2 posts tagged “frontpagemagazine”

From HumanEventsOnline:

Despite his conditional, latter-day support for limited offshore drilling, Obama is the sole sponsor of legislation that would block geological research to locate offshore oil.

In 2005, Congress mandated new, quintennial inventories, then gave Interior six months and $0.00 to assess how much oil and natural gas undergird the 1.76 billion-acre Outer Continental Shelf -- a laughably impossible task.

Obama’s “Oil SENSE Act” would repeal the 2005 Energy Policy Act’s authorization of these inventories. S.115 would leave decision makers with Carter Administration maps drawn with pre-PC technology. This is like engineering a Space Shuttle mission with slide rules.

From FrontPageMagazine:

.....Seven Environmental Catastrophes Liberals Don’t Want You to Know About Because They Helped Cause Them, provides a framework for a detailed examination of the effects of sacred-cow environmental projects such as the ban on DDT and the promotion of ethanol. He also explores the cover-up of the polluting effect of contraceptives and abortion drugs, the failure of ill-advised forestry management policies and the bankruptcy of the endangered species act.

...environmentalists tout the benefits of bio-fuels, but in reality bio-fuel production pulls land out of food crop production, increases food prices, threatens wildlife and ultimately increases greenhouse gas emissions. Bio-fuels do not offer any of the purported benefits touted by environmentalists, he says, who, at bottom, have contempt for the internal combustion engine itself

.....ethanol provides only two-thirds the energy content of gasoline, is expensive to produce and releases more harmful emission amounts than gasoline. Its real costs are hidden by government support, including $5 billion in subsidies, a federal excise forgiveness tax of $.51 per gallon, and an ethanol tariff protection from imports of 2.5%, plus $.54 per gallon. The government requires gasoline producers to buy four billion gallons of ethanol yearly, purchasing support that will increase to 7.5 billion gallons by 2012. Further, ethanol emissions are actually double those of gasoline when its emissions are counted and combined with emissions arising from its transportation via truck rather than pipeline systems and its intensive production requirements – planting, growing, weeding, reaping, fermentation and distribution.
Further, diverting corn production from food production increases the acreage devoted to corn; squeezes out cultivation of soybeans, cotton and barley; and causes upward price pressures on other grains, dairy products, poultry and meat. Ethanol production incentives could also prompt farmers to clear forests which could eliminate animal habitats and lessen air quality with fewer trees to absorb carbon dioxide.

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By Pam Meister

You may have heard that the “peace” activist group Code Pink recently defaced a Marine recruiting office in Berkeley, California. The office opened in Berkeley in the beginning of 2007, but no one seemed to take much notice of it until the local Code Pink chapter happened upon it and history, as they say, was made.

Posting signs such as “RECRUITERS LIE, OUR CHILDREN DIE!” and “ASSASIN” (sic), as well as spray painting epithets on the sidewalk, these (ahem) dedicated defenders of freedom and liberty are also harassing the landlord to cancel the lease. They plan to have regular protests until they’re successful in closing down the office. (For a pictorial essay of one of their protests, head on over to the blog Zombietime.)

I’m not sure I trust those who cannot spell “assassin” properly to protect me from one.

In their call to action, Code Pink also called military recruiters “traitors.” I’m assuming to be a traitor, one must commit treason. For the record, here is how our Constitution (Article III Section 3) defines treason:

Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.

How Captain Richard Lund, who is the recruiter at the office, is a traitor is a bit of a head-scratcher for me. He’s confused too, as he professes in this open letter to Code Pink.

I’m sure you’ll agree that recruiters like Captain Lund do not exactly fit within the traitor mold. But what about Code Pink? According to Discover the Networks:

During the last week of December 2004, Medea Benjamin announced that Code Pink, Global Exchange, and Families for Peace would be donating a combined $600,000 in medical supplies and cash to the families of the terrorist insurgents who were fighting American troops in Fallujah, Iraq. In an article dated January 1, 2005, the online publication Peace and Resistance reported that Rep. Henry Waxman had written a letter addressed to the American ambassador in Amman, Jordan to help facilitate the transport of this aid through Customs.

So the group that provided supplies and cash to the families of terrorists calls Marine recruitment officers traitors? Psychiatrists call that “projection.”

Now, it's my turn. You can read the rest of the story at Family Security Matters, and you can read some more about code pinks' antics at FrontPage Magazine.

I have faced down these Marxist bitches several times over the past two years. In March of 2005, code pink began a war protest in front of Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington DC. They started by displaying flag draped coffins on the sidewalk in front of the Main Gate on Friday evenings, the busiest time for a military medical facility, with family members and friends visiting their loved ones. The assclowns held signs with slogans stating "Sign up here to die for Halliburton" and "Your son was maimed for a lie"

As the year wore on, in spite of the valiant attempts by members of the DC Chapter of FreeRepublic, code pink refused to change their message or their assembly times. In August of 2005, CyberCast News Service reported on this shameless display and code pink was forced to change their message from anti-war and anti-military to one of "We support the troops not the war" and "Support the Troops Bring them home". Same group, different message.

I began visiting the wounded at Walter Reed in October of 2005. Each time I introduced myself to a wounded soldier or family member, and explained why I showed up every Friday night, the first question I was asked was;

"Is there anything you can do about those hideous people?" My answer was always the same: "I will do what I can."

On 20 January 2006, I was finally able to do something. As leader of the DC Chapter of Protest Warrior, I obtained the permit for the corner where code pink held their anti-military protest. code pink and the marxist, anti-American moonbat assclowns no longer occupy the Main Gate of Walter Reed.

That was my gift to thank the men and women who sacrificed to protect my right to speak freely, to stand on a street and express an opinion; something that the left has yet to do.