Gordon won't take a look at any reporting if he doesn't like the TV station, or the newspaper. O.K. to a point, but good info can certainly come from disagreeable sources. Just takes some discernment. The oil disaster is more horrible than can be fathomed..literally. Take a look at the article following the letter.
Read the article 'CNN's Wolf Blitzer: "Billion potential barrels of oil" under BP's ruptured well; "Thing could really explode" expert says...'
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Open letter to Gordon, who has "logic tight compartments".
That is, he believes certain things, and then, certain other things which would follow the original beliefs and logic of the original beliefs, are met with total skepticism.
Could be called 'partial blindness'? Or maybe he has one eye under the sand and the other looking up?
Regardless, his sand posture would entitle him to chant the time honored mystical phrase, "O Wa ta Gu Siam" many times - increasingly and faster. It has a lovely sound.
Regardless, I still love him and his logical political stance... the rest, well..
To: "Gordon --
Date: Friday, June 18, 2010, 9:37 PM
Dear Gordon,
Wolf crying wolf?
Just like ABC, Miami Herald, MSNBC, Fox, et al, they're trying to scare the beJeebers out of us. (Nothing should scare a Christian out of Jesus, but various views are interesting for discussion purposes, illustrative, etc.)
NASA is telling us about solar storms which will knock out worldwide electronics around 2012 or 2013 - Don't believe a word of this! Of course Christians, (both protestant and catholic) Biblical, and Native American prophecies are warning us of much the same and more. Nahhhhhnnh.. never happen. They don't know what they're talking about, do they? It's all myth. We just call ourselves Christians because, well.... it's not that we place any stock whatsoever in anything. There are no signs as instructed to us by Jesus in the Bible to look for, after all. Israel hasn't come home, there are no wars and rumors of wars in the mid-east, no increase in earthquakes in intensities and number . Hiroshima and Nagasaki are TV plots. Mustard Gas was a joke. No perfect red heifer for the temple sacrifice, and no white buffalo born in the American West. Those people who documented such in the last few years were just color blind.
Pompeii didn't happen either, neither did the Holocaust. After all, the Muslims insist the Holocaust didn't happen and if they say so, well surely they're right? There are millions of Muslims - and their number are growing by leaps and bounds, so they must be doing something right. Even rabbits can be right in some things, after all. The gas ovens I went to see in Germany in 1980 were cute little things and the skinny people in all the photos there at the memorial were all photo-shopped. We are just too obese here!
I surely don't believe that Krakatoa exploded and made for very cold and dark winters for three years.... silly thought. Hurricane Andrew didn't bother us a bit, we really enjoyed waiting two years to get back into our house and all the other fun activities. Like you said, that's the tax we pay for living in paradise. We paid years of our life for paradise, all worth it, and we didn't really need the car that we burned out driving over three counties to get to work. All fun!
Benfield Hazard Research centers, the re-insurers, that insure State Farm, Allstate, etc. insist that according to history, geological studies, statistical projections,etc. that Cumbra Vieja volcano, La Palma, Canary Islands will erupt, causing a huge chunk of itself to suddenly slip into the Atlantic and cause a tsunami toward the U.S. east coast and also Great Britain. "Not if, but when", they say . It has happened in ancient times and is overdue to occur again, as there is another chunk poised just so. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article407717.ece But they're just using that as an excuse to raise insurance fees, of course. http://www.lapalma-tsunami.com/ says just that. "Expert" opinions never agree, do they? But no need to be discerning and explore any differences of opinions or statements of so-called facts, in order to muddy up our views right? Curiosity is unhealthy and a sign and enhancer of youth and vigor. We know all we ever need to know already. Time to stop learning and close shop. When's the funeral?
And the smaller solar storm that knocked out all telegraph capability in 1859 didn't happen either. Well, we didn't depend on telegraphs then anyway to get our food and keep our livelihoods going, so what's the big deal? We don't need the internet, TV, radio, cars, nor planes, these days anyway. John Donne is wrong - every man is an island. Pony Express was good enough for my great great grandparents, so it's good enough for me! And the stock market crash in 1929 didn't happen either, the poor got rich and the mammon-worshiping rich killing themselves are all comic book material.
Please don't plant a vegetable garden for hard times coming up, hear me? My daughter Lorrie tells me Costco's shelves are getting emptier; the stock people are pushing what's left up front to make them look fuller, but she's just imaging things. Also she told me that Costo's supply of fresh produce is about half what it used to be. What a vivid imagination! Last week when I went to Publix for salad supplies and onions, for some strange reason they were very depleted with vacant holes in the shelves. Just a curious optical illusion, of course, oh well. What they did have had gone up in price several times, but not to worry, my good 'ol social security will keep me in fresh veggies forever.)
Keep your head down Gordon, and don't look up at the sky, you might go blind.
Dee
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From: Ann of Key West, Florida
Date: Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 7:54 PM
Subject: oilflorida: "Thing could really explode" expert says
CNN's Wolf Blitzer: "Billion potential barrels of oil" under BP's ruptured well; "Thing could really explode" expert saysBy oilflorida, on June 17th, 2010
CNN's first mention of concerns about the structural integrity of BP's blown-out well occurred on the June 16 edition of the Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer, during an interview with a member of the government's Flow Rate Technical Group, Professor Steven Wereley.
Blitzer described a conversation he had with an expert who said, "They're still really concerned about the structural base of this whole operation." "This thing could really explode," added Blitzer, "And they're sitting, what, on — on a billion potential barrels of oil."
Wereley responded, "I've heard concerns about the structural integrity of the well." More precisely, the structural concerns were if "the casing of the well is — is faulty at some point."
The one billion barrels in estimated reserves mentioned by Blitzer is similar to the number stated by Bush Energy Adviser Matthew Simmons during a June 15 interview with Bloomberg TV.
Simmons concluded BP's ruptured well could flow for 25 to 30 years at a rate of 120,000 barrels a day.
120,000 barrels/day * 365 days/year * 25 years = 1.095 billion barrels.
Wereley interview transcript excerpts from the Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer, June 16, 2010:
Let's talk about this with Steven Wereley. He's an associate engineering professor at Purdue University. He's a member of the government's flow rate technical group…
BLITZER: One — one expert said to me — and I don't know if this is overblown or not — that they're still really concerned about the structural base of this whole operation, if the rocks get moved, this thing could really explode and they're sitting, what, on — on a billion potential barrels of oil at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico.
Is that a real concern or is that just out of the question, unrealistic?
WERELEY: Well, I've heard concerns about the structural integrity of the well. In particularly, with the "top kill" — the attempted "top kill," lots of cement and drilling mud was pumped into the well. And it didn't come shooting back out of the well and yet it didn't stop things. So there is some conjecture that the — the casing of the well is — is faulty at some point. For more information on the wellhead, wellbore, and casing see:
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