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02-24-2011 , 02:00 PM

#301

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02-24-2011 , 02:09 PM

#302

ikestoys

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Originally Posted by Brons

As if lowering the tax has any effect? People are buying gas now so the oil companies can sell the gas at the same price without the tax.

This is untrue, for obvious reasons.

02-24-2011 , 02:24 PM

#303

Vael

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Originally Posted by Brons

As if lowering the tax has any effect? People are buying gas now so the oil companies can sell the gas at the same price without the tax.

They can (assuming sufficient market power) but wouldn't because it's not profit maximizing.

02-24-2011 , 02:44 PM

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Originally Posted by MrWookie

Defectors from the government saying that Gaddafi is still sitting on tons of sulfur and mustard gas despite having renounced WMDs in 2003. This could turn into a vast, brutal, and grizzly tragedy before we are done.

This is one reason it might be best for the US/UN to stay out of it, but still hold back the threat to bomb him out of existence if he uses any WMDs.

02-24-2011 , 02:44 PM

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Originally Posted by ikestoys

This is untrue, for obvious reasons.

I agree. Don't know why I posted that.

02-24-2011 , 02:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Vael

They can (assuming sufficient market power) but wouldn't because it's not profit maximizing.

Yeah, and if there is anything resembling a free market price tends toward cost. Not that that's the situation of course.

02-24-2011 , 03:50 PM

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Originally Posted by bonsaltron

Bin Laden wouldn't have been given $3+ billion, and Hussein wouldn't have been given weapons to go after Iran, that's for sure.

I can go on, but if you believe it's irrelevant than I'll stop here

Seems all this uprising is messing with a lot of ingrained double think... so all these people are rising up against decades of tyranny... wait but how long and how many billions in weapons has the US gifted these dictator regimes... but um i thought we invade countries that have dictators with WMDs and spend billions on our military just to spread democracy and all that...

02-24-2011 , 04:14 PM

#308

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No seriously.
Psychopat sitting on a pile of musterd gas playing with matches knowing his time is running out...
Somebody has to take him out, I don't care who, CIA, SIS, whoever, before it's too late.
Comon ONE TIME!

02-24-2011 , 04:20 PM

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FWIW, a rumor that Ghaddafi had been shot caused the price of a barrel of oil to drop by $2.

02-24-2011 , 04:23 PM

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Whoever kills him is an insta World Hero and a nobel peace prize material.

02-24-2011 , 07:22 PM

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Innocent Kitty

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Something ironic about winning a peace prize for shooting somebody.

02-24-2011 , 09:07 PM

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man i really hope one of Gaddafi's female body guards turns on him and gets close enough to pop one in his brain.

would be oddly poetic imo.

02-24-2011 , 09:25 PM

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Originally Posted by DannyOcean_

so...

Here's a graphic, extremely disturbing link. The Daily Beast has a round up of the most horrific images of the Libyan revolution. If you are mildly sick in the head like me and want to look, here's the link.

FURTHER WARNING: These are really, REALLY messed up. It includes the link from earlier in this thread and that's not even in the top 3 worst things on this list. Really, you will regret clicking this link, do not do it.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-a...tos-and-video/

The pic of the guys getting hit by anti-aircraft rounds is wow

02-24-2011 , 10:23 PM

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Oh damn. That guy ripping the face off of a mercenary, yikes.

02-24-2011 , 11:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Flip-Flop

Well, I don't know about US but in Europe, in particular Netherlands a galon gas = 8,65 $ = 1,67 euro/l, (~2/3 of that is tax).

It's the highest price ever and people are very angry.
Price of crude oil can go up all it wants but there is no more room for gas price jump in EU or people may snap here too.
And of course the goverment don't even dream about lowering the tax on gas to balance the price so... it's bad.

No wonder there are so many bicycles.

02-24-2011 , 11:55 PM

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Something ironic about winning a peace prize for shooting somebody.

Obama says Hi.

02-25-2011 , 01:53 AM

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Why have the US marines landed in Libya?? Take that psycho out imo.

02-25-2011 , 05:22 AM

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Ahigh

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Originally Posted by JayTeeMe

Why have the US marines landed in Libya?? Take that psycho out imo.

Just to give people reason to criticize the invasion couple of years down the road? I think US staying out of this mess is a great move so far. Isn't that what we have UN for?

02-25-2011 , 05:23 AM

#319

Ahigh

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Originally Posted by maxtower

Obama says Hi.

To be fair, he didn't even have a chance to shoot anyone when he got it.

02-25-2011 , 05:55 AM

#320

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Something ironic about winning a peace prize for shooting somebody.

Hehe...nah, you have to admit that in this case it makes perfect sense and nobody would mind.

02-25-2011 , 06:06 AM

#321

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Dedicate this song to those fighting for freedom.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHhrZ...eature=related

02-25-2011 , 06:12 AM

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On a serious note, it looks like Libya is a very tribal region, tribe rules before anything else so I really doubt they can have anything even close to democracy.
They might try to fake it maybe, but I don't see how all tribes will get along with eachother on the issues of oil revenue.
So in a post-Gaddafi era anything goes imo, it can go civil war, foreign occupation and another dictatorship (in disquise at first).
We'll see.

02-25-2011 , 09:18 AM

#323

will1530

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Originally Posted by Flip-Flop

I'll see your gloom and doom and raise you the possibility of another Somalia

02-25-2011 , 09:39 AM

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The repubs are foaming at the mouth over the possibility of 2012, and another invasion & occupation mission. wooohoooooo, projection of more American power on someone elses credit card.

02-25-2011 , 09:42 AM

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Not glooming or dooming really, I hope Libyans can figure it out and better their lives, just saying that considering the circumstancies I wouldn't be surprised if just another crapfest replaces the current one.

I wasn't thinking the same in Egypt's case for example, it was very clear what the protesters were trying to achieve there.

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