First of all, BP is not “British.” Hasn’t been for years. The world’s business community knows this, but the American news-media are still clueless about who owns BP, The Oil Giant Formerly Known As British Petroleum.

There is no doubt, however, about who owns Louisiana’s Republican governor Bobby Jindal (who is now blaming Obama for the BP oil-spill mess in the Gulf of Mexico)….

From Wikipedia:
“In 2006, Jindal sponsored the Deep Ocean Energy Resources Act (H.R. 4761), a bill to eliminate the moratorium on offshore oil and gas drilling over the U.S. outer continental shelf….Jindal argues that 30-40% of oil reserves of the United States are near the Louisiana coast and increased drilling would reduce American dependence on foreign oil. This prompted the watchdog groups, Republicans for Environmental Protection as well as the nonpartisan League of Conservation Voters to rate him among the lowest in Congress in 2006. H.R. 4761 was replaced by S 3711 (known as the Domenici-Landrieu Fair Share Plan) which was passed by both [Republican-led] houses of Congress and signed by President George W. Bush.”

There’s lots of oil-money stains on major politicians…. Palin, Obama, McCain, George W. Bush (& most of his cabinet). And there’s even more if you dig even just a little into British and American oil history.

The well-documented history and current existence of Israel’s nuclear weapons are widely accepted in the scientific community, but it would be political suicide for any American politician even to mention this subject before the international news-media.

Americans and Europeans willingly assume that Islamic countries would pose a risk to world peace if they obtained even a small nuclear-power plant; the irony is that many already do. But the idea that Israel would be hiding its own “nukes” (while calling on the USA, Europe, and the United Nations to sanction Iran, for example, for nuclear development and Weapons of Mass Destruction) is oddly difficult to accept.

In any event, if a country next to yours was secretly stockpiling nuclear weapons and had both long-distance missiles and jet bombers to deliver its nukes, what would you do? Of course, you’d threaten “Mutual Assured Destruction” — you buy or build your own nukes and aim them back toward your stealthy aggressive neighbor. It’s not intelligent, but we’re only human. Maybe this could be solved by a USA President inviting the quarrelsome neighbors to the White House for an informal “beer chat”?

Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the USA House of Representatives, says that the Central Intelligence Agency, during their briefings to Congress, never mentioned planned “enhanced interrogation techniques” (torture) of Muslim prisoners back when Dubya and the Dick Cheney were managing our foreign policy. In other words, the CIA “lied.” The horror! But seriously, was it their first time?

Consider for a moment that the CIA’s stated mission is simply to defend the USA. The agency gathers secret international “intelligence” which is then delivered to Congress and the President (or occasionally a sinister Vice President) even if their intent is on playing nasty tricks without a paper trail. Then the CIA is expected to keep their lips zipped. But there are also rumors, merely rumors, that the CIA is by now an international cartel of “private contractors” selling drugs, weapons, military coups, bootleg petroleum, assassinations, whatever makes money. Who knows?

I mention all this because our former President George W. Bush now has a good alibi for his Really Big Mistake….how come a handful of Saudi terrorists in 2001 were able to sneak into the USA, get “one-way” flight training for big airliners, then they hijacked some airliners and, among other accomplishments, knocked down BOTH of the World Trade Center towers in Manhattan. The CIA briefed Bush in detail about the probability of such plans more than month before the 9/11 attacks. After the briefing (at Bush’s Texas ranch), the President went fishing.

So here’s my point. There’s nothing more embarassing to a Texas cowboy than to get outright “bushwhacked,” especially considering how small the bushes are in Texas, and how hard it is for outlaws to hide behind them. You might even call them “shrubs” — the bushes, I mean. And there’s not much in the way of hills and mountains in Texas to hide behind, neither. So having someone get the drop on you is, well, mortifying!

And, hypothetically speaking, if a happy Texas rancher and his sidekick Dick were to get bushwhacked, don’t you think they’d spend the remainder of their lives wanting some revenge, maybe a lynching or a little torture here and there? And they’d forever after accuse their political opponents of being weak on “national security,” right? Not that it’s going to undo what happened on 9/11, but at least we could pretend that the CIA didn’t warn us?

What was he thinking? Louis Caldera, until recently Director of the White House Military Office, was not doing anything radical when he activated a plan to send “Air Force One,” the President’s Boeing 747-200B jet airliner, low over Manhattan for a photo-opportunity. Apparently the plan never got President Obama’s thumbprint, nor did the plan get top-level approval at the Pentagon.

Photo-shoots with Air Force One are nothing new. One of my favorites shows the huge aircraft viewed from above, flying rather low over Mount Rushmore National Memorial. Another good photo (we get credit!) shows the recent stop that Air Force One made on the White House front lawn, presumably so that our nation’s Commander-in-Chief could have a little chat with the pilot. Or maybe to provide a quick escape for Mr. Caldera?

But why should New Yorkers be so touchy about an airliner flying a bit low? Do they remember the jet, crippled by birds hitting its engines, which then barely missed Manhattan and landed on the ice-choked Hudson River? Or was it the TWO jets which on 9/11 hit the World Trade Center buildings in Manhattan (total casualties 2,603 in the Twin Towers and on the ground)?

– COST of one Air Force One flyover of Manhattan: $357,000.00

– STREET PRICE (5/10/09) of PHOTOSHOP SOFTWARE for Macintosh (able to create composite photo of Air Force One flying over Manhattan or any other place you prefer): $650.00

QUICK QUIZ….

How many “planes called Air Force One” exist (trick question)?

How many miles per gallon of fuel does a Boeing 747 get (on the high way)?

So I bought myself some fine Obama Shoes (many styles available), which I will wear Inauguration Day and will throw at my television if it shows the previous President instead of our new, highly-improved President.

Our new President-elect got my vote (and campaign money), not because he’s black or African-American or even because he can pronounce “nuclear” instead of “nukular,” but because Obama’s got game. Even before Inauguration Day 2009, Obama had appointed an experienced, forwarding-thinking, multi-cultural, bi-partisan Cabinet capable of managing and rebuilding America’s economy and role in the world. But this former Senator from Illinois can also do fast breaks and layups, and his favorite team has been the Chicago Bulls.

Obama is one of the smartest, most clear-headed intellectuals and leaders on the scene. Before George W. Bush and the Dick Cheney invaded and occupied Iraq (which had no Al Qaeda terrorists but has tons of OIL), Senator Obama voted against the invasion. After Bush’s Iraqatastrophe eventually failed and also bombed America’s reputation in world politics, only then did American politicians who had supported the invasion realize their mistake and express “regrets.” While Bush bombed the U.S. economy, presidential-candidate Obama had an economic plan to protect American jobs and homes, and to regulate against the fraud and greed which destroyed ENRON, Lehman Brothers, most of Wall Street, and much of the world economy. Goodbye, George.

On November 4, 2008, the CIRCUS DIOSA weblog left the building temporarily (after two fun years on the Internet), in celebration of the successful election of Barack Obama as President of the USA. Now we’re back, having removed all our old blog posts and comments, many of which helped dump George W. Bush and elect Obama instead. We archived the old stuff and will recycle it in various ways, but now it’s time for “a new dawn of American leadership” — and new directions for CIRCUS DIOSA.