My Thoughts On The Oil Spill

The oil rig explosion and resulting oil spill in the gulf has broken my heart. It saddens me that in the aftermath of the explosion the environmental disaster has drowned any coverage of the 11 lives that were lost and the devastation brought to their families. Then again, those families were probably relieved at not having cameras and microphones jammed in their faces each time they ventured out.

Now BP is being set up as an evil villain, the scourge of the earth, by the Obama administration. The explosion was an accident. (Am I the only one who wonders about sabotage?) Anytime you have humans and machinery, sooner or later there will be an accident. That’s a natural law. The oil spill and the damage it is causing is a crisis (never let one go to waste, remember) and the Obama administration will make good use of it to further their agenda. I guarantee it.

We have no real idea of how much oil will eventually end up in the ocean, or how far it will spread. I saw one model that shows it potentially entering the gulf stream and heading for Europe. I wonder if the European nations will then sue the United States? Will Obama settle out of court? Will it cause an international crisis?

As an animal lover I am saddened at the loss of wildlife. I realize that there is no way for us to know the total impact this will have on the marine life in the Gulf or the Atlantic for that matter. This crisis will not be over once the spill is stopped. It will last for decades.

I certainly don’t have the knowledge to fully comprehend the long-term effects. I don’t think anyone does.

However, I don’t think we need to stop drilling for oil. We need it, we should go after it. We should learn what went wrong that caused the explosion and take measures to prevent another. We should, perhaps, drill in Alaska and other places where a similar incident would not cause such widespread damage to populated areas or fishing grounds.

No matter what the rabid environmentalists like to think, we are a nation that depends on oil and oil based products to survive. That won’t change in this generation. Developing new energy sources and implementing them will take time and money and we are broke. We must keep drilling and keep building our own refineries to process our own oil. We must find safer ways to drill to prevent further catastrophes like the current one.

We can do it. We are American’s.

Happy Memorial Day

May we never forget and always honor our soldiers; past, present, and future. May they be blessed for all they have done and continue to do to keep us free.

Abuses of Handicapped Parking – Is This YOUR Car?

This is another installment in my series of abuses of handicapped facilities by non-handicapped persons.

On a trip to our local Wal-Mart, we encountered this vehicle, an SUV pulling a trailer, parked in the handicapped parking area in the marked off section between the actual handicapped parking spaces.

This made it impossible for a person using a wheelchair to disembark from a vehicle in the space next to the SUV (my original choice for a space). In fact, this action by the driver of the SUV effectively disabled four handicapped spaces from being of much use to a severely disabled person like my husband.

I don’t know what this driver was thinking. I saw no handicapped placard nor did the vehicle have a handicapped tag.

As I was snapping these photos with my cell phone a passer-by asked me what I was doing and I told her I was going to write about this and put the pictures on my blog. I didn’t turn the driver in to the authorities, but I did want to use this as an example of what not to do.

The yellow marked off areas between handicapped spaces are for people like my husband who need room to maneuver in a wheelchair.

Please be thoughtful and don’t make life any more difficult on the handicapped and their caregivers than it has to be.

On Top Of Everything Else…

Granny has had two weeks of computer hell. Now, for a person completely addicted to computers and to one certain computer for blogging, this was not good. It was said blogging computer that decided to bid me farewell.

In the period of making the decision to purchase a new blogging computer and getting it ordered and delivered, the oil spill turned from disaster into mega disaster, Arizona managed to do the right thing and piss off the Obama regime and Mexico (you go Arizona), the apology tour continued with China (of all countries) being told how sorry we are that our bad-boy state, Arizona, decided to pass a law that over 60% of American’s approve of, and the list goes on.

It’s probably just as well that I couldn’t chime in. I would have probably said things that would have caused an influx of black SUV’s into my neighborhood.

My new blogging computer arrived yesterday. I’m in the process of figuring it out. It’s a laptop, so I can blog while in front of the television watching Fox News with my hubby.

Hubby sometimes has some very insightful comments on what’s taking place in our nation. I assure you I will steal them and put them in these pages (without permission or giving him credit) whenever possible.

Final NC District 11 Primary Results

The votes are all counted and in the end, Dr. Dan lost to Jeff Miller. We just didn't get enough people to the polls.

Miller seems to be a good man. I can't fault him on his decency. I'm just not sure about his ability to stand up to the Washington machine.

It boils down to this: here in the NC 11th District we can choose between Shuler and Miller. Pelosi's lap dog or a nice guy who won the primary because he was well known locally and was chosen by the good-ole-boy network.

Yeah, right.

Thoughts on the NC District 11 Primary

As my readers know, I supported (and still do) Dr. Dan Eichenbaum in the NC District 11 Primary. The election was close. So close, in fact, that the final results will depend on the provisional ballots and a recount. Those results are expected on May 11.

There are reports of voter irregularities. I am registered "unaffiliated". I had no problems voting in the primary; although there are reports that some unaffiliated voters were turned away at some locations. This remains to be verified. ACORN tactics in rural North Carolina! Disgusting if true.

Voter turnout in this weeks election was low. The vote is very close to a run-off between Dr. Eichenbaum and the tentative winner, Jeff Miller. Within the next week we will learn whether or not there will be a run-off election next month.

I did what I could to get friends, co-workers, and neighbors to learn about Dr. Dan and his principled approach to leadership. By having guiding principles in place, Dan has a firm foundation to base decisions on in Washington. What an idea. Principles. . .in Washington.

Dr. Eichenbaum ran a totally grass roots campaign. Miller was hand picked and backed by the NCGOP. Dr. Eichenbaum would go to Washington owing no favors to anyone other than the voters in this district. There is no way of knowing what strings are attached to Miller. Just because he belongs to the minority party does not mean he will be a good representative for We the People of Western North Carolina. Hand picked and groomed, Miller will be a puppet of those in charge and will do their bidding. The people be damned. Nothing will change.

Those who worked to elect Dr. Dan Eichenbaum did their best. I feel I did very little, there are those who worked from daylight to dusk, day after day for the cause. Those people have my gratitude; they took up my slack.

Now, these Patriots in Western North Carolina are depressed and tired. We all feel a sense of fear at what will happen now. But we will dust ourselves off and get back in the fight to save our nation and restore Her to what the Founding Father's envisioned Her to be.

We've may have had a set-back. Maybe not. Only the God's know at this point. However, one set-back will not lessen our determination to take our country back from the Progressives and anyone else desiring to fundamentally change America into something She is not meant to be. And we have God and the Spirit's of our Founding Father's on our side. We will prevail.

Is It Still OUR Country?

Or are we a Mexican Territory? Please read Michelle Malkin's post on happenings yesterday.