TheWrong Says:

You got me. Muslims. I stand corrected. Great point. Glad you made it. Thank you. Appreciate it. Good job. You are the man!

No, I’m serious. You obviously meant to include an apostrophe there, since neither “m” or “s” is near that key. So it was a conscious, or at least semi-conscious decision.

Why?

What convinced you that “Muslim’s” was proper?

Anyone who tells you that the price of gas is being driven up by the “liberals” is lying. Think about this for a minute. The last time we saw long lines at the pumps, a antionally lowered speed limit on interstate highways, and talk of odd/ even day rationing was back when Dick Nixon was running the “shortage” scam, driving gas prices up to over a buck a gallon.

Legislation to close the “Enron Loophole” is sitting on Bush’s desk, waiting to be signed, attached to the Farm Bill he’s threatening to veto. In case you hadn’t heard, the “Enron Loophole” is the little hat trick that lets hedge fund managers drive the price of fuel up by speculating. Experts estimate that when the oil market bubble is deflated by closing the loophole, we’ll see gas and deisel prices drop down to around half what they are now.

The price of crude oil today is not made according to any traditional relation of supply to demand. It’s controlled by an elaborate financial market system as well as by the four major Anglo-American oil companies. As much as 60% of today’s crude oil price is pure speculation driven by large trader banks and hedge funds. It has nothing to do with the convenient myths of Peak Oil. It has to do with control of oil and its price.

So don’t let them tell you Dem’s aren’t doing anything about the fuel prices. And don’t count on the Repubs to help the Dems overide Bush’s veto of that Farm bill, either, because I have a sneaking suspicion that there’s a bunch of them getting rich off speculating.

Oh, that’s right… because King Bush and the Bushies are ‘big oil’ whores.

TheRight Says:

Global warming is to Regressives what Islam is to Muslim’s.

Here’s something that has always intrigued me… why would someone pluralize a noun properly (”Regressives”) and then in the same sentence, use an apostrophe to pluralize another noun “Muslim’s”)?

I mean, what is the principle behind this grammatical choice? What determines when someone uses an apostrophe to pluralize a noun and when they don’t?

We know TheWrong is not going to come up with a decent point, but can’t we at least ask him to use consistent grammar when he doesn’t?

June 18th, 2008 at 5:31 pm

Are you talking about the Midwest that was hit with storms that have previously never been seen before , which is a result of global warming , that you 19%’ers still lyingly and stupidly insist isn’t real , jerkweed ?

June 18th, 2008 at 5:40 pm

Can’t have a food shortage now , can we ; what on earth will McStupid cook to pander to reporters during a barbecue with..?

It doesn’t even realize that the strongest proponents of corn-based ethanol as a fuel source are legislators from the rural midwest and Great Plains. Overwhelmingly, a Republican contingent.

Also, it has a tough time keeping track of who really are the regressives.

TheRight Says:

…environmental extremist nut jobs have lots of money to hire lots of lawyers to challenge everything the oil companies want to do.

Wow. The Delusion is strong in this one.

First of all, I agree completely that the oil companies should be nationalized. They’ve had their shot to do the right thing for this country, and they’ve failed. They also control the oil refineries that so many on the Right complain that “we need to be able to build more.” Bull…they are operating at only about 80% capacity. Why? And the oil companies currently have drilling rights to 68 million acres in the country. Why aren’t they drilling? Well…we all know the answer to both “Why’s” Nationalizing the oil companies would end that, and end the power they’ve had over our Congress for way too many decades. Enough is enough.

The whole ANWAR and off-coast drilling boils down to an attack on all environmental regulations. I can’t remember right off who said it a couple of years ago, but some Republican stated that opening ANWAR would break down the gates on environmental regulations.

Now, the question is, would the ANWR gas or the offshore gas be cheap gas? There’s absolutely no indication that that is the case.
The reasons for this are two:
1) The cheap, easy to extract, sweet crude, has long ago been exhausted domestically.
and 2) The companies we will be leasing the areas to have absolutely no reason to bring the oil in cheap.

If you were an oil typhoon, and your company found a vast new field of oil under the Clampett properties, would you start pumping as much as you could in order to bring the price down? Or would you say, holy crap, st 4 bucks a gallon we’ll be making a fortune!

If there is a lot more oil out there, then maybe we should go after it–but only after we nationalize the oil companies.

RUCerious Says:
Wayne, the ONLY “vital national security interest” is profit.
And don’t you forget it!

How true this is. America to the gop is enron, big oil, big pharma, etc. The well being of American cititzens is not thier issue….evidence..Katrina

I call them DNCBots or DemoBots. They just recite the words produced by Howie Beanie and his goofy cohorts at the DNC.

Look, you guys had a good run but it’s over……time to face reality.

June 18th, 2008 at 4:08 pm

Because TheBlight believes the oil companies are as stupid as he is ; Blight purchased desert land and wonders why he can’t grow corn on it………….