Quote of the day--on taxes

Chernobyl's sobering anniversary

At this time of the Japanese people suffering through first a tsunami, then earthquakes and still, the ongoing Fukushima nuclear reactor debacle, it's a sobering reminder of nuclear energy's downsides to keep in mind that today, April 26, is the 25 year anniversary of the horrific nightmare that was the Chernobyl, Russia nuclear reactor explosions and disaster.

The question becomes, are we going to learn?

Link:  http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/04/25-4

This is why we shouldn't have attacked Irag, Former President Bush

From the news earlier today:
Blasts in Baghdad kill at least 50
Baghdad, Iraq (CNN) -- At least 50 people were killed and 180 wounded in a wave of blasts across Baghdad on Tuesday, police said.
There were 14 explosions. Ten were car bombs, three were roadside bombs, and another was what's called a sticky bomb: a device that's placed on an object, many times a vehicle.

So here's my question:  What kind of a sick society is it that has lots of people running around blowing up other fellow citizens of your own neighborhood/city/country, for some bizarre, imagined "good"?

And then, if it's that sick, how do you fix it?

I'll be darned if I know but that's what we've gotten ourselves into.

Thanks again, W.


Link to original post:  http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/11/02/iraq.baghdad.blasts/index.html?eref=rss_topstories&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+rss/cnn_topstories+(RSS:+Top+Stories)

How's that "drill, baby, drill" look now, Sarah?

Just off the internet: Gulf oil platform explodes, burning off La. coast GRAND ISLE, La. – An offshore petroleum platform exploded and was burning Thursday in the Gulf of Mexico about 80 miles off the Louisiana coast, west of the site where BP's undersea well spilled after a rig explosion Yeah, let's stay addicted to oil. It's working really well for us. Link to original story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_gulf_rig_explosion/print

Quote of the day--On corporations, costs and failures

"I have personally found the transition from an attitude of 'mostly working' to 'never failing' to be very intellectually challenging. Too often the critical importance of a 'never failing' attitude only becomes obvious to corporate boards and senior executives after a critical failure has occurred and earnings and stock prices have taken a hit. Not only is the corporate heart attack victim already at risk for not surviving, the corporate checkbook is wide open to attempt recovery while also doing what should have been done in the first place. Just as important, senior executive and board time will be diverted for months or even years dealing with governmental investigation and rebuilding public trust for their brand."

"On the day of the BP explosion plaques were being distributed to employees for seven years of uninterrupted safety."

Link to original post:
http://www.forbes.com/2010/05/25/oil-spill-engineering-technology-cio-network-bp.html?partner=seealso

Brilliant silver linings to ugly, ugly clouds

The "clouds" I'm speaking of?

The first is Arizona's law against the illegal immigrants, creating their ability to profile and arrest at will.

The silver lining to that one is that it has solidified the immigrants, Hispanics, Liberals and the Left against this law and its tactics and has even now moved the Federal Government to address the situation.

The second "cloud" is the whole mess down in the Gulf of Mexico, with the oil spill.

This just out :

Reuters is reporting that another offshore drilling rig has overturned in the gulf coast, this time in inland waters close to Morgan City, LA.

This has already been predicted to be possibly another of the worst environmental disasters in the country's history, before this 2nd rig went down.

Now?

Fugghedaboudit.

It's going to be one raging, bloody mess.

The "silver lining" to this environmental cloud is you can pretty much forget about expanding drilling for oil off the coasts of the US for the forseeable future.

There's more, too--another beautiful lining to this, I think, because it's believed right now that Halliburton may be culpable for the cementing on the first oil rig that blew.

Sorry, but if someone's to blame for this and it turns out it's Halliburton, that's just the best scenario I can imagine.

Well, it is unless somehow Dick Cheney's signature is on the sign-off for it.


Have a great weekend, y'all.