“An article in the Arizona Republic last week stated that earlier this year, when crude oil was $108 a barrel, gas was $3.90 a gallon. Crude is now at $88.00 a barrel. According to my calculations, gas should be $3.17 a gallon. Why isn’t it? Looks like another record-setting year for profits for the oil companies at the expense of John Q. Public!”
“When Jesus Christ returns to look over this mess we made, you can bet Donald Trump will be there asking for his long-form birth certificate, and Mitt Romney in the background saying ‘I’m focused on the mess.’”
“Moving to Arizona because of high taxes — apparently one of the reasons that people have been moving out of California and New York was high taxes. Such as individual income tax, estate tax, and inheritance tax in New York, many of those residents relocated to states like Arizona, Florida and Texas where taxes are lower.”
“Finally the airlines are doing something for parents, offering free babysitting during a flight. All they have to do is refuse the $25 ee for sitting next to their child. Maybe the unfortunate person that had to sit next to someone elses crying child would pay the $25 or add insult to injury and hand them diaper bag.”
“With regard to the Mesquite High School yearbook, I am not the only student portrayed in the ‘Senior Spotlight’ features to say, ‘I never said that!’ How difficult is it to correctly print something actually written out for you beforehand? Had you actually read through the yearbook, you would realize the overabundance of illiteracies — far more than would be expected in any publication! The word ‘perform’, for example, was misspelled three times on one page (p-r-e-f-o-r-m). Where were the copy editors? Where was the supervision? And, for your information, they don’t call this ‘The Vent’ for nothing!”
“I brought home a new breed of dog; it won’t drink anything but Tennessee whiskey. They call it a Jack Daniel’s Terrier.”
“Retired lawyer Carolyn Short must have been absent on the day they taught law in law school. She says Arizona’s medical marijuana law is ‘clearly unconstitutional’. There are 16 states and the District of Columbia that have medical marijuana laws. Some such laws date back to the 1990’s. It’s not nearly as ‘clear’ as Ms. Short would have you believe. Ms. Short contends that Arizona has the “most lax marijuana law in the nation” and that medical marijuana has been ‘proved a scam to legalize pot’. She has no evidence mind you, none whatsoever. Such crazy talk comes in the absence of Arizona having not one, repeat not one, operating dispensary. As for recreational use, rather than regulated (and taxed) access like alcohol, one can only conclude that Ms. Short is content with Mexican drug cartels being the primary source. Even her organization’s name is a hilarious oxymoron: KeepAZDrugFree. Not likely to ever happen in your lifetime, Carolyn.”
chatmandu002 posted at 12:24 pm on Fri, Jun 1, 2012.
Vent #1: So what should the solution be? Government control of the oil industry? Price controls? Profit controls? More taxes on the oil industry? Or more drill baby drill? Drill baby drill is the correct answer. LOL
Vent #2: When JC returns nobody will care about his birth certificate or remember who Donald or Mitt were.
Vent #3: Taxes are always to high no matter where you live. And if you think other wise then you must be a liberal/progressive/socialist.
Vent #4: I was recently on a flight where the seats next to me in the middle isle where empty. After take-off the flight attendant brought a screaming baby and it's mother forward and sat them down in the empty center isle seats and destroyed my quiet flight. I can still heard the screaming......oops, Gotta love the baby.......
Vent #5: Don't you just love the spell check on computers..... LOL
Vent #6: Here Wego.....
Vent #7: You can call Carolyn anything you want. I'll call you Pothead.
Engaged Voter posted at 2:20 pm on Fri, Jun 1, 2012.
Poor chatmandu, he doesn't realize that spellcheck doesn't catch some things:
Two, too, to - different words, with different meanings. Learn them.
Otherwise - one word, not two (note the spelling of "two").
Before calling other people names like "Pothead" you might want to clean up your posts so you're not mistaken for a "Methhead".
truth posted at 3:33 pm on Fri, Jun 1, 2012.
Every night you see a women telling the viewers that energy is looking bright in the U.S. I agree energy companys future is looking bright, the U.S. is becoming a leading energy exporter in the world, we are exporting gas and other oil products at over 3 million barrels a day, we are exporting natural gas and we are exporting coal, yes the future is looking bright for the energy companies, but looking dismal for the American people. First we exported 8 million jobs, now our energy resources. Next we can say good buy to our middle class.
Accuracy posted at 4:14 pm on Fri, Jun 1, 2012.
Vent #3: “Moving to Arizona because of high taxes — apparently one of the reasons that people have been moving out of California and New York was high taxes.”
That could be . . . Many folks in New York have been surprised that nearly 3.5 million New Yorkers pulled up stakes and left for other states between 2000 and 2010.
As you generally see people moving from higher-tax states to states with fewer taxes, high taxes does seem to play a role in people’s decisions to relocate.
TruthSeeker posted at 6:58 pm on Fri, Jun 1, 2012.
To the Venter who surmises that when Jesus Christ returns, that "Donald Trump will be there asking for his long-form birth certificate, and Mitt Romney in the background saying ‘I’m focused on the mess.’' ”
Meanwhile Obama will still be blaming President Bush for "the mess" -- with no accountability for his own contribution to "the mess."
You think you are being cute and/or clever. Jesus Christ is not some Disney character to joke about. [thumbdown]
sdjtaz posted at 8:56 am on Sat, Jun 2, 2012.
TruthSeeker,
I see that you have not yet found the truth. First, find me a quote from Barack Obama where he blames Bush for this mess. However, I will grant you that many supporters of Barack Obama will blame Bush for "the mess". Since you don't seem to be able to find the truth, please let me help you.
First, Bush is blamed because he left office with a collapsing economy that is just now showing some signs of recovery (but even these signs are weak). Additionally, he left office with the legacy of fighting two wars that did not have sufficient funding for. Instead, he turned to China to buy our debt so that we could wage these wars. Additionally, he left a tax cut that was also not funded. Since it mostly benefitted his friends, he was unconcerned about whether we could afford the tax cut or not.
Finally, using the most conservative numbers, the Federal budget under President Obama has increased by 2.4 percent annually from 2009-2013. This is the lowest increase in the Federal budget since the Eisenhower administration. Just to give you a comparison point, we will examine the average spending increase for the first term of the last four Presidents. Under George W. Bush, the average increase in the Federal budget for his first four years was 7.3%, For Clinton's first term, it was 3.2%, George H.W. Bush, 5.4%, and Ronald Reagan 8.7%.
When you add up the numbers, I think that the blame is rather obvious.
chatmandu002 posted at 9:18 am on Sat, Jun 2, 2012.
Engaged Voter,
I didn't realize this was a spelling test. Are my comments offensive to you because of the misspellings or the content of my comments? Whatever your answer, the author of vent #7 is still a Pothead.
Slabside posted at 5:29 pm on Sat, Jun 2, 2012.
sdjtaz, here you go fool:
Obama Blames Bush For GSA Scandel
http://nation.foxnews.com/gsa-scandal/2012/04/08/obama-blames-bush-gsa-scandal
Obama Blames Bush For Soaring Debt
http://rightwingnews.com/economy/obama-blames-his-historic-debt-on-well-bush-of-course/
Obama Blames Bush For Economy
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katehicks/2012/05/31/awkward_obama_blames_bush_for_economy_while_standing_next_to_him
Obama Blames Bush One Minute Into Speech
http://nation.foxnews.com/president-obama/2011/07/25/obama-blames-bush-one-minute-speech
sdjtaz posted at 9:36 am on Sun, Jun 3, 2012.
Slabside,
Did you even read or watch your own links.
Nowhere can you point to any quote from President Obama laying blame on Bush. Instead, what we have are right-wing commentators saying that Obama blames Bush for various things, without providing any direct quotes from the President showing this. Just because some talking-head states something does not make it fact.
Regarding the news clips, Obama is simply telling the truth. You may not like the facts, but they are what they are. When Obama took office, our economy was already in a downward spiral. Since you don't seem to have the intelligence to actually understand complex issues, I will be glad to post the facts to prove this for you.
Ultimately, I find it funny that you call me a fool. I always thought that a fool was someone that accepted what was spoon-fed to them without actually researching it. Since you are the one parroting right-wing television without actually checking the facts, you are the one who is the fool.
By the way, now that I've pointed out the truth regarding Obama's spending, are you going to continue to parrot the right-wing and complain about Obama spending too much? I suspect that you will, since you seem to accept everything that Fox News tells you without actually checking to see if its true or not.
To paraphrase the Most Interesting Man In The World, "stay stupid, my friend".