Comments on: Thoughts on Independence Day http://bennettandbennett.com/blog/2008/07/thoughts-on-independence-day.html the tao of criminal defense trial lawyering Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:51:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: El Cucuy de la Corte http://bennettandbennett.com/blog/2008/07/thoughts-on-independence-day.html/comment-page-1#comment-3896 El Cucuy de la Corte Sat, 05 Jul 2008 20:59:27 +0000 http://bennettandbennett.com/blog/2008/07/thoughts-on-independence-day.html#comment-3896 It's always been known that alternative forms of energy have been available, albeit not fully developed from a technological standpoint and made cheap and accessible to the public. It was known during WW2 that the power of splitting atoms for a bomb was also available, but like today's potential alternative energy sources, not yet developed technologically. The Germans knew it, and we knew it. It was just a question of who would get there first. Enter the Manhattan Project. Our government gathered our best scientists and armed them with the resources and facilities to develop the atom bomb, and to do it before the Germans. What a shame that such a sense of urgency, such a national prioritization, hasn't occurred in the the quest to find non-fossil fuel based forms of energy, or at least to make fossil fuels a hell of a lot more efficient. At $144 per barrel and climbing, it seems now more than ever that we should institute a Manhattan-style project to end our addiction to having to buy oil from the very people who've proven time and again just how much ill they wish us. It’s always been known that alternative forms of energy have been available, albeit not fully developed from a technological standpoint and made cheap and accessible to the public. It was known during WW2 that the power of splitting atoms for a bomb was also available, but like today’s potential alternative energy sources, not yet developed technologically. The Germans knew it, and we knew it. It was just a question of who would get there first.

Enter the Manhattan Project. Our government gathered our best scientists and armed them with the resources and facilities to develop the atom bomb, and to do it before the Germans. What a shame that such a sense of urgency, such a national prioritization, hasn’t occurred in the the quest to find non-fossil fuel based forms of energy, or at least to make fossil fuels a hell of a lot more efficient. At $144 per barrel and climbing, it seems now more than ever that we should institute a Manhattan-style project to end our addiction to having to buy oil from the very people who’ve proven time and again just how much ill they wish us.

]]> By: david tarrell http://bennettandbennett.com/blog/2008/07/thoughts-on-independence-day.html/comment-page-1#comment-3894 david tarrell Sat, 05 Jul 2008 13:25:32 +0000 http://bennettandbennett.com/blog/2008/07/thoughts-on-independence-day.html#comment-3894 Wow. The parallels are stunning. What's even more amazing is the fact that so few people realize the stakes of our modern arguments over whether the Fourth Amendment should continue to apply and whether the Framers, whose motivations you've described, somehow created a Unitary Chief Executive, endowed with unwritten powers for unending wars, shortly after included the language you describe while declaring their independence from an all-powerful king. I also found it highly ironic to read that yesterday oil hit $144 a barrell. Several years ago I read Robert Baer's books See No Evil and Sleeping with the Devil. He described Bin Laden's vision of transferring wealth from the wealthy west to the Muslim world and how Bin Laden saw that western economies ran on Middle Eastern oil. I remember him describing Bin Laden's vision of driving the price of oil up to what several years ago seemed an unbelievable price: $144 a barrel. Looks like Osama had a happy fourth of July. Wow. The parallels are stunning. What’s even more amazing is the fact that so few people realize the stakes of our modern arguments over whether the Fourth Amendment should continue to apply and whether the Framers, whose motivations you’ve described, somehow created a Unitary Chief Executive, endowed with unwritten powers for unending wars, shortly after included the language you describe while declaring their independence from an all-powerful king.

I also found it highly ironic to read that yesterday oil hit $144 a barrell. Several years ago I read Robert Baer’s books See No Evil and Sleeping with the Devil. He described Bin Laden’s vision of transferring wealth from the wealthy west to the Muslim world and how Bin Laden saw that western economies ran on Middle Eastern oil. I remember him describing Bin Laden’s vision of driving the price of oil up to what several years ago seemed an unbelievable price: $144 a barrel.

Looks like Osama had a happy fourth of July.

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