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| Tweet Topic Started: Jan 24 2012, 06:20 AM (638 Views) | |
| Pasta | Jan 24 2012, 06:20 AM Post #1 |
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So Tim Thomas - a goaltender who I consider both brilliant and dirty at the same time - has shunned an invitation to the White House. His reasons, quoted below, are simple and succinct and reflect the attitude of so many ordinary people in so many countries. Another voice for reason against the status quo of organized beauracracy and organized religion and organized special interests that continuously self perpetuate to thwart and stifle and suck out from the good people that actually do things good. You have to love the gumption of a goaltender who snubs the president of the United States. Here is his statement:
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| Pasta | Jan 24 2012, 06:39 AM Post #2 |
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This topic reminds me of what I had been thinking for quite some time. The Arab spring. The occupation of Wall Street. Continuing pressing for rights (legal and human) in China and so forth. I have been sensing for some time an expansion of interest in all parts of the world in people power - no doubt powered by expanded communication of the internet and its various forums - against the status quo and vested interests. Again organized religion is maybe one of the top three of the evil countdown, but despots and the massive inertia of big governments (including political parties) are also up there in what takes away from humanity. I do hope that the Arab uprizing is not hijacked by Islam, which is the biggest couldron of evil today. I do suspect that the people in greater Arabia do not want that, notwithstanding the political organization of Islam in Egypt. I do hope that those protesting will take a wee bit more responsibility for themselves to contribute and not simply bitch and complain. You know that after the spring is the summer, but inevitably after those the fall and winter. This growing freedom of people to complain and criticize and demand is, in my view, an excellent development. I hope it keeps going for the next decade or more. As is the nature of mankind, one cancer is replaced ultimately by another. I do rejoice in those eras where an old cancer is deleted, however much I know it is to be replaced and my joy is fleeting. These are my thoughts, and I am off now to cook a lovely dinner of fish with bacon. All prepared by ordinary people none of whom were rabbi's or imams or whatever. I do hope they washed their hands after cleansing themselves with their left hands. Me? I have to go, but the question is in which direction should I let loose my pent up whizz. Today I feel like being offensive. |
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| Lex | Jan 24 2012, 08:49 PM Post #3 |
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Watching the BBC news this evening, I did wonder what will happen to the Egyptian tourist industry now it appears that the decision how to proceed will be left to deeply religious people. There are already signs that Egypt is falling off the tourists' radar and 'the bearded men' are 'suggesting that bars don't serve alcohol'... I wonder how they will deal with the mass poverty such measures will bring? |
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| everythingoes | Jan 25 2012, 06:59 AM Post #4 |
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For them, mass poverty = mass followers, so no worries. The fanatic fringe in Egypt has long been running a campaign against foreign tourists. There have been attacks and bombings. Now it seems the same lunatics have taken or are on the verge of taking charge. |
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| Pasta | Jan 26 2012, 04:57 AM Post #5 |
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Fear not good and kindly people. There is hope. The biggest problem for decent people everywhere is that there is way too much oil in Islam Land and not enough in places like the Golden Mountains. In fact that is no longer true - at least the second part. So long as massive amounts of money flow to Islam Land then financial resources will be used to spread this disease and its offspring namely a war against infidels or whoever they want sanctioned, in their view, by a god. Nope not Zeus, not Thor, not the Aztec rain guy, but the only true god according to one of the millions of Mohammeds out there. If the flow of money diminishes significantly, then much of our problems are solved (except of course the ongoing willingness of Australia to give more money to radical illegal immigrants including their 15 kids per family head count than they do to old age pensioners who paid Australian taxes all their lives). Right now in the U.S., for example, there is more natural gas than the US knows what to do with. If the US tree huggers could for a moment stop fighting this very clean source of energy, and stop insisting on solar powered cars and similar, dependency on foreign oil could decrease dramatically. Non-conventional deposits are massive although somewhat expensive to get to. It is not cheap to drill horizontal wells 2 or 3 miles down in tight sands. And if the pipeline capacity is so small then gas producers are forced to sell their gas at $3 per K. It is hard to make money at those prices. Bottling makes a lot of sense if you are bottling for use in automobiles. Much of the gas is pretty clean so the sulphur smell can be dealt with fairly inexpensively for the most part. Moving on to oil we have huge deposits all over the world including in Canada (why oh why was that pipeline killed?). Shale oil has been known for a long time to be a massive potential source of oil to dwarf the reserves of Saudi Arabia. |
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| Pasta | Jan 26 2012, 05:04 AM Post #6 |
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Fear not good and kindly people. There is hope. The biggest problem for decent people everywhere is that there is way too much oil in Islam Land and not enough in places like the Golden Mountains. In fact that is no longer true - at least the second part. So long as massive amounts of money flow to Islam Land then financial resources will be used to spread this disease and its offspring namely a war against infidels or whoever they want sanctioned, in their view, by a god. Nope not Zeus, not Thor, not the Aztec rain guy, but the only true god according to one of the millions of Mohammeds out there. If the flow of money diminishes significantly, then much of our problems are solved (except of course the ongoing willingness of Australia to give more money to radical illegal immigrants including their 15 kids per family head count than they do to old age pensioners who paid Australian taxes all their lives). Right now in the U.S., for example, there is more natural gas than the US knows what to do with. If the US tree huggers could for a moment stop fighting this very clean source of energy, and stop insisting on solar powered cars and similar, dependency on foreign oil could decrease dramatically. Non-conventional deposits are massive although somewhat expensive to get to. It is not cheap to drill horizontal wells 2 or 3 miles down in tight sands. And if the pipeline capacity is so small then gas producers are forced to sell their gas at $3 per K. It is hard to make money at those prices. Bottling makes a lot of sense if you are bottling for use in automobiles. Much of the gas is pretty clean so the sulphur smell can be dealt with fairly inexpensively for the most part. Moving on to oil we have huge deposits all over the world including in Canada (why oh why was that pipeline killed?). Shale oil has been known for a long time to be a massive potential source of oil to dwarf the reserves of Saudi Arabia. I have seen reports of shale oil deposits in Australia (as an example) that have so much potential oil that in 2million acres alone there are prospective reserves of some 540 billion barrels of oil. Some drill results indicate that much of this is recoverable and over pressured reserves. Deeper gas in this 2 million acres is potentially monstrous. In my dreams I see a massive pipeline 700 km to Perth where it meets a spanking new LNG plant built by the Chinese. Estimated costs to extract the crude (looks to be very high quality and very clean) and ship to Perth is about $20 per barrel. The technology being developed for non-conventional oil and gas is running like a juggernaught. So pretty soon we should be able to say Ciao and piss off to most of Islam Land - except of course for France. |
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| Pasta | Jan 26 2012, 05:09 AM Post #7 |
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Can we move the pyramids? |
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