Politics

[Scott CWO]

When you argue with a guy who probably had to make 4 or 5 attempts to pass the BAR exam......lol

Well I’m sure he will be along shortly to attempt to set the record straight. Lol. Or he might be busy today shaking down businesses who had an employee abuse a child. Horrible but hardly the fault of the company. Personal accountability matters for nothing anymore, especially with lawyers chasing dollars and cast as big of a net as they can to make their 40%. What a job!

 

[Brent in Az]

Well I’m sure he will be along shortly to attempt to set the record straight. Lol. Or he might be busy today shaking down businesses who had an employee abuse a child. Horrible but hardly the fault of the company. Personal accountability matters for nothing anymore, especially with lawyers chasing dollars and cast as big of a net as they can to make their 40%. What a job!

Call 1-800- Mesothelioma

 

[deewayne2003]

Weren't folks just trying to blame the dems for HOAs yesterday on this thread? Something something deep red Texas and Florida...something something freedom....

Oh there we go again.....

You have no counter so blah blah blah, some one else was blaming something so therefore blah blah blah.

Your blanket generalizations and false correlation is the hall mark of a person arguing from a disingenuous stance(either aware or unaware of their delusion) for the sake of being obtuse because you have no way of rebutting the facts before you so you try to pivot away and attribute the thinking of others to people where there is no correlation so that you can discount the facts presented by others(you see as your lessors) and thus deem rebuttal beneath you.

After 10 years of living in Austin Texas I'm used to people dancing mental gymnastics so that faulty logic and desire to see the world through victim eyes will keep you in the self elevated position of being the righteous one who is defending the castle walls from the philistines of thought that are beneath you........

Good luck with that

 

[Rocked and Loaded]

So..is the Pope a libtard now..? Since he disagree with Trump..?

I wouldn’t insult him out of respect for my catholic friends but I also don’t know why I, as an American and a Protestant myself, would care what he said about anything?

He certainly hasn’t been pope long enough to get the world’s attention like John Paul II.

 

[deewayne2003]

You don’t learn. A few other members here have listed how a lot of immigrant crime doesn’t reach your beloved statistics. Yes, plenty of academic institutions are completely out of touch with reality. That’s incredibly apparent to most people.

Like I said, your statistics rely on arrest and court records that are incomplete. Garbage in, garbage out.

Reminds me of the California statistics about illegal immigrant inmates and crimes committed through a survey of inmates.

It was touted far and wide as the results showed that illegal immigrants had a lower offence rate, until it came out later that the survey had the inmates self report crimes; however when their offense records were checked it showed that the INMATES LIED on the survey and they were actually 3x higher for felonies.

Food for thought..... In California federal prisons, on average 25% of the inmates are criminal illegal aliens serving time for felony crimes; while only 5-6% of the state population are illegal immigrants = a 5X over representation compared to population size.

Then there is Washington State: Who does not prosecute illegals on the state level for "non violent offenses" and the illegals know this well.

I watched a documentary where an illegal Mexican immigrant was caught with 55 POUNDS of meth; the state narcotics agent said....
"Because of state law we do not send illegals convicted of non violent drug offences to prison, he will most likely spend a year in county jail and then be deported; just like he was 3 years ago for the same offense."

Illegal immigrant previously convicted and deported career drug trafficker getting 1 year and deported while a US citizen would be looking at mandatory life in prison .........

The definition of unequal enforcement of the law!

 

[mdwest]

Iran declares Strait of Hormuz open to shipping; Trump says U.S. blockade still active

The Strait of Hormuz has remained almost completely closed as the U.S. and Iran have disputed the terms of their ceasefire agreement.

www.cnbc.com

Iran has now decided that the Strait of Hormuz is open...

Trump thanked them..

and then advised them (and everyone else) that the blocade is still in place lol..

So.. anything coming in or out of Kuwaiti, UAE, Qater, Iraq, Saudi, Bahrain, etc ports should be good to go at this point (at least until Iran decides to change its mind again).. while nothing is allowed to enter or leave any Iranian port..

the next couple of days should be interesting..

 

[deewayne2003]

And what does oil rights in Indonesia have to do with anything we were discussing. Talk about a red herring man.

The oil rights have to do with the man Obama that you obviously love his green energy spending; that lets face it was nothing but a cash cow hand out to the companies soaking up billions in government subsidies.

I notice how you didn't make the correlation between Obama crying about climate change and blah blah blah, but he buys a $6mil beach house on Marthas Vineyard .... Guess he's really not worried about sea levels rising after all????

So you have Obama crying about climate change and handing out billions in "green energy" subsidies why collecting $200mil a year from fossil fuels..... Seem a bit disingenuous?

And to the immigration point.... YOU stated that Obama deported more people as a point of pride and fact while you never mentioned the fact that he had more illegals enter despite the reported deportation numbers; so you're doing exactly what Obama wanted you to do.

Talk about what the right hand is doing while ignoring that the left hand is providing support for illegal immigration.

 

[Tundra Tiger]

So..is the Pope a libtard now..? Since he disagree with Trump..?

I was raised Catholic - my first 18ish years. I am no longer Catholic; I do not agree with many of their teachings. I do believe the Pope is a 'libtard', though I disagree with him on this. I consider myself conservative, and I am a registered Republican, though I disagree with Trump a lot. I think labels get thrown around a lot way too easily by people who don't have much more to offer.

 

[Brent in Az]

Iran has always proven to be devious and untrustworthy.
I wonder what they will try and pull next?

 

[Rocked and Loaded]

I was raised Catholic - my first 18ish years. I am no longer Catholic; I do not agree with many of their teachings. I do believe the Pope is a 'libtard', though I disagree with him on this. I consider myself conservative, and I am a registered Republican, though I disagree with Trump a lot. I think labels get thrown around a lot way too easily by people who don't have much more to offer.

Are you seriously suggesting that our opinions on politics can be on a spectrum and that those who disagree with us might not be enemies deserving of hatred? That people like the pope, Obama, or even Trump may be wrong about some things but right about others?

 

[BTB Joe]

Considering that almost half of the coal is mined out of the Powder River Basin. Its very relevant, the leases are also renewed from time to time (~20years) thats even more relevant. That's when you renegotiate based upon the new market rate. That's what we would call capitalism. Unless of course you're advocating against capitalism? Intentionally keeping/creating favorable market conditions is a form of subsidies.

My issue with your original post was your suggestion that coal was heavily subsidized until the Obama administration. I hear/have heard many people say with confidence that coal is subsidized but it seems they are unable to identify the subsidies.
You pointed to PRB royalties but I don’t think your recent post supports the argument. Even if PRB royalties are intentionally low, they affect half of the industry production (actually less than half and only a few companies) not the whole industry. But are they intentionally low? The leases are auctioned to the highest bidder. As I said, there are many reasons that PRB coal doesn’t get a premium. For example, I googled spot prices for US coal today: from EIA.gov.

The “relevance” issue I raised is related to the supporting evidence you provided re gov leases vs private leases. It seems to me that you didn’t acknowledge that and deflected to question my commitment to capitalism. If BLM auctioned tracts of pine in the west at a fraction of the stumpage paid for premium northeast cherry or white oak, would you claim that as evidence that the US gov is subsidizing the timber industry?
There are many good discussions to be had regarding the proper energy mix for the US; coal subsidies not much there to discuss… Happy to participate while I wait for my flight. Leaving for Namibia tomorrow. This is a hunting site right?

 

[Tundra Tiger]

I was raised Catholic - my first 18ish years. I am no longer Catholic; I do not agree with many of their teachings. I do believe the Pope is a 'libtard', though I disagree with him on this. I consider myself conservative, and I am a registered Republican, though I disagree with Trump a lot. I think labels get thrown around a lot way too easily by people who don't have much more to offer.

Stupid autocorrect... that should have said I do NOT believe the Pope is a libtard... ugh.

 

[Rocked and Loaded]

Stupid autocorrect... that should have said I do NOT believe the Pope is a libtard... ugh.

Too late. You made the Pope’s hit list.

 

[Brent in Az]

Crude oil prices are plunging

 

[SS1]

#2 home heating oil already dropped 30 cents overnight here in Maine, that helps.

 

[tinktink12]

 

[jeanes]

Crude oil prices are plunging

Makes you wonder where the panic postings of the price of crude went.

 

[tinktink12]

 

[Altitude sickness]

I wonder how many got caught today when oil prices collapsed. If they went too long in the market.

 

[WAB]

I wonder how many got caught today when oil prices collapsed. If they went too long in the market.

The sophisticated traders put a limit on their downside. That should have included all of the major trading houses, but crazier things have happened.