BHO killing Space Program Plus other Critical Programs

Bho killing oil, coal, gas, and the space program.  See article below on oil and gas and EPA efforts to end fracking.



Also you have the highly decorated Marine General, former shuttle cmdr and pilot, now head of NASA who will not take a position to extend the shuttle.  Anyone with TWO BRAIN CELLS can understand why this does not add up nor smell right when you look at the shuttle capabilities which the nation desperately needs and the new programs do not have the arm , airlock, runway landing, reusability , will not be ready for 15 years and costs 200 billion while we have an already paid for shuttle in the Museum.

Additionally, you have CAIB, and ASAP chairs Gehman, and Dyer who falsely portrayed  the shuttle as NOT UNSAFE but NOT SAFE--Gehman, Dyer--getting more dangerous as time passes, essentially recommending to the president to scrap the program.

Now, would a decorated hero go alone with the scrapping of the most capable machine ever built
by man, and take an assignment to make Muslims feel good with close to one hundred of the best minds the USA has recommending extension.??  Forced to hire the Russians to get us to the ISS at 60 million per flight on a vehicle that doesn't meet NASA manned rating requirements. Also, the parachute landings in Russia are dangerous, read NASA SP-2010-578, appendix on Soyus.

I think the answer is not no, but HELL NO.  Something is not right with this picture.

ASK YOUR SENATORS and REPRESENTATIVES why we are scrapping this fantastic flying machine.






Insider Report from Newsmax.com

Headlines (Scroll down for complete stories):
1. EPA Threatens North Dakota Oil Boom 
2. Israeli-Saudi Cyberwar Heats Up 
3. The Obamas Feast on $81 Steaks 
4. Report: Government Workers’ Pay Is ‘Inflated’ 
5. Sen. Inhofe Rips ‘Reckless’ Obama Over Pipeline 
6. We Heard: Online Ads, Tea Party, Mexican Drug Wars 



1. EPA Threatens North Dakota Oil Boom

Oil production in North Dakota has boomed to the point that the state now produces nearly as much oil each day as OPEC member Ecuador.

But a decision by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) could bring a halt to the boom that has virtually eliminated unemployment in North Dakota.

The state now has 200 rigs pumping 440,000 barrels of oil daily in the Bakken shale formation, according to the Heartland Institute. The state’s unemployment rate is holding at just 3.5 percent, with many oil industry jobs paying more than $100,000 a year, and “we have 18,000 jobs looking for people,” North Dakota Republican Rep. Rick Berg told The Hill.

“If our country’s GDP grew at 7 percent, as it does in [my] state, most of our problems would be over in two years.”

The North Dakota legislature is using some of the state’s oil revenue to fund $1.2 billion in infrastructure improvements, including roads and schools. Public schools will receive $340 million in oil-related revenues over the next two years, and oil money will pay for a disaster relief fund and a reduction in property taxes.

Also, the legislature has ordered that 30 percent of the funds from the state’s 6.5 percent oil extraction tax be sent to the state’s Legacy Fund, which cannot be touched until 2017, when accrued interest will become available for spending.

One reason for the boom: “The regulatory environment was already low in North Dakota, certainly better than California’s and some other oil-producing states,” said Brett Narloch, executive director of the North Dakota Policy Council.

“As we move forward with oil production, I expect the business environment to get better."

Most of the Bakken shale production is occurring on private land, but analysts and state legislators fear the EPA may still seek to shut it down, the Institute reported.

The federal agency is currently investigating hydraulic fracturing (fracking) production techniques, which are used in shale oil production.

Narloch said: “If the EPA decides to ban fracking, that shuts down the entire industry since so many of the wells operate by that procedure. It would kill this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.”

Editor's Note:





Sen. Inhofe Rips ‘Reckless’ Obama Over Pipeline

Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe, the ranking Republican on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, has blasted President Barack Obama for siding with “radical” environmentalists and shelving plans for the Keystone XL pipeline.

The 1,700-mile pipeline would have brought oil from Canada to refineries in Texas, created thousands of jobs, and lessened America’s reliance on Middle East oil. Environmentalists claimed it posed the threat of an oil leak.

House Republicans gave Obama 60 days to approve or reject the $7 billion project, but Obama said the deadline did not allow time to assess the environmental and health impacts and squelched the pipeline plan, at least for the immediate future.

Inhofe released the following statement: "President Obama sided with his radical environmental friends and their job-killing global warming agenda instead of a majority of the American people who would have welcomed the tens of thousands of jobs the Keystone pipeline would have created.

"President Obama's decision shows his unwavering commitment to his global warming agenda which seeks to eliminate oil, gas, and coal, and raise energy and gas prices on every American.

"President Obama has now squandered one of the best job-creating opportunities he has ever had.

"Given the current tensions with Iran over its nuclear program and their threats to choke off the Strait of Hormuz, the president's decision was reckless — with little regard to the threat America faces from its dependence on Middle East oil.

"Global warming alarmist Bill McKibben said that the president's decision was 'brave.' Well, he is taking a big risk: By killing jobs today he could very well lose his own job come November."

Inhofe told Newsmax in an interview last year that the Obama administration is “trying to kill oil and gas” by refusing to allow the United States to exploit its abundant natural resources in an effort to drive the country toward green energy.

Inhofe is a steadfast critic of manmade global warming alarmists. His new book “The Hoax,” due out in August, focuses on what he calls the biggest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people — that catastrophic global warming is the result of manmade gases.