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To: elmatador who wrote (74140)	11/22/2010 11:27:22 PM
From: Maurice Winn	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

The oil spill outcome showed that I was exactly right from day 1. It was a simple matter of physics, chemistry, meteorology and oceanography. But Gib was right in one way - I tend to mix jokes in with the serious and preferably with the jokes being half true < surely you don't stand by all your foolish statements about this oil discharge? That the oil in the water is a valuable resource for the unemployed fisherman to go around gathering up, for example. Now you'll say that was just a joke. Well, most of what you have to say is a joke, but it isn't funny enough to raise a laugh. You want to have it both ways, to entertain yourself and to be taken seriously. It doesn't work. > My joke about the floating oil being a valuable resource was actually mostly true and the fishing boats did well financially out of scooping up what they could. Now the claimants have to gamble on how to grab the most loot - accept a full and final settlement now or hope for a jackpot through courts later. There has been huge financial benefit to the people in the area with negligible environmental harm. The few poisoned pelicans will be replaced in the first nesting of the remaining pelicans which won't have such competition for resources. The fish, shrimps etc are booming. Most so-called environmentalists are really just members of a feel good club without actually understanding the various positions such as recycling, CO2 emissions, CFCs, ozone, NOX, SOX, CO, particulates etc. Environmentalism has the same temporal function as standard religions and political movements = get power, get money, get girls, get status. Al Gore with his Second Chakra was successful at getting all of them. But now he must be feeling a bit wrong-footed. He had to pay the woman and even then she wouldn't perform as he wanted, releasing his "second chakra" so he got a bit over-amorous leading to public complaints. All my life I have been an environmentalist, starting from about age 2 when corrugated iron lying around cut my foot and the other children followed the trail of blood as my father carried me home and age 3 when my father was warning me to stand back while he mixed lead oxide into the house paint because it was poisonous - which he explained to me, and on when he was forced to pay money to abandon his perfectly serviceable septic tanks and connect to the sewerage which took the sewage and after partial processing poured it into my harbour which was seething with life when I was 4 and until age 14 but was totally dead by age 25 or so, and when the large trees around us were cut down, to when we fully recycled everything in the late 1960s, and many other matters in subsequent decades. It's annoying to be lectured by wet behind the ears ignorant amateurs as though they have the holy grail when they are actually counterproductive. Mqurice