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Re: Water worries

markw — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:37:50 -0000

IF the 45 water users the judge ruled against were upstream of the farm who filed the suit then the general hydrologic basis for the ruling could be correct.

IF some of those 45 users are downstream, Then the ruling is simply wrong from a hydrologic view.

Typical NM...ALL water talk and No Hydrologic assesments or studies of the area most likely.

And, another judge who has over ridden the voters and taxpayer's State Legislators again, by ruling that the current long standing legislated law and precident is now supposedly non constitutional.

Funny thing about water, if you save it...well then 100 years later it should still be down there. Granted no one gets any real good out of it though by simply knowing the stuff is saved.

Re: Water worries

markw — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:37:50 -0000

Re: Obama pitches his economic plan to NM … via the state auditor.

markw — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 08:39:49 -0000

Perhaps simply Dropping the income tax in favor of a graduated national sales tax on everything would create a Flow Up type economy for a change.

And that happens to be what States like NM could use.

Re: Obama pitches his economic plan to NM … via the state auditor.

markw — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 08:39:49 -0000

Re: Energy debate excludes conservation

markw — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 22:36:47 -0000

DC or as some call it, "direct corp america" has had plenty of decades to focus on alternatives.

There was a pretty decent oil crisis in the 60's and the 70's also.

Perhaps the incline Up in oil prices themselves, Coupled to the "higher oil prices for muslims" stated goal of Al Quaida at that time ( say 2000 ) was a pretty decent indicator of things to come.

Since the war itself sucks up right at 8% ( all sides, all locations ) of total global oil supplies and has been doing so for 6 years now...heck there are no real suprises on oil prices.

Interesting re:, the usa, that with any mention of ANWAR, everyone goes ballistic.
Perhaps many fail to see that the mention of such has been used as an attention flanking maneauveer. Mention it, then open every every square inch of everything else on Fed Lands and drill those instead.

Finding more oil or cheaper oil is not the answer. Alternatives are.

Places like the USA are far enough behind the 8 ball now on oil, the smart move is alternatives, even if it takes a while.

In the meantime there's nothing that says the economy has to go fast ( that's the excuse we hear when we talk using less fossil fuels ).

Perhaps a slower moving system while developing alternatives on a PAID for basis is more prudent.

Re: Energy debate excludes conservation

markw — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 22:36:47 -0000

Re: No CYFD welcome home

markw — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 22:44:20 -0000

cyfd in New Mexico has been noted as being sexually biased for years now...so there are no real suprises on this deal.

Re: No CYFD welcome home

markw — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 22:44:20 -0000

cyfd in New Mexico has been noted as being sexually biased for years now...so there are no real suprises on this deal.

Re: Hidden oligarchy

markw — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:07:02 -0000

Nothing hidden at all on this.

The very statement "Trickle down" economics literally recognizes that the upper tiers ( dc's connected, corps, entities ie rulemakers ) thru their supposed infinite wisdom will be kind enough to provide an economy for the lower tiers.

Whole deal really ends up as an official "squeeze the middle" situation though, and that has gone on since the 60's actually.

Everyone in the usa worships thee Entity now. Because the Entity is always heavy money.

"trickle down" officially started with LBJ when he became pres, then got huge with Nixon. Reagan Btw, is who made the official recognition anouncement.

Every DemoPublican from the beginning thru now, actually knows no differently.

Trickle down, all aspects of it, is thee standard educational basis taught in all of our colleges.

In "trickle down" it's All about total efficiency, total polorization, total consolidation, and Total Connections ( not so much about good ideas or what even an entity knows...Moreso WHO they know ).

ALL these of course end up squeezing any supposed inefficiency Out of life in itself at times in America as a whole.

True economy is always a "flow up" system....where the money actually flows UP from Opportunity and action at the bottom tiers to the top.

To bad america lost sight of it ( much like they did in the 1910 thru 1930's frame ).

FDR btw, is the one who did get a Flow Up system established which lasted for well over 40 years...thus an opportunity for the "trickle down" deciders to bleed everything out again.

Times Change.

Re: Hidden oligarchy

markw — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:07:02 -0000

Re: Corporations buy influence and civic pride with DNC cash

markw — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:09:50 -0000

Kinda like the Super Bowl of grease.

Re: Corporations buy influence and civic pride with DNC cash

markw — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:09:50 -0000

Kinda like the Super Bowl of grease.

Re: Heather Wilson, other NM vets attack Obama on Iraq

markw — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:14:55 -0000

As if Heather is any type of expert ( more like a drip under pressure at this point ).

Iraq is Not working, as is nothing else in the mid east.

SOOO the usa needs to get home and get to alternatives...on several fronts here.

The ones that cannot see this...perhaps do not want to see it.

That simple.

Re: Heather Wilson, other NM vets attack Obama on Iraq

markw — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:14:55 -0000

Re: Bingaman, Domenici spar on energy

markw — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:32:30 -0000

DemoPublicans hind sight is certainly 20/20 on this.

Since none of em perhaps recognized the obvious market signals in the early 70's...then in the 80's and the big bump in the late 90's....hmmmm wonder why dc never noticed the obvious?

Oil is cheap enough...even today.

Heck go out say 10,000 miles, and drill a well where it's 130 degrees in the shade or 40 below zero the next season. Haul that oil to a refinery say 400 miles down sand trail roads, then get it to a convenience store in say NM for $4 + per gallon.

Seems like there's really nothing to whine about. If it's to high, simply buy less of the stuff.

Granted alternatives are out there....but it's probably easier not to use those and simply hope the oil market goes down and the good ole days ( if there really were any for most )come back.

dc as a whole might want to get on a REAL alternatives type thought process, and forget the oil market ( markets tend to take of themselves quite nicely Without govt bse).

Granted a dc miracle now simply means gas at the pumps drops to say $3.50 per gallon ( and the voters will think it's a great deal ).

2 years down the road...gas will be 7 to 10...and likely we'll see this same article, once again.

And once again, the easiest route then is to hope gas goes down then too.

Alternative use of course in america will be fully steady.. None really used or applied, once again.

Re: Bingaman, Domenici spar on energy

markw — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:32:30 -0000

Re: State engineer appeals water ruling

markw — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:53:49 -0000

Hopefully John's appeal is successfull on this.

We never have heard if the new wells were upstream or downstream of the farm who questioned this issue.

There is quite a bit of supposedly unknown water in NM.
Aquifers which been largely ignored and undeveloped mostly in the remote rural areas.

What it amounts to is over time, most of the big landowners simply aquired more land and more land, because lots of land with just a little water was cheaper and easier to use, and certainly required less knowledge and ambition than really developing water on smaller parcels.

Many big places have not had a well dug since the 40's ( the last agri good times ) and many have not dug a new well for a 100 years.

Several large acreages with all kinds of water...with those foriegn boards of directors even today will budget managers water pipeline money that cannot be utilized because what is really needed, is a well so that there is H2O to put in a pipeline to start with.

Some of em are East Coast boards of Directors...some are NM oil companies who are smart enough to drill an oil well, yet on their ranches cannot seem to figure out that drilling also works for water wells.

Re: State engineer appeals water ruling

markw — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:53:49 -0000

Re: Atrisco strikes brackish gold

markw — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 23:00:19 -0000

In approx Half of the shallow coalbed methane wells drilled in the State, that water that comes with the gas is potable ( good water ).

That good water should be left on top vs the current policy of reinjecting it down disposal wells.

Re: Atrisco strikes brackish gold

markw — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 23:00:19 -0000

Re: Get on board, Congress.

markw — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 23:20:08 -0000

It took the usa 3 years to develop the A bomb ( that was in the 40's).
Perhaps the country is sinply not as go-go as it once had to be.
More likely until anything of significance is "postured" such that a select few can all make some dough on getting that to everday use...well same ole story again.
Lot's of energy in a small pill ( referring to sentence #1.)...perhaps the key is to refine that energy and energy release for everday use in things like...vehicles.

Re: Get on board, Congress.

markw — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 23:20:08 -0000

Re: Southern NM developer stands to make millions from controversial lease

markw — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 21:53:00 -0000

Seems OK, but perhaps needs refined in the future.
Baca is correct, the State IS leaving alot on the table.

The 3rd to last paragraph states the Philippou is paid "reasonable project costs" Plus 60% of the UP.

Generally when costs are paid to a developer...the remaining deal is then 50/50.

One wonders If? this type of arrangement is offered to other developers as well ( or is it thee typical NM "clubby" type of deal? ).

THAT IS the 64 million dollar question so to speak, which really needs to be addressed.

Re: Southern NM developer stands to make millions from controversial lease

markw — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 21:53:00 -0000

Re: Southern NM developer stands to make millions from controversial lease

markw — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:34:27 -0000

Question becomes in a down RE market: What if the land only brings the original apparaisel?

Cozy as the State of NM is for "selected upper tier and clubby types"....the State likely would still pay the developer "reasonable costs", AND the people of New Mexico could end up with NO money for their land plus a bill for dough owed to a developer.

On Lyons....It's likely he forgot his original operational goals for SLO a long long long time ago.

The SLO is so side tracked with these special deals, they have forgotten their original mission.

One example is: they have well over 100,000 acres of non leased State School Trust Lands now.

I for one, have several client interested in leasing some of those for grazing...and the SLO has been very little and absolutely NO Help at all. Btw, that money supposedly goes for education on the grazing trust lands.

One thing is certain...the guy Never was a real rancher, or his office would not be treating the farmers and ranchers like they have on the afore to get State School Trust Lands leased out.

Re: Southern NM developer stands to make millions from controversial lease

markw — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:34:27 -0000

Re: EPA’s act of malpractice

markw — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 19:47:33 -0000

There are 18 other mega plants in the NM to Grand Canyon area. Desert Rock is just the next one.

Emmissions run about 1 millions tons per day total on the whole ( been going on and increasing for well over 20 years ).

Weather moves West to East in the USA. The particulate air now gets trapped on the East by the Sangre De Cristo Wall. South end of the trap is the Jemez Mountains, North Wall of the trap is the San Juan Mountains.

It's a "witches brew " as far as drouth weather climate affect for ALL of Eastern NM, Western Kansas, SE Colorado, Western Oklahoma, Texas Panhandle and West Texas.

That affect really boiled and accumulated to start in 1998 / 1999 and has been ongoing ever since.

The Interior American West now has a Heat Increase of over Double the global warming average increase and experts of course cannot seem to understand

Granted, exhaust scrubbers installed to 125% of burn capacity and USED would clean up all these plants ( the 4 to 5 tons of Mercury that has been emmitted now annually for 25 years is affecting the major watersheds which are the Rio Grande and the Colorado River.

Some of the plants do have scrubbers.

The plants in the area tend to continually exceed their burn capacity, so the flues generally run opened ( which bypasses scrubbers ) and it's strait brown cloud exhaust to the atmosphere.

Perhaps as long as energy is viewed as being cheaper to produce in the afore manner, that may defray the $5 billion in drouth subsidies spent annually now and cleaning up the mess later.

( this mercury in the water thing affects a huge population area, because the 2 rivers in question water the whole Southwest and a bunch of Texas and Mexico too ).

One thing is for sure, out West now Americans get to see the Air now and not much scenery.

And as far as the Navajo "crock of crap " that they love Mother Earth? Heck it's their coal that feeds the whole deal.

If they really cared, they could cut off the coal until scrubbers were installed and used properly on the whole.

Face it, the mega plant operators would then have No other choice but to "clean it up " or simply sit idle.

Typical deal...All about money, all the way around ( and the invisible middle that got squeezed is now perfectly visible ).

Re: EPA’s act of malpractice

markw — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 19:47:33 -0000

Re: State will challenge EPA’s air quality permit for Desert Rock coal-fired plant

markw — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 23:04:21 -0000

Huge "Dome of Doom."
Is a fair description for the NM / AZ heat trap affect on the bad air from the existing 18 mega power plants at the Sangre De Cristo wall, Jemez on the S and San Juans on the N.

Re: State will challenge EPA’s air quality permit for Desert Rock coal-fired plant

markw — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 23:04:21 -0000

Huge "Dome of Doom."
Is a fair description for the NM / AZ heat trap affect on the bad air from the existing 18 mega power plants at the Sangre De Cristo wall, Jemez on the S and San Juans on the N.

Re: New voter shortage

markw — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 23:17:38 -0000

Real Picky, Real Technical is how registering new voters works in most locals.
Btw, many new voters would register...if they were not made to feel like a criminal by the cynics and the process of said.

Then there is the electorate process itself...when 51 people in an area vote Repub and 50 vote Demo...That Electorate Official IS a Repub vote for the National election.

Many electorate areas in the USA have Never changed...those electorate officials are always either Demo from an area or Repub from another area.

Thus most Youth in the usa views it such that: 1 individual vote means nothing. And they are correct too.

Soo it's alot like a supposed democracy and not the real deal anyway to most.

To get players to a game, it has to be a REAL game. That simple.

Re: New voter shortage

markw — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 23:17:38 -0000

Re: We need a truth squad

markw — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 23:33:35 -0000

Basically a truth squad needs to select Credible Sources then the Truth takes care of itself.

We live in a country that literally does not know the meanings of the words of their own language ( most everything is a slant spin from a source which has a Profit Motive ). They will make the sky "whatever color sells" one day and the next day change the color for...the next sale.

The Truth Squad..simply need to LIST or make public Credible sources.

The truth on McCain AND Obama on Energy...is that Niether of em have done squat on the issue in the past.

BOTH were in positons of power in dc such that they could have.

In a blameless society one blames the other, and the other blames the next one...All of course with 20/20 hindsight. The dc club has this type of modus operandi Perfected..and that IS thee Truth.

Those Credible sources of course selected on their ability to Objectively report ie news, events etc.

Re: We need a truth squad

markw — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 23:33:35 -0000

Re: Groups gather to protest gas prices, mock oil executives

markw — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 23:38:10 -0000

Perhaps it does not matter so much what they are all saying.
The main thing is that they are all talking.

Re: Groups gather to protest gas prices, mock oil executives

markw — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 23:38:10 -0000

Perhaps it does not matter so much what they are all saying.
The main thing is that they are all talking.

Re: New Mexicans drove less in May

markw — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 23:44:58 -0000

NM show a big enough drop they will all be walking, riding horses or bikes by next May 2/3 less is alot less, ie 520 million miles NET less is the diff from 777 down to 257.

On the rest of the States...those 2 to 4.8% drops are not much considering the price increase from last year. Evidently money is not an object to most regarding gas consumption.

Re: New Mexicans drove less in May

markw — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 23:44:58 -0000

Re: The Sarah Palin I knew

markw — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 08:01:57 -0000

To bad she is not the VP choice of Obama. Then we would have a WHOLE ticket with fresh ideas in the oval office.

As things currently are, McCain is old club so to speak, as is Biden.

Therefore nothing really changes no matter which ticket gets elected in 08...Again.

The usa is viewed as a demopublican trickle down hierarchy by most worldwide due to the obvious.

Re: The Sarah Palin I knew

markw — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 08:01:57 -0000

Re: T. Boone Pickens hobnobbing with environmentalists?

markw — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 08:11:18 -0000

More likely the usa govt has made so many BAD "follow the money club" decisions that guys like Boone who are on the front end, simply see that the deal has been sold down river so to speak thus has caused a Huge decline in supposed asset values.

More interesting though, is Not the Mid East imbalance and sellout of america...but moreso the asian sellout.

To bad we are not smart enough to give most of that business to say Mexico and South America.

Re: T. Boone Pickens hobnobbing with environmentalists?

markw — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 08:11:18 -0000

Re: Kawcznyski Irony

markw — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 04:37:00 -0000

Incidentally if you have ever worked as an intern for Daniel Kawczynski (or any other MP) and would like to get paid foir the work you did then I may be able to help...

http://tvwatercooler.proboards62.com/index.cgi?board=sweat

Go to the above site, send me a private message and I'll see what I can do!

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