Boardman Country

Back in July, our President did a most excellent thing for our nation when he lifted the executive ban on drilling along our nation’s coasts.

Now it’s time to thank him again.  Once again demonstrating his spinal fortitude, he threatened to veto the House stopgap spending bill wending its way toward his desk should it contain any anti-drilling measures.

With at least 73% of Americans behind him on this issue, Pelosi and her cronies finally got the wax out of their ears and heard us saying, “Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less, Why Wait?”

Meanwhile, it’s expected that the Senate will follow suit within the next few days.

I have been a passionate supporter of the concept of America getting off its rear end and getting the oil and natural gas that is ours as a partial solution to winning the war for energy independence.  For those of you who may actually want to get involved in coming up with and implementing bipartisan solutions for achieving this independence, let me recommend the following link: Solutions Day, September 27th

Obviously, all Americans don’t agree on everything. This has always been the case and will continue to be.  However, there are (you may not believe it, but it’s true!) quite a number of things upon which the majority of Americans do agree!

I realize that whether or not to thank President Bush is controversial and that many of you hate the man.  But since here in Boardman Country everyone’s entitled to MY opinion, let’s get over it and talk about the larger issues.

President Bush, love him or hate him, is on his way out and believe me, the next guy, no matter who he is, will have his fair share of detractors.  But We the People must re-establish and not lose our focus.

I believe that focus should be aimed like a laser toward the things upon which we do agree, even if we agree on them for different reasons.  Let me cite an example.

My friend, Linda, over at Forcedgreen.com of Whole Hog Blogs fame agrees with me that America should be harnessing wind energy.

Why?  Well, I think we should be doing it because the wind is there and it’s free and once the technologies and delivery systems are refined and joined, it seems to me that it should end up being a pretty cost-effective source of power.  Mr. Pickens seems to agree with this position.

Linda, on the other hand, (and I know she’ll correct me if I’m wrong ) is, from what I can tell, motivated primarily by her passion for the environment.  Fabulous!

So I like it because I think it’ll be cheap and Linda likes it because it’s clean.  Good!  We agree! Let’s get ‘er done!

Although this may be an over-simplified example, it seems to me that as Americans if we were to spend more of our time, energy and resource on seeking out the areas of agreement and turning those into solutions, America would be further ahead and the level of discord would be reduced.

So whether you’re a flaming liberal or a far right conservative, check out Solutions Day, September 27th
and see if you can find some little piece of dirt you can stand on together with someone from the complete opposite end of the political spectrum.  You may be surprised!

Meanwhile, thanks again President Bush.

You’re in Boardman Country!

Make yourself at home,

Brad

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Yesterday the president lifted the ban on offshore drilling.

“We can’t just Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less! It’ll take ten years for that move forward to produce any change at the pump!” they said.

Well, now, isn’t it interesting that practically before the President had gotten the verbiage for lifting the offshore drilling ban out of his mouth, the price per barrel of oil dropped by $9.26 to $136 (Let’s see now, I think that translates to 6.3 percent lower without one newly-supplied barrel having been brought to the surface yet! Hmmmm.)

Okay, Congress, did you see how quickly that happened? Now, let me recommend a way to just as quickly raise … Read more…

Today I think it’s time to give some credit where credit is due.

No, not to Al Gore this time for helping to mastermind the hoax that’s helping raise the price at the pump! Please, don’t get me spitting right now. I’m in too good of a mood!

Actually, I want to give props to my friend Theresa and her friend Jeff (I’m sure he’s my friend to, but I’ve never had occasion to talk with him on the phone!) over at Whole-Hog-Blogs!

If you should happen to get a hold of this post - and obviously, you have - Gotcha! - and you are even considering starting a blog of your own, T & J are the folks you want to hook up with!

I’ve spent the past number of months scouring the net for a service like theirs. I’m talking about one where you actually get what you paid for in terms of customer SERVICE! It’s actually astounding.

I had gotten so used to sending off emails into the abyss and hoping beyond hope that I’d get a response, let alone one that was timely. Let alone one that wasn’t some canned piece of boiler plated, one-size-fits-all, figure-it-out-yourself-you-dummy, sort of a response.

Today, I’m in Whole Hog heaven! I kid you not, I don’t think I’ve ever waited more that 30 minutes for Mother Theresa to get back with me with good answers to my myriad questions. Unless, of course, she’d finally call it a night after 9:00 or so. But I think you can see what I mean.

Speaking of which, Theresa, you should probably start shutting ‘er down a little earlier to get some rest. We (i.e., all of us in the WHB Network) don’t want to lose you, girl! I hate to think what I’d do without you now.

NO, NO, NO, NO! She is, categorically, not paying me to write this. Something just came over me when I sat down to work up a post today. BTW, I hope you’re reading this loud and clear, Verizon!

And it’s not just that they’re responsive. It’s always with a smile (in her voice) and it’s always supported by a huge knowledge base gathered over many years of their having to figure it out themselves.

Now the temptation, I’m sure, with that much experience under their belts, is to try to dump all of it on unsuspecting folks like me who can very easily feel like we’re trying to drink from a fire hose.

Not so!

That’s not to say that she can’t do that, but all I had to do after she said, “THIS…is a football,” was say, “COACH! Slow down!” The sign of a true teacher.

So if you, like I do, need to have your hand held as you navigate your way down the field to internet traffic, just get your mouse over to the right a little and click on “Join Our Network Today.” We’re having too much fun and we need to spread it around a little.

Okay, team, let’s hear it nice and loud!

Whole-Hog-Blogs!

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You’re in Boardman Country!

Make yourself at home,

Brad

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