reflecting racism and anti-Islamic bias.

As a "Coward with a keyboard" I have a few questions for the Red Star and anyone else that chooses to answer.

Was Obama's mother ever married to his father?
How involved was he in his son's life?
How old was Obama's mother when he was born?
Was Obama born a Muslim?
If so, when did he convert to Christianity and why?
Did Obama attend a Muslim school in Indonesia?
Why was Obama later raised by his grandmother in Hawaii?
Why do people call Obama black when he had a white mother?

There is way too much that we don't know about Barack Hussein Obama for anyone to seriously consider voting for him.

The rumors persist as the Obama Campaign has not be honest about the background of their candidate.

Biased reporting from Adam Schreck at the Strib

Oil prices tumbled Tuesday as U.S. stocks sold off amid worries about the nation's economic health.

Prices dropped more than $10 a barrel from their highest point of the day. At midday, light, sweet crude fell $6.27 to $138.91 in an extremely volatile session.

You can read the whole article where they search for a reason for the drop. The reporter, Adam Schreck, never once mentions that President George W. Bush signaled an end to our ban on off shire drilling yesterday. It may not be the only reason for the drop, but it certainly deserve mentioning in the story.

I doubt that the liberal reporter intentionally left out any data. His liberal bias is so strong that he never thought to include data that he personally has already disqualified especially from a President he despises.

Adam, go work for Acorn or at least find a conservative to edit your biased work.