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.
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Why Kids Drink
And reason # 429,789,212 or so why Pinal County Arizona is vacuous blackhole for faith in mankind. A yearbook that has kids with tattoos and piercings?!?! Even alluding to potential homosexuality amongst the Student Body?!?! GASP! I haven't seen the high school yearbook in question, so I guess I shouldn't comment fully, but it's not like they showed kids hitting a bong or nudity or something clearly beyond the pale.
He is a parent, so he has every right to be concerned--more right than me, truthfully. But aren't there more important things to worry about than a couple tattoos or piercings? Once these kids try to get a job, they will realize that showing off your tramp stamp and/or the piercing in your eyeball is counter-productive to personal wealth and they will drop it. Well, most will--some will not. But need I remind the Reverend that he lives in *Pinal County, Arizona*? It's a divining rod for Caucasian refuse. What could he possibly expect--assuming he leaves the house now and then? And besides, as was stated in the uplifting script of Caddyshack, the world needs ditch-diggers too.
"To me it was glorifying things that were against the law for children in high school," said Van Camp, who is also pastor at the San Tan Heights Church.
He is a parent, so he has every right to be concerned--more right than me, truthfully. But aren't there more important things to worry about than a couple tattoos or piercings? Once these kids try to get a job, they will realize that showing off your tramp stamp and/or the piercing in your eyeball is counter-productive to personal wealth and they will drop it. Well, most will--some will not. But need I remind the Reverend that he lives in *Pinal County, Arizona*? It's a divining rod for Caucasian refuse. What could he possibly expect--assuming he leaves the house now and then? And besides, as was stated in the uplifting script of Caddyshack, the world needs ditch-diggers too.
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Check to You, W
Al Sadr makes a bloodless, and potentially brilliant, move. Do you really want democracy in Iraq, Mr. President? Enough to let the voice of the Iraqi people potentially tell you 'no more?' Guess we'll find out.
BTW, when a half-crazed murderer and all-around thug can consistently out-maneuver you...time to admit that politics just isn't your thing.
BTW, when a half-crazed murderer and all-around thug can consistently out-maneuver you...time to admit that politics just isn't your thing.
Kid of the Year Nominee
A High School kid decomposes a plastic bag in three months. Humility check for any of you out there who tout your own cerebral prowess.
Friday, May 23, 2008
Ask an Imam
All those burning questions..? Well, now you know.
The Imam should have answered with something like, "Sure, but that makes you pretty gross, Dude." I can't imagine sweat from anyone being to terribly tasty....
"Can I suck my wife's sweat after intercourse[?]"
The Imam should have answered with something like, "Sure, but that makes you pretty gross, Dude." I can't imagine sweat from anyone being to terribly tasty....
Monday, May 19, 2008
Endorsement of Endorsements
For a D, anyway--Obama in particular. The Sage of Omaha, William Buffet, endorses Obama. Talk about political cover! "Senator Obama, some charge that you will wreck the US economy with your _______ plan."
"Yeah, well, the richest stock market investor in the US supports me. Suck my balls."
Interesting to note that Buffet is looking for companies valued at 50mil euros, btw. Has the US dollar really started the process of losing its place as the world currency standard or is it just because the story came out of Frankfurt? Almost certainly the latter, but one wonders....
Best quote from the article for me:
Note to the GOP: OUCH!
"Yeah, well, the richest stock market investor in the US supports me. Suck my balls."
Interesting to note that Buffet is looking for companies valued at 50mil euros, btw. Has the US dollar really started the process of losing its place as the world currency standard or is it just because the story came out of Frankfurt? Almost certainly the latter, but one wonders....
Best quote from the article for me:
"They say in the stock market ... buy stock in a business that's so good that an idiot can run it because sooner or later one will," he added.
"Well, the United States is a little like that. We can take a little mis-management from time to time"
Note to the GOP: OUCH!
Ted Stevens in Trouble
Oh Blessed Day! Ted Stevens of Alaska is in great trouble. The GOP has lost 3 special elections in a row and one of their most senior members is in danger of losing his seat in the Senate. In a way, this might even be too good for the Ds. They are almost certain to have control of both houses of Congress and the Executive. They better be prepared to deliver. In the meantime, I'm just glad that the old guard of the GOP is showing just how anachronistic they are. It was almost like a bad dream that Americans are finally, and thankfully, waking up from. (Now if we can just get rid of the old guard of the Ds).
For your amusement, Senator Stevens explains the Internet and its tubes:
Saturday, May 3, 2008
If You Have a Gay Friend
Show him this:
If you don't have a gay friend, ignore this and--by all means necessary--KEEP IT AWAY FROM YOUR GIRLFRIEND. A Frenchman that lives with beautiful white horses on the beaches of southern France...? You can't compete Dude. Just can't.
If you don't have a gay friend, ignore this and--by all means necessary--KEEP IT AWAY FROM YOUR GIRLFRIEND. A Frenchman that lives with beautiful white horses on the beaches of southern France...? You can't compete Dude. Just can't.
Thursday, May 1, 2008
Joe Klein on Wright
Joe Klein seems to get it about right again.
Amen.
For all the palpable good that Wright has done his community, his parishioners have paid a subtle price, especially the younger, poorer, less educated ones. When he spreads canards like the one about the AIDS conspiracy, he is telling them that white power is so overwhelming that it's almost impossible to succeed. The success of Obama's candidacy sends the very opposite message, which may be why Wright is so threatened by it. If Obama wins the presidency—if we can break past the barrier of race—there won't be much of a market for oppression-thumping orators like Jeremiah Wright.
Amen.
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Sober Discussion in Politics?
Obama on gas prices. Man, I hope this guy wins. I think he's even more sick of the gimmickry in US Politics than I am.
Sunday, April 20, 2008
Chinese Discipline in the Schools
The Onion reports. When I think of the Chinese, "humor" doesn't leap to mind.
Meat in a Tube
Personally, I'm all for it. I don't eat beef or pork much at all anymore because of all the reports I've seen surrounding the livestock industry. Not only is it heinous at times, it has good potential of being unhealthy and even dangerous. But, we humans are set up to be omnivores--can't change that fact.
If we can "grow" meat we can eliminate ethics questions, leave a much smaller environmental footprint, and--conceivably at least--have greater safety controls. It may seem spooky or unnatural, but it seems better than leaving hogs in metal crates until they go insane or moving crippled milk cows around on forklifts.
If we can "grow" meat we can eliminate ethics questions, leave a much smaller environmental footprint, and--conceivably at least--have greater safety controls. It may seem spooky or unnatural, but it seems better than leaving hogs in metal crates until they go insane or moving crippled milk cows around on forklifts.
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
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