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Phat Member Posts: 18633 From: Denver,Colorado USA Joined: Member Rating: 4.1 |
Its just that I was under the impression that strategic petroleum reserve fuel was earmarked to help lessen domestic costs of gasoline for Americans...not Chinese.
"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." ~Mark Twain " *** “…far from science having buried God, not only do the results of science point towards his existence, but the scientific enterprise itself is validated by his existence.”- Dr.John Lennox “A God without wrath brought men without sin into a Kingdom without judgment through the ministrations of a Christ without a Cross.” “The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of a doubt, what is laid before him.” — Leo Tolstoy, The Kingdom of God is Within You
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PaulK Member Posts: 17909 Joined: Member Rating: 6.8
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The reserve is crude oil, and - according to what I’ve read - if it’s being shipped anywhere it’s for refining because the US doesn’t have the spare capacity.
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Theodoric Member Posts: 9489 From: Northwest, WI, USA Joined: Member Rating: 6.1
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US refineries are at 98% capacity. The chinese are paying market price for the oil. As a commodity it effects prices no matter where it is refined and used. What the fuck is the problem?
This is faux outrage about something you and the other fearmongers know nothing about. I thought RWNJ's like you loved the market. What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence. -Christopher Hitchens Facts don't lie or have an agenda. Facts are just facts "God did it" is not an argument. It is an excuse for intellectual laziness. If your viewpoint has merits and facts to back it up why would you have to lie?
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Tanypteryx Member Posts: 4597 From: Oregon, USA Joined: Member Rating: 9.5
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This is faux outrage about something you and the other fearmongers know nothing about. And I didn't realize the U.S. president is a seller or buyer of oil, or other commodities for that matter. Does the Department of Commerce engage in commerce or regulate it?Stop Tzar Vladimir the Condemned! What if Eleanor Roosevelt had wings? -- Monty Python One important characteristic of a theory is that is has survived repeated attempts to falsify it. Contrary to your understanding, all available evidence confirms it. --Subbie If evolution is shown to be false, it will be at the hands of things that are true, not made up. --percy The reason that we have the scientific method is because common sense isn't reliable. -- Taq
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Theodoric Member Posts: 9489 From: Northwest, WI, USA Joined: Member Rating: 6.1 |
You still putting your money into gold and cryptos? How's that going?
What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence. -Christopher Hitchens Facts don't lie or have an agenda. Facts are just facts "God did it" is not an argument. It is an excuse for intellectual laziness. If your viewpoint has merits and facts to back it up why would you have to lie?
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marc9000 Member Posts: 1530 From: Ky U.S. Joined: Member Rating: 1.0 |
January 11,2023
quote: Comer Announces New Actions in Biden Family Investigation - United States House Committee on Oversight and Accountability March 14,2023 quote: Comer: Treasury Department Caves, Provides Access to Biden Family & Their Associates’ SARs - United States House Committee on Oversight and Accountability NO REPORTS on any of this by ABC World News Tonight. It's easy to see what was / is going on. For the last year of Biden's vice presidency, most of the mainstream media pundits were laughing at Trump, and predicting an easy victory for Hillary Clinton, assuming one, and probably two terms for Hillary. Biden was 73 / 74 years old at this point, and was thinking about little more than retirement, plus a few nice bonuses for family members. Who knows what he sold China to get it. Comer's not guessing yet, but stay tuned to CONSERVATIVE news. The mainstream will cover it up as long as it can. There are many other more important things to report I guess, weather sensationalism, Trump's possible payout to a whore 6+ years ago etc. I guess these are bigger national security threats than Biden's personal dealings with China while vice president, and big tech's censorship of free speech.
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Percy Member Posts: 22934 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 6.8
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I think most of us are for finding and punishing wrongdoing without regard to political affiliation.
marc9000 writes: ...but stay tuned to CONSERVATIVE news. This seems to be saying that only "CONSERVATIVE news" will report accurately and honestly. But instead of declaring one set of media outlets the font of truth regardless of what they actually say, might a better goal be ferreting out the truth regardless of source? --Percy
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Phat Member Posts: 18633 From: Denver,Colorado USA Joined: Member Rating: 4.1 |
I usually compare 5 or even ten different news sources to arrive at some sort of consensus in my own mind about whats going on. And I don't pick and choose only conservative or only liberal.
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Phat Member Posts: 18633 From: Denver,Colorado USA Joined: Member Rating: 4.1 |
If you MUST know, I cant afford Gold and I don't trust Crypto. Its a giant ponzi scheme. Any more personal questions?
Im just hoping that Social Security will hold together or I'm out on the street with the homeless.
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Percy Member Posts: 22934 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 6.8
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Phat writes: I usually compare 5 or even ten different news sources to arrive at some sort of consensus in my own mind about whats going on. And I don't pick and choose only conservative or only liberal. When some of your sources are lying, the truth does not lie somewhere in the middle. --Percy
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Percy Member Posts: 22934 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 6.8
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Phat writes: Im just hoping that Social Security will hold together or I'm out on the street with the homeless. How can you in good conscience accept handouts from what in your view is unvarnished socialism? --Percy
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marc9000 Member Posts: 1530 From: Ky U.S. Joined: Member Rating: 1.0 |
I think most of us are for finding and punishing wrongdoing without regard to political affiliation. I don't. I think most of the Democrat base, the audience of the mainstream news media reports, approves of the way anything that isn't favorable to Democrats is covered up. By the way, a big reason I decided to bump this 8 month long hibernating thread, is your Message 231 in the other thread, so thank you for that. But there was one other reason. For 3 straight evenings (4 now) ABC World News Tonight has referred to Trumps former lawyer Micheal Cohen as Trump's "fixer". This is a brilliant term, used as one of many building blocks the news media came up with as a way to discredit him, to make him look so clumsy that he has to have some appointed person to, legally or illegally, patch up his blunders. You'd think these supposed journalists would have enough sense to drop that term 2 years after his presidency is over. But they don't, without realizing that it can inspire some people who aren't Trump haters to ask; WHO IS BIDEN'S FIXER? He's done plenty of blunders that needed fixing in the past 2 years, who has been "fixing" them? Let's do a quick look to find out who his personal attorney is;
Who are the president's private attorneys and is Biden paying the legal bills? - CBS News
quote: So we have a (practically unknown) Bob Bauer, and a host of other unnamed attorneys. ALL of them had to spring into action when classified documents were found in Biden's garage, as only one example. They dutifully turned the documents over to the Democrat run FBI, so I guess that FIXED it. It fixed it with the mainstream media, that's for sure. Or maybe the mainstream media anchors are his FIXERS. That's an easy job of course, all they have to do is NOT REPORT anything that makes him look bad, except of course, big news that's all over other sources. Months ago, they had no choice but to at least briefly touch on the mess at the southern border. That's all forgotten now though. Fox News has been recently showing videos of Chinese illegals coming over the southern border now. Will his fixers in the mainstream media be compelled to briefly skim over that in the coming days? Nothing yet.
This seems to be saying that only "CONSERVATIVE news" will report accurately and honestly. But instead of declaring one set of media outlets the font of truth regardless of what they actually say, might a better goal be ferreting out the truth regardless of source? As I have said here before, the way to ferret out the truth is to get news from multiple sources, as I do. I'm the first to admit that Fox News is probably just as guilty as the mainstream media in covering up news that isn't favorable to their "side". But Fox News was conceived in 1996 as balance to the liberal news media. If the liberal news media would have actually learned something, they would have made some attempts to correct themselves, and watched Fox fizzle out, with nothing more to do. But no, they've responded by doubling down, and by now, giving Fox top ratings in many prime time slots. Sometimes it can be hard to distinguish between a "journalist" versus an opinionated personality. Fox News has some journalists, Jon Scott and Bret Baier come to mind. That's what David Muir of ABC is supposed to be. I don't think we'll ever see Scott or Baier use a stupid, snide term like "fixer" against Democrats like Muir does against Republicans. One of the big talking points the liberal media has been using against Fox lately is how Carlson, Hannity, Ingraham, and another one or two were sending private messages to each other questioning or condemning on-air reports about the 2020 election being stolen. But isn't that almost like they were concerned about what the TRUTH actually was? When the mainstream media was lying about Trump-Russian collusion, or Hunter Biden laptop Russian mis-information, no private questioning about those lies seemed to be happening. Could that be because mainstream anchors and personalities are much more in lockstep with carrying water for Democrats instead of finding out what the truth actually is?
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AZPaul3 Member Posts: 8654 From: Phoenix Joined: Member Rating: 6.6
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Could that be because mainstream anchors and personalities are much more in lockstep with carrying water for Democrats instead of finding out what the truth actually is? No. It's that there is no story here except with the lying conservative shit-throwers like fox and marc9000 trying to manufacture controversy where none exists.Stop Tzar Vladimir the Condemned!
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nwr Member Posts: 6484 From: Geneva, Illinois Joined: Member Rating: 8.6
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For 3 straight evenings (4 now) ABC World News Tonight has referred to Trumps former lawyer Micheal Cohen as Trump's "fixer". This is a brilliant term, used as one of many building blocks the news media came up with as a way to discredit him, to make him look so clumsy that he has to have some appointed person to, legally or illegally, patch up his blunders. You'd think these supposed journalists would have enough sense to drop that term 2 years after his presidency is over. I'm not sure why you are so obsessed with "fixer". It's not that bad a term. I have the impression that Cohen first used that term. And it was with respect to the period before Trump was president, so why would you expect it to be discarded after he left office?--> -->Fundamentalism - the anti-American, anti-Christian branch of American Christianity <-- <--
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Percy Member Posts: 22934 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 6.8
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marc9000 writes: I think most of us are for finding and punishing wrongdoing without regard to political affiliation. I don't. I think most of the Democrat base, the audience of the mainstream news media reports, approves of the way anything that isn't favorable to Democrats is covered up. By "most of us" I meant most of us here in this discussion, but I disagree with your characterization of the Democratic base, and I don't think it's true of Republicans, either. --Percy
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