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   LC Xystus growls and barks:

   April 8, 2012 at 03:48

   This oughta be posted far & wide.
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   LC Jackboot IC/A growls and barks:

   April 8, 2012 at 06:23

   How about a warning for the glare off of Schumers dome, eh?
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   BrendaK growls and barks:

   April 8, 2012 at 06:53

   Posted, sure — but it would be great for the RNC to make an advertisement featuring Nancy, et al., discussing how terrible the gas prices are. You know, one of those ‘Nancy Pelosi and ** agree, gas prices are an outrage!”, then run clips that must exist of them complaining about the high prices. “And that was when gas was only 3 dollars a gallon!”

   Hoist then on their own petard, with their own bombast. You’re welcome, RNC.
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   LC Gunsniper growls and barks:

   April 8, 2012 at 09:02

   Several dozen copies of that picture taped like post-it notes to as many gas pumps would send a message to the masses.
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   Cactus Jack growls and barks:

   April 8, 2012 at 10:22

   I can’t believe I can’t find any video of Barry bitching and moaning about Bush not doing something about gas prices. On the other hand, I think I will take about 150 or so copies of this, and a roll of tape, put them in my “Zombie Apocolypse” Edition Ford Ranger, and visit every gas pump I can find.
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   Jerry growls and barks:

   April 8, 2012 at 12:20

   In the Peoples Republic Of New Jersey, they’d be ripped down as quick as they are put up. Already seeing the “Yes We Can….Tax The Rich” and “Obama 2012″ bumper stickers on the hipster douchmobiles.
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   DJ Allyn, Private Citizen growls and barks:

   April 8, 2012 at 12:46

   Okay. How do YOU propose to bring down gas prices?

   [insert jeopardy theme music here]

   If you say “drill baby drill” or the magical Keystone Pipeline, then you are sadly mistaken. Sure, we would produce more oil, but its effect on the global oil prices would be negligible at best. Our supply and demand ceased being an issue thirteen years ago with the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 (CFMA).

   It used to be that to participate in the commodities market, you had to actually have a need for that commodity. In the case of the oil markets, the usual speculators were airlines, trucking companies, plastics manufacturers — customers. They also literally had to take possession of the oil once they bid on it and paid for it. Nowadays, you have people totally unrelated to the industry placing bets on commodity to artificially drive up the price and then “sell” that commodity at that price as it is needed. And right now, there is not fuck-all anyone can do about it.

   What exactly do you think the president is going to do about it? What CAN he do about it? Congress could do something about it, but they are so deep in Wall Street’s pockets that nobody is going to make an effort to change it.

   One of the major reasons for the high spike in oil prices is the saber-rattling against Iran. The fear that Iran will somehow get really stupid and shut down the Strait of Hormuz. (I’m imagining a contest between a flotilla of milk carton boats against our Navy)

   There is also the fact that the West is using sanctions to basically remove the oil that Iran sells on the global market thereby causing a supply interruption.

   The price hikes have almost nothing to do with reality. The COST of pumping the oil, delivering the oil, and refining the oil into gasoline hasn’t really changed. OUR demand has actually been going down while our supply has been going up. But because oil prices are set on the GLOBAL market, where India and China are demanding more and more of the supply, we are captive to THOSE markets as well.

   I don’t have a problem building that magical pipeline, or drilling wherever you think there is oil. I say go for it. I just don’t see it changing anything at all.

   The Keystone XL pipeline will be approved, but not while there is an election looming. Political realities will always trump what SHOULD be done, and I don’t care WHO the president is. The political reality on this one is that there are just enough butterfly-chasing environmentalists out there who would be unhappy enough not to vote in November if the Obama administration went ahead and gave its blessing to the Keystone XL pipeline right now. He can deal with the accusations of “betrayal” in January, but it would sink him if he did it right now.

   He certainly isn’t going to do that knowing that it wouldn’t make one bit of difference if he DID approve it right now.

   Yeah, I can hear your arguments about how he shouldn’t put votes in front of what he “should” be doing. That is easy for you to say considering you DON’T want to see him re-elected.

   Until something is done about the casino-style pricing scheme on oil, this is the future we are forced to look at.
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   Library Czar growls and barks:

   April 8, 2012 at 13:45

   Usually I don’t even read DJ’s comments. This one I am going to throw the bullshit flag and give a 20 yard penalty and loss of down. All it would take to lower the price of energy would be for O’dumbears to announce that we are going to “drill baby drill.” I’ve worked in the oil industry in the past, as So Cal Oil Man has, but does not comment about it very often. I suspect that like me he has signed confidentiality agreements with the oil companies.

   Want to drill in Vietnam, call the Americans, British, French, Canadians. Want to drill in Eastern China and Mongolia, call the Americans, British, Canadians, or French. Want to drill in H2S infested Indonesia fields, call the Americans, British, French, or Canadians (You can throw Danish and Norwegian in any of these also). Want to drill in any Arab Hellhole call the British, French, American, Canadian etc… Why is it that oil and gas exploration is almost exclusively a western nation activity? Should we as the Organization of Fuel Using Countries (OFUC) (Yes I stole that) tell the rest of the world lower oil prices or we are going to take our toys and go home and you can fend for yourselves?

   Does anyone see a pattern here? I have friends that have worked in all these third would shitholes. Gas is often 25 cents to 1 dollar a gallon in these countries. Gas prices here are artificially inflated by speculation and extreme government taxation. Oil companies make about 10 cents on a given gallon while the government makes 80 cents on that same gallon. Flood the market with cheap oil and the price of gas will come down immediately. Its not rocket science.
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   LC Gunsniper growls and barks:

   April 8, 2012 at 13:47

   Okay. How do YOU propose to bring down gas prices?

   Open up public lands to exploration and drilling while taking the envirophonies out to the woodshed.

   Open up the Gulf of Mexico, coasts of California and Alaska and other offshore sites for exploration and drilling.

   Expand and enhance our refining capacities to a level commensurate with our superpower size rather than that of a third-world hovel.

   Expand our energy production with nuclear power plants especially to replace oil fired power plants. I’d even be fine with putting the U.S. Navy in charge since they have the most experience and success with utilizing nuclear power.

   Work more closely with our Canadian neighbors to develop our energy resources assuming little Lord jugears hasn’t fucked up that possibility beyond repair.

   Expand and enhance our refining capacities to a level commensurate with our superpower size rather than that of a third-world hovel.

   Shitcan ethanol production completely as the waste of time, energy, resources and money it is.

   Most importantly though, is to restore reasonable value to the Dollar instead of letting it crash and burn like the current administration wants.

   All of this flies in the face of “political realities” certainly but I’m not interested in such nonsense. America has the best chance to be restored and put back on the right track with what I call the “Pinochet Gambit”. Our current collection of political and bureaucratic misfits need to be removed from their positions of power, if necessary by force, and replaced with leadership that is sworn to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic and to bear true faith and allegiance to the same (hint hint).
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    Cactus Jack growls and barks:

    April 8, 2012 at 15:14

    

    “Little Lord jugears”
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    LC Xystus growls and barks:

    April 8, 2012 at 15:59

    Okay. How do YOU propose to bring down gas prices?

    Actually–until you asked–we didn’t. It’s just a matter of politics, goose sauce = gander sauce, turnabout is fair play & all that. Of course, since you’ve already determined by your secret arts that the GOP doesn’t want to win the WH, maybe these political proposals of ours will fall on the proverbial deaf ears.
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    Cactus Jack growls and barks:

    April 8, 2012 at 16:08

    Don’t forget taking a couple of billion extra “solyndra bucks” and building new, high tech refineries.
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    Mark12A growls and barks:

    April 8, 2012 at 16:24

    Whether or not Il Douche can do anything about gas prices may not be the only point in this discussion. One of the reasons for higher gas prices is the devaluation of the dollar, and that’s all on The Lightbringer. You can be well certain that he’s not going to do what needs to do to solidify the dollar.

    Nope, the shoe’s on the left foot now, with all the crap splashed on GW Bush about high gas prices, but The Dipshit In Chief gets a complete pass. Nope, this is hurting everyone and I want everyone to blame COOTUS. It may be the only campaign promise he keeps…to get gas prices to $5 a gallon.
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    Emperor Misha I growls and barks:

    April 8, 2012 at 18:02

    DJ Allyn, Private Citizen says:

    If you say “drill baby drill” or the magical Keystone Pipeline, then you are sadly mistaken. Sure, we would produce more oil, but its effect on the global oil prices would be negligible at best. Our supply and demand ceased being an issue thirteen years ago with the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 (CFMA).

    Not your usual “oil is exempt from the laws of supply and demand because… I said so!” bullshit, please.

    *Yawn*

    Next.
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    Secondmouse growls and barks:

    April 8, 2012 at 18:22

    Well, that blows one theory. I was sure that Pelosi was a vampire, yet here she is, in direct sunlight. Special makeup, maybe?
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    DJ Allyn -- Pragmatist-at Large growls and barks:

    April 8, 2012 at 18:53

    Emperor Misha I says:

    Not your usual “oil is exempt from the laws of supply and demand because… I said so!” bullshit, please.

    Misha, oil prices have not tracked your “supply and demand” model for a long time. At least not as defined by OUR supply and OUR demand. As India and China demand continues to grow, that means that whatever is produced has to spread that much further.

    Our demand has actually been dropping, while our production has gone up, yet we are spending more money at the pump. We are also exporting more fuel now than we have in decades. So much for OUR supply and demand making a difference in price.

    Speculation is said to add roughly $23.39 to a barrel of crude, which translates to 56 cents a gallon at the pump.

    Even when I quote a right wing site such as The Daily Caller you can get an idea that it is MUCH more than a simple “drill, baby drill” solution.

    One major contributor to rising oil and gasoline prices is geopolitical turmoil. Legitimate concerns about the future supply of Iranian oil amid continued uncertainty about Iran’s nuclear ambitions are doubtlessly boosting oil prices. Iran has even threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz in the Mediterranean Sea, a vital gateway for shipping that carries more than one-third of the world’s seaborne-traded oil. Anxiety regarding Iran is heavily impacting the speculation and trading of oil on global markets.

    Increasing demand for oil in developing countries like China and India, which are rapidly industrializing, is also partly responsible for the rising prices.

    Another factor affecting pump prices — one that many Americans don’t appreciate — is the declining value of the American dollar and our nation’s loose monetary policy. Oil is more than a commodity; it’s an international currency that is traded on the global market in American dollars. As the value of the dollar falls, the price of a barrel of crude oil rises accordingly. If Congress were to begin taking steps to shore up our own economy by enacting policies that strengthen the American dollar, we could quickly see lower oil prices.

    Gasoline formulation should be looked into and changed for the near term at least — that would bring down the price at the pump.

    And by all means, drill for oil, and build your pipeline. It is still going to be priced and the WORLD price, not our price. But it isn’t going to be the magic pill you think it is going to be.

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    Emperor Misha I growls and barks:

    April 8, 2012 at 19:01

    DJ Allyn — Pragmatist-at Large @ #:

    Oh. So now it’s morphed into “supply is only ONE factor, and therefore it is irrelevant because… I said so!” I suppose the entire globe could then shut down production since, well… Who knows? It surely wouldn’t have any effect since supply is irrelevant.

    Hey, I got another one! We all know that speed is only one factor when it comes to traffic accidents. Others include weather, time of day, day of the week, major holidays etc. Ergo, we should immediately abandon all speed limits since it’s only ONE factor and therefore it is utterly irrelevant!

    Hey, I actually support that
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    Jaybear, Colonel of Imperial Ancient Artillery growls and barks:

    April 8, 2012 at 19:12

    DJ Allyn — Pragmatist-at Large says:

    And by all means, drill for oil, and build your pipeline. It is still going to be priced and the WORLD price, not our price. But it isn’t going to be the magic pill you think it is going to be.

    I seem to remember that one of the factors that brought the price down in 2006 was the talks about opening up drilling and exploration. Deej, like you said earlier, it’s a speculators market and that kind of talk is sure to stampede them…..imagine what walking the talk would do.

    I believe the next major war will happen over oil, one of those middle eastern theocracies will do something completely insane and the world will go to war, their trump card will be to cut off oil jack up the prices and make it too expensive for us and the good guys to effectively wage a modern war. The sooner we have an independant supply, and can tell opec and the other oil pimps to stick their pipelines where the sun don’t shine, the better off we will be.
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    Tallulah growls and barks:

    April 8, 2012 at 20:04

    You folks need to see this article:

    [Former Steven Spielberg producer] Viviano said that when she and her co-workers informed Hillary campaigners that they were making a film about voter fraud, “the floodgates opened.”

    “I mean, everybody had a story to tell about death threats, threats, intimidation, document falsifying, vandalism, property theft,” she said. “It was the most horrible thing I’ve ever heard in my life.”

    Viviano said that in research for the film, allegations and evidence [from DEMOCRATS] that Obama was not eligible “came up immediately.”

    “We were getting hit with so many things about Obama,” she said. “This is when (Bill) Ayers and (Rashid) Khalidi were in the news, and then, all of a sudden, ‘Oh, and he’s not eligible to be president.’”

    Viviano insisted to WND that her reason for speaking out now was not related to the fact that Obama beat Hillary.

    “It’s not about Hillary,” she said. “It’s about No. 1, I’m American, I live in a country where there is a Constitution and a set of laws. I also have somebody in the White House who has lied, obfuscated, provided what we all know to be forged documents about who he is.”

    She acknowledges that she could jeopardize her Hollywood career.

    “What can you do?” she said. “It’s my country. My dad fought for this country in World War II in the 82nd Airborne.”

    Her late father, she noted, was shot down twice during the war and was awarded two Purple Hearts.

    “I think, would he rather have me sitting in the corner cowering, and afraid of people, or would he rather have me tell the truth and what I saw?”

    http://www.wnd.com/2012/04/hollywood-producer-heard-bill-clinton-say-obama-ineligible/
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    Tallulah growls and barks:

    April 8, 2012 at 20:09

    And here is a link to the documentary she made: WE WILL NOT BE SILENCED.

    We are Americans, not angry liberals.

    . . . We have interviews of many accounts from caucus states recounting threats, intimidation, lies, stolen documents, falsified documents, busing in voters in exchange for paying for “dinners,” etc. There are at least 2,000 complaints in Texas alone, of irregularities directed [by] the Obama Campaign, that have led to a very fractured and broken Democratic Party.

    This documentary is about the disenfranchising of American citizens by the Democratic Party and the Obama Campaign. We the People have made this film. Democrats have sent in their stories from all parts of America. We want to be heard and let the country know how our party has sanctioned the actions of what we feel are Obama Campaign “Chicago Machine” dirty politics.

    We believe this infamous campaign of “change” from Chicago encouraged and created an army to steal caucus packets, falsify documents, change results, allow unregistered people to vote, scare and intimidate Hillary supporters, stalk them, threaten them, lock them out of their polling places, silence their voices and stop their right to vote, which is, of course, all documented in “We Will Not Be Silenced.”

    “We Will Not Be Silenced” is about the people who fight back by simply telling their stories: Teachers, professors, civil rights activists, lawyers, janitors, physicists, ophthalmologists, accountants, mathematicians, retirees – all bound together by their love of America and Democracy. They will tell us their experiences and how they feel betrayed by their own party. They will discuss how their party has disenfranchised them and how, when they saw and reported multiple instances of fraud, everyone turned a blind eye.

    Rather than support and protect the voices and votes of its loyal members, the DNC chose to sweep this under the rug by looking the other way, or using ceremony and quasi-investigations to assuage angry voters. It is our opinion there never before has been such a “dirty” campaign; the campaign that has broken the hearts and spirits of American voters, who once believed in the Democractic voting system.

    We are not angry liberals; we are disappointed Democrats, who love our country and feel the DNC needs to stand for truth, care about its voter base and stop committing actions worse than what we only thought possible of the worst Republicans. The DNC and the Obama Campaign need to be held accountable for the catastrophe of the 2008 Democratic Primary. We must right their wrongs…after all, this is America, the Land of the Free, where every American has the right to a fair, honest voting process, and to have his or her vote counted…

    http://wewillnotbesilenced2008.com/index.htm
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    LC Ogrrre growls and barks:

    April 8, 2012 at 21:51

    Cactus Jack @ #: 12

    Don’t forget taking a couple of billion extra “solyndra bucks” and building new, high tech refineries.

    Ummm… No! BUT, tell the Earth Firsters, the Sierra Club, the Earth Defence Council, etc. that they lack standing to sue, and let the oil companies build new refineries. In fact, round up the members of any and all of these environmental groups and air drop them into North Korea … preferably without parachutes. This will accomplish two objectives of the enviro groups: reduce demand for petroleum products, and reduce the population of evil, non-natural human beings.
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    FrankOK growls and barks:

    April 8, 2012 at 22:04

    Again, I see much arguing re: “My side is better than your side” – I call BULLSHIT.

    The “talking points” of both major parties amount to no more than something to get the electorate to argue about while they – “they” meaning the supposed Republican and Democrat infestations of Washing ton DC – do what they damned well please knowing full well the majority of citizens, regardless of the sides they assign themselves, are being kept busy by the MSM and each other.

    There is no such thing as a good politician. They are professional liars and thieves. They have no intention of doing what the people who voted for them want them to do – that is not how the game is played. They want to become filthy rich and retire on our backs.

    If people, regardless of the side they assign themselves, were to unite against those bastards – the real enemies – it’s take 6 months to clean the piss out of both Congressional chambers.
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