A frog and a scorpion are standing on the banks of a river. The scorpion looks at the frog and says, “Can you give me a lift to the other side of the river? I cannot swim.” The frog looks at the scorpion warily and says, “No.” The scorpion says, “Why not?” And the frog replies, “because you will sting me and then we will die.”
The scorpion says to the frog, “no, I would never do that. Trust me.” And then convinces the lowly little frog to do it. So the frog says, “Okay, climb on my back and I will take you across.” About mid river, the scorpion stings the little frog, and the frog looks back and says, “Why? Why did you do that? Now we will both die.” The scorpion looks at the frog and replies … “It’s just my nature.”
Morale of the story? Don’t believe everything that you hear.
T. Boone Pickens is all over the daily paper. He is holding town meetings on his proposed energy plan for America. The media is calling him a “Native Son” or “Patron Saint of the Prairie” because of his philanthropy towards state colleges, one in particular. It is almost comical the way the media is trying to “clean this boy up” and make him look semi-palatable.
They don’t talk about his corporate raiding in the seventies, purchasing perfectly good companies, and then gutting them and sending the workers to the barn. They don’t talk about how he is establishing his own private water company in the panhandle of Texas, with him, his wife and one employee on the payroll to be trustees.
No one wants to tell people about his getting the Texas legislature to rewrite law to give the right of imminent domain to a “private entity” to grant him authority to lay his water pipe to Dallas. A thing that up and until now has been unheard of, imminent domain was always a governmental body type of thing, not a private ownership entity privilege or right.
Also they have rewritten Texas law to give the same rights to “good old boys” who build wind farms and need a corridor for their power lines, which I suppose the “public will eventually end up paying for” good old boys seldom pay for all of it.
Most of the time, they go to the banker, open up the wallet and say, “Here is all my money and I want to do this.” And then they use “the bankers money” and keep theirs. Which is most likely what is in play here, but I am not a player, you see I don’t have the $5 million buy in for BP Capital Partners and neither do you.
Makes me wonder, why isn’t the paper quick to point out that the O0lahogah (sp?) Aquifer is going dry right now, because too many people are pumping from it. That, in some parts of it they are now sucking up sand on the fringes and outlying areas of the vast underground reservoir.
If the Sierra Club shut down a proposed packing plant in Amarillo, that only wanted to use a measly 180,000 gallons of water a year, how does T. Boone get the right to deliver some undisclosed millions of acre feet of water to Dallas every year.
Water that so far, no one has asked him to deliver.
While it is surely fine to applaud Pickens for wanting to bridge the partisan gap in politics and help America get back on its feet. To stop this stranglehold the Arabs have on us concerning oil (I refuse to call it an addiction; it is not an addiction as some have proposed). It should be noted that this guy is not doing this out of the “goodness of his heart” he has plenty of what this country needs, and he and his partners are going to be making a lot of money off the deal.
Just as soon as he can convince everyone to “give him” what he needs to pull it off.
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