No End In Sight For US Oil Production Boom -- October 17, 2014

The New York Times: no end in sight for US oil production boom.

My musings and others along the same line:

• Lynn Helms' comments
• Personal musings
• Countries at risk; Bakken actually sitting in a nice spot
• Could the shale oil boom be ending?

It's nice to see that The New York Times sees things the way I see things. It will be interesting to see how this plays out.

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Three More Brooklyn Oil Field Permits

CLR has permits for three more wells in the Brooklyn oil field.

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Also In The New York Times
Six Simple Words

Ever since President Clinton's presidency, parsing comments and parsing news articles has become a national pastime.

This is a another example. From The New York Times on article regarding the Ebola thing:

The business-as-usual sentiment at the White House changed abruptly, officials said, when a second nurse in Dallas contracted the disease early Wednesday morning. The fact that she had traveled on a Frontier Airlines flight despite having a fever added to the concern, officials said.

Did you see what was missing? If not, read it again.

The fact that the nurse "traveled on a Frontier Airlines flight despite having a fever" was barely the story.

Remember: she said she talked with the President Obama's health team (the CDC) about her "fever" -- not once, but perhaps several times in the course of one telephone call if not more than one telephone call -- and President Obama's health team (the CDC) said it was okay for her to fly. The CDC confirmed that (and it would not have come to light had it not been for the internet and talk radio. I think Mike Savage, more than anyone else, moved that story along (about the CDC being called) -- it was almost too much to believe. The nurse cannot be faulted; she had concerns and actually telephoned the CDC. (Actually I'm surprised she got through; I'm surprised they didn't hang up on her thinking she was a nut case, but I digress.)

That's why this story is all of a sudden so big: the president's health team told her it was okay despite her fever (albeit, low grade) and her very, very mild symptoms (a hint of malaise, perhaps).

My hunch is this: this is what the reporter's article looked like before the editor lined through six simple words:

The business-as-usual sentiment at the White House changed abruptly, officials said, when a second nurse in Dallas contracted the disease early Wednesday morning. The fact that she had traveled on a Frontier Airlines flight with the approval of the CDC despite having a fever added to the concern, officials said.

The CDC director, by all rights, should have taken the lead, perhaps be appointed the Ebola czar. The fact that he was not suggests that for all intents and purposes, the president lost faith in him, "fired him in place," and appointed someone else to be in charge.