Wonkette
- House Republicans want to take advantage of a slow news month by continuing to shout in the dark on the House floor about energy policy. [The Hill]
- Now that the Olympics are about to start, people are talking again about human rights, and how China doesn’t respect them. [Los Angeles Times]
- It seems that every day new information comes out about the newly deceased biological weapons scientist, Bruce Ivins, suggesting he was wackier than a box of cats. [New York Times]
- Gas has been getting cheaper for three weeks. [CNN]
- Barack Obama: is he maybe too much of a pussy to be president? [Washington Post]
- Here, read this million-page thing about the black leadership establishment and how some of them are ambivalent about possibly having a black president. [New York Times]
Republicans, in the dark, giving speeches, literally.
Barack Obama a pussy? I’d hit it!
I wish loquaicious music would explain how falling gas prices are bad. Is that like Peace through Intimidation?
lilblackcorvette:
A ella le gusta la gasolina
(Da me mas gasolina!)
Como le encanta la gasolina
(Da me mas gasolina!)
The FBI could find a box in Ivins’ attic that’s labelled “stuff I used for those anthrax mailings” and some folks will NOT believe he did it. The FBI wasn’t exactly stellar through the run of this investigation and that’s fed right into the conspiracy theorists’ malfunctions.
Human Rights in China. 1.3 Billion people. 70% of them poor/extremely poor. A tradition of not giving a shit about the lower classes. Who is surprised besides Westerners?
yo quiero fuyar un hombre con pelo blanco. Gasolina esta mierde. yo puedo caminar.
I want to know who the guy is who… when the angry and borderline schizophrenic bio-weapons scientist asks if he can borrow some of the lab’s equipment for a few days is like: “Sure, Bruce… take home a couple of freeze dry units, culture medium, petri dishes and anthrax spores. I’m sure you have in mind a totally legitimate use for this stuff. Just make sure it gets back, OK? Or its my ass.”
lilblackcorvette:
Because a lower gas price removes the incentive to conserve, which would ultimately stabilize the price for a long time. Americans are oil junkies and feel that they are entitled by God to have cheap oil forever so they can be as wasteful as they damn well please.
Yes, sometimes I feel dark hands pushing me forward; yes, the voices in my head have been getting meaner and meaner; and yes, I have issues with the KKG girls. But I still don’t understand Ivans’ motive. Can some just say it?: he was not just a nut case, he was a right wing nut case.
I am shocked that somebody who chooses a career in biological weapons research might be mentally unstable.
Am I the only person that doesn’t give a shit about Bruce Ivins or the “mystery envelopes” that were delivered 7 years ago?
Servo: I gotta say that sounds a little oil cartelish to me. ” We need to keep prices high so people won’t buy it.” = We need to keep prices high so we can make more money.
I’m not debating with you. It just sounds like bullsh**. I mean unfettered capitialism.
Terry: Well, of course he did it. He’s being accused of terrorism, and everyone knows that if you’re accused of terrorism, you don’t need a trial to be found guilty. 9/11 changed everything. Evidence, schmevidence.
there are other reasons people choose to conserve. the environment for one. manipulating the price of gas will just piss more people off as they pump , not make them change their lifestyles. Or so I think, but as McLame said “I don’t know nuthin about birthin’ no energy/economic babies”
Next time I want to have an annoying, pointless tantrum, I’m going to make sure that I reserve the floor of Congress to have it in.
lilblackcorvette: Servo: Butterfly McCain, that is.
Good lord, the McCain folks aren’t even pretending anymore. They are giving their supportings text to cut and paste in blog comment areas, then supplying them the links to the blogs.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/06/AR2008080603589.html?hpid=topnews
Larry McAwful: Wen Ho Lee and Richard Jewell would disagree about this happening after 9/11.
lilblackcorvette: Um, why would I think that lower gas prices are bad?
lilblackcorvette: I agree with you. Opening up ANWR and drilling offshore will not suddenly bring oil down to $30 a barrel but it will relieve the pressure a bit. Right now the economy needs oil to move people and goods. If you artifically inflate an already high price you are hurting the economy.
WadISay: He actually was a registered Dem who voted in every primary for quite a while. Makes no sense that he would send the anthrax to Leahy and Daschle. Brokaw, I can see that. I still think he’s a patsy. The whole thing is just way too convenient.
Ivins was clearly missing his calling if he really wrote this, he should have been a Wonkette commenter!
“Paranoid man works with deadly anthrax!!!”
loquaciousmusic:Hey Boo! Well that’s what those mean ol’ guys at CNN said. I thought you might explain it to me because I am totally perplexed.
Canmon (the Inadequate): STFU
lilblackcorvette: I’d think that lower gas prices are GOOD because now everyone can buy a Hummer! Or, if you’re a Republican, you can get a hummer! From an underage boy!
lilblackcorvette:
The Oil Sumbitches are basically enjoying the free ride provided by investors looking to capitalize on the growing global demand on oil. As consumers, we were spoiled by a gas price that remained relatively unchanged for over a decade. I may even rightly say that it steadily declined when you adjust the dollar. Oil prices ( and inflation ) never kept pace with increasing disposable incomes and double-digit global economic growth and the consequential demand for oil to fuel it. Something had to give. Since investors sucked the .com and real estate wells dry ( crippling our banks and devaluing the dollar in the process ), they put their money into commodites to minimize their losses, driving the prices into the stratosphere overnight.
The commodities will slowly settle into a fair market price. But it won’t be what we’re used to paying.
The real blame goes to people who want instant returns on their investments. They want to get rich(er) quick despite the consequences.
loquaciousmusic: Is it kinda like “Black Leadership thinks a Black President is BAD thing”, huh, mommy?
lilblackcorvette: Here’s Mr. McSpeedy’s explanation (very speedy):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SR0bZO5CXuo
Servo: I try to talk to my “hard working, blue collar, honky Americans” about that but they give no credence to how greed drives the commodities industries.
Darehead: Well, I wish you would have posted that before I made a total ass of myself typing bad spanish porno over some wrinkly white haired guy!
Oh great. Now the morans who took it upon themselves to pray for lower gas prices will say that their prayers were answered. Hallelujah!
lilblackcorvette:
You’re beating a dead horse, my friend. I stopped wasting my breath trying to talk sense into those genetic anomalies that literally surround me. Did they stop teaching economics in high school?
lilblackcorvette: Just found it actually. I was hoping there would be some mix with McCain and his love for big oil but that was the best I could find. Liked your porn anyway! You got a thang for that white haired dude, bet he’ll be spammin’ this site soon wanting a ride in a corvette!
Darehead: Only thing is he’s probly a Republican and… I’m a girl.
Servo: I think the moran meme for that is “it’s all based on supply and demand” while having no clue what that actually means.
lilblackcorvette: What, you’re not a car? Did you used to have another car name in this here Wonkerhood? (it’s my hunch, but never mind)
Anyway all these references to gasoline make me hear “Gasolina” all the time! Bugger song sticks in your head.
lilblackcorvette: Yeah, really. Didn’t he read The Gay Agenda?
I think part of the reason the price of gas went up so much was so that they could lower it a bit before the election, thus ensuring that Eurasia will always be at war with Oceania, and the boot will remain on our neck forever and ever. Either that or the oil companies just want to make as much money as possible. What the hell do I know? I live in Europe and haven’t driven a car in 10 years.
I think that Ivins dude is a patsy because basically I don’t believe anything the government says, ever, but am I really the first to mention that he looks an awful lot like Tommy Smothers? Maybe his mental problems go back to the fact that he was the least favorite brother.
and, snark totally off here, whose fucking bonehead idea was it to hold the Olympics in China, anyway? Like, no possiblity of anything going wrong there, no.
Canmon (the Inadequate): The oil companies don’t care about relieving the pressure. They’re artificially rising the prices. They are sitting on millions of acres of oil reserves but choose not to drill. They’re capping oil wells.
Also, the EPA stated that drilling in ANWR would only lower the price a few cents throughout the course of ten years.
Terry: Thats it, your next in line to be theFBI’s main suspect as the Anthrax Killer… they’ll state “He posted on the internet “stuff I used for those anthrax mailings and that “he did it”.” I’ll keep an eye out for your upcoming suicide, though if you’ve got kids tell them to take the money when its offered. I mean, millions to rat out my dad… hell yeah!
gurukalehuru: War is Peace.
gurukalehuru:
China threatened to cut sneaker production if the Olympic Committee didn’t comply with their request.
gurukalehuru: Th-th-that’s nn-nnot a br-Brave n-New W-world we c-can be-believe in!
gurukalehuru: A la Tommy, says you? Ivins couldn’t get anyone to fall for the old look up in the air gag, so he used white powder instead.
Darehead: I believe you are referring to “bitchinacamaro” or some other cunt.
The best part about the Times article on the “future of black politics” is the brief segment where my mayor, Michael Nutter, is a complete dick to the reporter for about a page-and-a-half.
What a sarcastic, salty bastard. I think I’d keep voting for him for the next twenty years if it wasn’t for term limits.
(And not just for the sarcasm — he’s doing a pretty nice job, so far.)
lilblackcorvette: Sorry, mistake. It was Audicity. Haven’t seen her for ages and she uses “Bear Bear” like you do.
mookworthjwilson: I’m a dem and I can totally understand why he would send anthrax letters to Leahy and Daschle, because they’re losers, that’s why.
We always hurt the ones we love.
I just used bear-bear to get that cheap-ass, McCain donating, dicklicker Ken Layne to contribute to Hopey’s Campaign. But other than that I luvvv Wonkette. (tee hee)
Servo: It’s kind of interesting how that whole thing works. The oil companies raise the price to say, 5 dollars a gallon from 2 dollars a gallon, then lower it to like, 4 dollars a gallon, and everyone says, “it’s really great that gas is so cheap now”! Oh, and right after they get McCranky elected on the “see, I told you so” argument, the price can go right back up. Free enterprise? I don’t think so.
Oasis?