[...sigh....]

Rossy. I have always read your posts with an eye for your attention to detail and informed argument. Even though it seems you kowtow to the status quo that be, even when it has surely taken us in terrible directions for some decades now, conservatively. Maybe I should be keeping this to myself///but the ire is surfacing with the coming of the rains!! I don’t have to agree with a fellow to read his ideas, as long as his ideas are genuinely his. I have no doubt yours are. But you’ve lost my readership completely during the course of this thread ... and if I had the cash to spare I’d buy you an intense master class all expenses paid scuba trip for you and your family …to this place right here…

&, if necessary, I’d also provide you with a pure (& unmodified by industry principles or lack thereof) conscience with which to begin the expedition.

I can feel the retort a comin’ and [low] perhaps I deserve it, but this thread is giving me a stomachache.

If I take a piss on your living room carpet, damn sure I got a hardcore fonging and perhaps litigation coming, and deservedly so. Just deserts for my blatant disrepute.

Well, sir, all the [boldly greed and irresponsibility related] cutting of corners that has surely been going down in late 20 through 21st Century industry [for sole sake of the ~principal~ money winners, legislators, and their soulless mouthpieces on radio & TV] and to the detriment of ALL OTHER lives is the same kind of vile…but to the nth degree!

I’m oversimplifying, but this “ACCIDENT” is a great big piss on the living room carpet of America. & there is nothing ordinary about it. It is a muthafucker! A precedence setting state of affairs. If I were an old Greek patriarch and these barons of oil gamesmanship and machination were my grandson. I would let a tear pool in the corner of my right eye, sigh a grimace as primordial as my tired old soul, and then I would rip my shirt in grief-stricken symbolism. & I say that clearheaded and without a drop of spittle in my vitriol. This is OUR EARTH home. Not yours or anybody else’s earth shaped whore to be ridden hard and put away wet whenever the urge arises. STOP IT. Stop pissing on my carpet, ye moot bastids of currency and industry! Just FUCKING STOP IT!!

I think it was Crazy Horse who said: These crackers with they buttons and bows are gona piss it allll away. And it never EVER had to be that way. Then he laid down his gun ..& began to die of shame.