Theos-Talk Archives (August 2005 Message tt00322)

I dubbed this hurricaine "Killer Katrina" on my blog early Saturday 
morning and soon the media was calling it the same. But I have two 
other words: oil reserves!

I have lived in New Orleans (the base chakra of America) but for 
many reasons--I can't live there. I do visit my family still stuck 
in the butt of America every 5 years or so. But all kidding aside it 
is one of the MOST important cities in America. 

Today some co-workers were calling it a scam or "politics" that oil 
prices would rise because of Killer Katrina. I wouldn't tell anybody 
you didn't know that 25% of our oil reserves and that major oil rigs 
were located in the Gulf...duh. 

I couldn't let that slide so I educated them on the Port of New 
Orleans and surrounding ports. A funny thing also happened today in 
my thoughts about this mess just as I was thinking that we need to 
put pressure on the White House to release some oil, it was 
announced that Bush was thinking of releasing oil from the reserves. 

Mr. President I think it's high time you do just that.

We in Texas are about to be rich in natural gas reserves due to the 
shale deposits recently found here. But it will take a couple of 
years before it can be bought on the American market. My advice to 
Bush: don't compound your mistakes by not opening up the oil 
reserves.

When students do something new they show great trepidation--i.e. 
afraid to make a mistake. I told them it's not a crime to make a 
mistake. But when they do make a mistake they'd quickly lie, and try 
to hide it by copying from another student. A student who may have 
the right methods and the right answers==don't confuse method and 
process with outcome.

As a country we now have to deal with the outcome of Iraq, a big 
mistake, by not being afraid to correct that mistake by using the 
data/answers that go with that mistake. Don't make the mistake 
inexperienced students do: lie and think that the teacher won't 
notice!!! 

They do this by "borrowing" an answer and filling in the blank line 
with a response that was not honestly arrived at. I believe we did 
not earn the right to invade Iraq by correct process, CIA 
intelligence, and compounded that mistake by quickly adding lies. 
Lies that the Bush admin hoped the American public would be unable 
to detect--ever. Wrong.

But to their credit they were right in their strategy that we would 
not catch the LIES in time to stop the wrong war. 

Bush you need to slam dunk some of those oil reserves on us.

Finally, as for the damage, as per usual the poorest and the 
blackest in that city will suffer from the most water in their 
yards, and the fewest dollars in their pockets.

Netemara