tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post1038332724969362430..comments2024-03-28T21:41:52.558-04:00Comments on The Elephant Bar: Obama Foreclosure-Prevention Initiative FailureDeuce ☂http://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comBlogger113125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-32257646390403336652010-08-04T00:44:43.450-04:002010-08-04T00:44:43.450-04:00Many homeowners are struggling to avoid losing the...Many homeowners are struggling to avoid losing their homes because of the dreaded foreclosure proceedings. Aside from the worsening economic condition, there are others reasons of having to face foreclosure anywhere in the world. These reasons include failure to conduct extensive research before taking and signing a mortgage contract, the imprudent act of trusting bank representatives too much, and inability to choose the right mortgage company. Thankfully in <a href="http://nelsonsousa.ca" rel="nofollow">Fort Mcmurray, mortgage</a> brokers are available to give you an in-depth explanation of the contract you're signing for. I remember a <a href="http://nelsonsousa.ca/quick-application-form.php" rel="nofollow">mortgage broker in Calgary</a> who mentioned that choosing the right person or company to handle your mortgage processes is important to avoid problems with the overall mortgage applications. <br /><br />Thanks for sharing this informative post, Deuce!Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15126248267364870191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-47786361150703390322010-06-23T03:25:21.154-04:002010-06-23T03:25:21.154-04:00So the Obama admin and Mexico are in a class actio...So the Obama admin and Mexico are in a class action against Arizona?<br /><br />What the shit?<br /><br />mmm mm mmmsamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-16814696897100055272010-06-23T03:24:12.518-04:002010-06-23T03:24:12.518-04:00Arizona is bad.
Illegal immigration is good.
mmm...Arizona is bad.<br /><br />Illegal immigration is good.<br /><br />mmm mm mmmsamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-23175173798517416872010-06-23T03:22:56.809-04:002010-06-23T03:22:56.809-04:00Mexico is taking Arizona to court?
What the fuck?...Mexico is taking Arizona to court?<br /><br />What the fuck?samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-25488057815757434912010-06-23T02:30:53.064-04:002010-06-23T02:30:53.064-04:00"The reason large quantities of oil are not r..."The reason large quantities of oil are not reaching the surface is due to them using dispersents near the seafloor."<br /><br />Correction:<br /><br />Large quantities ARE reaching the surface, but large quantities that would have reached the surface are not because of subsea dispersants.Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-19510735476706933602010-06-23T02:28:39.895-04:002010-06-23T02:28:39.895-04:00Ethanol industry creates Top 10 enemies list. Fu...Ethanol industry creates <a href="http://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Biofuels/Ethanol-Industry-Produces-a-Top-Ten-Enemies-List.html" rel="nofollow"> Top 10 enemies list</a>. Funny how healthy industries never have time or inclination to do same. Can you imagine Google, Microsoft or Intel publishing a Top Ten Enemies list?<br /><br />I agree with the enemies - ethanol is a scam. Rufus, that makes you a scammer, in addition to being an economic knucklehead! :)j willienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-70133070875081410992010-06-23T02:27:15.433-04:002010-06-23T02:27:15.433-04:00desert rat said...
"The oil did not surface...desert rat said... <br /><br />"The oil did not surface, doug-o.<br /><br />Even I know that.<br /><br />There are huge underwater plumes, not a giant slick on the surface.<br /><br />All the skimmers in the whirled will not deal with those plumes.<br /><br />Especially if they make their way to the coastline, surfacing there.<br /><br />The vast majority of the oil is not skimmable, from what I've read. One of the major reasons, I'd assume, why the flow rates could be so easily misjudged, by all of those that were there, on the surface."<br />---<br /><br />Keeps on producing non factual bilge.<br /><br />The reason large quantities of oil are not reaching the surface is due to them using dispersents near the seafloor.<br /><br />Even so, there is still not sufficient skiming capcity in place to handle the problem, which is why you are (again) FOS.<br />And I don't mean sham or shame.<br /><br />The reasons for the misjudgement of the flow is that BP wanted to minimise it.<br />It could have been accurately measure in week one with equipment from Woods Hole.<br /><br />BP said they would just be getting in the way.<br /><br />...let's see a link that the "vast majority is underwater"<br /><br />But again, surface slicks vastly exceed skimming capcity in place at this moment.Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-77075594971625188452010-06-23T01:58:08.400-04:002010-06-23T01:58:08.400-04:00Sorry, that Anonymous above was me.Sorry, that Anonymous above was me.j willienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-90037901616564961902010-06-23T01:47:46.306-04:002010-06-23T01:47:46.306-04:00Deuce/Whit,
I agree with both of you that bankers...Deuce/Whit,<br /><br />I agree with both of you that bankers aren't bad. Government, acting on Democratic initiative and Republican passivity, passed the CRA, set up credit scoring, outlawed redlining (which made sense and still makes sense) and along with ACORN and Fannie/Freddie more or less forced traditional banks into making loans they wouldn't otherwise have made. Then the I-bankers got into the game, playing like hedge funds with OPM and that's all she wrote.<br /><br />You find a banker today that understands how to spell credit, much less how to manage it, and you will have found a rare bird. <br /><br /><br />DR,<br /><br />How much switchgrass, corn or sorghum are you growing? My guess is none, cause you are too busy flapping your lips and saying nothing on this website.<br /><br /><br />Rufus,<br /><br />Don't forget, I grew up on a cotton, soybean and rice farm in Tunica. When I see a ethanol plant in Tunica, I'll buy your ethanol BS, but until then, no sale. Tunica County, by the way, has some of the largest and most progressive (technologically and commercially, not politically) farmers in the Mid South. If there's money to be made at it, Tunica farmers will be doing it. Thus far, I haven't heard of any ethanol follies there.<br /><br />And, no I'm not in the oil business, but have found that site to be quite interesting.<br /><br />If DR would quit flapping his lips long enough to go read that article, he would see that it said, "This is not the end of the world. Less than 1% of the spilled oil is ending up on the beaches. Watch TV, and that is not 150,000 barrels on the beach in Pensacola, Florida. Most of the crude is being moved parallel to the coast by the current and will eventually end up in the mid-Atlantic, where it will break down or dissipate.<br /><br />Using the high end estimates, and assuming that it takes a year to run out, possibly 36 million barrels will end up in the sea (pressure is declining). This is the same amount of oil that was dumped into the Atlantic during WWII, when 452 tankers were sunk by German U-boats, mostly along the US east coast, and when tar on the beach was a daily occurrence."<br /><br />Nevertheless, those skimmers can save a lot of beaches and wildlife from ruin, and if Obama wasn't so busy playing golf, partying with McCartney and Stevie Wonder and protecting his union buddies come hell or high water or high oil in the water, he would clear out the Jones Act and any other regulatory bullshit that stands in the way of helping the Gulf Coast out. But that aint who he is. He's the ONE.j willienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-25071563219705015832010-06-23T01:20:08.267-04:002010-06-23T01:20:08.267-04:00A former North Korean agent -- who claimed she got...<i>A former North Korean agent -- who claimed she got orders from Kim Jong-Il to bomb a South Korean airliner in 1987 -- says she believes Kim also ordered the sinking of a South Korean warship in March.<br /><br />Kim Hyun-Hee, who was sentenced to death but later pardoned for her role in blowing up the plane with the loss of 115 lives, was quoted by the Monthly Chosun, a magazine published by Chosun Ilbo newspaper.<br /><br />...<br /><br />She married one of her security guards and is now in her late 40s.</i><br /><br /><a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hEG1A_ts8iaGE3-Tveh5iEXDjyzQ" rel="nofollow">Ship Attack</a>samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-69698860141098784042010-06-22T23:20:50.047-04:002010-06-22T23:20:50.047-04:00The Rand Corporation’s Stephen Larrabee, in an int...<i>The Rand Corporation’s Stephen Larrabee, in an interview with Bernard Gwertzman of the Council on Foreign Relations, cautions that US and Turkish interests “only partially coincide” in the Middle East. “It does not mean that Turkey is turning its back on the US or the West.<br /><br />It does not mean that its policies are becoming Islamized. The real issue is to manage those differences.”<br /><br />US management of such differences will require acute sophistication.</i><br /><br /><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20100621/cm_csm/309582" rel="nofollow">Moderate Islam</a>samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-61494385668088208502010-06-22T22:47:36.317-04:002010-06-22T22:47:36.317-04:00Anyone that tells you that the US is at "War ...Anyone that tells you that the US is at "War with Islam" is certifiably insane.<br /><br />Just look at the reality of what we are doing and it is clear that the US is not at all at "War with Islam".<br /><br />No, we are in league with the Wahhabi leadership, not at war with them.desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-80553778061910334132010-06-22T22:43:43.212-04:002010-06-22T22:43:43.212-04:00Better that we borrow money from Charlie Chi-com a...Better that we borrow money from Charlie Chi-com and give it to the Wahhabi.<br /><br />That, amigos mio, is truly entertainment.desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-36852870904198649732010-06-22T22:41:38.382-04:002010-06-22T22:41:38.382-04:00A member of good standing in the brotherhood of th...A member of good standing in the brotherhood of the Wahhabi.<br /><br />By word and deed.desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-14270527376011736442010-06-22T22:35:08.090-04:002010-06-22T22:35:08.090-04:00If we had kept that $4Trillion USD, in the United ...If we had kept that $4Trillion USD, in the United States, well, they say, it'd have not effected our economy.<br /><br />We would not have reinvested that cash flow, here in the US, to the betterment and greater prosperity of our society, oh no.<br /><br />Sending that money to the Persian Gulf, it makes no difference to US and our economy.<br /><br />Not according to j willie.desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-59768352646754509512010-06-22T22:32:00.588-04:002010-06-22T22:32:00.588-04:00But to grow switchgrass, and distill it to fuel, t...But to grow switchgrass, and distill it to fuel, that's counter productive.<br /><br />Uneconomical, they say.<br /><br />That transfer of wealth, the giant sucking sound...<br />Nothing to it, please, just move along. <br /><b>Everything is normal.</b><br /><br />Well the new normal, anyway.desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-27477422958002286422010-06-22T22:29:06.082-04:002010-06-22T22:29:06.082-04:00Plus the $ Trillion USD we have spent, to police t...Plus the $ Trillion USD we have spent, to police the region.<br /><br />So, doing the math, that puts US $4 Trillion out of pocket to Muslims, since the Wahhabi attacked NYCity, in 2001.desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-53042027581508564332010-06-22T22:27:10.118-04:002010-06-22T22:27:10.118-04:00In the nine years, since 9SEP01, we have paid to t...In the nine years, since 9SEP01, we have paid to the Wahhabi of the Persian Gulf, well over $3 TRILLION USD.<br /><br />Now that, amigos, is real tribute.<br /><br />Especially when our Army could have just taken those Saudi oil fields.<br />They've been in striking distance for what, eight years now.desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-25299180338670959432010-06-22T22:18:17.049-04:002010-06-22T22:18:17.049-04:00That's where the j willie's of the whirled...That's where the j willie's of the whirled stand today, with the Wahhabi, shoulder to shoulder.desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-29968102896965595732010-06-22T22:17:22.501-04:002010-06-22T22:17:22.501-04:00The money is spilling into the PERSIAN Gulf, rufus...The money is spilling into the PERSIAN Gulf, rufus, at the rate of $350 billion per year.<br /><br />The leak in the Gulf of Mexico, peanut dough by comparison.desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-44803725587243320142010-06-22T22:15:23.889-04:002010-06-22T22:15:23.889-04:00And despise the United States, wanting to see US o...And despise the United States, wanting to see US on our knees at worse, bowing to their royalty, at best.<br /><br />Support the oil companies, at the expense of Growth Energy, and that is where you stand.<br /><br />Truly and completely against the best interests of our country. <br /><br />Are those that are wanting to maintain the addiction to foreign oil, instead of getting the home grown substitute.<br /><br />Supporting the infrastructure that supports radical Islam, with their cash dollars. Fighting to maintain the status que of our transfer of wealth, to the Wahhabi.desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-48112027834530912672010-06-22T22:15:22.529-04:002010-06-22T22:15:22.529-04:00O's gotta fire him. He'll look pretty pis...O's gotta fire him. He'll look pretty piss weak if he doesn't.<br /><br />Actually, I think McChrystal will resign before he gets the chance.samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-45517831779285265532010-06-22T22:03:04.738-04:002010-06-22T22:03:04.738-04:00The general outsmarted Obama and Obama knows it.The general outsmarted Obama and Obama knows it.Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-90309289890710627022010-06-22T22:01:32.406-04:002010-06-22T22:01:32.406-04:00Maybe the general wants to run for something.Maybe the general wants to run for something.Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-59195964813073771492010-06-22T22:00:30.479-04:002010-06-22T22:00:30.479-04:00I agree with Whit's reading, but if Obama is f...I agree with Whit's reading, but if Obama is foolish enough to fire McChrystal, what does he think the general will say next?Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.com