tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post400158549772387679..comments2024-03-28T21:41:52.558-04:00Comments on The Elephant Bar: Rand Paul vs. the Vacuous David LettermanDeuce ☂http://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comBlogger68125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-1965137085618012222011-02-27T01:41:36.312-05:002011-02-27T01:41:36.312-05:00Louisiana Sweet is selling for $115.00/bbl; as is ...Louisiana Sweet is selling for $115.00/bbl; as is <a href="http://www.upstreamonline.com/marketdata/markets_crude.htm" rel="nofollow">Nigerian Bonny Light.</a><br /><br /><br />Nigeria's awfully quiet, Kemo Sabe.<br /><br />Too quiet, Tonto.Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-14248273656177007032011-02-26T23:27:38.117-05:002011-02-26T23:27:38.117-05:00Most of the wealthy pay about 17%, same as Warren ...Most of the wealthy pay about 17%, same as Warren Buffet. I doubt anyone here has had a year (well, not more than one, or two, anyway) when they paid that little in Federal taxes.<br /><br />Google pays about 2%, I believe, and Exxon Mobil pays none at all.Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-51374391951862953612011-02-26T23:21:23.714-05:002011-02-26T23:21:23.714-05:00Yeah, if we went North Ash would talk us to death....Yeah, if we went North Ash would talk us to death. :)Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-37205492764156995482011-02-26T22:59:46.328-05:002011-02-26T22:59:46.328-05:00Those seven new States fitting in perfectly with t...Those seven new States fitting in perfectly with the other parts of Old Mexico that have been seamlessly integrated into the United States.<br />California, Nevada, Colorado, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas.<br /><br />Not to mention Florida, which was Spanish, not Mexican.<br /><br />The US will be forced to act, it has happened before.<br /><br />Circles and cycles.<br /><br />There is no where else for US to grow, but south.desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-66098412441144161452011-02-26T22:52:10.959-05:002011-02-26T22:52:10.959-05:00We've invaded Mexico twice, whit, to quell the...We've invaded Mexico twice, whit, to quell the violence.<br /><br />The annexation of those seven northern Mexican States, where all the industrial base has been developed, I can see it coming.<br /><br />57 States of the American Union.<br /><br />Before I die, or there about.desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-80444446607747261812011-02-26T22:47:50.353-05:002011-02-26T22:47:50.353-05:00Obama, E, is working out, for me, better than GW B...Obama, E, is working out, for me, better than GW Bush did.<br /><br />We have recovered some of the losses caused by the Bush Team ineptitude at the SEC, HUD and lack of effective "jaw boning" of the Federal Reserve.<br /><br />Though the losses in real estate caused by the bush league quality, well, the total lack of effective oversight of Federally Chartered companies is legend.<br /><br />Since I've opted out of the personal income is paramount meme, my own lifestyle has much improved in the last two years.<br /><br />Whether that is to be credited to Mr Obama, Ayn Rand or myself, debatable.<br /><br />Who is John Galt?desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-79354089397533783872011-02-26T22:39:10.605-05:002011-02-26T22:39:10.605-05:00It is quite possible, Deuce, that the Israeli have...It is quite possible, Deuce, that the Israeli have infected the Iranian program.<br /><br />Good on them, if they did.<br /><br />The essential fact of the matter is clear...<br /><br />No overt military intervention was required.<br /><br />Not at all.desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-7905113879914302742011-02-26T21:16:02.765-05:002011-02-26T21:16:02.765-05:00Earlier this month Nuevo Laredo's police chief...<b>Earlier this month Nuevo Laredo's police chief Manuel Farfan - a former army officer - was shot dead along with two of his bodyguards.<br /><br />Last June, a candidate for the governor of Tamaulipas, Rodolfo Torre Cantu, was killed on the campaign trail in an attack blamed on drug gangs.</b>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-24259398720209918652011-02-26T21:14:03.124-05:002011-02-26T21:14:03.124-05:00Evil let loose:
Four dead bodies with their heads...Evil let loose:<br /><br /><b>Four dead bodies with their heads severed have been dumped in the Mexican city of Nuevo Laredo, close to the border with the US, police say.<br /><br />Gunmen laid the decapitated bodies out on a sheet in a central square in full view of horrified pedestrians.<br /><br />On the sheet was a written message from the Gulf drugs cartel to a rival gang.<br /><br />Beheadings have become a feature of the violent struggle between Mexican drugs gangs fighting for control of smuggling routes into the US.<br /><br />More than 34,600 people have died in drug-related violence in Mexico since December 2006, when President Felipe Calderon began deploying the army to fight the cartels.</b>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-51608721649024081102011-02-26T20:35:59.525-05:002011-02-26T20:35:59.525-05:00“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of g...“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government..."<br /><br />Which is a really awesome thing to remark when what we have is a very neat depotism.<br /><br />And that's okay.<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uy8N0PGvq8Atrishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14139410627244875589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-25491347922072659292011-02-26T18:01:50.884-05:002011-02-26T18:01:50.884-05:00"I don't think that you know what's g..."I don't think that you know what's going on."<br /><br />I think you may know a lot more than me. I think that may go without saying.<br /><br />I don't think you know everything.trishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14139410627244875589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-11738724498837756042011-02-26T17:56:04.354-05:002011-02-26T17:56:04.354-05:00I have conversations with people who aren't en...I have conversations with people who aren't entirely themselves.<br /><br />I take that for granted.<br /><br />And I don't know why.<br /><br />I should be going insane and I don't know why I'm not.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />I don't think that you know what's going on.<br /><br />That doesn't comfort me either.trishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14139410627244875589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-49607272734541902672011-02-26T17:54:11.035-05:002011-02-26T17:54:11.035-05:00It would be interesting to speculate with a few of...It would be interesting to speculate with a few of you over dinner, unfortunately not tonight.Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-37886297387402330702011-02-26T17:52:03.569-05:002011-02-26T17:52:03.569-05:00I will continue to examine it over dinner.I will continue to examine it over dinner.Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-63826424999995189902011-02-26T17:51:25.410-05:002011-02-26T17:51:25.410-05:00Pardon me while I go to a Viet restaurant in Chin...Pardon me while I go to a Viet restaurant in Chinatown for some Pho Ga (chicken soup), and a grilled redfish fish in Banana leaves. <br /><br />Pa being a state liquor controlled monopoly, I will be forced to bring my own beer. <br /><br />Can't get into Vietnamese food with wine. if you figure anything out in my absence, feel free to share.Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-26424303356453008182011-02-26T17:50:37.752-05:002011-02-26T17:50:37.752-05:00Blue, it shows up in some odd way in C. S. Lewis. ...Blue, it shows up in some odd way in C. S. Lewis. Or Chesterton. Not to mention online.<br /><br />And then I think, Holy cow, I'm just here all alone.<br /><br />And why should that be?trishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14139410627244875589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-79412628279273502392011-02-26T17:44:43.327-05:002011-02-26T17:44:43.327-05:00Have you?Have you?trishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14139410627244875589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-37577142634793193952011-02-26T17:41:05.870-05:002011-02-26T17:41:05.870-05:00Have you examined the possibility of possibly noth...Have you examined the possibility of possibly nothing?Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-7143285290419760002011-02-26T16:59:51.808-05:002011-02-26T16:59:51.808-05:00I don't know what any of you are looking for.I don't know what any of you are looking for.trishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14139410627244875589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-87267500081188576622011-02-26T16:58:26.230-05:002011-02-26T16:58:26.230-05:00She blows the ash off her keyboard.She blows the ash off her keyboard.trishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14139410627244875589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-45540381958797946402011-02-26T16:37:49.370-05:002011-02-26T16:37:49.370-05:00That's awesome, T.That's awesome, T.trishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14139410627244875589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-8560358162927737842011-02-26T16:29:41.803-05:002011-02-26T16:29:41.803-05:00Alexander Tytler:
“A democracy cannot exist as a ...Alexander Tytler:<br /><br />“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been 200 years.”Teresitahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05528002521904908827noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-28358228910921170762011-02-26T16:12:19.386-05:002011-02-26T16:12:19.386-05:00"Why not think of yourself as collateral dama..."Why not think of yourself as collateral damage?"<br /><br />Because I don't think that any of us should think of ourselves as collateral damage.trishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14139410627244875589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-59227534287933094682011-02-26T15:55:21.266-05:002011-02-26T15:55:21.266-05:00Elk That Got Away<a href="http://biggeekdaddy.com/miscvideos/elkthatgotaway.html" rel="nofollow">Elk That Got Away</a>samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-74232843219054606322011-02-26T15:39:43.985-05:002011-02-26T15:39:43.985-05:00It's okay to capitalize a sentence, you know.
...It's okay to capitalize a sentence, you know.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />I will NEVER put bacon in waffles.trishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14139410627244875589noreply@blogger.com