Tuesday - October 18, 2011
Effortlessly Adorable
Just in case you didn’t follow all the links in my previous post. The show rocks, but it’s all I can do not to squeal like a 12 year old girl when she’s on. She’s that cute. OMFG. And her character is a total sweetie too.
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If you have the HBO channel, I hope you’re watching the Boardwalk Empire series. It’s a fantastic show about political corruption and the rise of gangsterism, set in Atlantic City at the beginning of Prohibition. As a period piece and a costume drama it’s visually amazing; the cloths, the cars, and the architecture are phenomenal. The storylines are just as impressive, as alliances change and the characters all try to get ahead in what was a very rough world. If you’re new to the show and you can’t find the first season’s episodes On Demand, I’d suggest getting the DVDs and watching, because the characters are quite detailed and quite subtle in many ways. It’s a breakout role for actor Steve Buscemi, cast as city treasurer Nucky Thompson. With executive producer Martin Scorsese it’s as good a series as any that HBO has ever done, and that’s saying a lot. Ok, it has some lefty slant, what on television doesn’t? The corrupt politicians are all Republicans, as were the real life people the story was based on. That doesn’t make much difference overall. If you have HBO now is the time to get on board the Empire Express, because things are about to explode and it will be one heck of a ride this season.
“I’ve been craving me some Hoppin’ John since the moon were blue.”
While Nucky runs the show in the main part of the city, over in darktown his counterpart is Albert “Chalky” White. Superbly played by Michael Kenneth Williams, Chalky is one tough hombre who came up the hard way, but he also has his insecurities and shortcomings, and is more than a bit haunted by his past, growing up dirt poor in the deep south and suffering the racism of the era. Having found success and a modest fortune through his semi-criminal activities and his many connections to the community, at home Chalky is merely Albert. He has married far above his station to a “high yellow” woman, and she’s raising the children to be part of her high class world. Chalky doesn’t fit in there with his “field hand” background, and it angers him that his wife and children seem to patronize his “lowness” while living well off of the money he brings home. In last week’s episode, Chalky spent a week in jail. His wife visited, and brought Albert a copy of Great Expectations to read to help pass the time behind bars. Chalky is illiterate. Diss!
This week’s episode had the White family inviting his daughter’s beau over for dinner so they could meet him. Having had a bit too much to drink after a bad day when the whole world was against him, at dinner Albert is cranky that the fine meal with all the trimmings doesn’t include the bowl of Hoppin’ John he was hoping for. This is some subtle stuff going on. The frission within the black community between those of varying complexion - Chalky is very dark, and his wife and children very light; “passin”, or almost “bein” white folks, and certainly acting like them - was an issue then even more than it’s an issue now, and it is almost never even alluded to on TV or in film. About the only time I ever saw or heard anything that dealt with it directly (other than one or two lines concerning field hands vs house labor in Gone With The Wind) was an art house film Gullah biopic called Daughters of the Dust from two decades ago. But those attitudes are probably still with us today, which could partially explain why such light toned black singers and actresses are held up as beauty icons, while the MSM’s push to get people to believe that Michelle Obama is the new Jackie Kennedy seems so false. I think that’s a healing effort attempt by the media; she’s very dark and she’s built like a field hand. I can’t see anything wrong with expanding the concept of beauty, especially if it mitigates a lot of preconceptions that mistakenly associate attractiveness with paleness. I just think the media could have found a better female icon. Fox New’s Harris Faulkner, the actress Jasika Nicole who plays Agent Astrid Farnsworth on the TV show Fringe, or even Lenora Crichlow who plays the adorable ghost Annie on the BBC import Being Human are all really attractive. Who am I kidding? All three of them are cuter than hell. I guess they’re just not black enough. So we can expect the media to push Herman Cain as the new tall dark and handsome? Not on your life. Politics trumps color every time. No matter how dark Cain is, he will soon have his Negro Card revoked.
But I digress. Back on Boardwalk, Albert is having his fine family dinner, but inside him Chalky wants some soul food, 45 years before “soul food” existed as such or had any cultural respect. And there ain’t no damn Hoppin’ John to be had. His passin’ family won’t be serving no field nigga slave food. This is never said out loud, but the message is loud and clear with just a few glances from his wife and kids. Pretty subtle.
What is it? “Hoppin’ John” is a patois corruption of “pois de pigeons” (pigeon peas). pwah-d -pijahnz becomes poppin johns becomes hoppin’ john. Black-eyed peas and rice with a little hot pepper thrown in, slow cooked and flavored with some leftover smoked fatty pork. Tasty, filling, and dirt cheap, it’s a side dish that’s a meal all by itself, made better by tossing in herbs, celery, and some field greens if you’ve got any.
You can find recipes for it online, but the best recipes are the traditional ones that take hours to stew. Start with a pound of dried beans and soak them overnight. Use a real ham hock instead of a ham steak. Cook up a big mess of bacon and don’t throw out the fat; add it to the collards along with a ham bone while they boil. Forget the fancy herbs and spices; a stalk of celery and a few sprigs of fresh thyme are enough. Just don’t forget the hot sauce when you serve it.
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I don’t even know where to begin with this story. It’s a horrible tale of depravity, and it gets worse by the hour as more facts come to light. There are creatures that walk among us, passing as fellow humans, that embody pure evil. A quick death is too gentle a punishment for them, but that’s all we can do.
One of four mentally handicapped people found chained in a Philadelphia basement over the weekend was reported missing in 2005, but the case was closed by police, myFOXphilly.com reported Monday.
The woman found in the basement was identified by myFOXphilly.com as 29-year-old Tamara Breeden. Her family reported her missing in 2005. A Philadelphia detective closed her case last year even though she had not been found. The other three victims were between the ages of 29 and 41. All four victims were said to have the mental capacity of 10-year-olds, making it difficult for authorities to identify them and notify their families.
Three of four of the victims say they were abused and kept captive by the woman charged with kidnapping and falsely imprisoning them.
Knowles was shackled to a boiler and says he was hit by one of the two men arrested with Weston, who’s jailed and can’t be reached for comment.
Dozens of pieces of identification and power of attorney documents were also discovered, indicating a possible wide-ranging fraud scheme, police said Monday.
Investigators are still processing the documents and reaching out to authorities in multiple jurisdictions while they try to find the family of one of the victims rescued Saturday from what police called deplorable conditions, Lt. Ray Evers told The Associated Press.
Evers said Weston is suspected of running a long-standing fraud operation. Authorities say Weston and two other suspects may have been holding the four people found in the basement hostage and collecting their disability checks.
“Without a doubt, this is just the beginning of this investigation,” Evers said.
The victims were rescued from the basement of the northeast Philadelphia apartment building on Saturday after the landlord shined a flashlight behind a steel door that had been chained shut.
The space was too small for an adult to stand up straight and reeked of waste from the buckets the victims used to relieve themselves, according to police.
Four mentally disabled people and three dogs in a shit filled 15x15 cell in a basement. Filth encrusted, on the edge of starvation, and beaten severely repeatedly. And they’d been that way for years. YEARS. Kept so long that the cases were closed on some of them. So that these sick bastards could collect their disability checks. What, is there NO COOPERATION in government? Was all that Patriot Act stuff just smoke and mirrors? HOW HARD CAN IT BE to find these people if their checks are still being issued and cashed each month???
And the story gets worse by the hour.
PHILADELPHIA - Fox 29 has learned Philadelphia horror house suspect Linda Weston might have abused as many as four mentally challenged people for 11 years.
Weston and two others face numerous charges after the four people were found in a sub-basement in a Northeast Philadelphia house on Saturday. Some were reportedly in chains.
Fox 29’s Dave Kinchen says his source believes suspect Linda Ann Weston abused the four mentally challenged people for the 11-year period, holding them as hostages and allegedly stealing their social security checks.
And who is this Weston woman? Why, my goodness, she’s a jailbird, who served 8 years in the can for starving some other man to death!
The ringleader of a gang charged with chaining four malnourished mentally disabled adults in a basement previously served eight years for starving someone to death, it has been revealed.
It’s coming to light that this crew of psychopaths may be part of a larger ring. Let’s hope that this case cracks that egg wide open. From what I can glean, this bunch had moved their prisoners from Texas to Florida, and then north to Philly only 2 weeks ago.
Linda Ann Weston, 51, the alleged ringleader behind the Philiadelphia ‘house of horror chain dungeon,’ was convicted of starving Bernardo Ramos 25, to death after he refused to support her sister’s unborn child, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported.
Police believe the trio may have been part of an interstate conspiracy to obtain the government support checks of mentally disabled people.
The alleged ringleader, Linda Ann Weston, 51, previously served eight years in prison for starving Bernardo Ramos, 25, to death after he refused to support her sister’s unborn child, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported.
Weston’s boyfriend, Thomas Gregory, 47, and homeless man Eddie Wright, 49, were also arrested Sunday. Each suspect was charged with criminal conspiracy, aggravated assault, kidnapping, and other related charges.
Late Sunday night, Gregory and Wright were arraigned and held on $2.5 million bail each, while Weston was still being processed, WPVI-TV reported.
Police say they expect more charges to be filed as they continue investigating the trio’s scheme that they believe stretches back at least a year and reaches as far as Florida and Texas.
There is some good news though. ANOTHER missing person has been located, a 15 year old girl kidnapped in Florida. And whaddya know, the suspect is THE SON of one of the three arrested. In other words, kidnapping people and imprisoning them to collect their disability checks IS A FAMILY BUSINESS, with the added thrill of torture and probably sexual abuse thrown in for shits and giggles.
Missing Florida Girl Connected To Horror Case
A 15-year-old girl reported missing in Florida has been found in Northeast Philadelphia. According to Philly.com, Benita Rodriguez was located Monday by police. The girl was last seen at her Palm Beach, Fla., home on July 4th. A Florida television station is reporting that Rodriguez was last seen with the son of one of the suspects in the ongoing house of horrors case here in Philadelphia, Gregory Thomas Jr. Three people have been arrested in that case, including Gregory Thomas Sr.Thomas and two others are facing a host of charges, including holding four mentally challenged people hostage in the basement of a Philadelphia apartment building. Before moving here on Oct. 3, the suspects had lived in Florida.
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Near the West Palm Beach home they had lived in before coming here, neighbors say they would see the alleged victims with bruises or other injuries. But they didn’t think the people they lived with had caused them.The homeowner says Weston had several disabled children living with her in the home. The homeowner also says the suspects left $50,000 worth of damage when they were evicted in June.
This story gets more complex by the days. Police are still finding out new facts, new evidence and new twists in this alleged Social Security scam and creepy kidnapping of mentally-challenged people.
Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey says the case likely goes well beyond the four victims found. It could include as many as 50 more, for whom documents have been found in Weston’s possession. Some may be missing. Some may have died and been dumped somewhere.
The four victims were found Saturday by the landlord. They were locked in the sub-basement of the Tacony apartment building. On Monday, police gave the media its first inside that building’s “dungeon” basement, where the four were kept for 10 days. One of them was chained to a rusty old boiler.
Reporters noted the lack of light, the lack of fresh air, and that the bucket that had been used by the four as a bathroom had not been emptied or moved.
“It’s inhumane. It’s terrible. And for someone to do that to another human being is very, very disturbing,” Ramsey said outside the building. “… There is some indication that, as law enforcement or human services or some … government agency got close, they would move and change location. So that, literally, could keep this going on for – well, it did, for years. We just don’t know how long some of these individuals have been with her: one individual, sometime earlier this year; another, maybe as long as five or six years.”
50 others? Going on for years? Neighbors who saw the abused and never said a word? This is just the tip of the iceberg. There have to be more people involved than just these 3. How many thousands of other missing are being held as slaves, or worse, so that some sick creeps can steal their pitiful checks? Is there some kind of national network of psychopaths? An Idiot’s Guide To Dungeons For Fun & Profit? A slaver’s union? How is it that our super duty all-knowing government continues to send out checks for these missing people, but no red lights go off when those checks get cashed?
And how is it that you can starve a man to death for revenge and only get 8 years in jail? That’s murder by torture, and should carry the death penalty or at least life imprisonment.
More links in the comments section, and those links have plenty of pictures and videos. This is beyond appalling. I don’t know how to respond, but it involves pitchforks, torches, and bayonets.
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The leg bone of highly controversial Civil War Union General Daniel Sickles is on the move again. Sickles, a very self-aggrandizing fellow, is remembered as either the savior of the battle of Gettysburg or it’s idiot, depending on your view of history.
When the battle happened, the entire Union army wound up closely packed together on a low ridge line above the small southern Pennsylvania town. The Confederate forces, the army of Virginia, had been marauding in territory to the north, while the Union forces, the army of the Potomac, were close to Washington DC. The rebs had turned south and by chance met the yankees coming north just outside the town. As the fighting progressed, the blue forces were pushed back up onto the ridge and nearly surrounded. Sickles “misunderstood” his orders and marched his troops out from the southern part of the line to meet a Confederate advance from the west. Had that advance succeeded, not only would the blue army have been surrounded, but the way would have been open to Washington DC and in all probability the South would have won the war. Sickles’ troops met the onslaught and engaged in some of the most intense fighting of the war, with thousands of casualties on both sides, but he stopped them. During the fight his leg was shot off by a cannonball. The battle continued the next day with the advance now known as Pickett’s charge. The southern forces came within inches of breaking the northern line and taking the hill, but they were repulsed and the battle was lost. This was the turning point of the war, and from that day until the end the south was on the defensive.
Sickles survived. Somehow his leg bone was kept, and for years afterwards he would visit it from time to time.
Over time, the leg became part of a morbid collection of military artifacts, including the bullet that killed President Lincoln, the part of President Garfield’s spine where he was shot, and a huge collection of bones and pickled flesh from other casualties. It became a museum of medicine. Now that collection is being moved again. Since the collection began in the 1860’s it has moved 10 times. Sickles’ leg just won’t stop marching on.
The bullet that killed Abraham Lincoln is mounted under glass, like a diamond in a snow globe, in its new home at the National Museum of Health and Medicine.
The lead ball and several skull fragments from the 16th president are in a tall, antique case overlooking a Civil War exhibit in a museum gallery in Silver Spring, just off the Capital Beltway. The military museum, known for its collection of morbid oddities, moved in September from the former Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington.
At Walter Reed, visitors had to pass through a security gate and find the museum on the campus, where parking could be a problem. The new building stands outside the gates of Fort Detrick’s Forest Glen Annex.
Visitors can just drive up, walk in and come face-to-face with a perpetually grinning skeleton directing them to an exhibit on the human body. There, one can see a hairball from the stomach of a 12-year-old girl and the amputated leg of a man with elephantiasis — a disease that causes limbs to become bloated. The leg floats upright in a glass jar like an enormous, pickled sausage.
Deputy Director Tim Clarke Jr. said the museum will close in January and reopen by May 21 with its largest-ever display of objects to mark its 150th anniversary. The scope of the exhibits is still being decided, he said.
“We are sure, though, that we are programming and planning an exhibit that will astound our visitors,” Clarke said.
The $12 million relocation established a permanent home for an institution that has had 10 addresses since 1862. That’s when Surgeon General William Hammond directed medical officers in the field to collect “specimens of morbid anatomy” for study at the newly founded museum along with projectiles and foreign bodies. A photograph nearly covering one wall of the museum’s new Civil War exhibit shows amputated legs stacked like firewood.
The exhibit also includes the shattered bones of U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Daniel Sickles’ lower right leg, mounted for display beside a 12-pound cannonball like the one that hit him during the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg. Most of the museum’s objects, including 2,000 microscopes and hundreds of thousands of human brain specimens, are in an off-site warehouse.
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Permalink • Monday - October 17, 2011
redux too
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Permalink • No Alternate Energy Needed, Part 2
"We’re running out of fossil energy! We need to invest massive amounts of tax money in green energy right now!!!”
Gaffney, Cline & Associates (GCA) said Turkmenistan’s South Iolotan natural gas field is the world’s second-largest, with an estimated 21.2 trillion cu m (tcm) of gas reserves. Supergiant Iolotan field was discovered in the country’s Amu Daria basin in late-2006 (OGJ Online, Nov. 22, 2006).
In a recent presentation, Jim Gillett, GCA business development manager, said South Iolotan’s latest reserves estimate make it second only to giant South Pars gas field, shared by Iran and Qatar.
“Turkmenistan’s gas reserves are more than enough for any potential demand over the foreseeable future, whether it be from China, Russia, Iran, or Europe,” Gillett said.
However, Gillet said estimates of the central Asian nation’s reserves could increase even more, noting that in addition to South Iolotan, the country’s Yashlar field has substantial gas, too.
“The current estimated data for both South Iolotan and Yashlar may well increase still further as additional data are acquired,” Gillett said. Yashlar, a separate field, could contain 1.45-5 tcm, he said.
Under a previous estimate made by GCA, South Iolotan field was believed to hold as much as 14 tcm of gas.
The world uses about 2.4 trillion cubic meters of natural gas per year; the Yashlar field could feed the world for a whole year all by itself. So call it 9 years from the first field, 10 years altogether. That’s natural gas from just one country, from just two gas producing regions. Not to mention that existing wells the world over already supply just a bit more gas than currently gets used. Or any of the new fields that get discovered all the time, like the one in CA I wrote about the other day. Or the ones way up north that we’re only just starting to look for, now that some of the ice and snow has gone away so that we can look.
Natural gas burns pretty clean, leaving behind just CO2 and steam. And plans have already been figured out how to pull massive amounts of CO2 out of the air and pump it back into those old gas wells that have run dry. So there.
h/t to EagleSpeak
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Permalink • Sunday - October 16, 2011
tough guy
Alexander Karpenko, a 35-year-old English teacher from Nizhny Novgrod, Russia shaves with all kinds of sharp objects, including a shovel, hatchet or scissors, but not with razors.
Impressed by the war stories his grandfather, a WW2 veteran, told him about men who used anything sharp to shave on the battlefield, Alexander first experimented shaving with scissors when he was 16 years old. He realized razors were a luxury and decided to teach himself to use other more helpful sharp objects for his morning grooming. For the past 20 years, Karpenko has used all kinds of stuff like shovels, chisels or sharp knives to remove facial hair and claims he has never once used a common razor.
Karpenko knows shaving with unorthodox tools is dangerous, and doesn’t recommend the practice. He did, however, tell reporters that he loves the thrill of having a sharp blade pressed against his throat, knowing that one false move could be fatal. Maybe his wife should get back to worrying.
Our guys just grew beards when their GI issue razors wore out.
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Permalink • A Democratic Platform
Best President in my lifetime. So far…
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Permalink • Bastard in the Sand
Drew, everything is working again. What did you do? 
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Permalink • Saturday - October 15, 2011
crowder, occupied
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Permalink • Fall. Apples. Cooking.
It’s fall. How do I know? Wife is bringing apples home from the farmer’s market. I don’t particularly enjoy raw apples, though I’ll eat them. But I prefer cooked apples. For instance, if I’m frying pork chops, I’ll core, peel, and slice apples and sautè apples to serve with the chops. I also like apple pie, but neither of us is willing to make apple pie.
But the wife has brought home so many apples that I need to use them up before they go bad. I don’t have enough pork chops. Solution? Home-made applesauce.
4 apples: cored, peeled and chopped
3/4 cup water
1/4 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
Combine all of the above, Simmer, covered, over low heat for 15-20 minutes until apples are soft. Mash apples with a fork.
I might say, this is really good on my home-made Belgian waffles. Probably better for us than pouring maple syrup on the waffles.
Drew, what did you do! I can’t access comments. Now I can’t access categories on my posts. Next: this won’t post.
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Okay, it posted. I still can’t access categories, or comments. WTF?
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Permalink • Grab Your Shovel And Spread The WealthE
Jesse Jackson Jr’s plan to end unemployment: the government should hire all 15 million unemployed and pay them $40,000 each.
Hey, remember that civilian army Obama used to talk about?
Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. has offered his own $804 billion jobs plan that calls on the federal government to hire the nation’s 15 million unemployed Americans for jobs paying roughly $40,000 each, and bail out all the states and cities facing budget crises.
In an interview with the Daily Caller on Wednesday, the Illinois Democrat applauded President Obama for directing his staff to greenlight job-creating initiatives without congressional approval after his $447 billion jobs bill was defeated in the Senate this week.
“Now we’re making some progress,” Jackson said, comparing the legislative gridlock in Congress to the states that seceded from the union during the Civil War.
“We’ve seen Congress is in rebellion,” he said, “determined to wreck or ruin at all costs.”
Jackson said the government’s direct hiring of the nation’s 15 million unemployed Americans would cost $600 billion.
“It could be a five-year program,” he said. “For another $104 billion, we bail out all of the states. For another $100 billion, we bail out all of the cities.”
“We put people to work cleaning up communities. We put people to work through a civilian conservation corps, through a Works Progress Administration because the hour demands it,” he said.
“And as more people work, they pay taxes, they pay taxes into the 4th quarter, they buy wares, they buy homes, they meet their obligations and our economy begins to work its way out of this protracted recession,” he continued. “That’s the only way out of this crisis. And I hope the president begins to continue to exercise extraordinary constitutional means based on the history of Congresses that have been in rebellion in the past.”
Golly, the jobs part alone works out to only another $2,000 in debt for every single citizen in the nation. PER YEAR.
You know, this is pretty much what I expected Obama’s “shovel ready” plan to be, back in 2009. In some ways it would have made more sense than dropping a half billion here, a half billion there, to create a couple of dozen jobs at some phony “green” venture start up run by one of his bundlers. And let’s face it, this sounds almost exactly like FDR’s CCC from back in the 30’s. It even has the same name (Democrats: always thinking up something “new”, right?). We could call it the Civilian Conservation Corps Plan, or CCCP for short. Might as well be honest with the acronym, because most folks are too stupid to even realize what that means.
And of course you’d want the plan to be fair, so it would have to cover not just the folks who are unemployed now, but those who become unemployed in the near future. Unintended consequences coming in over the event horizon at Mach 7 sir!!! By which I mean that every single person in the country working for less than $19.23 per hour would get themselves fired or quit and sign up overnight. Which means that the 15 million would be 60 million in a week, and 100 million the week after that. So the cost would multiply by 7 instantly. It would be the ultimate Cash For Clunkers program (in terms of an uncontrollable bailout, not in terms of denigration for the people that work those lower paying jobs). I don’t know the details, but I’m sure that such jobs, regardless of what the actual work would entail (work? hah!), would also come with government level health bennies, so add at least another 1 to the cost multiplier and go with 8. This week. And of course you’d need a huge bunch of managers and overseers to shepherd all those people, so let’s hire at least another half million government employees at a considerably higher rate than his $40,000 proposal to be the massahs bosses comrades of authority.
And any business that has low paying clerks, drivers, kitchen staff, cart boys, shipping clerks, cleaning staff, door greeters, ... you name it, they would have to immediately increase their pay rate to $20/hr to keep their workers aboard. And match or beat the benefits. Which would really cheese off the more skilled workers at corporate, so those folks would all need an instant $12,000 raise. And the only place that kind of money could come from is from the salaries of the big bad owners and executives. They would necessarily have to take a major pay cut; pretty soon none of them from the CEO downwards would be earning more than $100,000. That is, until they figured out how to outsource their entire company to India, where they could then pay all the workers 28¢ per week or whatever the prevailing slave wage over there is. $1? $5? Whatever, it ain’t much, even in India. But hey, no problem. All those extra 90 million Americans put out of work could then sign up for the $40,000 government jobs. But they’d be paying taxes right Jesse Jr? So it would all work out. Sure it would. At least until all those 190 million people all joined a union and demanded a “living wage” of $50/hr. Plus more bennies.
And this guy is a Congressman. This is one of our leaders. One of our “best and brightest”. Representative Jesse Jackson Jr (D-Illinois in case it wasn’t obvious) is up for re-election. Vote early and often!
UPDATE: Just to be clear, Jackson is calling for the POTUS to be a tyrant and do an end-run around the Constitution:
“do it through direct hire ... the hour demands it ... that’s the extraordinary constitutional means ... the Congress is in rebellion ... this Congress is completely disfunctional ... declare a national emergency ...”
“We’ve got to go further. I support what [Obama] does. Clearly, Republicans are not going to be for it but if the administration can handle administratively what can be done, we should pursue it. And if there are extra-constitutional opportunities that allow the president administratively to put the people to work, he should pursue every single one of them.”
No question about it: “extraordinary” is being used here as “extra-ordinary”, which means atypical. “Extra-constitutional” means beyond and/or outside of the Constitution. Put simply, it is rule by fiat, by the command of the King, the ukase of the Czar.
What the heck, King Charles I President Obama, if Parliament Congress is in rebellion, might as well just dissolve them. We know how that works out, right?
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Permalink • Today in History (Saturday, Oct 15, 2011}
Events
533 – Having kicked Vandal @ss, Byzantine general Belisarius enters Carthage.
1764 – Edward Gibbon begins writing ‘Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire’.
1917 – Mata Hari executed by firing squad for spying for the Germans.
1946 – Nuremberg Trials: Hermann Göring poisons himself the night before his execution.
1970 – Anwar Sadat becomes president of Egypt.
Births
70 BC – Virgil (Roman poet)
1844 – Friedrich Nietzsche (German philosopher)
1858 – John L. Sullivan (American boxer)
1881 – P. G. Wodehouse (British novelist) Cheeves.
1924 – Mark Lenard (American actor. Spock’s father)
1946 – Richard Carpenter (American musician, Karen Carpenter’s brother)
1959 – Sarah Ferguson (Duchess of York)
Deaths
1389 – Pope Urban VI
1917 – Mata Hari (Dutch dancer and spy)
1946 – Hermann Göring (German Luftwaffe commander)
1964 – Cole Porter (American composer)
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Permalink • Friday - October 14, 2011
We doan need no steenkin Alternate Energy
Royale Energy Discovers Natural Gas in Sacramento Basin
Royale Energy (ROYL) revealed on Friday a new natural gas discovery in the Sacramento Basin that has increased the company’s optimism over its growth potential. The discovery and the additional drilling capabilities are expected to increase its production.
“With a strong balance sheet and an aggressive pace of exploration in Royale’s core area, the company is confident in its outlook for growth,” the company’s co-CEO Donald Hosmer said in a statement.
While the company was drilling to a depth of 7,150 feet, the well intersected natural gas filled sands in each of the targeted upper, middle and lower Mokulumne sands. [also spelled Mokelumne in other places]
The lower zone has been completed and is flowing over one-million cubic feet a day on a restricted choke. The company said it will reserve the middle and upper zones to be completed following the production of the lower sands.
The Pacific 1-3 was drilled to a total depth of 7,150 ft. and wireline logs have been run. The well intersected natural gas filled sands in each of the targeted upper, middle, and lower Mokulumne sands. The lower Mokulumne has been completed, flowing over 1,000,000 cubic ft. per day on a restricted 10/64’s choke. With the strong results of the lower sand, the company will reserve the middle and upper Mokulumne zones to be completed following the production of current zone.
The company has also added new production with the recompletion of new zones in several of its existing wells.
Andrus Island well is now producing 250,000 cubic ft. per day from a shallower formation in the well. Andrus East was recompleted with a high pressure of 1100 psi and will be placed into production this month.
The title of the first article is a tiny bit misleading. Natural gas extraction has been going on in the Sacramento Basin since 1936. Trillions and trillions of cubic feet have been harvested. The Basin is the area between the coastal mountains and the Sierra Nevadas; it is the Sacramento Valley and the San Joaquin Valley and the backwaters of the San Francisco Bay. The Rio Vista gas field lies a few miles southwest of Sacramento and a few miles northwest of Stockton; the Thornton field is just to the east, due south of Sacramento. This is the heart of the gas producing region. Andrus Island is just southeast of the Rio Vista field, on the edge of the backbay where the Mokelumne River meanders in from Lodi a few miles to the east.
The thing about the Basin is that the sediments there are very deep; in between the two mountain ranges silt piled up for millions and millions of years, reaching 7.5 miles in depth at some points. And it’s all gas bearing sand and shale, layer after layer, with only a couple of oil producing areas. This find might revitalize the whole zone, which I gather has been depleted to such an extent that the land is sinking and people have even considered using the old wells as CO2 hiding areas. Injecting all that naughty CO2 - the depleted fields could hold many gigatons would not only support the upper soils, it would also help push out the rest of the gas. Like frakking, only without water or dynamite. But now that Royale has shown that at least one whole new layer of gas exists further down (and that hole still isn’t even halfway through the sediment layers) this could revive the whole area. Nice.
I like that the test well is flowing a million cubic feet a day, even through a restrictor; the implication is that it could flow even more, perhaps half a billion cubic feet per day, without one. That’s what a good well can produce. And there are two other proven gas layers above it, left in reserve. Sweet.
Playing the market? Royale Energy (NasDaq: ROYL) stock was down .3 to only $3.23 per share even after making this announcement yesterday, having recovered from a low of about $1.80 in late September. They’re at < href="http://thestockmarketwatch.com/stock.aspx?stock=ROYL">$3.52 right now and have been tagged as a “big mover” stock to watch once again. The company increased revenue by 34.5% last year, reduced expenses 11%, and paid 12¢ per share even though their net profit was only a bit over $1 million. It’s not a giant company. With this strike they could be set to take off, as their proven reserves were already nearly 4 years worth of production, and large investments (and low wellhead prices) from 2009 begin to pay off.
Crude oil and natural gas prices are on the rise again, although gas’ wellhead price is around $4.27/MCF, just about the lowest price in a decade if you ignore 2009’s midyear slump. That means that this new well, even with it’s choke in place, is earning $4270 a day and could have an unchoked revenue of $2.14 million per day.
PS - Can somebody explain this one to me? Looks to me like wellhead price is up $0.04 since February, import price is down $0.11 in the same time frame, yet residential price is up a WHOPPING 55%! And this is after a whole year full of new gas finds, the shale frakking thing, etc - we have lots and lots and lots of natural gas. There are no new national pipelines that need paying for, are there? The nation has more than 3.5 TRILLION cubic feet of the stuff in tanks, which is pretty much how much stock on hand we always have this time of year. So what gives?? We’re getting ripped! Corporate Greed!!!11! Occupy Natural Gas Street!!!!!!!1111!!!
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on 10/14/2011 at 11:55 AM
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