The chief executive of the world's largest energy company [Alexey Miller] has issued the most dire warning yet about the soaring the price of oil, predicting that it will hit $250 per barrel "in the foreseeable future".
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
$250 a barrel
Remember that this is a dirty Russian scumbag talking, but he's a very powerful Russian scumbag.
If You Have to Have Anal Cancer..
May as well make a few bucks out of the deal. You're so brave, Farrah! (I think I just vurped).
Saturday, June 7, 2008
US Immigration Policy
I try not to be frustrated and angry, but then I read things like this. Gonzaga wants to recruit a shooting guard from Canada, but...
Even if the State Department thinks it's possible for a 7 year old child to fake being a refugee in order to hatch his mastermind terrorist plot--which is a bit of a stretch, I should hope--does his behavior over the last 13 years count for nothing?
I don't think the State Department is keeping him out because they think he's a terrorist. Even the drooling, giggling beasts at the INS aren't *that* stupid. I'm sure the young man is being turned down because some part of the process can't be fulfilled the way it normally is and it would put them in a position of having to rub a couple synapses together to work through. So they just reject the request and go put more coffee in their sippie cups because, well...fuck him--plenty of others standing in line.
Substantial reform of the State Department (and especially the INS and immigration law, since I mentioned it) would be enough to make a Obama a "good" president in my eyes. The task has to be daunting, at best.
Kong, 20, is originally from Sudan, which is listed by the United States as a state sponsor of terrorism. Although he has lived in Canada since age 7, he does not hold citizenship there. He has been denied a visa to study in the United States three times, and it is unclear if he will ever satisfy the requirements for entry.
Even if the State Department thinks it's possible for a 7 year old child to fake being a refugee in order to hatch his mastermind terrorist plot--which is a bit of a stretch, I should hope--does his behavior over the last 13 years count for nothing?
I don't think the State Department is keeping him out because they think he's a terrorist. Even the drooling, giggling beasts at the INS aren't *that* stupid. I'm sure the young man is being turned down because some part of the process can't be fulfilled the way it normally is and it would put them in a position of having to rub a couple synapses together to work through. So they just reject the request and go put more coffee in their sippie cups because, well...fuck him--plenty of others standing in line.
Substantial reform of the State Department (and especially the INS and immigration law, since I mentioned it) would be enough to make a Obama a "good" president in my eyes. The task has to be daunting, at best.
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Oh Johnny
Johnny Mac looks like a Jr. High Dorkus Aerileus up there. I knew he was a pretty lousy speech-maker, but this was just painful to watch and listen to.
You're giving a speech, Senator, not reading a limerick. And even if you were, it's not funny. And even if it was funny, your delivery makes it fall flat. McCain needs to stick with town halls and debates--this speech making just isn't for him and, at his age, he ain't gonna learn how to do it quickly enough.
You're giving a speech, Senator, not reading a limerick. And even if you were, it's not funny. And even if it was funny, your delivery makes it fall flat. McCain needs to stick with town halls and debates--this speech making just isn't for him and, at his age, he ain't gonna learn how to do it quickly enough.
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Relax, Ds. Relax
So much fretting about whether Obama can win...please. Forget about Dick Morris, Karl Rove, and Ohio. Who phukin cares about them?
As an armchair pundit, it's easy to see Obama winning the following states:
That puts him at 286 electoral votes--16 over the 270 level necessary to win. McCain will probably have these states lined up:
That puts him at 93 electoral votes--177 shy of the necessary majority. Which, of course, means he would *have* to win Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Arkansas, North Dakota, Tennessee, Michigan, Indiana, Georgia, Alaska, *and* Nevada *and* steal a few states from Obama just to win a razor thin majority of electoral votes. All Obama has to do is win over a state or two (or not) and walk into the Oval Office.
It's not that Obama could not lose, but the task presented McCain is so overwhelming, I don't think the best GOP candidate on her best day could pull it off.
As an armchair pundit, it's easy to see Obama winning the following states:
| WA |
| OR |
| CA |
| CO |
| NM |
| KS |
| MO |
| SD |
| MN |
| WI |
| IL |
| LA |
| MS |
| SC |
| NC |
| NY |
| VT |
| ME |
| CT MA |
| RI |
| NJ |
| NH |
| IA |
| DC |
| MD HA |
That puts him at 286 electoral votes--16 over the 270 level necessary to win. McCain will probably have these states lined up:
| MT |
| WY |
| ID |
| UT |
| NE |
| AL |
| TX |
| KY |
| WV |
| AZ |
| OK |
That puts him at 93 electoral votes--177 shy of the necessary majority. Which, of course, means he would *have* to win Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Arkansas, North Dakota, Tennessee, Michigan, Indiana, Georgia, Alaska, *and* Nevada *and* steal a few states from Obama just to win a razor thin majority of electoral votes. All Obama has to do is win over a state or two (or not) and walk into the Oval Office.
It's not that Obama could not lose, but the task presented McCain is so overwhelming, I don't think the best GOP candidate on her best day could pull it off.
Monday, June 2, 2008
Lugubrious
Lugubrious:
adj. Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
adj. Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
A word I haven't used since college, probably, but the only one I can think of now. Will the Clintons please leave? Andrew Sullivan opines here and is pretty close to spot on, but it's not hard to do just that--meaning, not hard to report the very palpably obvious. Sullivan goes on to talk of McCain and Obama and how he looks very much forward to a McCain-Obama debate, as do I. But back to Hillarah (a constant theme), I think of the McCarthy hearings and the question directly posited him: "Have you no shame?" I wouldn't begin to compare Hillary Clinton to McCarthy, but I would ask her that same question.
Won more of the popular vote?! One gets a feeling that she is starting to believe her own bullshit. Caucus states, literally, don't count as part of the equation? She doesn't think that a single person in Michigan would have voted for Obama if he put his name on the ballot? She doesn't think the election dynamics would have changed a slight bit if they could both campaign in Florida? I've already said too much.
Her popular vote claim is not only very easily disputed and argued, one wonders what she intends to get out of it. It seems quite clear that she is all too willing to subvert the leading candidate of her party for personal gain/vindication. I truly believe that, at this moment, she hopes for a failure of the Obama presidency so she can say "I told you so."
It has to hurt. She had everything going for her until this uppity Negro inspired a movement and beat her--and narrowly at that, which makes it all the more bitter. But she is going out with such a lack of grace that she is actually staining everything both she and her husband worked for and accomplished. It didn't have to be this way. She made it come to this. Ugly. Vulgar. Arrogant to the point that it approaches the behavior of a sociopath. Leveraging racism, playing sexism, all to infuse doubt into the decision of voting for the leading candidate of her party.
Her actions and words suggest naked aggression on acid--or at least a lot of whiskey--and makes one wonder, does she love herself more than her party and her country? The answer has to be yes, which should not only disqualify her from office, but should give one pause and ask the question inapplicable to McCarthy: "Why are you running for the Presidency of the US?" I would like to hear the answer from her after a dose of sodium-penathol.
Won more of the popular vote?! One gets a feeling that she is starting to believe her own bullshit. Caucus states, literally, don't count as part of the equation? She doesn't think that a single person in Michigan would have voted for Obama if he put his name on the ballot? She doesn't think the election dynamics would have changed a slight bit if they could both campaign in Florida? I've already said too much.
Her popular vote claim is not only very easily disputed and argued, one wonders what she intends to get out of it. It seems quite clear that she is all too willing to subvert the leading candidate of her party for personal gain/vindication. I truly believe that, at this moment, she hopes for a failure of the Obama presidency so she can say "I told you so."
It has to hurt. She had everything going for her until this uppity Negro inspired a movement and beat her--and narrowly at that, which makes it all the more bitter. But she is going out with such a lack of grace that she is actually staining everything both she and her husband worked for and accomplished. It didn't have to be this way. She made it come to this. Ugly. Vulgar. Arrogant to the point that it approaches the behavior of a sociopath. Leveraging racism, playing sexism, all to infuse doubt into the decision of voting for the leading candidate of her party.
Her actions and words suggest naked aggression on acid--or at least a lot of whiskey--and makes one wonder, does she love herself more than her party and her country? The answer has to be yes, which should not only disqualify her from office, but should give one pause and ask the question inapplicable to McCarthy: "Why are you running for the Presidency of the US?" I would like to hear the answer from her after a dose of sodium-penathol.
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