The 1st quarter GDP looked good. Now that we’re on the way out, it’s apparent how close we came to the edge. That ‘dip’ is unprecedented…
Deadly Israeli Raid on Aid Flotilla Draws Condemnation Israel condemned after deadly flotilla assault Raid complicates relationship Raid Jeopardizes Turkey Relations We’ve heard these stories so many times that it takes effort to even read this one, at least for me. It’s always the same – much like a fight on the elementary school playground. […]
In 1851, Hermann Melville published his novel Moby Dick based on his own seafaring youth and a chance meeting with the son of one of the few survivors of the Essex, a whaling ship sunk by a Sperm Whale in 1820. The American whaling industry was at its peak, producing the oil for the lamps […]
I enjoy words and their derivations – sometimes creating my own etymology. For example, I think reckless means "behaving as a person who has never had a wreck." I can’t confirm that derivation, but it’s too good to let that dissuade me. Among the reckless things we lived with in the first eight years of […]
As ‘top kill’ effort fails, BP must fall back on oil spill containment strategy Washington Post By Joel Achenbach and Alec MacGillis May 30, 2010 It is the well that will not die. BP’s three-day effort to throttle the leaking gulf oil well with multiple blasts of heavy mud has failed. The attempted "top kill" […]
How Rand Paul’s libertarian streak ran afoul of history Atlanta Journal Constitution by Jay Bookman May 27, 2010 Some of you may remember the famous Jesse Helms ad of 1990 in his race against Democrat Harvey Gantt, a black man. It featured a pair of white hands angrily crumpling up a letter, while the announcer […]
The Will Folks/Nikki Haley story On 05/24/2010, Conservative SC blogger, Will Folks, announced that he in 2007 had been sexually involved with Nikki Haley, a State Representative and the front-running GOP candidate for Governor. Haley is a married mother of two children. At the time, Folks was single. Apparently, rumors of the affair had been […]
‘Top kill’ plugs gulf oil leak, official says Drilling fluid has blocked oil and gas, U.S. Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen says. Engineers plan to begin pumping in cement and then will seal the well. LA TIMES By Jim Tankersley, Los Angeles Times 05/27/2010 Reporting from Houma, La. — Engineers have stopped the flow of […]
10:30 PM For a time, the whole scene was a great cloud. I presume that they were pumping the mud. Over the last 15 minutes, it has cleared up and as looks as it did. Stopped pumping? 10:45 PM It’s going back and forth… 11:30 PM Still spewing away… 04:00 AM No change…
Obama to blame for something about the oil spill? Had he thrown government money and resources at it, he would’ve been a big spender. If he didn’t, he was indifferent. Although there was no good course for him to follow, I think he probably did follow the wrong not good course. I expect it was […]