WASHINGTON – Reversing a ban on oil drilling off most U.S. shores, President Barack Obama on Wednesday announced an expansive new policy that could put new oil and natural gas platforms in waters along the southern Atlantic coastline, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and part of Alaska

What the hell? I HOPE this isn’t the type of CHANGE we’re going to get from Obama. Maybe I was wrong to expect anything more from a black guy.

If any of my readers know a way I can get in touch with him directly I would appreciate you letting me know. I know I can get my drilling evidence in front of him personally (instead of filtered through the corporate whores that separate government from the public) he couldn’t ignore it.

Thanks.

Vail Daily letter: Strong feelings about SUVs

Are you aware that millions and millions of innocent men, women and children are dying on this planet every single day, just so you can live in million dollar condos and drive around in luxury vehicles?

How can anyone argue with that?

Firstly, I haven’t stopped pursuing my drilling theory, which only seems to make more and more sense to me as time passes. I’ve been in contact with some professors at local universities and with the mainstream press, but they’re all apparently too afraid to touch this so it’s up to me to shoulder this burden. I should be used to the by now, anyway.

Secondly, during my hiatus America managed to finally get rid of George Bush and elect a long-overdue black man. I cannot begin to describe how happy this makes me. I once again have hope for our future.

The first in this series is a guy from Texas who runs a site called marmay.net. He has done an excellent job of documenting his progress installing a hydrogen fuel cell in his personal automobile. The difference is he’s doing a “homemade” system that doesn’t cost thousands of dollars. He is very thorough and seems very smart. He isn’t deterred by the fact that “mainstream science” says what he is doing is impossible, he’s showing “mainstream science” that he knows better.

Thank you, guy from Texas. The world is a better place because of you.

As we all know, most global warming is caused by rednecks driving giant gas-hogging SUVs. You and I can drive as many sensible vehicles as we want, but it will barely make a dent in the damage these guys cause. I live in Louisiana, so I know a thing or two about rednecks. I know the one thing rednecks like more than giant trucks. Answer: Going fast.

So how do we convince these Neanderthals to give up their Hummers and drive something reasonable and green? We let them go fast. We should make it a law that SUVs have a universal speed limit of 50MPH while hybrids, scooters, Segways, and other eco-friendly vehicles are allowed to go as fast as they want on the Interstate.

I don’t want any money for my idea (although I should patent it) I just want recognition as the guy that saved billons of lives by fixing global warming.

Like I said, I’m not an “official” climate scientist (just a serious amateur) so I don’t have millions of dollars in lab equipment and balloons, but I am smart enough and I do have enough resources to notice that it has definitely been hotter lately.

Another idea I’ve been mulling around is the possibility that the mere act of drilling for oil is warming the planet. I know it seems silly at first, but when you really think about it starts to make sense:

1. We’re drilling holes hundreds of miles deep into the Earth’s crust. The crust is the part of the planet that shields us from the heat of the core and mantel. We’re basically putting holes in the insulation that prevents our planet from turning into a star.

2. We’re extracting the carbon-based oil that the dinosaurs put there billions of years ago. Carbon is toxic to humans and to our planet so what do we do with it? We put it in our cars and burn it so that it goes up into the atmosphere and back down into our lungs. GOOD PLAN, GENIUSES!

3. What is the number one indicator of global warming? Rising ocean temperatures. Where is the crust the thinnest? Under the oceans. Where do we drill most of our oil wells? Take a guess…

I guarantee you won’t ever hear a thing about this from the mainstream media. They’re all multinational corporations that care more about stock price than the environment. Luckily I’m not beholden to any special interests other than my cats.

I know this isn’t really a topic that this blog is geared towards, but it’s such an important issue that I can’t let it pass without comment.

It is despicable the way those boys have been treated. Every white person in this country (and I’m sad to say I’m one) should be absolutely sick and ashamed of themselves over this. I understand that a fund has been established for their college educations and if I have any money left over next paycheck I plan on contributing.

What makes people act like this? Like animals? Are white people not satisfied with owning everything, controlling all the jobs, and having all the good hair? Why must they thrust themselves into the lives of the disadvantaged, only to wreak havoc upon such innocents?

You can rest assured that in the future time will be divided into “before Jena” and “after Jena.” We ought to round up the prosecutor, judge, and all the police involved in this case and string ‘em up. Yes, I’m that upset!

Even worse is the mainstream corporate media hardly even mentions this story any more. It should be on the front page of every newspaper in every city for the next 100 years so we’re all reminded of the lengths people will go to in the trampling of other peoples’ rights.

Look at these faces, they’re the future of this nation and deserve to be treated as such…

Until this year, Robert Kazini had never given much thought to whether he was fishing in Congolese or Ugandan waters; it didn’t matter.

Nor did it matter much to Uganda and Democratic Republic of Congo — until prospectors found oil here.

Now, with crude nearing $100 a barrel and both countries dreaming of billions of petrodollars that could flow from Lake Albert, an ugly and at times deadly dispute over their border is jeopardising the livelihoods of locals like Kazini.

Do the people running these corporations have any decency?  I knew they were money-grubbing animals, but I’ve always assumed there was an unspoken agreement regarding the exploitation of Africa, the last patch of peaceful, unspoiled wilderness left on this planet. For millions of years Africans have lived in peace, with tribes sharing the land that sustained them.  Then came the white man with their  “magic fire” and “slave-catching nets” to take advantage of whatever and whoever they wanted.

WHY CAN’T WE JUST LEAVE THESE POOR PEOPLE ALONE? They have a hard enough life as it is.  We’ve already started destroying the climate they’ve appreciated since the time of the dinosaurs, why do we also have to destroy the water and land they live on? For a few more dollars?

The article doesn’t say which companies are the ones trying to steal the oil, but I’d bet it’s almost certainly American ones.  Europeans have the good sense and the human decency to let Africa just be Africa, they’re not greedy enough to exploit a peaceful people for a slightly larger bottom line.

Has anyone ever pointed out that the United States is 12% African-American  and Africa is 100% African-American, yet somehow they have zero crime and zero pollution? We should probably try and learn from those people instead of simply trying to take whatever we can from them.