Today I sent a rant to one of my old military friends, a Democrat. I asked him why President Obama was so bad. He has shown no effective leadership. He has dragged us deeper and deeper into debt. Yes, others created debt too but he has more than doubled all others in that category.
And he shoveled out the money his union cronies and the like. Shovel Ready as he personally said, "Was not so shovel ready after all." He literally pissed the money away.
He spent two years brow beating congress into passing Obamacare. He had to pay off several Senators to get it through. And now it has been declared by both constitutional and unconstitutional by Federal Judges. It is own its way to the Supreme Court and hopefully will die an indecent death.
He had stopped the border fence, his Department of Justice (DOJ) via the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms (BATF) has been caught up in a scandal of selling arms to Mexican gangs just to prove such things happen. Well duh?. The same DOJ has been caught up in voter fraud scandal. The same DOJ attach Arizona's effort to control illegal immigration. The Transportation Security Authority (TSA) has been caught searching young female children and old ladies. How stupid can we get? The border is on fire and he does little or nothing about it. We got to get thses illegal immigrants out before they over run us.
He tried to close Gitmo and fortunately, Congress intervened. Nobody wants those scum bags in their states. Nobody want some crazy Federal Judge turning them loose in the US. Sanity prevailed and Gitmo continues, thank God.
He has dragged into yet another war. He lambastes for Iraq and Afghanistan but has pushed us into Libya. He does it by excuse, somebody else is prosecuting the war but with our money and our jets and our munitions being used up. He can not face up to reality.
When are we going to act. I am not against Democrats but this man is a progressive, not really a Democrat. He wants change and he wants fairness. Let me define that for you, he wants to take from the those that make and waste it on those that are non-productive. It is not so much a redistribution of wealth as it is buying off the mob, the masses, the proletariat. It is socialism at its worst.
We need to return to sanity. We need to cut government. We need to get EPA under control. We need to disband the Department of Education. We need to cut government salaries. We need to face reality!
Thursday, August 11, 2011
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
I Passed the Test!
I had an Echo-Cardiogram Stress Test today. And I passed it with no trouble.
First, I was "wired" for an EKG. Not your normal EKG, I had 10 sensors hooked up. Then the nurse took my blood pressure. I was connected to a Quiton Q-Stress tester and I could see the heart pulses and pulse rate displayed. The METs, a measure of heart/lung performance was 4.6 resting. Later under stress that went up to 7.0.
Then I had to lay on the examining table/cot and while still wired up had an extensive Echo Gram looking for aneurysms, etc. The nurse complained that I had too much air in my stomach, and the machine had a hard time "looking" through air. I was asked if I ate breakfast and I replied, "I never eat breakfast, but did have a couple of cups of coffee."
We moved on with me on my left side so she could look at the heart. Every once in a while I could hear the sound of blood flow out of the heart. Sort of a growl but occuring at the rate of the pulse. Interesting but of no value to me.
Then came the stress test. The Cardiologist, a nurse and the technician were all present. The nurse took my Blood Pressure and I began "walking" on the treadmill. Did that for six minutes. And at several tread mill levels. The result was "fair to normal." It was not as steep as my morning walk but at a faster pace, 2.5 miles per hour. So I guess there is a trade off in there somewhere.
After the stress test and during the recovery, heavy breathing on my part, another heart echo-gram was conducted. Took about 3 or so minutes for my heart rate to decline along with my breathing and Blood Pressure.
So I passed.
And the Cardiologist said there were no blockages. He also said the Naisapam I was taking did not do much for blockages, not as much as they expected it to. But that it was super stuff for Cholrestorol treatment, so keep taking it and all the meds I was taking. And to keep doing my morning walks. He also said there are no guarantees and that things looked good but you can never tell. I take that as a self protection against an unusual cardiac event.
The final was, "See you next year." So for now on, I get an annual stress test.
The goal is to continue to pass tests.
First, I was "wired" for an EKG. Not your normal EKG, I had 10 sensors hooked up. Then the nurse took my blood pressure. I was connected to a Quiton Q-Stress tester and I could see the heart pulses and pulse rate displayed. The METs, a measure of heart/lung performance was 4.6 resting. Later under stress that went up to 7.0.
Then I had to lay on the examining table/cot and while still wired up had an extensive Echo Gram looking for aneurysms, etc. The nurse complained that I had too much air in my stomach, and the machine had a hard time "looking" through air. I was asked if I ate breakfast and I replied, "I never eat breakfast, but did have a couple of cups of coffee."
We moved on with me on my left side so she could look at the heart. Every once in a while I could hear the sound of blood flow out of the heart. Sort of a growl but occuring at the rate of the pulse. Interesting but of no value to me.
Then came the stress test. The Cardiologist, a nurse and the technician were all present. The nurse took my Blood Pressure and I began "walking" on the treadmill. Did that for six minutes. And at several tread mill levels. The result was "fair to normal." It was not as steep as my morning walk but at a faster pace, 2.5 miles per hour. So I guess there is a trade off in there somewhere.
After the stress test and during the recovery, heavy breathing on my part, another heart echo-gram was conducted. Took about 3 or so minutes for my heart rate to decline along with my breathing and Blood Pressure.
So I passed.
And the Cardiologist said there were no blockages. He also said the Naisapam I was taking did not do much for blockages, not as much as they expected it to. But that it was super stuff for Cholrestorol treatment, so keep taking it and all the meds I was taking. And to keep doing my morning walks. He also said there are no guarantees and that things looked good but you can never tell. I take that as a self protection against an unusual cardiac event.
The final was, "See you next year." So for now on, I get an annual stress test.
The goal is to continue to pass tests.
Saturday, August 6, 2011
Edwards Shelf Edge . . .
The Edwards Shelf Edge is the geological formation that seems to have all the oil in it. A shelf is an ancient beach so to speak. And just like a real current day beach it has gaps, and places where streams cut through it, etc.. When something cuts through the shelf it is bad news, where it does not cut through is good news.
The original False River Field Alma #1 gas well, the big discovery back in the late 1970s, early 1980s is now defined as the beginning of the Edwards Shelf Dip, or where it falls off so to speak. Alma #1 is capped off now, no longer producing anything. But it spawn the infamous Judge Digby Field which lies under Parlange Plantation and the adjacent Wortell holdings. There must be 15 or 20 wells drilled into that bonanza, not all are active but still generating a lot of gas. At one time that was the top producer on land in Louisiana. It does not do as well now days but still a winner. It has been producing since 1980, that's over 30 years now.
The Edwards Shelf is part of the Austin Chalk deal as is the Tuscaloosa Marine Shale. They are down there quite a distance, like a little over three miles or so. Given that the elevation of Pointe Coupee probably averages about 35 feet above sea level that is pretty deep. That means a lot of problems to drill and very expensive. Ergo, the price of oil has to be around a hundred dollars a barrel.
Some folks draw the Edwards Shelf on a map about in the Mississippi River in front of Angeles Plantation. Others show it further north well into the West Feliciana Parish. Only the experts know, the new technology includes three dimensional seismic plots. We of course have no access to that closely held data. But then why is Angeles Planraron being leased ahead of others in our area, eh? Don't get your false hopes up.
There are wells around Angeles, one on the back of LaBarre, one on the LaCour place both considered to be in the Morganza Field. And at one time the Wilbert well on the back of Stonewall, had a tiny corner into Angeles and the family got a lot of money for a while. That well played out in a year or so. Makes you wonder if it is worth reworking. They did that to the LaBarre well and it started producing again.
Our lease includes the Tuscaloosa Trend, a greater royalty involved. So I guess there is some potential that they will go for the Tuscaloosa Trend vice the Austin Chalk. Who knows what they will do.
The way the geology is in east Texas is Austin Chalk, Eagle Ford (that is very hot play in Texas), Tuscaloosa Marine Shale (TMS) and finally Tuscaloosa Trend. TMS is the hot play in the Felicianas across to Tangipahoa Parish. The TMS generally follows the Louisiana Mississippi State line with some very nice wells in Mississippi. There is a new field name Ethel (one says e Thel not Ethel as on I Love Lucy) over in East Feliciana. As the crow flies that is about 15 or so miles ENE of New Roads, a little past and below Jackson, LA.
Well you never know where lightening will strike, perhaps we will hit it this time around.
The original False River Field Alma #1 gas well, the big discovery back in the late 1970s, early 1980s is now defined as the beginning of the Edwards Shelf Dip, or where it falls off so to speak. Alma #1 is capped off now, no longer producing anything. But it spawn the infamous Judge Digby Field which lies under Parlange Plantation and the adjacent Wortell holdings. There must be 15 or 20 wells drilled into that bonanza, not all are active but still generating a lot of gas. At one time that was the top producer on land in Louisiana. It does not do as well now days but still a winner. It has been producing since 1980, that's over 30 years now.
The Edwards Shelf is part of the Austin Chalk deal as is the Tuscaloosa Marine Shale. They are down there quite a distance, like a little over three miles or so. Given that the elevation of Pointe Coupee probably averages about 35 feet above sea level that is pretty deep. That means a lot of problems to drill and very expensive. Ergo, the price of oil has to be around a hundred dollars a barrel.
Some folks draw the Edwards Shelf on a map about in the Mississippi River in front of Angeles Plantation. Others show it further north well into the West Feliciana Parish. Only the experts know, the new technology includes three dimensional seismic plots. We of course have no access to that closely held data. But then why is Angeles Planraron being leased ahead of others in our area, eh? Don't get your false hopes up.
There are wells around Angeles, one on the back of LaBarre, one on the LaCour place both considered to be in the Morganza Field. And at one time the Wilbert well on the back of Stonewall, had a tiny corner into Angeles and the family got a lot of money for a while. That well played out in a year or so. Makes you wonder if it is worth reworking. They did that to the LaBarre well and it started producing again.
Our lease includes the Tuscaloosa Trend, a greater royalty involved. So I guess there is some potential that they will go for the Tuscaloosa Trend vice the Austin Chalk. Who knows what they will do.
The way the geology is in east Texas is Austin Chalk, Eagle Ford (that is very hot play in Texas), Tuscaloosa Marine Shale (TMS) and finally Tuscaloosa Trend. TMS is the hot play in the Felicianas across to Tangipahoa Parish. The TMS generally follows the Louisiana Mississippi State line with some very nice wells in Mississippi. There is a new field name Ethel (one says e Thel not Ethel as on I Love Lucy) over in East Feliciana. As the crow flies that is about 15 or so miles ENE of New Roads, a little past and below Jackson, LA.
Well you never know where lightening will strike, perhaps we will hit it this time around.
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