Archive for Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Patrick Wayne Germond: Congratulations to Iraqi Congress
August 12, 2008
Dear editor,
Congratulations to the Iraqi Congress. They have out-performed Nancy Pelosi's Democratic-majority Congress hands down. Iraq's legislative body has bid out their oil fields to contractors and is on track to become the world's No. 1 oil producer in five years. They have enfranchised the Shiite population and brought them back into the fold of government participation. They have approved and are increasing their security forces by two brigades.
The U.S. Democratic congress has apologized for slavery and blocked the overwhelming will of the American people.
The only way to get the people's will done is to say goodbye to our Democratic senators and representatives. I hate to say it, but unless the majority in Congress changes to favor the Republicans, Pelosi will never let the vote for lifting offshore drilling bans come up. The Congress is supposed to be ruled by the majority vote, that's it. The president is the only one who can stop a 51 percent majority vote by vetoing the bill. If Congress tries again, to pass the same bill, they can do it with a supermajority. Right now, 75 percent of Americans want to drill and use everything we can to fix our energy crunch. Pelosi wants her fellow representatives to tell us they're all for drilling, meanwhile, she will hold off the vote, and they can get re-elected by telling us what we want to hear. She will be safe because she is from San Francisco, a liberal environmentalist stronghold.
We little folks live by rules that if we break them we pay the price. If you're working for a driller and he goes against the company, the company will run him off, and usually you and the rest of the crew, too. That's what needs to happen to the Democrats in this election and whoever tries this stunt in the future. To stop her, we have to change the majority back to Republicans. In other words, we need to run them all off and hire another crew.
In 2002, all the Republicans except for three voted to drill in ANWR. I can't bring myself to tell you who one of those three was. But his first name is John. He has come around finally, though, and a darn sight faster than Obama.
If we are going to cause any change, we have to get serious and start looking to our own house. I decided I was going to start teaching my children about our country and how we run it. I'm going to get a sample ballot, and go over it with them and have them contribute to the discussion. If we teach our children earlier and sooner, in the future we can turn the tides of politics back around to common sense. Don't wait for a liberal teacher to fill that void with your children. Let's get in it to win it, or we will doom our children to pay for our negligence.
Patrick Wayne Germond
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12 August 2008
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Patrick (Anonymous) says…
People, people, people, holy cow. Lets find something to agree about and talk about that. I know, Russins. Those bastard. Let's get em.
12 August 2008
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Patrick (Anonymous) says…
Opps, I was on the wrong blog. Hey, 50 what do ya think?
12 August 2008
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Patrick (Anonymous) says…
Hay, anybody can start. How about you Granny. What do you think about this Russin deal?
12 August 2008
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lonelyone (Anonymous) says…
Well I'm not Granny, but I wish they'd back off. Course Georgia (is that the correct spelling for the country?) should not have taken on the big dog if it's gonna pee like a pup!
Now I admit that I don't know all that is going on, but why try to take on a country like Russia and then cry foul when they come back at you!?!?! If your so small that you have no chance of winning anything, why do it in the first place……course David took on the Giant and won, so maybe they thought they had a slim chance of making a point?
I also hate the fact that this stuff has had to happen during the Olympics, kind of puts a damper on things as far as I'm concerned.
13 August 2008
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grannyrett (Anonymous) says…
Pat-I have NEVER trusted Russia. Putin has always come across to me as so two-faced. As former KGB, I don't think he ever gave it up. He talked the talk, and walked the walk, but, I could never believe the Cold War was over. Something about him just didn't seem right. I think he just wanted to pacify the world and keep on doing the Russian thing. It's like when he threw such a fit when the US was working on it's missile defence. Why should he object to us doing anything to protect ourselves or others? I don't know about Georgia. As a break-away republic, I wish it luck. It seems as if we, in our own country, had a good portion of the states try to “break away”. It was called the Civil War. I would hope that something could be done peaceably over there to get it settled. Lord knows, it has shown the world that we, as the United States, can do nothing to help them. What a shame.
13 August 2008
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Patrick (Anonymous) says…
The spelling looks right. I got Russia wrong last night. I was up to late. Hey, I'm just glad if my thoughts look cohearant. I've got a long way to go before I start to complain about spelling.
Anyway, I think we should stand up to Russia if it is Russia's fault. I bet what we will do is fill those countries up with a whole lot of fancy military equipment.
I'll be back, one of my 3 year olds just woke up.
13 August 2008
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an3378 (Anonymous) says…
This is the kind of thing that is holding us back. This narrow minded thought process is not the way it is. Things are changing and that scares people. Oil and gas are going to run out drilling more all over is not I repeat not going to help lower any price down. There is a high demand around the world for oil and gas. If we drill more it doesn't stay here it goes to whomever wants it most. This includes China and India who are becoming more devloped countries all the time. There needs to be an alternative solution. I am glad that there are Democrats and Republicans in government so neither side will have full power to do whatever they please. Running off people is not a solution but a scare tact to get what they feel is right which it is not. This is not a solution this sounds like someone who can't accept change and that is sad because it is coming if you like it or not. There needs to be a solution to the problems a comprmise between parties instead of this butting heads.
13 August 2008
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Patrick (Anonymous) says…
Ok, I'm back.
Bush should have sent 4 carrier groups into those straits and said they were carring humanitarian aid. This would have freaked the Russains out because we would have been the one's saying one thing but doing another. Bush could and should have backed down and avoided a instant conflict without thought. However, the show may have prompted Russia into a cease fire.
The reason I take this hard stance is simple. We try to give democracy to countries whoses people may never understand it. They may even turn around and elect someone like Hamas for thier leadership.
Georgia is more like a neigbor from our own town. They are simple country folks who live in peace and are a “boots on the ground” defender of democracy. So if we would stand up to anyone trying to hurt someone in our own community we should stand up to Russia and help these people. I know it's a foreign concept today but some principals are worth going the distance over. Russia doing this should cause us to think. There are things worth dying over. Give this a few weeks and America will remember that. Peacable countries in the future will have to realize this if they are to stay free. Russia is on the move. The “Evil Empire” is back. We will be building up our military again. Everything has changed. At present, nobody can stop them. At least not for sure. Or not without it being a hell of a fur fight. Yesterday, someone in our government or military actually had the presence of mind to scramble jets over Alaska with full on defened our country orders. This is just getting started. I'm not saying it will be war, not at all. I'm saying it will get alot colder though before it gets warmer.
13 August 2008
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Patrick (Anonymous) says…
3378, Only in presant history have wars been fought over anything but resources. Things are about to get old school real fast. That is what we better get use to.
13 August 2008
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Patrick (Anonymous) says…
Another prediction. The American G.I. will be a rockstar in the eye's of all those nato countries who have been bashing him in the decade or two past.
13 August 2008
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50cal (Anonymous) says…
Oh Russia, I don't think there is room here for all the things that can be said about the mother country.
Putin is a communist always has been. Our reationship with Russia has gone down hill since he came into power.
Russia has always used three proven excuses for invading another country. some group is being oppressed, they are threatening the motherland, or the country needed help in a time of crisis.
We are seeing the oppression of freedoms in russia that they only gained sixteen to eighteen years ago, their economy has struggled and they are letting something familiar come back into their lives so we can expect further tightening of the ol iron curtain.
3378, there is a pipeline running thru georgia that supplies 30% of the natural gas to the european union. has a oil pipeline with it. I'm not sure how much it supplies to the E.U. but Russia tried to hit it with bombs. a BBL of oil rose four dollars because of the threat of a loss of oil. What needs to happen is we drill, we ensure it stays here, and we work on alternative sources while we extract what we have. coal to oil gasification is profitable at 40.00 a bbl. oil shale is profitable at 60.00 a BBL. that makes 800 billion bbls. of oil avalible right here on the western slope of colorado. What we need is legislation that sets up a simple plan. Ground plan, no drilling without a water drainage and ground polution protection plan with stipulation plans of how the pad site will be reclaimed once the useful life of the well is up. Oil sales plan, oil must be sold on the domestic market first. any surplus can then go into the international market. while we are meeting todays demands there also has to be incentives for clean technology and powering tomoorow with other means. take a look around you in your everyday lives and see how much oil out of the ground actually builds that you can now live without and then see what you can do without. Oil not only supplies the oil and gas for our cars and trucks but so many other things as well.
13 August 2008
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Patrick (Anonymous) says…
Excelent points 50cal. You should pruce that up a tiny bit and put it in the paper. 500 word limit. Take a day, add to it when you think of another point or two and it would be ready to impress.
13 August 2008
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grannyrett (Anonymous) says…
Go to this web site and read the list of everything we use oil for. It will blow your mind.
http://wolf.readinglitho.co.uk/mainpa…
Alternate sources of energy is a great idea. Is it practical right now? I don't think so. BUT, I think we better find a different way of doing things. Alternate energy needs to go ahead full blast. But until we have the technology to do all the things we now do with oil, we will have to find, drill, and use it.
13 August 2008
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Patrick (Anonymous) says…
Good point Granny, drill here drill now until it's on my house or under my car's hood.
13 August 2008
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Patrick (Anonymous) says…
We're in it now 50. I just watched the news. Our troops are in a war zone where there is supose to be a cease fire, but there is no cease fire. We are all the way on one side. Bush wont back down and Putin, if he ever wants to rule Russia again he wont back down. I say take em on before they get any stronger. I'm sure thats what our government thinks too. The more oil money we send them the worse it will be. We are the ones on track to go belly up this time with our lack of domestic oil production and all. We are sending our wealth to them. This gap will only grow. This must be how our fathers and grandfathers felt. This is could be bad. Like bring back the draft bad. I hope I'm wrong.
Putin might have backed down over Cuba or some little far away country, but not Georgia. Bush said, “We are fully with Georgia and standing by her.”. Bush doesn't want to look like Kennedy or Carter sooooooo. We have boots on the ground, naval battle groups moving fast, and Conde telling France to gas up their tanks and cancel leave. The T.V. say this is that 3:00 a.m. moment. No, no, this is that 2 minutes to midnight on the doomsday clock moment.
I will hope for peace, but I've been getting real good at predictions lately. I can useualy see how it's done (policy) and I can't see how to get out of this. So far Bush has never done one thing I haven't seen coming. Like Iraq, looking at Isreal and the Palistinians I knew it would be long and hard. This deal here I don't like at all. Not one bit. I have no answer.
14 August 2008
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50cal (Anonymous) says…
I have the answer Pat. when the chosen one gets elected this fall and then everyone gets to see that he is the antichrist that I think he is I will be in my bomb shelter waiting for the war that I know is coming. Its amazing that john McCain was on this months ago and no one else saw it but people don't think he would be a good leader. This has been predicted. there are so many hot spots in the world and Russia has so many old cold war ties with those hot spots that this could erupt into an all out war. ( hey the crazy talk about the bunker and the antichrist was for taxslave i haven't heard from him in a while)
14 August 2008
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lonelyone (Anonymous) says…
I've been wondering about Taxslave myself. I think he/she must be on vacation???
14 August 2008
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lonelyone (Anonymous) says…
I was just reading some stuff on MSN about Georgia and Russia. It appears that this could get ugly. Also reminds me of Iraq and all the other countries in that area and the different little clicks within those countries.
I know the US will do what it needs to do, but our military is stretched pretty thin now and I fear if we get to heavily into this, we'll not have the troops to back it up.
14 August 2008
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50cal (Anonymous) says…
worst part is lonely. My kid graduated this year and I have this overwhelming desire to reenlist and go back over with my brothers. ARG what a twisted bunch of feelings.
14 August 2008
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grannyrett (Anonymous) says…
This has been Putin's goal all along. He has never been pro democracy. He is a communist through and through. The KGB never died. He has kept it alive and is probably the head of it. He has never been America's friend or ally. He seeks world dominance and the cold war never ended for him.
14 August 2008
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Patrick (Anonymous) says…
Man, I thought I was the only one freaked out by all this.
Putin will keep Georgia and quicky move on the Ukrain. This is how I figure it. First, we're as weak as we are going to get. Next year our own drilling will be making a big impact and the houseing crunch will be over. Also, our troops will be coming home.
Oil prices will start to fall next year due to new cars and drilling so Russia's cash cow will start to dwindle.
Putin wants to rule Russia and him and the people of Russia want to have the old power of the U.S.S.R. back. So if he can't deliver Georgia, now he never will.
We wont stop him with force, at least thats the impression I get today. So if he can take Georgia and no one will stop him he has to hurry and take Ukrain before we can build them up. Before we can drasticly increase our military capability.
Russia needs the Ukrain's 50 million people to be what it once was. The only reason we didn't let Ukrain join NATO was to keep Russia happy. That ship has sailed. So he will move again and again until he is stopped. Because we can't do anything about it yet.
14 August 2008
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lonelyone (Anonymous) says…
50, don't feel to bad. my son has the same feelings sometimes. I don't believe your feelings are twisted, I just think your one of those people who thinks that maybe they can make a difference.
15 August 2008
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50cal (Anonymous) says…
Pat looks like the Ukrain isn't budging either they told the russian navy that they had to get permission to leave Ukrainian ports.