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bolverk

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  1. 1 hour ago, trauma babe said:

    Why the fuck does Dean Cain appear on Fox and Friends? Grandparents don't know who Dean Cain is. 

    Confession: I had to google him to find out who he was.

  2. Yeah, my response to her was something along the lines of "You do know the head of the National Enquirer is buddy-buddy with Trump, right? He even paid for the story of one of his mistresses and then suppressed it."

    The look of unfathomable incredulity and scorn on her face just told me to let it drop. There's no reaching people like her or my father, which is heart-breaking.

  3. 2 minutes ago, skittlebrau said:

    That’s how I roll. Why would someone do it any other way?

    6:30 am flight going out? Not so much. Where's the Austin Java when you need it. 9 pm flight coming back at DAL? Pass me a beer! I'm going home.

  4. 13 minutes ago, Mojo Hand said:

    Well he already has the camps, so I'm guessing he'll just combine it all and create re-education labor camps. 

     

    9 minutes ago, Dbeasy said:


    Nailed it. Although he really needs to throw the immigration dept in there too in order to have alignment.

    Under a certain logic and combined properly, I could actually see the rationale for their merging under some "workforce, training, skills, education, and talent development" umbrella. But, yeah, I doubt that's what they really have in mind.

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  5. 7 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

    I mean, the queen of spain is a little more to my type, but I dont think Im going with an X. 

    Maybe if shown a candid photo of her instead of a Sears portrait studio pic, I'd change my tune. Btw, I think it's well established that you and I have the same physical, if not psychological (emphasis on psycho), type. Unfortunately, I think we'd be rather shitty wingmen for one another. 

  6. 1 hour ago, Gil Bang said:

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    re: National Enquirer

    Just to reinforce how far gone the olds are, my own mother, whom I've never known to ever even pick up a copy of the National Enquirer while standing in the check out line, mentioned last week a recent "story" they had about how FAT Michelle Obama has become as if that somehow justifies something (if even remotely true).

  7. What say the surly awl barons?

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    The Biggest U.S. Oil Patch Is Near Its Limit

    The biggest U.S. shale region will have to shut wells within four months because there aren’t enough pipelines to get the oil to customers, the head of one of the industry’s largest producers said.

    The worsening bottleneck in the Permian region that straddles west Texas and New Mexico offers an unexpected fillip to OPEC and other oil producers outside the U.S., who’ve seen rampant production from America’s shale producers grab market share.

    "We will reach capacity in the next 3 to 4 months," Scott Sheffield, the chairman of Pioneer Natural Resources Co. said in an interview at an OPEC conference in Vienna. "Some companies will have to shut in production, some companies will move rigs away, and some companies will be able to continue growing because they have firm transportation."

    His comments are the strongest indication yet that the growth in the red-hot shale region is about to slow down soon due to a lack of pipeline capacity. The problem has grown so bad that oil companies have been forced to load crude on to trucks and drive it hundreds of miles to pipelines in other parts of the state.

    The Permian is growing at 800,0000 barrels a day annually and production currently stands at 3.3 million barrels a day, said Sheffield, who first drilled wells in the region in 1979 and is considered one of the architects of the shale revolution. Total pipeline capacity is 3.6 million barrels, so the region will reach capacity in the next three to four months and the bottleneck isn’t likely to ease for at least a year, he added.

    Permian production could remain flat for the next year because of pipeline restraints, Sheffield told a session of the OPEC conference.

    "The market has been assuming a straight line production growth from the US but infrastructure constraints mean that’s clearly not going to be the case," said Amrita Sen, chief oil analyst at consultant Energy Aspects Ltd. "At a time when outages are rising the US is not going to fill the gap either."

    The lack of pipeline capacity will continue to cause severe dislocation in U.S. oil markets, Sheffield said. Benchmark West Texas Intermediate crude at Midland in the Permian is likely to trade at a $25-a-barrel discount to price at the industry’s hub in Cushing, Oklahoma, he said.

    The Permian region is accounting for nearly half of the growth in U.S. oil production. America pumped almost 10.5 million barrels a day in March, up 1.4 million barrels a day from a year, according to government data. The annual growth rate is larger than the production of OPEC nations such as Libya.

    The warning about shut-ins comes as some small companies move oil rigs away from the Permian into other shale basins that still have pipeline capacity. Oil services companies have also started to reduce the number of fracking crews they offer to drillers.

    Pipelines are being built to get more oil out of the Permian, but shipments are likely to be constrained until at least 2019, Sheffield said.

     

     

    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-20/shale-giant-says-permian-oil-faces-shut-ins-on-pipeline-shortage

     

  8. 6 minutes ago, SKJ said:

    I don't know him at all, except for innertrons.

    But he's one of the good ones, for sure.

    I'd buy him a beer. 

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    I think he'd prefer a scotch, but your point still stands.

    The last three decades have been a real gut check. In my naive youth as a college student, I rejoiced at the fall of the Wall and the dissolution of the Soviet Union, thinking things would be hunky dory from here on end. I’m sure those of you of a certain age remember that annoying “Right Here. Right Now.” anthem of hope.

    Then, I saw the rise of nationalism, isolationism, and bigotry within the GOP with Pat Buchanan. This was soon followed by the evil done to the Twin Towers and the lies told by our leadership so that we could “get Sadam”. Of course, there was also Abu Graib and asshole terrorists like ISIS.

    Now, we’re dealing with the son of Buchananism: Trumpism, grandson to the segregationists and great-grandson to the KKK (also, cousin to the fucking Nazis).

    What I’ve learned is that evil never dies but can always be kept in check if enough of us fight to resist it. And, given the fact that we haven’t succumbed to it and civilization hasn’t yet destroyed itself, I’m confident in saying that there’s more of us than them and they’ll never win the war if we don’t let them.

    Unfortunately, that war will never end, but it's what we have to fight for if we want our progeny to have a future.

     

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  9. I'm running out words that don't sound like trite bullshit when our fellow members of this awesome community hit on hard times or have suffering loved ones. That doesn't change the fact that I feel for you and them. As you know, I'm not religious but I am sure that you and your wife's presence in visiting them is a real blessing. Hang in there, man. Y'all are doing God's work. 

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  10. 26 minutes ago, dcbc said:

    Houston and Dallas are cite and release as well.

    Even the Texas GOP is getting on board.

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    The Republican Party of Texas will now support the decriminalization of marijuana and use of medical marijuana.

    More than 8,000 Delegates representing the party voted to add a number of marijuana-related tenets to their official platform at their San Antonio party convention Saturday. In addition to decriminalization, the party voted to call for marijuana to be rescheduled to a lower class of drug federally and for the legalization of industrial hemp. Each measure passed with more than 80 percent of delegate votes.

    "We support a change in the law to make it a civil, and not a criminal, offense for legal adults only to possess one ounce or less of marijuana for personal use, punishable by a fine of up to $100, but without jail time," read one of the party’s new planks.

    http://www.newsweek.com/texas-republicans-marijuana-legalization-weed-pot-982324

  11. 7 hours ago, GhostOfTomJoad said:

    All that matters to Trumpkins: cheap, pandering imagery. 72f57b6ee8cc6a499de19be6903bf0e8.jpg

    "When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag."

    To be honest, I'm not so sure Trump cares whether or not the Republicans lose Congress this fall. If you believe that Trump is in the bag for Putin, it would make sense that he'd want a divided government as that could lead to an even more divided country. We all know he would go even further off the deep end tweeting into the cyber and riling up his base of fascistic white nationalists, especially considering Congress would begin preparing for his removal from office. He'd rather take this country down with him or live out his days in a lakeside dacha next door to his new best friend.

  12. 45 minutes ago, HtownHorn said:

    Nah it's sad Dems can't honestly look at their own party and say man, what the fuck where we doing in 2014 when Obama was doing the same things to these kids. Why didn't I give a fuck then?

    Stop lying.

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