How the Wall Street Journal Set Off a Firestorm Against Petrobras

Forbes  "What's all of this nonsense about the US giving Petrobras a $2 billion loan for their drilling in Brazil? This article should put that rumor to bed." 
From Neal Boortz, whom the TW refers to often, especially on the complicated issues. One must respect the way Mr. Boortz can make the incomprehensible understandable. And so much the left does today is truly incomprehensible.
Oh, and if you go to Mr. Boortz's Reading Assignments, be sure to catch this one: "Capitalism may be to blame for the lack of life on the planet Mars. That is according to Hugo Chavez."
Mr. Chavez, Senator Kucinich will see you now.

Having said all that, this still applies: President Obama Can’t Wait to Buy More Foreign Oil  "But President Obama is not against all offshore oil drilling. When other countries are the ones developing their natural resources, President Obama is all for it. This Sunday in Brazil, President Obama highlighted that country’s recent offshore oil discoveries: “We want to help you with the technology and support to develop these oil reserves safely, and when you’re ready to start selling, we want to be one of your best customers.”"

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/michaelramirez

Obama: Drill, Brazil, Drill!

Investors.com  "Now, with a seven-year offshore drilling ban in effect off of both coasts, on Alaska's continental shelf and in much of the Gulf of Mexico — and a de facto moratorium covering the rest — Obama tells the Brazilians:
" "We want to help you with the technology and support to develop these oil reserves safely. And when you're ready to start selling, we want to be one of your best customers.""  Unreal, absolutely unreal.
Via the California Chronicle

Urban legend regarding this subject.

Obama Underwrites Offshore Drilling from 2009:  "The Bush Administration's five-year plan (2007-2012) to open the outer continental shelf to oil exploration included new lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico. But in 2007 environmentalists went to court to block drilling in Alaska and in April a federal court ruled in their favor. In May, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said his department was unsure whether that ruling applied only to Alaska or all offshore drilling. So it asked an appeals court for clarification. Late last month the court said the earlier decision applied only to Alaska, opening the way for the sale of leases in the Gulf. Mr. Salazar now says the sales will go forward on August 19."

Obama Praises Brazilian Oil Industry While He Stifles Oil Drilling at Home  "Thanks to Barack Obama’s failed energy policies, seven deepwater rigs were moved from the Gulf of Mexico in the last year. At least one of the rigs was relocated to Brazil.
"Barack Obama loves Brazilian energy production."

Why Democrats Love Unions

 Crystal Coast Tea Party "Just in case anyone wonders why Obama and his cronies are so hot to support labor unions particularly government employee unions check out the contributions."                                                                                
 Source: Center for Responsive Politics, Washington, D.C.
Hat tip to John Uhrig, Plano, TX

Foreign journalists used as human shields outside Gadhafi compound?

Yahoo News  "But reports out of the North African nation now indicate that Libyan officials may actually be using foreign journalists to that end. The regime brought reporters to Gadhafi's compound in Tripoli Sunday night "to effectively use them as human shields," Fox News Channel correspondent Jennifer Griffin reports."

Democrats for Progress reports: FOX Lies (again): CNN crews used as human shields in Libya :
"I just saw Wolf Blitzer ask Nic Robertson if he felt he was being used as a "human shield" and he throughly dispelled that notion as rubbish ."

Jennifer Griffin sticking by report on journalists being used as human shields in Libya  "“They felt that the civilians and journalists had effectively been used as human shields and that was frustrating to them,” said Griffin tonight. “It was a very close call. In fact one official told me that there was a Reuters crew literally on a spot where they were going to drop a missile.”"

Florida Pastor Terry Jones Finally Burns that Koran

Verum Serum  "There are already 2-3 copies of this clip on You Tube with a description in Arabic. This is going to get around the Muslim world very quickly.
"I don’t think this accomplishes anything except to make people angry. Moderates who see this may be less sympathetic to us. Radicals who view it will only have their view of America confirmed."
This guy and Julian Assange should hug each other.

Palin Condemns Quran Burning, Likens to "Ground Zero Mosque"  ""Book burning is antithetical to American ideals," Palin wrote in a Facebook note. "People have a constitutional right to burn a Koran if they want to, but doing so is insensitive and an unnecessary provocation - much like building a mosque at Ground Zero.""

MARVEL COMICS INSULTS 9-11 FAMILIES AND THEIR SUPPORTERS

Astute Blogger  "And who wrote the X-Factor story here? Peter David, I'm afraid. The man who once wrote a story in the same named series back in the early 90s where they and the Hulk took down a Saddam Hussein-ish dictator now does 360, and explains why I don't think I'll want to read his writings anymore. Once, I thought he was smart enough to avoid this kind of propaganda, and he did once signal he respects Israel. Guess I was wrong. Now, he's plumbing new depths and suggesting he condones imposing sharia on America."

Now they want your children's minds.

The Democrat Recycling Program

http://terrellaftermath.com/

Happy Birthday, ObamaCare

VIDEO: IHOP Owner Fears Obamacare’s Impact on Jobs and Economy  "Under the year-old law, Womack must provide health insurance to all full-time employees beginning in 2014. Right now, he employs nearly 1,000 full- and part-time workers and already offers insurance to his management staff. He simply does not know how he’ll generate the revenue to do more.

"Womack estimates the cost of the law to his company will be 50 percent greater than his company’s earnings — in other words, beyond his ability to pay."

Happy Birthday, Obamacare? What It Really Means for American Businesses  "...Obamacare also creates penalties for firms with more than 50 workers that do not provide employees with a level of health coverage deemed adequate by Washington. This discourages small businesses from expanding. As Heritage analyst Brian Blase writes, “The economic effects of the employer mandate will likely be lower profits for many businesses, lower wages for millions of workers, increased unemployment, and higher prices for many goods and services.” Since employers will be required to increase the amount they compensate workers in the form of benefits, they will reduce the amount of compensation they provide as wages, since, after all, “Productivity gains, not acts of Congress, are required to increase worker compensation over time.”"

Government Treats the Taxpayers Like a Piggy Bank

Big Government  "My 401K is down 40%, my employer just cut the match; and it looks like I may have work until I’m 70 years old. I also pay for pensions to public employees who retired in their 50s.
"I don’t have enough money to go on vacation this year, but I paid my share of the federal government’s $2.6 million grant to teach Chinese prostitutes to drink responsibly. I pay for bridges to nowhere."

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
No Country Leans on Upper-Income Households as Much as U.S.: Some comments take issue with this claim.

Videos: US fighter crashes, crew rescued by US, rebel forces

Hot Air  "One of the jet’s airmen landed in a field of sheep after ejecting from the plane, then raised his hands and called out “OK, OK” to a crowd who had gathered, the Telegraph cited witness Younis Amruni, 27, as saying.
"“I hugged him and said: ‘Don’t be scared, we are your friends,’” Amruni told the newspaper, adding that people then lined up to shake the airman’s hand.
"“We are so grateful to these men who are protecting the skies,” he said. “We gave him juice and then the revolutionary military people took him away.”"

Eight years after Iraq, the Bush doctrine lives on..

JAMES TARANTO  "Obama's eventual decision to strike Libya is more consistent with the Bush doctrine--that promoting democracy in the Muslim world, sometimes by military means, is in America's national interests--than with Obama's own inclinations. It has drawn harsh if predictable criticism from both the isolationist right and the anti-American left. Providing some comic relief, Politico reports that Rep. Dennis Kucinich is even making noises about impeachment."


Mixed signals from Obama and the Middle East

 Richard Cohen   "The change that Obama promised has settled on us all like an irritating drizzle. His ideas were untested by either age or experience. It is one thing to decry American unilateralism and quite another to await international action when time is of the essence. It is not necessary for America always to lead, but it is sometimes necessary for it to do so — and always necessary for the president to know when that moment has arrived. Obama seems not to know. He often solves problems by ignoring them."



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