tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post4896462197125812678..comments2023-11-10T04:17:00.492-05:00Comments on View From The Porch: That old time religion...Tamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07285540310465422476noreply@blogger.comBlogger44125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-13092170843040995182007-11-30T00:52:00.000-05:002007-11-30T00:52:00.000-05:00I do rather like the idea of distributing inexpens...I do rather like the idea of distributing inexpensive, mass produced handguns to the women of the Middle East.perlhaqrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01920117742664645165noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-5963795386071729032007-11-26T23:16:00.000-05:002007-11-26T23:16:00.000-05:00Anonymous(es), will you ferchrissakes get yourself...Anonymous(es), will you ferchrissakes get yourself a <I>name</I>? I feel like I'm talking to Sybil, here.<BR/><BR/>anon in Decatur, it's north of you, right under that big new effin wind farm on the ridge. I'm sure I saw 600 acres, just from the road. Bureau County, maybe.<BR/><BR/>Grouse are in trouble all over the country; "sport mowing" is their doom. Most farmers, even modern big-scale guys, will leave a little scrub and thicket here & there. The ethanol pressure is pushing on that pretty hard. <BR/><BR/>Grouse are beautiful little birds, exciting--even scary--to hunt. BBQ is a damn waste of grouse.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-88399367723654505002007-11-26T22:17:00.000-05:002007-11-26T22:17:00.000-05:00"...but magma and oil don't mix."Never said they d..."...but magma and oil don't mix."<BR/><BR/>Never said they did. In fact, the process I spoke of would be rather dependant on the two not mixing, or, as you said, the oil would break down. I was thinking byproduct that perks off.<BR/><BR/>Agree with the rest though.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-28413552377556560782007-11-26T20:50:00.000-05:002007-11-26T20:50:00.000-05:00Gosh so many levels I could argue this one.This is...Gosh so many levels I could argue this one.<BR/><BR/>This is aimed at the folks who blame oil for the ills of our society. The rest of you all, please let me rant for a sec.<BR/><BR/>I work for an oil company. I work in exploration on the leading and trailing edge of production. I see the land before virtually anyone else in the company touches it and I see it again when we are in the last stages of development.<BR/><BR/>Much to your dismay we the oil workers tend to be a pretty clean bunch. Go out to a well site or an exploration tract of a MAJOR (not local mom and pop shop) oil company. Look how clean things are. Look at how we try to keep up on the maintenance, roads and etc. We make jobs, we give folks royalty payments. We reclaim the land when we are done. I know this because I approve the permits, and I pay the damages for the land. Yep we have our problems, but considering how much of the stuff we move each day the amount spilled is truly astonishing (we move roughly 40 million barrels a day around the US). <BR/><BR/>Now the Meth and such. I don't know about you, but I don't remember seeing that in the training manual at the company. I do remember mandatory random drug testing. I don't think the oil companies are making it and distributing it. Not us. We make enough off the oil that we don't need it. <BR/><BR/>The animals etc? I pay for biologists to study the land prior to working on it. I pay for Archs to tell us where to go and what to preserve. I hire engineers to tell us about drainage so we don't rut the land. I hire MMO's to look at whales. I pay for enviro's to do research on animal behavior. Heck I even pay for trees that die while we are on the property and cows the croak down to chickens that won't lay eggs. Want to see pristine or near pristine wildlife and plant life in southern California? Go to an oil field because that is where all of the critter's go. They don't go live in the subdivisions. I don't mind paying honest damage claims and reasonable permit fees, but I get irritated at the money grubbers who see big oil as their savior for their lack of hard work and laziness.<BR/><BR/>Now on to the geochem. Oil from magma is a joke. Sorry it don't work that way. It takes geothermal heat, but magma and oil don't mix. The heat from intrusives or extrusives happens too fast and would break down the oil. Yes we have oil fields that we have produced more then is physically possible. That means that the oil is leaking off a deeper reservoir and coming up dip to this reservoir. It just means that our production matches the maturation rates. <BR/><BR/>Why do the novices always think the world is so static? Oil is being generated today right now. Just slower then we produce it. <BR/><BR/>Oh yeah. What does alcohol abuse have to do with oil? I don't remember us producing any more of that either.<BR/><BR/>So, bottom line? You don't like oil? Don't use it. I don't care, my company does not care. If the US does not want our oil, then we will sell it to China. Its just a commodity to me. I find the stuff and we produce it. It goes into a pipeline off to some terminal and after that who cares, my job is done.<BR/><BR/>Oh, yeah, by the way, your car or truck probably runs on my gasoline or diesel. Thanks for supporting my company and my bonus! It brings a smile to my face to think about how much you are taking money out of your pocket and put it in mine (indirectly of course).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-78330451263211831322007-11-26T14:52:00.000-05:002007-11-26T14:52:00.000-05:00comatose..owning a farm in central il. we only mak...comatose..owning a farm in central il. we only make one corn<BR/> crop... no one makes two....home of a.d.m...decatur,il,....red tail hawks and geese migrate tam, sage grouse are a mono culture bird...hence sage....no corn..no soy beans...no f***king bbq.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-22348166430981756502007-11-26T09:30:00.000-05:002007-11-26T09:30:00.000-05:00While commendably loony, the current gadfly isn't ...While commendably loony, the current gadfly isn't nearly polysyllabic enough.Tamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07285540310465422476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-63338014240860465502007-11-26T09:26:00.000-05:002007-11-26T09:26:00.000-05:00re: tdBoss? Host? Barkeep? Goddess?What do you say...re: td<BR/><BR/>Boss? Host? Barkeep? Goddess?<BR/>What do <I>you</I> say?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-72013062562369413752007-11-26T03:02:00.000-05:002007-11-26T03:02:00.000-05:00Is anyone else having flashbacks to NeoNutbag?Is anyone else having flashbacks to NeoNutbag?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-36684457790807930952007-11-25T22:53:00.000-05:002007-11-25T22:53:00.000-05:00"oa, if you're talking about what it sounds like, ..."oa, if you're talking about what it sounds like, hell yes."<BR/><BR/>Magma cooks down to oil is what I'm gunnin' for. Hell, they've found the stuff deeper than the bottom layer of life. Some fields have "magically" refilled themselves to a small degree. Seems to me it's not entirely impossible that it reduces down to carbon sludge.<BR/><BR/>"To think about: shall we spring to the defense of a class of people who are likely to turn back to their old ways?"<BR/><BR/>Genital mutilation, rape, beatings...you can't save people from themselves. Plenty of guns over there. Lots of stuff to make other stuff to blow things up. If they really wanted to fight back, they could, and damned effectively.<BR/><BR/>Reminds me a bit of the people here that think a woman that's been raped is somehow morally superior to one that's shot the son of a bitch dead.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-36601318699851148662007-11-25T22:29:00.000-05:002007-11-25T22:29:00.000-05:00oa, if you're talking about what it sounds like, h...oa, if you're talking about what it sounds like, hell yes. I read a very pretty physical-science account of how oil may not even be organic in origin, that it may be part of the planetary process. <BR/><BR/>If you <I>just</I> mean magma, the core spins faster than the crust, and so ought to outlast you & me; steam taps seem to go through equipment pretty fast, though. Maybe we could just wire it up as an alternator. I've got a guy working on that. Betcha Tesla had it sussed.<BR/><BR/>To get back to the rapes and lashings, though: a close friend was a delegate to an international women's scholarly conference in 1978, that included some "official" progressive female muslims. I brought up genital mutilation--I always do--and she said their answer was "it will take care of itself in time." I didn't think that was much of an answer. To think about: shall we spring to the defense of a class of people who are likely to turn back to their old ways? Conversely, in 29 years, that one practice <I>has</I> begun to fade; would you wait another 29 for the beatings to cease? Would slavery, to take an example, have faded in 29 years, absent war and a million casualties? I'm not a fan of cost/benefit arguments, but that one right there's a duesy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-33559400644123718452007-11-25T22:04:00.000-05:002007-11-25T22:04:00.000-05:00Perhaps only ancillary, but what happens to all th...Perhaps only ancillary, but what happens to all that magma that just keeps cookin' away down there? It has to reduce down to something, right?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-86485108170597340332007-11-25T21:38:00.000-05:002007-11-25T21:38:00.000-05:00Whew, shucks, where were we? oa, I appreciate your...Whew, shucks, where were we? oa, I appreciate your concern on that (now that we've covered the trailer park and meth part); I have some <I>real</I> unease about <I>another</I> current major economic involvement. But keep in mind that 'fungibility' factor. 'We' is going to be a real nonvoluntary thing here, due in part to those big oil fields under me and MMM-tana. The "world's oil" isn't really gone; so far, everything else is about twice as expensive. <BR/><BR/>If "we" commit to that x-times-2 economy, China India etc. would actually be pretty dumb not to do business on the basis of US cost/over/2, unless we're willing to invest in, oh, piracy for example, to guarantee an even <I>higher</I>(morally correct) oil price to them. And there you meet Sonny & Cher's other kid, Cui.<BR/><BR/>Here, <I>I</I> have to walk on eggs: the next step [from the 85 IQ gang you just had to meet] goes like "We gotta just <I>take</I> that oil." And I like Roberta's plan better. Hell, I like a <I>lot</I> of Roberta's plans: check out her NYC post, she even understands that AC/DC thing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-2560076060430127562007-11-25T21:37:00.000-05:002007-11-25T21:37:00.000-05:00"Oh, and my compact car gets 30+ MPG if I don't dr..."Oh, and my compact car gets 30+ MPG if I don't drive it like I stole it (which is usually.)"<BR/><BR/>Oh come on, follow Skippy's example and get all self-loathing. Weenie for us about how it's made by those dastardly Bavarians then vow to donate five bucks to Holocaust survivors. Forget and spend said money at Starbucks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-77057139816720034862007-11-25T20:35:00.000-05:002007-11-25T20:35:00.000-05:00"f$$k you...and your S.U.V., look no further than ..."<I>f$$k you...and your S.U.V., look no further than Gillette, Wyoming.Just because you've destoyed everything east of the Mississippi...</I>"<BR/><BR/>Uh, I live east of the Mississippi. Red tail hawk and Canada geeses nest in my front yard; they stay out of the back because that's where my pistol range is.<BR/><BR/>Oh, and my compact car gets 30+ MPG if I don't drive it like I stole it (which is usually.)Tamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07285540310465422476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-77885317627456249172007-11-25T19:55:00.000-05:002007-11-25T19:55:00.000-05:00Holiday weekend! Other than b,n,o,a,RX & me, Tam d...Holiday weekend! Other than b,n,o,a,RX & me, Tam doesn't usually <I>get</I> trolled. Price of fame?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-64128850531988965922007-11-25T19:53:00.000-05:002007-11-25T19:53:00.000-05:00Whatever they're smoking, lips that have touched i...Whatever they're smoking, lips that have touched it will never touch mine.<BR/><BR/> Could maybe, you, try'n' disagree <I>nice</I> and leave the "I eat your heart" stuff to the oil-rich girl-beaters? Just this once, maybe?<BR/><BR/> We're the civilised West, where argument is won through logic. Or we're done. Whatever, I'll just watch.Roberta Xhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09956807794520627885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-85606233831053043402007-11-25T19:47:00.000-05:002007-11-25T19:47:00.000-05:00Anon (1), I'm Chamberlain because I don't care to ...Anon (1), I'm Chamberlain because I <I>don't</I> care to watch India fight China in the WWIII that ensues when jihadis take the Saud fields? You have a funny notion of "peace." Ron Paul couldn't keep us out of that one.<BR/><BR/>Anon (3), I live smack-dab on top of the largest oil field in the world, always has been, always will be. Know what? It all grows back, elk and all. You wouldn't be there, and the hunting wouldn't be so good, if your agriculture hadn't totally failed. Dumb move on someone's part, and I don't think it was the oil company. And that damn electricity! I'll bet your state government fought that, <I>tooth and nail.</I> Meth and hawks, blame big oil, wow. Know what? In central Illinois last summer, I saw them double-cropping corn for ethanol. That's right, two cuts of corn in one season. What do you suppose <I>that</I> does for the grouse? You want 220-foot windmills in the middle of the migration flyways? Some nature lover.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-65963908508060742392007-11-25T19:31:00.000-05:002007-11-25T19:31:00.000-05:00"oil and gas exploration are destroying the fabric..."oil and gas exploration are destroying the fabric of my community... meth, alcohol abuse, power lines for raptors to prey on the remanants of once plentiful sage grouse.... trailer courts....f$$k you....f$$k you."<BR/><BR/>Rather classic use of projection.<BR/><BR/>Anyone been paying attention whose stock in trade <I>that</I> bit is?theirritablearchitecthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04105315709746689270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-35679053785365157372007-11-25T19:25:00.000-05:002007-11-25T19:25:00.000-05:00You can always tell the ones that were day care ki...You can always tell the ones that were day care kids...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-35799796347370145522007-11-25T19:22:00.000-05:002007-11-25T19:22:00.000-05:00f$$k you...and your S.U.V., look no further than G...f$$k you...and your S.U.V., look no further than Gillette, Wyoming.Just because you've destoyed everything east of the Mississippi....arrogant bastards....oil exploration, natural gas....you won't be satisfied until you stick a pipe in the last wild place in America.....f$$k you.It's not the Saudi's its U.S.....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-85667294403746730992007-11-25T19:02:00.000-05:002007-11-25T19:02:00.000-05:00who cares if it's Al Gore or Geo. Bush...it's OUR ...who cares if it's Al Gore or Geo. Bush...it's OUR problem...U.S. ....as a resident of Montana,I live in a rural county with a pop. less than 10,000... It's one of the larger counties in Eastern Montana. Family income hovers around 30000 a year. The country's bird hunting,big game hunting etc...once unsurpassed.I live here by choice...oil and gas exploration are destroying the fabric of my community... meth, alcohol abuse, power lines for raptors to prey on the remanants of once plentiful sage grouse.... trailer courts....f$$k you....f$$k you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-32717364288500278372007-11-25T17:38:00.000-05:002007-11-25T17:38:00.000-05:00Consumption in the USA, interesting topic. Who are...Consumption in the USA, interesting topic. Who are the biggest consumers in the US? I can name one, Al Gore, travels by private jet almost continuously, or if he has to go by land, his preferred vehicle is a Cadillac Escalade, he has 3 mansions, each of which consume more energy in a month than my whole household uses in a year. He is also quite fond of Chilean Sea Bass (an endangered species since 1999), for lunch. BTW: did you know Al won a Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to save the environment?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-71331473370730035622007-11-25T17:10:00.000-05:002007-11-25T17:10:00.000-05:005% of the population...20% of the consumption...th...5% of the population...20% of the consumption...that's us...U.S...A.Hey comatose, stand next to Neville C. ,wave a gas nozzle in your hand,.....peace is at hand...or is it in your hand?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-65058963842793294312007-11-25T16:59:00.000-05:002007-11-25T16:59:00.000-05:00http://tinyurl.com/2n2kqshttp://tinyurl.com/2n2kqsLawDoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05232684877582591461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-63288971178876801272007-11-25T16:55:00.000-05:002007-11-25T16:55:00.000-05:00Well, given that getting off their oil (the implic...Well, given that getting off their oil (the implication there is getting off oil for the most part in general) will require new technology, I can't see why China, India, France, Germany or Japan wouldn't adopt it. Though, that's not really the point. Not being involved is.<BR/><BR/>Rather like not cruising down to the trailer park/ghetto to buy meth.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com