Posted on 03/16/2005 12:42:35 PM PST by mattdono
Getting past the odd innuendo of Massachusetts Democrat Ed Markey’s press release accusing the GOP of trying to “ram” ANWR into law through “backdoor maneuvers,” we find his opposition comes straight from above:
“The American people believe there should be some places on this earth left the way the Almighty made them in the first place. When we finally meet our Maker, we are not going to be asked our position on evolution or the Big Bang. We are going to be asked about what we did to protect the resources we were given. The Congress still has time to pull back from this folly, and we must do everything we can to see that it does.”
Meanwhile, the attempt to strike ANWR from budget legislation failed today, 49-51.
Liberal Dems discover religion.
Which means, if Spengler is right, that our scientific revolution has run its course and we are now a religious state, Phase Two.
My guess is not. Jonah Goldberg, of National Review, went to ANWR (where they are actually want to drill) and took many photos. He posted several photos of his trip and ANWR is, with all due respect to any Alaskans, a mud bog. (Here's a link to his original article, there are links to pics of ANWR referenced throughout the article).
The whole arguement is ridiculous.
If we ANNOUNCED that we are going to drill in ANWR, it is said that the price of oil would decrease. Just the announcement of plans to drill.
Why? Because the OPEC countries would try to make the investement in ANWR drilling (which will, no doubt, have additional regulatory requirements that will make the investment even more costly) and the resultant return less financially attractive. The OPEC countries are (and have been for years) manipulating the supply, so that demand (mostly from China's increased usage) will easily outpace supply and maintain an artificially high price.
And, besides this gross display, is the underlying hypocrisy of the demoSTUPIDs position:
I wonder how God feels about Markey not turning in his criminal brother?
LOL!!! That's probably what they are mad about. Don't these upstart Republicans know you are supposed to sneak things through. Democrats hate it when they have to explain their votes to the people they say they represent.
I've heard that stewardship angle a lot lately, but obviously the mileage on that varies between people. As long as nobody goes sanctimonious on me, I don't care one way or the other, but this guy came across as a condescending, global-warming pharisee who was awfully proud of his contribution to the "What Would Jesus Drive?" campaign.
Let's drill in Manhattan!!
Well, I think we can all agree on some things, though, don't you? :) Like chucking your used motor oil down a storm drain is a pretty rotten idea? That walking when you can isn't a bad idea? That throwing trash out your car window is a crummy thing to do? Stuff like that seems pretty reasonable to me :)
“The American people believe there should be some places on this earth left the way the Almighty made them in the first place."
Yes, Mr.Markey. Why don't we start with the United States of America which was created as a religious nation with Judeo-Christian values, and which you and your fellow heathen Democrats have been trying to undo for the past 40 years.
(pictures Ted Kennedy looking across bay at windmills, speaking in slurred voice)
"Thoser jush trees. Big trees. I'm all for the trees. Jush as long as they don't put tha windmills out there."
And the issue of Gay marrage has no bearing?
Crackpots! Why do they even bother.
...if Bush spoke for God he'd be called a radical fundamentalist, wouldn't he?
“The American people believe there should be some places on this earth left the way the Almighty made them in the first place. When we finally meet our Maker, we are not going to be asked our position on evolution or the Big Bang. We are going to be asked about what we did to protect the resources we were given.”
What a paragraph. Well, here goes my all-too-easy rejoinder.
Point #1. Since when do liberals care about the way God made things? Jesus Christ said, "At the beginning the Creator 'made them male and female' and said, 'For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh'." This definition of marriage - and the fact that it is how God created marriage to be - isn't something liberals care about while they're trying to get homosexuals married.
Point #2. God, in the beginning of Genesis, relates His creation of everything, and this is not a minor fact in the Bible. It is a permanent, prominent fixture. Throughout the Bible God speaks of His creation of stars, animals, the "heavens", the human race, etc. "Evolution" declares that God's claims are false and refuses to give Him praise for creation. There are, indeed, more important things, but saying that this world and everything in it is not God's creation isn't as minor as this Democrat seems to think.
Point #3. "Protect the resources"? You mean by never letting any human use or remotely benefit from them? A resource, by definition, is a source of something beneficial. If we're not drilling ANWR, it's giving us nothing useful and is not a resource, except in the technical sense. Let's make ANWR a resource, and protect it from waste and destruction.
Liberals should never try to use the Bible or God to advance their arguments. On just about any topic, liberalism and the Bible are at opposite poles.
Incidentally, I believe God will hold us accountable for how we use the earth. He gave us dominion over it, and that leaves us with the responsibility to be wise stewards. And call me crazy, but I don't think wise stewardship means you can't dig in the ground to get oil/metal/jewels.
But, that's not what the agenda is.
The agenda of the left is to NECESSARILY stop human advancement, be it for resources, medical improvements, etc. There is a simple and significant distinction between conservationists and environmental "activists" (or, more aptly, terrorists like the kooks with the ELF and Ruckus).
The much-talked-about "footprint" of these facilities is so small that describing the facility, compared to the land around it, is like one thread on a carpet that runs through an entire house.
Here's a picture of the typical oil-loading facility in the Prudhoe area, which is almost geologically and topographically identical to ANWR:
Now, think about the 100,000 of sqare miles (not acres) in ANWR.
The hyperbole and exaggarated invective being used by demoKOOKs in this debate is stunning.
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