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QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ Jan 31, 2006 -> 09:13 PM) Cindy Sheehan is so off the map, she wants to run against Diane Finestein who is as liberal as hell, because she first supported the war. When you are too liberal for the California branch of the democratic party, you need to check your sanity at the door. The goof who invited her needs to get her invite privileges taken away. Did she really think that Cindy would behave. I am glad that Cindy was stupid enough to try and open that banner ahead of time, if she was a bit more with it she would of waited to pull her attention grabing scheme during the address. They should just issue a restraining order and keep her away. The congresswoman who invited her is a real winner in her own right. One of those left coast radicals who advocates a "department of peace". LOL!

"If there are people in America talking to Al Quada we want to know about it. We will not sit back and wait to be hit again!"

QUOTE(Flash Tizzle @ Jan 31, 2006 -> 08:09 PM) Typo on my behalf. Meant don't know why 'they' bothered to invite her. She wasn't going to be allowed in the room during his speech. Yeah, Uber-Attention whore strikes yet again. :rolly

QUOTE(mr_genius @ Jan 31, 2006 -> 05:21 PM) yea, cause there's been so many terrorist attacks in the US since 9-11. Yeah and dont forget about the Bush Weather stopping machine which can halt hurricanes in their tracks. :rolly

Bush didnt invite her obviously. According to Fox News some congresswoman invited her.

THESE ARE ALL LIES!!!!! LIES MADE UP BY THE VAST RIGHT WING CONSPIRACY!!!!!!!!!

QUOTE(Rex Kickass @ Jan 31, 2006 -> 02:35 PM) Scary, innit? It's not about a hard price cap - but I don't think it would be unreasonable to say that the fed government could place a cap on profit margin... like for example, an oil company could not charge more than a 30% markup on necessary items like gas or home heating oil. I'm sure this is way more simplistic than what would really be necessary, but something along those lines. It would be a solution that would allow oil companies to profit and profit well... but also a solution to help protect taxpayers. Price controls never worked and never will. Socialism is bad mmmmmmmkay!

QUOTE(Wong & Owens @ Jan 31, 2006 -> 11:55 AM) Keep looking at it that way(and this goes for people strictly on the other side too) and watch things continue to get worse. And those you so blindly and adamantly support are laughing all the way to the bank, and they're stepping on all of us to get there. Im doing just fine. Nobody is stepping on me. A rising tide lifts all boats.

QUOTE(KipWellsFan @ Jan 31, 2006 -> 12:10 PM) Your point?

QUOTE(Cknolls @ Jan 31, 2006 -> 11:39 AM) I hope Bush gets two more picks before he leaves office so there is a clear 5 vote conservative majority. I wish the Dems would have been successful in their filibuster because Bush could have nominated Brown and Estrada to the bench and solidified the majority. Kennedy Kerry Durbin Leahy Schumer Better luck next time boys... The next best shot he'll have to get a pick will be Stevens who I believe is something like 85 years old. He steps aside and the SCOTUS is a conservative bastion for the next 20 years.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Jan 31, 2006 -> 10:41 AM) So in your view, because Exxon produces gasoline, they aren't allowed to make a profit? Not sure I get that. And their infrastructure investments mean a lot more than "jack s***". Seriously though, we need to be focusing on getting out from under oil in general. That's the key. President Bush is supposedly going to make a big pitch for alternative energy tonight in the State of the Union speech. We'll see exactly what he has up his sleeve.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Jan 31, 2006 -> 09:35 AM) I have a question for all you Dems out there. Why is Robert Byrd voting FOR Alito? (there's a followup observation to this). I couldnt figure that one out either for the life of me but Im happy to have him on board.

QUOTE(Rex Kickass @ Jan 31, 2006 -> 09:06 AM) Ever seen Obama speak? The guy is a rockstar, and a centrist - by the way. I'm not an Obama fan though. He's too much of an opportunist for my tastes. Yeah, hes just "centrist" enough to vote with Teddy Kennedy on the Alito filibuster.

QUOTE(Wong & Owens @ Jan 31, 2006 -> 09:10 AM) Summed up my thoughts exactly. Gracias! Here's what needs to be done with Congress ---> We just had a good sweep...........1994

QUOTE(jackie hayes @ Jan 31, 2006 -> 08:55 AM) You seem to confuse "investment" (money spent to keep the big bucks rolling in) and "charity". Yup, they invest a lot of money. That means jack s***. And I've tried to find the year when Exxon lost money, and I can't seem to find it. Their SEC filings seem to show solid profits every single year of the mid-1990s. Got a link? I was referring to the industry as a whole with my post. Their margins were awful back then and they still needed to spend billions to keep production and exploration operations going.

QUOTE(kevin57 @ Jan 31, 2006 -> 06:21 AM) I know I'm speaking "blasphemy," but can someone tell me how our own Barack Obama, who is portrayed in the media as walking on water, is any different from Dick Turban? Its really simple. Obama is black and that makes him a golden boy on the democratic side.

Wall Street seemed to really like this guy. As I recall the markets rallied sharply the day his appointment was announced.

QUOTE(IlliniKrush @ Jan 30, 2006 -> 02:36 PM) This isn't Hawks related, but i thought it'd mention it. The Blues have begun their fire sale...they traded their two leading scorers...Weight to the Canes, Sillinger to the Preds My question is when does the Hawks fire sale begin? It cant be far off now.

Ive had many fights with Jack Daniels but the worst of em had to have been back in September of 2003. I had just got back from Iraq like 2 weeks before that and had gone 9 months with no alcohol and my tolerance was about zero. I end up going to Wisconsin with my cousin and some of her friends over Labor Day weekend and we end up in this s***ty sportsbar with about 3 other people in the whole place besides us. Anyhooooo, the rest of the group has their little A-B conversation going on and I was getting really bored with being C so I start slamming Jack and Cokes. In the space of 40 minutes I slammed 9 of em. It didnt hit me until I stood up to go to the bathroom and then it felt like a train just hit me. I ran for the bathroom and proceeded to worship the porcelin god, several times. When I finally stopped throwing up I stood up and I was completely out of it. So out of it, in fact, that I couldnt find my way out of the toilet stall. For 5 minutes I fumbled around looking for a way out of there before finally I accidentally hit the latch with my hand and the door swung open. I staggered to where my cousin and her friends were and said........"time to go". Next thing I remember Im waking up face down on the floor of their house with a massive hangover. None of those people, my cousin included, would speak to me after that so I poured some salt on the wound calling her up and leaving a message saying she was a stuck up b****.

QUOTE(jackie hayes @ Jan 30, 2006 -> 01:27 PM) But the issue is profits, not prices. It does no good to pretend that the oil industry is some perfectly competitive market full of price takers. If that were the case, profits would be driven down. Not really all the way to zero, like in the textbook model, but sure as hell lower than this. Did any of the people complaining about Oil Industry profits read this part of the article? Thats 86 billion dollars invested by the industry as a whole to keep oil and gas flowing and keep America moving. Thats before paying out dividends to the shareholders. Its not as though the industry is taking these profits and stuffing them in the mattress. I also dont remember anyone doing anything to help these guys out 10 years ago when oil was 9 dollars a barrel and they were losing money hand over fist.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Jan 31, 2006 -> 12:26 AM) The Democrats voting against Cloture: Bayh, Evan (D-IN) Biden, Joseph R., Jr. (D-DE) Boxer, Barbara (D-CA) Clinton, Hillary Rodham (D-NY) Dayton, Mark (D-MN) Dodd, Christopher J. (D-CT) Durbin, Richard (D-IL) Feingold, Russell D. (D-WI) Feinstein, Dianne (D-CA) Jeffords, James M. (I-VT) Kennedy, Edward M. (D-MA) Kerry, John F. (D-MA) Lautenberg, Frank R. (D-NJ) Leahy, Patrick J. (D-VT) Levin, Carl (D-MI) Menendez, Robert (D-NJ) Mikulski, Barbara A. (D-MD) Murray, Patty (D-WA) Obama, Barack (D-IL) Reed, Jack (D-RI) Reid, Harry (D-NV) Sarbanes, Paul S. (D-MD) Schumer, Charles E. (D-NY) Stabenow, Debbie (D-MI) Wyden, Ron (D-OR) The remaining Democrats in the Senate are people of integrity who believe in giving a highly qualified judicial nominee an up or down vote even though they may not agree with him and plan to vote no anyhow.

For me its Jack straight, Jack and coke, Jack with beer for a chaser.............. Jager is a close second to me but nothing compares to Jack.

I think this one oughta be interesting.

QUOTE(BHAMBARONS @ Jan 30, 2006 -> 12:26 PM) Yeah made a 100 on faze 1, Thanks for everyones help Tom Student: Babbage, Tom Paper Grade : 100.0/ 100.0 100% A+ Instructor comments: Really liked faze 1; I would like to see you take a little more opinion on the paper. You included some good quotes to back up your research and gave solid stats which also supported your research. Faze 2: Take a nationwide survey on the issue place this data between the last topic section and the conclusion section. Faze 2 is due 2-1-06 James R. Moon

QUOTE(jasonxctf @ Jan 30, 2006 -> 11:55 AM) so would government interference in market pricing due to collusion be wrong? if all of the cattle farmers got together and decided to price beef at $25 per lb and stuck to it, would that be collusion? Ive said it before and I guess I need to say it again. Oil companies do not set the price of oil. Traders on the Nymex and at the Chicago Merc set the price of oil. Oil companies just benefit when the price goes up.