From the ad here: X Stone Energy presents an unprecedented opportunity for you to own a piece of the booming oil and gas market in the Lone Star State.
Is the oil and gas industry really “booming?” GM built 6 million cars and trucks last year, but will build nothing but EVs a couple of years hence. Big Auto has said goodbye to gasoline and diesel. Does that sound like a boom to you?
From an old friend:
According to an old Native American legend, one day there was a big fire in the forest. All the animals fled in terror in all directions, because it was a very violent fire.
Suddenly, the jaguar saw a hummingbird pass over his head, but in the opposite direction. The hummingbird flew towards the fire!
Whatever happened, he wouldn’t stop. Moments later, the jaguar saw him pass again, this time in the same direction as the jaguar was walking. He could observe this coming and going, until he decided to ask the bird about it, because it seemed very bizarre behavior: “What are you doing, hummingbird?” he asked.
“I am going to the lake,” he answered. “I drink water with my beak and throw it on the fire to extinguish it.”
The jaguar laughed. “Are you crazy? Do you really think that you can put out that big fire on your own with your very small beak?”
“No,” said the hummingbird, “I know I can’t. But the forest is my home. It feeds me, it shelters me and my family. I am very grateful for that. And I help the forest grow by pollinating its flowers. I am part of her and the forest is part of me. I know I can’t put out the fire, but I must do my part.”
At that moment, the forest spirits, who listened to the hummingbird, were moved by the birdie and its devotion to the forest. And miraculously they sent a torrential downpour, which put an end to the great fire.
The Native American grandmothers would occasionally tell this story to their grandchildren, then conclude with, “Do you want to attract miracles into your life? Do your part. You have no responsibility to save the world or find the solutions to all problems – but to attend to your particular personal corner of the universe. As each person does that, the world saves itself.”
Written by : The Lemurian Unicorns~ Luisa Morando
I believe in moral responsibility (though not in miracles), and thus I agree that we must all do our parts to protect our home planet. I’m reminded of the old Gandhi quote: “What you do may not be important, but it’s very important that you do it.”
From the perspective of ethics, it’s hard for me to separate serial rapists from those who deliberately ruin the planet for profit. Both are driven by criminally insane desires, and the consequence of both of their actions are incredibly harmful.
Fans of professional golf many know that this week’s tour event is the Valero Texas Open, sponsored by the 8th largest U.S. oil company with revenues of $108 billion.
This itself would be completely unremarkable were it not for the outrageous attempts at greenwashing the company makes in its television advertising. Apparently, Valero, or at least its ad agency, thinks that its viewers are stupid enough to believe that the company is making an honest effort to replace crude with cooking oil waste that was used to fry potatoes, onion rings, chicken, and the like.
Sure! We consume more than 5 billion gallons of crude per day, and we’re going to make a significant reduction in that by collecting and refining vegetable oil from fast food restaurants.
No one knows exactly where U.S. politics is headed in terms of banning abortion and the demolition of women’s rights more generally, but it seems that what Idaho (“The Alabama of the Pacific Northwest”) is doing is going to get shot down in court.
Most forms of gambling in California, outside of Indian casinos, are illegal, but the Golden State can’t pass a law prohibiting me from going to Nevada and partaking in activities that are legal there.
Let’s change the “will” here to “would,” or its past tense form, “would have.”
“Would” suggests his volition; it’s an example of the subjunctive mood, used to describe wishes or contrary to fact conditionals. I wish it would rain. If I were king, …
“Will” is an example of the indicative mood, used to express our beliefs about the real world. It will rain later today.
Trump happily would have dismantled America, but, at least apparently, he was stopped.
I told my son when he was younger that, since he and I are both straight white males born into affluent families, that it may be difficult for us to appreciate the hardships put upon people of minority skin color, religion, or sexual orientation.
Can you imagine what it must be like for those who, through the simplicity and innocence of a developmental/genetic mistake, wind up a girl in a boy’s body, or vice versa? Life wasn’t going to be tough enough without that additional burden?
Then, add in all the hate and ignorance that has been added into American life in the Trump era. Until just a few years ago, it wasn’t cool to bully people who are different; now, it’s a national pastime, rivaling baseball and beer-drinking.
All decent people are trans allies.
“The car drove us around downtown London, which is one of the most challenging driving environments imaginable, and it was a bit surreal to be in the car as it dodged all the traffic,” Gates said.
According to what Bill Gates said in a recent interview quoted above, he believes that the “tipping point” for autonomous vehicles will happen within 10 years.
That’s worth a few minutes’ thought, isn’t it?
Today, the paradigm for personal vehicular travel is shifting from car ownership to ride-hailing. Increasingly, young people are rejecting the idea of car ownership, and many are even uninterested in getting a drivers’ licenses.
OK, so what’s the difference between getting in the back seat of a car driven by a human being and one piloted by a robot?
Environmentalists are more concerned about the amount of energy consumed per mile driven, and, of course, the footprint of that energy in terms of noxious emissions.
Isn’t it time to get this back in the news?
The defamation suits against Fox News by Dominion Voting Systems ($1.6 billion) and Smartmatic ($2.7 billion) may effectively remove, via bankruptcy, this cancerous tumor from the U.S. body politic, and enable us, to whatever degree possible, to re-ground our thinking in truth.
One might think that, in the meanwhile, Fox viewers would be put off that anchors like Sean Hannity go on camera, night after night, and spew bald-faced lies to them. Unfortunately, they don’t seem to care. They love Trump, they hate Biden and the other socialists, they despise wokeness, etc. That Fox lies to them makes no difference whatsoever.
The meme here serves as a reminder that most of the drama in our society is fabricated.
Unless you’re looking for a fight, who uses what bathroom is really a non-issue.
As shown below, Fox News chose to interview fraudster Rod Blagojevich, who spent eight years in prison after being found guilty on 17 counts of wire fraud and extortion, for trying to sell a vacant senate seat to the highest bidder, and demanding a kickback from a children’s hospital.
The subject of the discussion? The supposedly fraudulent activities on the part of Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg in indicting Donald Trump. Yes, that Donald Trump, the one who commuted Blagojevich’s sentence.
This is both horribly sad and hilariously funny. Those fine and intelligent folks at Fox couldn’t select a non-felon to interview?
