Oil Spill

As you all probably know, a BP oil rig recently spilled tons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. And, lo and behold, the Obama administration and environmentalists are already trashing off-shore drilling. The oil spill is tragic, yes, but why aren't they letting the fishermen and other people do something? Why are they just sitting on the beach and not doing anything? The only people who have taken any action are the people at BP. What can the environmentalists and the Government (one and the same) stand to gain from this? Dead fish. Dolphins. All kinds of dead plants and other marine life. One of the main campaigns of environmentalists is ending offshore drilling. So, if they play this up to be a huge catastrophe, they can use it as a major weapon to outlaw offshore drilling. Or, maybe not all offshore drilling, but destroy BP (a non-governmental company).

That statement is not as controversial as you might think. Why else would they be making all these halfhearted efforts to stop the spill. If the government really wanted to stop the spill, believe me, they would. What would be a really controversial statement would be saying that the government created the incident. I guarantee that if it was a Republican administration, that's exactly what everyone would be saying. "BUSH DID IT!!!"

Speaking of finger pointing, Obama recently spoke (this guy doesn't know when to be quiet, does he?) about how BP should not be pointing fingers at him for anything. He then turned around and proceeded to blame Bush for any bad thing that's ever happened during his term in office. That's hypocrisy at its highest level.

Speaking of hypocrisy, I'm sure every one of you has heard of Michelle Obama's anti-obesity campaign. First off, I don't call a couple of appearances on Sesame Street a campaign. Secondly, Sesame Street covers a whole 6% of kids. If I was four-years old and watching Sesame Street, I would be saying, "Who are you and why are you lecturing me? Bring out the cookie monster." While she is doing all that, however, Obama is eating burgers left and right. I can see it now, Obama sitting in the Oval Office eating and Michelle bursting in wielding a bottle of hairspray and screeching, "PUT DOWN THE BIG MAC!"

Also, where did the recent rise of environmentalism come from? Back a hundred or even fifty years ago, you could go out, shoot a cow, cook a burger and eat it and not be condemned by the media. But now, it seems, the life of a small, non-significant little fish is more important than the lives of hundreds of farmers out in California. When you put these things in the right perspective, they seem rather ridiculous to me. For example, the fact that the majority of people who are so worried about the environment fly their private jets to the conference in Copenhagen (where, by the way, they couldn't land because of the snowstorms). Now, let's see, wouldn't you say that flying a private jet to get somewhere creates a significantly bigger carbon footprint than us driving in our trucks to get somewhere. If they really wanted to be environmentally friendly, they could drive a lawn mower (sorry, I meant Smart Car) everywhere they go. But do they do that? The unsurprising answer is no. So why should they expect us to do something that they won't?

I think that we do need to keep our planet clean. God gave us dominion over the earth, and made us stewards over his creation. Taking it to this level, however, is simply ridiculous.

Coragon, over and out.