Ah Yes, Another Government Sponsored, I Mean Think Tank Sponsored Dinner, Where Texas Bull S _ _ T Is The Blue Plate Special!

Since I am going to be out of town for a couple of days and I wanted to knock out a couple of blogs in case my time runs short and I can't bring anyone to literary justice. So I was quickly pouring over the Internet news when I came across this little tid-bit. The Progress and Freedom Foundation, you know the think tank that studies the digital revolution and it's implications for public policy, held a closed to the press dinner in Aspen, that's Colorado, where the keynote speaker was the Dallas Federal Reserve Bank President Richard Fisher and his speech was on how the demand for oil in the developing countries of China and India was going to have long term implications to the price of oil. I hope the US Government didn't pay for this dinner or this speaker, but I think that's wishful thinking.

They discussed the oil consumption per capita of developed countries like Japan and the US and then made some assumptions about China and India and then made some ballpark assumptions as to how much oil these countries might use in the future and how it would affect cost to us here in the US and our little friends in Europe. Needless to say they didn't let on as to how much a gallon of gas may be in the near future, but then again they are a think tank and the speaker is a rich guy so they really don't care and were only there for the scenery and the dinner.

Then the good stuff was thrown out to the crowd. The stuff about the motivation of China with regards to the US. Now he didn't come out and say they are our friends like his friend(and I'm sure he is)the current President and fellow Texan, who by the way can dish out a major helping of Texas Bull S _ _T without any trouble, who said about the Russians and in particular Mr. Putin "when I look into his eye's I see a friend", tell that to the Georgians. Then to add insult to injury we were given a verbal bitch slapping by the Russians, who with all of their new found oil money could care less about what we have to say coupled with the fact that our military has been stretched so thin we couldn't mount an offensive or a good defensive anywhere.

So what do you think China has in store for us? They own most of out debt, have most of our factories on their soil, have a ten million man military, are growing their navy and will eclipse us in the near future, have the most sophisticated computer and Internet hacking operation in the world, have one point five billion people, kicked our Navy out of Hong Kong this past spring to flex their muscles and sent the fleet elsewhere for R&R and are cheating in the officiating of the Olympics to beat our butts, yes our butts, the good old USA's in the number of Gold Medals in an attempt to show the world they are good guy's, yea, good guy's like the Russians were at the time of World War II and are becoming again.

Like I said, there's nothing like a Blue Plate Special when it's good old Texas Bull S _ _ t. I hope the government made them at least pay for their own desert.