OK here goes a new blog on March and12, 2013 from Koh Samu, Thail

Well, this phase of my life has been more centered around dealing with times that we live in.  For example, the environmental issues of global warming and climate change have taken center stage with the Obama Administration and this is a good thing.  This administration has to deal with the Keystone (KXL) pipeline and make it a marker in their policy.  At the moment, the radical right is completely ignoring Obama and just doing their own thing.  This is not going to make the policies go away or the issues that have to be adjudicated.  They will end up in a voting box full of artificial creations that ignore the big things and deal with the perifery that is not capable of dealing with the real issues.  In the midst of this, the Obama Administration is sending out mixed signals on the KXL pipeline, which is in the category of the a bad idea.  The Gulf is still getting over the BP spill and now they want to bring this pipeline to the Gulf and dump the sludge?  It looks a little bit like this but they are not talking about it at all.  TransCanada has not agreed to take the sludge; nobody  has agreed to take the sludge.  So, out with it - you have to have some kind of waste management program to clean up the oil; it should be this
 until they clean up the oil and have this waste management program, no pipeline.  Its amazing how vulnerable the Gulf is and nobody is talking about it.  I know that Obama approved drilling in the Gulf almost immediately after the spill was declared cleaned up.  Actually,maybe they should consider cancelling the drilling in the Gulf policy until the pipeline issue is adjudicated.  I am sure that all of the other Gulf states must be very concerned about this impending disaster for the future.  This global warming/climaate change warning is not about how much money you can make; it is about treating the earth as the giver that it is.