Neanderpundit

BP Amoco is going to take big tankers of sludge, back them up to the water’s edge, and start dumping the shit there. Right?

WRONG! Jesus, NOBODY would do that. That is certainly what the press would have you believe, but none of it is true. Here’s what ACTUALLY happens.

Refining uses/requires water for cooling of the refining process. Heat exchangers run water on one side, refined product on the other side, the refined product gives up it’s heat to the water, and the warmed water is poured back into the lake. It’s mixed with cool water so it doesn’t thermally shock the water at the vent.

Sometimes, a pinhole rusts through (lake water is not kind to plumbing) and some product gets mingled with the water. Sometimes it’s just the gasket dressing that causes the contamination. Sometimes the gasket itself. At any rate, it would require a facility as large as the refining facility to filter this tiny amount of contaminant out of the water.

let’s put this in perspective.

You are careful about your vehicle. You change the oil on a regular basis. You’re concerned about the environment so you take your oil in for recycling. When you’re done with the oil change, you wash your hands. The oil on your hands goes down the drain. Twenty other people in your neighborhood do the same. Now, you’ve polluted, on that day, about the same as BP. What will you do about that?

Nobody wants to see any body of water polluted. Trust me, I grew up on a lake so polluted it used to burn. I’m a fisherman and a hunter, and I like to see nature pristine and clean.

But I’m not an idiot. I understand how manufacturing works, and if the EPA says it’s ok, they’re the most restrictive agency on the damned planet, so it’s got to be better than good. Get real.

Having only recently discovered that the proton pump inhibitors I take can cause vitamin B-12 deficiency, which causes numbness in the hands and feet, I figured I’d stock up on some B12 and B6 to see if this would help, while they were on sale. I have had some luck in the past, so I figured why not try again.

So I open the jar in the car driving to rockford today, and proceed to spill the damned thing on the floor, open, so a couple dozen tabs fell on the floor and a solid half dozen directly into my shoe.

I don’t think they help when applied that way.

Kim and Chris are talking about the year they graduated HS. My year was 1977.

Lots of crappy damned music that year. A couple good songs, too.

ELO- Telephone line.
Eagles. Hotel California.
MTB- Heard it in a love song
Sanford Townshend Band- Smoke from a Distant Fire

The rest are so damned horrid, for the most part, with a lot of bubblegum crap by Babs Streisand and KC and the Sunshine Band, i won’t copy the list here.

There were a BUNCH of good albums.

Exodus – Bob Marley & The Wailers
Police & Thieves – Junior Murvin
My Aim Is True – Elvis Costello
Rumours – Fleetwood Mac
Talking Heads: 77 – Talking Heads
Never Mind The Bollocks Here’s The Sex Pistols – The Sex Pistols
Rough Mix – Pete Townshend & Ronnie Lane
The Stranger – Billy Joel
Animals – Pink Floyd
Aja – Steely Dan
Slowhand – Eric Clapton
Bat Out Of Hell – Meat Loaf
Songs From The Wood – Jethro Tull
Ahh…The Name Is Bootsy, Baby! – Bootsy Collins
I Robot – The Alan Parsons Project
New Boots And Panties!! – Ian Dury
News Of The World – Queen
Foreign Affairs – Tom Waits
CSN – Crosby, Stills & Nash
Out Of The Blue – Electric Light Orchestra

I listen to some of those songs today, think of the memories they bring back.

I’m happy to have survived that time. I wish some of those musicians were still there, still writing. Toy caldwell of MTB- that boy could sing and write and play a song.

if you’re a hillbilly, if you’re a redneck, you hear his music, and you grok it’s fullness.
heard it in a love song is my favorite.
Fire on the Mountain.
This old cowboy

Toy Caldwell died in 1993.

Damn. Enough navel gazing, This is why I hate memes.