It will make the GM and Chrysler take-overs actions look like chicken feed. And it only gets worse from there.

But if you want a model, just look at Chavez and Venezuela. And don’t forget that Brazil has a self-avowed Communist as its new President.

Lots of dots to connect, but the emerging picture is frightening.

Under a “pioneering agreement with the UN,” “Ecuador pledges no oil drilling in Amazon reserve,” 8/3/10. As you suggest, this is a big topic. The UN and the Hungarian are usually around in these situations. One lady, Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), ranking member on the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, is my hope for addressing the problem with the UN. I believe most of our problems would be over if we got out of the UN.

The assault upon energy producing in the US is breath taking in terms of the number of lawsuits filed to impede and the variety of different types of products threatened. One additional area being attacked is the Bakke shale region of North Dakota and Montana. The envirowackos are protesting that the fracking processes are contaminating drinking water. We need to stay informed on the efforts to kill energy production in the US. We need to rein in an out of control EPA.

http://www.grandforksherald.com/event/article/id/193066/

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Activists Taking Action: Unified Patriots

..but I read a report from FT on Drudge the other day that GE was buying heavily into oil well equipment, frankly paying premium prices to buy up submersible pump business. Frankly, I didn’t even know GE had anything to do with oil, but, that report just struck me, what with the Obama -Immelt connection.

“Defending America’s Affordable Energy and Jobs Act.”

Looks like the intention is to dump the EPA. I thought all bills had to start in the House?

FYI WY is the number 1 coal producer in the country.

He says we have 1 trillion barrels of shale oil in CO, UT & WY but Obama won’t issue any permits til, you guessed it, after the 2012 election.

He read this diary, and told me what I already knew: “Carol, your diary doesn’t even begin to scratch the surface of what is going on.”

Obama has turned NASA into a global warming institute and shut down future space flights. He has enabled the EPA to regulate the emission of CO2 as a pollutant. He has appointed Biotech reps to key positions in the USDA and FDA. He has made loans to foreign nations that compete with our corporations. Coal mines are now being sold to China and India. We will no longer own our resources they are being sold off to foreign countries. Obama is Freemason and a member of the Council of Foreign relations. He has pledged allegiance to a foreign power, the UN. Obama has betrayed the American people and he is the commander of the Armed forces. We are in deep deep trouble.

….and was told (1) there is no moratorium despite the fact that last month Interior didn’t put out a single Gulf drilling permit, and (2) it’s not Bromwich’s job to issue permits.

In other words, Bromwich has been listening to Cee Lo Green songs.

http://thehayride.com/2011/02/vitters-boemre-meeting-a-bummer-as-bromwich-babbles-and-blathers/

was made through the import-export bank and is really a guarantee on a loan made by JP Morgan Bank of NY. The reason the loan was made is that Petrobas will be buying equipment and services from United States companies.

From the AP on Yahoo News:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110217/ap_on_bi_ge/us_grand_canyon_mining

In part:

The U.S. Department of Interior is proposing to bar the filing of any new mining claims on 1 million acres around the Grand Canyon.

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar had temporarily withdrawn the acreage in 2009. Under the preferred alternative in a draft environmental study obtained by The Associated Press, new claims would be prohibited for 20 years.

The Interior Department put the potential value of uranium mined near the Grand Canyon at $2.9 billion and the employment benefits at $613.7 million.

As many as 10,000 mining claims exist on federal land near the Grand Canyon for all types of hard-rock exploration.

Some 1,100 uranium mining claims are miles from the park’s boundaries.

Thank you.

ColdWarrior

Nice work (again), nice research (again). Keep the heat on, gal!

IT AS IF THEY NEVER HEARD OF CLIMATEGATE.

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS MAN-CAUSED GLOBAL WARMING!

Humans exhale carbon dioxide.
Plants require carbon dioxide for photosynthesis; it is their “food”!
Carbon dioxide constitutes 3 to 4 percent of “greenhouse gases.”
Human activity represents some small percent of that 3 to 4 percent.
The greatest “greenhouse gas” is water vapor!

See Climategate, a “meta”-website with links to all the best blogs and websites covering this subject, and hundreds of articles documenting “Anthropogenic Global Warming, history’s biggest scam”

THE EMPEROR IS BUCK NAKED!

This all makes me want to SCREAM.

LIO, thank you so much for this piece — it is an excellent, hard-hitting summary. Gonna forward it to as many people as possible.

http://kuow.org/northwestnews.php?storyID=133792380

I spoke with Coleen Morse of the Lewis Cty WA state GOP, where the plant is located, and was told a vote could be today to force the plant to convert from coal to NG or wood chips by 2020. The plant says there is no way they can fully convert before then. It’s located in Centralia, WA, just south of Tacoma and provides 10% of the electricity in WA.

She also told me she honestly doesn’t understand where these people think they will get their energy from because there is no other plant.

FYI it’s a Dem-controlled state legislature.

should put front and center, with oil prices sky high and rising, Obama is delaying domestic production (aka american jobs). This wont play well poltically and the only hope Obama has on this is if the GOP doesnt sieze this issue and really put it out in front of the public on a daily basis. This is an issue that can not only unite the Republican party, it can unite the nation.

You’ve managed to take a serious topic and — without once getting into your bizarre, deranged, and quite frankly clearly autoerotic comments downthread — make it the stuff of conspiracy theories. I don’t know where to end, but just to begin, are you seriously alleging that the EPA would drive Texas’s power plants out of commission so that the State would have to buy power on the spot market from a country that makes the Rust Belt look like the Garden of Eden?

The Obama Administration’s real, natural hostility to natural resource development and economic development is, in your hands, undoubtedly related to the fact that towers don’t fall that way!!!

Lady, seriously: Seek help.

And while I’m on the subject of peeving off people, shame on every last one of you who for some bizarre reason recommended this tripe. You’ve managed to crowd out quality — or at least, not-barking-mad — diaries with this madness. Some of you have been here long enough to know better.

Sad.

….is the ‘serious topic’ here? Is it the cold winter in Texas? Is it the misguided honorable intentions of Lisa Jackson? Is it the simultaneous head-nodding by czar and agency and department head? Or is it the power grab of the bureaucracy, the end-run around the law-making bodies, which is nothing new but is being elevated to a weapon of first choice and deadly intent by this administration? Is it the *whole* of the Lady’s diatribe that is totally irrelevant to the “fundamental transformation of America’, or just that Texas part? Are the sequestering of federal lands and the adamant refusals to obey court orders and everything else that a score-and-a-half of the recommenders seem to be concerned about, indeed concerned enough for many of them to comment about – are these things just alternative ways of governing? Is everyone just being too hard on The State here for some crackpot mass delusional reason?
Again, what is the serious topic here that is so inartfully dealt with? The title says it is an’ assault on our domestic energy’. Do you deny the assault. You have, as far as I have come to note, an eminent position in these halls, so your critique undoubtedly carries a certain import. Surely you do not really compare the concern of a good many RedStaters with the antics of the EPA to a”truther” movement? Please, sir. Indicate for us the proper focus, if you will. I would not know the Lady from Ohio if I saw her on the street, but my gut feeling is that she feels she is serving this community, and it certainly appears from this and other of her postings that she puts a fair amount of effort into it. I am almost certain she would agree to stand corrected or to concentrate more of her effort to port or starboard if you had a constructive suggestion. Please sir. Most of us here just ramble and opine. I think she works at it, and I think you were unfair. If the Obama administration does have a hostility to development of resources, and you think it’s serious, she offers several other items besides Texas, and she did caveat that she didn’t have that one nailed down. If you have the time, sir.

We have been having quite a few lately. They are not helpful.

IMO, there is a conspiratorial tone in this diary, which is not helpful.

Let’s put it this way, if the left were to seize Saudi Arabia, there would be a sand shortage there in six months. Micro-managing, regulatory orgasms, wrecking foreign policy, wrecking the economy – IT’S WHAT LIBERALS DO. The tactics can be conspiratorial, but the policies are quite out in the open.

If the GOP had a pulse between 2006 and 2010, there would have been more effective opposition. That is what the Precinct Committeeman and other activist strategies are all about.

Diarists need the freedom to express themselves on the community portion of the site. That includes the freedom to be wrong. Even a flawed diary can be enormously productive in getting people to think. The readership can separate the wheat and the chaff.

Finally, for energy expertise, I recommend the esteemed Vladimiir.

Many writers use language in a way to attract readers. We all know that a catchy title draws the reader in to read the entire piece. Perhaps LIO uses sensationalist type rhetoric to draw on the emotions of readers to take the subject seriously, or maybe even to keep the readers attention. I believe most here at Redstate can read a diary and separate the sensationalism from the red meat of the diary. Maybe if LIO dropped the bombastic rhetoric, and concentrated on the facts, the stories would not have a conspiracy type of tone to them. Just a suggestion, as this is the second time LIO has been publically taken to the cleaners in the comments section of her diaries. As to the facts presented, I have read many many other articles, written by various authors, that have all done the same research, and have reported similar facts as to the Obama administration’s assault on the energy industry. It is very foolish to not take what is happening as an assault on all Americans. Sunlight is the best disinfectant.

Speaking of assaults, it is just as egregious to use bombastic rhetoric against any diarist, to resort to name calling, and to question the mental abilities of the diarist, because one believes that the information presented, or the manner in which it has been presented, is nothing more than a bunch of conspiracy theories. I don’t have knowledge of some of the items listed, but, as I said above, I’ve read much the same, over time, from other credible authors. No, I am not refering to Alex Jones, I don’t consider him credible. Often I do do my own homework and research rather than to just take one person’s word for it.

As to recommending diaries, about 2 1/2 years ago when I first signed up at Redstate, shortly after, there was a front page diary that covered the topic of certain cliques that had developed, mostly between many of the old timers, and it talked about certain people (unnamed of course) who were consistently recommending each other’s diaries, and ignoring the diaries, or at least not recommending one’s written by newer members. You most often saw the same authors on the reco list. I believe some of that still exists today, but not to the extent that it did back then. I’m sure there are thousands more members today.

I was very happy to read that dhorowitz and RMJ were promoted to front page status. They are both quality writers. Maybe it is just because dhorowitz always seems to write on issues that are important to me, and he presents his case so clearly, I could never understand why his diaries were not on the reco list more often. At least now, both his and RMJ’s diaries will have a chance of making it into the world wide web for all to see. Congratulations to both.

I know for A FACT!! that Truman is on a TV show and his world isn’t real. Also I know FOR A FACT!!! that the answer is TASTES GREAT, not LESS FILLING! I ALSO knOW FOr A fAcT how many licks it takes to get to the center of a tootsie roll pop. Let me hit you with some knowledge; FACT: Iaşi was the last capital of the principality of Moldavia. FACT: Does this make me look fat? FACT: -noun 1. something that actually exists; reality; truth: FACT: I had to show them on the doll where speciallist touched me. FACT: all of this is definitely the MOST IMPORTANT THING EVAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1!!!!!!!!!!!!

I really have no “skin in the game,” so to speak. But it seems that this diary cites a lot of events without connecting the dots. If you are going to make a shocking allegation, your facts must be logical and impeccable. Otherwise, you open yourself up to all sorts of criticism. If what you are saying is controversial, your evidence must be iron-clad.

There are many things that this Adminstration is doing right now that violates the Constitution, By chasing rabbits, it can actually be counterproductive. Our focus should be on standing with WI right now and drawing a line in the sand, not rattling off conspiracy theories. We must be credible and factual if we are to win over the American people to our side.

This is not personal to the diarist, she has written some fairly good pieces before. But this was simply not one of them.

Can anyone here say Obama really loves America and puts America first? And that Obama is just another politician, agree or disagree with his policies?

I’m curious how many people on RS just think of him that way.

I rec’d this diary. I did not do so because i buy into the conspiratal nature of the diary. I don’t.

However, I thought the several bullet points, when taken seperately, are helpful to learning about the broad nature of Obama’s reach over energy policy.

Let’s face it, the guy has ignored court rulings regarding the issue of re-allowing drilling in the Mexican Gulf, took over GM (and other assorted companies / banks), and is trying to take over the health care industry. I don’t think there is some smoke filled room conspiracy here, nor is there some silly Bliderburg or reptillian conspiracy afoot. The bottom line is that Obama is a socialist at best, communist at worst, and wants the government in charge of everything. This includes energy. Right? Don’t we all realize that? If we don’t, we’re trying to play too nice with the other side.

Obama isn’t coy about it either. He attended an anti-American church for years, was friends with a known terrorist (Ayers), and has done little to distance himself from the notion that he believes in a centralized government run by bureaucrats and unions.

Is there a lot of (or failure to) connect the dots going on in this diary? Sure. But are several of the facts about Obama’s actions problematic for Americans regarding his actions in the energy sector and elsewhere? Of course.

It is only my own opinion, but I doubt that many of the recommends on this diary are people who buy into the conspiracy angle. (And shame on some of the staff and former staff that would assume so. Creating a rift between the readers of the site and the readers is a poor way to keep a “grass roots” label. Shame too on the readers who think the site really belongs to the readers; the site became company controlled years ago, and it is no longer the privledge of members to try to dictate how the site should be run, nor should it be).

Everyone should just cool down. If you are offended that the diary has so many recs, go write your own diary (or front page post). If you ARE a conspiracy nut trying to defend the diary, your thoughts aren’t helpful either.

And let’s drop the silly accusations that folks are making.

Do the staff work together to determine what’s good enough or isn’t to make the front page? So what if they do? It is their site.

Do some readers just rec each other to be buddies? Who cares if they do? Everyone has a different standard for rec’cing.

Do people try to bait trolls so they can ban them? So what if they do? If someone is a troll, or they take the bait, who cares? I may think the “bam stick” gets used way too much, but it isn’t my site and I don’t make the rules.

I don’t even like the staff picking and choosing which primary candidates are worthy or not (the O’Donnell thing was embarassing, as was misreading the support for Coats in Indiana), but it isn’t my site.

Do several front page posts go up right after a member publishes a diary on the exact same topic? Who cares? It happens the other direction too. Are people supposed to not post on something because another post went up already on the same topic?

The site greatly dissapoints me at times, and (to me) seems to have become more about a very few personalities than being the community it once once. But that’s only the negative side. On the positive side, the site retains the pro-life requirement for front page posters, has terrific stories on the front page, and has made a positive dent in the political landscape by being the prime conservative voice in the blogosphere.

I have my gripes, but then again, who cares? I come here because the site staff lets me, and I enjoy reading what others have to say. I don’t put up as much material as I did years ago (I can’t even find my oldest stories archived), but I’m here because this is the best community I’ve found for conservatives. The price of keeping idiots away (Paul supporters, people who make threats, and people who attack others with lewd language) is that we can be so vigilant that we attack each other. The staff does the best that they can, and I don’t expect that I could do any better.

Let’s all just take a deep breath, not wage war on the site, go rec Gamecock, and put in a few dollars and hours on behalf of a candidate you believe in in honor of RedState.

Sheesh people!

First of all, none of the attacks on this diary were unwarranted. This diary *earned* those attacks. End of story. Get over it., or get off the internet and go play outside.

Second, this garbage about a RedState Management conspiracy against the unwashed masses in the diaries has got to stop. Disagreement is not censorship. Not promoting a diary to the hallowed freaking front page is not censorship. Equating a diary to a fecal fingerpainting of Glenn Beck is not censorship. You know what *is* censorship? CENSORSHIP! LIO has written several diaries that have rightfully drawn the ire of the management, and she’s still here. Not censorship, no matter how badly you want it to be, or how viciously you hate the contrib who spoke up.

Third…It’s getting unhinged in here. Us vs. the management? Really? Shouldn’t it be all of us vs. the left? We’ve got to get our sh*t together, people, and the getting together of the sh*t does not include accepting every theory our friends come up with as the gospel. You can gripe and accuse and lament over the lack of civility all you want, but at the end of the day, you’re still going to be the person who went to the mattresses over something that never should have gotten attention to begin with.

So, has Thomas crept away into the night, having quieted all the hothead firebrands here at ……RED State? Was that his mission? Who knows. The curious part of the whole episode is that he had to put an exclamation point on his denunciation of conspiracy theorists by conjuring up a ….conspiracy theory…..among RedStaters. Curioser still in in light of the fact that *LIO’s diary was up for two days and proceeded to the top of the charts with nary a discouraging word*, from member of management, until the exasperated Thomas could contain himself no more. At which time, sporadic snickering broke out among the anti-conspiracy theory buffs, complete with jokes and charts and graphs. Oh, that we were all so hip , glib and ….triumphant?
Conspiracy theory? You make the call.
Crown made a point of calling LIO an insane birther, while commenting on a diary she made about agenda-driven government regulators and lawless expropriation of the public’s access to needed energy sources. I detected no birther sentiment in the diary. And more, when Crown said she had taken a serious subject and turned it into a conspiracy theory, I felt compelled( in a stand-alone comment at 12:49 a.m.) to ask him to kindly explain his concept of the serious situation and to helpfully steer LIO, and the rest of us idiots, in the right direction. *He gave the Nancy Pelosi response – “Are you freaking kidding me? This is a joke, right?” * But he went beyond that. He said that if I wasn’t joking (pay attention here) *the alternative suggests too many awful things* I can only imagine what darkness Thomas Crown imagines must be in my heart if indeed I am not joking by asking what was so wrong with LIO’s diary. You want to talk about insane garbage? Conspiracy theory?
In addition to pointing to conspiracy theories to trash conspiracy theories, Crown also bites his nose in another revealing riposte – after accusing LIO of “autoeroticism”, he then, in response to another commenter, goes on to boast of the good old days when he banished unfavored commentators with barely the flick of his hand and a ten-page dissertation. Isn’t that swell! Autoeroticism? You make the call.
I’m sure the floor is yours whenever you want it, Thomas.

, absolutely nothing, was said against the diary by the rabble *or* by mangement, until you came along and couldn’t believe they hadn’t banished it. Thirty plus people, plus management, *couldn’t see the problems with what she wrote* and are moronic tin-foil-hat wearers unless they repent and agree to condemn the “autoerotic insane birther” and her diary and the horse she rode in on. Well, Thomas, the worst possible outcome would be for conservatism to be given a bad name, wouldn’t it? Why, some might think we’re a mean-spirited bunch given to name-calling and character assassination……….and your President undoubtedly thanks you for putting the moronic tinfoil hat-wearing insane autoerotic birthers in their place. Well, done, Thomas. You’re the best. But then, you knew that.