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On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 18:53:46 GMT, "Loogypicker"
wrote: wrote in message ... On Feb 28, 1:35 pm, "Loogypicker" wrote: "John H." wrote in message ... On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:04:45 -0800 (PST), wrote: On Feb 28, 12:22 pm, John H. wrote: On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:01:17 -0500, "D.Duck" wrote: wrote in message ... On Feb 27, 1:28 pm, wrote: On Feb 27, 1:00 pm, hkrause wrote: D-unit wrote: "Chuck Gould" wrote in message ... The price of a bbl of oil last night. Average retail price for a gallon of unleaded regular, in this state, is now $3.35. That's up 85-cents from the same time last year. Premium typically runs about 30 cents more. The annual spring price gouge we have endured each of the last several years should be getting underway very soon, as the refiners all claim to be passing along the costs of converting from winter to summer formulations. The challenge for boaters who don't care and say, "We can afford to pay for fuel, regardless of the cost", will be the disappearing infrastructure. When the working man has to give up boating because he can't afford to fuel up for a weekend's outing, it guts the infrastructure that everybody depends on. Without the critical mass of the small boaters, many of the service businesses and retailers upon which the entire boating community relies cannot remain in business. There is less justification for the state to set aside marine parks or otherwise prioritize boating recreation. I wish I had a solution. I don't. But when poor families are facing a "heat or eat" decision every week while BIGOILCO makes $40-billion profits it's possible to see the human tragedy in play, even without being able to identify a solution. And this is with a gasoline surplus.. Just wait till supplies run low. Ouch. db No mystery here...just bend over for Big Oil and its facilitators in the Bush Administration.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Did you ever think our enemies who seem to control the oil and terrorism have nothing to do with this? It is a fact that you can not dispute that these terrorist regimes want to raise the prices and make the repubs look bad and get voted out of office. After all, repubs shoot back when we are attacked, dems talk....- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Take a look at historical data and you'll see something astonishing. It seems that talking works! All that happens when we think we are going after the "enemy" is **** them off. After all, it doesn't make very good business sense at all. Think about it. What if, say, you were making widgets and I was the sole manufacturer of the number one component that those widgets needed to operate. Would you think I'd be more than likely to work with you, monetarily wise if you were decent to me, or if you ****ed me off? Can you spell A bomb? Just ask Chamberlain. He'll tell you how much talking works. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neville_Chamberlain -- John H "All decisions are the result of binary thinking."- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Just ask Reagan if talks work. http://www.heritage.org/Press/Commentary/ed061404c.cfm Portions therein: Ronald Reagan was a strong believer in personal diplomacy - the idea of having a face-to-face discussion with those he was seeking to persuade. That's why, after becoming president, he often talked privately about the desire to engage the leader of the Soviet Union in a one-on-one conversation, to diminish any fear of the United States' intentions and to seek common ground for reducing tensions and promoting peace. You gotta know when to hold 'em and know when to fold 'em. And, you gotta know when to shoot and when to hold your fire. Of course, that assumes you've got something to shoot. -- John H "All decisions are the result of binary thinking." But we haven't even TRIED yet to talk to Al Qaeda. You goose steppers won't even give them a chance to negotiate. How much madder to you want to make them?- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - John, it's not me, it's my little stalker boy/girl. Hey, stop stalking me, dummy. You'd make life a lot easier for Loogy if you'd just tell him whether you're a boy or a girl. -- John H "All decisions are the result of binary thinking." |
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wrote in message ... On Feb 28, 1:43 pm, "Loogypicker" wrote: "Wayne.B" wrote in message ... On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 08:37:28 -0800 (PST), Chuck Gould wrote: Now the oil companies charge themselves $100 a bbl. How do you suppose that price determined ? It doesn't matter why, it's just not fair. It's not me, Wayne, it's my little stalker boy/girl........ I'll be travelling to you're town real soon. Would you like to meet? I'd love to see you call me that to my face! |
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On Feb 28, 2:02*pm, "Loogypicker" wrote:
wrote in message ... On Feb 28, 1:43 pm, "Loogypicker" wrote: "Wayne.B" wrote in message .. . On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 08:37:28 -0800 (PST), Chuck Gould wrote: Now the oil companies charge themselves $100 a bbl. How do you suppose that price determined ? It doesn't matter why, it's just not fair. It's not me, Wayne, it's my little stalker boy/girl........ I'll be travelling to you're town real soon. Would you like to meet? I'd love to see you call me that to my face! No problem, little stalker boy/girl..... |
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On Feb 28, 2:00*pm, John H. wrote:
On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:52:02 -0800 (PST), wrote: On Feb 28, 1:35*pm, "Loogypicker" wrote: "John H." wrote in message . .. On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:04:45 -0800 (PST), wrote: On Feb 28, 12:22 pm, John H. wrote: On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:01:17 -0500, "D.Duck" wrote: wrote in message ... On Feb 27, 1:28 pm, wrote: On Feb 27, 1:00 pm, hkrause wrote: D-unit wrote: "Chuck Gould" wrote in message ... The price of a bbl of oil last night. Average retail price for a gallon of unleaded regular, in this state, is now $3.35. That's up 85-cents from the same time last year. Premium typically runs about 30 cents more. The annual spring price gouge we have endured each of the last several years should be getting underway very soon, as the refiners all claim to be passing along the costs of converting from winter to summer formulations. The challenge for boaters who don't care and say, "We can afford to pay for fuel, regardless of the cost", will be the disappearing infrastructure. When the working man has to give up boating because he can't afford to fuel up for a weekend's outing, it guts the infrastructure that everybody depends on. Without the critical mass of the small boaters, many of the service businesses and retailers upon which the entire boating community relies cannot remain in business. There is less justification for the state to set aside marine parks or otherwise prioritize boating recreation. I wish I had a solution. I don't. But when poor families are facing a "heat or eat" decision every week while BIGOILCO makes $40-billion profits it's possible to see the human tragedy in play, even without being able to identify a solution. And this is with a gasoline surplus.. Just wait till supplies run low. Ouch. db No mystery here...just bend over for Big Oil and its facilitators in the Bush Administration.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Did you ever think our enemies who seem to control the oil and terrorism have nothing to do with this? It is a fact that you can not dispute that these terrorist regimes want to raise the prices and make the repubs look bad and get voted out of office. After all, repubs shoot back when we are attacked, dems talk....- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Take a look at historical data and you'll see something astonishing. It seems that talking works! All that happens when we think we are going after the "enemy" is **** them off. After all, it doesn't make very good business sense at all. Think about it. What if, say, you were making widgets and I was the sole manufacturer of the number one component that those widgets needed to operate. Would you think I'd be more than likely to work with you, monetarily wise if you were decent to me, or if you ****ed me off? Can you spell A bomb? Just ask Chamberlain. He'll tell you how much talking works. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neville_Chamberlain -- John H "All decisions are the result of binary thinking."- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Just ask Reagan if talks work. http://www.heritage.org/Press/Commentary/ed061404c.cfm Portions therein: Ronald Reagan was a strong believer in personal diplomacy - the idea of having a face-to-face discussion with those he was seeking to persuade. That's why, after becoming president, he often talked privately about the desire to engage the leader of the Soviet Union in a one-on-one conversation, to diminish any fear of the United States' intentions and to seek common ground for reducing tensions and promoting peace. You gotta know when to hold 'em and know when to fold 'em. And, you gotta know when to shoot and when to hold your fire. Of course, that assumes you've got something to shoot. -- John H "All decisions are the result of binary thinking." But we haven't even TRIED yet to talk to Al Qaeda. You goose steppers won't even give them a chance to negotiate. How much madder to you want to make them?- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - John, it's not me, it's my little stalker boy/girl. Sounded awfully similar to something you might say, though. -- John H "All decisions are the result of binary thinking."- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - And you whine about other's personal attacks. |
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wrote in message ... On Feb 28, 2:02 pm, "Loogypicker" wrote: wrote in message ... On Feb 28, 1:43 pm, "Loogypicker" wrote: "Wayne.B" wrote in message .. . On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 08:37:28 -0800 (PST), Chuck Gould wrote: Now the oil companies charge themselves $100 a bbl. How do you suppose that price determined ? It doesn't matter why, it's just not fair. It's not me, Wayne, it's my little stalker boy/girl........ I'll be travelling to you're town real soon. Would you like to meet? I'd love to see you call me that to my face! No problem, little stalker boy/girl..... You may not no this, but I know Karate. |
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On Feb 28, 2:01*pm, John H. wrote:
On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 18:53:46 GMT, "Loogypicker" wrote: wrote in message ... On Feb 28, 1:35 pm, "Loogypicker" wrote: "John H." wrote in message . .. On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:04:45 -0800 (PST), wrote: On Feb 28, 12:22 pm, John H. wrote: On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:01:17 -0500, "D.Duck" wrote: wrote in message ... On Feb 27, 1:28 pm, wrote: On Feb 27, 1:00 pm, hkrause wrote: D-unit wrote: "Chuck Gould" wrote in message ... The price of a bbl of oil last night. Average retail price for a gallon of unleaded regular, in this state, is now $3.35. That's up 85-cents from the same time last year. Premium typically runs about 30 cents more. The annual spring price gouge we have endured each of the last several years should be getting underway very soon, as the refiners all claim to be passing along the costs of converting from winter to summer formulations. The challenge for boaters who don't care and say, "We can afford to pay for fuel, regardless of the cost", will be the disappearing infrastructure. When the working man has to give up boating because he can't afford to fuel up for a weekend's outing, it guts the infrastructure that everybody depends on. Without the critical mass of the small boaters, many of the service businesses and retailers upon which the entire boating community relies cannot remain in business. There is less justification for the state to set aside marine parks or otherwise prioritize boating recreation. I wish I had a solution. I don't. But when poor families are facing a "heat or eat" decision every week while BIGOILCO makes $40-billion profits it's possible to see the human tragedy in play, even without being able to identify a solution. And this is with a gasoline surplus.. Just wait till supplies run low. Ouch. db No mystery here...just bend over for Big Oil and its facilitators in the Bush Administration.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Did you ever think our enemies who seem to control the oil and terrorism have nothing to do with this? It is a fact that you can not dispute that these terrorist regimes want to raise the prices and make the repubs look bad and get voted out of office. After all, repubs shoot back when we are attacked, dems talk....- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Take a look at historical data and you'll see something astonishing. It seems that talking works! All that happens when we think we are going after the "enemy" is **** them off. After all, it doesn't make very good business sense at all. Think about it. What if, say, you were making widgets and I was the sole manufacturer of the number one component that those widgets needed to operate. Would you think I'd be more than likely to work with you, monetarily wise if you were decent to me, or if you ****ed me off? Can you spell A bomb? Just ask Chamberlain. He'll tell you how much talking works. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neville_Chamberlain -- John H "All decisions are the result of binary thinking."- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Just ask Reagan if talks work. http://www.heritage.org/Press/Commentary/ed061404c.cfm Portions therein: Ronald Reagan was a strong believer in personal diplomacy - the idea of having a face-to-face discussion with those he was seeking to persuade. That's why, after becoming president, he often talked privately about the desire to engage the leader of the Soviet Union in a one-on-one conversation, to diminish any fear of the United States' intentions and to seek common ground for reducing tensions and promoting peace. You gotta know when to hold 'em and know when to fold 'em. And, you gotta know when to shoot and when to hold your fire. Of course, that assumes you've got something to shoot. -- John H "All decisions are the result of binary thinking." But we haven't even TRIED yet to talk to Al Qaeda. You goose steppers won't even give them a chance to negotiate. How much madder to you want to make them?- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - John, it's not me, it's my little stalker boy/girl. Hey, stop stalking me, dummy. You'd make life a lot easier for Loogy if you'd just tell him whether you're a boy or a girl. -- John H "All decisions are the result of binary thinking."- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Yeah, I'd really like to know if Jim is a boy or a girl. Anyone like that certainly isn't a man. |
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"Loogypicker" wrote in message news:rtDxj.20772$Hd.17194@trnddc02... "John H." wrote in message ... On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 18:35:22 GMT, "Loogypicker" wrote: "John H." wrote in message ... On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:04:45 -0800 (PST), wrote: On Feb 28, 12:22 pm, John H. wrote: On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:01:17 -0500, "D.Duck" wrote: wrote in message ... On Feb 27, 1:28 pm, wrote: On Feb 27, 1:00 pm, hkrause wrote: D-unit wrote: "Chuck Gould" wrote in message ... The price of a bbl of oil last night. Average retail price for a gallon of unleaded regular, in this state, is now $3.35. That's up 85-cents from the same time last year. Premium typically runs about 30 cents more. The annual spring price gouge we have endured each of the last several years should be getting underway very soon, as the refiners all claim to be passing along the costs of converting from winter to summer formulations. The challenge for boaters who don't care and say, "We can afford to pay for fuel, regardless of the cost", will be the disappearing infrastructure. When the working man has to give up boating because he can't afford to fuel up for a weekend's outing, it guts the infrastructure that everybody depends on. Without the critical mass of the small boaters, many of the service businesses and retailers upon which the entire boating community relies cannot remain in business. There is less justification for the state to set aside marine parks or otherwise prioritize boating recreation. I wish I had a solution. I don't. But when poor families are facing a "heat or eat" decision every week while BIGOILCO makes $40-billion profits it's possible to see the human tragedy in play, even without being able to identify a solution. And this is with a gasoline surplus.. Just wait till supplies run low. Ouch. db No mystery here...just bend over for Big Oil and its facilitators in the Bush Administration.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Did you ever think our enemies who seem to control the oil and terrorism have nothing to do with this? It is a fact that you can not dispute that these terrorist regimes want to raise the prices and make the repubs look bad and get voted out of office. After all, repubs shoot back when we are attacked, dems talk....- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Take a look at historical data and you'll see something astonishing. It seems that talking works! All that happens when we think we are going after the "enemy" is **** them off. After all, it doesn't make very good business sense at all. Think about it. What if, say, you were making widgets and I was the sole manufacturer of the number one component that those widgets needed to operate. Would you think I'd be more than likely to work with you, monetarily wise if you were decent to me, or if you ****ed me off? Can you spell A bomb? Just ask Chamberlain. He'll tell you how much talking works. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neville_Chamberlain -- John H "All decisions are the result of binary thinking."- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Just ask Reagan if talks work. http://www.heritage.org/Press/Commentary/ed061404c.cfm Portions therein: Ronald Reagan was a strong believer in personal diplomacy - the idea of having a face-to-face discussion with those he was seeking to persuade. That's why, after becoming president, he often talked privately about the desire to engage the leader of the Soviet Union in a one-on-one conversation, to diminish any fear of the United States' intentions and to seek common ground for reducing tensions and promoting peace. You gotta know when to hold 'em and know when to fold 'em. And, you gotta know when to shoot and when to hold your fire. Of course, that assumes you've got something to shoot. -- John H "All decisions are the result of binary thinking." But we haven't even TRIED yet to talk to Al Qaeda. You goose steppers won't even give them a chance to negotiate. How much madder to you want to make them? Oh. It's about talking to Al Qaeda. Not just them, the Talyban too. That's a lot of people to talk to. Narrow it down a bit and I'm sure Harry would volunteer to pop over there and negotiate a settlement for us. |
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wrote in message ... On Feb 28, 2:01 pm, John H. wrote: On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 18:53:46 GMT, "Loogypicker" wrote: wrote in message ... On Feb 28, 1:35 pm, "Loogypicker" wrote: "John H." wrote in message . .. On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:04:45 -0800 (PST), wrote: On Feb 28, 12:22 pm, John H. wrote: On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:01:17 -0500, "D.Duck" wrote: wrote in message ... On Feb 27, 1:28 pm, wrote: On Feb 27, 1:00 pm, hkrause wrote: D-unit wrote: "Chuck Gould" wrote in message ... The price of a bbl of oil last night. Average retail price for a gallon of unleaded regular, in this state, is now $3.35. That's up 85-cents from the same time last year. Premium typically runs about 30 cents more. The annual spring price gouge we have endured each of the last several years should be getting underway very soon, as the refiners all claim to be passing along the costs of converting from winter to summer formulations. The challenge for boaters who don't care and say, "We can afford to pay for fuel, regardless of the cost", will be the disappearing infrastructure. When the working man has to give up boating because he can't afford to fuel up for a weekend's outing, it guts the infrastructure that everybody depends on. Without the critical mass of the small boaters, many of the service businesses and retailers upon which the entire boating community relies cannot remain in business. There is less justification for the state to set aside marine parks or otherwise prioritize boating recreation. I wish I had a solution. I don't. But when poor families are facing a "heat or eat" decision every week while BIGOILCO makes $40-billion profits it's possible to see the human tragedy in play, even without being able to identify a solution. And this is with a gasoline surplus.. Just wait till supplies run low. Ouch. db No mystery here...just bend over for Big Oil and its facilitators in the Bush Administration.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Did you ever think our enemies who seem to control the oil and terrorism have nothing to do with this? It is a fact that you can not dispute that these terrorist regimes want to raise the prices and make the repubs look bad and get voted out of office. After all, repubs shoot back when we are attacked, dems talk....- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Take a look at historical data and you'll see something astonishing. It seems that talking works! All that happens when we think we are going after the "enemy" is **** them off. After all, it doesn't make very good business sense at all. Think about it. What if, say, you were making widgets and I was the sole manufacturer of the number one component that those widgets needed to operate. Would you think I'd be more than likely to work with you, monetarily wise if you were decent to me, or if you ****ed me off? Can you spell A bomb? Just ask Chamberlain. He'll tell you how much talking works. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neville_Chamberlain -- John H "All decisions are the result of binary thinking."- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Just ask Reagan if talks work. http://www.heritage.org/Press/Commentary/ed061404c.cfm Portions therein: Ronald Reagan was a strong believer in personal diplomacy - the idea of having a face-to-face discussion with those he was seeking to persuade. That's why, after becoming president, he often talked privately about the desire to engage the leader of the Soviet Union in a one-on-one conversation, to diminish any fear of the United States' intentions and to seek common ground for reducing tensions and promoting peace. You gotta know when to hold 'em and know when to fold 'em. And, you gotta know when to shoot and when to hold your fire. Of course, that assumes you've got something to shoot. -- John H "All decisions are the result of binary thinking." But we haven't even TRIED yet to talk to Al Qaeda. You goose steppers won't even give them a chance to negotiate. How much madder to you want to make them?- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - John, it's not me, it's my little stalker boy/girl. Hey, stop stalking me, dummy. You'd make life a lot easier for Loogy if you'd just tell him whether you're a boy or a girl. -- John H "All decisions are the result of binary thinking."- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Yeah, I'd really like to know if Jim is a boy or a girl. Anyone like that certainly isn't a man. You're petty name calling does nothing for you're credibility. |
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On Feb 28, 2:13*pm, wrote:
Hey Loog, why you lettin' some noob sockpuppet get you going? Write him off man... |
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