Re: Supporting the Troops

["Roland Moore" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx>]

You know the previous occupant of the Oval Office did all of his exploratory
drilling right there in that office.

"David 01" <ifiwantspam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 03:00:18 +0000, Robert L Bass wrote:
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> On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 03:00:18 +0000, Robert L Bass wrote:
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> > 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, DC-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 year-
> 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.
>