Re: OT - yet another OT thread

James J. Gavan wrote: 
LX-i wrote:

William M. Klein wrote:

I assume it is being covered world-wide (and I wonder what it will do for Tony Blair next week), but the CIA report came out today saying

  - No evidence of WMD were found in Iraq
 - No evidence of WMD being shipped to Syria (or elsewhere) was found

after EXTENSIVE search.



That's not what it said - it said that some of these things were as yet unresolved. Here are some comments from the person in charge of the committee who put out that report...

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/4/27/94100.shtml


Yeah, unresolved. (You read what you want to read Daniel). 

I do - and then some.

1 - "We've looked and to date we've found nothing to say Yea or Nay".

So how is that resolved? That statement itself means "we couldn't confirm it either way".

2 - "Got tricky out there because of security, so we called it quits".

We'd really like to keep looking around, but we'd also like to not get shot. (Again, how is that "THERE ARE AND WERE NO WMDs"?)

3 - "Not to worry, we'll get back in there when the security is tightened up and then we'll do some more looking. Somewhere, somehow in the future, we'll be able to say to you, 'There you go ! We told you the *** had WMDs', ".

So you're opposed to further research and questioning, to find these WMDs that many experts believe he had, and make sure they don't find their way into the hands of terrorists?

Question - How long is the WORLD supposed to wait for that verification - perhaps until the Texans see that the Saudi oilfields have dried up ?

Does it matter? They could find a football field full of Sarin, a closet full of nukes, and enough Ricin to fry an area the size of Arizona, and some people would say "that's not WMDs"! The lesson to take from all this is that we definitely need to beef up our intelligence gathering operations. That way, we would know where the darn things went off to.

Not to worry, we have the second largest reserve up here, after the Saudis, in the Athabasca Tar sands, way, way north of Edmonton, and the Tar sands are the size of Florida.

New problem though. Projections for 2006 - Total World Oil production 82.6 Billion barrels per annum. Total World consumption for same year - 82.6 Billion barrels per annum. Largest consumers USA = 24%, second China = 12%; within five years China will want 24%.

Just tonight, our President encouraged the Senate to pass an energy bill that would begin building the first new refinery capacity in this country in a long time. One of the biggest problems with fuel refining and that sort of thing is the "earth before humans" tree-hugging environmentalist wackos (are you getting a sense of how I feel about these folks?) who got our government to pass all these "regulations" regarding emissions and such. Yes, there needs to be some oversight (to ensure companies don't expand their bottom line by skimping on clean-up), but the extent to which some of this stuff has been taken is ludicrous.

I read that, during the summer months, refineries have to produce almost 75 different blends of gasoline, to fulfill all the requirements of 50 states. *That*, my friend, is environmentalism run amok, and it's costing us millions. Luckily, it's really starting to pinch people where they can feel it (the pocketbook), so maybe something will be done to roll back some of these ridiculous regulations.

Haven't seen it reported yet, but there have to be some Canucks taking up 'Chinese as a Second Language'. The PRC are already aggressively negotiating with us on two contracts, shipping the stuff from the north, down below Edmonton and then piped across to the western coast, where it can be loaded into Chinese junks ! 

Free enterprise and capitalism in its purest form - ain't it great!  :)


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