Drill Here, Drill Now

Guys,

You are receiving this email because you were in my contacts list.  I don't normally send out mass emails such as this because I don't like receiving them, but I'm glad I got this from a friend and feel this is very important for all Americans now. 

American Solutions is gathering signatures for a petition to Drill American Oil to relieve prices at the pump.  So far they've collected and presented more than 1.3 million signatures to Congress on this issue.  You can see the presentation here:

http://www.americansolutions.com/Blog/Read.aspx?guid=cf19e5d5-c6f5-4118-9a3b-1530d1a7f375

But the fight isn't won yet.  You can still sign the petition by going American Solutions website here:

http://www.americansolutions.com/

It doesn't matter if you are democrat, republican, independent or non registered.  High gas prices affects everyone.  I've signed and I encourage you to sign.  Pass this along to your friends and encourage them to sign too.  We are a democracy and it's time that the people show their voice on the subject of this Energy Crisis.

Your friend, brother, comrade, whatever,
Chris

A Political Fable

The seven dwarfs always left to go work in the mine early each morning. As always, Snow White stayed home doing her domestic chores.

As lunchtime approached, she would prepare their lunch and carry it to the mine.

One day as she arrived at the mine with the lunch, she saw that there had been a terrible cave-in. Tearfully, and fearing the worst, Snow White began calling out, hoping against hope that the dwarfs had somehow survived.

'Hello!...Hello!' she shouted. 'Can anyone hear me? Hello!'

For a long while, there was no answer. Losing hope, Snow White again shouted, 'Hello! Is anyone down there?'

Just as she was about to give up all hope, she heard a faint voice from deep within the mine, singing, 'Vote for Barack Obama! - Vote for Barack Obama!'

Snow White fell to her knees, crossed herself and prayed, 'Oh, thank you, God! At least Dopey is still alive...'

"Memory should always match the video tape"

I haven't been keeping up much on my website, especially in the area of politics, but I thought this was worthy of sharing. Here, Senator Clinton describes how her trip to Bosnia was 12 years ago. She "remembers" it very vividly. This is from CBS News, and it clearly speaks for itself.

Every American Should Read This.

POLITICAL COMMENTARY FROM NORTH OF THE BORDER
 

Theo Caldwell,  National Post ( Canada ) 

Wednesday,
December 26, 2007
 
An obvious choice can be unnerving. When the
apparent perfection of one option or the unspeakable
awfulness of another makes a decision seem too easy,
it is human nature to become suspicious.
 
This instinct intensifies as the stakes of the given
choice are raised. American voters know no greater
responsibility to their country and to the world
than to select their president wisely. While we do
not yet know who the Democrat and Republican
nominees will be, any combination of the leading
candidates from either party will make for the most
obvious choice put to American voters in a
generation. To wit, none of the Democrats has any
business being president.
 
This pronouncement has less to do with any apparent
perfection among the Republican candidates than with
the intellectual and experiential paucity evinced by
the Democratic field. "Not ready for prime time,"
goes the vernacular, but this does not suffice to
describe how bad things are. Alongside Hillary
Clinton , add Barack Obama's kindergarten essays to
an already confused conversation about Dennis
Kucinich's UFO sightings, dueling celebrity
endorsements and who can be quickest to retreat from
America 's global conflict and raise taxes on the
American people, and it becomes clear that these are
profoundly unserious individuals.
 
To be sure, there has been a fair amount of rubbish
and rhubarb on the Republican side (Ron Paul, call
your office), but even a cursory review of the
legislative and professional records of the leading
contenders from each party reveals a disparity akin
to adults competing with children.
 
For the Republicans, Rudy Giuliani served as a
two-term mayor of New York City , turning a budget
deficit into a surplus and taming what was thought
to be an ungovernable metropolis. Prior to that, he
held the third-highest rank in the Reagan Justice
Department, obtaining over 4,000 convictions. Mitt
Romney, before serving as governor of Massachusetts ,
founded a venture capital firm that created billions
of dollars in shareholder value, and he then went on
to save the Salt Lake City Olympics. While much is
made of Mike Huckabee's history as a Baptist
minister, he was also a governor for more than a
decade and, while Arkansas is hardly a "cradle of
presidents," it has launched at least one previous
chief executive to national office. John McCain's
legislative and military career spans five decades,
with half that time having been spent in the
Congress. Even Fred Thompson, whose excess of
nonchalance has transformed his once-promising
campaign into nothing more than a theoretical poss-
ibility, has more experience in the U.S. Senate than
any of the leading Democratic candidates.
 
With just over one term as a Senator to her credit,
Hillary Clinton boasts the most extensive record of
the potential Democratic nominees. In that time,
Senator Clinton cannot claim a single legislative
accomplishment of note, and she is best known lately
for requesting $1-million from Congress for a museum
to commemorate Woodstock 
 
Barack Obama is nearing the halfway point of his
first term in the Senate, having previously served
as an Illinois state legislator and, as Clinton has
correctly pointed out, has done nothing but run for
president since he first arrived in Washington .
Between calling for the invasion of Pakistan and
fumbling a simple question on driver's licenses for
illegal aliens, Obama has shown that he is not the
fellow to whom the nation ought to hike the nuclear
football.

John Edwards, meanwhile, embodies the adage that the
American people will elect anyone to Congress --
once. From his $1,200 haircuts to his personal war
on poverty, proclaimed from the porch of his
28,000-square-foot home, purchased with the proceeds
of preposterous lawsuits exploiting infant cerebral
palsy, Edwards is living proof that history can play
out as tragedy and farce simultaneously.
 
Forget for a moment all that you believe about
public policy. Discard your notions about taxes and
Iraq , free trade and crime, and consider solely the
experience of these two sets of candidates. Is there
any serious issue that you would prefer to entrust
to a person with the Democrats' experience, rather
than that of any of the Republicans?
 
Now consider the state of debate in each party.
While the Republicans compare tax proposals and the
best way to prosecute the War on Terror, Democrats
are divining the patterns and meaning of the glitter
and dried macaroni glued to the page of one of their
leading candidate's kindergarten projects.
 
Does this decision not become unsettlingly simple?

 Copyright ) 2007 CanWest Interactive, a division of
 CanWest MediaWorks Publications, Inc.. All rights
 reserved

A Great Comeback!

I received this email from a friend, and checked it out on snopes.  The links is here: http://www.snopes.com/rumors/lapelpin.asp.  This is marked as undetermined, so I don't have a problem posting it here.  If it's not true, it's still a refreshing story:

-- The Masked Crusader

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One of my sons serves in the military. He is still stateside, here in California . He called me yesterday to let me know how warm and welcoming people were to him and his troops everywhere he goes, telling me how people shake their hands and thank them for being willing to serve and fight for not only our own freedoms , but so that others may have them also.

But he also told me about an incident in the grocery store he stopped at yesterday on his way home from the base. He said that ahead of several people in front of him stood a woman dressed in a burkha.

He said when she got to the cashier she loudly remarked about the U.S. flag lapel pin the cashier wore on her smock. The cashier reached up and touched the pin, and said proudly, "Yes, I always wear it and probably always will."

The woman in the burkha then asked the cashier when she was going to stop bombing her countrymen, explaining that she was Iraqi.

A gentleman standing behind my son stepped forward. Putting his arm around my son's shoulders and nodding towards my son, he said in a calm and gentle voice to the Iraqi woman:

"Lady, hundreds of thousands of men and women like this young man have fought and died so that YOU could stand here, in MY country, and accuse a check-out cashier of bombing YOUR countrymen. It is my belief that had you been this outspoken in YOUR own country, we wouldn't need to be there today. But, hey, if you have now learned how to speak out so loudly and clearly, I'll gladly buy you a ticket and pay your way back to Iraq so you can straighten out the mess in YOUR country that you are obviously here in MY country to avoid."

Everyone within hearing distance cheered!