My wife, Peggy, and I each have a painting in the Fiesta Sonoran 2008 now showing at the Desert Museum near Tucson. It is a wonderful show, well worth seeing. Mine is called Salt River Soliloquy and hers is titled Sonoran Moonrise. Check them out. The Salt River is a little stream north of Mesa, Arizona. The moon rise was over our back fence in Oro Valley.
We will have paintings in the Southern Arizona Watercolor Society annual show at the Jewish Community mid October. The show theme is Explorations in color.
My book on alternative energy is coming along well. I hope to have it finished sometime next month.
Doppelganger
www.greenestudiosoftucson.com
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Monday, August 18, 2008
T. Boone Pickens and wind energy
OK, so I haven't been very active as a blogger of late. It's T. Boone Pickens fault. He has these ads on TV about how he's going to build a bunch of wind farms. It got my juices flowing and I decided to investigate alternative energy sources. That got me to thinking about writing a book about my findings. So I've been spending my time writing a book on alternative energy. Maybe I'll start posting it on this site. People need to wake up to what the current administration and the oil companies have done to this country by keeping us addicted to cheap oil, not to mention getting us into the quagmire of Iraq. The only ones who have won the war in Iraq are the oil companies. They are gobbling up leases there like crazy.
Any way, stay tuned and maybe my book will start showing up here. It might even be a downloadable e-book.
Any way, stay tuned and maybe my book will start showing up here. It might even be a downloadable e-book.
Friday, July 18, 2008
T.Boone Pickens
Is it T. Boone or Tee Bone Pickens? By financing the Swift Boat attackers of John Kerry, Pickens did a great disservice to this country, promoting Dubya for President, a prime candidate for our worst President ever. His stance on more issues than I care to iterate here, including torture, loss of privacy, stem cell research, etc., etc., etc., makes me shudder every time I think about him.
But wait. Tee Boone is finally doing something good for this country. Maybe he'll end up, not just a fat cat who doesn't give a damn about the country or anything else besides his enormous wealth, but as someone who did love his country after all. He is an oil man, you know. Cut from the same cloth as "Haliburton Darth" Cheney and Dubya. Surely he isn't just thinking of cornering the wind market, is he?
What he is doing is investing large sums in wind energy in Texas and that part of the country called the wind belt. That has to be good for the country. He proposes to turn Texas into the wind generating capital of the world. Has our fearless leader ever done anything as significant? People who are richer than God got their money from selling things to us schmucks like gasoline (T. Boone), software (Bill Gates) or insurance (Warren Buffet). It's completely appropriate that they give a little back. How many fancy mansions or huge yachts can one truly enjoy in a lifetime? The philanthropic endeavrs of the three men mentioned above are refreshing to say the least.
Keep it up guys.
But wait. Tee Boone is finally doing something good for this country. Maybe he'll end up, not just a fat cat who doesn't give a damn about the country or anything else besides his enormous wealth, but as someone who did love his country after all. He is an oil man, you know. Cut from the same cloth as "Haliburton Darth" Cheney and Dubya. Surely he isn't just thinking of cornering the wind market, is he?
What he is doing is investing large sums in wind energy in Texas and that part of the country called the wind belt. That has to be good for the country. He proposes to turn Texas into the wind generating capital of the world. Has our fearless leader ever done anything as significant? People who are richer than God got their money from selling things to us schmucks like gasoline (T. Boone), software (Bill Gates) or insurance (Warren Buffet). It's completely appropriate that they give a little back. How many fancy mansions or huge yachts can one truly enjoy in a lifetime? The philanthropic endeavrs of the three men mentioned above are refreshing to say the least.
Keep it up guys.
Sunday, June 22, 2008
Swift Boat B.S.
It's with some pleasure that I read in this morning's paper that the people who served with John Kerry are going after T.Boone Pickens. As you may recall he is the Billionaire Texan who financed the Swift Boat attacks against Kerry in the 2004 attack advertisements alleging he made up all the stuff for which he received a medal.
Pickins, which I shall refer to Slim, as in slim to none, regarding intelligence, morals and integrity, offered a million bucks to anyone that could prove his nefarious accusations wrong. Then men who served with Kerry offered their versions of events and Kerr offered to meet slim. Slim keept upping the ante saying that Kerry would have to submit his military record, the journal he kept in Vietnam, and movies and tapes made during his tour of duty. Then upping the ante again, Slim stated Kerry, if unable to disprove his Slim's lies, would have to donate a million bucks to the Medal of Honor Foundation. He added the condition that he referred only to disproving the ads.
Kerry's comrades put together a 42 page document in support of Kerry demanding that Slim apologize to Kerry and the American public. Slim said that he suddenly would not participate in partisan politics this presidential cycle. He could not be reached for comment. The presumption is he is hiding in a bunker somewhere with "Dead eye Darth" Cheney who is hiding out to avoid impeachment for all of his misdeeds.
It's a good thing, Slim's not participating in the political process, because he is a big mouth, destroyer of corporations and robber baron who has no business in mucking about the Democratic process of electing a president. For God's sake look what he got us, the village idiot of Crawford, Texas. One can't help but wonder what the world would look like without Dubya.
Pickins, which I shall refer to Slim, as in slim to none, regarding intelligence, morals and integrity, offered a million bucks to anyone that could prove his nefarious accusations wrong. Then men who served with Kerry offered their versions of events and Kerr offered to meet slim. Slim keept upping the ante saying that Kerry would have to submit his military record, the journal he kept in Vietnam, and movies and tapes made during his tour of duty. Then upping the ante again, Slim stated Kerry, if unable to disprove his Slim's lies, would have to donate a million bucks to the Medal of Honor Foundation. He added the condition that he referred only to disproving the ads.
Kerry's comrades put together a 42 page document in support of Kerry demanding that Slim apologize to Kerry and the American public. Slim said that he suddenly would not participate in partisan politics this presidential cycle. He could not be reached for comment. The presumption is he is hiding in a bunker somewhere with "Dead eye Darth" Cheney who is hiding out to avoid impeachment for all of his misdeeds.
It's a good thing, Slim's not participating in the political process, because he is a big mouth, destroyer of corporations and robber baron who has no business in mucking about the Democratic process of electing a president. For God's sake look what he got us, the village idiot of Crawford, Texas. One can't help but wonder what the world would look like without Dubya.
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Hillary out? Well not exactly.
Hillary may not be out of the game just yet. It was reported today that she made Obama's short list for VP. She could still be a force in the administration and personally I feel that Obama needs her. The other names I've heard mentioned don't have anywhere near the name recognition and probably couldn't pull the women like Hillary can. I think it would be a strong ticket. The Dems need to pull together and that would be a solid way to do it.
It scares me to think that George W. McCain could cast doubt on Obama because of his inexperience. My God, what experience do Lil' Bush have coming in in 2000. He was way, way over his head. It will be an interesting election, to say the least.
It scares me to think that George W. McCain could cast doubt on Obama because of his inexperience. My God, what experience do Lil' Bush have coming in in 2000. He was way, way over his head. It will be an interesting election, to say the least.
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Hillary Out
Hillary is out of the race. I have mixed feelings. This is a special time in this country when both a woman and a black...come on, he isn't really black...more on that later...running for president of this country. I think it is a great thing. We've come a long way since the days of slavery. Obama has gotten a lot of people excited about voting that never thought they could make a difference. And it has been a long time for women, too. Bless those ladies. Todays women are smart as a whip and can do just about anything a man can do, even more. They are fighting and dieing in Iraq and I've seen them in every walk of life doing it all.
Barak is a black? Well half black. But that describes many of our blacks. Slave owners...how about Thomas Jefferson... impregnated many black slaves. It was only our biggoted society that decreed that a person with only a few drops of black blood were black. Enought already. Lets move on. If you believe scientists, and I do, we pretty much all came from Africa. And what a magnificent continent that is. OK, they have lots of problems. We all do. Let's hope Mr. Obama can get us out of the horrific corruption and ineptitude that was the Bush administration.
ore power to him and his supporters.
Barak is a black? Well half black. But that describes many of our blacks. Slave owners...how about Thomas Jefferson... impregnated many black slaves. It was only our biggoted society that decreed that a person with only a few drops of black blood were black. Enought already. Lets move on. If you believe scientists, and I do, we pretty much all came from Africa. And what a magnificent continent that is. OK, they have lots of problems. We all do. Let's hope Mr. Obama can get us out of the horrific corruption and ineptitude that was the Bush administration.
ore power to him and his supporters.
Sunday, June 1, 2008
Bush Addresses College Grads
Here's a news flash that sets my hair on fire. Dubya urged the grads at Furman University to 'Be responsible and accountable to both themselves and the nation."
He needs to explain how his administration was being responsible and accountable when he took us to war on false pretenses, resulting in over 4,000 American soldiers being killed or sending them to Iraq with sub-standard equipment? Is it being responsible when everytime a new bill is passed by Congress he writes a "signing paper" saying he reserves the right to ignore it? Was he being accountable when his Vice President and his aids, Karl Rove and Scooter Libbey outed a secret agent for political reasons saying that whom ever was involved would be sumarily fired, then raising the bar to "whom ever was indighted"? Was it being responsible to put incompetents in charge of FEMA and largely ignore the people of New Orleans, or by putting them in trailers that make them sick. Is it being responsible largely ignoring our dependency on foreign oil and not developing an energy policy that would alieviate the problem. Was it respsonsible ignoring global warming and not signing the Kyoto treaty. How about not joining the ban on cluster bombs or land mines that kill many civilians in many countries every day.
Please, Mr. President, don't lecture us or our graduates on being responsible or accountable.
He needs to explain how his administration was being responsible and accountable when he took us to war on false pretenses, resulting in over 4,000 American soldiers being killed or sending them to Iraq with sub-standard equipment? Is it being responsible when everytime a new bill is passed by Congress he writes a "signing paper" saying he reserves the right to ignore it? Was he being accountable when his Vice President and his aids, Karl Rove and Scooter Libbey outed a secret agent for political reasons saying that whom ever was involved would be sumarily fired, then raising the bar to "whom ever was indighted"? Was it being responsible to put incompetents in charge of FEMA and largely ignore the people of New Orleans, or by putting them in trailers that make them sick. Is it being responsible largely ignoring our dependency on foreign oil and not developing an energy policy that would alieviate the problem. Was it respsonsible ignoring global warming and not signing the Kyoto treaty. How about not joining the ban on cluster bombs or land mines that kill many civilians in many countries every day.
Please, Mr. President, don't lecture us or our graduates on being responsible or accountable.
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