Wednesday, July 23, 2008
say the magic words
Bush says he's lifting ban on offshore drilling (a minimum ten year process if we start today), a couple of weeks later oil futures drop below $140 a barrel , & McCain says in effect, See how great offshore drilliing is? All a president's gotta do is utter the magic words.
Heck, if that's all it takes, if it's only mass psychology (which is mostly what drives futures speculation anyway), we can solve all our nation's problems merely by announcing that we have found solutions, without actually doing anything about them. That's what Repugs do best.
Nothing. Iraq was supposed to be a nothing, a profitable nonsolution to a problem it could not solve, thieving another nation's resources by having our armed forces occupy it on behalf of Halliburton. It's much easier to steal from the American people, 'cause we're already an occupied & pacified populace.
Even T. Boone Pickens disagrees. Swift Boat Boonie resembles Mr. Scratch in The Devil & Daniel Webster, you know he's gonna getcha in the contract's small print. He's also being a sensible capitalist when he says it's time to stop fixating on our 3% of the world's oil reserves & start building more wind farms in Texas; a lot more. After all, the profit's not in how we generate our energy, but in who controls the energy, whatever it happens to be. So why pay for fantastic skyscrapers in Dubai & seraglios in the House of Saud?
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." Thomas Jefferson
Heck, if that's all it takes, if it's only mass psychology (which is mostly what drives futures speculation anyway), we can solve all our nation's problems merely by announcing that we have found solutions, without actually doing anything about them. That's what Repugs do best.
Nothing. Iraq was supposed to be a nothing, a profitable nonsolution to a problem it could not solve, thieving another nation's resources by having our armed forces occupy it on behalf of Halliburton. It's much easier to steal from the American people, 'cause we're already an occupied & pacified populace.Even T. Boone Pickens disagrees. Swift Boat Boonie resembles Mr. Scratch in The Devil & Daniel Webster, you know he's gonna getcha in the contract's small print. He's also being a sensible capitalist when he says it's time to stop fixating on our 3% of the world's oil reserves & start building more wind farms in Texas; a lot more. After all, the profit's not in how we generate our energy, but in who controls the energy, whatever it happens to be. So why pay for fantastic skyscrapers in Dubai & seraglios in the House of Saud?
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