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It started well before I got up and is still coming down, a little thinner now, adding in some halfhearted gusts of wind. The birds are complaining.
My mother sent me a blown up picture of my father when he was younger, maybe my age. She'd wanted a good picture of him to frame and made copies for me and my sister. Putting aside that it is reminiscent of Tom DeLay's grinning mugshot, it upset me badly because it is not half so beautiful as he is now, as he always has been. My mother doesn't think he is him anymore, and I cannot MAKE her understand that is not so. I can't make anyone understand what is true.
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Grey overcast down here, but I just closed the window on the car and put the cover on the trash can, so it'll probably stay north of here.
ReplyDeleteMaybe your mother has convinced herself of that to avoid intolerable grief.
She had an option... and she probably didn't take that one because of the intolerable grief thing too. Problem is she's making my father tolerate it... and me....
ReplyDeleteI've been remiss
ReplyDeleteTied up watching BP fumble around trying to fix their huge mess only to make it bigger!
Screaming at them "Don't you see the saw body is hitting the flange, you aren't going to cut through the pipe! Turn the damn thing over - saw body above flange - it will cut through!"
After 30 minutes they took my advise, turned over the saw and were through the pipe in about 45 seconds.
They cut off the riser pipe that was laying on the sea floor. First attempt the cutter was too small to cut the whole pipe bundle. They had to remove all the auxiliary pipes and cables before they could make the cut - 12 hours lost.
Next they tried to cut the pipe off at the well head with a diamond wire saw only to have the saw jam and break. Now the main pipe is cut 1/3 of the way through spewing much more oil as the try ti figure out what to do next.
Then we have this: Physics professor: Oil leak could last for years
(But then he is the guy I always scream at on TV when he says things such as "This planet is 500% smaller than the earth.")
Don't be hypnotized by it.
ReplyDeleteWe need you.
The gulf gusher could become a mass extinction event.
ReplyDelete2012 is just around the corner...
12.21.12
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LIBERATION
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