AP Reports Fluff, Raging RINOs Report stuff

While I was underwhelmed by the latest from Al-Press I do have signs that we in the trenches of the citizen journalist mongol horde have reported some stories that are.... ya know... important

Dean over at Dean's world pointed out one of the best secrets that are hidden in Plain Government documents

Here is the skinny

Total Imports of Petroleum
Top 15 Countries
(Thousand Barrels per Day)

Country.........YTD 2005
CANADA..........2,116
MEXICO..........1,657
SAUDI ARABIA *..1,594
VENEZUELA.......1,575
NIGERIA.........1,127
IRAQ *............534
ALGERIA *.........484
ANGOLA............432
RUSSIA............422
UNITED KINGDOM....384
VIRGIN ISLANDS....322
ECUADOR...........288
KUWAIT *..........208
COLOMBIA..........191
BRAZIL............140

Total imports: 11,474

Total Arab (Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Iraq, and Kuwait): 2,820

Percent of Arab oil: 24.6%
Percent non-Arab: 75.4%

Now Add in Venezuala and Nigeria ( I think both are still in OPEC) and that puts our opec oil consumption at
5522/11,474 (thousands of Barrels per day) of Oil coming to us from Opec

but the Islamic states are only half that total amount ( yeah yeah I know Nigeria has a large muslim region to but a large number of christians and animists who live in the area that.. has the oil)

and that import only accounts for 40% of all us Oil consumption

So in other words about 10% of the Oil we consume in the US is from the Middle East and about 20% is from OPEC

Puts the whole oil problems in perspective now don't it.

and over at The Jawa Report we see another edition of "All Animals are Equal, But Jewish Animals are less equal then others."

So lets review the wonderful logic of the Arab Leauge and the UN
Israel occupying the Gaza Strip to protect their citizens from Terrorist attacks-bad
Egypt occupying the Gaza Strip to protect their citizens from Terrorist attacks-good
Syria occupying Lebanon for reasons which aren't very clear-Bad, but not bad enough to try and do anything about (UN) Good (Arab Leauge)

Israel building a wall to defend its people from Terrorist attacks-bad, perhaps the most evil thing ever
Egypt building a fence to protect its citizens and tourists-good

The Answer: Its ok cause Muslim-Arabs say it is ok

well that's good to know