tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post8151037877542765959..comments2024-03-29T06:35:11.321-04:00Comments on The Elephant Bar: Israel and Saudi Arabia Support al-Qaeda Operatives in SyriaDeuce ☂http://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-34742738557064485952014-03-21T22:54:03.911-04:002014-03-21T22:54:03.911-04:00?
You prove my point. It's that Rufus fellow ...?<br /><br />You prove my point. It's that Rufus fellow again.<br /><br />This place is a laughing stock. It's not a blog.<br /><br />NSA must have hooked in to the Rufus and Jack Hawkins email accounts and somehow it got here.<br /><br />Why even NSA would want to read this shit I don't know, but they seem to read anything. Maybe they want to get something more on Jack.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-52698798837326141632014-03-21T22:48:01.744-04:002014-03-21T22:48:01.744-04:00Well, anonymous, maybe we're just place-holdin...Well, anonymous, maybe we're just place-holding until someone shows up to tell us about their bathroom adventures.Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-89278187822819345342014-03-21T22:44:40.989-04:002014-03-21T22:44:40.989-04:00Charles Gaba is figuring
6.2 Million Exchange En...Charles Gaba is figuring <br /><br /><a href="http://acasignups.net/" rel="nofollow">6.2 Million Exchange Enrollments.</a><br /><br />Not quite 7 million, but pretty good, considering they lost a month and a half due to the website debacle.Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-70625961812834759382014-03-21T22:44:30.740-04:002014-03-21T22:44:30.740-04:00Why are about 98% of the comments on the last few ...Why are about 98% of the comments on the last few threads by this Jack Hawkins idiot and Rufus?<br /><br />Is this a blog or an e-mail correspondence?<br /><br />This place sucks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-79150475028783328732014-03-21T21:43:55.967-04:002014-03-21T21:43:55.967-04:00(CNN) -- A federal judge on Friday ruled that Mich...<br />(CNN) -- A federal judge on Friday ruled that Michigan's prohibition on same-sex marriage violates the U.S. Constitution, ordering the state to stop enforcing the ban.Jack Hawkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00342056653466462640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-9701378291587329742014-03-21T21:38:38.626-04:002014-03-21T21:38:38.626-04:00Well, here is some interesting news, from 'Fo...Well, here is some interesting news, from <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/brucejapsen/2014/03/21/another-sign-obamacare-works-wellpoint-boosts-profit-forecast/" rel="nofollow"> 'Forbes - the Capitalists Tool'</a><br /><br /><i><b>Another Sign ObamaCare Works: Wellpoint Boosts Profit Forecast</b><br /><br />Wellpoint WLP +0.06% Inc. (WLP), one of the nation’s largest health insurance companies, raised its full-year earnings forecast, citing more than 1 million new health plan members related in part to new business from the Affordable Care Act.<br /><br />When a company raises its earnings forecast, that means it will make more money than it originally thought. In Wellpoint’s case, the company raised its 2014 “earnings outlook from greater than $8.00 per share to greater than $8.20 per share,” company chief executive officer Joseph Swedish said this morning. Swedish cited “growth of 1 to 1.3 million net new medical members and mid-single digit percent increases in both operating revenue and operating gain.”<br /><br />Wellpoint specifically cited its ability to successfully manage new business coming from Americans signing up for coverage via the state and federal marketplaces known as exchanges. President Obama last week said that enough Americans have signed up to private health plans under the health law that it will work even though there could be up to two million fewer Americans covered than the White House had hoped.<br /><br />Wellpoint is a major operator of Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans, including those operated under the Anthem brand. In addition to selling health benefits to employers and individuals, Wellpoint is a major contractor to states and the federal government by providing coverage under Medicaid programs for the poor and the Medicare health insurance program for the elderly.<br /><br />“While it is early in 2014, we are encouraged by results thus far across our businesses and we believe exchanges are tracking our general expectations,” Swedish said in a statement released this morning prior to addressing analysts and investors at a conference in New York. “We are building on the positive operating momentum we’ve achieved across the organization over last year.”<br /><br />Wellpoint’s rhetoric is a continuation of positive financial projections that were issued in January and February during fourth-quarter earnings from insurers including Aetna AET +0.42% (AET), Cigna CI -0.91% (CI), Humana HUM -1.51% (HUM) and UnitedHealth Group UNH -0.23% (UNH).<br /><br />Insurance companies for much of this quarter having been telling Wall Street that they are going to be able to manage the first year of risk from newly insured customers buying subsidized private health plans via government-run exchanges. Under the law, millions of Americans can get subsidies to purchase an array of health plan choices.<br /><br />Swedish also indicated the business outlook for the insurance company wouldn’t be short-lived.<br /><br />“Our outlook also remains prudent in light of the dynamic nature of the marketplace, and we believe this is a point from which we will grow in the future,” Swedish said. “We have entered a period of tremendous change across the health care system and are confident that WellPoint has the leadership, assets and strategy to drive profitable growth over the next several years.”</i>Jack Hawkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00342056653466462640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-24167799978968139192014-03-21T19:24:05.335-04:002014-03-21T19:24:05.335-04:00We've, also, been proven right about Solar, an...We've, also, been proven right about Solar, and Wind, <br /><br />and if someone comes back in 5 more years, I think they'll say, "damn, that Rat and Rufus were Right about the 'Cellulosic Ethanol' thing." :)Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-16792947242629420712014-03-21T19:17:24.386-04:002014-03-21T19:17:24.386-04:00That should have been
Throw in ...
mea culpa.That should have been<br /><br /><b><i>Throw in ...</i></b><br /><br />mea culpa.Jack Hawkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00342056653466462640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-8927611241413204992014-03-21T19:16:17.874-04:002014-03-21T19:16:17.874-04:00
Instead you spent your time insulting a person MU...<br />Instead you spent your time insulting a person MUCH smarter than you have proved to be.Jack Hawkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00342056653466462640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-40033075502660487472014-03-21T19:13:52.188-04:002014-03-21T19:13:52.188-04:00Pirate, ranks right under 'Cowboy in the Jungl...Pirate, ranks right under 'Cowboy in the Jungle' on the list of favorites.<br /><br />Through in some Warren Zevon, and there we be.<br />Down in Honduras, surrounded by 'Lawyers, Guns and Money'.<br />Looking like an 'Expatriated American'. <br /><br />;-)Jack Hawkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00342056653466462640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-6919191924807228732014-03-21T19:09:24.248-04:002014-03-21T19:09:24.248-04:00
Switchgrass, grows up fresh each year, on those 3...<br />Switchgrass, grows up fresh each year, on those 300 million acres laying fallow ...Jack Hawkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00342056653466462640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-55533851554288031792014-03-21T19:01:08.654-04:002014-03-21T19:01:08.654-04:00A Pirate Looks at 40<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQGTaS0IFOs" rel="nofollow">A Pirate Looks at 40</a>Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-50070635811432960352014-03-21T18:57:45.512-04:002014-03-21T18:57:45.512-04:00Of the 18, I think it is, producing counties in N....Of the 18, I think it is, producing counties in N. Dakota, only 2 (McKenzie, and Mountrail) are still increasing production.<br /><br /><i>Never meant to last</i>Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-8419281834246647652014-03-21T18:55:30.053-04:002014-03-21T18:55:30.053-04:00If you will go
Here
you will see that they adde...If you will go <br /><br /><a href="https://www.dmr.nd.gov/oilgas/stats/historicalbakkenoilstats.pdf" rel="nofollow">Here</a><br /><br />you will see that they added <b>140 Producing Wells</b> to the N. Dakota Bakken in December, and January, and <br /><br /><b>Production Fell by 40,060 bbls / day.</b><br /><br />That is the kind of Decline Rate you're looking at with "Shale."Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-4251458567256054932014-03-21T18:51:23.187-04:002014-03-21T18:51:23.187-04:00You had your chance at the archive, you should hav...<br />You had your chance at the archive, you should have spent your time searching, fruitless as the search would have been.<br /><br />Instead you had other priorities, see where those got you.<br /><br />You should have spent your time reading Sun Tsu, like Ms T recommended ...<br /> but you wouldn't take advise from a woman, fool.<br />Jack Hawkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00342056653466462640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-11701674012530827702014-03-21T18:47:15.602-04:002014-03-21T18:47:15.602-04:00
;-)<br />;-)Jack Hawkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00342056653466462640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-29819596502900634002014-03-21T18:38:32.418-04:002014-03-21T18:38:32.418-04:00As for the "shale," it is a real thing, ...As for the "shale," it is a real thing, and it came along at a crucial time, BUT, remember that old Jimmy Buffet song "A Pirate turns 40"? <br /><br /><i>I made enough money to buy Miami, but I pissed it away so fast.<br /><br />Never Meant to Last. Never meant to last.</i>Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-26204114196510134152014-03-21T18:35:34.473-04:002014-03-21T18:35:34.473-04:00The spike after Ike was Thunderhorse coming online...The spike after Ike was Thunderhorse coming online. It was a 12 Year Project, and you see how long that production affected the overall trend.Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-51025030582403739832014-03-21T18:32:06.331-04:002014-03-21T18:32:06.331-04:00Katrina in 2005
Ike in 2008Katrina in 2005<br /><br />Ike in 2008Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-48728187982445209142014-03-21T18:25:54.765-04:002014-03-21T18:25:54.765-04:00Hurricanes.Hurricanes.Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-32082279079764666582014-03-21T18:25:05.043-04:002014-03-21T18:25:05.043-04:00trough___ I assume the second was the BP blowout f...trough___ I assume the second was the BP blowout fallout period.Jack Hawkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00342056653466462640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-66220070076136756052014-03-21T18:23:44.235-04:002014-03-21T18:23:44.235-04:00Why did GW have those huge troughs?Why did GW have those huge troughs?Jack Hawkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00342056653466462640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-51297480046175587982014-03-21T18:23:18.276-04:002014-03-21T18:23:18.276-04:00Shit, I should have looked at your chart, before a...Shit, I should have looked at your chart, before asking the question, not after.<br /><br />;-)Jack Hawkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00342056653466462640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-48336112605043208142014-03-21T18:21:34.860-04:002014-03-21T18:21:34.860-04:00Isn't Gulf production up from the Bush post Ka...Isn't Gulf production up from the Bush post Katrina, and then the early Obama pre BP blow-out days?<br /><br />Jack Hawkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00342056653466462640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-83318389828382364762014-03-21T18:17:20.127-04:002014-03-21T18:17:20.127-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Jack Hawkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00342056653466462640noreply@blogger.com