Censored by Laurie

Most practical post in the now 30 pages of oil discussion

Hmmm...yeah I've seen that same picture reproduced over and over again on many pro-drilling sites...I've also seen alot of these: http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p216/ksigjph83/060526_anwr_hlg_4p_hlarge.jpg http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p216/ksigjph83/20060525_anwr.jpg http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p216/ksigjph83/chp_anwr.jpg I've never been...and I'm assuming nor have you...so all either of us can do is pull photos off of sites with our own agendas. Maybe I'll go next summer. That top picture is the coastal plain. Again...the "this is America" and we'll do things as impractically as we want to defense. No matter how much oil we have...it is still finite...so lets say we drill and strike it rich and oil goes down and we go right back to our over-consuming way of life...and theres oil for our kids and their new H4 that gets 6 miles to the gallon but looks kick ass with its platinum rims. And world demand increases because our oil has driven down the price from OPEC and everybody is happy and we forget that oil is finite and eventually we're right back to where we are now...but then there is no ANWR and there is no offshore oil and there is no shale...and we've said screw alternative (not ethenol...stop mentioning that...nobody but Iowa farmers and politicians trying to win Iowa farmers votes wants ethenol) fuel sources because we have oil. And eventually we're douchebaged. You say there's oil for 600 years (in a very odd way)...so answer my other question...if we strike it rich in ANWR and offshore, do we keep all that oil for ourselves in the face of rapidly increasing oil demand or do we say to the world this is ours, we're using it for both Americas for 300 years...or just the one for 600...why don't you guys try this wind, solar, hydroelectric, nuclear or gerbal power that we no longer need? This is a full fledged addiction we have...hell it was hard for me this morning to reach for my bike rather than my car keys. Too soon...if this thing makes it to 5 pages, half of which are Flyer just reposting his petition over and over I will have no problem hijacking with you True...I have about a 5 mile bike to the train station, a 15 minute train ride, and then a 2 mile run/walk to work...but if there is something that you ought to be clamering for it would be for increased public transportation...DART is a joke...and I realize that Texas is considerably bigger than the Northeast and Europe...however most people live within an hour of work...and I know plenty of people who live in New Haven and commute to NYC everyday...thats an hour and a half train ride. The fact that there are no train lines running from Plano, McKinney, Frisco, Carrolton ect to downtown Dallas just speaks to the sense of entitlment I mentioned previously. I'm not saying we can just up and quit oil...just that we need to be considerably smarter in our use

Certainly that must be the next logical step if I don't want to see 2 people shot by a civilian...I want to give them a hug and drive the get-a-way car....you give me such a headache. Horn was in no mortal danger...he was told by the 911 operator to stay inside...he announced his intention on killing these guys...he shot both of them in the back. Horn deserves some sort of punishment.

But what about the King of England? Do you want the King of England coming into your home and pushing you around? Huh? Well...do ya? I'm not neccesarilly anti-gun...I'll never own one...what I am against is Joe Horn...both the Saints wide reciever with the ridiculous cell phone celebration...and this guy who went out of his home with the intent on killing two people...even boasting about it seconds before. He was in no danger...and this ruling gives a dangerous amount of interpretive leeway to the castle law. "You want to make a bet?" Horn answered. "I'm going to kill them." - seriously...God bless that? What an odd verse that would make.

The biggest problem facing America is the American mentality of entitlment. We feel we have to drive...hell...some probably take it so far as to say Jesus intended for them to drive...and drive a really big truck...yea...Jesus wants you in a Hummer. If these gas prices are becoming a burden on you...sorry...but its a finite resource and it may be about time to start making adjustments to your lifestyle...especially if you have children so they don't grow up with that same sort of sense of entitlement. How do other countries deal with expensive oil? They don't drive. They walk it, bike it, rollerblade it, skateboard it, bus it, train it, kayak it, parasail it, lightrail it, darkrail it...if they must consume some gas...they vespa (preferrably seafoam green) it. Ohh...yeah...sorry I forgot...we're America dammit...git yer guns up...love it or leave it Drilling is a short term fix...nothing more. And it probably wouldn't even be that much of a fix. KBH was good enough to provide you some nice figures...two things: first, words like 'could' and 'estimated' scare me...nothing would be worse to me than to open up a beautiful place like ANWR to drill a dry well. But...I'll run on the assumption those numbers are spot on and all of this oil is there...is America simply going to hoard it and use it for its own good and give a big middle finger to the rest of the world...especially the rest of the world that has been providing America with oil for the past 100 years? I wonder how that will play. As for me...I have driven to work twice in the past month.

Agreed...the only motorized two wheeled vehicle for me...Seafoam Green Vespa!

I've got said job...maybe I'll start this weekend. Failblog is such greatness

My second favorite Big 12 themed children's toy. My favorite you ask:

Gotta disagree...kinda a fan of the Castro...although I am part hipster (not the ball hugging jean, neon sunglass wearing emo type who thinks Bright Eyes really speaks to him...rather the vintage lacoste v-neck sweater, aviator sunglass wearing really wants a sleeve tattoo and thinks Elliott Smith really speaks to him type). Also...my girlfriend has an iPhone and she came in town a few weeks ago and we drove up to Boston...an absolute lifesaver trying to figure out those ridiculously conceived roadways. I guess any internet phone can do that...but I love Apple and have no problem with people who rock the iPhone. Now if they have a bluetooth...totally different story

Well played sir.

The liberal arts as defined by wikipedia - "In modern colleges and universities, the liberal arts include the study of theology, art, literature, languages, philosophy, history, mathematics, and science." These things clearly have no place in America.

That would be Miami of Ohio.

Ahhh the great, over-hyped Tye Gunn. That was one of the more frusterating games of the Darrell Dickey era. Our defense dominated the Frogs...but the halfback dive was on repeat and the forward pass rarely experimented with. I would fly back in a heartbeat for a renewal of the bitter TCU-UNT rivalry (with both spewing their bitterness towards Mockingbird Lane of course)

Yeah...save that for the pros Chone Figgins agrees with you.

Monty Python sucks. So does football. And beer.

A reasonable person debates the merits of the death penalty...a reasonable person debates the merits of the half back dive on 3rd and 8...a reasonable person debates the merits of supply side economic theory. Bigots seek justification 52 years of violent oppression and racial segregation or for hundreds of years of human trafficing. I mean...UNTFlyer is as free market as they come but I doubt even he would support the economic value of owning individuals. And...me too. Again it is your inherent bigotry that won't allow you to believe that anybody but a white christian is capable of running a nation. You argue that unemployment and poverty were the result of Mandela...not the CIVIL WAR that had just taken place. America wasn't exactly the best place to look for a job from 1866 right up until around the turn of the century. I'll be nice here and say that these "indelible" images simply pushed from your mind any concept of geography since the Hutu's and Tutsi were warring "tribes" (arbitrarilly segragated by the Belgians and Dutch) in Central Africa, most notable Burhundi and Rwanda (ask Don Cheadle). I mean...I could've said that to you all Africans must look the same...but I'll play nice Again...nobody was questioning your facts. Most freshmen in high school know the Ganges is a sacred river (no figures to support that...and I'm not saying where these mythical high schools are).. Its your mockery of this belief and of the people who practice it that again make you a bigot: "people still go down to the Gangee's River to drop dead in it thinking it will propel them into the next life of reincarnation......hopefully to come back as a cow, bird or something better than what they were." Personally...the idea that a virgin can pop out a kid...and that one day this kid, who is long since dead, will one day come back to Earth and all those who believe in the omniscience of this dude will suddenly vanish and I'll be left here to endure bugs and sanguin water...well...that sounds pretty fucking nuts to me...however I don't belittle the 1-2 BILLION people who believe this. Odd...very similar philosophy. Been covered by the others Again...very similar. Perhaps you have more in common with those you spew your hatred and bigotry towards than you first thought. You know...we don't agree on much...

Since the storm front has already been covered: and my favorite Thanks for playing...the dry cleaners closes in 10 minutes so you should be sure to pick up your nicely starched dress robe and hood for the regional Grand Dragon's reading on Nathan Forrest...followed of course with refreshments and a good ole fashion lynching. Should be aces!

Nothing like the UNT brass cementing any sort of tradition. I guess we'll always have Fouts

Rick, Are you sure you want to judge people by their associates?

Capitalism at its best

Sir...the world was a better place when we still used European adjectives in front of our African countries. I personally detest Tanzania and will only refer to it as German East Africa

If you think you're getting any share of the brother of the Prince of Botsawana's inheritance you're crazy. That money is alllllllllll mine!

I first looked for a picture of a rock but thought that would be to obvious and decided to give a nod to Simon Pegg. Also the term I learned that day from the Simpson's: Specious Reasoning First...lets not be so short-sighted. This "war:" did not start with the Clinton administration...this "war" started in the mid to late 1940s when we (the West) absolutly butchered the creation of the Zionist state of Israel by essentially removing the nation of Palestine and uprooting roughly 600,000 people. You'd probably have some animosity if someone took your country away from you too. Now before this gets posted...I'm not anti-Israel...but I am upset by the abortion of the job done by the U.N. (with strong Truman backing) in creating Israel and our continued blind support of Israel in their conflict with Palestine. You call Hamas and the PLO "terrorist" organizations. Then are Aman and the Mossad not "terrorists" because they use American missles and weapons rather than suicide bombers? And since I know you love stats: 1, 2, 3. I'm not naive enough to believe that some or all of these sites may have an agenda...so I'll cede that at best we can call combatant, civilian and children deaths a wash. Also...is that the wording in the 9/11 report? "al-Queda and Iraq met several times"? That doesn't seem the least bit vague. I'm sorry but I have a difficult time believing that a paranoid and controlling dictator like Saddam would yield any control over his country by welcoming in a group like al-Queda...but of course I wasn't there.

On 9/11 I purchased this Japanese Peace Lily. I have not been attacked by terrorists... or Bengal Tigers, African Killer Bees, 7th Day Adventists, the Grizzly bear that killed Timothy Treadwell, Milton Bradley, crazed Yankee fan with her car, pit bulls (thanks FFR) housed at Bad Newz Kennels, ecoli aquired through neither spinach nor tomatos, femine-named Hurricanes or headless zombies. God Bless that Japanese Peace Lily