Morning thoughts
Katie Couric lost me last night when she introduced her "Snapshots" feature on the CBS Evening News with an "exclusive first look" at Vanity Fair's cover photo of Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes and their baby. I'm back to ABC until Charles Gibson does something that stupid.
It's good to have an independent state auditor, as the tire retread story demonstrates. Could White's Tire of Wilson have kept all or part of the state's retreading contracts for 30 years without friends in Raleigh? Prompted by Taft Wireback's earlier reporting, State Auditor Les Merritt -- who happens to be independently elected and a Republican -- has exposed gross overcharges.
The discovery of vast oil deposits in the Gulf of Mexico strikes me as nothing but good news. We need more domestic energy supplies (and this should deflate interest in drilling off the North Carolina coast). So, how long before we hear the chorus of complaints from naysayers: environmental disaster; it will just encourage more energy consumption; bigger profits for greedy oil companies; it will only amount to a drop in the bucket? Please, spare me. Let's get the oil.
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Doug, might as well face it. Here in Wacko Land, where "your" values are forced on you, some third party decided this has value and there is no way you can continue to function as a productive citizen of the U.S. and, indeed, your life will have no meaning, unless you see and admire the fruit of Katie and Tom's loins. Get over it!
Posted on September 6, 2006 10:15 AM
Savage, I hate to admit it when cynics like you are right.
Posted on September 6, 2006 10:23 AM
Doug, believe it or not, I was a babe in the woods until I was Dottied. I can't believe I came to settle in a part of a town in NC that is considered nothing more than a white kid farm for people who want use our children for some half-assed remediation of somebody else's problems resulting from mainly years of neglect and incompetence on the part of the very same people.
Like Thomas wolfe said: "You can't go home again".
Posted on September 6, 2006 11:14 AM
A vast reserve of oil should drop the price of oil, shold it not? Does that necessarily translate into greater profits for oil execs?
Posted on September 6, 2006 9:09 PM
I'm not saying it will, only anticipating objections to drilling new fields in the gulf.
However, Wal-Mart turns low prices into big profits, so it's possible.
Posted on September 7, 2006 9:01 AM
Of course, OPEC may just drop output, and keep prices high anyways. Then it's out of the oil execs hands, right? (Unless we withdraw really fast from Iraq and the Persian Gulf...maybe let then sweat some pressure from their own insurgents alone for awhile...although the Iraq war has actually been quite useful for cutting the supply of oil from those Iraqi fields, hasn't it? Maybe Bush/Cheney LIKE high oil prices, after all...)
Posted on September 8, 2006 1:05 AM