Even Bill Clinton Thinks There are “Ridiculous Delays” in Obama’s Admin Issuing Offshore Drilling Permits

Even Bill Clinton thinks Obama is delaying deep water drilling and hurting the economy.

How bad is the Obama administration in messing with the economy and delaying the issuing of offshore drilling permits? Even former Democrat President William Clinton is slamming Obama for their “ridiculous delays”.  At a IHS CERAWeek conference, Bill Clinton agreed with former Republican President George W. Bush on many oil and gas issues, including the the fact that there were “ridiculous delays in permitting when our economy doesn’t need it.”

It isn’t the first time that Clinton called Obama ridiculous

Former President Bill Clinton said Friday that delays in offshore oil and gas drilling permits are “ridiculous” at a time when the economy is still rebuilding, according to attendees at the IHS CERAWeek conference.

Clinton spoke on a panel with former President George W. Bush that was closed to the media. Video of their moderated talk with IHS CERA Chairman Daniel Yergin was also prohibited.

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Google: Missing Persons Finder Tool To Help Find Loved Ones In Japan

Following the devastating 8.9 magnitude earthquake and tsunami in Japan, Google has launched  the Person Finder Tool to help locate or get information on missing loved ones and friends.

Now, Google has launched the Person Finder Tool, a free information service for those posting information about people or looking for someone. The tool is available in multiple languages. Google uses data from the social networking sites and across the Internet to find records on missing people – they are currently tracking 64,600 records as of Sat., March 12.

 Google Missing Person Finder Tool: 2011 Japan Earthquake page can be found HERE or in English.  More information about the Google Missing Person Finder Tool, HERE.

Google Person Finder, a project of the Google Crisis Response division of Google.org, was built by Google engineers in response to the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti to help those affected by the earthquake connect with their loved ones. Google Person Finder can also accept data from other similar registries and display them together at one place.

More Sacrifice from Barack Obama, Middle East in Crisis, Gas Prices Rising,

More laughs, giggles and play while the world is in turmoil.

More from President Barack Obama is his lack of seriousness of being President of the United States, when the tough gets going, Obama goes golfing! Could this President be more out of touch and appear to care less? Chaos is everywhere in the world, but that does not prevent Barack Obama from yet another round of golf.

• Japan continues to suffer from an 8.9 magnitude earthquake, tsunami and 6.44 magnitude after shocks.
• Death toll in Japan could be greater than 1800,  Japanese military said 300 to 400 bodies were found in Rikuzentakata.
• Japan struggles with explosion at nuclear power plant and 3 showed signed of radiation exposure.
• Arab League calls for no-fly zone in Libya.
• Middle East in chaos.
• Violence and clashes in Egypt.
• Searching for Missing Americans After Japan Disaster
• Price of oil over $100 a barrel.
• Death threats against Republican Wisconsin state legislatures.
• 13 People killed in Bus crash returning to NYC.
• Five Israeli family members killed  by Palestinian terrorist in West Bank settlement
• American Professor Kidnapped in Mexican Border City of Ciudad Juarez
• Weekly initial jobless claims increased by 26,000 in the latest week to 397,000, above projected economists

But Barck Obama finds time for golf and thinks its perfectly ok as Rome burns. I can’t wait until he takes time away from his busy golf schedule to fill out and share with us his March Madness NCAA Basketball brackets.

UNREAL, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews Sees Devastating Japan Earthquake/Tsunami Disaster as an ‘Opportunity’ for Obama to Remind People He Was Born in Hawaii

WHAT IS WRONG WITH MSNBC’S CHRIS MATTHEWS … IS HE COMPLETED VOID OF A CONSCIENCE?

Most likely 1000′s are dead, people are missing and too many to count are injured and without a home in the wake of the 8.9 magnitude earthquakein Japan and the tsunami that followed; however, for MSNBC’s liberal mouth piece, Chris Matthews looks to have President Barack Obama use it for his person opportunity. Even worse, after watching the carnage and devastation of buildings collapsing, a 30 foot wall of water wrecking havoc and people’s lives being ended, Matthews first though was how this could benefit Obama? This man truly has no heart or soul.

After watching the video below, is the first thing that comes to your mind that Obama should use the Japan disaster for his own gain and remind people that he grew up in Hawaii?

In the imortal and discable words of Rahm Emanuel, “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.” It would appear that Chris Matthews is following the same tact for Barack Obama when it comes to the Japan earthquake and tsunami.  From NewsBusters comes the following where Matthews poses the question and believes Barack Obama should use the earthquake as an opportunity, “Was this sort of a good opportunity for the president to remind everybody that he grew up in the United States and Hawaii?”

When it comes to the Leftist, in the tank liberal MSM, why is everything supposed to be about Barack Obama and getting him reelected? Why isn’t it about those that are affected by a natural disaster and the families of missing loved one’s and those who have perished?

ViaNewsBusters:

“That’s the first thing I thought of,” Matthews insisted. “Such a large number of people believe he grew up in [Kenya], they’re buying this thing that’s coming from Huckabee,” Matthews insisted.

A somewhat visibly flustered Todd politely rejected Matthews’s argument:

TODD: Look, do I think they thought this was another chance? No. I mean, they called this press conference because they hadn’t had an opportunity to speak about gas prices…. This was a case where events crowded out the whole purpose of the press conference. That’s an interesting theory. It certainly did give him an opportunity to remind folks of where he grew up and the folks he grew up with.

MATTHEWS: Yeah, it’s pathetic he has to do that, but thank you so much, Chuck Todd.

MATTHEWS: Sorry to bring you into our intramural concerns here, but one of them is this strange critique of him from the right that he’s not really one of us that never seems to end. Thank you Chuck Todd for that great reporting on an unusual and very strange topic.

13 People Dead, Many More Injured in Bus Crash on I-95 … Bus Returning to NYC from a Connecticut Casino

HORRIFIC …

Thirteen are dead and many others a critically injured as a bus charter company World Wide Tours flipped over and crashed on I-95  in the Bronx, NY this morning returning to new York City  from the the Connecticut casino The Mohegan Sun. The bus was sliced in half by the support pole for a large sign as the crash occurred on the southbound side of I-95.

The sign post sheared off the top of the bus along the windows for nearly two-thirds of the bus’ length.

As many as 31 people were on board the bus. The bus, operated by the charter company World Wide Tours, was headed to Manhattan’s Chinatown neighborhood carrying a full load of passengers returning from the Mohegan Sun casino in Uncasville, Conn.

 According to the driver, who survived the crash, he lost control of the bus while trying to evade a swerving tractor trailer. The operator of the trackter trailer did not stop after the accident and is presently being sought by authorities.

The early morning wreck left a scene of carnage and closed the southbound side of Interstate-95 for hours while emergency workers attended to critically injured survivors and removed bodies.

The bus, operated by the charter company World Wide Tours, was headed to Manhattan’s Chinatown neighborhood carrying a full load of passengers returning from the Mohegan Sun casino in Uncasville, Conn.

According to the driver, the accident was triggered by a close encounter with a tractor trailer as the two vehicles were entering the city at 5:35 a.m. The bus was in one lane. The truck was in the lane to its left.

“The truck either starts to swerve or perhaps even hits the bus,” Kelly said. He said both vehicles were moving at “a significant rate of speed.”

New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly Describes Deadly NY Bus Crash and those Deceased & Injured

UPDATE I: 14 people now dead from this mornings bus crash.

UPDATE II: NBC-NY is reporting that several passengers who survived the bus crash told police the bus driver was driving erratically down I-95 before the accident took place. Did the driver fall asleep at the wheel?

Help Search for Michelle Malkin’s Missing Cousin Marizela Perez in Seattle, WA on Saturday

HELP SEARCH FOR MISSING MARAZELA PEREZ.

Marizela Perez, the 18 year old, University of Washington, cousin of blogger Michelle Malkin has been missing since March 5, 2011 in Seattle, WA. For all those in the Seattle, WA area, please come out and help search for missing Marizela Perez this Saturday, March 12, 2011. Michelle Malkin is asking for your help and so are we at Scared Monkeys … having been on many missing person searches and dealing with families personally, we sadly know what Michelle and her family are presently going through.  For those of you in the Seattle area, please volunteer and help. We offer Michelle Malkin and her family our prayers and whatever we can do to help them bring Marizela home.

This is probably one of the most difficult things my family has ever undertaken. It has been an overwhelming week and we need help.

Tomorrow, Saturday March 12, our family will be joining from all over the country to look for missing 18-year-old UW student Marizela Perez.

The full search party will meet at 11:30am tomorrow at the Safeway where she was last seen last Saturday afternoon and spread out across the University District and surrounding areas.

MARIZELA PEREX MISSING SINCE MARCH 5, 2011
 

More information available via Marizela’s Facebook 

The pdf of the missing persons poster can be downloaded HERE.

Description of missing 18 year old Marizela Perez:

• Asian female, 5’5” tall
• 110 lbs, skinny build,
• asymmetrical bob with short bangs and brown/red
  highlights hairstyle,
• tattoo on left inner arm with
  the words “lahat ay magiging maayos” (all will be
  well),
• last seen wearing a dark jacket with hood
  over a light color sweater with hood, denim jeans,
  light brown suede laced boots,
•  possibly wearing
  green eye contacts,
• carrying a denim drawstring
  backpack with rainbow butterfly screenprint, with
  a Macbook Pro laptop.
  MACBOOK S/N: 340257DBATM
  CELLPHONE IS SAMSUNG SOLSTICE II
  CELLPHONE IMEI #: 354493040314352

If any one has any information regarding missing Marizela Perez, please contact the Seattle Police District Missing Persons Bureau: (206)684-5582

Death Toll Feared to Be 1,700 and 9,500 Missing & Unaccounted for in Miyagi’s Minamisanriku

Our hearts and prayers go out to Japan … the Kyodo News is reporting that up to 1700 people might de dead. With the wide spread damage from pictures and videos seen of the 8.9 magnitude earth quake and subsequent tsunami, it is sadly hard to believe that the death toll will not be higher.  

Japan Earthquake: Helicopter aerial view video of giant tsunami waves

Damage caused by Friday’s catastrophic earthquake in Japan expanded Saturday, with the combined number of people who have died or are unaccounted for is feared to top 1,700, while an explosion occurred at the nuclear reactor building of Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant and injured four workers.

The death toll has exceeded 600 so far, a police tally showed, while 200 to 300 bodies were transferred to Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture. It was also reported that another 200 bodies were transferred to gymnasiums in Iwanuma and Natori, both in Miyagi, while around 650 people are missing following the 2:46 p.m. quake with a magnitude of 8.8, the strongest ever recorded in Japan.

It is also being reported that 9,500 unaccounted for in the single Japanese port town of Miyagi’s Minamisanriku.

As reported at the Guardian …

• Around 1,700 people are estimated to have been killed, according to local media reports, but that death toll is expected to rise dramatically. The official death toll now stands at 574, with 586 people declared missing and 1,105 injured.
• Around 10,000 people are missing in the town of Minamisanrikucho in Miyagi prefecture, according to Japanese TV reports.
• More than 215,000 people are in emergency shelters and around 50,000 rescuers have been deployed across the country.
• At least 1.4m homes are without water and around three million are without power.

Massive Explosion Reported at Fukushima-Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant

As reported at the BBC, a massive explosion as taken place at the Fukushima-Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Officials are saying that the core has not been damaged; however, several workers at the station were thought to be injured.

A huge explosion has rocked a Japanese nuclear power plant damaged by Friday’s devastating earthquake.

A pall of smoke was seen coming from the plant at Fukushima. Four workers were injured.

Japanese officials say the container housing the reactor was not damaged and that radiation levels have now fallen.

UPDATE I: To make matters worse, a magnitude 6.4 aftershock occurred at the site of the nuclear power plant.  The Japanese government has expanded the evacuation radius to 12 miles around the reactor and has urged residents of the region to stay indoors, turn off air conditioning units and not to drink tap water. As reported at the Guardian, Tens of thousands evacuated after plant explosion.

UPDATE II: FOX News is reporting that three individuals taken away from one of the nuclear power plants have been exposed to radiation.

VIDEO via Reuters

 Reuters: Radiation leaks from Japan’s quake-hit nuclear plant

UPDATE III: This is not looking good, from Stratfor, Red Alert: Nuclear Meltdown at Quake-Damaged Japanese Plant.

A March 12 explosion at the earthquake-damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Japan, appears to have caused a reactor meltdown.

The key piece of technology in a nuclear reactor is the control rods. Nuclear fuel generates neutrons; controlling the flow and production rate of these neutrons is what generates heat, and from the heat, electricity. Control rods absorb neutrons — the rods slide in and out of the fuel mass to regulate neutron emission, and with it, heat and electricity generation.

UPDATE IV: Japan declares emergencies at 5 nuclear units.

You Knew This was Coming … Global Warming Extremists Blame Climate Change for Japan Earthquake and Tsunami

The Climate change folks could not even wait a day …

It was only a matter of time before the Global warming, now turned climate change extremists blamed “climate change” for the Japan 8.9 earthquake and tsunami. In the midst of the horror, death, missing persons and need for help from the world community, we are presented with stories like the following, ‘Today’s tsunami: This is what climate change looks like.’ Or worse yet, the political posturing from those on the Lefts brought to light by The Other McCain. There might be a time and place for such conversation if one is of this persuasion, this happens not to be one of them.

So far, today’s tsunami has mainly affected Japan — there are reports of up to 300 dead in the coastal city of Sendai — but future tsunamis could strike the U.S. and virtually any other coastal area of the world with equal or greater force, say scientists. In a little-heeded warning issued at a 2009 conference on the subject, experts outlined a range of mechanisms by which climate change could already be causing more earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanic activity. . . .

Scientists have known for some time that climate change affects not just the atmosphere and the oceans but the earth’s crust, but these effects are not widely understood by the public.

“In the political community people are almost completely unaware of any geological aspects to climate change,” said McGuire.

As Weasel Zippers states, because earthquakes are such a recent phenomenon. The 8.9 Japan earthquake was among one of the most powerful in history; however, they key word here is history. Records go back to the 1900′s, so was cliamte change responsible for those as well? From the American Spectator comes the lunacy of such a statement of tsunamis and climate change.

So…weather’s not climate.
Unless it’s warm weather.
And one year doesn’t mean anything.
Unless it’s a warm year.
Or a dry one. Or wet . Snowy. I guess cold, too.
Then it means a lot. Oooooh baby does it. Mmm hmm.
But tsunamis, well, they don’t mean climate of course. Saying that would make the greens look really nuts. (chuckle)

Maybe the climate change alarmists might want to read, Tsunamis: Facts About Killer Waves. Tsunamis date back to the 1500′s, see where we are going?

Senate GOP Trying to Recruit MSNBC’s RINO Joe Scarborough to Run Against Bill Nelson in 2012 Florida Senate Race

When will Republicans ever learn? JUST SAY NO TO JOE!

Ever wonder why the GOP became the minority in the US Senate by a near super-minority? It was for the exact reasons like the report from The Hill, where the GOP is wooing MSNBC’s Joe  Scarborough to runagainst incumbent Democrat Senator Bill Nelson in Florida. Republican voters do not want RINO’s, especially in a state that in the last election say victory for Republican Gov. Rick Scott and Republican/Tea party Conservative Marco Rubio.

Republicans in Washington are trying to recruit Joe Scarborough to run against Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) next year.

Sen. John Cornyn (Texas), who heads the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), told The Hill on Thursday that he has talked to Scarborough a couple times about a Senate bid. And he indicated he’s still working on persuading the MSNBC host to run for the upper chamber.

Name recognition, that’s what the blue blood, country club Republicans think that “We the People” want and the country needs? NAME RECOGNITION? One might want to ask what name recognition that Marco Rubio had when he won in a landslide in his Florida US Senate race. As stated by Weasil Zippers, “No effen RINOs. I guess we didn’t make ourselves clear enough last November”. What more message to the clueless GOP establishment need? Did the powers that be in the GOP Senate not learn when they backed RINO, turncoat Charlie Crist? How out of touch is the  NRSC?

Cornyn noted on Thursday that Scarborough’s name ID is higher now than it was back then. Scarborough has been with MSNBC for the past eight years, initially hosting “Scarborough Country” and now “Morning Joe.”

Scarborough is happy with what he is doing, Cornyn stressed. But Cornyn also made it clear that he thinks there is a chance Scarborough could run.