Posted by
The Hermit Crab on Sunday, February 27, 2011 10:24:49 PM
Since I'm still honored as Featured Blog on Townhall.com, I thought I should write a little something other than tributes to my father, who died 17 days ago.
Hydrofracking is one method by which fields of natural gas deep underground can be accessed for use to heat homes, etc. It consists of pumping high-pressure water to fracture (thus the name) rock that is blocking access to the economically-vital gas. The usual Luddite and "Watermelon" (Green on the outside, red on the inside) enviros are suing to block all attempts to use this advanced technology, despite (or perhaps because of) the fact that accessing this source of fuel would lessen our dependence on foreign energy sources. They claim that the materials pumped into the fracture to maintain its width would cause environmental damage. It is of no use to point out to them that most of what's pumped into the earth by hydrofracking is water (thus the first part of the term), that materials such as sand and ceramics have not hitherto been considered pollutants, and that all of this is to be pumped deep under the surface of the earth anyway. After all, these are the same scienticific ignoramuses who are trying to tell us that carbon dioxide is a pollutant.
I vote we tell the H-F opponents to go frack themselves.
I can't help but chuckle at the hysterical critics of the GOP's redoubtable Sarah Palin, and when I read yet another absurd attack on her I remember what a supporter of
Grover Cleveland said about him at (I believe) a New York State Democratic Convention in the late 19th century -- "We love him also for the enemies he has made."
You see, back then "honest Democrat" hadn't yet become an oxymoron.
In an otherwise excellent
article by Dorothy Rabinowitz about the lethal political correctness that allowed jihad gunman Major Nidal Hasan to stay in the Army and gain promotion after promotion despite showing even more signs of mental instability that Maxine Waters does until he eventually killed 13 and wounded 32 at Fort Hood Army Base, a salient fact is omitted. Part of the PCBS that made this incident more costly was that Major Hasan was the only person at the scene originally who was armed. Due to an anti-gun pandering law put in place by President Billy Jeff Clinton, the troops ON an Army base were NOT ALLOWED TO CARRY GUNS ON THE BASE! Thus, Major Hasan (who's first name is also the last name of famous 1980s terrorist Abu Nidal, which makes me wonder about his parents) was unopposed in firepower until the police arrived. Only in Liberal LaLaLand does it make sense for the police to have to be called to an Army base to stop a jihadi Army officer who's murdering his fellow soldiers.
I knew if I stayed a telephone operator long enough this would happen. Today a woman yelled at and hung up on me because she heard me breathing. "Well, excuse me for breathing!"
Rush Limbaugh refers to the most radical of abortion proponents as Feminazis. If you think that Rush's term is too harsh, I suggest you read these
quotes.
I read another comment from some slack-brained liberal who said that we must not profile or even look suspiciously at Muslims because if we do so we will forfeit the "moral high ground". In the blood-stained history of humanity I've seen or read of people who held onto the moral high ground and wound up buried on it. No, thanks.