All of need to invest in some good combs. That’s right, combs. When you go out on a date or a night on the town with friends, you will need to be able to brush the foil fragments out of your hair.
Be careful in thunderstorms, the foil could act to attract lightning onto you, obviously with unpleasant effects.
I’d suggest not wearing the tinfoils out in public at all, really, if BUSHCO finds out you are trying to block their signals, you will probably disappear and end up in the secret alien experimentation base under HAARP up in Alaska.
Also, at the Aussie, your gas prices are higher than in the United States because of taxes. Anyone here ever look closely at the gas pump in the United States? Around these parts about $0.48 on the gallon is taxes.
In Europe the tax on oil is much higher, that is why the prices are much higher. It’s purely artificially high prices over there.
Anyways, on another note. Oil is an important resource for medical research and has many very important applications ASIDE from powering engines. IN fact considering how important oil is, extracting so much of it and wasting it as lubricant et cetra is pretty bad.
We need to start talking about developing more efficient energy sources.
So far no one’s mention that fact that over the past two years the US dollar has depreciated against the Euro, Canadian dollar, Japanese Yen et. al. by about 15-30%. Add to that the fact that China and South East Asia’s economies are picking up and demanding more oil why are we surprised that the price of oil would rise?
I believe the custom, when directing a post, is to mention the subject by name. Or to include a quote. If I am mistaken, I solicit your kindly correction.
I am, of course, bereft that I have disturbed the Olympian clarity of your thoughts. A suggestion? My cognomen is right there, top left. A simple glance will suffice to assure you that here are thoughts beneath your notice, and you need only pick up your little basket and skip along, skip along.
The burden of your contempt is heavy, but I will find some way to go on, somehow. Perhaps I will again find myself worthy of a snide rejoinder, and my weary day will brighten.
While that may be the custom, it ain’t universally practiced by either the community at large, or any single individual. In any case, you have my apologies for my outburst. And despite your ardent desire that it be so, I don’t find everything you hammer out to be rubbish.
Allow me to suggest relative obscurity as the most advisable path for yammerings such as yours above.
Por nada, companero. Got my faults, Lord knows, but “delicate” and “easily offended” aren’t on the list.
Curses! Foiled again!
The almost certain fate of all of us here, don’t you agree? But when we contemplate the spectacle of our august leaders writhing in the tentacles of thier own shitwitted misjudgements, we find some comfort, no?
At least they’re [guarding them](The latest dispute between the two men, both members of the Iraqi Governing Council’s rotating presidency, erupted after close associates of Mr Chalabi teamed up with Erinys International, a Johannesburg-based security risk consultancy, to train and deploy a 6,500-strong Iraqi force at oil installations. The joint venture, Erinys Iraq, won an $80m (?66m, £46m), two-year contract to protect oil sites across Iraq from sabotage.) until the contract is rebid.
Reporter: “Why do you rob banks?”
Willie Sutton: “That’s where the money is.”
As someone pointed out earlier, if it weren’t for the vast oil reserves in the Middle East, the United States wouldn’t care if the entire region (Israel included) was swallowed up by a giant sinkhole.
Oh c’mon, Unc. You don’t seriously believe that’s your best argument, do you? “I don’t believe your hypothesis because I think there was an alternative” carries no weight at all, especially considering the contracts that have been signed, the executives who are living it up on taxpayer money, and the vice-presidents who are getting $1 million/year from Haliburton.
Nah, a back-room contract is easier to hide than Congressional legislation in this age of 24-hour C-SPAN coverage.
And yet, those contracts have been signed, those executives are living it up, and Haliburton stock is rising since the war started…
Wait. I thought that was the reason we went into Afghanistan?
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Whatever it was about, the record’s clear that this Administration did in fact expect postwar Iraq to increase oil production, which would cause world oil prices to drop.
Who knows? I’m thinking that GWB was in it because of his screwed-up family dynamics, Rummy had theories about winning a war with fewer troops, Wolfie had theories about remaking the Middle East; Cheney and others wanted to demonstrate that we could be the Bad Boy in the 'Hood; and once we won, a whole bunch of insiders wanted to either make Iraq a laboratory for conservative economic theories (flat tax, privatization, etc.) or just help their friends to contracting boodle; and on and on. And I’m sure securing long-term oil supplies was in there somewhere; central Africa’s a much worse mess than the Middle East, but we don’t give a flip.
I’m sure someone may have actually been concerned about the Iraqi people, but whoever it was, he doesn’t seem to have had much power within the Administration.
I’m all for doing the right thing. But if I see that my neighbor’s roof is leaking and decide to help, I should know that I know how to build a new roof before removing the old one. Because my neighbor’s gonna be more pissed at me if he has no roof than if he has a leaky roof.
In terms of getting the legislation through, Bushco have done that. Remember the steel tariffs? And the lumber tariffs? And the agriculture bill? And the airline bailout? And the special dividends tax cut that only benefits those with large amounts of blue-chip stock? And the energy bill, which did collapse but not through any effort by laissez-faire Republicans outraged by 27 billion in handouts to oil and agribusiness? And the elimination of clean air standards? And the attempts to invalidate state-level environmental regulations? But there reaches a point where you no longer have any more sufficient excuses to simply go around handing out large federal contracts. After the deficit reaches a certain point and the new spending gets too outrageous, people start actually paying attention, so you end up having to find something for the companies to actually do before they get the money.
Using the war in Iraq as an excuse for offering contracts to corporate friends has several advantages. First you can accuse anyone who opposes the contracts of being unpatriotic. Second, it’s not counted as discretionary domestic spending, which is the category that libertarians and small-government conservatives hate the most. Third, domestic bills such as the agriculture bill just don’t turn the right wing into ranting loons accusing everyone who disagrees with the President’s decisions of hating America, being a moral relativist, etc…
oops, try this
The joint venture, Erinys Iraq, won an $80m (?66m, £46m), two-year contract to protect oil sites across Iraq from sabotage guarding them until the contract is rebid.
What happened to the Airman Doors who, some time ago, seemed to be genuinely angry at the lies told by the Bush Administration in order to justify this invasion of Iraq?
I guess it’s just a little difficult to shed that Republican reflexor, and a lot easier to offer post hoc justification for an ill-considered and illegal invasion.
It’s also easier to stand up and pretend that opponents of the invasion simply argued that the war was for oil, and to ignore their myriad other points related to international law, the theory of pre-emptive strikes, the need to focus on the domestic economy, and the role of the United Nations.
