In just arriving on I try to get to those after I post something and this is the most sensational utube that I have seen. Doug has been a great freind for several years and although Easter is now past. I found there was depth within what he posted before Easter had come. One does have to play it all the way through as there is is much within this. I truly is sensational to read and listen to and where Doug got this I have no clue but it's Amazing!
For Easter, it was a nice day taken all into consideration. They said the town is closed down aside of churches – one thing is - this town does very well come to a complete or nearly silent place. There were predictions of snow over last night yet it never arrived here. Mind you, it was cool and windy. When you look outside and then dress according to what you see – it’s a surprise once you’re out there and realize that although there may not be any snow – it’s windy and cool. I fiddled with this Samsung Smart Phone or I Phone, I cannot say I have an eye for it perfectly nor am I the smartest in setting up these smart applications. I could be that I don’t have an eye or the smarts yet it is fun. I tried to type in addresses and phone numbers and here I had launched some multimedia joke of the day. Yet on the touch pad, I have yet to find it as the screen moves horizontally and vertically and that is a mind trip.
Everyplace was closed for business. The last time I remember everything being closed was when I was 17 in a town 4 times larger at a population of 13,000 thousand and nearly everything was closed in observance of Easter. However, today this place felt like it was frozen in time. I will admit that I love the weekends within a city where one can take in museums, theatre, and so much more but as for the weekdays I don’t mind small towns at all. That all said I literally walked around town. I have never seen it where nearly everything shuts down.
I must have made ten calls, which included, family, friends in Saskatchewan, Alberta, Florida, and New York. My last call was with my older brother Blaine and we talked for half an hour. We got into a discussion on the revival of so many music groups. I can’t say I had attended any masses. As it has, has nothing to do with religion. I believe that one can have a faith without a necessity of attending church. An old veteran lives across the street. I came to know him while we had a winter storm back one month ago and I offered to shovel his driveway. I had not spoke nor seen him for the last two weeks so I went over and spoke with him and his wife for twenty minutes and then I was off to the sky trail - just to take it in. I had a pleasant conversation with him and then took off for late afternoon walk.
I placed a picture here, which I took within the afternoon,
it’s starting to get warmer in a gradual manner.
Yet when one is out there, I can understand why the natives or aboriginal people
came to render the lands as apart of their religion as there is a connection or centeredness
when you are taking that time out and taking it all in.
Its' as simple as this, Canada has oil, the U.S. needs oil. You’d think it would be easy from there.
On Friday the U.S. President released a formal finding that there was enough available oil in the world to allow western countries to mount a boycott of Iranian oil, as a means of dissuading Tehran from pursuing its nuclear ambitions. It was a crucial ruling and a close-run thing. If western countries truly desire to place the squeeze on Iran’s ruling parties, as they have repeatedly said you would think in turn they would be able to make the decision to cut off from the accepted oil exports from Iran. Yet not the case. The manner I see this is a very mishandled campaign could just push prices higher, which in turn helps Tehran more than it would hurt. On the other hand, it could lead to a slowdown in the West just as the U.S. appears to be crawling out of its recession. The decision depends to a large degree on an assessment of Saudi Arabia’s ability to make up for displaced Iranian oil. The White House believes the Saudis have the capacity, yet no one really is sure of that. Here is Obama, racking his brain for a way out of the country’s persistent oil dilemma, and next to him is Stephen Harper, who’s dripping in the stuff and eager to sell.
· Harper: Mr. President, can we discuss the Keystone XL pipeline issue for a moment?
· Obama: Not now Stephen, if you don’t mind. I have to figure out this oil supply mess.
The pipeline decision was delayed until after the presidential election so Obama wouldn’t have to offend his environmental supporters while he seeks re-election. Leaders make decisions and I feel that one that I admire has pulled a whammy. None of the excuses offered for the delay holds water. The chosen route for the project through a valuable aquifer was no great threat, the project had passed crucial safety tests, and the area is already criss crossed by a large network of other pipelines. It was all about politics. However, the result of the decisions is the quandary now facing the president is that the U.S. needs oil one way or another. Whatever the long-range attractions of reducing dependency on fossil fuels, the world is not going to switch to befouls and solar power overnight and a secure supply of oil will remain crucial for decades to come. The source of that fuel is critical to the U.S. The problem with Iran exemplifies and demonstrates that within the absence of a friendly, secure, reliable supplier. Washington is forced to look to places like Saudi Arabia. After Canada and Mexico, the top suppliers to the U.S. are Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, Nigeria, Angola, and Iraq. Coupled to that is not one real democracy in the lot, all of them with serious political and stability issues. In addition, none of them right next door.
Canada, on the other hand, is just across the border, is a close friend and ally of the U.S., and is both ready and eager to ensure a reliable increase in supply. However, Washington’s willingness to play games with the Keystone project has only served to increase Ottawa’s awareness of the need to find other customers. As Prime Minister Harper stated, “Look, I’m a strong and firm believer in the economic importance of our relationship, the security importance, and the importance of the United States and the world.” Harper told an audience at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. “But we cannot take this to the point where we are creating risk and significant economic penalty to the Canadian economy.” And to not diversify to Asia, when Asia is a growing part of the world, just simply makes no sense.” Prime Minister Harper noted that in years past Canada has been willing to tie itself to the U.S. market. However, the Keystone decision demonstrated the danger of this in two ways: the price of Canadian oil suffers because Canada is seen as a “captive supplier” to the U.S. and Canada’s economic health is put in jeopardy by the fact that the U.S. could some day stop importing the oil. Unfortunately, Obama could have avoided all this by accepting the self-evident benefit to the U.S. of getting Keystone built as quickly as possible. Instead, he has to juggle Saudi capacity against Iranian sanctions, and the long-term implications of a risky sanctions plan that could blow up in the face of its supporters.
Relying on his friends in Canada would have been so much easier, but rather the price of a campaign is much more important – yet they don’t mention this within the news. I find that there is an injustice which is kept hidden underground (pardon the pun). So often and meanwhile what has hit the papers is sanctions on Iran just which is off the press, go figure.
A picture can mean more than a thousand words. As within a picture, there are the captures, which much like a painter. Within my experience with some people which I have only known within a picture club online it’s a area which one can come to know another in what they do take pictures of as well as there are those times which you do come to understand the person behind the lens. These pictures are not that of my own they are from a friend, which had sent them to me. I thought I would share them.
As each one of these, do go beyond words.
