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03-21-2011 , 08:55 PM

#976

Huehuecoyotl

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Well it isn't the Chilean women ( except for Ana Tijoux), so what could it be?

03-21-2011 , 08:58 PM

#977

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Originally Posted by valenzuela

he doesnt want our copper, he already has it.

Maybe he wants more of it! Get digging!

03-21-2011 , 08:59 PM

#978

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He wants us to use nuclear energy. However I dont think that is necessarily a bad thing but Im very skeptic given that we are an incredibly sismic country.

03-21-2011 , 08:59 PM

#979

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Originally Posted by valenzuela

He wants us to use nuclear energy. However I dont think that is necessarily a bad thing but Im very skeptic given that we are an incredibly sismic country.

That is so the US can use more OOOOIIIILLLLL!!!!!

03-21-2011 , 09:07 PM

#980

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Actually what USA is doing for oil is harrasing Venezuela, supporting coups and trying to destabilize that goverment.
I mean I must admit that its preety LOL that the one country that has the oil you need so badly is the one that happens to not be your bitch.

03-21-2011 , 09:11 PM

#981

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Not really. Consumers and producers tend to have a love/ hate but symbiotic relationship. Chavez can say all the **** he wants because he knows the US won't directly intervene with the oil supply and at the same time Chavez can't really do anything out in the open that contravenes US interests because a cut in his oil supply = no more free moneyz to hand out. Its like a dance in which both people win and both people lose.

03-21-2011 , 09:11 PM

#982

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Originally Posted by DVaut1

This startlingly accurate graph of History Channel programming actually gets to why we need public television imo. This is what free market non-fiction historical programming hath brought on us:

The History Channel here in Oz still shows history.

I am pretty sure Discovery is the channel for "Did the Egyptians build the pyramids because they were lizards from Alpha Centuri?" over here.

03-21-2011 , 09:12 PM

#983

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Yes because there's nothing like destabilising oil exporters if you want low oil prices

03-21-2011 , 09:13 PM

#984

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The only people who don't win and lose are the people of Venezuela. They just get to lose.

03-21-2011 , 09:13 PM

#985

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I'm still interested in what Obama wants from Chile. Other than the beaches and the empanadas de marisco.

03-21-2011 , 09:15 PM

#986

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Originally Posted by valenzuela

Wat? How does ****ing with a relatively stable oil producing country help the USA get oil?

03-21-2011 , 09:16 PM

#987

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Yes because there's nothing like destabilising oil exporters if you want low oil prices

03-21-2011 , 09:24 PM

#988

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Originally Posted by General Tsao

Fly is exactly right, btw. The libertarian obsession with "omg the govt has convinced us to just hand out paper to each other and we actually do it, its FAKE!" is incredibly silly. Currency is currency, paper or otherwise. Paper has little less actual usefulness than gold. If you want to criticize paper currency, you should pretty much only do so if your alternative currency is bullets.

Gold and the Periodic Table of the Elements (with Sanat Kumar)
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/...um-einsteinium

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold#Use_and_applications

03-21-2011 , 11:28 PM

#989

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The only people who don't win and lose are the people of Venezuela. They just get to lose.

I would expect a more ambivalent position towards Chavez from someone who claims to be a social-democrat fwiw. Somewhere along the lines of "meh".
Do you seriously think all moderate social democrats here are missing something you arent?

Quote:

Wat? How does ****ing with a relatively stable oil producing country help the USA get oil?

A pro USA regime is clearly better for their oil aspirations. With the new regime the profits have gone from the multinationals to schools and hospitals, something the big boys arent thrilled about.

03-22-2011 , 02:45 AM

#990

foldpre

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i'm still waiting for that Iraqi oil dividend

03-22-2011 , 04:40 AM

#991

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Key is in the word democrat imo

03-22-2011 , 04:41 AM

#992

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Oh, I'm a liberal too, Chavez... ain't.

03-22-2011 , 09:13 AM

#993

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Originally Posted by DVaut1

This startlingly accurate graph of History Channel programming actually gets to why we need public television imo. This is what free market non-fiction historical programming hath brought on us:

I don't get why this means that we need public TV (I assume you mean US govt funded TV). I'm not disputing the content of the History Channel (don't know in reality) as presented.

03-22-2011 , 09:29 AM

#994

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Most people that are interested in quality historical programming have moved to the internet. I dont think there is a demographic that represents those that want quality programming but dont know how to use the internet.

03-22-2011 , 09:46 AM

#995

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Originally Posted by General Tsao

lol we need the government to pay for state run historical programing because no one wants to watch historical programing.

sounds too stereotypical stupid statist for that to be what you just said dvaut.

POTT

03-22-2011 , 10:25 AM

#996

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Originally Posted by ianlippert

I use the internet much more than I watch TV for this stuff, and have a pretty big collection of the best documentaries on the history I am interested in.

Suprise, surpise, about 90% of the shows I have which I think are really good quality are PBS and BBC productions.

03-22-2011 , 10:27 AM

#997

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Originally Posted by adios

I don't get why this means that we need public TV (I assume you mean US govt funded TV).

Because it's awesome. US government needs to prevent you from stealing.

Because if you watch one minute without contributing, you're a thief. A common thief.

03-22-2011 , 10:27 AM

#998

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Originally Posted by pvn

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It's just that these thieves make me so damn mad. You know who you are - THIEVES!

03-22-2011 , 10:28 AM

#999

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Originally Posted by adios

I'm not disputing the content of the History Channel (don't know in reality) as presented.

It's startlingly accurate

03-22-2011 , 11:01 AM

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Claire McCaskill (D) Senator from Missouri:

McCaskill to pay back taxes on plane

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Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo) said Monday she will sell her private plane and pay back $287,273 in four years of back taxes, the latest chapter in a politically embarrassing saga for the moderate Democrat facing a tough reelection battle in 2012.

McCaskill has been answering questions about the plane since POLITICO recently reported that she billed taxpayers for a political trip around Missouri. POLITICO also reported that McCaskill spent $76,000 from her Senate budget on trips on the aircraft over the past four years, prompting the senator to refund the Treasury Department more than $88,000 for the cost of the trips plus pilot fees.

McCaskill’s announcement Monday is the latest twist in a political scandal that has dogged her for the past two weeks. The expensive fiasco clashes with her self-made image as a reformer and good-government advocate during her first term in the Senate. McCaskill has now shelled out more than $375,000 in payments to cover the cost of the plane flights and back taxes, a series of events the senator herself has called “embarrassing.”

On top of this, McCaskill signed on in February as a co-sponsor of Senate legislation that would fire federal employees if they are “seriously delinquent” in paying their own federal taxes.

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