Aug
29
2005
Where Have All the Moonbats Gone?
Posted by: Emperor Darth Misha I in Idiotarians9:43 pm
(Link thanks to LC Steve)
LC & IB Rick Moran, curious about the new anti-war Mass Movement™, decides to go track it down and see just how massive it is.
He manages to locate just enough to keep Michael Moore fed for a day or two.
Media Whore?
We report, you decide.
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It’s the same crap. Carefully framed, tight camera shots make it look like a crowd with all the hired help circling around to give the illusion of frenetic activity. Ya think the producers would know that we’re on to them by now. It’s all good…. they think we’re fools. Let ‘em.
August 29th, 2005 at 9:59 pmUsing Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP
OH SNAP
She’s not a media whore!
August 29th, 2005 at 11:34 pmUsing Mozilla Firefox 1.0.6 on Windows XP
Fuck! That looks like the Marines raising Old Glory on Mount Surabachi
August 29th, 2005 at 11:38 pmUsing Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows 98
August 29th, 2005 at 11:52 pmHey Joe, this reminds me more of the Marines on Suribachi:
the media vultures, Sheehan, and that race pimp Sharpton aren’t worthy of even being on the same planet with heroes like the FDNY or Suribachi Marines or Casey Sheehan for that matter.
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or The Last Supper, LC Joe Camel!
August 30th, 2005 at 1:10 amUsing Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows 98
Why do people have to be there to protest??? Why do people have to show up to support??? Does it really matter??? Will it bring her son back??? Will it stop “I am stubborn and will never admit I am wrong” Bush to finish tidying things up in Iraq quicker??? Nothing matters really. The only thing that matters is that unleaded will be roughly 3.50 a gallon soon and what are ya gonna do about it now. It is kinda like letting the Zoo animals run wild…sooner or later you won’t be able to control em. With tighter restrictions on banckrputcies and the cost of eating and getting to work going way up, I think Sheehan is going to have to take a back seat for awhile. Good luck all, I hope you have alot of liquidity built into your financial plans…or you may be the one who those tight ass bankrputcy laws effect.
August 30th, 2005 at 1:17 amUsing Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP
and Don hits the crack pipe once again and regales us with hysterical fantasies of doom and gloom.
Damn that Karl Rove and his infernal weather machine!
Or was that his diabolical Hypono-beam at Moonbase Halliburton???
Or was that Moonbase Diebold???
Are we destined for financial destruction due to the Chimpy Bushitler corporate Cabal???
Stay Tuned…
August 30th, 2005 at 5:06 amUsing Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP
Don, unlike you, THE MAJORITY of actual human beings give a rat’s ass what happens in Iraq. Let me explain:
If we leave Iraq and cut and run, like we did in Vietnam, then we run the risk of seeing the Middle East go into a cauldron of anarchy. Fuck the Killing Fields, this will be tenfold worse. And look at it this way, if we quit, we just invalidate and spit on the sacrifice of those who died and sacrificed and believed in what this war was about.
It’s not Oil, take a look at the gas prices, you moonbat Moore Whores……
It’s not Imperialism, since no Americans are moving over there for good. If we wanted lebensraum, we’d set up shop in better digs. Trust me, I’m part German…..
When the hell did bankrupcy laws affect the war? Another troll derailing the thread. Bankrupcy, as someone who’s dealing with finances and knows folks who are worse off, bankrupcy needs to be reigned in. It’s a do-over, sure, but it says you can renig and pussy out of any agreements and obligations you made. Minus a FEW EXCEPTIONS, your word and your credit will be worth SHIT. Suck it up and negotiate payments, bankrupcy lasts longer than a damn payment over time.
As far as gas goes, I got a great solution. TAP THE ICE COLD KEG, known as ANWR. And fuck the caribou, and endangered Arctic Animals, they’ll move to other ice flows. If not, they’ll make great fuel…..
Without security and victory in war against terror, all the other crap Don and the other trolls and drooling morons worry about will matter for nothing.
Who’s gonna care about money when some mullah has nuked your largest cities and money and credit are no longer in affect? Who’s gonna care about their finances after we’ve been invaded and struck Pearl Harbor style, again?
There’s more important crap to worry about, THAT ISN’T OUR FAULT.
Gas, we can drive less or ride with folks, or tell the EPA to shove it.
Finances, cut up those cards and budget…..
Terrorism, well that’s something a tad more important than our other probs. Life won’t be worth much if we’re enslaved, kids.
Just a thought……
August 30th, 2005 at 7:34 amUsing Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP
Check this out.
Rev. Al was is such a hurry to get away from that freak show after his photo-op that, well, read for yourself….:lol:
Sharpton hitches to airport after 110 mph chase
9-mile pursuit came right after Rev. Al met with Cindy Sheehan
August 30th, 2005 at 7:37 amUsing Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP
This photo succintly sums up today’s liberals, Democrats, and assorted other moonbats:
Style over substance.
August 30th, 2005 at 9:24 amUsing Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP
The Cindy Sheehan Freak Show plans to protest the Blue Angels.
Talk about a Leftist Moonbat Hootenanny
August 30th, 2005 at 9:44 amUsing Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP
Not only does the photo sum up the liberals and Democrats, it exposes the media as well.
August 30th, 2005 at 10:09 amUsing Mozilla Firefox 1.0.6 on Windows XP
I don’t disagree with that statement. I suspect that most of those “Moonbats” you refer to give a “rat’s ass” also — which is why they want some answers.
Like it or not, the MAJORITY of people in this country are starting to ask those questions. Asking questions or demanding answers doesn’t always equate to not giving a “rat’s ass”. It usually means that they feel some sort of disconnect between what they are being told about the situation and what they see happening.
Yes it does, TexanPatriot78, at least to a certain extent. Just as our “displeasure” with Hugo Chavez is such a big deal with some of you. It is the oil supply, not the oil price.
The price you pay at the pumps is set by the futures market, not any actual cost of the oil. It is based on speculation taking into consideration things that might effect the supply of oil six, nine, or twelve months in the future. Things like the hurricane in NOLA will jack the futures price up, and that “cost” is reflected at the pumps now. The actual cost that the companies pay for the oil is substantially lower. This is how the oil companies have been able to report record profits for the past four years. The bottom line here is that we, as consumers, are being severely gouged at the pump.
An example: Yesterday I left Seattle early in the morning to go to Portland. I filled up my car and paid $2.76 a gallon at my local station. When I got back to Seattle, I filled up again at the same station and paid $2.87 for the same gas. Why? Because all of the franchises for that company were ordered to raise their price 11 cents yesterday afternoon.
People are starting to see the disconnect here. In 2000, the price per barrel was around $35. The price of gas at the pump was roughly $1.00 in Seattle. Some of that is tax, and by law a station can only profit up to 13 cents over wholesale.
Today, the cost per barrel is double the 2000 price. Any third grade child should be able to calculate what doubling the price of crude should cost for refined gas at the pump. (For those math-challenged people, that price should be $2.00 today, NOT $2.87)
I don’t know about you, but that looks a lot like gouging to me.
August 30th, 2005 at 10:29 amUsing Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP
Concerns over damage to the refining facilities in Louisiana were a factor in the price increase since the U.S. has limited refining capacity. (We haven’t built a new refinery in at least 20 years, or so I heard)
The various taxes permanently (seemingly) tacked on to a gallon of gas contribute to the high price as well.
August 30th, 2005 at 10:42 amUsing Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP
Who’s grave do you think they were standing on to get that shot?
August 30th, 2005 at 10:52 amUsing Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP
Sure, that would effect the price of fuel in the future, NOT what is currently in the station tanks. That price was already paid for. When I fill my car up right now, I am not sucking it directly from the refinery. That is what you are missing.
Would the hurricane effect the price per gallon of fuel in the future? Certainly. But it shouldn’t have any effect on the price right this minute.
But you are missing the bigger picture here. The price per barrel you hear being reported is artificial. It is tied directly to speculation of what might happen in the future, not the reality at the time of delivery.
August 30th, 2005 at 10:56 amUsing Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP
P.P., the MAJORITY of Americans are asking questions and feeling disconnect, except it’s not about the war, it’s about the motives and actions of Cindy Sheehan and her ilk. It’s becoming clear that The Left doesn’t give a shit about the troops or terrorism or Iraq.
It’s all about destroying Bush.
Given the the paranoid and almost psychotic statements coming from her, her credibility is shrinking by the second.
She’s like a mini (if there could ever be such a thing) version of Michael Moore.
During the last election cycle, The Left was crowing about his “documentary” and how it was going to rally the American people with its exposure of Chimpy Bushitler’s “evil doin’s” and take him out of power.
Look what happened. Bush was reelected, the GOP gained seats and Michael Moore was shunned and discarded like an empty soda can.
I think Cindy Sheehan is going to end up with a similar fate.
The truly disgusting part of this circus is that unlike Moore, (a seasoned bullshitterand huckster) Sheehan thinks that she’s truly loved and adored by the moonbats. She doesn’t have a clue that she’s being callously exploited by the “unbiased” media and leftist asshat PACs.
When she outlives her usefulness and gets discarded, it’s going to destroy what little sanity she has left.
And we all know that when she lapses into psychosis, “The Left”, instead of being contrite about their shameless exploitation of her, will instead blame Bush and Conservatives for their “crass insensitivity”.
August 30th, 2005 at 11:07 amUsing Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP
That is hands down one of the most pathetic pictures I have seen in a very long time.
August 30th, 2005 at 11:09 amUsing Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP
Naaaaa! there’s no media bias here…move along folks, nothin’ to see at all.
ugh. doesn’t that make you sick. I feel sorry for her son. I’ll bet if he knew he was going to be exploited like this, he’d have smacked the shit out of his looney-ass, wackjob mama.
August 30th, 2005 at 11:13 amUsing Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP
As far as gas prices goes, I think the increased demand, limited refining capacity and the raising of oil prices by OPEC are the contributing factors to high prices and not collusion between all the oil companies in the U.S.
While oil prices are “speculated”, I don’t think it could manipulated to such a degree that the oil companies could get away with price gouging.
Too many people would have to be involved to keep such a conspiracy secret for very long.
Besides, what constitutes “record profits”.
Given past assertions made by “The Left” abour various subjects, I’d like to see under what context those “record profits” fall under before coming to any conclusions….
August 30th, 2005 at 11:29 amUsing Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP
I do agree with PP on oil prices being based on speculation. It is totally futures that determine this price.
As for Cindy Sheehan, I don’t agree with her using her son as her platform. The day she said her primary motive was protesting the war and she did it BEFORE her son died sealed her motive. Telling Bush to send his daughters or anyone else for that matter is stupid. Signing up for military service is VOLUTEER based and NO parent can make their child choose a career.
Using her son’s death is disgusting in her protest. She whines that she wants Bush to stop using her son’s name…well the one using it 10,000% of the time more is HER, and not bringing up what a COURAGEOUS, HONORABLE, and AWESOME dude her son was is dispicable and she should be ashamed of herself. Bringing up Israel, not condemning the TERRORISTS, and dismissing other parents her don’t feel the way she does makes her a total loon in my eyes as well as many others.
That’s what I don’t get about her defenders. They criticize us for calling this LOON a LOON and say we are insensitive for this since she lost her son. But this BITCH has done the same thing to other parents in her shoes that don’t agree with her motives, politics, or opinions. So fuck any sensitivity towards her. She’s an asshole pure and simple. She is NOT the only parent who lost a loved one. Her son did so in an honorable way and she refuses to acknowledge how honorable he was and derive comfort from what an extraordinary man he was.
Fuck her. And in light of the 100s of deaths in ONE day from the storm, fuck the media that continues to give this BITCH a voice. I’m sick of this shit. Why the fuck doesn’t the media give a voice to the other parents who feel differently? Because they aren’t nuts and acting like a radical nut? Those are the questions we should be asking. If everybody felt the same, fine, but it is very clear from the counter protesters they don’t. If the media was not biased in any way, they would look at the parents equally and say well, we have 200 here, and 200 there and present it fairly. But they don’t. I am curious exactly how many parents in this wacko’s shoes feel EXACTLY like her about her kid that VOLUNTEERED to go to Iraq and felt their kid’s death was not the fault of TERRORISTS.
August 30th, 2005 at 11:52 amUsing Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP
E-man, futures does play a huge part in oil prices. I’m in an industry that relies directly on fuel, and trust me, everyday in the office, our treasury does almost hourly updates on this. It is huge speculation at this point. Look what happened when that Saudi prince died. Usually gas stations price fuel based on the market, not their supplies. Shoot, they gauge based on their location.
August 30th, 2005 at 11:54 amUsing Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP
What’s next for this posing brain fart, a book a movie??.Hollywood loves treasonous phonies like her.
August 30th, 2005 at 11:58 amUsing Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows 2000
August 30th, 2005 at 12:05 pmI can see Meryl Streep playing her, or maybe Sally Fields. They made their careers playing the noble crusading wacko. On second thought, Cindy and Streisand share the same nose……..
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Am I the only one who finds this shit funny???
http://www.newsmax.c.....2731.shtml
August 30th, 2005 at 12:14 pmUsing Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP
Just think if Strident and Jamie Farr had kids.
Talk about a nose only a coke dealer could love….::
(Okay, maybe that wasn’t fair to Jamie…)
August 30th, 2005 at 12:16 pmUsing Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP
August 30th, 2005 at 12:22 pmGuido, I don’t think Jamie and Babs could ever get close enough to each other to procreate, those honkers would get in the way…
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Talk about an image I did NOT need, Jay…
Positively probiscidian…
August 30th, 2005 at 12:30 pmUsing Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP
“Guido, I don’t think Jamie and Babs could ever get close enough to each other to procreate, those honkers would get in the way…”
Would definitely have to be artificial insemination!
If Jamie Farr and Barbra Streisand had a child…who’s a good photo-shopper????
August 30th, 2005 at 12:48 pmUsing Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP
Err, I think you know this is simplifying it a bit. The world has lost its excess oil supply, partially due to unrest in Venezuela, partially due to increasing industrialization in China, mainly due to the Iraq war. Futures will inevitably price oil higher because of world events, not gouging. What part of supply and demand are you not getting? Are you saying that if companies were honest, they wouldn’t dare price their products according to the scarcity of its supply?
I’m sure the relative value of a dollar has changed since 2000 also, which would show a price increase, but not in real terms of purchasing power.
Why must you smell a skunk everywhere? Do you need someone to blame for everything? No one here denies that it’s very difficult to protect Iraq’s productivity. I’m sure a significant portion of us have come to terms with the fact we should have planned better for post-invasion. Could YOU have done any better, without the benefit of your infallible hindsight?
August 30th, 2005 at 1:57 pmUsing Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP
No. It’s not funny ’cause I was planning a nice enjoyable time with the wife; showing her around the area and such. Moonbats.
Are they seriously going to be there? Please tell me this article is wrong! I’ve been planning this for some time now!
August 30th, 2005 at 1:57 pmUsing Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP
Don, good to have you back. I’ll respond later to #6.
August 30th, 2005 at 1:57 pmUsing Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP
Ron, there is a market ‘gouge’ factor on location. Maybe gouge isn’t the proper term though.
August 30th, 2005 at 2:05 pmUsing Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP
I’ve heard the oil traders and speculators going wild. They’re loving the hurricane right now….. I know not everyone is like that, but one guy was grinning over the profiteering he’d make. Rest are hiding their faces. Can’t say I blame them.
Guido, love the nose a cokedealer would love line, applause applause.
Heck, Streisand and Dustin Hoffman would have some nasal enhanced kiddies.
August 30th, 2005 at 2:09 pmUsing Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP
Streisand and Hoffman swimming on their backs would look like two U-Boats snorkelling.
August 30th, 2005 at 2:18 pmUsing Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows 98
Here’s another view of that scene from a slightly different perspective:
Madonna of the Vultures
August 30th, 2005 at 2:28 pmUsing Mozilla Firefox 1.0.6 on Windows 98
Bwahahahahahahahhaha! That’s wrong. Course, not as wrong as someone having to split some coke with Karl Malden….. That’ll be gone faster than slathered ribs infront of Michael Moore.
August 30th, 2005 at 2:28 pmUsing Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP
[…] Hat-tip for the pic from Misha at the Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler. Posted at 14:35 hours, in Just Pathetic, Makes My Skin Crawl | No Comments » […]
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Hey get this. There’s some idiot over at this site. Museum of Leftwing Lunacy… and the moron agrees with Sheehan’s little, “why don’t you sign up the party whore twins?” spew……
Moron can’t get it through his head that Casey volunteered, as is the rest of the military. We’re not drafting and why should Bush have to send two daughters into the army? If they both go, isn’t there The Sullivan Law, or something that prevents a family name from dying out?
The troll, aka mooneyguy, says w-w-well it doesn’t matter. Uh, yeah it does, ever heard of physical exam before enlistment? What a dumbass.
Yeah, let’s make Bush’s diabetic nephew serve, so he can die of a seizure….. The typical leftwing compassion.
August 30th, 2005 at 2:57 pmUsing Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP
Media whore reference over at Huffington’s Toast where Jayson Blair announces his new novel.
August 30th, 2005 at 4:06 pmUsing Mozilla Firefox 1.0.5 on Windows XP
Here’s some craptacular artwork that Cindy Shitcan would dig….
Click on The Winner of the SF9/11 Truth Art Contest
It may make you vomit…..
Not suprising this is spawned from the Demon Seeds in San Fransicko.
August 30th, 2005 at 4:09 pmUsing Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP
That pic is nasty. I need a shower.
August 30th, 2005 at 6:44 pmUsing Mozilla Firefox 1.0.6 on Windows XP
Then you don’t want to see NASA’s pics of MM’s asshole/blackhole research.
You really don’t.
August 30th, 2005 at 6:51 pmUsing Mozilla Firefox 1.0.2 on Windows XP
Is it Saturday yet? Friday, atleast?
Today’s dose of NIF - News, Interesting & Funny … It’s Kerry-180 Tuesday
August 30th, 2005 at 7:06 pmi live around and amongst those types TexanPatriot. you should see the way these people drive in the bay area
August 30th, 2005 at 7:28 pmUsing Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP
Holy Shit, did anyone catch this comment at DU?
August 30th, 2005 at 7:32 pmUsing Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP
hey LC Fresh sign…
I linked to the whole post. Some of it just made my jaw drop…..but not in a normal DU kind of way…..more like a train wreck kind of way. They were actually fighting with each other. It’s friggin funny as hell.
August 30th, 2005 at 7:57 pmUsing Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP
Media Whore? Yep.
Attention Whore? Yep.
Whore? If that’s the kind that don’t get paid, yep.
“How do you make a hormone?
Don’t pay her.”
August 30th, 2005 at 8:20 pmUsing Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP
Maybe we’ve got it all wrong about this Cindy Sheehan woman. Here’s an article from a medium that enjoys wide support in many parts of the world. They endorse her actions and wonder “what’s wrong in expressing her wish of ending the Israeli occupation in Palestine?”
You can read the article and leave comments about it. The comments are reader rated, like this one:
(I edited out the IP.)
August 30th, 2005 at 8:21 pmUsing Mozilla Firefox 1.0.6 on Windows 98
donnie, donnie, donnie. We’ve let you animals run wild as long as we dare. Tranq guns and real guns are now being brought to bear.
Sit tight. We’ve got a solution for ya.
“and the worms ate into his brains”
August 30th, 2005 at 8:25 pmUsing Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP
PP, I think you misunderstand how the speculation works. Unleaded is a commodity, just like soy beans and oil. There is plenty of demand for oil and that is the reason for high per barrell prices. Right now the futures contracts sold on the commidities exchange for unleaded close today at $3.00 per gallon. So, that means the future baseline price for unleaded at the gas station is three bucks…then you need to factor profit for the station owner and tax from the state. You are staring 3.50 right in the eye. This is bad…real bad. There is talk in the Chicago area of gasoline rationing because our main refinery supplier is under water..not heavily damaged, just inoperable. This could have been prevented a long time ago….but alas…heads up asses always prevail to the “open market.” How you like your open market now!! Sometimes a little oversight never hurts. This is going to devastate the middle and lower middle class.
August 30th, 2005 at 8:40 pmUsing Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP
How about when Fox News’ Cavuto says the Oil companies are making “record profits.” Is that “right” enough for you. Buy a freaking vowel for once in your life…or get a clue.
August 30th, 2005 at 8:46 pmUsing Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP
August 30th, 2005 at 9:27 pmHey Don, maybe if we were allowed to build a few more refineries and drill in areas OTHER than hurricane alley we wouldn’t be so dependant on the Gulf of Mexico operations.
but we have your precious environmental activists to protect us from that don’t we?
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Hey donnie, maybe if your fucking tree huggers would have let us build, um, MORE REFINEREIES we wouldn’t be in this position now.
Face it. Your fucking liberal moonbats have made damn sure we’d be 1) be dependant on oil 2) not be able to refine enough to meet demand and 3) not be able to build nuclear plants to reduce the demand.
You can’t have it both ways.
You assholes just spin it both ways.
Fuck you don. May you fall prey to the very disasters you and your ilk use to further your stupidity.
August 30th, 2005 at 9:53 pmUsing Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP
Hey Jaybear,
Didn’t mean to double your remarks.
August 30th, 2005 at 9:54 pmUsing Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP
Like it just fine you little commie pinko hippie fascist bastard.
Go fuck your mother.
Oh right. You’ve been there done that.
Have a nice day.
August 30th, 2005 at 9:57 pmUsing Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP
Price controls?
Oh sure, why don’t we go down that road? I mean, just because it’s led to shortages and even HIGHER prices in the past every single fucking time it’s been tried shouldn’t keep us from trying it one more time, right?
This time we’ll get it right!
August 30th, 2005 at 9:59 pmUsing Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP
Strength in numbers my friend!
August 30th, 2005 at 10:00 pmUsing Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP
We need new sources too, not just refining capacity. But, after poking around a bit, it looks like oil companies are taking advantage of the boom by paying dividends to shareholders, maintaining old holes and rigs, and paying down debt. It seems that there is less money going into new fields and sources. We have a supply problem. With Katrina, it will be even worse. Get those prepaid gas cards now, because it’s gonna get hairy!
One more interesting thing of note, oil companies’ profit margins are often lower than many other industries, and perform well below S+P 500 industries in terms of profits on each dollar of sale. What I’m seeing is that it’s the percentages of increase in profits and the profit totals themselves are what is staggering people when they look at it lately.
August 30th, 2005 at 10:16 pmUsing Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP
Feds would have to subsidize anymore nuclear plant development, it has been proven to be unprofitable.
August 30th, 2005 at 10:18 pmUsing Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP
Care to back that idiotic statement up with facts (and links)?
August 30th, 2005 at 10:21 pmUsing Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP
While I have no idea what you are hoping to accomplish by having Bush tell everyone what he is doing wrong(this notion never ceases to puzzle me), nothing but the passage of time is going to quicken Iraq, Cindy or no Cindy…ain’t that the truth, Don.
Come on, that shit was out of hand anyway.
I am not sure if we have yet reached that point where high gas prices are affecting spending ability that drastically…but then again, oil prices affect so many prices it could get tight for some.
We need more exploration, like soon.
August 30th, 2005 at 10:33 pmUsing Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP
That’s one I found that corroborated what I had heard a few years back, that nuke power can’t survive on its own in the free market. Clips for those who don’t feel like clicking:
Impeach the source all you want, that’s just the first place I found that backs up my point. I’d be more than happy to see what evidence you have to the contrary so I can change my mind if need be.
Easy, Ranger. I think we have a friendly fire issue here.
August 30th, 2005 at 11:02 pmUsing Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP
Okay Ron. I’ll step back and let the blogosphere shed light.
I’ll admit to ignorance in this area.
No intentional friendly fire.
August 31st, 2005 at 1:04 amUsing Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP
The last time we had “a little oversight” on gas prices was during the Carter Administration.
Remember the long lines and that half-assed odd number/even number rationing fiasco that resulted?
Like The Emperor said, if we keep trying, it’ll work eventually…..
August 31st, 2005 at 3:22 amUsing Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP
Hello to all. I have decided to leave the land of the lurkers and join the Empire.
This is not entirely true. I have worked in the oil industry for 30+ years for independent oil companies, and when the futures price goes up, the price we get goes up, right then. Plus you have to take into account the price of when they buy it at the wellhead, to when they get it to the US for refining, a long sea voyage.
Lastly, in the futures market, you are attempting to lock the price and quantity at a price beneficial to yourself so you can keep your refineries running at maximum profit and screw your “competitors”. A few cents a barrel is a small victory.
August 31st, 2005 at 3:30 amUsing Mozilla Firefox 1.0.6 on Windows XP
Hey Donica! I still haven’t been given the context regarding “record profits”.
Looks like Donica broke the question mark key on his keyboard when he put “???” after virtually every sentence in that hysterically ridiculous moonbat rant at the top of the thread (comment 6)
Nothing says “I’m a moonbat!” like using a “Wheel of Fortune” reference as an “insult”.
It’s time you took off the thong and the blue dress. Ex-President Bubba isn’t going to treat you to a “tube steak” dinner.
Besides, your antics are disturbing Hillary…:lol:
August 31st, 2005 at 3:52 amUsing Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP
Er, thanks, Management, I knew that was sloppy but I did it anyway.
August 31st, 2005 at 7:36 amUsing Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP
Took me a minute to understand what you mean by this. I think I get it now, you mean gas stations charging more based on their location? I guess you would call it a “premium”, but not a gouge.
Please correct me if I still misunderstand.
August 31st, 2005 at 7:42 amUsing Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP
Ron,
There’s definitely price gouging going on in the Atlanta area.
Someone started a rumor that the area gas stations would tapped dry by this weekend which triggered a panic.
Some stations in Atlanta were up to $5.00 a gallon.
The Georgia Governer went on TV to tell everyone it was a bogus rumor but the panic is still on.
There are reports claimimg some stations raising their price every 15 minutes causing “impatient” people stuck in line to become totally unglued.
un-friggin-believable
August 31st, 2005 at 5:50 pmUsing Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP
August 31st, 2005 at 6:41 pmshoot the looters not taking food and water….shoot the price gougers. They’re one and the same.
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E-Man, I’m sure there is gouging going on, but locally- not an industry wide gouge of the simplicity that PP referred to.
August 31st, 2005 at 10:01 pmUsing Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP
Ron, I agree.
It’s just that the Atlanta situation was such a blatant example of gouging by local gas stations, I couldn’t resist throwing it out there…
At any rate, the prevailing concensus seems to be that prices will come down after the Labor day weekend.
September 1st, 2005 at 2:49 amUsing Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP