Er, a nervously debilitating and foolishly silly verbosity …?

Hmmmm….

No, diagnostically, this is inconsistent with extant evidence; Try again.

Watched first episode of ‘…Nightmares’ quite fine, as far as it goes.
As with most such efforts, good as it is, it goes a wee bit light in some areas. Out of the blue, it seems, the Iranians are having their Islamic Revolution, with no mention of the assassination of Mossadegh or Savak, for example, and the century-long role of the Brit’s paying in the mid-eastern sands, settin things ‘up’ as it were, gets somewhat short shrift.
These are my standard gripes, however. Complex histories are simply that: complex. But the Straussian waltzers have definitely been piping the tune from ‘our’ side.

Overall, given its importance in helping general audiences ‘get’ what is going on it gets the full four bones.

The CIA-inspired torture scenes in Egypt under Nasser should be required viewing for all children over fourteen and under one-hundred and fourteen.
Somewhat similar to those ‘you will be safe under your desks children’ atom bomb flicks and Nazi atrocity films that were required viewing when I was young (Dinosaurs were a constant threat back then).

Again, appreciate the link. Will view and review other ‘episodes’ when time permits.

Please: Consider the s-l-o-w and occassionally CRANKY wits of we mere mortals whom you dazzle with your over-arching intellectual grasp,

Ya think? I’m guessing that it takes a rare reader to be dazzled by my schtick. For many, it’s just so much logorrhea of a neurasthenic and fatuous nature.

it’s not that the whitehouses solar panels would make any dent in the industry, it’s the implications

the same thing is true if we only sold our petro to ourselves and clearly if the Iraqi infrastructure was protected enough to produce even the amount of assets they were producing before

the entire purpose of this war was to controll the supply of oil

that’s what you’ve missed and you’re so intent on the “get a smaller car” that you don’t see it’s exactly what would have been happening if ronny boy didn’t take those panels off the whitehouse

and that is the very point

Enough to buy a huge amount of weaponry, or finance an invason of Iraq for six months

America imports 70% of its oil – it hasn’t got any to sell to anyone else.

opening refineries will not increase the supply of crude, and will have no impact on the price of crude, and a marginal impact on the price of refined products.

The us has been trying to reopen the Iraqi oil fields since two weeks after they crossed the border. To do that they have to stop the senseless civil war they created.

The White house solar panels won’t even run the shredders in Cheney’s office.

If you really want to lower the oil price, scrap your gas guzzling SUV’s, build a decent public transport infrastructure, and tax gas like in Europe where the oil consumption per capita is less than half the US

Oh!!! Deary me ….!

RayDuray!!!

You must simply stop (gasp! giggle… arrgh!) you must stop running circles around everyone -

The Peripatetic Punster and the Cyclonic Wits-ter are already but fast-diminishing, distant specks on your back-horizon.

Please: Consider the s-l-o-w and occassionally CRANKY wits of we mere mortals whom you dazzle with your over-arching intellectual grasp, not
to mention your break-neck typing (archaic mind-set terminology-deficient- sensibility, here) speed …

Or, I greatly fear, you shall gain such a reputation (this is like a ‘logo’ or a distinctive coloration, for example, such as those found among feathered bipeds)as to overshadow the pith and power of your well-honed (if bristling) commentary.

I’m trying very hard to be ’solemn and thoughtful, not smiling’ (deeep breathing, Zen-like meditative state … oops, no! I am NOT laughing, that is coughing, ahem… where was I? Oh, yes…) seriously … I feel another attack coming on … decorum! decorum! solemnity … where DID I PUT THAT GRAVITAS?!!?

Enough! (Now off to view ‘…Nightmares’ Thanky-you for linkerage)

In 2007, the United States increased its military aid to Israel by over 25%, to an average of $3 billion per year for the following ten year period (starting at $2.550 billion for 2008, growing by 150 million each year).[14] The package is scheduled to start October 2008, when regular economic aid to Israel’s economy is to end.[15] Officials have insisted the aid is not tied, or meant to balance, simultaneous military aid packages totalling $20 billion to Arab countries including Saudi Arabia[15]. U.S. President George W. Bush assured Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert that the U.S. would help keep a “qualitative advantage” to Israel over other nations in the region
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I….._relations