I THINK MINING

Funny how little things can have big consequences.  We all know big things can have big consequences, but that is not my current point. 

Take for example Barack Obama and his pesky priest.  How can you make a man president when he sits for twenty years listening to that hateful sermon?  One little priest spouting his venom may derail what could have been an historic advance. 

They say Churchill became Prime Minister only because the favored candidate had to get one broken tooth fixed and was not there at the crucial vote.  But for a tooth, I might now be blogging in German. 

Then this morning come news that “of migrating ducks are dead or dying after landing on a tailings pond owned by Syncrude Canada Ltd. and ice surrounding the small lake full of toxic sludge is hampering rescue efforts.  Company and government officials estimate there are roughly 500 birds trapped in the toxic pond in a disaster that has never before been witnessed in the northern Alberta oilsands region.”

We can argue whether 500 ducks is a small thing or a big thing.  I submit 500 is small in the game of the oil sands–just like 300 was small in the case of the defence of Greece, saving  western civilization, and the defeat of the Persians under Xerxes.

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