I was off the grid for a few days. I didn't know until a few hours ago that Murtha had died. Hell, I just found out an hour ago who won the Super Bowl. I musta been the last person in the world to know. When I hibernate, it is a total news blackout.

I wonder if he visited John Murtha in the hospital.........................?

Republicans ought learn from recent history.

"Given Obama’s rehiring of campaign manager and his triangulating offers, Republicans obviously have no time waste if they are to win this most important debate of 2010."

If New Jersey, Virginia, and most recently Massachusetts are any indication, Republicans ought be concerned with appearing too cozy with Barrack Obama. Even appearing close to him, not to mention close enough to shake his hand appears to be the kiss of death politically.

Three feet of snow in DC?
My only regret is that it wasn't snowing gunpowder. Prior to a lightning storm........

Frances Piven?
There is nothing more pitiful, than a semi-senile, has been academic who has espoused her propaganda for a genertaion, trying to make sense in her geriatric years. She makes the living case for euthanasia. It was she, and those of her ilk, who have turned this once great nation into a quivering cesspool of a welfare state.

Contd.

Nothing personal, just business. When we are gone, we will be sorely missed. The next time some carbon rich billionaire goes to flip his light switch and nothing happens, or turns his furnace on and there is no gas, or there is no hydrocarbon based glue, to glue his Birkenstocks together, nor plastics to make a computer, someone is gonna say: "Gee, we needed those guys". By then it will be too late.........

There was an old bumper sticker back in the '80's, during the Arab Oil Embargo. Something to the effect: "Eliminate Oil and Gas, let those Yankees freeze in the dark". That day is fast approaching. You folks ought take heed and be forewarned...........

I want you to know, that I sincerely enjoy your articles. They are informative, and thought provoking. Thank you sincerely. Not that it matters, but as a business man, I get to see ground zero first hand, as it relates to the the EPA and Federal Bureacracy's running amok. I ranch and raise cattle. To pay for that habit, I have been in the energy business for 35 years. Oil and gas, coal, timber, and everything associated with it. I am a target. I am a dinosaur. I am slated for extinction. When I say "I", that is not an egocentric statement. I do not take it personally. That "I" includes everyone in my related industries.

"TeaBagger crowd: polite. The nutjobs who were bussed to Town Halls didn’t get their way paid to Sarah’s $100,000 speech"

Quite frankly, I have a different perspective. The reason there is such a furor, a brouhaha in the MSM over the fee paid to Sarah Palin, whether that be brom Mr. Ebert, Chris Matthews, Keith Olberman, Rachel Maddow or any of the rest of the left wing loons in the MSM, boils down simply to one thing: JEALOUSY.

They are all jealous of Palin, and her abilities. How dare she, a nobody, who came out of nowhere, with nothing be able to command such a fee? That is what gets them where it hurts. Right in the ego, and the pocketbook.

Go get 'em Sarah! I hope she drives them all into cardiac arrest..

Mr. Trzupek,
"Trust me folks, these new standards are going to leave a mark. But, outside of yours truly and a handful of my fellow techno-geeks on the industry side in this weird world of environmental regulation, few people realize that is so."

I realize it. I have fought that organization for 35 years now. My entire adult life, and business career I have been squarely in their crosshairs and still am. The average person has no comprehension what the EPA is capable of.

Believe me, when you get a visit from your Government, and they come to your office carrying side arms and shotguns, it is not a friendly visit. Although they are from the Government, they are not "here to help".

Believe me, by the time this is over, and they are done flexing their newfound "muscle", someone, somewhere in the country is going to wind up being shot. People have had enough, and it is only going to take one nutcase to set it off.

Interesting article.
It sure will be interesting. One thing for certain is that Amidinejad isn't going to abdicate, and open borders and relations with the west. If we were smart, WE would seize the Iranian Embassy and take hostages HERE, just to commemorate the event..............