Regarding Cheney, what is the lowest favoribility rating where when you shoot somebody, your poll numbers actually go up? I call this the redneck effect.

On another thing, concerning this "breech" versus "over-topping" problem with the New Orleans levees, everything I have ever seen regarding flooding is that when something over-tops it will soon breech due to the forces of the water.  You see this all the time with roads, etc, getting washed out, when flood waters get too high.

Sorry, I have been listening to some wing-nut radio today.

I speculate that television may become largely broadcast-local again.  In a slow squeeze, or worse, I can't imagine most people paying $30 to $80 a month for cable TV.  

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The reason I think this is relevant for more than just people living in the U.K. is that there are possible lessons to learn for other countries entering peak oil and maybe patterns will emerge that are interesting to observe with international implications.

For example the U.K.'s political and strategic relations with Russia who are going to be providing lots of gas. Then there's the whole question of nuclear. It appears that Tony Blair, having prayed to his God for inspiration, is going to say yes to a massive increase in nuclear power. Or as they like to call it, the new generation of nuclear power stations.

I remember well over twenty-five years ago whilst at university stating that I thought the oil revenues should be used primarally for three things. Investment in a new transport infrastructure based on a modernised railway system. The modernization of healthcare provision. And finally a radically better education system, so we'd have something to live on when the oil ran out. The development of new industries to replace the old. Instead the money was wasted on tax cuts for the well-off, a massive consumer boom based on cheap energy, and among other things the distruction of the domestic coal industry.

Britain managed it's oil wealth not that differently from some developing nations. That is not really investing in the future, but consuming in the now.

It was strange because the oil was such a gift from posterity, almost a lifeline and the money could have been used so much better. Britain reminded me at the time of an aging courtesan who is suddenly left a small fortune by an admirer. What does she do with the money? Instead of buying a hotel or farm in the country, she opts for a huge party for all her friends and a lot of cosmetic plastic surgury! When the money's gone, she's older and still she end's up on the street corner.

The Scientific American refuted an NY Times editorial refuting the peak:

http://blog.sciam.com/index.php?title=facing_the_facts_on_oil&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1

World Oil, one of the two major trade journals for the petroleum industry, warns in its 2006 Outlook that despite double-digit increases in exploration investments in recent years:

The author, an energy industry consultant, goes on to predict that 2006 "will be the year when the Peak Oil topic intensifies into a debate on the scale of climate change/global warming."

Ut-oh, when they start talking about it, I don't know.  If they haven't been talking about it for fear of spooking people, what if a lot of people get spooked? Global warming is kind of talked about more often I've noticed, but not that often.  

16 days until the bourse. There was a news story I say about China changing a huge chunk of its dollar reserves.
Like from $800 billion to $300 billion I think. I can't find the original article where I found it.

I also saw a nes story on Yahoo about how Americans have negative savings all together.

What little I do know is that the long-range power generation problems are at least as acute in California and Northeastern North America with the exception of Quebec. Rates here in Maine are the highest in the U.S.

A - Continue to give to current organizations and restrict my donation to "Improving energy efficiency". That means they will have to earmark my donation to some type of energy efficiency technique.

B - Finding some new worthy organizations that will be working toward PO Awareness or solutions. Post Carbon Institute comes to mind, any other ideas?

I have noticed that the pirces of recycled metals have gone up.  I collected 24 pounds of crushed cans over the last 3 weeks.  

I am moving from Huntsville Alabama to Atwood Colorado but the end of May 2006 hopefuly the gas prices are not too high, But I will be on a one-way ticket via my Chevy Ventura Mini-van.  Finally a small town and a small home.

My girl friend is trying to buy a small house on a double lot and I will grow the gardens and do the home prep for winter and the rest of the year, and go into more full time writting,  I just hope the shit stays away from the fan long enough so I can get out there on $3.00 gas.  Which is what I am saving for.

God Bless you all and the coming storms, both the wet kind and the oil kind.
Charles

It's said that exploration in Saudi Arabia was severely curtailed during the 1990s oil glut/$10 bbl period. We've also heard from Al-Naimi that the Saudis are to add 200 billion bbl to reserves "soon".

Is it realistic that significant new reserves in Saudi Arabia can be found by ramping up exploration there?

I also worry that people will tune out entirely if they are offered nothing but the prospect of dying cold and alone. Surely throwing up one's hands and reciting the standard "You live in the suburbs? Buddy, you're screwed. Don't even bother with the efficient lightbulbs, just prepare for the culling!" is not the best way to get the middle class on side.

With that in mind, I found these two pieces interesting, since they provide concrete examples of what "ordinary people" can do to reduce reliance on fossil fuels:

This broadcast from the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) Radio National is about Linda and Trevor Cockburn, a couple who wanted to see if they could go six months without spending a dollar on food, power, water or transport in Queensland. They grew their own veggies on their 2180 square metre suburban block and bartered their homemade goat's cheese for staples such as rice, flour and sugar. Also see an earlier interview here and here for their own site.

This article by Australian permaculture guru David Holmgren discusses how he believes the suburbs could be retrofitted for sustainability. As he points out in this interview, there is room for an incremental, adaptive strategy in the suburbs, since people can "just start changing houses and doing things - give or take planning regulations -without the whole of society agreeing on some plan".

I am (trying desperately and very unsuccessfuly to) work QUIETly with some very dense local Central Commitees and want all the Angles I can get to convince them there are in fact BABY STEPS that can be taken - a sort of Plan Z, if you will.

Thank you for your consideration,

Andrei, back in Moscow now.

Dr. Robert L. Hirsch joins ASPO-USA advisory board.
ASPO USA    Monday, February 27, 2006

ASPO-USA is pleased to announce that Dr. Robert L. Hirsch, principal author of the DOE funded SAIC report "Peaking of World Oil Production: Impacts, Mitigation, & Risk Management", has joined the board of advisors. Dr. Hirsch will work with Matthew R. Simmons, Dr. Albert Bartlett and other prominent board members to advise ASPO-USA on important matters in the future.

http://www.aspo-usa.com/news.cfm?nd=1466

I just finished reading Deffeyes book where he explains that for oil to be created, the organic material must have gone through the "oil window", which is a certain depth range inside Earth's crust. He also claims that you're not going to find much oil below the ocean floor, which puts 60% of Earth off limits for finding oil. It wasn't clear why this was the case. Is it because the crust isn't thick enough there?? Yet, a large fraction of the new found in the last few years has been in "deep water". Can anybody explain this apparent paradox.

Thanks

BUT the Markets do Anticipate Production Peaking for Gold (but not for silver, copper and aluminum) ???

Based this on analysis (see Methods ref. below) of the Slope for the Graph of the December Futures Delivery Contracts plotted over time (up to 2112 for oil ... see INO.com for raw publicl, free raw data)).

Only Gold slope is positive, the others are flat or negative.  So, The Market Appears to foresee declining gold availability and is willing to pay a higher price on further-out Forward Contracts.  

Any comments would be appreciated (except those by passing economist-creationist wishing to entertain Science On Trial II: This Time It Counts 4 REAL (Matter and Energy Kin NOT be created by the godz of Technology, Politics, Markets, Science and Technology and even Zues)

Peak Oil and the NYMEX Futures Market: Do Investors Believe in Physical Realities? - Pedro Almeida

http://www.cge.uevora.pt/aspo2005/abstracts.php

Complacency Claims more lives than ALL other mechanimsm of Death combined.

This roughly does the area balance (which dictates red plus purple under the smooth curve must equal green plus purple above the smooth curve). If the green curve would have been the natural production, it implies that the Russian oil industry was relatively dormant in the early stages in the 30s and 40s. From what I've read, this was the case. The Bolshevik Revolution wasn't kind to the oil industry or any other industry. But then the evil empire went on the war path in the 50s to the mid 80s looking like they were going to conquer the world. And their oil production was funding this. You could argue that the huge shoulder of 1965 to 1980 is an exaggerated version of the OPEC overproduction hump during this same time, only in addition to the decade long demand surge causing this as described by Simmons in Twilight, you had the Soviet military ambitions fueling it as well. If you really had this amount of overproduction, it would imply some ominous things about our present day oil situation. There would probably be a high amount of reservoir damage and bypassed oil. This oil would not be recovered at the high flow rate, high pressure primary water sweep, but would induce a sharp decline in production at peak with the bypassed oil recovered at much lower flow rates if recovered at all. The dramatic drop in production in the 90s was due to a combination of overproduced fields giving out, drilling that was too focused on the existing low hanging fruit at the expense of exploratory drilling for the new ones, and the collapse of the evil empire. Balancing all the over/under areas doesn't paint a very robust picture of where Russian production goes from here.
  But let's not be so pessimistic. Let's assume that there wasn't this massive reservoir damaging overproduction. After all, the curve I show is just one of several that has this same area under it for the URR. And some of the twin peak behavior can be attributed to the Russians simply developing their oil in two batches, playing out the first batch of big fields before starting in on the 200+ smaller fry. Let's fit a curve that balances our over/under phases and largely eliminates this ugly overproduction. If you go to the other extreme on this overproduction issue, the curve looks like this:

Here there is currently a big imbalance between the overproduced oil and the delayed production that's just waiting to deliver us from our impending shortage. But the big question is at what flow rates will this oil be coming out of the ground? Will this be pre-peak, double-peak, or post-peak flow rate? I obviously show it to be post peak with a little bias toward double peak. It's the shape of the curve in the peak years that matters more than how much oil eventually comes out. This is why I think URR is only important as it relates to forming the shape of the curve in the top half. It's worth noting that all of the area balancing in the charts is within the confines of the +/- 1 sigma probability range projected in Khebab's chart. A lot depends on the condition of Russia's fields. We need Simmons to write a book about "Twilight on the Tundra". Unless the Russian oil industry is robust enough to surge well beyond the decline shown, it doesn't look to me like they can be depended on to come to the rescue of a Saudi collapse or any other major problem. And if the case is Chart "A", they will be a big problem themselves.
  I plan to do more reading into just what all went on in the Soviet era, because it would seem to have a huge bearing on how severe our approaching problems are going to be. My present opinion is a result closer to Chart "A". I can't help but suspect that Soviet reservoir management was done more from the point of an AK47 than from geology 101. An interesting article I ran across was  this   where a U.S. Air Force major wrote a piece in Air University Review in 1980 titled "NATO and Oil - Conflict and Capabilities" about Russia. Clear back then, he sounded like Simmons today only talking about Russia and predicting a production collapse by the mid 80s. He pointed out the big, easily produced fields playing out and the numerous new fields in inaccessible, hard to produce areas with technical problems. He points out that Russia ambitiously directed over half of their exports to Eastern Europe supplying them with 3/4 of their needs and other geopolitical factors that led to serious overproduction where "...rewards for exceeding goals are given without regard to productivity over the long term." Keep in mind that the industry-challenged Soviets had little of interest to offer in global trade other than oil, which was the rapidly expanding empire's main funding. "The consequences are...overproduction of existing fields using low productivity techniques that reduce the total amount of recoverable oil." The Russian situation back then was so bad that the major, not being a student of Hubbert, apparently, on the bigger global picture, was concerned about a global oil war developing as soon as the late 80s.

(usually the "zombies" look a lot like Mean Mamma Grizzly Bears)

Do markets really Anticipate? How far in Advance

Consider the fact that the NYMEX Oil Futures Contracts Started trading in 1983 - about 10 years AFTER the first Oil Shocks and also Three Years After the Iranian crises (and note overall production dipped from '80 to '83 wherit bottomed and bounced finally...).

Again the US BOND Yield Curve Inversion is "predicting" another recession likely to begin later this year.  It has pretty good prediction (right every time in 30 years or so).  But the Stock Markets Party like it is 1999 (just as the yeild curve inverted in 1999.... hmmm).

So what is the Smart Money ("commercials") Betting On at this point in the Here and Now Time ????  They are Shorting (betting against) the Nasdaq.

http://www.freecotcharts.com/charts/NQ.htm

Commercials are the Blue Line in LOWER Graph is (Diving = selling) - scroll graph to right for "the present")

NOTICE the Red and Greens are BUYING"
These are the "traders" big (hedge) and small (retail foolz like me - except in this specific case thank godz).

An Economy whose Bond Markets says is heading for Recession... Birdz Flu in Europe... God Fearing And GOD Hearing Leaders w/BigBombs... PEAK CHEAP OIL (at least) .... Islamic Fundies and EuroIdiot Editors who deliberately incite to inform, instead of inform w/o the stupid reprinted cartoons...  Nigerian Jungle Fighters fighting for THEIR oil... Energy Starving China eyeing Siberia and Russia OUTING BUSH by jerking Gas Chains to euro and asian foreign allies (to show Putin Meant Business!) and then Bush MIRACULOUSLY decides a week or two later to have a brand-spankin' "NEW ENERGY IDEA - HEY, LISTEN UP !!!"... just ONE WEEK BEFORE the RUSSIANS said the G8 Summit "WILL be about ENERGY SECURITY..."  hmmm

I think the Commercials are right and the Stock Market Dives later this year some time just like THEY are btting On at This Time and Place in space.

No representative of "Operation Restore Hope" was available for comments at the time of this report.

and is now being copied in others. The Griffith University report has found poorer outer suburbs in Australian cities are likely to be most affected by rising petrol costs because of their dependence on motor vehicles and limited access to public transport. This contrasts sharply with wealthy inner suburbs, which are less vulnerable to high bowser prices because of their higher incomes and better access to public transport.
This is similar to the earlier concept of "fuel poverty". This idea has been developed in the United Kingdom and the British Government published its Fuel Poverty Policy in November 2001 (http://www.dti.gov.uk/energy/consumers/fuel_poverty/index.shtml ).
Finally, a report late last year by Volunteering Australia in a media release on December 5, 2005 highlighted the impact of rising petrol prices on Australians volunteering to help their fellow Australians:
Coinciding with International Volunteer Day, Volunteering Australia, the national peak body for volunteering, has found that a staggering 52 per cent of surveyed organisations say their volunteers plan to stop or reduce their participation, including 11 per cent who have already stopped or changed volunteering, because of increased petrol costs.

http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?sid=7fcdca3519c8b40f

Canadian oil flowing into United States  
Big News Network.com
Saturday 4th March, 2006  (UPI)  

Canada has become the biggest exporter of oil to the United States with the re-opening of a pipeline from Alberta to Oklahoma.

Crude oil from Alberta's tar sands began flowing this week from the Calgary, Alberta-based Enbridge Corp.'s facility through a 650-mile stretch of steel from Chicago to Cushing, Okla.

For years the pipe, which used to be owned by BP, carried Gulf of Mexico crude to northern markets, but as the Gulf supply dwindles, the crude is flowing in a different direction, the Houston Chronicle reported Saturday.

The line has an initial capacity to transport 125,000 barrels of oil a day, but can be expanded easily, the report said.

Exxon Mobil is also working on a pipeline reversal that would bring Canadian crude down to Gulf Coast refiners instead of flowing Gulf oil north to Midwestern markets.

Canada outranks Mexico, Venezuela and Saudi Arabia as oil exporters, and will likely double its oil production in the next decade, thanks to production from the oil sands.

With that thought I've been thinking about how much people must travel in our modern society in many cases its a holdover from past customs not a requirement. Think about it this way we have had equal opportunity for most people ( more or less ) for at least 30 years in the US but there is still a significant amount of discrimination for gender and race in this country. I know the example is a bit inflammatory but in general the country is heading towards true equality it just takes a loooong time.

The same is true in business we still have a paranoid management concept and the 9-5 work week tradition almost directly inherited with little change the neolithic farming days.

I think with technology and some social adjustment many many people could work a lot from home and engage in business as they travel periodically to work on mass transit or for example company buses. Micro offices in the suburbs are also reasonable.

Finally distributed manufacturing is quite possible right now we have almost universal manufacturing equipment available cnc machines and various lithographic prototyping machines its much easier to transmit a design over the Internet then a physical product. Local recycling could keep a large percentage of raw materials close at hand.
Also for things like plastic manufacturing molds can be sent instead of the final product.
We could also consider going back to traveling sales people and fairs to present goods
when people want to see products.

I think that this forum is underestimating the usage of technology in transforming our society into one that travels
only when needed and then works during the trip.

If we transformed our society how much could we save in wasted energy ?

I'm guessing

75% on transportation.
60% on goods
50% on reduced energy waste in manufacturing.

Even with all this we need to aggressively invest in all energy resources coal, nuclear and renewable. I think that the real cost of using coal will eventually limit its usefulness but a combination of coal/nuclear and tar sands/nuclear is probably a must simply to transform our society since we will wait till its too late to change. In the end I think the cost of these solutions will convince society to change but we have to accept that it won't happen as it should. And even then modern society needs a lot of cheap electricity so nuclear fission or fusion is a must.

As far as coal goes we seem to be able to pipe natural gas across our nation there is no reason we can't reuse the existing infrastructure for moving C02 at least to were we could use algae mitigation ponds to sequester the gas or other methods of disposal
irregardless if we wish to do anything about C02 it will have to be piped.

The reason I'm writing is I think that its time for the people who believe in peak oil to also start working on real solutions the sooner we start the less we will use coal resources in a destructive manner.

But energy is not the problem, the real problem is can we create a society were people want to be productive with minimal supervision ?

Michael Emmel

By Tom Whipple

There are a lot of bad things out there waiting to bite as the world moves towards peak oil-- Iran, Iraq, Nigeria, Venezuela, China, globalization, and hurricanes to name a few. Last week a new bogeyman arose -- super fast oil depletion.

Our story begins 65 million years ago when the Chicxulub meteor (or perhaps comet) crashed into the sea near the Yucatan Peninsula . This was one big bang, for it not only wiped out all our dinosaurs, but also took out 75% of the species living on earth.

As our 10 km wide meteor was tooling along at 60,000 miles per hour when it hit, there was not much left of the meteor but vapor after the impact, but for a few seconds, there was a monster hole in the earth 100 miles in diameter. I won't go into all the terrible things that happened to our earth in the months after the blast, but few living things survived.

Our new hole promptly filled up with rubble (breccia, to geologists) pushed in by the rushing waters of the returning sea and landslides along the sides of the crater. Somewhere, between 65 million years ago and 1976, parts of this underwater rubble filled hole, filled up with about 35 billion barrels of oil. Making it one of the world's greatest oil fields. It is now called Cantarell.

Snip ......

http://www.fcnp.com/550/peakoil.htm

{{How many will answer Similar Calls ... As the lights dim on Homo Saps Energy Starved Civilization...

The Russian Bear finds itself sitting on top of The Rock, and also on top of The Hard Place, totaling about 2.3 billion and counting... (pretty fast too now that ya mention it... lots of counters ... to feed and to keep warm). Many different tongues, colors and cultures...

Does the Russian Bear cry, "Help Me Mr. Wizard !!!" or does he call he Western Friends and say, "Ah guys, we need to talk... for the G8 meetin' this year... ????}}

By Kate Clark
File On 4, BBC Radio 4  

Four years ago, the Americans claimed victory over the Taleban. But in the past year, the fighting has intensified, producing the worst casualty figures since 2001.

"I'm fighting with a Kalashnikov and an RPG - a rocket propelled grenade launcher," he said. "I'm not trying to take over the country. I am just trying to earn my salary."  

This fighter joined the jihad for cash.

"They gave me a salary, new clothes, shoes, a motorbike and a Kalashnikov rifle. I had to go and fight where they told me for seven or eight days a month."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/file_on_4/4755222.stm

Is this the story?

Oil prices continue to rise in Asian trading ... US oil giant Chevron said Wednesday it had shut down one of its oil production plants in the Niger Delta, costing Nigeria 13,000 barrels per day (bpd) in lost output. ... Chevron spokesman Michael Barrett said the firm had shut the Makaraba flow station after an unexplained leak on a crude oil pipeline connecting the plant to the Escravos export platform caused a minor spill.

Or is this the story?

Explosion blows up oil pipeline Saturday, Mar 4, 2006 ... An explosion in Chanoni creek in Gbaramatu Kingdom in the Niger Delta blew up oil pipelines, Wednesday leading to the spilling of massive, but yet to be specified volume of oil.

Residents of Gbaramatu alleged that the explosion was from an undetonated bomb used on the community in February by men of "Operation Restore Hope" while destroying barges belonging to illegal oil bunkers.

"Operation Restore Hope" is the military task force assigned to stop oil thieves and ensure that peace is restored in the turbulent Niger Delta.

Shell Petroleum Development Company is the major oil company operating in the area, but no confirmation has come yet from the company that the affected pipelines belonged to it.

No representative of "Operation Restore Hope" was available for comments at the time of this report.

Note that this is the Chevron pipeline explosion not the Shell ones.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4775544.stm

(oh, wait,... maybe make that 2012)

On Holiday in (ANY WHERE FAMILIAR)  
By Krakotawa Katie  
Newz Only Now On-Line  

Grey apartment blocks, bugged hotel rooms, an erratic electricity supply and rumours of a secret nuclear arsenal - (Former HIGHLIFE) is not everyone's idea of a perfect holiday destination...

"There is a road called Restaurant Street, which has several food outlets, all of which are empty," he said.  "There are no menus, as you get what there is in stock. The best restaurant in town served us a burger with a fried egg."

..Its many statues and monuments - most of them dedicated to the now-deceased (("Eternal Growth Forever is Not Negotiable" former Civilization)) - are a must-see.

"There's absolutely no reference...," he said.

"At night, because of the energy shortages, there are no lights and it's absolutely silent. You can hear babies crying from the other side of the river."

"We've had people who want to see the county rollercoasters, and others who want to tour 'The Same Ol' CrapAgin' 4Dinner' revolving restaurants," he said.

"It's not Torremolinos (Anymorez)," he said, "but there's no place like it."

.... (High Rise Coffins in Lg MegaTropical MegaCities  built for 2 for $2,000,000/ sq ft... hmmmm, wise choice there Saps...)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3113352.stm

Bob Novak pretty much put us on notice a couple weeks ago that the White House and the RNC were going to make a habit of using uniformed military personnel as props at Republican political rallies. This despite the fact that it is a plain violation of military regulations banning politicization of the armed forces.

I've gotten a few emails on this point so I want to clarify lest there be any confusion: violation of the ban on uniformed military participating in partisan political events isn't some technical violation like not filling out a form or not following some obscure protocal. And pointing it out isn't just some blog gotcha.

The existence of this ban and the enforcement of it are hugely important both to good order and discipline within the military and to preserving our democratic republic. The military can't be made into an arm of one or the other political party. Nor can the executive be allowed to enlist members of the armed forces, either individually or en masse, willingly or not, as soldiers in his domestic political battles.

This is about preserving a professional military and preserving our system of government. It's a big deal. We need to find out a few more specifics about what happened at the Musgrave event. Perhaps the newspaper account is deeply misleading about what actually happened. But if this thing that looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, is a duck, then it needs to be nipped in the bud.

I've heard from a number of active duty and retired members of the military, including a number of JAG lawyers, and unless there's something very different about Rep. Marilyn Musgrave (R-CO) event in Colorado than the description of it that appeared in her local paper, it clearly violated the law.

There's another little detail one retired JAG officer brings up, however.

The uniformed member of the military who appears at such an event can be court-martialed for the violation. It's not some technicality in UCMJ terms. But there's no law against a politician or party leader putting them up to it or facilitating it. So there's no risk for them.

So Musgrave and whomever else organized the event is putting this guy's career on the line as well as encouraging this misconduct for their own partisan gain.

Another step closer to a banana republic.

By Gal Luft
Sunday, March 5, 2006; Page B02

"We call our brothers in the battlefields to direct some of their great efforts towards the oil wells and pipelines. . . . The killing of 10 American soldiers is nothing compared to the impact of the rise in oil prices on America and the disruption that it causes in the international economy." -- A jihadist Web site

Read the full interesting article here:  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/03/AR2006030302046.html

http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=businessNews&storyid=2006-03-03T214032Z_01_N 03542028_RTRUKOC_0_US-ENERGY-OPEC-OIL.xml

OPEC President Edmund Daukoru said on Friday that the global oil market is oversupplied by about 2 million barrels per day.

Intra- and InterpFamilial WarFar During the Here-n-Now-When-U-Leastest-Expected-IT ...Traumatic Stress Syndrome

-------------

Positively 4th Street

Y[G]ou've got a [Am]lot of nerve to [C]say you are my fri[G]end
Wh[G]en I was down [C]you just stood there gr[D]inning[Dsus4]        [D]
Yo[G]u've got a [Am]lot of nerve to say you g[C]ot a helping hand to l[G]end
Y[G]ou just want to be [C]on the side that's w[D]inning

You see me on the street, you always act surprised
You say 'how are you, good luck' but you don't mean it
When you know as well as me you'd rather see me paralysed
Why don't you just come out once and scream it.

I know the reason why you talk behind my back
I used to be among the crowd you're in with
Do you take me for such a fool to think I'd make contact
With the one who tries to hide what he don't know to begin with?

No I do not feel that good when I see the heartbreaks you embrace
If I was a master thief, perhaps I'd rob them
You say you're not impressed? with your position and your place
Don't you understand, that's not my problem

I wish that for just one time, you could walk inside my shoes
And just for that one moment, I could be you
Yeah, I wish that for just one time, you could walk inside my shoes
You'd know what a drag it is to see you....

Complacent MENTAL TERRORIST Assult Intelligence of Brown Cow Alone out in da field dare... ya you betcha!

asres... Froggive Them The Mother... For They Know NOT what the Hades they are doin' out there... >whew<

I like that Quote.

I wonder ... did They Drop the ball along the way...
;
;;;;  (remember that game centipede...???)
;;
:
OR did the

Ante-Up Bushites simply realize - "No,... no... the TITBABIES,

Just ONCE in this Time and Place... just Once would be nice.  

(yes mother, i know youse is gittin' hungier by the minute... and a minute in Your timezUp... well, a mintue for You is a Very Long Time (times infinity even...).

CNOOC, one of China's largest state-run oil and gas producers, has agreed to buy a stake in a Nigerian offshore oil and gas field for

$2.3bn (£1.3bn).

It will buy a 45% stake in the license covering the OML 130 field, which is owned by South Atlantic Petroleum and is in deep water near the Niger Delta.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4594058.stm

"Looking at the 2006 Atlantic season, Weather 2000 said its research, along with atmospheric and oceanographic parameters, are pointing towards a lot of activity. The company said it would not be surprised to see 15-22 named storms, eight-13 hurricanes and four-seven intense hurricanes."