Buzzard Luck
Redux Rendezvous V
23/June/2010 17:32 Filed in: Weekly
Column
In Monday’s
“The Chaos of American Energy” we used a
Vietnam era construction that said: We the unwilling, led by the
incompetent, to do the impossible, for the
ungrateful, have struggled so long, with so little,
we are now able to create anything out of nothing.
Sticking with the Vietnam motif today we use another term from those bygone days that pretty much describes what is happening to the Obama Administration. That historic expression is Buzzard Luck, Can’t kill nothing, nothing will die. Perhaps a more contemporary definition brings fuller meaning. Everything that happens turns into a disaster.
My personal take on the subject is that there is no such thing as luck, even Buzzard Luck, and everything happens for a reason, including disasters. Since there is no such thing as a previous state of existence, karma does not apply either.
However before noon Pacific time, a soon to be published article in Rolling Stone in which Afghanistan commander Gen. Stanley McChrystal made comments that were not all that flattering to the President, his staff, and related support in theater. As a consequence the general is being summoned to Washington to explain his actions today and maybe get the opportunity to retire early.
Then a federal judge in New Orleans blocked the President’s off shore drilling moratorium. U. S. District Court Judge Martin Feldman stated that the moratorium was arbitrarily imposed because continued drilling posed no imminent danger. Arbitrary and capricious two wonderful legal terms which are almost impossible to prove the negative. Outstanding!
Who would have believed that just eighteen months into his Administration it seems like the Obama team continues to shoot itself in the foot. It kind of makes you nostalgic for the good old days of George W. Bush and even perhaps Bill Clinton. But alas, that is just ancient history.
We should however ask ourselves the question, “Is all this Obama’s fault, or is he just the man who volunteered to be the messenger?
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Sticking with the Vietnam motif today we use another term from those bygone days that pretty much describes what is happening to the Obama Administration. That historic expression is Buzzard Luck, Can’t kill nothing, nothing will die. Perhaps a more contemporary definition brings fuller meaning. Everything that happens turns into a disaster.
My personal take on the subject is that there is no such thing as luck, even Buzzard Luck, and everything happens for a reason, including disasters. Since there is no such thing as a previous state of existence, karma does not apply either.
However before noon Pacific time, a soon to be published article in Rolling Stone in which Afghanistan commander Gen. Stanley McChrystal made comments that were not all that flattering to the President, his staff, and related support in theater. As a consequence the general is being summoned to Washington to explain his actions today and maybe get the opportunity to retire early.
Then a federal judge in New Orleans blocked the President’s off shore drilling moratorium. U. S. District Court Judge Martin Feldman stated that the moratorium was arbitrarily imposed because continued drilling posed no imminent danger. Arbitrary and capricious two wonderful legal terms which are almost impossible to prove the negative. Outstanding!
Who would have believed that just eighteen months into his Administration it seems like the Obama team continues to shoot itself in the foot. It kind of makes you nostalgic for the good old days of George W. Bush and even perhaps Bill Clinton. But alas, that is just ancient history.
We should however ask ourselves the question, “Is all this Obama’s fault, or is he just the man who volunteered to be the messenger?
Read More...