1 We don't need jobs.  We have High Speed Rail.

2 The recession ended?

3 Oil is icky

4

Sorry, Dave in Texas, but I was really hoping for a DrewM. post.

 

Goddamn, that kid can blog.

5 What about the snail darter?  Won't someone think of the snail darter???

6 I'm waiting for the Owebama White House to attack those on the Backyard Oil show on Discovery.

7 California could easily exceed Texas production of whale oil if it wanted to.  It could start with Rosie O'Donnell.

8

Black gold.  Texas Tea.

 

Firtht of all, we don't really like black things unleth they're Barry, Michelle or clothes.  Ath for tea, we don't do caffeine. Ewwwwww.

9 I'm officially opposed to the environment. What has it ever done for me? It snowed this May. Snow. In May. Fuck the environment, I want my global warming. I notice all those people who love the environment live in big cities with great weather. Fuck them too.

10
I paid $3.32 for gas on Saturday. It seems to be going back up.

11 It's estimated that some of the reserves are potentially large enough to make the entire state energy independent- providing for it's entire consumption needs. Let that sink in for a moment then add the jobs and tax revenue it would create.

12 There's only one kind of oil we care about and most of it is sold in San Francisco....

h8rs

13 Thank you, Texas!

14 You wingnuts boycotted my fracking movie but in the end, Gaia will make you pay.

After all, it's what happens in the end that counts.

15

>> but I was really hoping for a DrewM. post.

 

I was a disappointment to my parents too.

I get ya.  *taps chest with two fingers, points at EoJ*  I get ya bro.

16 hey, not going bankrupt isn't all it's cracked up to be. Think of all the undiscovered species the Calitards might be saving

17 1 Winner. Thread over.

18 and as someone said above, trains are where it's at. Oil is so 19th century.

19 I love oil,I love leftard greenie tears even more.

20 YOUR MILKSHAKE, California, I DRINK IT UP!

21 10 I paid $3.32 for gas on Saturday. It seems to be going back up.

And I'm happy when I see it for $4.00.

Oh right, CA.

22

I have some friends who live in the Cuero area of Texas who have just increased their oil lease to 8 wells.

 

Middle class folks who I now refer to as the Clampetts.

23 I notice all those people who love the environment live in big cities with great weather. Fuck them too.


Someone, a humanities major, once pointed out to me that people often mistake sentiment for love. The two are vastly different.

24 I was a disappointment to my parents too.
I get ya. *taps chest with two fingers, points at EoJ* I get ya bro.

Posted by: Dave in Texas at May 06, 2013 04:55 PM (WvXvd)

 

------------------

 

I can't remember if it was you or rdbrewer who wrote what had to be one of my top ten favorite lines on AoS:

 

"My dad used to tell me, 'Son, there are two types of people  in this  world - those who know what the  hell they're doing,  and  assholes like you.'

 

Good talk,  Dad."

25 Go hump a redwood CA.

26 Ah the Noblesse Oblige of our betters in the beautiful state, keeping the dirty, dirty mess of jobs and prosperity from the rabble...

How are we supposed to be more like Sweden if we refuse to imitate their oil industry?

27 Jobs?  Is that what you call what those little people are doing who keep taking our pictures as we give each other awards week after week?

That's doesn't look like much fun to us....

28 California?  never heard of it..

29 You Texans with your vulgar sprawling mansions and limousines with bull horns on the front will feel like shit when you come here and see how we live in harmony with nature.  You know, without hot water or lights or air conditioning or working plumbing.

30

BTW, in case anybody missed it, the Global Warming theory has literally been disproven. Ol' Gaia's temperature has stubbornly refused to stay within the error bounds stipulated by the theory, despite CO2 emissions being unabated. So, it's "Myth Busted!"

 

 

So now the debate really is over, and the real "deniers" are on the alarmist side. The CA govt is so desperate to use AGW as a tool for socialism that they will turn down a huge source of revenue, to pay for their enormous budget shortfalls.

31 Roses are red, Violets are blue, I'd rather be swimming in oil, Then swimming in sewage from a zoo ... or ... something like that ...

32 We liked "World War Z" so much we had to pursue a policy that would allow us a chance. As you point out there are real consequences to a denial of reality, but it hasn't stopped me yet.

33

That was my old man.

 

Yep.  I miss that old grouch.

34 Drilling for oil is dirty work.  Have you ever seen a dirty ghey guy?

35 Couple this with the recent report that fracking is even more benign than previously supposed, and we come to the inescapable conclusion that California is populated by the stupidest people on the face of the earth.

36 Cali on a roll.

37 "My dad used to tell me, 'Son, there are two types of people in this world - those who know what the hell they're doing, and assholes like you.'

Good talk, Dad."

Posted by: Empire of Jeff

And suddenly much is made clear.

38 Not on my watch!

39 I'm getting a kick out of Pennsylvania and New York. Here in Pennsylvania, we've discovered a 'Saudi Arabia size' field of natural gas. We're frackin' the sweet living hell out of that summabitch, while the Green Freaks are pissing themselves every time the ground shakes a little. I mean WTF? You're pissing yourself over a 1.5 Richter? Up in New York state -- where the very same field extends into? The Green Freaks won't allow anything to happen.

40 We have the same story here in Oklahoma with regards to oil and even more so with natural gas. 

As for the enlightened Californians refusing to develop their oil reserves--they used to do just that--back in the day when Republicans were in charge.  But, the free college tuition thingee attracted a wholly undesirable class--permanent students and Liberal professors.  Add in the Liberals deciding that all those migrant workers needed to be permanent residents with citizenship and the die was cast. 

41 Frakking is like Rape!

42 California will build their new economy on gay weddings and Jerry Brown's pot-based monetary system.

43 OT: sorry Dave I'm drinking beer watching fox at 1100 (don't h and they are saying something about Israel and war Wtf And good on Texas and fuck Gaia

44 California is populated by the stupidest people on the face of the earth


No, but they are a close second.

45 Regular Moron Get it while you can.

46 Has the recession, in fact, ended in California?

47 Related; Algore and Crony Capitalism - A Love Story

http://tinyurl.com/c2hk9kf

48 There's plenty of drilling here in California, Boys!

49 Oklahoma's unemployment rate is 5% for March 2013.  Additionally, everyone we send to DC is a Republican.  We have a Republican Governor and both houses of the legislature are Republican.

50 Ordering breakfast is like rape. Those fucking plebes should know what I want and have it memorized.

51 10. Screw you 4.25 here and I'm happy about it

52 permanent students and Liberal professors. Add in the Liberals deciding that all those migrant workers needed to be permanent residents with citizenship and the die was cast.


We will develop the oil fields of Baja Norte.

53 CA wasn't always this  way.  When I was out there in the 70s I recall a trip I made from the Bay Area to San Diego.  There were miles and miles of oil rigs pumping next to Interstate 5.

54 Has the recession, in fact, ended in California?

Yes.  If 9.4% unemployment spells ROARING ECONOMY.

http://tinyurl.com/bsfhhof

55 Related; Algore and Crony Capitalism - A Love Story

http://tinyurl.com/c2hk9kf

Posted by: kbdabear at May 06, 2013 05:01 PM (mCvL4)

Yep, Daddy Gore, was Armand Hammer's bought and paid for Senator.  Gore Jr has a ton of money from Occidental Petroleum.

56 re 36
Cali on a roll.

Is that anything like shit on a shingle?

57

>>>There were miles and miles of oil rigs pumping next to Interstate 5.

 

 

That's hot.

58 OT/ but just got in, so what is the story with the red neck terrorist arrested in Minn?

59 Why do we need dirty oil? We're going to get rich from solar panels that someday we'll find a spot to put them without upsetting delicate scorpions like Solyndra

We won't be using oil because we're the leader in electric cars like Fisker and Tesla

Well, if that doesn't do it, carbon taxes and exchanges look like a big moneymaker ...

60 Oklahoma's unemployment rate is 5% for March 2013. Additionally, everyone we send to DC is a Republican. We have a Republican Governor and both houses of the legislature are Republican.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes C'est Magnifique at May 06, 2013 05:01 PM (kXoT0)

 

 

-----------------------------------------------

 

 

And what's even nicer is that the state government leaves us alone to the extent that, most of the time, we don't even know they're there.

 

It's fucking heaven.

61 10. Screw you
4.25 here and I'm happy about it

Posted by: Navycopjoe in sunny Waikiki at May 06, 2013 05:02 PM (dr6XJ)

I paid $3.50 for 89 octane ethanol free gasoline yesterday here in Tulsa.

62 CALIFORNIA IS BACK, BABY!!!!

http://tinyurl.com/bug7lwa

63 Is that anything like shit on a shingle?

Yes.  Now with 80% more regulations!

64

Meanwhile, fully one-third of all welfare recipients in the US now live in California.  So this Green Naziism affects us all, and costs us all. 

65 California must really REALLY like the barbed cock of Satan's Economy. 

Europe has Greece, we have California.

66

California is a state that could be a paradise. Like the outdoors? You can snow ski in the morning, then hike the desert in the afternoon and swim in the ocean in the evening. It has natural resources out the wazoo that could provide full employment. At one time it was a major source of food stuffs.

 

Unfortunately the only thing it has plenty of today are leftists trying to enact their version of a utopian hell on earth, supplemented with people who want free shit paid for by everyone else.

67 Additionally, everyone we send to DC is a Republican.


No more Dan Boren? Wasn't he the last Dem worth a fuck?

68 The downfall to the oil boom is Texas is there are now jobs that can't be filled.

McDonald's is paying $16 per hour in Odessa and they STILL can't find employees because if you're working there, you're in oil. 

69 Posted by: Regular Moron at May 06, 2013 04:59 PM (U2UQk)

You know what's even better?

The lease prices in NY are down sharply because of all the work available in PA.

70 "while California's is still the third highest at 9.4%."


Here in California we never hear about unemployment, unless it's on the national level. Whenever it's brought up that it's above 9% we just hear that it was way worse two years ago and we are on the road to recovery.

71 48. Dude, it's lunch time here Seriously

72 If Gaia wished humanoids to burn her oil products, well, she'd make it readily available, and it would even weep from cracks on the sea floor and on land and....  what?  Nevermind...   WIND and SOLAR !!  Because shut up and eleventy!   Pot and the ghey are teh awesome..

73 Pimping Texas again I see

74 Frakking is like Rape!

Posted by: Ashley Judd at May 06, 2013 04:59 PM (NcBcw)

So are your movies.

75
and that's why the White House want to change the state's name to Obamahoma

76

40 We have the same story here in Oklahoma with regards to oil and even more so with natural gas.

 

Shhhh...I think it's a secret.

 

77 I paid $3.50 for 89 octane ethanol free gasoline yesterday here in Tulsa.


I'll be in my bunk.

78 There's plenty of drilling here in California, Boys!
Posted by: Sandra Bernhard
---------

Sandra! Good to know you are still around, because I get tired of being the butt (a pun!) of all of the ugly jokes. I momentarily thought you were Sandra Fluke, but then, there IS a resemblance...

79 >>>Seriously<<<

Posted by: Navycopjoe in sunny Waikiki at May 06, 2013 05:06 PM (dr6XJ)

 

Would you like a pickle on your dog?

80 61. I'm jealous

81

"39 I'm getting a kick out of Pennsylvania and New York. Here in Pennsylvania, we've discovered a 'Saudi Arabia size' field of natural gas. We're frackin' the sweet living hell out of that summabitch, while the Green Freaks are pissing themselves every time the ground shakes a little. I mean WTF? You're pissing yourself over a 1.5 Richter?

Up in New York state -- where the very same field extends into? The Green Freaks won't allow anything to happen. "

 

 

 

I'm on the other side of the border, and it's really absurd. But what you expect from a fascist like Cuomo, and his ilk? I just hope the local legal efforts vs his gun grab end up toppling that SOB. The local people pursuing it believe that if America loses in NY against NYSAFE, that the rest of the country can expect similar fascism.

 

I'm a little surprised and impressed that you folks in PA aren't more screwed up,  honestly. You guys went for Obama TWICE, after all. I personally benefit - I have a fair amount of NFG stock, and I think they own a great deal of that "Saudi-sized" field. My family's involvement with the gas there goes back to 1909, and earlier.

 

82 And what's even nicer is that the state government leaves us alone to the extent that, most of the time, we don't even know they're there.

It's fucking heaven.

Posted by: Soona at May 06, 2013 05:04 PM (5VNMr)

Yes, it is.  Texas gets all the publicity, but, we don't have an Austin or those safe Congressional seats in Houston, etc..  Tulsa has spots and spots of Liberals over around Tulsa University or Midtown.  I can't speak to OKC.

83 California in spite of the leftist prognostications of a comeback is bleeding away industries. The Monterey Shale formation is in the part of the state that suffers from massive unemployment and poverty. It could revive the West Central Valley and go a long way towards paying for the handouts given by Sacramento. But the Watermelons still think that the Magic Windmills and Solar Miracle Panels will bring them electrical manna. It's ironic that the biggest opposition comes from Hollywood while the motion picture industry is one of the biggest energy using industries in the state

84 @66

What you described reminded me of two songs by the Dead Kennedys called "California Uber Alles" (about Gerry Brown) and "Holiday in Cambodia".

85 79. Yeah I want a pickle on my hot dog It's the Chicago way

86 Oooh---Is somebody rubbing pickles and hot dogs!? Power Rangers Ignite!!!

87 4.25 here and I'm happy about it Posted by: Navycopjoe in sunny Waikiki at May 06, 2013 05:02 PM

Lightweight!

88 Sorry Dave but another OT: Who ever invented yoga pants...,I fucking love you

89 I have some friends who live in the Cuero area of Texas who have just increased their oil lease to 8 wells.

Middle class folks who I now refer to as the Clampetts.

Posted by: polynikes at May 06, 2013 04:56 PM (m2CN7)

 

When we sold out in the Eagleford, our company was taking leases for $10,000 per acre and a 25% royalty for three year leases. Typically an Eagleford well comes on at over 1000 bpd, meaning the landowner walks away with 250 barrels cost free PER DAY. At $100 per barrel...

 

What was the second poorest county in the state a few years ago now hosts a support group for new millionares. Let that sink in for a moment.

90

Yeah I want a pickle on my hot dog

It's the Chicago way

 

 

 

Take it from me...those guys like a pickle on everything.

91

Esitmated 25 billion bbls oil off the coast of Cali

It might as well be on the moon

92

"49 Oklahoma's unemployment rate is 5% for March 2013. Additionally, everyone we send to DC is a Republican. We have a Republican Governor and both houses of the legislature are Republican."

 

 

 

I hate you...

 

 

;-)

93 Oh, right, California needs those things. Very much.

No they don't - they've got a pipeline on all those Obamabucks streaming out of DC.

94 It's kinda like the Cowboys.  The only way California changes it's ways is if every big business in that state moves the fuck out.

Just like the only way Jerry Jones figures out he's the worst "football man" in football is when his stadium is empty.  The only way that fucker (just like Cali) figures it out is when his pocketbook is hampered severely.

95 No more Dan Boren? Wasn't he the last Dem worth a fuck?

Posted by: fluffy at May 06, 2013 05:05 PM (z9HTb)

He retired this last election.  New guy Markwayne Mullins is a Republican.  Dan was only a Dem because Daddy (David Boren) married Molly Shy--HUGE old Democrat family.  David changed his party as a courtesy to her family.  He now runs Oklahoma University.  Dan was going to be a college president as well, I don't know where he wound up.

96
Pimping Texas again I see

hey, mister, Texas ain't no whore!

97

 47 Related; Algore and Crony Capitalism - A Love Story

 

http://tinyurl.com/c2hk9kf

 

Posted by: kbdabear at May 06, 2013 05:01 PM (mCvL4)

 

----------

 

Yeah...it's Cronyism, bigtime.

But Capitalism has nothing to do with it.

 

I really hate that term 'Crony Capitalism', because it implies that it's capitalism's fault when such cronyism occurs.

 

98 What was the second poorest county in the state a few years ago now hosts a support group for new millionares.


Golf course?

99

"60 ... And what's even nicer is that the state government leaves us alone to the extent that, most of the time, we don't even know they're there.

It's fucking heaven."

 

 

OK, now you're just making stuff up.  Who's your governor? John Galt!?!

 

100 In Massachusetts I have paid $3.99 per gallon, and more for heating oil.  When the oil bill is in the door I nearly have a panic attack.

101 Shhhh...I think it's a secret.

Posted by: wheatie at May 06, 2013 05:07 PM (Tjo5u)

Wheatie, I love you, but, it AoS, who are they gonna tell?

102

103 Worst part about Oklahoma is tornadoes.

2nd worst part is their driving.....fuckers come down to Texas and screw everything up.

104 OK, now you're just making stuff up. Who's your governor? John Galt!?!

Posted by: Optimizer at May 06, 2013 05:13 PM (Mxt9o)

Mary Fallin.  Formerly Congresswoman Mary Fallin, so she has a killer rolodex.

105 3rd worst thing, 3/2 beer.  Fucking criminal.

106 re 89: "What was the second poorest county in the state a few years ago now hosts a support group for new millionaires. Let that sink in for a moment"

so who needs millionaires? we need people who will depend on the government and vote Democrat

107 California before the hippies = Golden State California after the hippies = Foold Golden State

108 Can anyone actually imagine a fast train trying to get through California witbout pissing off the very same green nutbags 'in favor' of fast trains? Like the dams Obama cites as great public works, and which he opposes in all cases for environmental reasons.

109 I'm a little surprised and impressed that you folks in PA aren't more screwed up, honestly. You guys went for Obama TWICE, after all. Don't h8 all Pa peeps. Outside of Philadelphia, and some of the bordering counties, and the college towns, we're all pretty much conservative as hell. But when you have that City of Brotherly Leeches, 5th largest city in the nation, it's a tough nut to crack every four years. Mid years, we're fine. We have a R governor, a R House. Split on Senators due to name recognition bullshit. Something 'bout votin' for a Precedent brings the lefties out in droves.

110

82...Tulsa has spots and spots of Liberals over around Tulsa University or Midtown. I can't speak to OKC.

 

Norman and Cleveland County are a hotbed of liberals, Sherry.

They love control freak legislation and high taxes there.

 

111

68 Sponge

Yeah, but even at 16 dollars an hour, you're still in ODESSA. Or, as I refer to it, Slowdeatha. There is a good reason why it's name starts with a zero.

112 fuck California let them freeze in the dark.

113

"97 ... I really hate that term 'Crony Capitalism', because it implies that it's capitalism's fault when such cronyism occurs. "

 

 

I don't know why we let those commie a-holes control the language.  Another term for it is "merchantilism", IIRC, and that's what we ought to  go with.  It's like "reverse discrimination", which was designed to suggest that it was the opposite of discrimination, when it is actually institutionalized discrimination it the opposite direction.

 

114 Wouldn't it be great if a major studio relocated from Hollywood to Houston? Or it'd be great if CALPERS was heavily invested in TX oil.

115 California greenies are so dumb, the fire here in ventura county raged through pt. mugu state park and couldn't be fully put out because of regulations put in place to protect the park.

116 Yes, it is. Texas gets all the publicity, but, we don't have an Austin or those safe Congressional seats in Houston, etc.. Tulsa has spots and spots of Liberals over around Tulsa University or Midtown. I can't speak to OKC.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes C'est Magnifique at May 06, 2013 05:08 PM (kXoT0)

 

 

---------------------------------------------

 

 

OKC has it's share of libtards.  But amazingly, many of them  that I know  that were so hot for Dear Leader this last election have started to back off and actually listen to the conservative argument.  They're finding freedom appealing. 

 

The more informed of them (which really isn't saying much) are seeing or have experienced  what living in other states like NY or CA is like.

 

They've also found that they can keep more of their own money in OK  compared to those states.

117 Yeah, but even at 16 dollars an hour, you're still in ODESSA. Or, as I refer to it, Slowdeatha. There is a good reason why it's name starts with a zero.

Posted by: mikeyslaw at May 06, 2013 05:16 PM (lyPWx)

Good point.

118 / sock off

119 Posted by: mikeyslaw at May 06, 2013 05:16 PM

You raise your family in Midland, you raise hell in Odessa.

120 I really hate that term 'Crony Capitalism', because it implies that it's capitalism's fault when such cronyism occurs. " how about "proto-fascism"?

121 Wouldn't it be great if a major studio relocated from Hollywood to Houston?

Posted by: Jason Collins at May 06, 2013 05:17 PM (o6d2d)

Don't tell anyone, but, they are shooting movies in Oklahoma.  August Osage County was the latest.

122

103 Worst part about Oklahoma is tornadoes.

 

Tornadoes?

Pffft...that's nothing.

It rains flaming cats here in the summer, and we are all toothless rednecks.

 

So, people should just stay away.

It's terrible here.

 

123 Cali would rather have 10,000 gallons per day leak into the ocean rather than have an oil rig visible to the emotionally fragile retards who live in the state..

124 But the Watermelons still think that the Magic Windmills and Solar Miracle Panels will bring them electrical manna.

And tidal energy.  Don't forget about the tides.  And.......um, algae.  The tides are full of algae.  Energy bonanza!

125 They've also found that they can keep more of their own money in OK compared to those states.

Posted by: Soona at May 06, 2013 05:17 PM (5VNMr)

Yeah, my boss retired in April.  Huge Liberal from Maine, would love to move back to the NE, but, it makes no sense economically for him to do it.

126
speaking of Texas...

anyone ever read any of James Lee Burke's Billy Bob Holland novels?

I read two and rather liked them.

127 We could use some decent bolts for our new Bay Bridge span. The ones that were supplied (by a USA manufacturer) are shit and are popping and cracking before the bridge is even open. Oh yeah, the bolts are already installed and all of the concrete has been poured around them.

You talk about a turd in the punchbowl, that story right there is it.

Note to self, take a different bridge, one that was built during the Depression, when they knew how to build stuff.

128 Tornadoes?
Pffft...that's nothing.
It rains flaming cats here in the summer, and we are all toothless rednecks.

So, people should just stay away.
It's terrible here.

Posted by: wheatie at May 06, 2013 05:19 PM (Tjo5u)

If you do happen to be in Tulsa and a storm comes up, you all are welcome in my safe room.

129 All I can say is drill baby drill. I've been making my bank moving oilfield equipment from Texas to the Bakken for the last 2 years. So yeah I'm only slightly biased here..

130 It's a falsehood that California could drill for their oil. The oil is too far below the surface of the earth for Californians to reach in time. Making these false statements about the availability of California oil does us no service when addressing the booming Texas economy.

131 Worst part of OKC was the tarantulas and scorpions. Got zapped three times when I lived there in the 80s. But the pheasants out near Hooker were awesome.

132

OT/ but just got in, so what is the story with the red neck terrorist arrested in Minn?

***

 

He's a 28 year old white guy who, in one photo, is dressed in camo.  His terror plot was directed at a target in the small (population 5000) town of Montevideo.  Police decline to release a motive or talk about his religious/political views.  He is a felon for a burglary and has had other scrapes with the law.  My guess is that he had a list of people who done him wrong and he was out for revenge.

 

Incidentally, the Houston airport shooter was a black guy who wanted to confront a policeman.  He left a note talking about how he could no longer control the monster inside and referenced the Christian religion.  He had kidnapped but then released a coworker a few days earlier.  His brother said he has had mental health problems.  At least he didn't hurt anybody else (although that cops will have to live with firing at and possibly killing him).

133 My life fades. The vision dims. All that remains are memories. I remember a time of chaos. Ruined dreams. This wasted land.

134 Only two things come from Texas.  Steers and queers.

135 Worst part of OKC was the tarantulas and scorpions. Got zapped three times when I lived there in the 80s. But the pheasants out near Hooker were awesome.

Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at May 06, 2013 05:22 PM (o6d2d)

All of you have heard my scorpion lament about the house on Skiatook Lake.  And the story about my levitating out of a nightgown that had a centipede in it that was stinging me.  We also had tarantulas but the birds ate most of them.

136 "125 ... Yeah, my boss retired in April. Huge Liberal from Maine, would love to move back to the NE, but, it makes no sense economically for him to do it."   I take it "NE" means "New England", and not "Nebraska" (which is what the postal code NE stands for).  His retirement party must have been one of those rare occaisions where you're actually happy to go, because you're so excited to celebrate being rid of the scum. The guy is a complete hypocrite, for not wanting to pay the exhorbiotant taxes to "share the wealth". But that's par for the course. Too bad he's come to poison your state. 

137 Outside of Philadelphia, and some of the bordering counties, and the college towns, we're all pretty much conservative as hell.

ummmmm.......

138 It's not going to improve in spite of all the happy talk from the likes of Paul Krugman about how high taxes, centrally planned hackery, crony capitalism and overbearing regulation is the path to permanent prosperity

The Central Valley has caught a break the last 3 years due to rainfall far above average. However, California's Mediterranean climate does not have a stable rainfall average, it's subject to wild swings and it always has been. This past winter was one of the driest on record, the Camarillo "Springs Fire" is probably the opening act on a long dry season and possibly the beginning of another prolonged drought cycle. The Fruitbasket of the World might be turned into a dust bowl due to irrigation water diverted for a 2 inch inedible fish

Both the Ports of LA-Long Beach and San Francisco have low production/high pay dockworkers due to unions. They have onerous and ridiculous state and local environmental regulations that are only going to get worse. However, their natural location advantage to transportation cost is about to be lost due to the widening of the Panama Canal which will be completed next year. Many Gulf Coast ports are expanding and dredging for the extra Asian cargo ships. LA-Long Beach had already seen a drop due to modernizing of Mexican ports.

California still thinks Magic Windmills, high speed trains, Silicon Valley, and Hollywood will keep them fed

Shame really, because God gave California everything except sane politicians

139 But but but California is soooooo progressive and trendy. Isn't that more important than being billions in debt and businesses fleeing the state?

140 His retirement party must have been one of those rare occaisions where you're actually happy to go, because you're so excited to celebrate being rid of the scum. The guy is a complete hypocrite, for not wanting to pay the exhorbiotant taxes to "share the wealth". But that's par for the course. Too bad he's come to poison your state.

Posted by: Optimizer at May 06, 2013 05:25 PM (Mxt9o)

Yeah, I meant the NorthEast.  I was ecstatic to attend his party. 

141 OT/

Question.  Will the cicadas eat the stink bugs?

142 What about the snail darter? Won't someone think of the snail darter??? I do. All the time. Why, just today, I said to myself, "Self, which would be better? Snail darter with lemon juice, or snail darter with cocktail sauce?"

143

113..."I don't know why we let those commie a-holes control the language. Another term for it is "merchantilism", IIRC, and that's what we ought to go with. It's like "reverse discrimination", which was designed to suggest that it was the opposite of discrimination, when it is actually institutionalized discrimination it the opposite direction."

 

----------

 

Yeah...'mercantilism'...like that's a bad thing.

Where the fuck do they think that jobs come from!

 

Speaking of that...

 

Am I the only one who's noticed that Iron Man III has set some sort of record for the number of corporate-sponsored Commercials?

I've lost count of how many different corporations are using Iron Man III to sell their products.

 

I thought that those Hollywood Hypocrites hated 'evil corporations'.

 

144 Sure, but everyone wants a ride on my unicorn, bitchez!

145 133 My life fades. The vision dims. All that remains are memories. I remember a time of chaos. Ruined dreams. This wasted land.

Dude, I don't care about your politics.  That's poetry, that's what that is.

146 134 Only two things come from Texas. Steers and queers A 'California Rodeo' is where one rides the other, right?

147 And tidal energy. Don't forget about the tides. And.......um, algae. The tides are full of algae. Energy bonanza!


Not. So. Fast.

148

"129 All I can say is drill baby drill. I've been making my bank moving oilfield equipment from Texas to the Bakken for the last 2 years. ..."

 

 

They made fun of "Drill, baby, drill!" when Sarah Palin said it, and now it's happening despite them.  We'd be drilling more, too, if things hadn't gone horribly wrong.

149
remember when the experts told you that moms who lick the pacifiers to clean them  when they fall on the floor are ruining the baby's future teeth?

new 'science' today says moms who lick the pacifiers are saving their babies from bacteria!



Science!

150 I decided against seeing Iron Man 3 on Saturday.  We went to see The Place Beyond Pines, because Gosling and Cooper--yeah.  Do not bother with it, it was so predictable that it was boring.

151 @135 Sherry: I have not heard it, but sounds 'adventurous'.

152 Shame really, because God gave California everything except sane politicians brains. California = Oz

153 For those diggin' the Ethanol Free:

http://pure-gas.org/

154 @135 Sherry: I have not heard it, but sounds 'adventurous'.

Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at May 06, 2013 05:29 PM (o6d2d)

If you thinking a screaming and hysterical woman with centipede stings on her "girls" is adventurous, then, yeah, baby, it was.

155 152. Complete with flying monkeys.

156 northern California is beautiful, the weather is wonderful, and most of the people you encounter on an everyday basis are competent at their jobs.  The guys who dig wells and install cable and fix your plumbing are normal middle-class people who marry and raise children, etc. 


many Old Hippies hereabouts, but they're mostly harmless unless you poke them with a stick.   They're nasty, but easily recognizable and they run away shrieking if you stand your ground


 The problem is that the state is overrun with illegals and with legal immigrants who want to suck the Govt Teat forever.  The Teat-Hippie Coalition rules the state, and if you live in Cali you are in foreign territory.


and you pay a high membership fee for living in what used to be the Golden State

157 Klowneeforeeneeya faces the same fallback "oh hell" bounty Ogabe has...

tell your eco-nuts to go fuck themselves and you have a windfall...

scares me some

158 @150
I'm sorry, but this Gosling fellow is not handsome.   He has close-set eyes.

159 "Who needs jobs and billions of dollars if it means pissing off environmentalist whackjobs because it's that dirty nasty stuff in the ground that's killin Gaia? Oh, right, California needs those things. Very much."

One of the most nutty features of the constantly nutty People's Soviet Socialist Republic of Commiefornia is the state Air Resources Board.

CARB is noteworthy for its long history of crappy policy decisions and junk science. Most of the political appointees who oversee CARB have absolutely no background in science or engineering -- they're predominantly hack "public interest" lawyers and the like. The alleged scientific staff of CARB keep getting caught in things like obvious statistical errors, when they're not getting caught with fake Ph.D degrees from widely known online diploma mills.

The last supposed Republican governor we had in this state, the plastic Austrian android, did precisely nothing to rein in the CARB insanity. He made it far worse. Signing on in the name of being "green" to all kinds of crazy new bans and intrusive, costly new mandates. And, der Groppenfuhrer elevated to head of CARB one Mary Nichols, who puts the nut in nutty.

Nichols was asked at one point a few years back about the huge number of jobs that were projected to be driven out of Commiefornia by one of CARB's bullshit new rules. She sniffishly replied, "There are some jobs we don't need in this state."

Silly me. I figured that a state which is consistently at or near the very top of the league tables for unemployment needed all the jobs it could get, and did not have the luxury of being picky about the types of job in question. CARB begs to differ.

All of this lunacy is Texas's gain.

As soon as we're able to break away out of here (family reasons have us locked down), we're selling the CA house and heading for the Lone Star State, pronto.

160 Shame really, because God gave California everything except sane politicians

It's the threat of getting tied up outside during the softball size hail that keeps our politicians in line.

161 The Teat-Hippie Coalition

would be a fine name for a rock band.

162 154. Laughing and wincing at the same time. Those critters were hell.

163 I'm sorry, but this Gosling fellow is not handsome. He has close-set eyes.

Posted by: Zombie Gary Cooper in ballerina shoes at May 06, 2013 05:31 PM (6TB1Z)

He has eyes?  Damn, who knew?

164 112 fuck California let them freeze in the dark. Posted by: vote Lord Humungus 2016 at May 06, 2013 05:16 PM (BjJOB) ********** My! What a nice hash you have.

165

"140 ... Yeah, I meant the NorthEast. I was ecstatic to attend his party."

 

 

Love it. I had far-left whackos that drove the last business I worked for into the ground. I hereby forgive you for relentlessly torturing me with your bragging about OK.  It's my own fault - I should just move!

 

166 Over the years I've watched trucks equipped with ground effect sonar gear sampling for NG deposits whilst cruising back roads here in NorCal. We have large natural gas deposits but because of the idiocy in Sacramento, those deposits remain unexplored.

Same for the proposed Auburn dam project. Hydroelectric is verboten... unless we buy energy derived from hydro from Washington and Canada - then it's okay.

We allow millions and millions of square acre/feet freshwater snow-melt to simply drain from the Sierra to the SF Bay. Whitewater KayakNerds rejoice!


Yet NorCal pumps millions of gallons of pristine freshwater from underground aquifers and ships it south for LA consumption.

Boggle.

167 He has eyes? Damn, who knew?

For all we know, they're photoshopped.

168 Will the cicadas eat the stink bugs? I had some cinnamon powder out (pumpkin pie!) recently when a stink bug happened to wander past. A little sprinkle and he was dead within an hour. Not sure how to translate that into a marketable product that makes me millions. Story of my life.

169

135...We also had tarantulas but the birds ate most of them.

 

I haven't seen a tarantula in over a decade.

Or a scorpion.

Maybe it's all the invasive bird species that seem to be proliferating.

 

 

Haven't seen a Horny Toad in a long, long time, either.

I miss those little guys.

I think the Fire Ants killed them off. ...Thanks, Texas!

 

 

 

170 It's my own fault - I should just move!

Posted by: Optimizer at May 06, 2013 05:34 PM (Mxt9o)

Yes, sweetie, come on.

171 Haven't seena Horny Toad in a long, long time, either.
I miss those little guys.
I think the Fire Ants killed them off. ...Thanks, Texas!

Posted by: wheatie at May 06, 2013 05:35 PM (Tjo5u)

Thank the feds.  They're the ones that won't let us kill shit that interferes with the good stuff.

172 My daughter is a NoVa girl who attended UT because it has outstanding programs in business and voice performance (opera).  I made all the usual jokes about TX having no music but country, but it's becoming hard to ignore that they are a new center of American gravity.  At some point, Texas will become the new CA. 

173 Posted by: wheatie at May 06, 2013 05:35 PM (Tjo5u) Yeah, poor Horny Toads. Fire ants not only kill them but worse, kill off their main food supply- those big red harvester ants. Plus, cats. Too many assholes let their cats wander around outside killing off critters like Horny Toads and songbirds.

174 'Energy? Capitalism? Never heard of them.'

175

"170 ... Yes, sweetie, come on."

 

 

Stop it!  Mrs. Optimizer is in the next room!...

176 115 California greenies are so dumb, the fire here in ventura county raged through pt. mugu state park and couldn't be fully put out because of regulations put in place to protect the park. 

Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at May 06, 2013 05:17 PM (b9K4P)


Got any more details?    What regulations? 

177 Tornadoes?
Pffft...that's nothing.
It rains flaming cats here in the summer, and we are all toothless rednecks.

So, people should just stay away.
It's terrible here.

Posted by: wheatie at May 06, 2013 05:19 PM (Tjo5u)

 

 

---------------------------------------------

 

 

Yup.  So any of you in the blue states want to move  here, please don't.   You'd make  us have to pay for indoor plumbing. 

178 I had some cinnamon powder out (pumpkin pie!) recently when a stink bug happened to wander past. A little sprinkle and he was dead within an hour. Not sure how to translate that into a marketable product that makes me millions. Story of my life.Posted by: Regular Moron at May 06, 2013 05:35 PM (U2UQk)
Stink bug pie!

179

 

in california we've moved past trying to kill the oil industry we're working on killing off agriculture now

180 "179 in california we've moved past trying to kill the oil industry we're working on killing off agriculture now Posted by: kj at May 06, 2013 05:41 PM (XVkN0) " Makes sense. Food is like oil for the body. Man.

181

172...At some point, Texas will become the new CA.

 

But the good people of Texas need to declare Liberals an 'invasive species'...and take measures to avoid what they've done to CA.

 

182 178
I had some cinnamon powder out (pumpkin pie!) recently when a stink bug happened to wander past. A little sprinkle and he was dead within an hour. Not sure how to translate that into a marketable product that makes me millions. Story of my life.Posted by: Regular Moron at May 06, 2013 05:35 PM (U2UQk)

Prove that it works on Joe Biden, and you're golden.

183 fuck California let them freeze in the dark.

Problem is, all their stupid eco-laws for consumer goods end up fucking over the rest of us eventually, as other states adopt them, or they become federal, or manufacturers decide not to make two versions of a product (one for CA and one for the rest of the country).

Remember when you could put socks in a washing machine and get clean socks out?  Now the new detergents imbue them with perfume in lieu of dissolving the soil while the new machines get them damp and spin them around twice instead of mechanically removing the dissolved soil and rinsing it away.

Fuck you, California.

184 in california we've moved past trying to kill the oil industry we're working on killing off agriculture now


Idea for a documentary: Film people while asking them to sign a petition to ban "agri-business"

185 remember when the experts told you that moms who lick the pacifiers to clean them when they fall on the floor are ruining the baby's future teeth? new 'science' today says moms who lick the pacifiers are saving their babies from bacteria! Science! Posted by: soothsayer at May 06, 2013 05:28 PM (Ba6aP) --- Been taking care of my grandkids for the past couple months. I forgot what germy creatures babies are. Nose running half the time, picking up 'found' food and eating it, whether or not it is food... But I had an older kid over the other day who told me it was gross to carry the baby to the crib and hold her bottle in my teeth while carrying her. Are you kidding me! Once a week the baby scoops shit out of her diaper.

186 I have not been to CA since the 90s.  I was actually in San Francisco when the OKC bombing happened.  I remember thinking that a gas main must have ruptured--never dreaming that it could be a bomb.  On a subsequent business trip, I rode on a plane with one of the search dogs.  I thanked the lady who was his handler for their heroic work at the site.  The dog got his own row of seats on the plane and they boarded first before everyone else, as well they should have.

187 Too many assholes let their cats wander around outside killing off critters like Horny Toads and songbirds.

Posted by: Staff at May 06, 2013 05:39 PM (vJ+mj)

 

 

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Strange.  I remember when there  used to be  cats and a lot of horny toads.   It wasn't the cats.  Unless it was the gangsta cats the northerners brought to the south.  Or it could be that the rattlesnake population and the horny toad population trade off in their dominance.  Sometimes either dominance can extend for a decade or longer.

188 Warning to progressive, compassionate, and smart Californians;

Do NOT move to Texas! It's full of gun toting rednecks who shoot minorities for sport. It's loaded with backwards retards who worship an imaginary god rather than a real god like President Obama. They hate science and pray to Jesus to save them from tornadoes when everyone knows that only higher taxes and bicycling will save them from a twister

Stay in California! I'm moving there myself as soon as I can fill out the paperwork to sell my Healing Crystals online from my life partner's new home in Berkeley

189 It's sad actually. If it weren't for the liberals in charge and their shenanigans I would be expanding beyond my one truck operation this year. But I'm a little gun shy that I might get regulated out of business under the current regime.

190 But I'm a little gun shy that I might get regulated out of business under the current regime.

Posted by: Snail racing champion at May 06, 2013 05:49 PM (0hqjR)

Sad and wrong and criminal...

191

When CA implodes I fear the vermin will flock to AZ.

Over the weekend I saw some J.O. from oregon leaving the Ikea. Had all kinds of far left stickers on his SUV.

I gave him the finger and told him to go back to OR.

192 Idea for a documentary: Film people while asking them to sign a petition to ban "agri-business"
Posted by: fluffy at May 06, 2013 05:45 PM

With the right tone and wording, you can get people to sign a petition to ban air

193

Oh, and AZ has swarms or flying squid and it rains scorpions and tarrantulas at least once a week. Plus the weather stations lie about the temperatures. They like to subtract 10-15 degrees from the actual temperatures.

Lastly, people here have tons of guns and ammo and shoot at cars with obama stickers on them.

194   But the good people of Texas need to declare Liberals an 'invasive species'...and take measures to avoid what they've done to CA. 

Posted by: wheatie at May 06, 2013 05:43 PM (Tjo5u)


Open season for a few months each year would do well to cull the herd.   It's for their own good - otherwise they'd destroy their own homes and then migrate to infest yet another state.

195

@193

 

well he's dead now so they need to triple the spending

196 Maybe California should change its nickname to The Golden Goose State.

197 197 Maybe California should change its nickname to The Golden Goose State. 

Posted by: Aloha Akhbar @PirateBallerina at May 06, 2013 06:04 PM (/lWM


She's just pining for the fjords! 

198 Greetings: And those Cali wind farms are every bit as UGLY as any oil field I've ever seen.

199 As per, any comment from me signals the thread death knell. Man, if I got paid for thread-killing, manbearpig would envy MY bank account.

200

 

And those Cali wind farms are every bit as UGLY as any oil field I've ever seen.

 

the one at Tahatchapi ruined it

201 It is truly unfortunate that the biggest environmental wackjob in California is Moonbeam Brown.

202 Oklahoma's unemployment rate is 5% for March 2013. Additionally, everyone we send to DC is a Republican. We have a Republican Governor and both houses of the legislature are Republican. Oy, yah. Rub it the fuck in, why don't you. Want some salt to use with that?

203 California in spite of the leftist prognostications of a comeback is bleeding away industries. The Monterey Shale formation is in the part of the state that suffers from massive unemployment and poverty. It could revive the West Central Valley and go a long way towards paying for the handouts given by Sacramento. But the Watermelons still think that the Magic Windmills and Solar Miracle Panels will bring them electrical manna. It's ironic that the biggest opposition comes from Hollywood while the motion picture industry is one of the biggest energy using industries in the state Posted by: kbdabear at May 06, 2013 05:08 PM (mCvL4) I've maintained that the state could have all the money it wanted to spend and solve the unemployment rate, and could do that overnight if the state would begin leasing oil tracts again. But no- the oil spill that happened off Santa Barbara in '69 killed that goose forever. Never mind that the technology exists to minimize that kind of a spill. Or that oil seeps up from the ground naturally along state beaches along the coast. Or that we are sitting on an untold amount of wealth that would make us the most prosperous state in the nation again. Oh no. Can't have that. Instead, we lead the nation in lunacy- and damn near nothing else anymore.

204 We're not coincidental.

205 2 The recession ended? When the fuck did that happen?

206 Their people come here and recreate the same ghettos that shat them out upon our golden shores. How can you fuck up an opportunity as easy as life in America? Ring this bitch with flamethrowers, minefields and roving squads of cybernetic battlemonkeys. Fuck up your own nest, amigo.
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at May 06, 2013 06:52 PM (KdI7C)

Pretty much works that way with Liberals/Leftists/Locusts in general. 

Turn the place you live into a dying liberal shithole, move to a place that isn't a dying liberal shithole, begin again.

207 Fvck CA and its misanthropes that deem we should all live our lives based on their ecological fantasies. They get to ride their go cart to hell however they want but I'll be damned if I'm going to care.

208 "California has vast reserves too but isn't taking advantage of them."

Mainly due to wealthy people with the attitude "I've got mine, fuck you."  Usually expressed more politely so as not to scare off the idiots before they vote for more of the same.

209 We use to call them Reds, now we call the Greens.  Same people just older.