Great News Guys!!!

[MonsterMark]

Great news on all fronts. Woohoo.

President Bush Rasmussen rating up to 47%.

Gas is headed to $2.00/gal land by the elections.

Unemployment is at an all-time historical 5 decade low. Bush-onomics rules!

Perry, the guy that funded the Swiftees is back in action, funding a new group with $5 mil to take on vulnerable Dims.

sKerry says he is running again for Prez and he will kick the Swiftees a$$es from sea to shining sea. We'll see. Swiftees are already starting to raise funds for the Round 2. Can't wait. Much fun.

Looks like Republicans will maintain control of the House and the Senate. People are localizing the elections and that is always good for Republicans. Dims always have to run as a conservative to get in office before they shed their skin.

The Klintons and their ilk showed last week why they can never be trusted with the government ever again.

Saddam will soon be convicted and sentenced to death.

What else.....Hummmmmmm.

If you have other good news, post it here. Thanks!

Oh, ya. I'm going racing in 3 weeks, Oct 6th, RoadAmerica. For $200 you get to spend the day with MonsterMark, (worth the price by itself) plus...

1) Bring your car and race it.
2) I can provide the helmet.
2) Professional road course training session.
3) 5 - 15 minute sessions on one of the best tracks in the world.
4) Lunch and Dinner (with MonsterMark).
5) We'll be running 3 cameras on the car, wheel level front passenger side, rear facing and dash mounted. Should be pretty cool provided I don't take it into the wall.
6) And last, did I mention you get to spend the day with MonsterMark?

 

[fossten]

With all the good news in America, it makes sense why no postings from the lurker libbies.

WHAT'S GOOD FOR AMERICA IS BAD FOR THE DEMOCRATS

 

[barry2952]

No we just all recognized the lack of credibility on this site and went elsewhere. This has turned into quite the conservative circle-jerk, pivot-boy.

 

[MonsterMark]

No we just all recognized the lack of credibility on this site and went elsewhere.

More like put your tail-between-your-legs after getting spanked one too many times is more like it.

LOOK at any political site featuring Dims and Republicans. The Dims always get spanked and disappear. Thus the rise of the internet DailyKos and Olberman shows on TV. Losers need a place to comfort themselves.

But alas, even your poster boy for liberal talk radio on EER America has failed. Olberman is next. And we all know about the tin-foilers from the Kos brigade boycotting Disney because Disney had the balls to tell the truth about Klinton.

Nobody wants to listen to you losers cry and whine and hate America for all its given them.

Just another thought. Is it just me or was Keith Olberman secretly Herman Munster? I mean, get some 6 inch platform boots on the guy and I think he's it. No wonder the guy is such an airhead. Look at the size of his skull! It's all air-in-there.

 

[MonsterMark]

Oh, btw, Dow hit an all-time high. And this time we earned it. Not the bubble the Klintonistas blew in our faces.

 

[Brozly]

It's Election year..
As far as the Unemployment rate, that's only for New claims, anybody that's lost their job is off the list by now...

 

[MonsterMark]

It's Election year..
As far as the Unemployment rate, that's only for New claims, anybody that's lost their job is off the list by now...

Ok? And when Clinton had HIGHER unemployment numbers, the media went out and proclaimed it the best economy in 50 years. Sure, whatever you say.

Election year my butt. I bet Bush lowered the gas prices now just to get re-elected, right?

 

[fossten]

Gas prices plunge; Democrats unhappy

Analyst predicts plunge in gas prices

By Kevin G. Hall
McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON — The recent sharp drop in the global price of crude oil could mark the start of a massive sell-off that returns gasoline prices to lows not seen since the late 1990s — perhaps as low as $1.15 a gallon.

"All the hurricane flags are flying" in oil markets, said Philip Verleger, a noted energy consultant who was a lone voice several years ago in warning that oil prices would soar. Now, he says, they appear to be poised for a dramatic plunge.

Crude-oil prices have fallen about $14, or roughly 17 percent, from their July 14 peak of $78.40. After falling seven straight days, they rose slightly Wednesday in trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange, to $63.97, partly in reaction to a government report showing fuel inventories a bit lower than expected. But the overall price drop is expected to continue, and prices could fall much more in the weeks and months ahead.

Here's why:

For most of the past two years, oil prices have risen because the world's oil producers have struggled to keep pace with growing demand, particularly from China and India. Spare oil-production capacity grew so tight that market players feared that any disruption to oil production could create shortages.

Fear of disruption focused on fighting in Nigeria, escalating tensions over Iran's nuclear program, violence between Israel and Lebanon that might spread to oil-producing neighbors, and the prospect that hurricanes might topple oil facilities in the Gulf of Mexico.

Oil traders bet that such worrisome developments would drive up the future price of oil. Oil is traded in contracts for future delivery, and companies that take physical delivery of oil are just a small part of total trading. Large pension and commodities funds are the big traders and they're seeking profits. They've sunk $105 billion or more into oil futures in recent years, according to Verleger. Their bets that oil prices would rise in the future bid up the price of oil.

That, in turn, led users of oil to create stockpiles as cushions against supply disruptions and even higher future prices. Now inventories of oil are approaching 1990 levels.

But many of the conditions that drove investors to bid up oil prices are ebbing. Tensions over Israel, Lebanon and Nigeria are easing. The hurricane season has presented no threat so far to the Gulf of Mexico. The U.S. peak summer driving season is over, so gasoline demand is falling.

With fear of supply disruptions ebbing, oil prices began sliding. With oil inventories high, refiners that turn oil into gasoline are expected to cut production. As refiners cut production, oil companies increasingly risk getting stuck with excess oil supplies. There's already anecdotal evidence of oil companies chartering tankers to store excess oil.

All this is turning financial markets increasingly bearish on oil.

"If we continue to build inventories, and if we have a warm winter like we had last winter, you could see a large fall in the price of oil," said Gary Pokoik, who manages Hedge Ventures Energy in Los Angeles, an energy hedge fund. "I think there is still a lot of risk in the market."

As it stands now, the recent oil-price slump has brought the national average for a gallon of unleaded gasoline down to $2.59, according to the AAA motor club. In the Seattle area, prices per gallon have fallen to $2.856 currently from $3.071 a month ago, a decline of 7 percent, according to AAA.

Should oil traders fear that this downward price spiral will get worse and run for the exits by selling off their futures contracts, Verleger said, it's not unthinkable that oil prices could return to $15 or less a barrel, at least temporarily. That could mean gasoline prices as low as $1.15 per gallon.

Other experts won't guess at a floor price, but they agree that a race to the bottom could break out.

"The market may test levels here that are too low to be sustained," said Clay Seigle, an analyst at Cambridge Energy Research Associates, a consultancy in Boston.

On Monday, the oil-producing cartel OPEC hinted that if prices fall precipitously, OPEC members would cut production to lift them. But that would take time.

"That takes six to nine months. If we don't have a really cold winter here [creating a demand for oil], prices will fall. Literally, you don't know where the floor is," Verleger said. "In a market like this, if things start falling ... prices could take you back to the 1999 levels. It has nothing to do with production."

WHAT'S GOOD FOR AMERICA IS BAD FOR THE DEMOCRATS

 

[barry2952]

More like put your tail-between-your-legs after getting spanked one too many times is more like it.

LOOK at any political site featuring Dims and Republicans. The Dims always get spanked and disappear. Thus the rise of the internet DailyKos and Olberman shows on TV. Losers need a place to comfort themselves.

But alas, even your poster boy for liberal talk radio on EER America has failed. Olberman is next. And we all know about the tin-foilers from the Kos brigade boycotting Disney because Disney had the balls to tell the truth about Klinton.

Nobody wants to listen to you losers cry and whine and hate America for all its given them.

Just another thought. Is it just me or was Keith Olberman secretly Herman Munster? I mean, get some 6 inch platform boots on the guy and I think he's it. No wonder the guy is such an airhead. Look at the size of his skull! It's all air-in-there.

This coming from a man with no credibility. Read any good PMs recently? Change any posts to fit your needs? Why would anyone post here knowing you can change anything you want to make someone else look bad. No credibility. Fair and impartial, my ass.

 

[MonsterMark]

This coming from a man with no credibility. Read any good PMs recently? Change any posts to fit your needs? Why would anyone post here knowing you can change anything you want to make someone else look bad. No credibility. Fair and impartial, my ass.

Unsubstantiated claims.

Never read anyones PMs. EVER!

Changed any posts? Nope. Have never done that either. Haven't even edited your crap after repeated violations of the board's rules.

Have never tried to make anyone, even you, look bad.

Whatever crawled up your butt, it's time to call the Orkin man. Sheeeez.

 

[taylor414ce2003]

guess they got those employment stats in before the 10,000 Ford workers get laid off

 

[barry2952]

Unsubstantiated claims.

Never read anyones PMs. EVER!

Changed any posts? Nope. Have never done that either. Haven't even edited your crap after repeated violations of the board's rules.

Have never tried to make anyone, even you, look bad.

Whatever crawled up your butt, it's time to call the Orkin man. Sheeeez.

How can anyone substantiate any claims on this site when you remove the material that makes you look bad? Why don't you hand over the reigns to Calabrio? He has 100 times the credibility that you have.

 

[MonsterMark]

guess they got those employment stats in before the 10,000 Ford workers get laid off

Is this President Bush's fault or the fact that Ford makes cars that people don't want? Like any large corporation, Ford is loaded with excess overhead, like white-collar jobs.

I'm bidding on a government contract to run a huge municipalities' parts operations. They pay on average approx. $22/hr plus $23/hr in fringe benefit costs. $45.00 an hour to have someone sit behind the parts counter. Sorry, those guys are going to lose those jobs. I feel for them. But taxpayers cannot afford to pay $90,000/yr for a job that can be performed in the private sector for less than 1/2. Same with Ford. Ford cannot compete against companies that don't have to pay the huge fringes. That is why companies like Toyota, etc are eating their lunch. Plus, Ford makes cookie cutter cars and trucks. Nothing passionate about what they do. They are done for. Resale value on domestic cars suck. Whether they deserve the bad rap or not, this fact took 4 decades to develop. I think Hondas are crap but look at the resale value. I don't think they deserve it but it took them decades to build up that value, just as Ford, Gm, and Chrysler were busy tearing theirs down with crap product after crap product. Remember the 80's?

 

[Calabrio]

Being a moderator is a thankless job, one where you can never make everyone happy.

Bryan does a excellent job attempting to moderate all of the personalities and passions around here. Even if we had a moderator with no opinion on anything, the result would be both sides saying he was teaming up against them. There's no winning.

I've never seen or heard of Bryan doing anything, acting as a moderator, that was unfair or politically biased. And keep in mind, I'm saying this knowing Bryan has even edited my posts on the occassions when I've crossed the line too.

 

[MonsterMark]

How can anyone substantiate any claims on this site when you remove the material that makes you look bad? Why don't you hand over the reigns to Calabrio? He has 100 times the credibility that you have.

Calling the kettle black eh. I remember RB3 laying things out pretty clearly just a couple of weeks ago about your modding skills.

And I am pretty sure you are about the only guy that has an issue with my 'credibility'. Or should we try a poll on that too? Oh, that's right. I could always change the numbers even though we laid out the fact that we could make it transparent to all who view. Whatever.

 

[Joeychgo]

Im curious. What has GW done to cause the reduction in gas prices?

 

[Jibit]

damn it Joey, don't change the subject, this is getting interesting! :gr_devil: (why don't we have a smiley eating popcorn?)

 

[MonsterMark]

Im curious. What has GW done to cause the reduction in gas prices?

You tell me.

Just like he had nothing to do with them going up, he has nothing to do with them going down outside of the fact that world tensions have eased because George is in control of the situation.

 

[fossten]

Im curious. What has GW done to cause the reduction in gas prices?

Weren't you one of those blaming him for the rise in gas prices?

BTW...

Barry must be pretty paranoid to be accusing Bryan of reading his PMs. I've told you and told you, barry, if you don't want to be spied upon, stop talking to your Al Qaeda buddies!

Oh, wait, it's Bush that's spying on your porn site navigation, right? Better strap that tinfoil hat on even tighter, pal. Karl Rove's listening to your thoughts right now.

 

[Joeychgo]

he has nothing to do with them going down outside of the fact that world tensions have eased because George is in control of the situation.

He is? What world are you referring to?

 

[MonsterMark]

He is? What world are you referring to?

Nobody has even farted in the U.S.A. since 9/11/ Yes, I give the credit to Dubya for that. Hell, if it were Klinton, the media would have made him pope already.

 

[Brozly]

Yeah, you guy's are probably right about Gas prices, I mean after all the big oil has allready made Billions during this admin., they probably don't need anymore... I couldn't imagine them thinking they could effect an ellection by raising the contentedness of the voters, I mean they would see through that...
It's not like Cheny has any affiliation with Haliburton anymore either....

I would be turely Amazed to see prices go back up much over $3/gal. anytime soon after the election...

 

[Calabrio]

It's not like Cheny has any affiliation with Haliburton anymore either....

Here's some news, HALIBURTON ISN'T AN OIL COMPANY.
http://www.halliburton.com

I would be turely Amazed to see prices go back up much over $3/gal. anytime soon after the election...

They very well might, Iran is on the horizon.

But right now, consumption actually has fallen, the summer driving season has ended, there have been no devestating hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico, new reserves have been found, and for the short term there is a level of stability in the Middle East. Oil is a speculative market and the market appears to be correcting itself. Thus, we have lower oil.

Your notion that it's an "election year ploy" is absolutely idiotic. If they had that kind of influence, wouldn't they have done that before the PRESIDENTIAL election, not some midyear election?

Next time, use some facts when constructing a theory, not just uninformed impulses.

 

[barry2952]

Back down to 40 in a week. Must have been a glitch in that worthess poll.

 

[MonsterMark]

Back down to 40 in a week. Must have been a glitch in that worthess poll.

Actually Rasmussen played with the Dim totals again in the poll. He has been adding Dims to the ratio for the past year. His spread now shows about 6% more Dims per poll.