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Every Saturday, NPR (or at least my NEPR affiliate) plays Obama's weekly address *and* the Republican response.
publiusvarus wrote:
we all know liberals are well adjusted american citizens who only want what's best for society. While conservatives are evil money grubbing scum who only want to sh*t on the little man and rob the world of its resources.
Apparently people at NPR aren't allowed to have political views or something? Didn't seem remotely newsworthy to me outside of the lame "espionage" used to get the video.
Oh, I know plenty of wealthy people who are definitely not especially intelligent. Unless your idea of intelligence is opportunism or lucky. Trust me, it doesn't take brains to be wealthy. At absolute most, knowing a lot about one thing, not even a very complex thing, but more often, a lot of luck. Sometimes plans, including business plans, don't work on the basis of being exceptionally well thought out.
varusword75 wrote:
deathy,
Obviously not. Intelligent people have money and wealth. If NPR was really appealing to these intelligent people then they wouldn't need to steal taxes from taxpayers to fund their garbage now would they? This is where you make a stupid face and call me names.
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Yes, yes there is. Its just that both NPR and liberalism appeal to intelligent people
Obviously not. Intelligent people have money and wealth. If NPR was really appealing to these intelligent people then they wouldn't need to steal taxes from taxpayers to fund their garbage now would they? This is where you make a stupid face and call me names.
Oh, I know plenty of wealthy people who are definitely not especially intelligent. Unless your idea of intelligence is opportunism or lucky. Trust me, it doesn't take brains to be wealthy. At absolute most, knowing a lot about one thing, not even a very complex thing, but more often, a lot of luck. Sometimes plans, including business plans, don't work on the basis of being exceptionally well thought out.
Kachi wrote:
Apparently people at NPR aren't allowed to have political views or something? Didn't seem remotely newsworthy to me outside of the lame "espionage" used to get the video.
Yeah, 'cuz news organizations have never used tricks and hidden cameras to catch people doing unsavory things. To Catch A Predator told all their victims ahead of time that there was no girl and the cops were waiting.
MoebiusLord wrote:
Kachi wrote:
Apparently people at NPR aren't allowed to have political views or something? Didn't seem remotely newsworthy to me outside of the lame "espionage" used to get the video.
Yeah, 'cuz news organizations have never used tricks and hidden cameras to catch people doing unsavory things. To Catch A Predator told all their victims ahead of time that there was no girl and the cops were waiting.
What's your point? That there's actually NOTHING interesting about this story? Yeah, I guess you're right.
Kachi wrote:
Yeah, I guess you're right.
As long as you get there in the end, you take as long and winding a route as you like.
MoebiusLord wrote:
Kachi wrote:
Yeah, I guess you're right.
As long as you get there in the end, you take as long and winding a route as you like.
I saw something on the news about how the ACORN pimp kid was involved in this, but maybe they were just drawing a corollary. I figured that's why this is news, not because it's especially scandalous.
Kachi wrote:
MoebiusLord wrote:
Kachi wrote:
Yeah, I guess you're right.
As long as you get there in the end, you take as long and winding a route as you like.
I saw something on the news about how the ACORN pimp kid was involved in this, but maybe they were just drawing a corollary. I figured that's why this is news, not because it's especially scandalous.
He was. That's still no more interesting than any other aspect of the story. If there were anything of interest someone other than Varus would have brought it to our attention.
varusword75 wrote:
Don't get me started on tariffs on foreign produce and oil. Of course that means we'd have to allow american based companies greater drilling freedom; which, god forbid, means some tourists would have to see oil rigs on the distant horizon as they vacation.
Heck, let's just start with completely eliminating the $41 billion gas & oil receives in federal subsidies each year. Hey, that even helps out with the $61 billion the GOP wants to cut, right? At the very least, we need to ban those companies from any sort of political contact since I don't want MY tax dollars spent on that sort of thing.
Belkira wrote:
Wow. Regular ol' Joph fan club in here.
varusword75 wrote:
Sounds good to me. First...
No, there's no "first". One isn't dependent upon the other. Either you're in favor of cutting off the subsidies or you're not. At the very least, whether or not they can contribute politically shouldn't be at all related to where they're allowed to drill but to whether or not they receive government money. They do and therefore, according to you, they should be immediately cut off from any political activity. Drilling permits have nothing to do with it.
Edited, Mar 10th 2011 3:31pm by Jophiel
Belkira wrote:
Wow. Regular ol' Joph fan club in here.
Nope, not a thing. You might as well say "I'm okay with people on welfare voting since the government hasn't opened up National Parks for them to build homes on". After all, you're okay with oil companies getting billions in federal money because they don't have enough land either.
I mean, if you think that's true then I guess you got me there and we can all dream of the day everyone on welfare gets free real estate in Yellowstone.
I mean, if you think that's true then I guess you got me there and we can all dream of the day everyone on welfare gets free real estate in Yellowstone.
Belkira wrote:
Wow. Regular ol' Joph fan club in here.
In before twenty Varus posts with only "Still waiting..." in the message.
varusword75 wrote:
Jophed,
I'm curious do you practice inventing nonsensical analogies or do they come on the fly? I sure hope the later.
And I am ok with oil companies getting billions so long as the federal govn keeps them from being competitive world wide because of the suffocating restrictions. The second we get serious about allowing oil production in the US to be profitable is the second i'm against them receiving subsidies.
The real question is why on earth are you and the liberals are so opposed to the US being energy independent; and don't come at me with the "alternative energy" source myth. Fact is we're an oil based economy whether you like it or not.
You still havn't shown one thing Obama's done to help with this.Edited, Mar 10th 2011 5:38pm by varusword75
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You might as well say "I'm okay with people on welfare voting since the government hasn't opened up National Parks for them to build homes on". After all, you're okay with oil companies getting billions in federal money because they don't have enough land either.
I'm curious do you practice inventing nonsensical analogies or do they come on the fly? I sure hope the later.
And I am ok with oil companies getting billions so long as the federal govn keeps them from being competitive world wide because of the suffocating restrictions. The second we get serious about allowing oil production in the US to be profitable is the second i'm against them receiving subsidies.
The real question is why on earth are you and the liberals are so opposed to the US being energy independent; and don't come at me with the "alternative energy" source myth. Fact is we're an oil based economy whether you like it or not.
You still havn't shown one thing Obama's done to help with this.Edited, Mar 10th 2011 5:38pm by varusword75
Long term energy independence for the US will not come from oil and gas. There is simply too great of an energy demand for it to be a feasible solution. Petrochemicals are incredibly cheap for us to import from underdeveloped nations, in the same way that other mining (Barring the recent hike in iron ore prices) and raw materials are comparatively inexpensive.
Whichever way we slice the energy problem we will likely be importing our raw fuel resources unless we have a majority of our energy coming from fission, fusion, or a complex blend of renewable. In either case we will still need the materials to produce those facilities so it is unlikely we will be in a position to be totally isolationist, nor is that necessarily a bad thing.
What you really want is to not be involved in getting resources from war zones. Which would demand paying way more than we would like to spend on the resources by building up large scale societal infrastructure. It's much cheaper to let them do that, but unless we run into already formed coherent governments with heavy natural resource deposits (Like the happy case of Austrailia) your dream is just that; a transient fantasy.
Just as Planned.
varusword75 wrote:
And I am ok with oil companies getting billions
Of course you are. Everyone else knew you didn't really care about oil companies getting billions and billions of taxpayer dollars so long as they support the GOP. It just took you this long to admit it.
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You still havn't shown one thing Obama's done to help with this.
Sure I have. You won't agree but, much like with Gbaji, I'm not here to convince you but to show everyone else what an idiot you are.
Edited, Mar 10th 2011 5:28pm by Jophiel
Belkira wrote:
Wow. Regular ol' Joph fan club in here.
MoebiusLord wrote:
Kachi wrote:
MoebiusLord wrote:
Kachi wrote:
Yeah, I guess you're right.
As long as you get there in the end, you take as long and winding a route as you like.
I saw something on the news about how the ACORN pimp kid was involved in this, but maybe they were just drawing a corollary. I figured that's why this is news, not because it's especially scandalous.
He was. That's still no more interesting than any other aspect of the story. If there were anything of interest someone other than Varus would have brought it to our attention.
Then I would ask why this was all over the news, if I didn't already know the answer.
varusword75 wrote:
Timey,
Horsesh*t. It's sad that so many of you goose stepping liberals have bought into this lie. I suppose if you'll believe humans can actually change the global climate you'll fall for anything.
More sh*t. How about we start tapping the gulf coast, atlantic coast, pacific coast, alaska, and the mainland before we decide there's not enough.
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Long term energy independence for the US will not come from oil and gas.
Horsesh*t. It's sad that so many of you goose stepping liberals have bought into this lie. I suppose if you'll believe humans can actually change the global climate you'll fall for anything.
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Whichever way we slice the energy problem we will likely be importing our raw fuel resources
More sh*t. How about we start tapping the gulf coast, atlantic coast, pacific coast, alaska, and the mainland before we decide there's not enough.
It pains me that people as stupid as you are allowed to exist. Oil is a finite resource. Even if we tapped into every single source we have, we will still run out eventually. If we aren't ready for the day when the last drops are sucked out it will be nothing short of a catastrophe for our not just the U.S., but the rest of the world as well.
varusword75 wrote:
Turin,
So is air. So do us all a favour and stop breathing.
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Oil is a finite resource
So is air. So do us all a favour and stop breathing.
Air is a finite resource?
Eske Esquire wrote:
varusword75 wrote:
Turin,
So is air. So do us all a favour and stop breathing.
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Oil is a finite resource
So is air. So do us all a favour and stop breathing.
Air is a finite resource?
Well, the world is running out of helium.
varusword75 wrote:
Do you really think the oil companies have not thought about this?
Of course they have. Short (and even medium) term, it just means every barrel they sell is more valuable than the barrel before. Either it lasts until they're already dead or else they ride the peak to each barrel being worth a small fortune and retire after it crashes.
Belkira wrote:
Wow. Regular ol' Joph fan club in here.
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