To: greenspirit who wrote (143943 ) 5/9/2001 1:08:14 PM From: Thomas A Watson Respond to of 769670 Mike, life is counting how many times someone else posts. Seems very funny to me. on obstruction and On drilling for oil. How About a Little Obstruction Charge Here? Neal Boortz May 1, 2001 So ? here's the way it works. It's January 19, 2001. A federal judge issues an order. The order commands the Environmental Protection Agency to preserve any and all evidence of any nature whatsoever that may be relevant to a lawsuit filed over Clinton's last-minute environmental regulations. That would be environmental regulations like Clinton's arsenic ploy. Now, this is the last day of the Clintonista regime. Clinton's EPA administrator is a woman named Carol Browner. Here comes the judge's order. What does Browner do? She erases the hard drive on her computer in her office at the EPA. What's more, she orders two other senior EPA officials to erase their disk drives also. OK, we have a lawsuit, we have an order, and we have a government official in open defiance of that order? Question: When does Carol Browner get indicted for obstruction of justice? Oh, wait a minute. I forgot. She's a Democrat. This was Clinton administration stuff. For a minute there, I thought she might be part of a Republican administration. Then the indictment would come faster than Clinton can drop his trousers. Drilling for Oil in Alaska - The Numbers The environmentalists are winning this one, too! A large number of Americans think that it's such a hideous and horrible idea to drill for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge up yonder in Alaska. This is because the anti-capitalist eco-radical crowd has most Americans convinced that the entire refuge landscape will be nothing but oil derricks from horizon to horizon. OK, let's take a look at the numbers here. Alaska is a big state - 378 million acres. That's more land than even Ted Turner owns. Of these 378 million acres the wildlife refuge comprises 19.5 million acres. That's still a pretty big hunk. Moving right along. Just how much of the 19.5 million-acre Arctic National Wildlife Refuge will be opened to oil exploration? That would be about 1.5 million acres. OK, we're starting to whittle down the land area here. Now, what about actual oil production facilities? That would be the derricks, the pumps, the tanks, the terminals - all structures and equipment connected with the exploration and retrieval of the oil. Well, that would be about 2,000 acres. OK, out of the entire state of Alaska and its 378 million acres we have about 2,000 acres where any human being - or elk, for that matter - would ever be able to detect the presence of the oil companies. Two thousand out of 378 million acres. Do you still agree with the eco-radicals? Do you still think oil exploration is a bad idea? OK, then, let's compare this to the lot your home sits on. We'll assume you have 120 feet of road frontage and your lot is 250 feet deep. That gives you 30,000 square feet. If your lot were Alaska, how much of your lot would be explored for oil? The answer is .16 square feet. That would be 23 square inches of your entire lot. If I were to step in some mud in your yard with my size 12 shoes, the print would be about 39 square inches. So, that's less than one footprint out of your entire yard. I'm having fun, so let's take this a bit further. See that 9x12 rug in front of you? There you have 108 square feet. Let's make your rug Alaska. If you look very hard you can see those evil, nasty, polluting oil companies exploring for oil on .824 square inches of your rug. Less than one square inch! You could hide the whole mess under one leg of your coffee table. ....................................................newsmax.com ah well vacant liberal minds can can count. they are just retarded when it comes to understanding the numbers. 404 error, intelligence not found. tom watson tosiwmee