Gam I'm give you such a smack when I see you !!!! I know the Canadians have helped out and I'm sure you guys will continue to. I think I already said that. But what of the rest of the world?
Semper Fi SAINT. May you rest in peace.
Jack : I was using canucks as a for instance... It didn't get mentioned on CNN nor Fox or whatever in the US. I'm not pulling that card as a flag waving attempt, it's to illustrate that the main-stream television media don't give a damn about the wider picture or the truth, just what news they can commodify and sell you.
And you wouldn't smack me but once and live to regret it
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Read my sig I bet I could do it several times and get away with it.
Semper Fi SAINT. May you rest in peace.
You've gotta get close enough to pull it off in the first place.. I hope you have George Foreman's reach, you'll need it.
PAX
GAM = Kilted Ape...
No, I'm serious.
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I've never met GAM, but I've met enough Scottsmen that you just don't mess with. They outnumber the ones that retain there sence of humour after wee touch of whiskey
PAX
Hey now... Im not scottish.
I'M IRISH!
"Sometimes when an Irish wants to speak to his equal, he is forced to talk to God!"
- Stevens, Braveheart.
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Sarcaism is lost over the web huh?
Semper Fi SAINT. May you rest in peace.
Oh good God!! A kilt wearing Irishman! Run! Do you play the pipes with the bellows on them then, the tradisional Irish "bagpipes"?
On a serioous note: I was watching TV last night and seeing the reports of the damage so far.. Oh my.. It's terrible. My condolences for those already lost, I imagine there will be more as time goes on. That is some of the worst damage I can rememeber seeing in my lifetime. I feel for those who were caught in the path. The reports of people trapped in attics etc. just terrible.
That storm must have packed a bigger punch than I thought as they say it will still be a tropical depression by the time it gets here sometime tonight. That was a whopper when it came on-shore.
You do have my sympathy, that is for sure.
PAX
it is a terrible shame, what happened, no question
and people will be there to help
but when asking for the worlds help, ask the same of the stock brokers, who are jacking the price of gas, in the time of emergency
talk to dubya, who has enough oil in reserve to help these people
and the insuracne companies that will raise you premiums to recoop their looses
( just like 9-11)
these people deserve worse, than some old person who looses his/her life because they can't/wont leave their house
the good people will always shine through and help with more than just money
and not to take shots at anyone or any country
but if you think bangeldesh, can fork over a billion in aid your nuts, they plain and simply don't have the money
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Gas prices will go up due to the shut down of three refineries in the gulf coast not the greed of the stock broakers.
If I heard right one of the refineries was baddly damaged and will be down for a while, so get ready for $3.00 a gal for reg.
Semper Fi SAINT. May you rest in peace.
Oh but the stock brokers still have something to do with the cost of gas too ya know
Jack: maybe I'm weird, but I'd think that if the refinaries weren't in Tornado/Hurricane alley and some place a little less prone to natural disaster (like.. I dunno... Nevada) it might make this thing I like to call sense. Refinement can be done pretty much anywhere... assign the gulf depots as offloading only.
It's a bit revisionist, I realise, but the simple fact is that when nature so much as quiffe's in the Gulf of Mexico somehow that justifies a 10 cent per gallon (or 40 cent per litre.. go figure!) price jump. Once there's more refinement capacity, it'll drop the artificially high price of gas a good bit... and then... y'know.. you could pummel it into the ground by selling some of the strategic oil reserve's 700 million barrels. But what do I know
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Wait a minute I have a question. If our oil comes from the gulf of Mexico why then does opec control what we pay for it? If were not buying from the arabs why do they control what we pay? Hmmm now that seems odd to me. That would be like Burger King
telling you a quater pounder at Micky D's will cost you $2.00. Why would B K be able to do that? Same for the oil market. Doesn't make much sence to me.
Semper Fi SAINT. May you rest in peace.
NUKE EVERY COUNTRY BUT THE U.S.!!!!!
there, problem solved....
and somewhere, a demon just got its' wings..
jackalope...it's nothing more then greed....all oil companies have us by the balls...
jackalope wrote:Wait a minute I have a question. If our oil comes from the gulf of Mexico why then does opec control what we pay for it? If were not buying from the arabs why do they control what we pay? Hmmm now that seems odd to me. That would be like Burger King
telling you a quater pounder at Micky D's will cost you $2.00. Why would B K be able to do that? Same for the oil market. Doesn't make much sence to me.
Well.. without breaking down a commodities market course into one post:
OPEC sets the price per barrell of an oil grade they will ask, for x amount of Barrells, and it's up to people to either buy at that price or negotiate a lower price. If one oil company decides to go higher or lower per grade, they will either have more or less sales, depending.
Basically, there are 2 grades of oil: Light Sweet (very easy to refine, but evaporates very easily) and heavy sour (much harder to refine, and has a high sulfur content).
Companies sell interest in their future oil production and contracts.
Basically, you can buy 7-8 million barrels (assuming you're trading in light sweet crude) at $70 per barrell, and turn it around after refinement processing costs get added in for a 3-4% profit.
The only way you're going to be able to keep your head above water is to buy into a few different oil companies.
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jackalope wrote:It would at least be nice to hear from the different countries we've helped if for nothing more then a phone call to show support or a f--king friut basket and an I'm sorry to hear about the hurricain card stuke in it.
Here you go... wanted to know.
Hugo Chavez offers US food and water because of Katrina
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20050829/pl_afp/usweathervenezuelaoil
The only reason we're hearing about it is because of Hugo being in the news thanks to Robertson.
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AGuSTiN, would that be the horrible dictator that the US "should take out" ? Wow I just wonder if Pat Robertson likes his crow cooked or raw. What an ass.
And thank you for finding something that shows the whole world doesn't suck.
Semper Fi SAINT. May you rest in peace.
Yeah, Robertson is an ass.
I'm not going to sing Hugo's praises, cause I don't know all about everything that is going on. I do know (and it's mentioned in the story at the end) that Hugo has proposed giving the poor people of the US discounted gas through Citgo gas stations.
Whatever his pitfalls, he's obviously not entirely evil <-US Governments opinion.
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Yea where's Pat Robertson's contribution...sending bibles?
I find it rather disturbing that the National guard is spread so thin in rescue that it cant stop the looting, maybe if we had troops here, defending THIS COUNTRY it wouldnt be an issue. America needs to protect itself first and the world second
1989 Turbo Trans Am #82, 2007 Cobalt SS G85
Protect against looters or against hurricanes?
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/\ /\ /\ I was just gonna say the same thing. Man did I make a mistake and I'm big enough to admit it. I can not believe all the offers for help were getting. I'll take my crow
cooked med-well with some fries on the side and a large Coke thanks.
AGuSTiN I would like to thank you for posting the link. Hey when I'm wrong I'm wrong.
But you know what man? I'm glad the world is proving me wrong thaks everybody.
Semper Fi SAINT. May you rest in peace.
^^^ Any time
It takes some time, but I guess it gets boring posting about death, pesitllence hellfire and brimstone all the time.
Jack: I'll send some crow down in a minute.
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