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Have you seen the footage of the bear attack? It’s been on television for over a week. That’s right, the Russian bear has been mauling one of America’s shoulder to shoulder allies, Georgia. Right now, it has Georgia by the throat.
We can save them and ourselves at the same time. All without blood shed and before the bear can charge again. Will we take the shot?
Putin and the Russian people want the old U.S.S.R. back. Right now, America is at its weakest. Our economy is a little slow. Our own oil production is only at 25 percent of our needs. We have troops already in combat, they are kind of tired and the equipment needs some shop time.
In contrast Russia has been making big, big money from their oil exports. With one draw back. They took over their private oil industry and jailed its C.E.O.s. So then and now, no other foreign investors and especially technological investors want anything to do with Russia. So in that aspect they are far behind us. They pretty much only have their nationalized oil money to rely on.
Don’t look for this bruin to leave its kill either. So if Putin is ever going to keep or hold power in Russia again, he has to take and keep Georgia now. The reason is, in a year or so our troops will be home, our economy will be up and Russia’s cash cow of oil will be way weaker. By that time hopefully, we will be bent on drilling for our own oil. So it’s now or never. So don’t look for Russia to pull out of Georgia.
This is where the answer lies. It’s so simple it’s sad. If the price of oil goes down. Russia will be back to begging us for food. With new technology, better cars and higher oil production it will probably happen anyway. The only glitch, and it’s a big one. The Democratic Congress’ heart isn’t in it. Senate leader Nancy Pelosi has commented that maybe we will let America do a little oil drilling then shut it off next year after the election. Which means
we have to run her and her whole crew off. That includes our own energy wafflers Congressmen Ken Salazar and Mark Udall. No matter what they say this election, it’s time for a change in Congress.
So for inpersonam reasons, which means to impose liberty or obligation, we must turn our faces into the wind, lend the eye that terrible aspect, and take our perilous aim now. If not, this Bear will continue to devour Europe, and then us. Hesitation or half steps will not be successful, many dead men would attest to that. This war can be fought and won by roughnecks. We have a shot.
Do we have the nerve? The bear is eyeing us.
PATRICK WAYNE GERMOND
Craig
27 Responses to “The Russian bear has attacked”
Posted August 22nd, 2008 at 1:27 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
Mr. Germond’s “solution” is for pansies! If we really want to take care of the Russian Bear, we should put our B-52 fleet at “Defcon 1,” dust off our old VHS tapes of “Dr. Strangelove,” fast forward to the scene in which Air Force General “Buck” Turgidson is describing our chances of penetrating the Russian Air Defenses:
(making diving aircraft hands)
“Well, sir, if the Aircraft Commander’s a really good man, I
mean really sharp, why he can barrel that
plane along so low - well you just have to
see it some time. A real big plane, like a
Sting Ray, zig-zagging in, its jet exhaust
frying chickens in the barnyard —
(almost feverish with
excitement)
Has he a chance?…..Hell, yes! He has one
hell of a chance.”
We all then phone the White House and demand Dubya NUKE THE HELL OUT OF THE ATHEIST COMMUNIST PIGS!!! (After all, the Russians are part of a gigantic atheist conspiracy to take over the world and impose their Godless ideology on us, especially here in Mesa County).
p.s. Mr. Germond - please note that Nancy Pelosi is the not in the Senate, she’s in the House of Representatives. Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada is the leader in the Senate.
Posted August 22nd, 2008 at 2:43 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
An Empty Promise
By BOB HERBERT
… As Senator Kerry and many others have pointed out, it would be nearly 10 years before any oil at all would be realized from new offshore leases. So your adorable 7- or 8-year-old would be just about 17 and clamoring for a license when this new oil
started coming online.
Maximum capacity from these new leases wouldn’t be reached until 2030, when that 7- or 8-year-old is approaching 30, finished with college and graduate school, and very likely married with children.
And even then — after more than two decades and who knows how many graduations, weddings, funerals and family cars — even then, the amount of oil expected to come from these leases would have little or no effect on the price of gasoline at the pump.
Assuming that everything over all those years goes all right, it is estimated that an additional 200,000 barrels of oil a day would come from the additional offshore drilling. That’s a tiny share of the world’s daily output of 85 million or so barrels.
Here’s what the Energy Information Administration, the statistical agency that provides official data for the federal government, had to say about the anticipated additional output from offshore drilling:
“Because oil prices are determined on the international market … any impact on average wellhead prices is expected to be insignificant.”
Did anyone mention that to the … 63 percent of respondents to an ABC News poll who want the embargo on new offshore drilling to be lifted by the federal
government? …
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/12/opinion/12herbert.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Posted August 22nd, 2008 at 10:33 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
Unbelievable. Do GJBubba and Mr. Germond really believe the ideas they are promoting are good ones? Nuking the hell out of Russia would not only lead to immediate and unavoidable nuclear counter strikes on US soil causing millions of American deaths but would also kill millions of fine people in Russia. All Russians are not evil even if you believe that most of them are. As for our good ol’ ally Georgia, they attacked South Ossetia without physical provocation other than they weren’t succumbing to the centralist Georgian governments demands to do whatever they say. These two gentlemen have been watching the bs “news” on every mainstream television station way too long. I suggest that anyone interested in the military situation arising in Georgia go and read this article, http://www.lewrockwell.com/margolis/margolis120.html, before making any opinion of what is happening.
Posted August 22nd, 2008 at 10:49 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
I will bet that GJBubba is just being sarcastic and mocking Mr. Germond. How about it, Bubba?
Posted August 22nd, 2008 at 11:28 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
David_Cox - relax, dc is correct in saying my comments were totally facetious. However, I can’t speak for Mr. Germond.
Posted August 23rd, 2008 at 12:25 am Login to Send PM Report this comment
big relief, sort of, since germond is almost certainly not joking.
Posted August 23rd, 2008 at 12:30 am Login to Send PM Report this comment
Never mind the worry, I forgot that it’s almost hunting season and Germond is just so excited, itching to shoot that damn bear, that he is framing everything around him in terms of the bear hunt.
Posted August 23rd, 2008 at 3:11 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
First off, “10 years until any oil is produced” is one of the biggest lies in the liberal media to date! That is the weakest and truely most ignorant arguement ever made against drilling for oil on US soil. Even if it did take 10 years, what happened to planning ahead. If we would’ve drilled 10 years ago we would be reaping the rewards of that oil exploration right now. We have no new oil to date because the liberal party, under President Clintons leadership, made your same arguement 12 years ago! The FACT is new oil from new rigs can be explored, built, drilled, and barrelled w/ in months!! Not years. Especially when we already know where the oil is!!
Now on to the wildlife arguement (polar bears, seals, carribou, owls, prarie dogs, etc…). They are THRIVING in the areas where we are drilling. Drive out to any gas rig here in Western Colorado and your guaranteed to see elk, deer, bears, prarie dogs, grazing away. UNAFFECTED! Funny, I see deer nearly every day. Not in the wild but right here in the middle of town. Along w/ bears, prarie dogs, coyotes, and even a mountain lion or two. Right here in our heavily populated, heavily developed, noisy little town. These animals don’t care, they have adapted!! You my friend have not adapted. You better get over your naive enviromentalist theories and get on board the money making train to prosperity. If you don’t, Russia and China will take over. Try preaching your theories to communist leadership.
Money insures that our country will continue to thrive and prosper. Right now, oil is money and will continue to be for decades to come. Drill here, Drill now, build more refineries, and go NUCLEAR. Oh, just in case you didn’t notice, oil companies are footing the bill for alternative energy resource research. What has Fancy Pelousy and Fairy Weed done the last two years besides take vacations? That is the million dollar question.
Posted August 23rd, 2008 at 3:49 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
Ooohh, get a load of you, revis23.
“You better get over your naive environmentalist theories and get on board the money making train to prosperity. If you don’t, Russia and China will take over. Try preaching your theories to communist leadership.”
Letting our “Neocon” ideology do the talking for us, are we?
What a bunch of unsustantiated, extremist fearmongering. The fact is that every company representative that spoke at the last Garfield EAB meeting indicated they were waiting for new rigs to bring on line. Orders for rigs go way out. The industry is building them as fast as they can. The ones that are already running are under contract for months and even years ahead. It takes three years to build an offshore platform. Considerably longer to locate it, drill wells, produce oil, and get to a refinery.
Everyone who follows this issue should know by now that Big Oil is clamoring for the OCS for two reasons.
First, because with nationalization and increased environmental concerns over the devastation brought to many countries by Big Oil, their future access to worldwide exploitation is dwindling rapidly.
Secondly, by grabbing leases the companies increase their portfolios and their ability to negotiate for lower interest on investment funds they get from banks. Lower interest equals higher profits in my business. The same is true for Big Oil.
Go try to sell that bunk elsewhere. We know better.
Posted August 23rd, 2008 at 4:45 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
correction: unsubstantiated, with a “b”.
Posted August 23rd, 2008 at 6:32 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
Revis23 is also all wet about the impact of oil and gas development on wildlife. He gives us a few of his personal observations and unsupported opinions s though these were facts. Wildlife managers in Wyoming have documented severe adverse effects of these operations on wildlife in their research studies. Indeed these have been commented on by the Rocky Mountain News:
“But they cautiously point to research
in Wyoming, much further along, that
has shown elk,mule deer and sagegrouse
tend to avoid energy development areas.
Mule deer in Wyoming have stayed
away from winter range that once provided
critical nourishment during the
colder months and sage grouse have
avoidedtraditional mating sites.
Both animals saw major population declines
in the regions under study, which
researchers believe is tied in part to habitat
loss from gas development.”
http://denver.rockymountainnews.com/documents/2007/2007-12/20071211/20071211-beyond-the-boom-p14.pdf
Facts always trump biased opinion!!
Posted August 23rd, 2008 at 6:35 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
I wonder how much the extremely high ozone levels contribute to the relative well being of the wildlife. I mean, they have lungs, too. And no air conditioning.
Posted August 23rd, 2008 at 6:38 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
revis23, in his enthusiasm and zealotry for corporatism, conveniently ignores reality. Or, perhaps his memory is too short. Honesty would have dictated that he admit that none other than Jimmy Carter (one that our neo-con ‘friends’ love to revile) warned us of the developing situation of energy dependency and the threats it posed, both to our econmomic health, and to national security. So, what did the American people do, they turned their back to the problem and turned instead to the ‘feel good’ California pied piper, Ronald Reagan. It may be that the Democrats made mistakes but, to ignore the reality that all administrations as well as the American people themselves turned their back on the problem is choosing to live in a fantasy world.
More current, where has the Bush/Cheney energy policy been? During the first six years of the administration they had ample opportunity to develop one, particularly when they also had a Republican Congress and Senate during the first six years. So, where is the “Republican Energy Policy”? For those who have not been asleep over the last decade, they know exactly where it is. It is in the pockets of energy companies in order to satisfy “George’s Base.”
Revis23 has aptly labeled him/herself if the ‘revis’ part stands for revising history.
Posted August 23rd, 2008 at 6:39 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
Duke check your P.M.
Posted August 24th, 2008 at 6:49 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
Where in the world did you get that it takes 3 years to build an oil platform? Are you kidding me? Do you really believe that? Cities can be built in 3 years!
NEWS FLASH!!! THE OIL IS LOCATED MY FRIEND!!! We’ve already explored it and proved it’s there. Not enough rigs? It’s called progress and your standing in the way of it. Why would a company increase its capacity for production when they new legislators were standing in the way of putting that product to work? Get out of the way and watch them fly! Rigs would be in ANWAR and off-shore w/in a year after clearance was given to drill. Care to lay a wager? I’d clean you out.
Jimmy Carter in a class above Reagan? Go do a little history homework on what Reagan accomplished in his 8 years as President and compare it to Carters. Really, check the numbers. Wipe the liberal gobley gook from your eyes so you can actually appreciate the accomplishments of the Reagan years. I’m not saying he was perfect, but he’s been the best president we’ve had for 80 years.
You leftist buy into every so-called “scientific study” that you can get your hands on. I don’t blame you, it supports your agenda. After all, how can you go wrong when those performing the studies share your same political bias. That research is not fact! It’s theory. Now, you want fact. Look at the population levels of our Elk and Deer herds. They are the strongest they have ever been. Don’t believe me? Go to the D.O.W. and get the numbers. Yes, I do hunt. Yes, I do use our lands to there fullest. And yes, I have seen first hand the abundance of wildlife in Western Colorado. IT IS FLOURISHING, right along with natural gas production!
As for off-shore rigs, marine life absolutely love it! Coral, and fish flourish under them. Spills? Do you remember a little huricane named Katrina? She didn’t cause one rig to leak, not one! She demolished the platforms but did you hear of any oils spills in the region? NOT ONE!
Get over this “BIG OIL” boo hooing. Thank god for “Big Oil” because no matter what your business is, it’s thriving because of it! THAT IS FACT! Your shooting yourselves in the foot. Can you not see this. Your feel good mentality is killing our economy. Your biting the hand that is feeding you!
Bush/Cheney energy policy? So tell me the democratic response to the so-called absence of a republican energy policy? You’ve had two years. Your idea of an energy policy is the horse and buggy. Oh yeah, and that joke you’re all buying into known as a “Carbon Footprint”. That’s right, you just keep filling Al Gores pocket w/ that do-do. And you complain about “Big Oil”! What about “Fat Al”? Paying for the air you use? Come on people! Think!!
Some of the other environmentalist solutions: wind power and solar. These two ideas are going to be the biggest failure in history! Do you know why? Wind power has to be backed up 90% by coal, natural gas, and hyrdo-electricity. Why? The wind doesn’t always blow now does it. Solar? Last I checked the sun isn’t always shining. Therefore, trillions of dollars spent on wind & solar farms yet still we need oil and gas to support it. Nuclear is the only alternative form of energy worth looking at. Clean and extremely effecient. Just ask Europe.
Prove me wrong with some “facts” that wind or solar energy, or any other form of energy for that matter, is as effecient and clean as nuclear or bio-fuels.
You can cry all you want about “Big Oil” profit margins. They deserve every penny earned. Go do a little research on how much money an oil company earns on a gallon of gas. $ .08 to the gov’ts $0.18. The gov’t is making twice as much money on oil than the companies actually drilling and exploring for it. Why doesn’t “Big Brother” take a cut in pay? Good luck with that one.
By the way, I don’t work in the Oil Industry. I’m just a thankful citizen that loves the capitalist ideals our country was founded upon. Instead of crying about other’s “obscene profits”, I’m chasing my piece of that pie.
Posted August 24th, 2008 at 7:10 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
Revis23: “You leftist buy into every so-called “scientific study” that you can get your hands on. I don’t blame you, it supports your agenda. After all, how can you go wrong when those performing the studies share your same political bias. That research is not fact! It’s theory.”
Standard denial syndrome from those who are not scientists, do not understand science, and do not like the way the data come out in these studies. Rather than looking at the data and countering it with other studies or attempting to show mistakes in its interpretation, these guys simply allege dishonesty because the scientists are supposed to share our political bias (how would he know this or prove it?). He has not the faintest notion of what science is all about, knows nothing about the fact that data are not valid unless they are repeatable by other scientists using the same methods. His approach is simply ignorance and intellectual dishonesty.
Posted August 24th, 2008 at 8:16 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
revis23,
Your appear to be overly enthustiastic, for what reason?
“Where in the world did you get that it takes 3 years to build an oil platform? Are you kidding me? Do you really believe that? Cities can be built in 3 years!”
Drill rigs are in very short supply.
” NEWS FLASH!!! THE OIL IS LOCATED MY FRIEND!!! We’ve already explored it and proved it’s there.”
But not enough to make any difference to the US of A.
“J immy Carter in a class above Reagan? Go do a little history homework on what Reagan accomplished in his 8 years as President and compare it to Carters.
I will agree with this JC did less to run down the country then RR.
” You leftist buy into every so-called “scientific study” that you can get your hands on. I don’t blame you, it supports your agenda. After all, how can you go wrong when those performing the studies share your same political bias.”
So your are admitting that your educational level does not admit to understanding science?
“As for off-shore rigs, marine life absolutely love it! Coral, and fish flourish under them. Spills? Do you remember a little huricane named Katrina? She didn’t cause one rig to leak, not one! She demolished the platforms but did you hear of any oils spills in the region? NOT ONE!”
Santa Barbara.
“Get over this “BIG OIL” boo hooing. Thank god for “Big Oil” because no matter what your business is, it’s thriving because of it! THAT IS FACT! Your shooting yourselves in the foot. Can you not see this. Your feel good mentality is killing our economy. Your biting the hand that is feeding you!”
Look ahead a few years.
“Bush/Cheney energy policy? So tell me the democratic response to the so-called absence of a republican energy policy? You’ve had two years. Your idea of an energy policy is the horse and buggy. Oh yeah, and that joke you’re all buying into known as a “Carbon Footprint”. That’s right, you just keep filling Al Gores pocket w/ that do-do. And you complain about “Big Oil”! What about “Fat Al”? Paying for the air you use? Come on people! Think!!”
You are right again Republican/Democrat no difference as far as long sighted energy policy. We the people have to change, crush the escalades, expeditions, and the rubicons.
“Some of the other environmentalist solutions: wind power and solar. These two ideas are going to be the biggest failure in history! ”
You are obviously not an engineer or of technical persuasion.
“You can cry all you want about “Big Oil” profit margins. They deserve every penny earned.”
Right! Where does your income derive from?
“By the way, I don’t work in the Oil Industry. I’m just a thankful citizen that loves the capitalist ideals our country was founded upon. Instead of crying about other’s “obscene profits”, I’m chasing my piece of that pie.”
Thats nice but many of us don’t want to partake of that piece of the pie
Posted August 24th, 2008 at 8:37 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
If solar is a bad idea, that would make Thomas Edison a misguided fool. 17,000 barrels of oil were spilled into the Gulf of Mexico during Katrina and, proving the industry doesn’t need a hurricane to make a mess, 440,000 barrels in the Mississippi River a couple of months ago.
I think Germany is in Europe. You know, Germany, where they get 80% of their electricity from the Sun.
Well, I could go on, but why? People who call you down for trusting science don’t listen well to liberals anyway.
Posted August 24th, 2008 at 8:52 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
“17,000 barrels of oil were spilled into the Gulf of Mexico during Katrina and, proving the industry doesn’t need a hurricane to make a mess, 440,000 barrels in the Mississippi River a couple of months ago.”
The spill in the Mississippi resulted from a collision between two marine vessels. It was fuel oil, not crude oil. It wasn’t 400,000 barrels, it was 400,000 GALLONS, which is equivalent to 9500 barrels, and it is being cleaned up.
During hurricane Katrina, there was no significant amount of oil spilled from drilling.
Posted August 24th, 2008 at 11:02 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
Sorry dc, but you are wrong about the 80%. Maybe in a couple of decades.
“There are already four small geothermal power plants successfully operating in Germany, albeit supplying only a tiny amount of electricity.”
http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/story?id=52588
Posted August 24th, 2008 at 11:13 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
Tasha,
I was talking about electricity from solar panels. Germany is covered with them. It is where they gat the vast majority of their electricity. The number I saw was 80%
Bullish, You are correct on the Katrina spills. The number was 1,700 barrels, not 17,000; hardly significant in the big scheme of things. Are you certain the fuel oil spill( I was aware it was fuel oil ) was 400,000 gallons? I thought it was barrels. In any event, it made a god awful mess.
Posted August 24th, 2008 at 11:14 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
dc oops my apology about my last post, my eyes are tired and I put up the wrong information.
Posted August 24th, 2008 at 11:25 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
Only info I found was from 2006. At that time, half of Germany’s energy came from coal plants.
Posted August 25th, 2008 at 12:07 am Login to Send PM Report this comment
Tasha,
I will check my source, but probably won’t have time to respond. It is about midnight and I am preparing to head to Denver. I am volunteering at “the Big Tent”, which is the blogging HQ for the Democratic Convention. Bloggers from all over the world will be there. I will try to send reports to the FreeP website at the “Bagel Street Irregulars” blog.
Hold down the fort. I will be back on Thursday unless I can get a ticket to the Obama speech at Mile High. I have to be in Denver at 6:30 AM. Rockin’ into the night.
Posted August 25th, 2008 at 7:55 am Login to Send PM Report this comment
Golly Duke, you get caught making up numbers again?
Entirely too obvious to be a few typos….
Posted August 25th, 2008 at 8:18 am Login to Send PM Report this comment
dc: “was talking about electricity from solar panels. Germany is covered with them. It is where they gat the vast majority of their electricity. The number I saw was 80%”
dc is just a little bit off on this 80% figure:
“On the basis of the latest data, the Federal Environment Ministry shows the growing importance of renewable energies for energy markets and industry. Their share in total electricity consumption in Germany increased to 14.2 percent in 2007 as compared with 11.7 percent in the previous year.” ——————That includes wind and hydroelectric, not just solar.
http://www.bmu.de/english/renewable_energy/doc/39831.php
Posted August 25th, 2008 at 8:24 am Login to Send PM Report this comment
I know, it’s like the number of barrels of oil, and the slight alteration of the “gallons” to suddenly become barrels.
It’s not typos, he is just trying to use scare tactics and feels the need to lie to build up his case.
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