Must see video via Bloomberg. This guy is like my Dad, who is a bottom-line, no nonsense Yankee pragmatist. Matt Simmons is a 30 year vet of the oil industry and tells it like it is here that the Deepwater Horizon's "casing" is blown, thus the relief well will not work, the well is spewing 120,000 barrels per day, and that the only option to stop it is to blow a small nuke, as has been done successfully before. (You have to sit through a vapid one minute promo on self-referential Manhattan narcissists and then it begins.)
19 June 2010
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09 June 2010
Revisiting Obama's Words from October 2008
I read the transcript of the 10.07.08 CNN Presidential Debate, (Nashville, TN, Tom Brokaw, Moderator) this morning, and was struck by how creepy some of these statements of Obama's seem now that we know his world view.
10.07.08 CNN, Presidential Debate, Nashville, TN, Tom Brokaw, Moderator
Obama Excerpts:
"...When George Bush came into office, our debt -- national debt was around $5 trillion. It's now over $10 trillion. We've almost doubled it ...What I've proposed, (is) cutting more than I'm spending so that it will be a net spending cut ..We've got to show that we've got good habits, because if we're running up trillion dollar debts that we're passing on to the next generation, then a lot of people are going to think, 'Well, you know what? There's easy money out there.'" (I don't even need to elaborate, do I?)
"...You are going to have to make sure that your child has health care, because children are relatively cheap (emphasis added) to insure..."
(Speaking about mandates... damned chilling knowing he is a devotee of the Complete Lives System)
"...There has never been a nation in the history of the world that saw its economy decline and maintained its military superiority..." (So that's why he's trashing the economy...)
"...We can't coddle, as we did, a dictator, give him billions of dollars and then he's making peace treaties with the Taliban and militants..." (Speaking about Pakistan, but could just as easily apply to some of his despot buddies...)
"...We cannot allow Iran to get a nuclear weapon. It would be a game-changer in the region. Not only would it threaten Israel, our strongest ally in the region and one of our strongest allies in the world, but it would also create a possibility of nuclear weapons falling into the hands of terrorists. And so it's unacceptable. And I will do everything that's required to prevent it..." (He's really on that one, huh?)
10.07.08 CNN, Presidential Debate, Nashville, TN, Tom Brokaw, Moderator
Obama Excerpts:
"...When George Bush came into office, our debt -- national debt was around $5 trillion. It's now over $10 trillion. We've almost doubled it ...What I've proposed, (is) cutting more than I'm spending so that it will be a net spending cut ..We've got to show that we've got good habits, because if we're running up trillion dollar debts that we're passing on to the next generation, then a lot of people are going to think, 'Well, you know what? There's easy money out there.'" (I don't even need to elaborate, do I?)
"...You are going to have to make sure that your child has health care, because children are relatively cheap (emphasis added) to insure..."
(Speaking about mandates... damned chilling knowing he is a devotee of the Complete Lives System)
"...There has never been a nation in the history of the world that saw its economy decline and maintained its military superiority..." (So that's why he's trashing the economy...)
"...We can't coddle, as we did, a dictator, give him billions of dollars and then he's making peace treaties with the Taliban and militants..." (Speaking about Pakistan, but could just as easily apply to some of his despot buddies...)
"...We cannot allow Iran to get a nuclear weapon. It would be a game-changer in the region. Not only would it threaten Israel, our strongest ally in the region and one of our strongest allies in the world, but it would also create a possibility of nuclear weapons falling into the hands of terrorists. And so it's unacceptable. And I will do everything that's required to prevent it..." (He's really on that one, huh?)
02 June 2010
01 June 2010
Duxbury Beach (MA) Driftwood
I actually took this in July of 2001... but was reminded of it recently. It's part of a series of pictures of a fantastically large piece of driftwood on a fantastically perfect summer day in New England... In those last innocent days before 9.11.01. I'll post some more in the series later, but for now, appreciate the skin like quality of the wrinkling at the base of the curve not only on the left which is obvious, but on the right as well. Let the calming colors of the soft sands and blues, and leggy sensuality of the shape and feel the (unusually dry, not humid) warmth of the day...
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