That is right….I said it. In hindsight, the gulf oil spill is beginning to look like another story that was over exaggerated (See Swine Flu Declared Over)  in order to whip the public into a frenzy, when in fact it never was as bad as it was reported. As a matter of fact, I think that the media owes the residents of the gulf coast a big apology, and come to think of it even Tony Hayward deserves amends for the coverage of this cataclysmic disaster.

Gulf Residents should be furious

During the course of the spill, I made a point to ask numerous people who live on the coast to give their personal input into what they have seen first hand. The answer that I received was generally that they saw no ill effects, except for the fact that the beaches and resort towns were deserted. They took it a step further and were very frustrated due to the fact that the only real damage was to the economy of the area. Tourism, Fishing, and other recreational activities were non existent, making these businesses the true casualties of the Gulf Oil Spill.

Thanks to the media coverage, I wouldn’t be surprised if there were more people sunbathing in the Russian city of Chernobyl this year than spending time on the gulf coast.

Even I bought into the Act

As readers of this site know, I bought into the hysteria as well. It was hard not to do with the beating of the media drum 24/7 about the impact of the spill.

However, I started to become skeptical when I kept on seeing the same picture an oil coated pelican floating in a pool of crude. I saw the same picture on the cover of Newsweek, Time, and every other supposed “news” magazines. As a matter of fact, I heard that this pelican has been swarmed with offers for interviews, and even a new reality television show about its experience during the spill.

Tony Heyward is another victim

The beleaguered Tony Heyward is another victim of the spill. Don’t get me wrong, he is not beyond reproach for what happened, but to hear the coverage, you would think that he strapped on a wetsuit and planted the explosive that caused the DeepWater rig to explode.

BP has poured a large amount of money into the clean up for the disaster, and tried to do the right thing, but he was still held up there as the poster child for all that is evil in the corporate world. He was even chastised for taking a day off to sail on his boat, while Obama avoids criticism for playing golf more often than Tiger Woods.

Obama deserves praise for his recent actions

Barack Obama did a great thing when he took his family down to the gulf coast this weekend to show support for the tourism down there. He even took it a step further by getting into the water with his daughter for a swim, which should provide amble evidence that a dip in the gulf will not cause immediate and painful death. Kudos to the president…..

What have I learned?

Unfortunately, I have learned yet again that the media in this country will not hesitate to overplay a story in order to get more eyeballs on the screen. As a result, I think that we will have to start doing more research into the news stories that break to avoid buying into another Armageddon like the gulf oil spill.

GENEVA —  The World Health Organization declared the swine flu pandemic officially over Tuesday, months after many national authorities started canceling vaccine orders and shutting down hot lines as the disease ebbed from the headlines.

WHO Director-General Margaret Chan said the organization’s emergency committee of top flu experts advised her that the pandemic had “largely run its course” and the world is no longer in phase six — the highest influenza alert level.

“I fully agree with the committee’s advice,” Chan told reporters in a telephone briefing from her native Hong Kong.

The virus has now entered the “post-pandemic” phase, meaning disease activity around the world has returned to levels usually seen for seasonal influenza, she said.

But Chan cautioned against complacency, saying that even though hospitalizations and deaths have dropped sharply, countries should still keep a watchful eye for unusual patterns of infection and mutations that might render existing vaccines and antiviral drugs ineffective.

“It is likely that the virus will continue to cause serious disease in younger age groups,” she said, urging high-risk groups such as pregnant women to continue seeking vaccination.

Swine Flu? Rings a bell somehow.

Oh yeah, now I remember……the swine flu. That was supposed to be the next flu pandemic, and it dominated headlines for the better part of a year. We stockpiled vaccines, and avoided the general public so we wouldn’t be infected. After all, not only would the swine flu cause instant death, but it would also cause you to grow a long snout and live in filth as well.

According to the World Health Organization, it is not a threat anymore

Was it ever really a threat, or is this just another crisis in the constant stream of planetary killers that the media is so kind as to impose upon us?

The final tally is that nearly 20,000 people died as the result of the H1N1 virus, which is an afterthought when compared to the nearly 200,000 worldwide who die as a result of the flu each and every year. So you may ask yourself, “What the hell was all of the hand wringing all about”?

I hate to say it, but a good crisis attracts eyeballs to television shows, and readers to the daily papers, so I am of the opinion that the media has never seen a crisis that it didn’t enjoy. And better yet, if there isn’t a real crisis for the media to whip up into a frenzy, then why don’t we just make one up?

Wasn’t the Swine Flu George Bush’s Doing?

Actually, I may know just what happened. Since George W. Bush caused global warming, Hurricane Katrina, and the 9/11 attacks, maybe the swine flu was just another one of his clever ruses. I am positive that Bush created the swine flu, and it was only due to the fact that he left office that spared our world from a tremendous catastrophe!

Now if this isn’t a damn farce, I don’t know what is.

According to the president of the NAACP, Ben Jealous, the Tea Party is chock full of racist people bent on harming African-Americans. Speaking at the organization’s annual convention this week, Mr. Jealous let loose on the Tea Party folks: “Here comes the genetic descendent of the White Citizens Council, burst from its coffin, carrying signs and slogans like ‘Lynch Barack Hussein Obama’ … ”

As we mentioned in a previous post about the Tea Party’s Racism, or the lack there of, they are absolutely fabricating the whole thing. I have yet to see any evidence of anyone at a tea party rally carrying any sign that has “Lynch Barack Hussein Obama”. However, to me, the proof that there is no such thing is the fact that it hasn’t been shown in a single photograph yet. As a matter of fact, if anyone has ever had any aspiration to being featured on the cover of NewsWeek, here are some sure fire steps to get on the front cover.

How to get on the cover of every mainstream news publication in the United States

1. Make a Sign that says “Lynch Barack Hussein Obama”
2. Find the nearest Tea Party Rally
3. Go there
4. When you get there, take the sign out and hold it up for between 3-5 minutes
5. Yell loudly
6. Leave the Tea Party Rally
7. Wait one week
8. Go to your neighborhood news stand, and choose between Newsweek, Time, the New York Times, Rolling Stone, and at least 20 other mainstream publications that have your photo on the cover with the label, “Tea Party Racist”

Now that you are officially the most hated person in America, make sure that you change phone numbers, hire private security, keep your children out of school for the next 6 months, and call in sick to work (I know that if you like the Tea Party, you have a job)

You wanna find Racism? Look at the NAACP

Thats right……the door swings both ways. I am not doubting that there are still white idiots who are holding on to these archaic beliefs as well, but the most glaring way of race baiting in todays society can be awarded to organizations like the NAACP…..

They sit there and bitch and moan and complain about their sad state of affairs, and seem to never tire of blaming the white man. As a matter of fact, if they spend 1/4 of the time trying to develop a real solution to their troubles, than complaining about white people, they wouldn’t have any of the problems that they seem to claim to have today. And yet strangely enough, as most whites vehemently denounce racism, these morons turn a blind eye to people like this dumbass who recently went on a rant about how he would love to kill crackers, and especially their babies.

Ladies and Gentlemen, the one, the only King Samir Shabazz!

Now take a look at this little twerp, King Samir Shabazz (no it isn’t a character from the Lion King, that’s his “real” name)….this fine young man is also the one who was brandishing a night stick at the polling station during the election of 2008. He is every bit as bad as any Klan member, but for some reason, he flies under the radar when the NAACP are decrying racism every single time………hypocrites…….

There is an old addage that reads, “If you see something in other people that you hate, you need to take a closer look at yourself, for that is where the problem tends to lie”.

That’s exactly what the NAACP needs to do. Take a close look into their actions, and their own lack of condemnation of groups like the black panthers and King Samir Shabazz. But noooooo……let’s instead spend all of our time condemning that damn racist tea party…….

We should all do the same thing….white, black, brown, green…..

We should all uniformly condemn everybodywho exhibits any type of racist behavior. If we team up against these idiots instead of making blanket assumptions about races in general, then we will be way ahead of the game.

Gulf oil spill updated July 4

July 4th Oil Slick

Where The Oil Has Made Landfall

How they have tried to stop the Leak

BY MID-JULYADDING MORE CAPACITY

By mid-July, BP expects to have a total of four vessels on site to collect and process oil and gas. The Q4000 will be replaced by another vessel, Toisa Pisces, which will be connected to one of two floating risers that can be disconnected in the event of a hurricane

JUNE 16-CAPTURING MORE OIL

A second containment system has begun siphoning oil and gas from the leaking well. BP estimates the system will carry 5,000 to 10,000 barrels a day to the surface, supplementing the roughly 15,000 barrels collected daily by a containment cap on top of the blowout preventer.

Using equipment originally put in place to inject heavy drilling mud during the failed “top kill” procedure last month, the new system extracts oil and gas directly from the blowout preventer, passes it through a manifold on the seafloor and pipes it up to the Q4000 surface vessel.

The Q4000 has no storage capacity and will burn the oil and gas.

Source: BP

JUNE 4—-BEGINNING TO CAPTURE SOME OIL

MAY 31—-ANOTHER ATTEMPT TO CAP THE WELL

After the failure of the top kill operation, BP began a new operation to cap the well. The damaged pipe will be cut from the blowout preventer, and a dome will be lowered over it to catch the spewing oil.

MAY 26—–THE TOP KILL AND JUNK SHOT

BP tried two more operations, called the “junk shot” and the “top kill,” to stop the gushing oil. In the “top kill,” heavy drilling liquid is pumped into the well until the weight of the liquid overcomes the pressure of the rising oil. The “junk shot” involves injecting objects like golf balls to clog the blowout preventer, the stack of valves at the top of the well.

Oil spills suck, and obviously have no winners whatsoever. In this case, it is damaging the environment, has instituted a new policy of not drilling offshore, and worst of all, it is being politicized by the Obama administration. As the gusher continues to spew on the gulf floor, it seems that the government is pointing their finger at BP, as opposed to helping to solve the problem.

Stop politicizing the spill and DO SOMETHING!

Here is a thought Obama administration. Get off your ass and stop blaming BP, and start doing everything in your power to fix this damn leak! Are you telling me that the United States, with all of it’s technology and innovation, can’t come up with one single thing to help? Why the hell have we created a bureaucracy for every little idea, like a “Green Jobs Czar”, and get on the ball with a solution for this problem.

New Poll Finds Spill Anger Growing

More than a month after the gulf oil spill, most Americans find BP’s handling of the situation as severely lacking. However, BP isn’t the only one drawing fire about the spill. Americans disapprove of the Obama administration’s handling of the spill, according to a new CBS News poll.

According to CBS News:

Seven in 10 of those polled disapprove of how BP has handled the spill. Forty-five percent disapprove of the Obama administration’s handling of the spill while 35 percent approve. President Obama’s overall job approval rating is 47 percent while 43 percent express disapproval.

The telephone poll, conducted Thursday through Monday with 1,054 adults, has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.

Is this the Excuse Obama Needs to Cease Drilling Offshore?

Over the past decade, the oil and gas industry has been demonized by the people on the left as no industry ever has…..maybe with the exception of the tobacco industry.  However, oil and gas are not only a vital part of the U.S. economy, but they also are a key component of the overall security of the United States itself. After all, don’t forget that way back in the 1940’s, it is believed that the Japanese attacked the U.S as the result of an oil embargo.

Obama would rather golf than come up with a solution

So if oil and gasoline is so important, why on earth would we start to cut back on exploration and drilling offshore? You know that all of the other countries currently drilling in the gulf sure as hell aren’t going to quit their own oil efforts. However, since we are obviously so cautious about public perception about anything, why don’t we get to the root cause.

You know the sad thing……..Obama won’t do a thing until this problem is fixed. He played golf twice this week since he was obviously so concerned. When it is resolved, I wouldn’t be surprised to see the President take credit for stopping it after the fact….

Specter’s flip flop bites him in the ass

I guess that switching parties in a constant search for political relevancy just doesn’t do the trick. On Tuesday, Pennsylvania voters kicked Arlen Specter to the curb in the Democratic Senate primary. Hell, even Barack Obama, AKA. the messiah, came to Pennsylvania to campaign on his behalf. Yet he lost the primary.  If this isn’t well deserved justice, then I don’t know what is.

By sending home this politician, it gives a clear signal that voters have had enough of politicians whose only purpose in public service is to use their seat as a platform for personal gain. Politicians who will do anything, and say anything to get elected are getting ready to go the way of the passenger pigeon. So Benedict Specter……..exit stage right!

Final Tally on Arlen Spector's Primary Defeat

Charlie Crist, you are next!

Are you paying close attention Charlie? If I were you, I would make sure that you have some hobbies lined up, as you are getting ready to have quite a bit of free time on your hands. Maybe he can spend more time working on his oompa loompa like tan, and out of place white hair!
Crist exhibited a severe case of confusion by declaring openly on Fox News Sunday that he would never consider a run for the Senate on anything but the Republican platform. However, like Specter, Crist noticed that he was lagging substantially in the polls, so he decided that winning a seat by any means necessary trumps any semblance of a personal belief system.

As a result, Crist has done a 180 degree turn and decided to run as an independent candidate, not as a Republican. By doing so, that damn idiot is putting the seat in danger by possibly splitting the conservative vote come November. How selfless of him……..

So Crist is getting ready to get the boot, and I can only convey my gratitude to Marco Rubio for sending him packing.

Pay attention Politicians. The American Voter isn’t stupid

All of the jockeying for position in Washington aside, the one person that these politicans are estimated are nothing but your average run of the mill voter. And these voters are fed up!

We have officially lost our minds

The terrorists of 9/11 are probably looking up from hell and see something that makes all of the hellfire and brimstone that they are subjected to on a daily basis.  A brand new mosque rises over Ground Zero, and it is set to open its doors……..on 9/11/11.

The Plans for the Muslim house of worship, is topped by a 13-story cultural center with a swimming pool, and resides in a building damaged by the fuselage of a jet flown by extremists into the World Trade Center.

The opening date shall live in infamy: Sept. 11, 2011. The 10th anniversary of the day a hole was punched in the city’s heart.

Have we gone absolutely *^#*ing insane? I hate to sound xenophobic, but this is just absurd.

In todays age of political correctness, which is killing us slowly, do we care so much about not offending anyone that we don’t give a damn about the nearly 3,000 American citizens who died on 9/11? Could they not wait another week to open the doors of the mosque in a reverent gesture towards the victims of the 19 hijackers that took their lives in the name of Islam?

The New Mosque near the World Trade Center Site

Paul Sipos, member of Community Board 1 in New York City made the point that, ”If the Japanese decided to open a cultural center across from Pearl Harbor, that would be insensitive,” Sipos said. “If the Germans opened a Bach choral society across from Auschwitz, even after all these years, that would be an insensitive setting. I have absolutely nothing against Islam. I just think: Why there?”

What a great, well thought out point!

The group, Stop Islamicization of America, has a rally planned for my birthday on June 6th to show their disagreement about the opening date of the new mosque. Executive director Pamela Geller said, “What could be more insulting and humiliating than a monster mosque in the shadow of the World Trade Center buildings that were brought down by an Islamic jihad attack? Any decent American, Muslim or otherwise, wouldn’t dream of such an insult. It’s a stab in the eye of America.”

Stay tuned…….

Sonia Sotomayor makes little children cry when they see her.

Obama Nominees must be Female, Liberal, and Very Ugly

There isn't enough alcohol in the world

Do you see what I am talking about? Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor have to each be no better than a .08 on a 10 point scale with regards to looks. This can’t just be a coincidence. To find 2 women, cut of the same cloth (No pun intended), who are each in the bottom 1/1000th of the genetic looks gene pool is like lightning striking the same spot twice. Or, in this case, having 2 cases of women that literally hit every single branch of the ugly tree is quite horrifying.

After all, it is a requirement that liberal chicks (LOL) make the best angry activist judges due to the fact that they have long suffered from the neglect of the opposite sex.

Seriously though….Here is the Elena Kagan Bio

Kagan, a former University of Chicago Law professor, is a Princeton University graduate with a bachelor’s degree in history and a graduate of Harvard Law School

Trending on Google Monday were searches about Kagan’s husband and personal life, but Kagan is unmarried.

Born April 28, 1960, Kagan, a New York native, grew up in a Jewish family on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.

Oompa Loompa

After graduating from Harvard Law, Kagan became a clerk for Judge Abner Mikva of the U.S. Court of Appeals and then clerked for Justice Thurgood Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court, who nicknamed her Shortie.

Kagan taught law at the University of Chicago from 1995 to 1997, when President Obama was also a part-time faculty member. Kagan left in 1997 to work as Associate Counsel for President Bill Clinton.

Kagan becamse a visiting professor at Harvard Law School in 1999, before becoming a full-time professor of law in 2001.

Kagan was the Dean of Harvard Law School from 2003-2009.

After fellow Harvard Law alumnus Barack Obama won the 2008 presidential election, he nominated Kagan for the role of solicitor general.

Since being named the first female solicitor general last year, she’s argued six cases before the Supreme Court

George Bush was vilified for not responding quicker to the Hurricane Katrina disaster. Well, just as it is with most things, the media tends to give the current administration a pass on an even worse response rate. Since Obama waited a full 9 days to even acknowledge the severity of the situation, he deserves to answer for his ineptitude.

Even more troubling is that the White House response has largely consisted of dispatching tort lawyers to New Orleans to start the wonderful process of making sure that lawsuits abound over the crisis.   Here’s an idea. Why don’t you worry about stopping the oil leak before you even think about legal actions?

Even worse is the fact that Obama is shutting down other rigs as a result of the tragedy that have absolutely nothing to do with the BP disaster. Equally infuriation is the fact that Obama announced on April 30th that he was outlawing new drilling in the gulf for the forseeable future. Yeah, lets harm our domestic oil output, putting more dependence on foreign oil imports from the middle east……that makes sense.

A timeline for the Obama response can be seen here in a great post by Doug Ross.

http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2010/05/obamas-katrina-illustrated-timeline.html

How Bad is the Gulf Oil Spill?

Let’s review this crisis, and the gravity of the situation that is facing the gulf coast. The best estimate is that the rig is leaking about 200,000 gallons of oil per day. If engineers have to drill down and install a relief well to stop the leak, the work will take about 90 days. Given estimates of what already has leaked, some estimate that could be three Exxon Valdez spills headed for the gulf coast and, in the worst case, South Florida. There has even been concern that the ocean currents could carry the spill as far as the Atlantic Ocean.

However bad the reports may be, lets try to put this spill in perspective.The New York Times puts it the best by comparing the worst spills in history to the current crisis.

“The ruptured well, currently pouring an estimated 210,000 gallons of oil a day into the gulf, could flow for years and still not begin to approach the 36 billion gallons of oil spilled by retreating Iraqi forces when they left Kuwait in 1991. It is not yet close to the magnitude of the Ixtoc I blowout in the Bay of Campeche in Mexico in 1979, which spilled an estimated 140 million gallons of crude before the gusher could be stopped.

And it will have to get much worse before it approaches the impact of the Exxon Valdez accident of 1989, which contaminated 1,300 miles of largely untouched shoreline and killed tens of thousands of seabirds, otters and seals along with 250 eagles and 22 killer whales.”

What does the future hold with the Gulf Oil Spill?

Lets hope that we stop politicizing things, and come up with a fix for the problem, instead of filing lawsuits. After all, BP announced today that they are going to pay for the clean up, and all associated costs with the disaster. And let’s hope and pray that the spill isn’t as severe as many fear.

The Arizona Immigraton bill is meant to protect American Citizens

The way that liberals, and especially President Obama are whining about the new immigration bill in Arizona, you would think that the governor woke up and decided to enact a vendetta towards illegal Mexicans purely for the hell of it.

Somehow, it is lost upon the mainstream media that there is in fact, the real purpose for the passage of the Arizona law S.B. 1070  is to protect the citizens of the state. After all, the ever increasing tide of illegal immigrants has resulted in a spike violent crime, even more strain on the public healthcare system, and a steady flow of drugs and corruption to the general public.

So, what does the law say exactuly?

I have included the basic verbiage below, or you can read the bill in it’s entirety by clicking here.

The legislature finds that there is a compelling interest in the cooperative enforcement of federal immigration laws throughout all of Arizona. The legislature declares that the intent of this act is to make attrition through enforcement the public policy of all state and local government agencies in Arizona. The provisions of this act are intended to work together to discourage and deter the unlawful entry and presence of aliens and economic activity by persons unlawfully present in the UnitedStates.

S.B. 1070- 1 -1 Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

The legislature finds that there is a compelling interest in the cooperative enforcement of federal immigration laws throughout all of Arizona. The legislature declares that the intent of this act is to make attrition through enforcement the public policy of all state and local government agencies in Arizona. The provisions of this act are intended to work together to discourage and deter the unlawful entry and presence of aliens and economic activity by persons unlawfully present in the United10 States.

The Arizona Bill Gives Power Back to the People

The Arizona Immigration bill is one of the very few laws enacted in this day and age that actually sides with the American citizen. It gives police the ammunition to become more aggressive towards the burden of illegal immigration, thereby making that state a safer, more accommodating place to live.

And when the hell were we so concerned with the “rights” of people who have broken the law, and are here illegally. It makes no sense to reward this type of bad behavior, which in turn gives way to an even heavier flow of inbound illegal traffic. So who cares if we profile people who fit the bill of being here illegally?  The bottom line is that, like young Muslim males on planes, we can and should racially profile suspicious people who are up to no good. It just makes sense…

What do you think about the Arizona Immigration Bill?