Now that’s “CRUDE”

I was sent some information in an email this morning that I think every American (democrats and republicans) should know. It’s unreal that we put ourselves in these situations, then do nothing to change them. I don’t know how anyone can argue this information.

Interesting facts……….

The Bakken is the largest domestic oil discovery since Alaska ‘s Prudhoe Bay, and has the potential to eliminate all American dependence on foreign oil. The Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimates it at 503 billion barrels. Even if just 10% of the oil is recoverable… At $107 a barrel, we’re looking at a resource base worth more than $5.3 trillion.

“This sizable find is now the highest-producing onshore oil field found in the past 56 years,” the Pittsburgh Post Gazette reports. It’s a formation known as the Williston Basin, but is more commonly referred to as the “Bakken.” And it stretches from Northern Montana, through North Dakota and into Canada. For years, US oil exploration has been considered a dead end. Even the “Big Oil” companies gave up searching for major oil wells decades ago. However, a recent technological breakthrough has opened up the Bakken’s massive reserves…. And we now have access of up to 500 billion barrels. And because this is light, sweet oil, those billions of barrels will cost Americans just $16 PER BARREL!

That’s enough crude to fully fuel the American economy for 2041 years straight. Did you read that correctly? NOT until the year 2041, but for over two-thousand years!

And if THAT didn’t throw you on the floor, then this next one should!

Stansberry Report Online – 4/20/2006

Hidden only 1,000 feet beneath the surface of the Rocky Mountains lies the largest untapped oil reserve in the world. It is more than 2 TRILLION barrels. On August 8, 2005 President Bush mandated its extraction. In four years of high oil prices, not a drop has been extracted. With this motherload of oil why are we still fighting over off-shore drilling?
They reported this stunning news: We have more oil inside the US borders, than all the other proven reserves on earth. Here are the official estimates:

– 8-times as much oil as Saudi Arabia
– 18-times as much oil as Iraq
– 21-times as much oil as Kuwait
– 22-times as much oil as Iran
– 500-times as much oil as Yemen
– and it’s all right here in the Western United States .

HOW can this BE? HOW can we NOT BE extracting this? Because the environmentalists and others have blocked all efforts to help America become independent of foreign oil! Again, we are letting a small group of people dictate our lives and our economy…..WHY?

Now, all you environmentalists reading this are saying, “But we can’t burn all this oil and ruin the Earth. We can’t dig here because we need to save the wild life and the natural lands this would destroy.”

I got news for you… We will be burning this oil anyway! We are just now paying other countries a LOT of money. We are helping their economy, not our own! We are sending jobs to them, not giving them to our own people who desperately need them. We are spending WAY too much at the pump instead of putting that money back into our economy for other products. Plus, how much extra oil are we burning just to transport all that oil from half-way around the world over to us? Wouldn’t it be better on the environment just to get it here?
James Bartis, lead researcher with the study says we’ve got more oil in this very compact area than the entire Middle East -more than 2 TRILLION barrels untapped. That’s more than all the proven oil reserves of crude oil in the world today, reports The Denver Post.

Don’t think OPEC will drop its price – even with this find? Think again! It’s all about the competitive marketplace. Don’t you think OPEC just might be funding the environmentalists? Don’t you think they might be stuffing some pockets in Washington? Don’t you think that it’s easier for them to make more money that way?

Got your attention yet? Hope so! Now, while you’re thinking about it …. And hopefully P-O’d, click on the email a friend below this post. Pass this information on and let’s start fighting to get our own economy going again! Let’s fight to put jobs back in America again! Let’s fight to be independent of other countries for their oil!

By the way,  this is all true. Check it out at the link below!!!
GOOGLE it or follow this link. It will blow your mind.
http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=1911

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New show in town

A stack of blank paper… $2

A full roll of tape…. $2

Two nights of quiet with two busy girls having fun… PRICELESS!

The girls have been busy the last couple days. They love doing art projects and since Holloween is coming up, they decided to make decorations. Thinking they were going to hang them around the house, I gave them the paper and let them go to town. It kept them busy for two nights from right after school almost until bed time!

Little did I know, they would be hanging them in out big bay window for the whole town to see. It’s actually really cute! They made bats, witches, pumpkins and even floating heads. They’ve filled three windows (at least up as high as they could reach). These windows face the busiest street in town and everyone that drives by gets a show!

They named all the witches “Mary”! For all you Meadow Rats, you understand why.

See the witches at the top of this next one? They’re even riding on broomsticks.

 

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Wordless Wednesday

 

“MOM”

I’ve been called “mom” for nearly 7 years now. Its been an every-day part of my life… “Mom, can I…? Mom, where’s my…? Mom, will you…?” I’ve heard it a million times and said it a million more. Its nothing new. It’s part of who I am… who I’ll always be from now on.

On Saturday while lounging around the house, Emma called me mom like she has a so many times before. I think it was the way she said it, with a more mature “big girl” tone, not a “kid” tone. For some reason I had to think about it for a minute. I did a double take as I thought, Is she talking to me? I’m “Mom” to that big girl? That sounds so weird!

What? Why was this such a shock? I don’t know what got into me. It just sounded so strange. I couldn’t believe that was me. Like I said, nearly seven years I have proudly carried this title. But for the first time, it really hit me on Saturday how old my girls where actually getting. Why did it take so long to realize this?

All of a sudden, I felt really old! Why would that one little word that I’ve been called so many times make me feel so old? It was as if it was the first time I had ever been called “Mom”. I’ve been called so many things… friend, daughter, sister, wife, boss, student, photographer, waitress, the list goes on. I’ve even been called Ma’am a time or two. Yet I’ve never felt as strange (or old) as I did with that label that was stuck on me by my own daughter.

When did it become my identity? When did I drop all those other labels and stick the “Hello, my name is MOM” sticker on my shirt? It seems like that’s all that I am these days. Don’t get me wrong, I cherish that title and I cherish the little ones that call me that every day. I would rather have that title than any other. I just can’t believe how fast it goes and how much it consumes every aspect of my life.

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Perceptive Perspective – LOVE

I’m so sad… not one of you has done my fall assignment. I can’t pick a favorite from nothing! I know some of you have told me that you would like to do it, but have not had time to set up a blog. That’s ok, it’s never too late to join in. Some others have told me that they would like to do this, but don’t have time. Trust me, it doesn’t take that much time. Just a few minutes of shooting usually gets what you need. Then a few more minutes of posting time is all it takes. Plus, just because I post my assignment on Fridays doesn’t mean you have to too! You have until the next Friday to be considered for the “my favorite” photo or any contests that I might have. You can always go back and do previous weeks as well and post those assignments, just to show off your work for fun (after all, that’s what this is all about anyway… fun). Anyway, on to the next assignment… LOVE. What a fun one. I had a family shoot about a week ago. It was a family with two little girls – a 2 year old and a 3 year old. They were so cute. I thought I would share these photos as LOVE.

Last week I got a couple people that linked their blogs into my Mister Linky, but were nothing to do with the assignment. They were just random people wanting others to look at their site. I WILL delete your link if you do that, so don’t bother! All the others actually wanting to do this assignment, fill in your link here:

Next week’s challenge… since I’m feeling off this week, let’s go with… BLUE. This can be the color blue, or the feeling blue, or a combo of the two… have fun shooting!

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“Vacancy”

This week stinks! Anyone else having a horrible week? It seems like nothing is going right. It seems like everything I touch crumbles to pieces. Everything I say hurts someone. Everything I do is wrong in some way. What’s with that?

Maybe its the weather!?!? Maybe the stars have aligned to gang up against me!?!? Maybe it’s because I forgot to take my meds one morning this week and it’s throwing me all off kilter!?!? (I haven’t done that for a while but it usually does!)

I can’t even seem to think of anything to write in my blog. I wish I had some interesting story or incite to share, but I can’t even seem to do that correctly this week. I’ve tried and tried. I’ve started writing on four different subjects and just can’t seem to keep rolling with it. My mind is as empty as my coffee cup sitting beside me. There’s a big blinking sign over my head flashing “Vacancy… room for rent!”

I wish I could fast-forward to next week… hopefully I’ll be in a better mood and in a better place! Anyone with me?

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Wordless Wednesday

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