All_Pro_Bills

We have a few problems when it comes to oil. I'm talking about the human race and not just America as we're all in this together. The first one is simple. Annual production exceeds annual discovery of new reserves. The problem is depletion of a finite resource. This has been going on for decades and its interesting that the discovery of large fields peaked in the 1960's. Newer discoveries are generally smaller deposits in more remote areas which higher overall costs. This means energy in vs. energy out ratios are trending towards break even. Over time cheap and easy to find has transitioned to more expensive and harder to extract and get to market. This is a one time endowment of energy that took 75+ million years to form and will only take about 225 years to use up. Prices are going to rise. That doesn't take Biden off the hook for some short-sighted actions. Working without a plan and strategy, something both parties in Washington are good at. Like cancelling Keystone. And while environmentalists have the right idea that oil use is resulting in greenhouse gas emissions they're misguided to believe their solutions will result in some uninterrupted or even an equivalent level of prosperity and living standards. That leads to the second problem. Solar and wind energy generation just don't stack up to the energy output produced by oil and gas. While the Sun produces more energy in a couple seconds than we require to run civilization for a year our technology is just too primitive and inefficient to get the job done as it stands now. My conclusion is you can't support 7 1/2 billion human lives with solar and wind. That's the Elephant in the room nobody talks about. And my suspicion is part of the global elites plan is to eliminate in one way or another a substantial percentage of the population over time to make things more comfortable and suitable to their liking. To stretch out the supply so they can continue to operate their gas heated private compounds, jet-fueled private aircraft, and diesel fired yachts. That's the New World Order they now openly mention but just gloss over the silly details. Their plan doesn't differentiate between whether your a liberal or conservative or any other social or political slice or distinction you want to make. So why are we fighting amongst ourselves?

Some of the posters here act like Russia is the first country to ever violate the ethics and moral standards of modern warfare. While it sure looks like they're guilty of it they're not the first. And people living in a country that initiates discretionary and optional warfare in multiple places around the world which results in a lot of death and suffering shouldn't be throwing stones at glass houses. Do I think Putin should be held accountable? Absolutely. And so should the king of drone strikes Obama. How many civilians died as a result of his orders? How many wedding parties got hit over the border in Pakistan? Illegal attacks on Pakistan per international law. And Bush for something like 400K civilian deaths in Iraq. Who by some wild stretch is now a hero of the left for denouncing Trump and all these killings are forgiven. And those 10 civilians killed in Afghanistan in retaliation for the airport attack that Biden ordered and pronounced a success. All innocent men, women, and childred. Remind me who was held accountable for those civilian killings. Just an honest mistake, right? The bottom line is war sucks.

Yes because the laptop provides real and factual evidence of corruption and payoffs and likely implicating and compromising the President while all the 1/6 "evidence" that Trump sought to overturn the election thru some illegal action is just bullsheet made up for and by Trump-obsessed people like you that believe bullsheet.

Rumor has it that Obama showed up at the White House this week because he was tired of working from home.

Looks like you and Putin have a lot in common when it comes to advocating the use of State power to frame political enemies. You must be very disappointed with this verdict.

51 former officials inside the US intelligence community signed a letter expressing their conclusion the Hunter Biden laptop was a Russian dis-information campaign. Even the NYT and WaPo have agreed it is authentic. Do you think the former intelligence officials are lying or incompetent?

So you support a racist system trying to profile an African American male?

I'm just still wondering how you can hold confirmation hearings and vote through somebody for a court position that isn't vacant? From a procedure perspective, shouldn't they wait until there is an actually vacancy? I mean, if the slot doesn't need to be vacant at the time of the hearings then why not vote through 8 more Supreme Court justices-in-waiting and stack them up to fill the openings when the become available in maybe a year or two?

My base assumption when assessing unverifiable "information" originating with intelligence agencies wherever and whomever they work for is they are lying. And why wouldn't they? Lying is a basic skill requirement defined in the job description.

Let's face it. At this point given 16 months of almost nothing, nobody can actually be stupid enough to believe these conspiracies about 1/6. Believers in it are just good liars. Proponents of all these insurrection conspiracies know they're all bull crap but don't care. All that matters is the result, not the means or methods or the truth. Like Captain Ahab getting his whale the far-left is going to get Trump whatever the cost and whatever it might take. So maybe another question for anyone genuinely interested in truth and reality is why does anyone continue to believe in these manufactured conspiracies generated by the same group of people when one after another they're failed to deliver any indictable evidence or charges and have proven to be false? Maybe its time to consider the motivations of the accusers rather than the accursed and do some critical thinking about the nefarious objectives of the political actors not named Trump at work here? Of course my thoughts will likely be met with lots of tweet quotes and check lists of transgressions generated by various 1/6 conspiracy believers when all that really matters is evidence, charges, indictments, trials, convictions, and sentencing of the guy in charge. If you can't produce any of that you've got nothin'. End of story.

Oil prices have been in a steady rise since Biden took office. His first action was to cancel Keystone. If he didn't that pipeline would be in production today and the price shock to crude would have been much less to perhaps nothing. And also to align with activists pressuring banks to withdraw or withhold capital from the oil & gas exploration and development sector. Then informing the industry their services will no longer be needed in the near future. Who would invest given those conditions? Now Congress is doing their standard "not my fault" grilling of industry executives. Its a real hoot. If the administration was more focused on long term strategic planning, like our enemies are, instead of appeasing the fringe left we wouldn't be in the current mess. My advice is to build more solar panels and pray for sunny days.

Nobody likes Putin. The specific poll is just a reflection of how much Biden sucks ass, period. Is that too difficult to comprehend?

Who's crying besides you? In November the voters will wash the scum down the drain and all there's left now is to see how much more damage these clowns can do until the mid-terms. In the meantime, we're all going to suffer one way or the other.

Yes, Biden is acting like a dictator assisted by a cadre of political and corporate elites aided by a state security network used to monitor citizens and punish political opposition that combined form a threat to our democracy. Finally we agree on something.

So what's the real lesson here? This Trump supporter is an idiot or Biden is such a terrible and ineffective President that some would rather have a ruthless dictator?

Unchecked? So I assume you didn't notice the hostile press and a Federal bureaucracy and intelligence community intent on sabotaging the administration from day one along with the generation of various imaginary plots and conspiracies?

The only scenario worse than Biden continuing his best actor role as President would be Harris taking over the job. If that happens expect all Hell to break loose on all fronts.

This clearly calls for an independent counsel with the President unambiguously recusing himself from any involvement. When pigs fly, right?

Who's view should you value? A war veteran that threatens the Washington war party establishment or a self-promoting grifter belonging to that establishment pretending to care about the plight of Ukraine?

When the threshold of guilt of "beyond a reasonable doubt" is replaced by some 3rd world junta standard of "more than likely than not" we can convict anyone of anything. This committee is a danger to freedom. As are those supporting them.

And the overwhelming majority of authoritarians in America exerting media control are liberals on the left. This truth is so obvious its pointless to even debate.

What are they afraid of? Simply they're afraid because many on the left are virtue signalling predators. Similar to this I watch the wild animal and bird action in and around my yard. Occasionally a Hawk frequents the area looking for a meal. Typically, a Dove or Pigeon but in a pinch the Alpha Predator has no issue taking a Cardinal or Blue Jay as a meal. When the bird attacks all the prey flee. One might be caught. And then the danger for the rest is gone. What the prey don't realize is that collectively they could protect each other and repel or kill the Hawk by banding together and working for common protection. But they act in a single minded manner and flee. That's what people that fear the left do. Collectively there's no reason for the huge majority to take it from a few. That's why things like parents banding together to demand accountability from school boards scares the crap out of the left.

And back to extrapolating nefarious conclusions from a "leak" from some purported investigation which makes the rounds and gets passed back-and-forth among the left media to generate some faux consensus "we got ya" moment that whips up the necessary hysteria only to fade away in a few days or weeks when refuted but never retracted. A continuous and exhausting cycle of generating bull crap substituting for fact. 16 months and they're still talking about phone calls. People talking about other people talking. Now that's news! At this point the only thing function 1/6 provides is the entertainment value I derive from the topic on this message board.

Federal Election Commission is fining 2016 Clinton campaign and DNC for lying about not funding Russia collusion hoax story. Laundering Clinton and DNC funds to law firm Perkins Coie in order to make the payments appear as legitimate legal fees for services and not in reality payments to Fusion GPS, and then to Christopher Steele for undisclosed payments for opposition research. According to the FEC, Clinton and the DNC violated strict rules governing disclosure of expenditures on opposition research, when they paid opposition research firm Fusion GPS to contract with Steele. A combined $1,024,407.97 was paid by the treasurers of the DNC and Clinton campaign to law firm Perkins Coie for Fusion GPS’s information, and the party and campaign hid the reason, claiming it was for legal services, not opposition research on the dossier. Another fun fact to connect the dots here is attorneys that have/had spent time employed by Perkins Coie resided on Mueller's legal team investigating Russia collusion and the Trump campaign.

Not to mention very generous Federal and State tax credits that go to mostly affluent faux environmentalist buyers of EV's that rarely use them as their primary method of transportation which is something like a Range Rover sitting in the driveway of their 5K sq/ft home with two zone HVAC.