President Obama talks so much and is so omnipresent on television, that the value of a "major speech" from the Oval Office is diminished....
That did not stop the President from delivering with passion his pitch for a new world order of energy led by government spending and intervention in the marketplace. Against the backdrop of oil-soaked pelicans, it all sounds appealing.
Mr. Obama took his obligatory shot at the Bush Administration by saying the Minerals Manangement Service was averse to regulation for the past ten years.....But of those ten years, the most recent two years are under his watch and that scapegoating is getting old.
The President said he is going to hold BP to task. We know that and we know the firms liability in the courts is substantial.
For the moment, the most important thing is to "plug the damn hole." Nothing said on television will do that as what we have is the stuff of Prophecy.
By tampering with the Earth in this manner we have sewn the wind and reaped the whirlwind.
Mr. Obama's solution is to build more windmills in Cape Vincent.
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The Pelican Brief... Remember the movie.... Lots of big money did influence this action in the Gulf. No assassinations however but one thing for sure, Bush and Cheney were instrumental in the legislation being passed allowing this drilling to take place and greed and corruption took over, then cutting corners etc etc.. Now finger pointing and many ruined lives.. Do you really think BP is going to take care of the cleanup bill... We will at the pump eventually and Obama will allow it.
Once again a thoughtful but very misleading blog heading from our beloved Mayor of Gotham.
For one second will you stop and think about what you post on your blog ( I am not talking about spelling mistakes that I make and that so many readers like to correct for me)I am talking about your comment that his solution is to build more windmills in Cape Vincent. You know as well as everyone else that is not a solution it is a step in the right direction so that one day we will not have to drill, so that one day we will not be addicted to oil, so that one day we will begin to heal this world. When that one day comes it will be for the next generation, and the next. This hidden agenda crap between you, Johnson and Gray is getting sad and a little old.
We need the windmills, we need solar, we need hydro, we need...but what we don't need is more oil, more oil, and more oil. We are not ready to move away from oil so we have to continue to drill we have to continue to import that is the nature of the beast; however, with every new windmill, hydro, nuclear, solar array is the step away from the oil. You of all people should be supporting the shift to solar, to wind, to more hydro, etc.
What does the city of Watertown offer as an incentive to its local business to use alternate energy? Nothing! Truth be told are a firm believer that all business should pay for everything out of pocket with no reward for doing so, that is the language of the old boy network and it too is getting old. Changes they are a coming and hopefully you will realize that and get on board or be left at the station wondering when Johnson or Gray will be there to pick you up.
One more thing, you made a huge issue when the windmill fell and you’re anti wind blogs and were a major talking piece of your radio show but answer me this when that windmill fell how many people died? How severe was the environmental impact? How much money was lost? Answer all these questions in comparison to the current disaster. I know the answer so yes it is a rhetorical question.
I find it funny though even after everything that is going on you like so many others continue to talk and then after talking you decide to talk again never have you offered your plan to correct any of these issues, you can't even tell this community you were responsible for that stupid deck, own up to it be a man. And stop your back door hidden agenda politics.
Well said Mr. Mayor.
The windmills amount to a drop of oil.
“If we can put a man on the moon” is the first sentence to logical fallacy.
But Obama and his supporters are the kings of logical fallacy.
Remember Obama care and “something is better than nothing” fallacy?
Ironic that our dimwitted dame from AK could shoot holes through his ivy league platitudes within minutes of hearing the speech. She basically said that our country runs on oil for the foreseeable future so shut up already, fix the leak and clean up the spill…whatever it takes.
~SS
3:42 a.m.? What time to you go to bed?
I saw and heard the speech - he did NOT mention Cape Vincent. Not once. Keep slinging that "sh*t" it might eventually stick.
OMG Dan
If we can put a man on the moon, why can't we send Jeff there?
I agree with 11:03. We are greatly humiliated by our own stupidity and the last thing we want is to be reminded of some of the things we read about on this blog. We would rather stick to TV7 and pablum like that, where nothing of significance is ever raised and we can pretend that we, the voters, have no put ourselves in this situation. I'm with 11:03. I'm uncooooooooomfortable with myself and I don't want anyone pointing it out to me.
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