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WebHubbleTelescope on March 4, 2006 - 3:43pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
I forgot to add something. Can anyone predict when Bush will utter the phrase, "I don't think anyone anticipated the peaking of oil" ?
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fromthepriesthole on March 4, 2006 - 3:58pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
SOON
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creg on March 4, 2006 - 4:11pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
"but I told you we're addicted to oil" {I told you so -grinning).
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Fletcher on March 4, 2006 - 4:40pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
  1. I provide "wing-nut" detox (in twelve steps or less, your choice) in a state of the art sound-proof facility here on  blue-state MDI.  Call for favorable rates. I promise not to blather on res lexi

  2. May 2007

  3. Stuart, which are more reliable numbers EIA, IEA, AIE, IAE, IKEA ? Error bars for the most reliable numbers? Chocolate Bars and members of the Bar for the rest?
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sendoilplease on March 4, 2006 - 6:09pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
I am about as apolitical as I wanna be, and love to laught at Baby Doc Bush as much as the next rear-or-the-Bus driver... but to be honest, I think Oil Man Bush and his advisors going into his first term Knew darned well what we were facing.

I also think it's pretty clear this mess was Unavoidable (we be critters too ya know - with only a tiny layer of "self-awareness-greyishywhitematter" separating us from the next critter down on the self-conscious scale...why do we expect so much better behavior from Homo sap ? "Is this a Fair and Reasonable Expectation," asks The Mother as she reviews her copies of "The Naked Ape and Human Zoo")

I also think it is NO one's fault... this Wave was inevitable and is not attributable to any one person or nation etc etc... finger pointing in Past Waves seems mostly to confuse and then distract from solving the problem (e.g. N.O = Katrina ClusterCoitus type of responses).

Unfortunately (maybe... - after All "good" and "bad" in these situations are Defined by The Mothe of Nature and if not mistaken, I think She does the Sorting Out Of later too)...unfortunately it looks like Bush went for the Historical and Typical and Easy Way Out of SpyvsSpy, Military-Might-Makes-Right approach.

IMHO it appears that Bush et. al chose to SECURE Iraqi oil and keep it on the open mkt as opposed to Stealing it for America onyl (etc, etc, Maybe).  Nice of the Euro's to trash us in public but Drink the Iraqi Black Blood we ensure makes it to the market just the same... )hippocritters just like us 'mericans afterall i guesses)...

The Jury on Bush II, the Nightmare Begins, is probably going to be out for a while until Further Reliable (i.e. Not from the tri-somic monochromatic media Hype-n-Type 4 Cash) Information/Data is made available in the future some day... (when we are looking Back at the Peak of Energy Dayze...).

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WebHubbleTelescope on March 4, 2006 - 9:08pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
I also think it is NO one's fault...

It was a failure of leadership, with the fault resting on the shoulders of one man.

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sendoilplease on March 4, 2006 - 10:53pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
If that is what you deliberately chose to believe, fine.  But some people would rather put their emotions and the popular Strawman-of-the-Month aside, consider the facts in light of HISTORY... as well as your current life-experience.

And people who do those things may beg to differ.  Or might not bother because it is a childishly distrating subject.

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sendoilplease on March 5, 2006 - 12:35am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
IF and when Someone somewhere in Time THEN looks back to NOW and can actually PinPoint a Single Individual upon which This Wave's CREST's Fate rests, go back in Time tHEN, and kill him.

And Exactly one (1) week later Someone ELSE will pick the wings of the same Butterfly and the Same Effect will be affected.

I think I bet.

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WebHubbleTelescope on March 5, 2006 - 11:28am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Leadership is going to New Orleans promptly instead of making fund-raising stops while strumming a guitar on stage.

Not a big revelation, but I thought quite obvious.

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sendoilplease on March 5, 2006 - 3:36pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
"Not a big revelation, but I thought quite obvious.
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Or... a big SCAPEGOAT DISTRACTION for Homo Wimps who muble,[piss and moan when Some ONE ESLE failed to Notice They had Diaper Rash...

I mean really.  "Mommy, why did you not notice when I slammed my finger in the door Four Years ago and take the Door off the Hinges or fix it better for me While I PARTIED like it was still 1999... the Year of the Cats-Who-Could-Create Matter and Energy even ...

PASS THE PAPER FIAT Mother... i hear they need it to dry their crocodilic, faux, terra fauna tears.

WHAT ???  oh, i wouldn't go that far The Mother...   but then again, it is Your Universe and youse DOES make these laws don'tcha... as well as the Sentences of the Weak and REALITY TV Famous... take 'em out and sort 'em later Mother.

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