Frickin’ Debate Over Fracking?

Okay, so this country needs energy. We run on oil and natural gas. Oil is going to run out and we are importing more and more oil from unstable Middle Eastern countries that hate our guts and seem intent on making us, the U.S., and the rest of the world pay for it “through the nose.” Solution: Natural Gas! We have large deposits in this country and we know how to get it out of the ground. The process is called hydraulic fracturing or “fracking.”


Fracking, uses water, millions of gallons of water, and an array of chemicals to push apart underground rock formations, releasing natural gas for collection. Environmental groups want more regulation of the process and the chemicals used in fracking, but industry groups say more rules aren't necessary. Local communities across the country are now bucking heads with large energy corporations as health and water pollution issues are coming to light.

Well, suck it up America! Our country needs natural gas, if we are going to tell those Middle Eastern oil dictators to “go pound sand.” Natural gas is cleaner burning and more plentiful in this country. We just need to get it out of the ground. It is there for the taking. Are we going to keep paying more and more for less and less oil or are we going to drill, baby, drill right here in our own backyard? The EPA and the tax man should just leave the gas industry alone. This is big business and it creates jobs… in America.

Okay so we have to get used to being able to light our kitchen facets like a BIC lighter. Big deal. Think of it like a bonus. Free gas! Rig up a spit over your sink and cook a pork roast for dinner. Headaches and blurry vision? Take an aspirin, people! We need a plentiful source of energy more than we need safe drinking water. Why do you need to know what chemicals are in your drinking water anyway? We drink lots of stuff with chemicals right off the grocer’s shelf. Did you ever read the small print on bottled vitamin water or Gatorade? Do you know what any of those chemicals are?

So what if your kids can’t play outside because of the fumes when the wind is blowing from the drilling rigs in your backyard. Just keep them inside and close your windows, for God’s sake. Better yet…hold your breath until the wind direction changes or better still, just MOVE. If you pack up and move to cleaner air and water, then…problem solved. If you stay in your beloved homes, then shame on you. Your stubbornness may just get you and your family killed. Just move for the greater good of our nation and its corporate wealth. You know it’s the patriotic thing to do.

And boo hoo, you got CANCER! Lots of people get cancer from all kinds of things. That’s life. We need natural gas, America. It heats our homes and one day may just run our cars. Sure cancer is a sad thing. One day they may find a cure for it and won’t you feel selfish if you stop this great nation and its industrial giants from developing our wonderful stash of natural gas to rival the world! What is more important… the health of a few or the Home of the Brave?

America needs to get on board with our nation’s energy industry. They are here to serve us…even if they kill us in the process. Besides China and the rest of the world will pay a pretty penny for OUR natural gas and help our balance of trade and our national debt. So stop this frickin’ debate over fracking and be a true Patriot… (queue “God Bless America”)

Food for THOUGHT…

Diversity and Federal Republics

Last week I got an email, one of those internet things that keep getting passed around to stir up the slumbering masses in this country. It was another perfect example of how easy it is to use fear and prejudice to divide and conquer a nation. The e-mail showed photos of what was purported to be a ruined Detroit City, the “Motor City.” The usual suspects for this catastrophic failure of an American city were the blacks, the Mexicans and this is new…the Muslims. The bottom line message was that the city fell due to white apathy. Whites abandoned the city let it fall prey to…them.


There was nothing in any of the photos to identify the city of Detroit, but there were these depressing photos showing abandoned and deteriorating buildings and factories. If the pictures were of Detroit, I suggest that federal policies over decades by BOTH parties have led to dismal failures in our inner cities. The misuse of taxpayer money on ill-conceived programs with good intentions has led our nation to where we stand today. It should be a warning to other countries as well. Look at Greece and Spain. Their governments have led them to the brink of default with spending far beyond their means and the US is not far behind.

As I see it, it is not the diversity in our country that is leading us to failure and ruin...it is that we all see ourselves as whites, blacks, Mexicans, Muslims and not as ONE people, ONE nation standing together to solve our problems. There are forces that are trying very hard to exploit our nation's diversity and stereotypes for personal gain. They are playing off not just ethnic diversity but political diversity as well...for personal profit and power. If Americans do not wake up and realize that we are all being played...then America, as we know it...is doomed.

We have forgotten what a federal republic is all about? “One nation… indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.” (not just the super rich and the politically connected.) Would we rather go back to monarchies and city states where we become subjects of a king or queen or a privileged noble class? Would we rather divide up and fight as little fiefdoms like in the Dark Ages? That's where we are headed as far as I can see. If history teaches us nothing, it teaches us that it repeats itself.

The evolution of this once great country is at stake. We can either come together and work together as a nation for the common good or we can break up into factions and fight amongst ourselves for our own self interests...and die.

We are at the brink and we are running out of time.

Food for THOUGHT…