Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Setting Sun at Solstice...

18 comments:

  1. Howard Dean is First!

    BP is last.

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    "Oil on the ocean surface eventually evaporates, is degraded by sunlight, gets consumed by microbes, or washes up on beaches, where it can be collected. The fate and effects of the undersea oil are largely unknown. The Deepwater Horizon disaster is thus one big unplanned experiment. If the oil industry has its way—and with an estimated 30 billion barrels of crude-oil equivalent beneath the gulf’s ultra-deep (greater than 6,000 feet) waters, it’s hard to see how it won’t—we may have more such unplanned experiments. In 2008 Shell finished drilling an oil well 9,000 feet under the gulf, and BP has another well 7,000 feet down. The gulf has hundreds of other deepwater wells. In every case, the companies assured regulators, and the government agreed, that a deepwater accident that released oil onto the sea floor was exceedingly unlikely."

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  2. BTW, that above is from a Newsweek article (June 14th) titled:
    What the Spill Will Kill

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  3. It's such a bummer seeing Brady get more unsteady on his feet. He had more trouble getting in and out of the rental car on this trip compared to before Christmas. But he definitely enjoyed all the visiting, and getting spoiled by my mom. And we kept the stair climbing to a minimum.

    Demetrius' mother has been in the hospital for breathing trouble, and was still not feeling her best on the day I came for a visit, so I left Brady with my mom that day and spared him some of the wear and tear of car travel. It was good seeing her and catching up a bit.

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  4. Bill Thomasson6/23/2010 12:31:00 PM

    But we now know that the government regulators were exceedingly lax in insisting on the legally required plan for dealing with a worst-case scenario. That's why we've seen BP desperately trying to improvise a response to something they should have, but didn't, plan for. My read is that if existing regulations had actually been enforced, the effects would have been modest.

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  5. Just reached 80º here, sunny and windy. And humid. About ten miles down the road, it's 90º ~~ Not comfortable. Am trying to wrap my brain around what July and August are going to be like.

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  6. Sorry about Brady ~~ I'm watchin' an old cat slip sliding away, slowly, and it's not easy.

    Praying that D's mum gets feeling perkier: getting old, as Bette said, ain't for cowards. (just checked: ain't for sissies)

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  7. We felt the earthquake at 1:41pm here, and it lasted about a minute. I was meeting with someone seeking spiritual guidance at the time and my rocker-recliner began to rock...only it's not supposed to rock side to side! Ha! (So that indicates north - south shaking.) The lamps rattled, the plants shook and an unoccupied rocker in the room was rocking too. COOL!

    It was a 5.0 centered at the Quebec-Ontario border. Hopefully the buildings in Montreal, etc., did okay.
    http://www.earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/Quakes/us2010xwa7.php#details

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  8. How often do we see this? If existing regulations had been followed (or indeed enforced)... *sigh*

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  9. Mum felt it to, and saw objects sway. Didn't feel it myself...

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  10. Found my Engelbert records. It's been so long since I've used my record player that it took me fifteen minutes to remember how to operate it. And, when I remembered, found that the record player doesn't work any more. GRR

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  11. Don't know how one could resist, lol!

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  12. Thanks, guys. It's just that, a lot of days, Brady is the most compelling reason I can come up with for not running away from home. So I get a bit spooked when I think of losing him.

    I know that Metri's mom appreciates the prayers. She's been dealing with ongoing health issues this year, and that's when I really hate that we live so far away. I had hoped we'd move back, but financially, we're just not getting any closer to making that happen. And she's not online, so that limits some opportunities for contact.

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  13. Bill Thomasson6/23/2010 08:51:00 PM

    Some weather excitement here that turned out not to amount to as much as advertised. Really severe thunderstorms with winds around 80 mph and lots of lightning. Rotation in the storms triggered a tornado warning, but no tornadoes actually touched down.

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  14. I think that weather forecasters are a bit hysterical by nature, lol! Nothing they like as much as a biggol unusual disturbance. It's usually something the rest of us could do without, but Lord, they *love* it. . . . Glad you had a boring day, Bill.

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  15. Thank God for that, Bill! Glad you're all right. *hug*

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  16. True dat, Puddle. Ours around here are forever warning of disastrous, calamitous storms that for the most part, mercifully, totally fail to materialize.

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  17. Hot and humid here, leaving me utterly exhaustified.

    Brady, well known for his psychic ability, just showed up in the doorway here. Yes, boy, I think we will head into the cave for the night.

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