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American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
Arnold Ahlert, writing in FrontPage Magazine, by way of EBD at Small Dead Animals:
If oil were a major factor for prosecuting war in Iraq, it stands to reason the United States would be getting substantial amounts of it. It may come as a shock to Greenwald as well as a number of other Americans, but with regard to importing oil, the overwhelming percentage of our imported oil does not come from the Middle East. Canada and Latin America provide the United States with 34.7 percent of our imported oil. Africa provides another 10.3 percent. The entire Persian Gulf, led by Saudi Arabia at 8.1 percent, provides us with a total of 12.9 percent of our imported oil.
As recently as December 2012, Iraq provided the United States with approximately 14.3 million barrels of oil out of a total of about 298 million barrels imported, or 4.8 percent of our total imports. And as this chart indicates, we were importing the highest amount of oil from Iraq before we went to war to oust Saddam Hussein.
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As for oil, if getting it was one of the primary reasons we liberated Iraq, subsequent developments have demonstrated that effort was a colossal failure. What we did get is something too many Americans conveniently forget: in the twelve years we’ve aggressively pursued terror, nothing remotely approaching a repeat of 9/11 has happened here. That so many Americans have forgotten the genuine context that precipitated war in both Afghanistan and Iraq is staggering.
Maybe the slogan is not really dying.
Because yes, it is staggering how much forgetting has been done, and by how many Americans, about the old Iraq. What we’re seeing here is a revolution in the strategies, tactics and methodologies for whipping up passion among a vast multitude, fooling large numbers of people into thinking centralized ideas were actually theirs, that they share an interest with the ones who really did come up with the ideas. Look at what has happened to gay marriage in such a short time, for example. A revolution exploding so quickly in transportation would look something like: Year N, we figure out how to float chunks of wood on water, with people on them; Year N+3, a successful moonshot. In medicine, it would look like: Monday, we build something called a “microscope” and use it to look at tiny things; by that Friday we cure Cancer. In computer science, it would be: transistor invented at 7:30 in the morning, by the evening-news hour we have iTunes. Like that.
It is worrisome that someone, somewhere — we are not entirely sure of who, although they’re probably democrats — has learned so much in so short a time about how to fool stranger-idiots into thinking they had ideas, and then learned how to say all the right things to externally inflame their passions. The ugliness, craziness and injustice that is inherent to all wars, helps a bit I suppose. But it doesn’t put the rest of us in a good light, that this is where the innovation goes, that this is where “we” have made the greatest strides in the quickest time.
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Let’s not forget that the anti-drilling crowd would rather fund tyrants, dictators, human rights tramplers, women oppressors than drill for oil here and thereby collapse those regimes.
- Duffy | 10/08/2014 @ 12:51Well, at the risk of being to overtly self promoting…………
http://faimao.blogspot.com/2005/10/blood-for-oil-why-not.html
- Fai Mao | 10/08/2014 @ 15:04Am I to understand that US “interests” are NOT going to offer discounts on cash/interest owed from Venezuela’s “Nationalized” oil club infrastructure?
- CaptDMO | 10/08/2014 @ 18:01The Kennedy (et al) clan must be PISSED that Bank of NY *ahem* Mellon isn’t giving away magic “access” to “affordable” economic “health”. Surely Elisa Cummings is “on the job”?
Where DOES Cuba get “energy” from these days? Are they in the $100 club, or the $45 club?
Ecuadoran “Script” professionals Danny Glover and Mia Farrow apparently unavailable for comment.