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?
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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
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 flightThe 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.with the approval of the CDCdespite having a fever added to the concern, officials said.
We saw it turn off in 2008. There are prices where growth stops, even if not all drilling. Look at the Haynesville. It just can't compete at $4.
ReplyDeleteYes, there will be "winners" and "losers." I've put the countries / shale plays in the order in the order in which pain is being felt.
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No entity is that stupid; therefore one can only assume CDC was performing a test to check viral transmissivity. Guess we'll know in couple weeks if ebola is airborne.
ReplyDeleteAlong that line, I am most intrigued by the fact that between 1976 (when Ebola was discovered) and 2013, there were less than 2,000 cases. This outbreak, less than a year old, has possibly as many as 25,000 cases, and the CDC is suggesting that the number could go to 10,000 new cases EACH WEEK starting in December. Something doesn't add up. In my mind, something changed big time -- and I would start with the virus.
DeleteIt's hard for me to believe that water droplets (sneezing, coughing) couldn't carry the virus, if it's a) as hardy as investigators say it is -- up to 6 hours in bodily fluids outside the human body; and, b) if two nurses contract it despite "universal precautions."