ASSES THAT ASSESS

Pundits assess a lot.

Military commanders do a lot of assessing.

Many asses assess.

I suppose most of us are asses at one time

or another.

We all assess.

Truth often lies only in the eyes of the beholders who assess.

He or she who assesses might be wrong about what he or she is assessing.

He or she then becomes an ass.

The Bush surge is being assessed in Iraq.

Assessments are being made about the state of the...

What?

The sectarian civil war?

The invasion that was completed?

The occupation that’s now stuck like a decomposing piece of salami between two (or more) burning slices of bread?

(Forget that I wrote that simile.)

President Bush is the unitary Assessor-in-Chief.

He’s the Decider-Assessor who’s been assessing the Iraq war for almost eight years.

He just told us that he’ll be doing some more assessing as soon as his commanders have done their assessing and get back to him so that he can assess what they have assessed.

THIS IS A LOT OF ASSESSING.

Meanwhile, some scientists are assessing whether a giant particle accelerator could destroy the Earth and possibly the universe:

Scientists say that is very unlikely — though they have done some checking just to make sure.

The world’s physicists have spent 14 years and $8 billion building the Large Hadron Collider, in which the colliding protons will recreate energies and conditions last seen a trillionth of a second after the Big Bang. Researchers will sift the debris from these primordial recreations for clues to the nature of mass and new forces and symmetries of nature.

But Walter L. Wagner and Luis Sancho contend that scientists at the European Center for Nuclear Research, or CERN, have played down the chances that the collider could produce, among other horrors, a tiny black hole, which, they say, could eat the Earth. Or it could spit out something called a “strangelet” that would convert our planet to a shrunken dense dead lump of something called “strange matter.” Their suit also says CERN has failed to provide an environmental impact statement as required under the National Environmental Policy Act.

Physicists in and out of CERN say a variety of studies, including an official CERN report in 2003, have concluded there is no problem. But just to be sure, last year the anonymous Safety Assessment Group was set up to do the review again.

“Asking a Judge to Save the World, or More”

By DENNIS OVERBYE

The New York Times

March 29, 2008

I guess we’re either cursed or blessed by all of this assessing.

Only time will tell.

I guess…

Or assess.

IT'S ABOUT RENEWABLE RESOURCES!

Three trillion to secure these OIL FIELDS for the international oil barons - and we have to hear this hogwash about protecting our freedom from a land with no navy - no airforce - no infrastructure - and millions dispossessed - or dying with NO medical care. Sandbags and WWII equipment! Jose had his head blown up - has plastic skull pieces, can't walk, can only grunt - has a permanent feeding tube - and we're paying those who blew him up!!

But then when a president and his cohorts LIE - (read New American Century) - about going to war - when the plan was always to occupy - and grab those oil fields (bigger than Saudi Arabia) - you'll have those whose land has been invaded fighting till the death. Ha - latest word is, these supposed Iraqi forces are deserting with their American weapons and joining the various tribal factions.

Basra - this is where 80% of the oil is - and ports are located. They are NOT going to turn these fields over to EXXON - BP, etc - they'll blow them all up first. The worst and most fearful thing is - we have approx 180,000 contractors and 140,000 military there. When you have corporate HOGS running a war - you are going to have CHAOS. Now we have tribes fighting tribes for control - and our military stuck in the middle of this mess. IF and I fully expect it - they start a war with Iran - God help them all. Russia and China will not stand idly by - there is only ONE supply route from Kuwait - the airport in Baghdad where many of our forces are gathered - is 15 miles from the Green Zone (only one road) -- which is now under attack. There is no exit - it won' t be like Vietnam with helicopters removing personnel from the embassy roof.

From Time To Wake The Hell Up!
By Judith Moriarty

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3-29-08