Where did all the oil REALLY come from?

I don't have any answers to the issue I am going to raise here but I just wanted you to think about a problem that has bothered me for some tome now.  It goes right to the heart of another issue – how easy it is to promulgate a lie on the American people.  To best understand what I will cover you need to begin thinking in very large numbers.  OK here goes nothing.  Imagine a Jurassic era world with an unusual trait.  It seems all of the animals in this area are gathered in about a dozen places in this world.  They are not just gathered at these sites but they packed in almost shoulder to shoulder for miles in all directions.  They live their lives in this manner and die virtually at the same site in which they were born.  These are not little barnyard animals but rather behemoths weighing in at over fifty tons adult weight.  They have been gathering at these sites for millennia in a world that must have been simply overcome with enough flora, fauna and fresh water to feed these millions of animals and the supply of food and water has been continuous for the same number of millennia that the animals have existed.  When they die, they apparently do so in similar close order fashion and apparently with each succeeding death stacked on top of the preceding death.  Then something in this strange world happens that causes these huge piles of cadavers to become covered with some substance that prevents these bodies from simply withering away into dust.  Instead they are completely covered and shi4elded from the natural influences that would shrivel these bodies into nothing but rather they continued to sink deeper and deeper into the earth where pressure and other natural forces drains and coverts the hydrocarbons from these bodies and deposited them into deep pools to await harvesting by man millions of years later.  That is how we are supposed to accept the formation of deep oil in our mantel.  Now let's look at this fairy tale a little closer.  One dinosaur under the most perfect natural conditions would produce a couple of barrels of oil.  Now that presumes that no other predator ate some of the deceased dinosaur.  It also presumes that the body was not allowed to be exposed to a week or two of sunlight and air which would greatly decompose the cadaver.  Instead it presumes that the dead lizard gets buried under a very deep covering of protective silt almost immediately and then be subjected to just the right amount of heat and pressure to cause the chemical change required to covert the rotting corpse into petroleum.  Now since our oil deposits are found in only a few narrow geographic areas of the world, this dead animal would have to have been accompanied by billions of like animals all of whom died, got covered immediately and were then exposed to the identical chemical and physical processes needed to convert them to oil.  This fairy tale also assumes there was enough of these well handled cadavers to produce the billions of gallons of oil that we have harvested in the last century or so at a rate of about one hundred gallons per adult beast.  Oh oh…now that pesky thing called math takes over.  Even if you can accept that in about ten places of the world over a period of about a million years, all the animals of the world came to one of these sites to die and be covered over completely the number requirements simply does not compute.  There simply were not enough animals to produce the amount of oil we have thus far harvested.  Remember these brutes would have eaten tons of food each day and the billions of animals that would have had to exist at one time just so maybe a couple of hundred thousand got a "proper burial" does not conform to what we know or surmise about how they lived and roamed the earth.  So if billions of dinosaurs gathering in Prudhoe Bay, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia or Odessa, Texas didn't produce the oil what did?  A Russian astrophysicist named Andre Velikov came up with a much more believable solution.  Let me know if you want me to let you in on his theories.  They are really fascinating.    

Let's look at some "facts" instead of hype

In the following few paragraphs, I am going to try to I am going to try my best to be as neutral as I can noting only the facts as I see them or have read about them in various media.  The topic is the current administration and how it has been treated by the press and my friends and neighbors.  I will undoubtedly make a mistake or two especially in regards to actual numbers and statistics but look past these errors for what I am really trying go convey in the message. 

To begin with, it was a monumental vote that placed a black man at the helm of this great nation.  Much of what has happened since then is that simple fact in itself.  Not only has a liberal moved into the Whitehouse, property often thought to belong only to the Conservatives, but a black liberal on top of it.  A person holding a political office in rural West Virginia confided to me that although she was a yellow dog democrat she simply could not bring herself to vote for a black.  I heard this not once but literally dozens of times from all sorts of voters during the election and though I may have at first attempted to take the time to explain Mr. Obama's agenda, I soon realized that this door was closed and that was that.  Since taking the Whitehouse, America has allowed its 1950s style fears to once again take over.  Mr. Obama was not looked upon as a prominent lawyer who sold over two million copies of his book BEFORE he ran for national office.  Nope, he was the reincarnation the Black Panther, Black Muslim, civil rights marching radical extremist who somehow illegally stole the office of the Presidency and now, that he is there he has some secret socialistic jihad agenda to destroy America.  So far he has not sought to take anyone's weapons away from them and has not decreed Christianity forbidden.  He has won all of his major actions by clear majorities and in most cases super majorities of Congress.  He eschewed backroom politics in favor of presenting his issues openly and in some cases to public forums and at none of these did I see a single leather coated black beret body guard.  Yet even though the voice of the people as expressed in its Congress has spoken in favor of his major policy decisions, a very loud minority within the Congress has in essence said that the people are wrong and that they, this very vocal minority, will speak over the wishes of the people. 

Let's look at just a few of the half truths or outright deceptions being given out as fact to the American people by this vocal minority. 

1)   The President will pay for his health care reform by cutting Medicare for the aged.

            Truth:  Mr. Obama noted he will help pay for his health reforms by eliminating   $500M from Medicare in the form of attacking waste,      fraud and abuse in   Medicare. Last week he conducted a seven State raid and stopped $250M insuch abuse.  Another six or seven States and he will have met his goal and no money will have been cut except money being paid to criminals.

2)  Mr. Obama must accept a lion's harem of the responsibility for not taking immediate steps to stop the BP oil spill.

            Truth:  Under Federal law passed under George W Bush, when an oil disaster occurs, the offending oil company is the action agency to halt the spill.  The US Government does not have any indigenous oil spill equipment in its arsenal    and must rely on private industry to react accordingly.  Would sending 10,000 or even 50,000 National Guardsmen have helped.  Not likely since they are trained for population control and not oil spill cleanup.  The US Coast Guard was on site within hours and stayed there until even now.  National assets (satellites and spy type planes) were put at the disposal of the cleanup effort the same day.  Mr. Obama visited the site within seven days but note that the presence of the President at such catastrophes is not a help but rather a hindrance.  Security procedures, dog and pony shows and low level politicians seeking photo ops do not assist anyone.  Think back on every time you saw the President and all of the toadies who gathered around him.  Not much beach cleaning was going on was it?

3)  Mr. Obama should have out his best brains on the problem to stop the oil spill.

            Truth:  He did and guess what? Brain trust advised against most of the gimmicks now being put into place by the same toadies who gathered around the President.  Sand berms?  They are using sand from the ocean bottoms right off shore which deepen the harbors and dramatically change the tide patterns  ESPECIALLY during tidal surges that accompany hurricanes.  Good luck New Orleans.   The berms are also made of sand which will at first soak up the oil then when the first hard wind comes and sloshes over the berms they will dissolve in the rush of the oncoming water and release their soaked up stored oil much further inland now driven by this tidal surge.  Good luck upper Mississippi River basin.  But Bobby Jindal knows more than all the scientist so the berm building goes on. 

Those are just a few items from the current headlines.  Undoubtedly the Tea Party will be able to conduct its scare campaign against blacks and liberals and gin up a lot of spit and vinegar but in the end – inside the voting booth, the American people have a way of shoveling their way through the cow dung and I expect they will do so this coming November as well.  If they do fall victim to the hype, much like a bad haircut, it is only a matter of time until they can see what they have unloosed upon our nation and allow the same voting booth fix the problem.

Have We Gone Totally Crazy?

Just look at some of the stories floating around the ether lately and you can get a real deep sense of anxiety on where this nation and it's citizens are headed.  The Governor of Louisiana signed into law a new bill now making it legal to carry a concealed weapon into church.  I distinctly recall Catholic Mass being held under a very large nylon cargo parachute as big as a circus tent.  Less than ten miles away, our soldiers were engaged in a nose to nose fight with enemy soldiers near the road to the Ashau Valley.  Men were dying in the obscenity of war but guess what?  We had to stack our weapons outside the chapel during services.  We did so without griping or yelling some idiocy about our Second Amendment Rights even though we were actually the "militia" referenced by the founding fathers.  Go figure!!  Now our good citizens are espousing a need to defend themselves in church.  First and foremost let's not forget that this is "God's House" and if he/she decides to mug you in Church for whatever reasons, your silly sidearm is not going to be much of a deterrence against his/her omnipotence.  If, on the other hand, you are concerned with your safety being threatened by mere mortals...maybe you need to consider another church.  Have we gone totally crazy??

 

We accept the government's authority to require us to register dogs, cars, motorcycles, airplanes, voter registrations, explosives, fishing and hunting licenses, sporting licenses i.e parachuting, hot air balloons and our ability to receive public utilities in our homes.  Yet when we ask our citizens to register their private firearms the squall can be heard all the way to Timbuktu.  The same squealers scream even louder when we try to control how many guns they can purchase and to whom they can sell these obscene tools of human death.  These whiners note their opposition in some obscure mumbling about their fear of the government and the anticipation that such registries would be used to confiscate their weapons when the government finally gets too strong.  This attitude makes these little boys and phallic symbol worshippers little more than an underground future terrorist organization bent on destroying the government when "they" decide it has become too powerful.  Bubba, I am not sure I want you to be the one making that critical choice in the future of democracy.  But don't worry, we know where you live, what type of car/pickup you drive, what kind of dogs you own, where you do your hunting and fishing and how you voted last term.  If we take away your dog and pickup truck Bubba, and then suspend your fishing and hunting license we will have effectively disarmed you.  We are watching you!!!  Have we gone completely crazy?? 

 

The Gulf of Mexico has become a greasy mess and is slated to become even worse.  Yet amid all of this gushing oil, we find two very weird groups of people both related in their causes and both as nonsensical as the other.  One group strongly opposes and moratorium are further deep water drilling to permit the Government to check safety features and emergency procedures.  The other related group strongly wants more drilling to begin.  In both case the reasoning stems from the supposed loss of income that drilling rigs bring to the economy.  Of course the fact that the gushing well is doing it thing BECAUSE no one was checking their safety procedures and no one had any ideas how to stop a broken well does not seem to matter just as long as "I get mine!!!"  Of course the destruction that this well has caused will ultimately impact everyone on the coast and perhaps everyone in the US and possibly the world does not seem to matter as long as "I get mine first!!!"  Have we gone completely crazy?? .    

God Bless America

Eighteen months into his term of office, President Barack Obama is faced with an unusual, even ironic, situation.  It would seem that several US States, Arizona topping the list, have indicated a desire to abrogate the Constitution of the United States.  It the intention of Arizona et. al. to simply decide that the powers granted the the Federal Government by that wonderful Constitution, are better served by the individual States.  I speak of course of Arizona et. al. deciding that they will now begin to control immigration into their separate State.  The next step, of course, would be issuing Arizona Passports, Arizona International Customs Procedures, issuance of visitor visas, international banking rules, interstate trade and transport requirements and the list goes on probably ending somewhere around the time Arizona begins issuing its own currency and stamps.  The founding fathers recognized the inherent problems and road to failure that would be paved if the separate States were given powers that overlapped into the interest of the other States or worse, ignored or trumped the national laws.  Arizona wants to deny the right of teachers to teach the English language if they have any sort of accents.  This presumes that anyone in Arizona or any other States can actually presume to speak anything resembling true English. I find it curious that the citizen's of Arizona want us to believe that their porous borders are something that occurred last Wednesday or something.  Of course the relative free access across the Arizona borders has been a reality since Arizona was a Territory awaiting Statehood.  What they are not telling us is that the "problem" did not become a problem until the numbers began revealing a creeping parity between the numbers of Latinos in Arizona and the number of "whites."  Before the fifties and sixties, along the various Southwestern States, there were no Spanish surnames holding political office.  Now it is common to see Govenors, Mayors, Police Chiefs and all points in between doing great jobs and bearing those wonderfully melodious Latino names.  This not only indicates more awareness on the part of the Latino community but it also indicates a growing legal voting block and now "Whitey" seems to be getting scared.  If we listen to the people of Arizona going through their daily whine sessions, we are suppose to believe that the Federal Government is not doing enough to stem the tide of illegal immigration.  We are suppose to make another 6,000 trained border patrol agents materialize out of thin air.  Failing this we are suppose to give Arizona 6,000 armed military personnel to carry out their secessionist aims and goals.  Imagine 6,000 young soldiers walking the streets of Arizona's major cities stopping anyone who "looks suspicious" and demanding proof of citizenship.  "Arizona uber alles".  Fortunately the US Government has a doctrine of Posse Comitatus which forbids the military from conducting routine police activities except in times of declared national emergencies.  As for coming up with another 6,000 border agents - not likely!   Even though Arizona believes they are the most important piece of real estate in the known world, the Federal Government has thousands of miles of other border areas to protect. Let's see what happen when a black President now interposes himself in a State's attempt to secede  from the Union.  I personally think Arizona should shut their pie holes since the Latino community will very soon have a voting majority and then we'll see how well "whitey" likes being profiled and questioned about their right to walk the streets of Arizona.