patriotic thread
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IdRatherBeSkiing
Sherbert is NOT and NEVER WILL BE ice cream.
Poor direction. The director should be knowing which camera he/she is going to cut to and he/she should have the name forwarded to the name on screen guy/gal. If they are missing that, then it is poor direction.
scotchandcigar
All I wanted was some steak
There's nothing like a war to bring people together.
JHDK
Release Robin's Bra
I hear ya. And I do like how the SCOTUS and military generals try to stay neutral and don't do the whole cheering or not cheering thing. But I think congress being kinda rowdy isn't anything new. The freaking continental congress got heated in that room.
Politics being stressful is enjoyable to me.
Overall I think President Biden did well. The thing about an international tax rate was really scary to me, but I liked his comments on Ukraine. He totally said FU to defund the police so I like that. And I think he had a pretty powerful closing.
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scotchandcigar
All I wanted was some steak
Lots of radical ideas: support veterans and cure cancer. Not sure if I can get behind that.
HecticArt
Administrator
They really did need to do a better job of getting the names of the randos up on the screen.
Judging from the crowd shots, that's pretty accurate. There were a lot more schmucks on either side of the aisle standing at the same time. Usually, for the last 12 years or so, it be either party or the other standing to applaud. This time there was a lot more bipartisan clapping. They were even doing it more for non Ukraine stuff than usual.
HecticArt
Administrator
We switched over to Billions. S6E2.
scotchandcigar
All I wanted was some steak
Same here. I also stopped watching, even when I liked the President, because I didn't like the half-standing/half-sitting thing, or congressmen shouting things like "You Lie". There used to be some degree of civility. That, and the speech is typically a series of pie-in-the-sky platitudes, which elicits applause from some segment of the crowd every 12 seconds.
But last night, after an hour of "Real Housewives", the Mrs. wanted to watch the SOTU, rather than another hour of RH. So she put it on. I just want to know what Kevin McCarthy mouthed under his breath when the camera jumped to him.
scotchandcigar
All I wanted was some steak
I just learned that he's Jewish too. So there's that.
JHDK
Release Robin's Bra
So here's my very basic take.
Tell me how I'm wrong.
President Biden got gas up to $3.50 average cause he shut down that American Indian/Canadian pipeline.
Now gas shot up to $4+ cause fuckin Putin with his assholness shut down that Germany to Russia pipeline.
Am I anywhere close here? You all seem to be smarter than I but I don't really think you are, I think you just can in some respects slightly post better than I.
Also, overall I think my posts are kinda smart while also being dumb and silly.
You all know I'm a dick right?
Tell me how I'm wrong.
President Biden got gas up to $3.50 average cause he shut down that American Indian/Canadian pipeline.
Now gas shot up to $4+ cause fuckin Putin with his assholness shut down that Germany to Russia pipeline.
Am I anywhere close here? You all seem to be smarter than I but I don't really think you are, I think you just can in some respects slightly post better than I.
Also, overall I think my posts are kinda smart while also being dumb and silly.
You all know I'm a dick right?
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Channel98
Don't yell or hit.
The national average for a gallon of gas reached $4.04 today. In California, which has the highest gas prices in the nation, a gallon of gas averages $5.34. Yikes!
www.wric.com
10 states with the highest gas prices in the country
The national average for a gallon of gas rose above $4.00 on Monday morning – but in these states, average prices climbed much higher.
www.wric.com
HecticArt
Administrator
You’re wrong.
IdRatherBeSkiing
Sherbert is NOT and NEVER WILL BE ice cream.
Most governments are boycotting Russian oil. Which means they are getting their supply from elsewhere. This means demand is higher than supply causing prices to rise globally. Even if you guys supplied all your own oil you would still pay the world price. If you had a well in Texas and you could sell for $100 overseas or $40 locally what would you do? So the price is the same.
In Canada (3rd largest oil reserve in the world) gas is $1.82 / litre C$. This translates roughly to $5.36 / gallon US$. So stop your wining about $4 / gallon gas.
sadchild
Dude
Someone told me yesterday that he knows someone who lives in Germany and they are currently not heating their house. It has to do with this....?
www.cnn.com
Germany halts Nord Stream 2 and Russia responds with a stark warning | CNN Business
The West showed Tuesday it was ready to target Russia's huge energy industry — even at the risk of hurting itself — after Moscow ordered troops into parts of eastern Ukraine.
www.cnn.com
scotchandcigar
All I wanted was some steak
Um yeah, wrong. I've never actually heard anyone else mention the pipeline, because it doesn't exist yet, and whenever it got going (in 20 years), it'll be insignificant.
But maybe you've heard there was a pandemic recently? The same reason food at the supermarket has shot up in price, is why gas has shot up in price. Increasing demand met by a crippled supply chain and worker shortage. Remember seeing this?
Even domestically produced oil has to be transported to refineries, then distributed to wherever it's being sold. It has zero to do with Biden, Trump, Hillary, or Obama.