A patio door is being installed about twenty feet from my keyboard. As of right this moment, the noise hasn't gone redline...but it's coming. What I'm about to write will bring it on faster, I'm sure.
So the Federal Minister for Public Safety says that the estimated $930 million spent on the upcoming G8/G20 meetings in Toronto and Huntsville, Ontario represents the most "efficient and effective use of public money". Now let me first say that I am NOT a person inclined to join in protest against these meetings, mostly because (a) I disagree with the protesters' methods, which usually involve attacking police officers and setting random things on fire, and (b) the protests never have the slightest effect anyway (perhaps because attacking police officers and setting random things on fire is better described as terrorism than protest).
That's not to say I'm okay with these meetings. Far from it. What purpose do they serve that wouldn't be served equally well by videoconference at a minuscule fraction of the cost? Oh, yes, Toews says face to face meetings allow the leaders to deal with issues that can't be handled by teleconference. What issues would those be, Vic? Care to enlighten us? No, sir, I will not enlighten the lowly Canadian mushroom. I will keep you in the dark and feed you bullshit.
Hammering, drilling headache mounting...
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Did you hear about the new car that runs on water? Awesome invention, but it has one catch: the water has to come from the Gulf of Mexico.
So BP's examining whether or not to perform a 'top kill' ... and I can't help but ask the question, why the hell is this taking so long? I mean, I get it, this is an unprecedented event--we've never seen an oil spill from this kind of depth--but surely somebody thought to formulate contingency plans?
*crickets chirping*
It's bloody depressing watching Titanic syndrome play out over and over and over again. Who needs lifeboats, God Himself could not sink this ship. Never mind frozen O-rings, we know what we're doing. Sure, let's drill for oil a mile down, what could possibly go wrong? Hey, who cares if you don't have a job, you can afford the payments on this one-of-a-kind mortgage!
Drilling. Hammering. Make it stop already.
I don't understand humans. Never have, likely never will. We aren't just capable of great acts of altruism, we perform them all the time...and yet "community" is entirely too close to "communism" for a sizeable subset of the population, and who really gives a fart in a glove for (the Third World/the homeless guy in yonder gutter/the common ratepayer/anyone less materially well off than I am)? Screw 'em, I've got mine.
That doomer mentality of seeming to actually relish disaster? I'm starting to think much of it is rooted in shame at having to share a planet with so many unthinking, unfeeling scuzzbuckets.
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What I do not get is all of these people bitching that Obama and the gov. aren't doing anything. WHAT do you want them to do? Do you think tehy are NOT doing everythign they can? The gov. does not have the equipment. Both the gov. and BP have EVERY reason to STOp this, they are not twiddling their thumbs. If someone has some magic bullet solution, tell BP.
The only possible help that they are not doing that I have heard is using those Saudi supertankers that can suck up the water and seperate and keep the oil.
I was going to mention that, and carelessly forgot. It seems to me that BP's first priority in this whole catastrophe was not to stop the leak and protect the environment, but to do so in a way which ensured they would keep access to the oil. Actually capping the well wasn't talked of for weeks.
I do believe what I've read, that the government and (now) BP are treating this as a 'Apollo 13' event...gathering as many minds as possible together and getting solutions going with cost as no object. What utterly mystifies me is that the solution to this doesn't seem to have been even considered before the rig was even in place. It should have been. Damn it, it should have been.
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