Perfure Bebê, Perfure

President Obama, through the Import Export Bank, is loaning $2 billion for offshore drilling. This is the latest installment of his flip-flopping on the subject of offshore drilling. When he was a Senator, he was against it. Then during the campaign, when gas hit $4 per gallon, he thought maybe it would be acceptable under certain conditions. Then, less than a month after he took office, he blocked plans for offshore drilling put in place at the close of the Bush administration.

Now he has decided it is acceptable again. And he is putting $2 billion dollars out as a loan to get it done.

Before I continue, please stop for a minute and let that sink in. While you are in this sinking mode, remember, we are broke. We are borrowing money from China. We didn’t have the money we sank into “Cash for Clunkers.” We won’t have the money for ObamaCare. As an aside, Newbusters came up with a great new name for ObamaCare; “Caskets for Clunkers.” A little morbid, but funny nonetheless.

We won’t have the $2 billion if the borrowers on this drilling expedition default on the loan. We will have to borrow it from someone or just print more money.

Don’t get me wrong. I am a “drill baby, drill” kind of guy. I believe we have been given the resources of this planet to use, enjoy, and share. I believe we have an obligation to obtain them and use them with care and respect. But, I do have a problem with where this drilling is going to be done.

Where would you expect $2 billion of your dollars to go in order to drill for oil? Alaska? No. Off the shores of Florida? No. South Carolina, North Carolina? No and no. Texas? No. Utah, Wyoming, Colorado? No, no, no!

Did you wonder about the title of this piece? “Perfure Bebê, Perfure” is “drill baby, drill” in Portuguese. Portuguese is the official language of Brazil. Brazil is where the offshore drilling is going to be done that we are financing. That’s right. The people who had the environmental ineptness to bring us slash and burn agriculture are getting a $2 billion US loan to perform offshore drilling for oil.

As the hucksters on late night TV say, “Wait, there’s more.” Take a guess who stands to reap huge financial rewards as a result of the Brazilian oil drilling. If you guessed George Soros, it’s obvious you know your quid pro quo. George has almost a billion dollars invested in preferred stock of the Brazilian oil company, Petrobras.

George Soros, with his huge donations to the Democrats in general, and Barack Obama in particular, has done something I thought the Civil War ended. He bought an African American. But wait, there’s more! He also managed to get you and me to finance his oil deal.

I'm a What?

Let me start by telling you what I believe. I believe the Bible is the God breathed truth. As such, I believe each and every one of us are descended from the first couple, Adam and Eve. Furthermore, I believe that the population of the earth was reduced to eight people at one point; Noah, his wife, and his children and their wives. We are all descended from Noah.

Science bears witness to this, although most scientists use the findings to prove other things. Science has genetically identified “Eve.” They even called her that. When you consider the possibility for error, they came so close to matching the location indicated in the Bible where Eve came into being, it is truly amazing how well science and the Bible can support one another, if you believe in God.

There is also DNA evidence that a catastrophic event took place which reduced the population to a handful of people. Science tells us it was several hundred to several thousand people. The Bible says eight. Still, both tell us that something happened which greatly reduced the number of people we descended from.

Science tells us we are all cousins, 64th removed at most. Six degrees of separation tells us we are at most six acquaintances away from knowing everyone on the planet. The Bible tells us Jesus died a cruel, painful death and was separated from the Father in order that everyone’s sins would be placed on Him.

I try to live my life with these things in mind. Sometimes it is more difficult than others. However, I don’t think that understanding that everyone is a relative and, more importantly, is loved by God should prevent us from also saying there is a right and there is a wrong. As an example, if you are out riding around in a car and you shoot and kill a rival, I don’t care if your skin color is purple, that is wrong. You should be punished to the extent specified by law.

If there was one ray of hope I had after the last election, it was that the country could finally say that the color of one’s skin was no longer important. We would truly start judging people by the content of their character.

But now, barely six months into the present administration, the race card is being played everywhere. If I make a political poster depicting the president as the Joker, I am a racist. If I go to a town hall meeting and express my belief that taxes are too high, I am a racist. If I disagree with health care reform, I am a racist.

I can’t help but feel pained for those who have had a cross burned in their front yard or had a family member brutally lynched. It is appalling how we have trivialized the word “racist.”