Everyday we hear our Government wants to place more restrictions on our civil liberties in the name of the environment.

   When I was a child it was save the Whales. That seemed harmless enough. After all they just wanted folks to stop hunting Whales. I was not a Whale hunter why would I care. So go ahead and save them.

   Then it was the spotted Owl. Some goofy story about how we could not cut down old mature trees. Then tell us that the Owls were too picky to nest or raise their young any other place except three hundred year old trees. That is until one was found nesting in a Kmart sign.

   On and on until save the environment has become big business. Environmental wack nuts like Al Gore make millions of dollars a year running around in private jets, (which by the way burn thousands of gallons of fuel a minute.) screaming the sky is falling, the sky is falling. 

   Fast forward to today. Gas is $4.00 a gallon and I am told $6.00 to $8.00 a gallon gas, is not out of the question. The cost of food is up 30% to 40%. Companies are laying off, shutting down, or struggling to stay afloat. Unemployment is on the rise. and why do you ask? Because every product, and every thing you touch must at sometime move by truck. The average distance is 1500 miles. As a matter of fact, every part of our economy is fueled by oil in some way, shape, or form.

   Now I would love to wave a magic wand and replace oil with another form of energy, but there isn't anything at this point that will handle the load. Not that I am saying we should not continue to try. By all means keep trying. Until we make a break through oil is what we have. And what we have is trillions of barrels of oil in this Country and off shore. The Chinese are drilling sixty miles off of our coast right now.

 Don't tell me it is about the environment. Nuclear plants could provide cleaner and cheaper energy, but the Environmentalist and your local Democratic Party stops us every time.

   Wind could provide free safe energy for not all, but much of our needs. Right now on the Kennedy Ranch here in Texas they are trying to put in a wind farm, and the Environmentalist are trying to stop it. Why? You say, they think birds are too stupid to fly around them.

   Even if we were to reach the utopian dream, of not ever hurting the environments feelings. It would not do any good because India, China, Mexico, and other growing third world nations are doing nothing.

   It is time to save humans and let the environment limp along as best as it is able. We have done all that is reasonable to do.

 Now I don't want to be accused of whining with no solutions.

   So here it is:

1. For at least one year starting now, stop all fuel taxes. We don't need to fix roads if we cannot afford to drive on them.

2. Here in Texas as well as other places there are wells we have capped that are filling up. Uncap and pump then dry again.

3. Start drilling everywhere there is oil. Make Alaska, the Ocean floor, and the lower 48 look like Swiss cheese. Have all Governors dispatch the National Guard to protect drilling just in case some nut ball Judge gets their panties in a wad, and tries to stop us. This is a point of National Security.

4. And here is the one I like the best. Defund all environmental research or environmental organizations we are sending money to and put it toward the building of wind farms and nuke plants.

 Today on June 7th, 2008 Hilary Clinton gave her second concession speech, in which she did not concede.

   On the last speech given a few days ago, when Sen. Clinton lost the nomination due to Sen. Obama going over the total amount of delegates needed to win the parties nomination. She did not throw in the towel. Everyone thought she would, she should have, and any other candidate with even a small amount of grace would have. Sen. Clinton was not among those people. The best she could do was to say, I will spend a few days thinking about what to do and, ask my supporters to e-mail my web site to give me your advise. Even after losing the nomination she is still trying to figure out how to retain the power.

   Here is a woman that wanted to be the commander and chief of our military and she could not even decide when to bow out with grace.

Still hanging on to some fading hope, of the power of the oval office, she waits and calls around capital hill, and her supporters. After finding a cold reception even from ardent supporters like Charlie Rangel and others on capital hill, she finally decides to do what every one else knows she must.

   Then in the typical Clinton style she shows up today 45 minuets late, for her non-concession speech. No thought to all her supporters that are waiting for her at 12:00 eastern time. In this speech she says all of the right things. I will give my support to Sen. Obama, she asked her supporters to give their support to Sen. Obama, but she did not concede. What Sen. Clinton did was suspend her campaign. There is a difference. When you suspend your campaign instead of ending or conceding it you retain your delegates, and your power over them. If she wanted to concede she would have ended her campaign she would have release her delegates to Sen. Obama. Now her pledged delegates are legally bound to vote for her at the convention on the first ballot.

   At this speech Sen. Clinton spoke for 30 minuets. 25 of them she spoke of herself or her campaign and what she accomplished. Only five of them did she speak about Sen. Obama. When she spoke of herself she was all smiles, but when talk turned to Sen. Obama her face turned grim. Body language tells us more about what someone means rather than what they say. Speaking about herself Sen. Clinton kept eye contact with the crowd. Speaking about Sen. Obama and the support she would give him, she broke eye contact with the crowd and looked at her notes or off to the side. It was a clear sign of deception.

   You can bet it’s all about the power of the white house not wanting to serve the people.

       And that's what I think

             Phil Haikey