[Peace-discuss] North Dakota

[E. Wayne Johnson via Peace-discuss]

I worked in the oilfields of southern Illinois, southern Indiana, Ohio 
and West Virginia.

I got my first job as a roughneck on a drilling rig when was 13 and in 
the 8th grade.
I was about 20 the last time I did any of that sort of work.  I was home 
from college
on the weekend and took a friend's slot so he could have the night off 
on the 11 to 7 shift.
The next night he came back and his foot got cut off in an accident.  
Could have been me.
I never went back.  But I could make a $100 a day in the late 60's early 
70's and that
was a lot of money.  I was also appalled by how much of my check was 
taken for taxes.
I never got over that part, and I still resent every cent that the SOB's 
took from me.
I was taxed at an incredible high rate because I had "no dependents".

This floozie doesnt know much about the "awhl bidness" but her complaint
about too many men seems to be that she can't manage more than 3 at once.






On 10/15/2014 2:19 AM, David Green via Peace-discuss wrote:
> The News-Gazette says that if Illinois doesn't get on board with 
> fracking, other states will. Here's an excerpt from an article by 
> Laura Gottesdiener about North Dakota:
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> "Now, six years later, the region displays all the classic 
> contemporary markers of hell: toxic flames that burn around the clock; 
> ink-black smoke billowing from 18-wheelers; intermittent explosions 
> caused by lightning striking the super-conductive wastewater tanks 
> that hydraulic fracturing makes a necessity; a massive Walmart; an 
> abundance of meth, crack, and liquor; freezing winters; rents higher 
> than Manhattan; and far, far too many men. To oil companies, however, 
> the field is hallowed ground, one of the few in history to break the 
> million-barrel-a-day benchmark, earning it “a place in the small 
> pantheon of truly elite oil fields,” as one Reuters market analyst 
> wrote <http://blogs.reuters.com/john-kemp/>."
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> At 9 p.m. on that August night, when I arrived for my first shift as a 
> cocktail waitress at Whispers, one of the two strip clubs in downtown 
> Williston, I didn’t exp...
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