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Yo Blue Texan. Thanks for the post.

Bye-bye Florida, and bye-bye any longshot at California, c*ntcaller.

Oil derricks off Miami Beach and the Santa Monica Pier are such an attractive prospect, and they will lower the cost of gas immediately!

Then there’s this gem:

Florida Governor Charlie Crist, who has endorsed McCain, sidestepped the issue last week when asked whether he would support oil drilling off Florida’s coast.

“Number one, I don’t like it,” he said, “But nor do I like the price of gas and I don’t think the people of Florida are enjoying it either.”

Sounds like Charlie Crist is, um, in the closet over coastal oil drilling.

Obama’s messages go viral on the toobz. McCain’s go fungal:

“say mold, say mold”

Nice post, BT — but it’s “Cindy’s ranch.”

Now thats a moldy but ghouldy.

Here is a technological breakthrough that uses single cell bacteria to create oil by digesting waste products;

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/t.....133668.ece

H/T to C&L for the link.

It’s not ready for mass production but it has been proven to work.

I guess McCain really wants to lose Florida, huh?

I would be surprised if he caved on that (Crist) the backlash would be deafening

Nah– he’ll be sittin’ on the porch with Bush and Lott watching brown people clearing the brush…

create oil by digesting waste products;

Waste products like McBatshit’s policies?

EPU’d from downstairs. NYT has an article up comparing bush and McCain. They also did a graphic summary of policy positions (bush vs McCain)

Exactly.

Bush has an energy policy?
LOL!

McSame really is Bush Lite.

One of my best signs yet:

http://freewayblogger.blogspot.....rming.html

may still even be up…

excellent - right in my back yard.

Bravo!

(((applause)))

(btw, listening to the Armed Services Cmte is making me ill– in our name, indeed.)

very nice

Good Afternoon Blue Texan and Firedogs,

flip-floppery -

here comes the obligatory “inexperienced, younger staff members” who failed to remind him of his 2000 stance -lol

ooh - a bonus dogwhistle on states rights in today’s,um, speech

Rear Admiral Dalton cannot recall, is not aware, etc.

Lurita Doanagain.

Abu Gonzalez syndrome.

Rear Admiral Dalton cannot recall, is not aware, etc.

they reak, all

Are McShitForBrain’s appearances livestreamed?

Rethugs just can’t figure out all the toobz and wirez making up the intertoobz.

Watching a clip of McSFB against a clip of Obama is like day and night. Energized, pumped, speaking without notes versus deadpan eulogizing.

Obama = life
McSFB = death

He just doesn’t care how transparent his pandering is, does he?

Bush is really done with the Brush Ranch. He doesn’t need to pretend to be Reagan anymore. McCain does, however, and not just by being old. McCain should buy the Brush Ranch…actually Mrs. McCain will be doing the purchasing, but who notices that St. McCain is a kept-man anyway?

yesterday, he went all Lois Griffin proclaiming Obama “has 9/10 mindset”

deadpan eulogizing

“that’s…… not…….change……we…can ..believe..in…..” (deploy sh*t-eating rictus grin)

oh and then that Marxist sheik brought out Richard Clarke for rebuttal - lmao

oh for corn’s sake. Here we go…terrah,terrah

Is it time for Bush’s crony Osama bin Laden to make his appearance yet?

maybe a bit too early for that but at least we should be hearing about more tapes soon and then a few terrah alerts

do you have a link? I wouldlove to read/hear it

Maybe we can tell Florida and California voters that we can build cars that get better MPG instead.
http://www.aptera.com/

Or they can watch the real estate values at their beach houses really drop in value the first time a super tanker crashes on their beach.
Sure Alaska might be first if Bush has anything to say about it but Florida and California will be next.
After all those rumors of China slant drilling off Cuba’s coast were spread for a reason, to justify drilling off of Florida before the Commies do!
On the other hand I’m sure immigrants will love all the cheap homes that will come on the market after the first oil spill. I hope nobody bought a home as an investment.

Clarke Rebuttal

Don’t worry, tomorrow Mr. Green Jeans McCain will show up and tell us he was just joking…heh heh.

more here:

http://www.politico.com/blogs/.....idate.html

speaking of manly men -

hey Blue Texan - am guessing you have seen
Big Bad John already. man oh man - how much did the Noriega campaign pay for this ?!?!?

thanks cbl2 and angie

Toyota licensed their hybrid tech to Ford why don’t we get GM to license it too? Then we make every car sold in America a full hybrid, or a diesel truck (diesel’s have much more pulling power).
Do you know the parts saving that we can get from standardization limiting choice? That savings could help the auto makers change over their factories to hybrid factories well that and government subsidies.
We do not need any foreign gas guzzlers to be sold in this country!

Here’s more from the wapoo

http://blog.washingtonpost.com.....id=topnews

We do need to be prepared to deal with this, though; it’s one of their more effective angles. I was working the Democratic booth at our county fair, and even some people who were generally sympathetic to our side and agreed that we need alternative energy in the long run found the argument that coastal drilling could get us off foreign oil persuasive.

People who are getting screwed by gas prices don’t necessarily accept the view that this is pandering to the oil companies; we need a better response for why it’s so wrong. (Or at least I need one; I was kind of floundering.)

He looks more and more like Bush all the time.

yeah, so? Congressional Democrats are giving Bush just what he asked for, again:

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats in the Congress, who came to power last year on a call to end the combat in Iraq, will soon give President George W. Bush the last war-funding bill of his presidency without any of the conditions they sought for withdrawing U.S. troops, congressional aides said on Monday.
Lawmakers are arranging to send Bush $165 billion in new money for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, enough to last for about a year and well beyond when Bush leaves office on January 20.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/200.....funding_dc

perhaps someone at FDL is working up a post about this latest capitulation.

$165 Billion could help out a bit here in America, don’t you think?

but maybe some talkin points have come out from (D) headquarters, suggesting that the leading Progressive blogs play this down a bit, try to slip it past, don’t create cognitive dissonance, just keep the focus on cranky old McCain.

I was reading this comic the other day and thought of you while reading the craphound chapter.

Nothing personal, just struck me as funny :)

He used to talk like that, without commas or question marks. Just one big sentence.

Is anyone keeping a running tally on all of McCain’s jokes, Senior Moments, Confusion?
I mean we have been at war for several years but the GOP Presidential Candidate can’t tell the difference between Shia and Sunni?
I’m guessing that McCain has never read any of the classified intel, or a Newspaper!
…but maybe he watches Fox News?

There is not enough oil off the coast to get us off of foreign oil.

from your link, the GOP blooger Ben Smith:

McCain’s staff is currently pressing the point on a conference call with reporters, and Goldfarb writes:

Obama wants to take us back to the bad old days of going after terrorists with prosecutors rather than predators.

“predators”? WTH?

And he even has the gall to blame the Bush administration’s methods as having been a boon to terrorist recruitment.

Methods like torture, lawless kidnapping?

With all the international credibility the Clinton administration earned,and the international terrorists they incapacitated,

I’m surprised he didn’t also reach back to Carter as well. I’m not a Clinton fan either, so just because Clinton started it, doesn’t mean putting the program on steroids was a good move.

one wonders how bin Laden even recruited 19 men to attack this country on September 11.

From our friends the Saudis, they’ve always been good to us.

So 9/11 terra terra, Constitution is crap, Clinton started it, whitewash Bush’s “methods”. Did I miss anything?

The Constitution and Geneva conventions are what we can hold up as evidence of our civilization. God, I hate these testosterone driven idiots.

The new racist, anti-Obama fashion statement:

At the Texas Republican Convention this past weekend, the Dallas Morning News’ Trail Blazers blog reports, one vendor was selling the pin that appears with this post. (If you can’t see the photo, the pin reads, “If Obama is President… will we still call it The White House?”)

classy.

But yes we do need to present better answers and have links ready cause we know that our MSM talking heads do like to fold when ever the GOP talks about business reality:(

He start out watching Fox, but probably quickly dozes off and drools on himself before he waks up startled and swearing.

You can go to cafepress.com and find classy and disgusting. They carry it all.

I like Middle Aged White Guy for Obama. :}

For most of the MSM, it’s better to fold than to risk being put on the do-not-hire list at Fox.

Off of california, there is enough oil to supply the counrty a little over a year and 15 years just for the state of california alone.

someone needs to clue them in that oil –> dinosaurs/ fossils and last I checked dinosaurs/fossils –> ain’t no more being made

While I’m ranting, I’d like to again point out that BUSH DID NOT KEEP US SAFE! His incompetence/evil plan allowed 9/11 to happen in order to claim extra super duper powers.

200 years of Constitutional Rule. Why do goopers want to throw that away. It’s what makes us great! Any old country can gin up an army to shoot people at will.

It’s the Constitution, baby. Read it, live it, love it.

And yeah, I’d like it to come back 1.20.09

I personally liked the anit immigrant pin:

Push 1 for English
Push 2 for Deportation.

well said.

Raise the average MPG for cars to 40 MPG and I’m pretty sure we will save more gas than drilling off shore will get us.
Sorry I don’t know offhand the total number of cars in America their MPG and how much oil is claimed to be off shore.
The GOP has a tendency to lie about how big oil deposits are, tax savings, cost of wars.
I hesitate to use their numbers.

Do you have numbers for Alaska and Florida preferably not any numbers McCain quotes in his speeches, or AP numbers so we can link.

Daily Kos is reporting that the HJC is close to a compromise on Rove’s testimony. It’s a sell out by the Dems that would allow Rove to testify behind closed doors with no transcript and on oath. This is disgusting!!!

http://www.dailykos.com/story/.....825/537178

here is a some link regarding how much oil would be pulled from drilling off the Cali coast

with friends like that who needs enemies.

Clarke emphasized that Obama has unveiled a comprehensive anti-terror plan and has said that he would be willing to act on actionable intelligence to pursue Al Qaeda suspects in Pakistan.

That should be NO oath.

I’ll look for you

Obama wants to take us back to the bad old days of going after terrorists with prosecutors rather than predators.

Predators

Mean and stupid just like all conservative humor, I wonder if to be a Lefty you need a working humor center in the brain. Was humor and empathy the last things to evolve in man?

that would be the bad ol days when guys like Fitz convicted them all ?!?!?

Great figures the election is coming and the Democrats start folding again. Harry and Nancy Must go!

Thank You!

enough al f’in ready!!!

okay, you get to drill offshore - now what about that long dead horse y’all been floggin’ about how the poor extractionists can’t build anymore refineries because of the prohibitive costs of environmental regulations -

now which is it assholes ?!!??

Has anyone told McSame that it takes years to build refineries? Longer than he’d be in office?
Also, and I’m sure he’s clueless on this, a lot of oil in CA is high-sulfur (’sour’).
Here’s a reliable source (600Kb PDF, loads slowly). There are tables showing production, including one by county for the offshore stuff (mostly off Orange County; nothing much north of Monterey). The production has been declining slowly and steadily for years.

At this morning’s Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee Hearing on Transmission of Renewable Electricity, T. Boone Pickens disagreed with the USGS estimate of 86 billion bbls of oil off the east and west coasts of the country. He also said he doesn’t think we have anywhere near the estimate of 16 bbls in ANWR.

CSPAN has it up, scroll down to Recent Programs.

Pickens gives his opening statement at about 15 minutes, 54 seconds, Q&A starts around 45 minutes, 40 seconds.

The above statements from Pickens are at 1 hour, 19 minutes.

oops… 16 billion bbls in ANWR

ALASKA
per the USGS 10.4 billion barrels (estimated recoverable oil) lots of interesting info there.
Annual Energy Outlook 2006 with Projections to 2030 on development and production in ANWAR (it isn’t as much as the republicans tauted — and about overall oil production.
2007 report available as well.

Report released in May 2008 analyses of Crude oil Production in ANWAR (was requested by Senator Stevens)

FLORDIA
Overview of crude oil reserves and supply (scroll to Reserves & Supply)
2002 estimate of barrels of oil under the everglades (40 million)

CALIFORNIA -
overview of oil reserves and supply.
2006 article on offshore drilling
2008 article Mccain wants to drill offshore (calif est supply listed)
1969 Santa Barbara oil spill that led to tighter restirctions and guidelines for drilling offshore.

On the afternoon of January 29, 1969, an environmental nightmare began in Santa Barbara, California. A Union Oil Co. platform stationed six miles off the coast of Summerland suffered a blowout. Oil workers had drilled a well down 3500 feet below the ocean floor. Riggers began to retrieve the pipe in order to replace a drill bit when the “mud” used to maintain pressure became dangerously low. A natural gas blowout occurred. An initial attempt to cap the hole was successful but led to a tremendous buildup of pressure. The expanding mass created five breaks in an east-west fault on the ocean floor, releasing oil and gas from deep beneath the earth.

For eleven days, oil workers struggled to cap the rupture. During that time, 200,000 gallons of crude oil bubbled to the surface and was spread into a 800 square mile slick by winds and swells. Incoming tides brought the thick tar to beaches from Rincon Point to Goleta, marring 35 miles of coastline. Beaches with off-shore kelp forests were spared the worst as kelp fronds kept most of the tar from coming ashore. The slick also moved south, tarring Anacapa Island’s Frenchy’s Cove and beaches on Santa Cruz, Santa Rosa and San Miguel Islands

i’ll see what else I can find and post

a lil more

per TPM:
DCCC Chairman and Congressman Chris Van Hollen discusses and smacks down republican talking points drilling in ANWAR and gasoline prices w/ Wolf Blizter . Transcript of Blitzer/Van Hollen debate/smacldown here

One thing that generally isn’t brought up in connection to the 1969 oil spill:
The Channel floor leaks oil. Constantly. If you walk on the beach, you have to clean it off your feet (or your footwear).
What happened in 1969 was a blowout, and I heard back then, from a reasonably-reliable source, that they were running without the blowout-prevention hardware that was in general use in the Gulf of Mexico.

(What I remember also is the joke about getting the Royal Italian Air Force to fly over and drop several hundred tons of lettuce and a few dozen tons of tomatoes, turning the Channel into a giant Italian salad.)

thanks for the additional info. every bit counts