This is really just a follow up to the blog I posted yesterday, “Why Indeed?” Consider America without those ardent, anti-humanity, Anti-American special interest “green” ecology groups that have sprouted up all around the country over the past 30 years. Have you noticed that many of the founders of the largest green groups just happen to be very rich, extremely liberally opinionated, and almost always preaching the “green” that they want to see the rest of America (and the world’s) population being strictly held to, while they themselves are the biggest two-faced hypocrites on the face of the planet. They tend to own huge homes that are much larger than is actually needed for their family size. They tend to own multiple such homes around the country, if not the world. They travel by personal jet, yachts, and large SUV’s.

   Yet they think nothing of wiping out entire industries placing tens of thousands of people in the unemployment office, as we saw occur in the Pacific Northwest logging industry. Let’s just take a look at THE supreme guru of today’s “green” movement today, shall we?

   Al Gore, a man who has managed to win an Oscar, a Grammy and the Nobel Peace Prize, for his film “An Inconvenient Truth,” and who has managed to accumulate an estimated $100 million dollars over the past decade, also managed, according to the “Tennessee Center for Policy Research,” in a report dated June 17, 2008, that Al’s personal home consumption was an amazing 213, 210 kilowatt-hours of electricity over the course of just one year! That’s as much energy as is consumed by an “average” 232 homes per month. According to the report, Al’s annual electric bill was more than $16, 553. As I have always said, “Actions speak louder than words.” In Al’s case, you do have to wonder how much he really believes in the “green” of “saving the environment” or how much is all about the “green” of building his personal fortune.

   Now imagine this, a United States of America that tapped into its own vast oil resources of much more than just the two trillion, five hundred billion barrels of oil believed to exist in just the Bakken and Rocky Mountain areas of our country. Our own natural abundance of more than 300 years worth of oil that would create more TRILLIONS of dollars for the American economy than any human mind can truly fathom. What if America utilized its other natural resources such as the trillions and trillions of cubic feet of natural gas, and yes even nuclear resources as additional power sources.

   Think of the immense boon this would have on the American economy and its people. Unemployment would be unheard of, except for those who simply refuse to work. Think how this should almost eliminate the term “low income,” while significantly raising the standards of “middle income.” Gone would be national and state deficits. Our infrastructure would be easily rebuilt and expanded. Rolling power outages would become a distant memory. Neglected bridges collapsing and killing unsuspecting Americans? Just another footnote in history. The additional millions of jobs created for decades into the future, due to this national infrastructure rebirth of roads, bridges, power, sewer, water, affordable universities, and many, many other systems which would easily ensure our nations future for at least the next hundred years.

Modern medical facilities where everyone could afford excellent medical, dental and vision care for the entire family. Homelessness, poverty, hunger, and persons with mental disorders would all be able to be dealt with humanely and safely. Elderly people on fixed incomes having to choose between food or heating oil for their homes, gone. At an estimated $16 dollars per barrel of oil, they would be able to afford both along with the electricity to enjoy air conditioning! The difference that simply allowing American’s to utilize the enormous natural resources would not only make this vision possible, but make it a reality. Don't believe me? Just take a look at what Saudi Arabia and the U.A.E., are currently doing with the hundreds of billions of dollars they are raking in from the sale of their oil. 

   We can either continue to expend $700 billion to foreign countries in the hostile Middle East and South America until we are as poor as Ethiopia, and even less respected on the world stage, or we can ensure our future for centuries yet to come.  It just makes no sense!

   It would appear that not only has the Iraqi government been raking in billions of dollars on its sale of oil, but has only spent about 1 percent towards assisting the U.S. in OUR expenditures to free THEIR country of tyranny and lack of individual freedoms. This despite the fact that the American government has authorized roughly $48 billion since 2003, of which we have spent about $42 billion thus far, despite an estimated $50 billion dollar surplus that Iraq is projected to have accumulated by the end of this year. Despite this they have spent only a tiny fraction of their own money on the rebuilding of their countries infrastructure. In fact, between 2005 and 2007 they have actually spent about 92 percent LESS than they did prior to 2005! And why should they as long as we are going to just keep throwing billions of our taxpayer dollars at them.

   I am sure you have noticed the sudden jump in the price of a gallon of gas over the past year or so. Funny how it was only early last year that Americans first began hearing dire predictions from those “experts” that the world may have now used more than half it’s oil resources. This only a short while after our Middle Eastern “allies” had purchased significant shares in not only American main stream media companies, but also practically bought the worlds financial trading centers like the New York Stock Exchange, the London Stock Exchange, and the Asian/oriental stock exchange. Then, somewhat shockingly the price of oil makes an incredibly sharp jump in an incredibly short time period. The “experts” now tell us this is due to those pesky stock “speculators.”

   Well here is the truth about one of the richest countries in the world’s equally rich natural resources. I am speaking of course of the United States of America. I first read an oil related article in a trade magazine this past February and have been telling everyone who would listen to prepare for the biggest announcement of this century, and then, nothing. Finally, the word of this is beginning to come out but has received almost no coverage from our Saudi owned MSM. Shocking I know, but here it is. The U.S. has the largest known oil reserves in the world. Trillions, not billions of barrels of oil just ready for the taking! Enough oil to last the U.S. for AT LEAST THE NEXT 300 YEARS!

   But wait you say? You haven’t heard about this at a time when a gallon of gasoline is costing about $4 dollars a gallon in our country? You haven’t heard zip about this from your elected politicians, or our current presidential candidates? How can this be? Well here you go, and of course I don’t ask that you believe me just because I am saying this, you can goggle it for yourself. Go ahead and give it a try. Just enter the key words, “untapped U.S. oil reserves” and see what you can find to corroborate this assertion. But first allow me to finish!

    A shale-oil field first explored in the 1960’s and widely known as the Bakken Formation, was long believed to be very large, but the cost of recovering the oil was considered just to expensive at a time when a barrel of oil cost less than $20 dollars a barrel. U.S. oil companies, using much more sophisticated equipment than what was available in the 60’s, got permission to further investigate the Bakken Formation just last year. What they uncovered took the oil companies breathe away! This field is HUGE stretching from the western two-thirds of North Dakota, the western portion of South Dakota, and eastern Montana, all the way into Canada!    

    The Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimates it at 503 billion barrels! Making it the largest oil discovery in more than 50 years. That’s about 5 TRILLION dollars worth of oil, at $100 dollars a barrel! But wait! It gets even better! This isn’t just any old sludge oil, its “sweet” light crude, the most sought after oil as it is easy to refine. Just the Bakken Formation alone would be enough to fuel the U.S. for about 40 years, and should only cost Americans about $16 dollars a barrel! Remember, I said “should” not would.

   As big a deal as this is, it gets better still! It turns out that the Rocky Mountains are sitting on top of the world’s largest untapped oil reserve in the world, with more than 2 TRILLION barrels! This was reported by the Stansberry Report Online on April 20, 2006. So it turns out that we have more than eight times more oil than Saudi Arabia, and more than 21 times the oil in Kuwait, or far more oil than all the Middle East countries combined! Right here in the Western United States, and that doesn’t even count any oil off our coastlines, ANWAR, or areas as yet undiscovered.

   So why haven't the American people been told of this incredibly good news? Why are our two presidential candidates arguing about how we should map out a plan to energy independence when this is already known, from the President on down, while checking the air pressure in our tires? Why indeed? Every American who has complained and agonized over the cost of fuel in this country should get off their lazy butts and contact their elected officials to demand that they immediately begin utilizing these vast resources. This would create millions of jobs and pump many trillions of dollars into our economy within just the next few years.

   These same elected officials should then invest significant amounts of our nation’s new found wealth into alternative energy sources to eventually replace our need for oil completely. These new technologies, perhaps within the next 30 to 50 years, would then be able to be not only an incredibly lucrative exportable technology for the rest of the world, but would potentially eliminate smog, contaminated ground waters, and the all the rest. Our children would thank us, and successive generations of humans around the world would thank us. But hey, don’t take my word for this, check it out for yourself. Our nation’s resources are abundant and not simply limited to oil. We have the world’s largest known reserves of coal. The world’s largest known reserves of natural gas. Minerals, rich farmland, precious and semi-precious metals, and much, much more in abundance.  

   Still, it does make you wonder why our politicians have not only made this information known, but actively engaged in reaping the vastness of these resources that must be envied by every other nation on the face of the planet. You don’t have to have made it past the eighth grade to know this is what they would refer to as a “no brainer.” Still it does make you wonder why our elected officials, many of which are highly educated at some of the finest universities in the world haven’t themselves been able to figure this out. Why indeed? 

   McCain has supported the asinine “no drilling or exploration here” policy, before he was for it. McCain was all for granting amnesty to millions of illegal aliens, before he was against it. He was all for gay marriage, before he was against it. He was all for Roe v. Wade, before he was against it. McCain was against taxes, before he decided that “nothing was off the table.”

   Not that Senator Obama has done any better. Obama was against both the war in Iraq, as well as the “surge,” and has routinely demanded an immediate withdraw of all U.S. troops. Then he said he would allow for a timeline dictated by events on the ground. Then he said he would withdraw troops within 16 months, while admitting that he would probably have to leave an undisclosed number stationed there for an unknown time frame like we currently do in Europe and the Republic of South Korea. He was against any off shore drilling, before he wasn’t.

   Obama staunchly claims he “was never a Muslim,” yet records clearly show that he spent two years attending a Muslim school as a registered Muslim. Records also show he then spent the next two years attending a Christian school though he was still registered as a Muslim. The fact that he was born to a Muslim father in a country with a large Muslim population would certainly lend credence to the idea that he was a Muslim, as it is a Muslim tradition that the children born to a Muslim father are in fact Muslim. Then there are interviews with childhood friends who remember Obama going to the local mosque with his father on a pretty regular basis. Now, for the record I don’t believe that Obama is a Muslim now. He has attended a Christian school for nearly twenty years, and I believe he considers himself a Christian.  

   The point is he has denied he ever was a Muslim, despite the evidence, which the MSM seems content to remain mute on. I can certainly understand his reticence on admitting he ever was a Muslim, and in fact he was so young at that time, he may even honestly believe his statement himself. Then again, Obama has been extremely reluctant to give any details about very many of his beliefs or ideas. On the plus side for Obama, he is so new to the political scene he doesn’t have as much history as does McCain to challenge. Despite this, he has managed to be rated as one of the most liberal politicians in congress today.

   Today on the Lou Dobbs Show, they highlighted the growing shortage of licensed nurses in the medical community. They also revealed that nursing salaries actually dropped from 1996 through 2000, before the wages began slowly moving upwards. Our government’s response to the estimated 500,000 nursing shortage by 2025? To grant 60,000 worker visas’s to allow foreign workers to come in and work in the nursing positions! Of course they would make less than American nurses make now. The Lou Dobbs Show also revealed that more than 40,000 nurse want-a-bees were turned down last year alone. The reason? Lack of classrooms, instructors and funding.  

   Why would our elected politicians, supposedly elected to do the bidding of the people of their state or precinct, at a time of great economic angst in America today, not look into expanding funding, classroom space and qualified teachers to fast track American’s who want to serve their communities, while also looking into the suspiciously low nursing salaries with hospitals, which we must remember are generally business corporations looking to make a profit.  

   Do Americans really believe that people who obtain such positions of power (and through the unethical use of that power, often find wealth) are really in touch with the Americans needs? The Kennedys, Rockefellers, and many, many others; officials who have been in power for more than 30 years, care one whit about the “needs and wants” of the average American. Are we to believe that we ever had any real choice in a politician who would “serve” the best needs of the American people?

  It should be patently obvious to most Americans that we need to stand up and enforce our will on our government, and do whatever it takes to clean out our government and start from scratch, with the understanding that at some point in the future we will have to do the same thing again because its a simple fact that power does corrupt, especially if unchecked. What would be so wrong with a country run by the majority wishes of its people, as opposed to the current “special interest” groups driving our destinies? It’s a dog-gone shame that so many Americans are suffering and dying so needlessly in our country today, for no good reason. Americans have got to wake up and realize that a government like ours requires hard work and constant oversight to keep on track with the wishes of the people.

   Look at the total lack of reality our politicians currently exhibit on an increasingly dizzying basis. We have elected officials who have been caught with government “sting” money frozen in their freezers, announcing the fact that they are running for reelection. The Democrats, but make no mistake the Republicans are far from blameless in this issue, are insisting that if we develop our nations considerable natural resources like oil, natural gas, coal, etc., that this won’t have a significant impact in our current energy crisis? If we truly committed on a national level to energy independence we would not only create millions of well paying jobs, pump trillions of dollars into U.S. companies, and therefore our national and state coffers, while simultaneously stopping our best national interests being held hostage by countries such as Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and France, but also organizations like the United Nations (which they most certainly are not) and Greenpeace.

 “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.” This is the first paragraph, known as the preamble, and is worth re-reading. The fact that the very first three words, “We the People” says it all, and People we need to wake up and get to work right now.

   Here is my response to that. I say the U.S. government should agree to compensate those people AFTER the ROK government has repaid the U.S. for the cost of every dollar spent to ship military forces to the embattled country, every American life lost, every American wounded or listed as MIA, every piece of military equipment that was lost during the war, along with a reasonable yearly fee for the tens of thousands of U.S. service members that have been stationed in the ROK ever since.     

   After we have collected the agreed to amount from the ROK government we should be willing to pay those civilian “survivors” of the American use of military force in the defense of our poor Korean allies. I for one wouldn’t want to hold my breath awaiting that ROK payment.

   This is the kind of crap that drives my blood pressure up! Yes, innocent civilians die during war. Innocent civilians have died in virtually every war since the first war ever fought. It is one of the many reasons that wars are terrible things for all involved. No matter who “wins” the war, the civilians always pay the highest price. Now the ROK government wants to demand an apology and financial compensation from the country that pulled their lousy bacon out of the fire? I say let them keep their Reebok’s and Nike’s, and we will keep our apology and money thank you very much.

   However, it is notable that even countries close to those majority Muslim countries such as India and Israel, have a great deal of difficulty dealing with the violent expansionist Islamic teachings. This is primarily due to three reasons. First, human nature is to try to avoid confrontation. Secondly, it is very difficult to deal with a major religion in a forthright manner, without appearing to be prejudiced against a religion which is not the mainstream within the society trying to do so. Thirdly, people simply don’t make the effort to educate themselves as to what that “major” religion actually teaches and its history.

   Well here is my short version of the most basic facts. Judaism and Christianities principle leaders are Moses and Jesus. Islam’s is the Prophet Muhammad.  All three speak of only “one true god,” and a promise of heaven. Judaism is the oldest and Islam is the newest, being about fourteen hundred years old. All preach a godly set of rules and standards, such as seen in the Ten Commandments. All practice the spreading of they’re beliefs to those “nonbelievers.”

  The Torah is the most holy of the sacred writings in Judaism. The term “Torah” means “teaching” or “instruction,” and may also be interpreted as “Law,” and refers to the Five Books of Moses.

   Christianity, Judaism and Islam, are all classified as Abrahamic Religions, as all three trace lineage to the personage of Abraham, and the Bible containing both the Old Testament and the New Testament, is the holiest tome for Christians. Although there are many different groups within Christianity the common thread of they’re belief is in the Trinity, or belief in the Father, Son and Holy Spirit; that Jesus was the son of God and that he was crucified on a cross for the sins of mankind and then resurrected, and returned to God.  

   The Quran (or Koran), which means “recitation” is the holiest book of Islam, although the Sunnah (the words and deeds of the Prophet Muhammad) is also revered at almost the same level as the Quran. The only “true” Quran can only be printed in Arabic. Unlike the Torah or the Bible, Muslims believe the original Quran to have been written by God (Allah) himself and given to Prophet Muhammad. The commonality for Muslims is the adherence to the Five Pillars of Islam or the five duties that unite Muslims into a community or Ummah. Islam also teaches that the word of God was distorted by Moses and Jesus and that the Prophet Muhammad not only presented Gods desires in an unadulterated fashion, but that Prophet Muhammad is the “perfect human,” or example of how all pious, godly men should behave and act.

    So far so good, as all three religions believe they are speaking of the same god. So what’s the big deal? Well, as the old saying goes, the devils in the details. Here are several of those differences that set the religion of Islam apart from the others are this.

   First, the religion of Islam also requires Islamic Law, or Sharia Law, to be strictly adhered to by all Muslims. This is no small difference, as Sharia Law touches on virtually every aspect of a Muslims life. From lending and dietary practices, to criminal punishments and how to treat non-Muslims, to warfare and social life, Sharia Law is God’s law and as such, is inviolate.

   Secondly, Jihad which is usually taken to mean military exertion against non-Muslim’s in defense or for the expansion of the Islamic Ummah (community) and is also called the “sixth pillar.” The Quran preaches that there can only be one religion, that of Islam and that all non-Muslim societies and people must be offered only one of three choices (to avoid warfare);

a.      Convert, and become a Muslim

b.      Pay the non-Muslim “tax” known as the Jizya

c.       War

   You will note there is no mention, or even latitude for the mention of “peaceful coexistence,” other than by Islamic beliefs. In essence, convert or die. Muslims also believe that the only sure way to reach that special part of heaven with those “doe eyed virgins” is through death (martyrdom) during Jihad against non-Muslims.  

   Thirdly, the restoration of the Caliphate, or most powerful servant of God on earth, and a true “world leader” in the purest meaning of that term. The Caliphate would be mankind’s direct connection to God himself.   

   Fourthly, the belief that non-Muslims (infidels) are less than truly human, that it is a sin to lie, cheat, steal, or kill a fellow Muslim, but its not a sin to commit those same offenses against infidels, or non-Muslims. Another example is that it is ok for a Muslim man to marry a non-Muslim woman, but not ok for a Muslim woman to marry to marry a non-Muslim male.

   Fifthly, as Prophet Muhammad is the pinnacle of what a “godly man” should be, whatever he did may also be emulated by male Muslims. For example, in many Muslim countries it is permissible to not only marry more than one woman, but it is highly encouraged that like the Prophet himself, who married Aisha when she was only six and consummated that marriage when she was nine; so to should pious Muslim men marry child-brides before they have their first period.

   There are several other “differences” between this religion of Islam and the other two, but I think these are a pretty good representation of the key differences. Ultimately, the key difference from this second largest religion in the world today is it is a religion wrapped within a political structure that is inherently both racist, supremacist, violent, and sexist. Any questions?

   Now I know that there are plenty of people in Western society that will insist that you can discern the same from Judaism and Christianity, but where are those manifestations seen around the world, as we see today, now, from Muslims? Nor do I say that all Muslims are racist, violent or sexist. People are people the world over. Most avoid conflict and just want to be able to raise their families, obtain a decent career that will pay their basic needs, and hopefully a bit more.

   It must also be noted that only ten to fifteen percent of all Muslims can read, write or speak Arabic, so essentially they don’t even really know what they’re own religion teaches. In societies where the Muslim population is very low, no problem, the nice Muslims are active in their communities, and often involved in peaceful activities. Once the Muslim population approaches or exceeds ten or fifteen percent of a non-Muslim country’s population, this same community “suddenly” takes on a much more confrontational aspect. This is when you have the “radicalized” Imams suddenly and forcefully telling those self same peaceful Muslims what their religion really demands of them, and if they don’t want to be ostracized from their families and communities (or have even worse happen to them and theirs) they need to at the very least “support” those brave Jihadist warriors of Allah with their material and spiritual assistance.

   The Saudi tribe banded together long ago with an equally violent sect of Islamic proponents known as Wahhabis, which became the “spiritual” advisors to the Saudi tribe. They co-exist even to this day. In the 1960’s the Saudi tribe, by that time christened the “Royal” Saudi’s, saw opportunity in taking another radical group under they’re wing known as the Muslim Brotherhood. They have been preaching this particularly violent form (or simply the more fundamentalist adherents of the true preaching of Islam and Prophet Muhammad) throughout the world ever since.     

   Today it is strongly believed by some American intelligence services that about eighty percent of all the  Muslim “charitable,” and “civil rights” organizations within the United States, along with about an equal number of Muslim mosques, are directly, or indirectly funded, supported and under the direction of those stellar “allies” of American’s, the Saudi’s. Still, nearly seven years after 9/11, not much has been done about this situation. Why? Because America (along with virtually every other Western government) has a difficult time in grasping that the world’s second largest religion can seriously threaten them. Violence and secrecy are the tools of the Islamic “radicals” in the world today, but it is ignorance and an unwavering belief in Multiculturalism and Political Correctness that prevents those same governments from taking even the most rudimentary steps in defending themselves.

   What we hear instead, are the M/C and P/C crowds of automated know-nothings trying to justify the obvious acts of violence and sedition carried out by Muslims for Islam against non-Muslims in they’re oft repeated mantra of world domination to the only one TRUE religion, by claiming that they are merely “fringe elements” of an otherwise “peaceful” religion. They will point to other acts of violence committed by non-Muslims, to prove their point. People like Timothy McVeigh, which they will label as the obvious act of a “Christian radical,” despite the obvious and complete lack of any evidence that the horrific act of violence he committed was in any way committed by a Christian, for Christians, that was supported by Christians and is believed to be what Christianity in general, and the Bible in particular, teaches Christians to do throughout the world today. Or Jews, or Buddhists, or Hindus, etcetera.

   Actions ALWAYS speak louder than words, and what actions of violence and terror are we witnessing on an almost daily basis around the world today? Why the THOUSANDS of acts of terror and violence committed by those self-professed followers of the “religion of peace” Islam.  Despite the obvious, the self-deluded, ignorant and anti-American apologist would have us all believe that nothing is amiss and that the proponents of Islam are no more likely to harm a non-Muslim than are religious believers of any other major religion.

   This is analogous to a large male intruder breaking through the front door of your home, wearing a mask and carrying a large knife, who then orders you to get into your shower and begins pulling down the shower curtain to cover you in, while all the time telling you that as long as you do what he says you wont be hurt! Personally I don’t really care what he is telling me, I am going to be too busy responding to what his actions are making clear to me are his true intentions!   
  After nearly seven years since 9/11 I believe many Americans, tired of hearing our politicians, college professors, judges, and main stream media insistence that “all is well,” even as we see and hear the lie in their words, have been gradually learning more and more about this so called “peaceful” religion. On the other hand the longer we go without any similar 9/11’s having occurred within our country, the more I fear people are simply going back to sleep.  

   Let’s face it, no major religious leader or prophet had more blood on their hands than did the Prophet Muhammad, in a very literal sense. No religion has shared a history of bloody conquest than has the religion of Islam. Again the apologists would have use believe that the Christians were themselves guilty of this “bloody conquest” history, and they’re proof is the Crusades. Again, history is very clear that each of the Crusades was only initiated as a “defensive war” against the violent spread of Islam, and even that took almost four hundred years before enough Christian countries were actually goaded to the point that they felt the need to respond with force, to meet the force of Islam.

   I certainly don’t claim to be a scholar of anything, but after more than two years of concerted studying and vetting thousands of articles and dozens of books, along with what I see and hear around me and around the world today, I don’t believe that you must be an expert to be able to let the facts take me where they will. My personal study has simply led me to opine what those facts have made abundantly clear; that Islam has an agenda and it bodes no good for non-Muslims and peace loving Muslims alike.