posted June 23, 2010 11:30 AM         

It must be RR...Rooster Radar.

posted June 23, 2010 12:07 PM         

i was just stating some facts. it has been suggested the judge in question had quite a lot of oil investments to protect, and that is being investigated. a new moratorium is in the works and this decision is being appealed.

posted June 23, 2010 12:26 PM         

I have no idea if this judge owns oil shares or ever did. But if that's the leftist criteria for judges recusing themselves from hearing lawsuits then, let's extend it to other judges who are members of Planned Parenthood, the Sierra Club and other organizations who "hear" and judge suits on subject matter in which they have a conflict of interest.

posted June 23, 2010 12:32 PM         

For someone to say, you know what? I can't sit on the Department of the Interior because I own stock in Corp. x that has logging interests, or I donate to Environment Group z. Gee I can't judge this case, because I donate to x charity, or I own this much of stock g, etc.

posted June 23, 2010 07:37 PM         

We would be more associated with Jupiter..expanding the economy, expanding opportunity, expanding liberty, expanding the size of the pie so everyone can have a bigger piece.

Demoscats are from Pluto fits. Demoscats are busy downgrading their appeal, downgrading opportunities, downsizing the economy and downgrading themselves to minority party status.

Pluto was recently downgraded from a planet to a dwarf..planet.

posted June 23, 2010 09:05 PM         

Re: conflict of interest?

posted June 24, 2010 12:08 PM         

Just as obviously, there are those who wish to limit success, limit opportunity, limit liberty, limit speech...in fact, limit most everything. We call those people leftists and they presently reside in the demoscat party.

posted June 28, 2010 09:36 AM         

Energy Policy: Our interior secretary plans to reinstate the offshore drilling moratorium struck down by a federal judge. But if deep-water drilling is so unsafe, why are we helping Brazil drill nearly three times as deep?

Maybe Secretary Ken Salazar can explain why Britain and others can safely drill in the North Sea and no other nation has suspended its offshore drilling. Yet there he was Tuesday saying he'll reissue a reworded moratorium that will make it clear to dunces like U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman why offshore drilling is unsafe.

As with health care reform and other issues, the administration's position is that we didn't make it clear enough, so we will speak slower and use smaller words. But double talk is double talk no matter how you rearrange the words.

"The decision to impose a moratorium on deep-water drilling was and is the right decision," Salazar said, even after he was caught rewording a report so a team of experts he assembled would look like they supported the moratorium, when in fact, they adamantly opposed it and thought it would do more harm than the Deepwater Horizon spill itself.

"If some drilling equipment parts are flawed, is it rational to say all are?" Feldman asked in his ruling. "Are all airplanes a danger because one was? All oil tankers like Exxon Valdez? All trains? All mines?

"That sort of thinking seems heavy-handed, and rather overbearing." Not for an administration and its environmentalist supporters whose collective goal is not to drill safely, but to drill not at all, at least not here.

Last August, the U.S. Export-Import Bank issued a "preliminary commitment" letter to Brazil's state-run Petrobras in the amount of $2 billion, with the promise of more to follow. Why are we lending billions to a foreign oil company that made $15 billion last year?

These taxpayer dollars finance exploration of the huge offshore discovery in Brazil's Tupi oil field in the Santos Basin near Rio de Janeiro. Apparently there are no pristine beaches full of tourists there. Someday we may be importing that oil we're helping Brazil get at.

Has that letter been rescinded as part of the moratorium? Why are Brazil's offshore fields safe but ours aren't?

The irony is that most of the deep-water rigs idled by the moratorium may shortly be snapped up by a Petrobras apparently undeterred by images of tar balls on Rio's beaches. Petrobras plans to drill to a depth of 14,022 feet, a depth that makes our 500-foot limit laughable. Brazil is going big-game hunting, and we're stuck in the petting zoo.

A recent study by Science Applications International Corp. shows that failure to exploit our domestic and offshore resources translates into some $2.3 trillion in lost opportunity costs for the U.S. economy over the next two decades. The American Petroleum Institute estimates that exploiting these resources would generate nearly 160,000 well-paying jobs and $1.7 trillion in federal, state and local revenues, with $1.3 trillion from offshore drilling alone.

If the moratorium stands and energy prices rise, the only ones to profit will be foreign-owned companies such as Petrobras and investors such as George Soros, who has an investment in the oil giant in the neighborhood of $900 million. Yes, the same George Soros who also is a major investor in the Democratic Party and President Obama's 2008 campaign.

Soros would love to see domestic offshore drilling shut down and those three dozen deep-water rigs sitting idle shipped off to the coast of Brazil. He has a huge investment in both Petrobras and the Democrats. He expects a return on all his investments.

While we track the trail of oil gushing from Deepwater Horizon, we should also follow the money that will be gushing into George Soros' bank account, courtesy of the U.S. government and the American taxpayer.

posted June 28, 2010 02:04 PM         

I know profits are dirty words in the mouths of leftists. Profits are evil...and those who produce them are even more evil in the minds of those who worship at the alter of Karl Marx.

However, there are no more evil examples of government than those spawned by the writings of Karl Marx...and no better examples of useful idiots than those who still cling to the failed socioeconomic policies of this 5th rate 19th Century so called thinker.

"pretty much all the big oil-producing countries in the world are investing in renewables and getting well ahead of us in place to reap the rewards of the coming economy."

There is no green economy coming. We've thrown hundreds of billions of dollars at so called green energy sources only to find the costs to consumers is about 10 times the cost of energy produced by oil and coal...and...there's no way to create enough green energy production to supply America's needs.

Spain has already booted the idea off the field when they found it's cost exceeded the ability of consumers to pay for it...and also found that for every job created in the green economy...2 jobs were lost as a result in the rest of the economy.

posted June 28, 2010 09:59 PM         

why do you think the big oil companies have claimed rights in the solar and wind fields? either they want to stop the change or they will make money from it. as usual they are playing both sides.

solar was stopped before because it would cost too much to those invested solely in the old energies. the technology for so many things has been available for years. what has been difficult is figuring out how to get a monopoly on it...

i'm not interested in marxism. but i'm not interested in living in a corporate fascist world either. already the non-corporate entrepreneur's choices and options have been narrowed to a ridiculous extent. maybe you have retired from active creation but a lot of people are trying to figure out how to make a profit outside the corporate box. what about them?

posted June 28, 2010 10:46 PM         

Well, the smart money's on Harlow
And the moon is in the street
The shadow boys are breaking all the laws
And you're east of East St. Louis
And the wind is making speeches
And the rain sounds like a round of applause
Napoleon is weeping in the Carnival saloon
His invisible fiance is in the mirror
The band is going home
It's raining hammers, it's raining nails
Yes, it's true, there's nothing left for him down here

posted June 29, 2010 09:34 AM         

Hahaha

Don't look now but O'Bomber is busy setting up his Marxist Socialist Fascist form of Corporatism.

So far O'Bomber has:

Taken over parts of the Insurance sector
Taken over 2 US auto manufacturers
Taken over the Health Care industry
Taken over the Banks and Financial institutions

O'Bomber is busy trying to take over the Energy Sector of the US economy.

posted July 02, 2010 11:30 AM         

No one can "claim" rights to wind and solar power. Where do you get these ideas?

General Electric is one of the biggest players in the field if not the biggest player. That's the reason they are backing the O'Bomber "crap and tax" plan to destroy the energy independence of the US and drive energy costs through the roof. GE plans to benefit enormously.

It's going to fail miserably.

Let's see katatonic.

When you take over private sector industry, private sector financial institutions...then fire their management and install your own inexperienced geeks and Czars to run their operations..which will cause their further failure...then katatonic, you've gone far beyond regulating them.

That's the O'Bomber plan, CONTROL. That's what O'Bomber has actually done.

Look for O'Bomber's commissions, councils, boards, Czars and other government interference with the private sector to come to a screeching halt after November when budgets for those Marxist, Fascist O'Bomber power grabs are zeroed in congressional budgets.

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