Re: Supporting the Troops

["Robert L Bass" <RobertLBass@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

That was truly funny.  :^)

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"David 01" <ifiwantspam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 03:00:18 +0000, Robert L Bass wrote:
>
> On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 03:00:18 +0000, Robert L Bass wrote:
>
>> CRAWFORD, TX-President Bush concluded his summer vacation by
>> holding an
>> informal press conference Monday to address grieving mother Cindy
>> Sheehan, saying "her damn dead son ruined my whole summer
>> vacation."
>>
>> Bush addressed Mrs. Sheehan, who was not present, by saying "a
>> mother
>> should not have to bury her son this way, by which I mean allowing
>> her
>> son's death to destroy his commander-in-chief's one chance to
>> relax and
>> unwind."
>>
>> BIG SNIP
>
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>
> I'm not really a Bush fan and I didn't vote for Bush but why didn't
> you
> add this foolish ditty from the same source (the Onion)? It's as
> valid as
> the one you posted, i.e., not at all.
>
> WASHINGTON, DCâ??Following a recent ruling by a U.S. District Court
> that
> blocked the sale of 1.7 million acres of federally protected
> caribou,
> President Bush urged Congress Tuesday to pass an appropriations
> bill that
> would enable expanded drilling of the Arctic National Wildlife
> Refuge's
> animals.
>
> "There are over 100 billion tons of untapped, domestic wildlife
> lying
> beneath, on, and above the surface of Alaska's North Slope region,"
> said
> Bush during a White House press conference. "We have an obligation
> not
> only to our society, but to future generations, to begin drilling
> these
> polar bears, grizzlies, harbor porpoises, Roosevelt elks, sea
> otters,
> muskrats, and snowshoe hares immediately."
>
> According to Secretary Of The Interior Dirk Kempthorne, who
> recently
> toured the Lake Teshekpuk area with a team of bio-mineralogists,
> one in
> four animals drilled in early tests have shown positive yield.
>
> "We can achieve our goal without disturbing the delicate balance of
> the
> ecosystem," said Kempthorne, looking on as rig operators took
> exploratory
> core samples of 20 bearded seals in order to gauge the mammals'
> interior
> density. "But if the government opens up the nearly 200 species of
> birds,
> fish, and marine and land mammals to public drilling, the U.S.
> would be
> capable of churning out over 9.3 billion barrels of wildlife each
> yearâ??
> more than three times the amount we currently drill."
>
> Wildlife prospectors in other parts of Alaska applaud Bush's
> position,
> saying that, if funding is increased, drillers will be able to tap
> larger,
> higher-yield animals such as grizzly bears and musk oxen.
>
> "The technology is there, but there's little economic incentive to
> drill
> anything larger than timber wolves," said Cal Fowler, an
> independent
> prospector and former wildcat driller. "With more federal money we
> can
> invest in necessary hardware, such as more durable annular diamond-
> impregnated drill bits, which can bore two-inch diameter holes deep
> through a solid bull-walrus midsection in seconds."
>
> Drill foremen have already begun digging shallow exploratory holes
> through
> the surface flesh of over 5 million animals to provide workspace
> for the
> drillers and their equipment. Once this step is complete, an
> electrical
> generator powered by a large diesel engine will plunge rotating
> carbide-steel-tipped drill bits through the animal, boring through
> the
> skin, bone, or blubber at speeds of up to 6,500 rpm. The drillers
> will
> then guide the direction of the borehole using top-drive rotary
> steerable
> wellbores, which allow them to drill through targeted areas in the
> wildlife with incredible precision. Enlarge Image Bush Increases
> Jump R
>
> Workers near Alaska's Lake Teshekpuk take a core sample from a
> grizzly
> bear cub.
>
> Walking through a field of steadily pumping Canada lynx, Fowler
> defended
> wildlife drilling as "one of the most environmentally responsible
> methods
> of drilling," saying that it is a renewable resource, and the
> ecologically
> sensitive wildlife refuge is almost completely unaffected since
> pre-existing environmental laws ensure that the drilling of
> individual
> animals will not damage the environment.
>
> Energy giant ExxonMobil has already begun to widen its
> wildlife-drilling
> efforts in response to the Bush Administration's stance.
>
> "We have set up an offshore production platform capable of
> efficiently
> extracting over 15,000 Arctic grayling fish from the Beaufort Sea
> each
> day, and then drilling them," ExxonMobil Chief Engineer For
> Wildlife
> Drilling Operations Frank Salinas said. "And advances in horizontal
> directional drilling may soon allow us to simultaneously drill
> through two
> arctic foxes three miles apart."
>
> "It's an exciting time to be in the wildlife-drilling field,"
> Salinas
> added.
>
> Bush's call for more wildlife drilling has come under fire by
> alternate
> wildlife-use advocates, who call his policy shortsighted.
>
> "The administration should be encouraging research into viable new
> technologies," said Sylvia Hermann, chairman of Advocates For
> Cleaner-
> Burning Fauna. "The energy produced by solar generators could be
> used to
> incinerate vast herds of moose, even in the coldest winter months.
> Wind-
> produced electricity could electrocute Beluga whales in their own
> habitats, with no need for offshore drilling, and hydroelectric
> dams could
> be used to drown grizzly bears. Perhaps one day geothermic heat
> could be
> harnessed to broil entire wildlife-rich regions alive."
>
> Continued Hermann, "It's vital that we preserve the arctic wildlife
> so
> that our children, and our children's children, will still have
> animals to
> drill when they grow up."
>
> The Bush administration is also proposing the creation of a
> Strategic
> Wildlife Preserve, a series of 15-million-cubic-meter above-ground
> tanks
> that would store an emergency supply of over 700 million tightly
> packed
> animals.
>