Royal Wedding,....Royal Snub

There is a lot of hulaboo over the guest list to the Royal wedding. Some people are receiving invitations for only the addressee and not the spouse. There is one couple intentionally left off,...... and they are the Obamas.

Reading the editorial from the London Telegraph by Alex Singleton, the American people can now more readily understand why the Obama's were omitted from the guest list to the Royal wedding in April! This is a sobering article and shows how our historical alies, and perhaps the World sees the Obamas.....

From The London Daily Telegraph Editor On Foreign Relations

"Let me be clear: I'm not normally in favor of boycotts, and I love the American people. I holiday in their country regularly, and hate the tedious snobby sneers against the United States. But the American people chose to elect an idiot who seems hell bent on insulting their allies, and something must be done to stop Obama's reckless foreign policy, before he does the dirty on his allies on every issue."

One of the most poorly kept secrets in Washington is President Obama's animosity toward Great Britain, presumably because of what he regards as its sins while ruling Kenya (1895-1963).

One of Barack Hussein Obama's first acts as president was to return to Britain a bust of Winston Churchill that had graced the Oval Office since 9/11. He followed this up by denying Prime Minister Gordon Brown, on his first state visit, the usual joint press conference with flags.

The president was "too tired" to grant the leader of America 's closest ally a proper welcome, his aides told British journalists.

Mr. Obama followed this up with cheesy gifts for Mr. Brown and the Queen. Columnist Ian Martin described his behavior as "rudeness personified." There was more rudeness in store for Mr. Brown at the opening session of the United Nations in September. "The prime minister was forced to dash through the kitchens of the UN in New York to secure five minutes of face time with President Obama after five requests for a sit down meeting were rejected by the White House", said London Telegraph columnist David Hughes. Mr. Obama's "churlishness is unforgivable", Mr. Hughes said.

The administration went beyond snubs and slights last week when Secretary of State Hillary Clinton endorsed the demand of Argentine President Cristina Kirchner, a Hugo Chavez ally, for mediation of Argentina 's specious claim to the Falkland Islands, a British dependency since 1833. The people who live in the Falklands, who speak English, want nothing to do with Argentina. When, in 1982, an earlier Argentine dictatorship tried to seize the Falklands by force, the British -- with strong support from President Ronald Reagan -- expelled them.

"It is truly shocking that Barack Obama has decided to disregard our shared history," wrote Telegraph columnist Toby Young. "Does Britain 's friendship really mean so little to him?" One could ask, does the friendship of anyone in the entire world mean anything to him?

"I recently asked several senior administration officials, separately, to name a foreign leader with whom Barack Obama has forged a strong personal relationship during his first year in office," wrote Jackson Diehl, deputy editorial page editor of the Washington Post, on Monday. "A lot of hemming and hawing ensued." One official named French President Nicolas Sarkozy, but his contempt for Mr. Obama is an open secret. Another named German Chancellor Angela Merkel. But, said Mr. Diehl, "Merkel too has been conspicuously cool toward Obama."

Mr. Obama certainly doesn't care about the Poles and Czechs, whom he has betrayed on missile defense. Honduras and Israel also can attest that he's been an unreliable ally and an unfaithful friend. Ironically, our relations with both Israel and the Palestinian Authority have never been worse. Russia has offered nothing in exchange for Mr. Obama's abandonment of missile defense. Russia and China won't support serious sanctions on Iran. Syria's support for terrorism has not diminished despite efforts to normalize diplomatic relations. The reclusive military dictatorship that runs Burma has responded to our efforts at "engagement" by deepening its ties to North Korea.

And the Chinese make little effort to disguise their contempt for him.

For the first time in a long time, the President of the United States is actually distrusted by its allies and not in the least feared by its adversaries. Nor is Mr. Obama now respected by the majority of Americans. Understandably focused on the dismal economy and Mr. Obama's relentless efforts to nationalize and socialize health care, Americans apparently have yet to notice his dismal performance and lack of respect in the world community. They soon will.

-- London Daily Telegraph editor - Alex Singleton

Oil Dependancy - Oil Underneath out Feet

Oil importation is at an all time high, despite the creation of the Department of Energy (DOE) decades ago and continued empty meaning promise by politican after politican, and administration after administration on becoming energy independent. We are more dependent now than we ever have been on foreign oil.

With the decline of the U.S. dollar and the threat for the U.S. dollar to lose it's status as the world's reserve curency, fuel will skyrocket. It has already increased one daoller per gallon in the last 11 months.

Make no mistake about it,....this is a national security issue! We have got to exploit our natural resource or literally face becoming a third world country and laspe into hyper-inflation. Having a national level focus on exploiting our known reserves across the board in coal, natural gas and oil and even shale oil, plus natural energy surge in wind and solar would provide a much needed economic boost for this country and could, in fact, bring us out of this recession (heading into a depression) and eliminate the national security threat of energy dependancy.

Nowhere is the domestic energy production issue highlighted than on the Artic National Wildlife Refugee (ANWR), pronounced "AN-WAR".

Restrictions on drilling in this area known to contain millions of oil is just plain wrong. Especially when Americans are paying $4 a gallon at the pumps and food and other commodities, brought across country and distributed to retail centers, have risen an average of 40% in the past 6 months.

The major excuse that the environmental nazis use against drilling in ANWR is that drilling in and a pipleine from ANWR would disrupt wild life.

First of all, a new pipeline across Alaska isn't required since the location for drilling in ANWR is about 160 miles From the North Slope Prudhoe Bay pipeline where it would be connected. Second the wildlife loves the pipeline since it is heated and provides a shelter during the worst times during the winter.

If we take the Prudhoe Bay example anyone can see that drilling and infrastucture does not destroy the existing wildlife or environment.  The photos below show the summer and winter time around Prudhoe Bay.  Does it look like the Caribou are put out?

WE NEED TO DRILL HERE, DRILL NOW AND PAY LESS. THIS IS A NATIONAL SECURITY ISSUE.

Budget Battles

A very last-minute budget deal after much hard bargaining last night seems to have avoided an very embarrassing Federal Government shutdown. It remains to be seen the exact numbers of billions, something around $38 billion, that has been cut in spending, but at least the American people can go on about their business with, at least, the possibility that a divided Congress can actually get some work done. We all know that the $38 billion is peanuts compared to the totality of the national debt, ran up into the stratosphere under the current administration and a previously Democratic controlled Congress.

Obama signed a "bridge bill" today (Saturday) that will provide funding through the week to give time for the budget agreement to be finalized.

To me the real question, albeit not important now, is: Who would have been blamed for a Federal Governmental shutdown? The Democrats? The Republicans? The Tea Party? Obama?

Obama could be blamed for an incredible lack of leadership, but not the budget as Congress develops budgets not the executive office.

Recent recordings from conversations between Democrat lawmakers let the Country know about the Dems plan to try and blame the Tea Party. Yes, yes,...that boogeyman ,...the Tea Party.

Well, the facts only support one thing,....that the Democrats would have been to blame. The same Democrats, under the leadership (if you call it that) of that jackass Harry Reid, who failed to develop and present a budget even when they controlled BOTH sides of Congress,..... and in the wake of the Republican controlled House presenting budgets, intended to begin to bring this country back to fiscal responsibility, the Democrats still could not get anything together. Shame on you, Democrats!

But the main battle is still to come,.....to raise the national debt ceiling, or not, and the presentation of a FY2012 budget.