Posted by
DBlog on Wednesday, September 06, 2006 9:54:25 PM
- The Dem's are going to have a tough time making the case that it's a bad economy when the price at the pump is down from $2.99/gal to $2.49/gal (who'd ever think I'd be feeling giddy about topping off the tank for $2.49/gal!).
And, what with the new oil find in the Gulf...they'll sound like a tired old song as they sing about "high energy prices."
- The Gulf oil find is good news, to be sure. Every bit helps where loosening the hold of the Cartel is concerned. But watch for environmental groups to oppose drilling and getting the Cartel off our backs - hey! we still can't drill off Florida.
- G.W. is talking tough on terror. Right words, but they'd be more believable if he was actually DOING something about the porus boarders. And if he really wants to wean us off of Cartel dependency, he could put the screws to his brother in Florida to allow offshore drilling, and make sure the greenheads don't hold up the show on the new Gulf drilling.
- I was just listening to Newt on H&C. I like Newt. He's a sharp guy who talks a sound line. But he doesn't stand a chance for the Presidential bid - sorry, but being ousted from congress for any reason makes for a bad executive office run. Still, he could make a great V.P.
- I've been emersed in Bill Bennett's "America: The Last Best Hope" since the holiday weekend. It was chilling to read about the Arab corsairs on the Barbary coast. "Various Arab rulers there would regularly declare war against European countries and then begin seizing their ships and men. The captured crews would be held for ransom or sold in the market as slaves." (p.182) More chilling still the response of the Arab diplomat who justified their tactics:
"The ambassador answered us that it was founded on the Laws of the Prophet, that it was written in their Koran, that all nations who should not have answered their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as prisoners." (p.182)
Sound familiar? If they are "extremists, they've been extreme for a long, long time. Or, maybe this really is the face of Islam...
Give us another Thomas Jefferson, Edward Preble (Commodore of the USS Constitution), Lieutenant Stephen Decatur, and William Eaton in our time! G.W. could be a close runner up to T.J. But, find your few good men, Mr. President, and get the gloves off and finish the job!