What is energy independence supposed to be? We've heard about it for decades, it has been the excuse for drill baby drill, it has been used to extract subsidies and special tax breaks for the oil industry, millions of acres of federal land have been given to oil companies even though they have millions of acres they haven't had a chance to drill and develop.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but my idea of the concept of oil independence would be that our oil industry produces enough oil and fuel that we are not held captive by needing to import more than we produce for our own domestic consumption.

We have produced more than we use for a long time, even back when our consumption was at it's peak, we exported oil to other countries. It has always annoyed me to hear the right wing call to drill more, get more land, more subsidies for exploring new reserves.

We are exporting huge amounts of oil and fuel, pipelines are not about getting oil to refineries, it's about getting it to ports for export. It's about government subsidies for building pipelines. If these pipelines were needed as much as the rhetoric would imply wealthy oil companies can build them on their own dime, they don't need federal funds to do it.

If people on the right would take the time and initiative to learn about the facts without all the rhetoric about jobs and energy independence we would be part of much more intelligent arguments, not to mention saving billions of dollars that's going to an oil industry that doesn't need it.

So next time you hear an argument about the keystone pipeline being about 11,000 jobs, understand that that is BS, once it's constructed it's about a few hundred jobs at best. If it's not constructed at all it has no impact, if oil companies had to pay for it themselves they would do a cost effectiveness analysis and they wouldn't spend another dime on it. The right is all about less government spending, but there isn't a government giveaway to major corporations they don't support.

I'm all for oil, and I'm all for oil companies paying for their own expenses and their fair share of taxes on the tens of billions they make in profits. Subsidies are for new and emerging technologies, not the established ones that make more money than most industries.

Hahahaha..... anything but politics, anything.

I shoot, paper and hogs only, fish, bow fish.... im highly sk**led in the kitchen, yardwork, kids, a few grandkids, mexican food ( mexican women ) animals, owned everything legal or not, reptiles for sure....any and all personal remodeling in my own prison including all mechanical.......... everything but the roof man, wifes a master plumber, i have the mechanical side covered.
Helping at the local animal shelter, mostly exotics. ... i camp, kayak, canoe..... river guy, h**e lakes and flat water.
I collect firearms, swords and scars. .... not necessarily related, but possible indeed
I dabble in liquor making, and don't drink hardly ever... strange
Eating and cooking..... i will without hesitation spend 8 hours in a kitchen, 10 to 15 on the smoker for a 30 minute meal.

Everything above in some way would involve food.
Somewhat of an adrenaline junkie, went from crotch rockets to white water for my fix.... and the occasional poisonous critter grab.

Im in for most anything, clean fun crap........... The titty bar side is okay, we just cant make eye contact. . Lol

Texas, we have insane amounts of things to do.

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Ladies and gentlemen, I had promised that Jan 21st will be my last day at OPP. I thought that when president Trump is gone, my spirit goes with him. Yes, physically he's gone, but left lots of memories and great works for our country that keep our country alive and well.

However, they are being dismantled one by one by c*******t tyrants who've taken this country over. It's heart breaking to witness this happening. We need to defend it. So, I’ll stay. Unless OPP don’t want me.

Since Jan 20th, after president Trump was gone, when an illegitimate power took over. I am still receiving messages happening at the WH. I think my email address still remains at the WH web page. I still received messages about 1st thing Biden did on Jan 20th as soon as he entered the oval office.

Here are Biden’s agenda on day 1, at the Oval Office. Jan 20th, 2021.
Inauguration Day Proclamation
Nominations to Cabinet Positions
Nominations to sub-Cabinet Positions
Signing of the Paris Accord done on Dec. 2015. Biden re-joined the Paris Accord which was stripped by president Trump. This was a reversal of president Trump’s executive policy.

My conscience tells me to stay at OPP unless Admin does not want me. I now realized that though president Trump is gone, I am obliged to defend our country now taken over by the c*******t tyrants. The Republicans, Conservatives, and the 80 million president Trump’s stronghold, must be defended. Please don’t give up my fellow Americans. We must take back our country.

Right now, we have no constitutional rights.-Our Republic is over. We have to take it back.
Our freedom is taken.

We are deprived of the Justice system. Conviction/condemned without trail and due process. The most oppressed victim of these tyrants is president Donald J. Trump., followed by all his supporters. That is, we the people.

Now that tyrants are in power, we are being de-programed to obey them, similar to Stalinist Manifesto.

We are labeled as cults, as Hillary just put up.

A number of rhinos are in the republican group, fighting against our conservative values.
Destroying the unity of our party especially now that president Trump caries the majority people. I wish we could unite us to one party to be strong. But the rhinos won’t. McConnell , Murkowski, Romney, Collins, and many others vehemently oppose president Trump’s entry. They are thinking about their own, not about our country and people.

Please don’t give up my fellow conservative-republicans. We must take back our republic and constitution. Thank you., and God bless you!

Stabbing Hector’s Corpse

By Victor Davis Hanson

January 20, 2021
In Homer’s epic Iliad, the Greek hero Achilles finally k**ls his h**ed archenemy, the often trash-talking Trojan warrior, Hector.

After Hector dies, once frightened but now gloating Greek soldiers encircle and cowardly stab his limp corpse.

Achilles even ties the ankles of the dead Hector to his char**t and in fits of mindless rage d**gs him around the walls of Troy.

Homer then brilliantly shows how Achilles’ vindictive excess ensures sympathy even for the once-braggart Hector. Eventually, the adolescent Achilles relents, grows up, allows Hector to be buried, and accepts the tragic nature of a common humanity.

If Democrats and the Left had wished to reinvigorate the Trump legacy, they could have done no better than unleashing their unhinged and often repulsive hatred of the last two weeks.

The Washington Post’s Eugene Robinson recently boasted, “There are millions of Americans, almost all white, almost all Republicans, who somehow need to be deprogrammed.”

What method does Robinson advocate for the required mind-rinsing of these millions? The Chinese, Soviet, or North-Korean model?

CNN’s Don Lemon claims that those who v**ed for Trump—nearly half the e*****rate—are synonymous with the Ku Klux Klan and the N**is. Would Lemon include one in three Hispanics or one in five black males?

The Lincoln Project, in good McCarthyite fashion, wants to create lists of former Trump officials to destroy their reputations. Is that the spirit of their namesake, Abe Lincoln, who urged Americans to heal the nation’s wounds “with malice toward none, with charity for all”?

Was it not enough to rush through a slipshod, one-day second impeachment of Trump, the first in our nation’s history?

Or after he leaves office, will Trump also become the first private citizen in history to be the target of a Senate impeachment trial—an act as unnecessary as it is likely unconstitutional.

So far the Left has produced no consistent standard by which the public can judge Trump’s excesses. Indeed, for months, blue-state mayors and governors contextualized nonstop summer r**ting, arson, and l**ting.

Politicians like Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Vice President Kamala Harris, and Representative Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), have themselves either revved up angry protestors, urged mass street demonstrators to continue indefinitely, or directed followers to hound and harass government officials.

Trump, unlike Iran’s strongman Ayatollah Khamenei who advocates the destruction of Israel, is banned for life from Twitter. So are many of his followers—unlike those of radical A****a and B*M who used social media to coordinate their often violent protests, l**ting, and arson.

The small conservative alternative to Silicon Valley’s left-wing social media monopoly, Parler, was crushed by Big Tech in one fell swoop.

Does Joe Biden really believe he can unite the country by smearing two U.S. senators as no different from the genocidal N**i propagandist Joseph Goebbels?

Already Biden’s premature promises of mass amnesties and lax border enforcement have sparked caravans of undocumented immigrants to head for the border. Are they going again to crash through without background checks—right in the middle of a spiking C****-** p******c, with already crammed ICUs and long lines for v******tions?

Joe Biden has promised to cancel pipeline contracts and curtail f****l f**l production.

How popular will that be?

Fracking made the United States a net energy exporter and crashed gas prices. America is no longer dependent on Middle East oil and gas. It has no need to intervene in endless wars out of worry for secure energy supplies.

The t***sition to clean-burning natural gas allowed the United States to reduce carbon emissions more rapidly than almost any other major industrial nation. And high-paying gas and oil jobs sparked economic booms from Texas to North Dakota.

Lots of departed Republican Trump officials are now loudly trashing their former boss. Few admit that their once-stalled careers were revived only after they successfully lobbied to work for the Trump White House.

Efforts of Republican House members to join House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s push to impeach Trump were widely praised as “bipartisan” in the media and by the Left. But impeachment won the support of less than five percent of Republican House members.

No wonder, since some national polls put Trump’s national popularity unchanged or even above where it was on E******n Day. About 85 percent of Republicans still support him.

The irony is that all these frenzied efforts to mutilate the political corpse of Trump are reviving him.

Banning Trump from his often self-destructive Twitter addiction, smearing his supporters as r****ts, and bulldozing through a far-Left agenda will only ensure Trump a ninth life.

Americans h**e one thing more than a sore loser, and that is an arrogant, vindictive—and bullying—winner.

If Trump for now can finally exit office silently, and if his enemies continue to be loud, petty, vengeful, and extremist, then the public will very soon make the necessary adjustments.