Category Archives: Environmentalism & Animal Rights

I'll Take Over Oil, If You Want Me To

Barack Obama, Business, Energy, Environmentalism & Animal Rights, Regulation

The political Idiocracy, Democrats such as James Carville and Republicans like Sarah Palin, brayed so loudly for Big Daddy O to take over where Big Oil was failing to stop the spill in the Gulf of Mexico—that BHO relented. Baiting Barack with a takeover is cruel—to all of us.

“It is my job to make sure that everything is done to shut this down,” the president declared in the first news conference the People’s Presidency has given in quite some time.

The meddlers got what they demanded, and then some:

Obama announced new steps to deal with the aftermath of the spill, including continuing a moratorium on drilling permits for six months. He also said he was suspending planned exploration drilling off the coasts of Alaska and Virginia and on 33 wells under way in the Gulf of Mexico.

BHO beat on breast, apologizing for making “the mistake of believing that oil companies ‘had their act together; when it came to assessing worst-case scenarios.” Be careful what you ask for, Silly Sarah.

BHO’s previous stance on the spill made sense to me:

“while the government was overseeing the operation, BP had the expertise and equipment to make the decisions on how to stop the flow. … BP was responsible for the cleanup and the government was accountable to make sure the company did it.”

BP’s incentives to clean up and minimize mounting costs it is incurring are manifestly obvious. Obama resisted imputing evil motives to the company just becasue it was Big Oil; our political Idiocracy did not.

As to the state of the operation to stop a spill that “has surpassed the Exxon Valdez in Alaska as the worst in U.S. history: BP [is working] furiously to pump mud-like drilling fluid into the blown-out well. It [is] an untested procedure but seemed to be working, officials said Thursday.”

Regulation Encourages Recklessness

Business, Environmentalism & Animal Rights, Law, Private Property, Regulation

REGULATION ENCOURAGES RECKLESSNESS; private property rights in waterways is the solution to the pollution of the ocean.

FoxNews informs that “The 20-year-old Oil Pollution Act would make BP responsible for paying for the cleanup costs [of the gushing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico]. There have been questions raised about another part of the law that caps their liability at $75 million for other economic damages. … the damages could easily top $75 million. A handful of senators, though, have introduced a bill to raise the cap to $10 billion, which the administration supported.”

State regulation works to the advantage of offenders, as the state and its corporate donors invariably come to an agreement about what constitutes reasonable damages—agreements that usually disadvantage harmed parties.

Leave injured parties to sue for damages. However, for a just tort system to work one needs … private property. Private property rights in waterways, or riparian rights in water that abuts private property—this is the best way to protect the ocean and other hitherto state-controlled expanses of water from being destroyed.

Update III: Tell Establishment Media A Dog Died On The Border

Barack Obama, Bush, Crime, Environmentalism & Animal Rights, IMMIGRATION, Nationhood, Private Property, Republicans, States' Rights

The excerpt is from my new, WND.COM column, “Tell Establishment Media A Dog Died On The Border”:

“In response to CNN’s Suzanne Malveaux’s concern that the Arizona immigration-enforcement law, SB 1070, has made “a lot of people very angry, very upset” [a life threatening condition, apparently], the upstanding Antenori demanded: “What about my constituents whose homes are ransacked? What about the ranchers who’re shot at while patrolling their fence lines; whose cattle are being slaughtered ? there are millions of dollars of economic damages ? what about them? What about their civil right?”

Bad move.

Although not as rude as Chris Matthews and his malevolent MSNBC colleagues, Malveaux was only mildly interested. To grab her attention, Antenori ought to have begun what to Malveaux was a white, hot, racist rant with the story of a dog ? a dog that was shot by one frequent “visitor” to Arizona.

The same marauder who beat a retreat to Mexico killed the dog’s faithful companion, Rancher Robert Krentz. A pillar of the Cochise County community, Krentz had for decades raised cattle along the Arizona-Mexico border.

The violent death of a dog on the border is more likely than that of his owner to rate a mention in mainstream media.

State Senator Russell Pearce might also have mentioned a mutt—or even better, a Mulato family member—to justify the ‘racist’ law he sponsored

Washington does not want immigration laws enforced. And it matters not that its open-house policy is costing American lives and livelihoods. This applies to Barack Hussein Obama as well as to his predecessor, George W. Bush. …

Put more accurately: Arizona is doing the work Washington doesn’t want done. …”

The complete column is “Tell Establishment Media A Dog Died On The Border.”

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Update I (April 30): BREAKING. Coincidence or way of life? Arizona “deputy shot by illegal immigrant.”

Update II (May 1): In my column, I mentioned that “One of the finest minds on matters pertaining to immigration and the Constitution is Kris W. Kobach.” The NYT, no less, ran an op-ed by Kobach, “Why Arizona Drew a Line,” refuting the misinformation put out by bimbos and politicos who’ve not read the law—the former because they can’t read (Shakira); the latter (American Civil Liberties Union/The Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund) because they can get away with lying. He concludes:

President Obama and the Beltway crowd feel these problems can be taken care of with “comprehensive immigration reform” — meaning amnesty and a few other new laws. But we already have plenty of federal immigration laws on the books, and the typical illegal alien is guilty of breaking many of them. What we need is for the executive branch to enforce the laws that we already have.

Update III (May 2): While the activists make demands, patriotic residents of the “The Grand Canyon State” “Clean up our trashed border.” Via Michelle Malkin.

A Dog Died on The Border

Crime, Environmentalism & Animal Rights, Homeland Security, IMMIGRATION

What was the name of that dog that died on the Arizona-Mexico border, presumably defending his rancher owner from a marauder who vanished into Mexico? Does anyone know? Put a face or a name to Robert Krentz’s faithful companion, and liberals, who really care for dogs, may come to care for their keepers, battling as they do, day-in and day-out, to keep criminal aliens off their property and away from their live stock.

The martyred dog’s owner was gunned down by a criminal alien whom he had gone to help. Arizona Rancher Krentz had raised cattle in the area of Cochise County for decades; his family had farmed along the Arizona-Mexico border for over a century.

Michelle Malkin has more.

This from “That Spot Of Bother On The Border”:

“In 2004, Time magazine described in detail how illegal aliens rushing the southern border commit property crimes and despoil the environment”:

When the crowds cross the ranches along and near the border, they discard backpacks, empty Gatorade and water bottles and soiled clothes. They turn the land into a vast latrine, leaving behind revolting mounds of personal refuse and enough discarded plastic bags to stock a Wal-Mart. Night after night, they cut fences intended to hold in cattle and horses. Cows that eat the bags must often be killed because the plastic becomes lodged between the first and second stomachs. The immigrants steal vehicles and saddles. They poison dogs to quiet them. The illegal traffic is so heavy that some ranchers, because of the disruptions and noise, get very little sleep at night.

Via Digger:

In February [2002 Krentz’] … calf was butchered by illegal alien trespassers. Two men responsible were caught. They were tried. They were found guilty. They served a total of 51 days in jail. They were also ordered to pay $200 in restitution to the Krentz ranch. The Krentz ranch has not seen a cent of that money; and, of course, our best guess is they will not because these people have been released. They either came back into the population up here in the U.S.A. or returned to Mexico.

Border animals are suffering. The four-legged creatures need your help, miserable liberals.