Finally finished 'Texasville',

and it ended pretty much the same way that 'Friday Night Lights' did. Both books, by Pulitzer prize winning authors in the 90's, concluded with small Texas towns going broke, after the price of oil fell to under $9/bbl, and they lost their golden goose. Little did they know, not far away, in Midland, Texas, George Bush had a plan. As they said in 'FNL', 'We're just one mideast war away from being rich again', and as Luthie said in TXville, 'Let's just bomb OPEC'. As they just talked, GHW Bush was putting together a team, backed by hundreds of millions of dollars from oilmen who still had some their riches. With his son, Dick Cheney, Karl Rove and Don Rumsfeld, Bush was able to do what other Texans just dreamed about. They bombed OPEC and started another mideast war, on , 'oops, bad info'. They got their war and the oil men got their fortunes back. Of course there were some consequences, but no big deal for the 'Big Oil Boys', from Texas.

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12:31 PM
Fam Guy said…
This isn't theory or conjecture. It's history. There for anyone to read. Not that difficult to see what happened and why.
12:32 PM
ladyj said…
there you go again, not giving the rest of us an opportunity to read what butt-face had to say!
4:50 PM
Fam Guy said…
Not gonna provide a forum for someone who is such an obvious idiot.
9:34 AM
ladyj said…
But we love idiots..obvious or not.
12:14 PM
Fam Guy said…
Hence, my widespread appeal.
12:21 PM
ladyj said…
Just like a banana..........
2:26 PM
Fam Guy said…
Again, bottom line, the story is told by TWO Pulitzer prize winning journalists who were there, when the oil business went bust, and they needed a war in the middle east to save their asses. Surprise, here come W and the Repubs with an 'oops, bad info' war, and they're back in the saddle, again. Sickening, but true.
2:56 PM
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