on the way out

[solarbird]

My carrots have sprouted. A whole little row of them, peeking up out of the dirt. It's neat. Hopefully they'll do better than last fall's November planting, which was too late, in the old planter's soil before I rebuilt anything, and generally too late in the year anyway, but the seeds I'd been given were going to expire anyway so hey, why not?

I expect this year will do better, even if I didn't give the soil as much settling time as I should've. Such is the life of those running eternally late.

Meanwhile, here are three important news stories for your entertainment!

The Washington Post calls this a "compromise," I call it "a complete surrender and betrayal of the Constitution": Arlen Spector introduces bill allowing warrentless surveillance and providing blanket amnesty for anyone who may have engaged in unconstitutional warrantless spying during the Bush administration. This is, of course, in and of itself, unconstitutional. But that stops no one, clearly.

World energy demand growth picking back up again, as consumers get used to higher prices; apparently most of the slowing in growth has been more sticker-shock than anything else. Of course, these are projections, how it comes out will be seen.

Railroads are ramping up: One project to boost coal shipments is the proposal by Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad to ship Wyoming coal east through South Dakota and Minnesota. If constructed, the DM&E project would be the largest railroad construction project in the United States in 100 years.

Comments

[jessie-c.livejournal.com]

World enemy demand growth picking back up again

That's because shrub is running out of Bad Guys to scare the electorate?

[solarbird]

um... well... that's certainly not what I'd read out of the situation. I'd suggest that it has a lot more to do with American drivers deciding not to care about $3.xx gas (c.f. my earlier post about not seeing significant changes until $6.xx/gallon, modulo the inevitable recession) and China and India successfully negotiating locked-in contracts for oil from central asian countries they can get to far more easily than we'll ever be able to.

Of course, GM subsidising gasoline for their customers (!! worst idea ever !!) isn't helping the US picture any, but hey, if you're going to be mindrendingly stupid, why not go all out? (Ford is, I've heard, following that lead.)

[jessie-c.livejournal.com]

I know you were talking about energy demand, but the typo read "enemy demand"

[kathrynt.livejournal.com]

What does "world enemy demand growth" even mean?

[solarbird]

AH. I see. It means I typed the wrong word. Fixed.

[kathrynt.livejournal.com]

Oh that makes more sense.

I was all ". . . I know what all those words mean, but I've never seen them in that order before!"