tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post4568731710498838438..comments2024-03-18T16:10:41.673-04:00Comments on The Elephant Bar: Guess Who Pays the Price for Stupidity.Deuce ☂http://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comBlogger64125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-25759114304467167502012-02-24T08:40:14.333-05:002012-02-24T08:40:14.333-05:00Well, the oil companies have played us for the sto...Well, the oil companies have played us for the stone, rube-ass hicks that we truly are.<br /><br />We will, later in the year, have E85 selling for $2.40/gal, and Unleaded selling for $4.00/gal, and there's not an ethanol-optimized car in sight.<br /><br />We're drilling 18,000 feet below a mile of water, and cracking rocks to get the last little drabs of oil out of the ground, and paying landowners Not to Plant 30,000,000 acres.<br /><br />This, in spite of the fact that the X-Prize, and Indycar/Nascar Drivers have proven that, with the technology in place, we can get as many miles per gallon with ethanol as with gasoline (and with more power.)<br /><br />We're the stupidest animals in the Solar System.Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-3311436924827441962012-02-24T00:49:40.259-05:002012-02-24T00:49:40.259-05:00Corn dropped, set for a weekly loss, after the U.S...<i>Corn dropped, set for a weekly loss, after the U.S. government maintained its outlook that the country’s farmers will boost acreage to the most since 1944, adding to global supply as Ukraine forecasts higher shipments. <br /><br />May-delivery corn declined as much as 0.7 percent to $6.3825 a bushel on the Chicago Board of Trade, before trading at $6.40 at 10:59 a.m. Singapore time. Futures are set for a 0.8 percent loss this week. <br /><br />Planting will rise to 94 million acres (38 million hectares), Joe Glauber, chief economist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture said at a conference yesterday. Exports from Ukraine, vying with Argentina to be the second-largest shipper, will jump 20 percent as farmers expand planting, said Andrew Druzyaka, adviser at the State Food & Grain Corp. of Ukraine. <br /><br />“When you do look at these numbers, they’re showing that global production is looking strong for the season ahead,” said Michael Creed, an agribusiness economist at National Australia Bank Ltd. Bigger acreage in the U.S. and higher shipments from Ukraine have “some bearish influence on prices,” he said. <br /><br />Inventories in the U.S., the largest grower and exporter, may rebound as growth in biofuel demand slows, helping relieve some volatility that has roiled markets, Glauber said.</i>Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-21789184155278581202012-02-24T00:40:37.266-05:002012-02-24T00:40:37.266-05:00.
O for Christ sakes Quirk they are reacting to O....<br /><br /><i>O for Christ sakes Quirk they are reacting to Obama's groveling, that is all.<br /><br />Quit trying to enlarge the subject to overall geopolitics.</i><br /><br /><br /><br />They are pandering, you moron. <br /><br />Soundbites for the hicks.<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-72901187376080914022012-02-24T00:30:53.073-05:002012-02-24T00:30:53.073-05:00Singstar Ad<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6c-souzm8e4" rel="nofollow">Singstar Ad</a>samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-68790768105787063272012-02-24T00:25:27.344-05:002012-02-24T00:25:27.344-05:00I think the UN peacekeeper deal was in the Congo.I think the UN peacekeeper deal was in the Congo.samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-86666643177399398622012-02-24T00:24:52.609-05:002012-02-24T00:24:52.609-05:00.
Pipeline goes to New Orleans or Vancouver, eith....<br /><br /><i>Pipeline goes to New Orleans or Vancouver, either way China gets the tar sands oil and we don't get none.</i><br /><br />We've discussed this before and she still doesn't get it.<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-48847283287192322022012-02-24T00:22:29.496-05:002012-02-24T00:22:29.496-05:00Dungue Fever -
That's what I get the morning...Dungue Fever - <br /><br />That's what I get the morning after I have a couple of bowls of my red-hot homemade chili.samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-56549749265736784012012-02-24T00:20:35.853-05:002012-02-24T00:20:35.853-05:00800 page transcript of Breton Woods meeting found ...800 page transcript of Breton Woods meeting found in bowels of Treasury Department.<br /><br />This is amazing, the professors are going over it now. Previously all that was had was the memories of some of the participants.<br /><br />Material for many a PhD dissertation.Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-30774382669823051722012-02-24T00:18:51.674-05:002012-02-24T00:18:51.674-05:00.
Start with
N1w = projected number of women who....<br /><br /><i>Start with<br /><br />N1w = projected number of women who will undergo clitorectomy<br /><br />N2w = projected number of women who will be stoned to death<br /><br />N3w = projected number of women who will be raped</i><br /><br /><br />Grow a brain.<br /><br />What do you expect to happen the day we leave. We spend a $100 million a year protecting poppy fields while millions die because of lack of mosquito nets.<br /><br />Rapes?<br /><br />A women is raped in South Africa every 17 seconds. Why aren't we there?<br /><br />Try looking up the statistics in Darfur, Somalia, Kashmir, the Congo, or the Sudan. Hell in the Sudan even the Un peacekeepers get in on the act. Why aren't we there?<br /><br />Take your formulas and shove them up your ass.<br /><br />You are fixated on helping women but you offer nothing but bromides and pompous bullshit about our moral responsibility. Come back when you actually have plan.<br /><br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-431460603605242662012-02-24T00:07:42.587-05:002012-02-24T00:07:42.587-05:00or not.or not.Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-9901854521818342202012-02-24T00:07:29.515-05:002012-02-24T00:07:29.515-05:00Only a small puddle of oil at Cushing is priced at...Only a small puddle of oil at Cushing is priced at $105.00/bbl. The World Price is approx. $125.00/bbl.<br /><br />There are more rigs drilling in the Gulf of Mexico than at any time in our history. <br /><br />No one is blocking drilling off the coast of Alaska. Shell has a fucked up project up there that they keep screwing up the paperwork on. <br /><br />We're at Peak Oil, Bozo. An undulating production plateau with ever-increasing demand out of Asia. <br /><br /><br />Not to worry; Obammie will hit the old "Strategic Reserves" in a month, or two. That might buy us another summer.Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-64223641590579661012012-02-24T00:05:16.807-05:002012-02-24T00:05:16.807-05:00.
O for Christ sakes Quirk they are reacting to O....<br /><br /><i>O for Christ sakes Quirk they are reacting to Obama's groveling, that is all.<br /><br />Quit trying to enlarge the subject to overall geopolitics.<br /><br />I tell ya what, nit, you make yourself out to be a great moral arbiter on all things, so tell me, o wise one, what is the moral price to pay for leaving all those women to the tender mercies once again, cause you know damn well what is going to happen. And what moral responsibility do we have after being there for so long? To leave and let that happen? Let's see your moral formula, including to those who have worked with and for us there.</i><br /><br /><br />Nit? My moral formula? <br /><br />Here is my moral formula. <br /><br /><a href="http://www.rbm.who.int/keyfacts.html" rel="nofollow">Try Reading This</a><br /><br />Malaria:<br /><br />At risk: 3.3 billion, half the worlds population.<br /><br />Cases Annually: 240 million<br /><br />Annual Deaths: Nearly a million, 85% of them children under five.<br /><br />Annual Need to Fully Fund Treatment: About $5 - $6 billion a year.<br /><br />Lives saved under full treatment: Up to an estimated 4.2 million lives could be saved by 2015 in the 20 highest burden African countries alone.<br /><br />We waste $100 million a year in Afghanistan alone. I repeat waste. As soon as we leave, the whole shithole goes to pieces.<br /><br /><i><b>I tell ya what, nit, you make yourself out to be a great moral arbiter on all things, so tell me, o wise one, what is the moral price to pay for leaving all those women to the tender mercies once again, cause you know damn well what is going to happen.</b></i><br /><br />You besotted loon. What do you think will happen the day we leave? Hell, what do you think is happening right now while we are there?<br /><br />I'll tell you. The same damn thing that is happening in Iraq where we wasted a $1 trillion and what did we get for it, 5000 dead, 50,000 wounded, 150,000 - 800,000 Iraqi dead, between 2 and 4 million Iraqi refugees created.<br /><br />And between the two countries, number of friends created for the US: 0<br /><br />Number of enemies created: Anybody's quess.<br /><br />We are pumping trillions into wars that give us nothing when we could be pumping a few billions into health programs each year and savings millions of lives, most of them children's. And we could be making friends for the US not creating enemies, offsetting efforts by the Chinese. Take a look at the economic costs caused by malaria.<br /><br />And that is just malaria. Don't even start on hiv/aids, dungue fever, etc.<br /><br />.<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-39695917983865603142012-02-23T23:56:38.755-05:002012-02-23T23:56:38.755-05:00Rufus II said...
We have 46 Million people on Food...Rufus II said...<br />We have 46 Million people on Food Stamps, and we're wasting $100 Billion/Yr on those crazed fucking animals?<br /><br />Blow Me.<br /><br /><br /><br />lol.....<br /><br />Now that's something I will tell my "friends" in DC next week....<br /><br />If only your hero Obama felt the same wayWhat is "Occupation"https://www.blogger.com/profile/08237879055691019968noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-6549825599361636362012-02-23T23:51:04.905-05:002012-02-23T23:51:04.905-05:00Rufus was telling us the other day how Santorum wa...Rufus was telling us the other day how Santorum was like the Taliban on women and reproductive rights -<br /><br /><br /><i>Romney also managed to tie Santorum up in knots on his votes, which included funding for Planned Parenthood.</i><br /><br />That is <b><i>for Planned Parenthood</i></b><br /><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21297199&postID=4568731710498838438&page=1&token=1330058513792" rel="nofollow">Some Debate Analysis</a>Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-47700057550503419942012-02-23T23:41:53.792-05:002012-02-23T23:41:53.792-05:00Obama/Rufus energy plan -
Bam’s gas-price plan
...Obama/Rufus energy plan -<br /><br /><i>Bam’s gas-price plan<br /><br /><br />Posted: February 23, 2012<br /><br />As oil hits $105 a barrel, the White House is getting defensive — fearing that $5-plus gasoline this summer might imperil the president’s re-election.<br /><br />So President Obama is to publicly address the subject today. But does he even have a plan?<br /><br />Perhaps as prelude, the White House yesterday declared that the president had no “responsibility” for gas prices — a hilarious take, given the gasoline-price scourging Obama laid on George W. Bush in 2008.<br /><br />We’ll stipulate that pump prices are driven by many factors — not the least being Middle East uncertainty.<br /><br />But if the American people think Obama hasn’t done everything possible to buffer oil shocks, there’s reason: He hasn’t.<br /><br /><b>The administration on Tuesday blamed last month’s shelving of the Keystone XL pipeline on “political” acts by Republicans in Congress. In fact, Obama ditched Keystone — which would have brought Canadian crude oil to Gulf Coast refineries — to keep his greenie base happy.</b><br /><br />And the pipeline is but one of many Team Obama decisions that have left America’s oil supply more vulnerable to the vagaries of world events.<br /><br />* Under Obama, the American Petroleum Institute notes, leases on federal lands in the West are down 44 percent, while permits and new well drilling are both down 39 percent, compared to 2007.<br /><br />* In the wake of the BP oil spill, Obama shut down most Gulf of Mexico drilling; there’s been a 57 percent drop in monthly deepwater permits over the last three years, according to the Greater New Orleans’ Gulf Permit Index.<br /><br />* The EPA continues to block drilling off the coast of Alaska — where an estimated 27 billion barrels are waiting to be tapped.<br /><br />Actually, perhaps there is a plan.<br /><br />In a pre-nomination interview in 2008, now-Energy Secretary Steven Chu told The Wall Street Journal, “Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.”<br /><br />Mission accomplished?</i><br /><br />nypost.comBobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-52463602903462209282012-02-23T23:36:06.386-05:002012-02-23T23:36:06.386-05:00Public still heavily against Obama/RufusCare -
Q...Public still heavily against Obama/RufusCare -<br /><br /><br /><i>Quinnipiac 2/14 - 2/20 2605 RV 52 39 Favor Repeal +13<br />Rasmussen Reports 2/18 - 2/19 1000 LV 53 38 Favor Repeal +15</i><br /><br /><br />Favors repeal by 13% and 15% in last polls.Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-21442081871466509972012-02-23T23:21:44.228-05:002012-02-23T23:21:44.228-05:00Mitt Romney had a good night at the debate in Mesa...<i>Mitt Romney had a good night at the debate in Mesa last night. But after the debate (as well as during) the Romney campaign flooded the press with the kind of emails that make the candidate so hard to love.<br /><br />...<br /><br />Another email release carried a statement from Romney surrogate Bob Dole. Like the Michigan Leaders, Dole thought that Romney had a very good night.</i><br /><br /><a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/debate-reax-pravda-edition_631789.html" rel="nofollow">Pravda Edition</a>samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-47869270269563538992012-02-23T23:19:25.229-05:002012-02-23T23:19:25.229-05:00That big BP Refinery going down in Wa hurt. They ...That big BP Refinery going down in Wa hurt. They were shipping a lot of product to Cali.<br /><br />We've closed down 700,000 barrels/day of refining capacity in just the last couple of months.Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-53055656077040649662012-02-23T23:08:35.110-05:002012-02-23T23:08:35.110-05:003 bucks a gallon in Wyoming, 4 and a quarter in Ca...3 bucks a gallon in Wyoming, 4 and a quarter in Cali.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-57447368755997679432012-02-23T23:03:38.390-05:002012-02-23T23:03:38.390-05:00As for the XL, and the Northern Gateway: they'...As for the XL, and the Northern Gateway: they'll do'em both. It just makes sense.<br /><br />As for jobs - we'll get about 2,300 temporary jobs. The pipe has already been purchased - from China, and Korea.Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-90175578550054962542012-02-23T22:59:52.742-05:002012-02-23T22:59:52.742-05:00Right now, we have that Bakken/Tar Sands oil bottl...Right now, we have that Bakken/Tar Sands oil bottlenecked at Cushing, and we're benefiting greatly.<br /><br />Part of that advantage is going away in just a couple of months as they get the Seaway Pipeline reversed, and flowing from Cushing to the Sea.<br /><br />Colorado, Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana are, also, benefiting greatly from this bottleneck with some of the lowest prices in the country.Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-75406816301834312762012-02-23T22:48:20.507-05:002012-02-23T22:48:20.507-05:00Pipeline goes to New Orleans or Vancouver, either ...Pipeline goes to New Orleans or Vancouver, either way China gets the tar sands oil and we don't get none.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-69736395865595772082012-02-23T22:44:38.118-05:002012-02-23T22:44:38.118-05:00What Y0U don't understand, Bob, is when the pi...What Y0U don't understand, Bob, is when the pipeline goes through my gasoline gets More expensive.Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-25695184064022887962012-02-23T22:42:13.889-05:002012-02-23T22:42:13.889-05:00No thanks, I pass.No thanks, I pass.Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-50527443332711414372012-02-23T22:41:21.730-05:002012-02-23T22:41:21.730-05:00Pipelines are the safest, most reliable, economica...<i>Pipelines are the safest, most reliable, economical and environmentally favorable way to transport oil and petroleum products, as well as other energy liquids, throughout the U.S. Nearly every gallon of gasoline or diesel fuel used in Nebraska is transported via pipeline.</i><br /><br /><a href="http://www.jobsandenergy.org/Facts/OgallalaAquifer.html" rel="nofollow">Check The Facts</a><br /><br />Obama recently <i>blamed the Republicans</i> for the pipeline decision.<br /><br />Rufus probably believes him.Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.com