Posts for: green
Sep 16, 2017 10:32:41 #
Blurryeyed wrote:
I have never been able to get a liberal to actually explain the so called subsidies to me, I would love for a liberal so someday explain what they are and why they are a taxpayer giveaway. No joke, I have tried to research them and they all looked to be legitimate business expenses to me.
it's a liberal rag, but a pretty good explanation...
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/04/oil-subsidies-renewable-energy-tax-breaks/
Writing Off Drilling Expenses: A century ago, drilling for oil was risky business. Start-up costs were high, and prospectors couldn’t be sure they’d find crude. To encourage the nascent industry, in 1916 Congress approved the expensing of “intangible drilling costs”—pretty much any equipment used or work done—in the first year of a well’s life. Today, prospectors rarely hit dry holes, but the century-old tax break remains a gusher. Oil companies can expense 70 percent of their drilling costs and depreciate the rest. Annual cost to taxpayers: $700 million to $3.5 billion
The Depletion Allowance: When you sunk a well 90 years ago, you didn’t know how much it would yield or for how long. That was the idea when oil producers argued that the tax code should account for the “depletion” of their reserves. In 1926, Congress introduced the “excess of percentage over cost depletion deferral,” a.k.a. the depletion allowance. Since 1975, only small companies may claim it, but the price tag is still big. Under the allowance, an oil producer may deduct 15 percent (originally 27.5 percent) of any gross income from a well. And unlike normal depreciation, this deduction may be claimed indefinitely. Annual cost to taxpayers: $612 million to $1.1 billion
Domestic Manufacturing Deduction: In 2004, ostensibly to prevent jobs from being shipped overseas, Congress extended a tax break for stateside manufacturers to cover the oil industry. Never mind that most US oil jobs are nearly outsourcing-proof, since a well in Alaska or a refinery in Louisiana can’t be sent to China. Annual cost to taxpayers: $574 million
http://assets.motherjones.com/politics/2014/04/federal-lobbying-political-giving.png
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/04/oil-subsidies-energy-timeline/
Sep 16, 2017 10:25:53 #
SteveR wrote:
there's no historical/cultural significance in a white being lynched... lots of black kids actually were lynched... some as recently as this yearI really don't care what he was trying to say. If the roles were reversed and it was a white entertainer and a black kid, BLM and the media would go nuts.....but it's okay to lynch a white kid?
http://www.essence.com/news/recent-cases-lynching-noose-intimidation
The image or mere presence of a noose sends an intended message to Black people. It is meant to stir up thoughts and fears of a time when Black people were regularly lynched by White mobs. It's racial terrorism to keep Black folks in their place.
there is no equivalence here... in this country one race were the masters and one race were the slaves
Sep 16, 2017 10:18:43 #
phcaan wrote:
You're right, everyone cheats to advance in their field, especially those money-grubbing scientists for those billions of dollars of grant money...oh wait, I'm confused, the billions of dollars I was thinking of are oil and gas subsidies the government pays to get honest research from the energy company's scientists.Have another glass of kool-Aid green, with one yellow eye and one brown eye, you are a quart low.
How did you cheat in your profession? Did you get enough money to retire from it?
Sep 16, 2017 10:10:13 #
Wrangler wrote:
LOLThis is the ultimate knit pick!
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...and the ultimate trumpsplain...
FlyingTiger wrote:
Here you go fashion maven, genius, read this, you may learn something. Maybe not. Like most everything else, you are also wrong about this genius.
http://www.menshealth.com/style/ask-mh-black-and-navy-together
http://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-wear-a-navy-blazer-2014-8
http://www.gq.com/story/how-to-wear-black-navy
http://www.menshealth.com/style/ask-mh-black-and-navy-together
http://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-wear-a-navy-blazer-2014-8
http://www.gq.com/story/how-to-wear-black-navy
glad we cover the controversial topics here!
Sep 16, 2017 10:07:12 #
boberic wrote:
please provide sources for these statements, you are going against the scientific community with your statements.... Breitbart?While I agree with some of those things. the entire theory of global warming is bases upon atmospheric CO2. Clear cutting of forests is obscene. Schmutz in the air actually cools the planet by blocking sunlight. Earthquakes do not warm the panet and have nothing to do with warming.
http://www.newsweek.com/nepal-earthquake-could-have-been-manmade-disaster-climate-change-brings-326017
https://www.carbonbrief.org/can-climate-change-cause-earthquakes-we-look-at-the-science-and-the-spin
...even the winger news:
http://dailycaller.com/2015/04/28/scientists-say-global-warming-will-cause-deadly-earthquakes/
Sep 16, 2017 09:59:37 #
James Shaw wrote:
people that believe that scientists support global warming for some kind of monetary scam obviously don't personally know any scientists and probably cheated in their own careers for financial reward... like they claim scientists are doing.Your response is not the data that I requested from you based on your previous claim regarding funding or not funding of climate science by the Obama administration.
Any scientist who falsifies data better get enough of a payoff to retire because if discovered..it is virtually the end of his career. It's hard to come back to be taken seriously, if it's proven you manipulated data.
Sep 15, 2017 11:02:42 #
Wellhiem wrote:
I know, I joined twitter just for DJT.... but keeping the feed open 24/7?Don't knock it, it's good for a laugh. Most of the people who follow him only do so in order to tell him what a prat he is.
Sep 15, 2017 10:58:57 #
boberic wrote:
so air quality has nothing to do with the planet? So wiping out a continental forest doesn't change the climate? So fracking that causes earthquakes doesn't change the climate? What do you think climate is, but the air and water systems of our planet?Don't confuse controling pollution with climate change. I don't know anyone that thinks that man does not pollute the planet. With regard to not believing human cause of Global warming. What about those of us who don't believe in either God or warming?
Sep 15, 2017 09:12:35 #
Sjfh wrote:
I guess you never saw LA in the 70s.I don't believe we should pollute our environment....but that doesn't mean that I believe pollution leads to climate change.
Sep 15, 2017 09:10:22 #
thom w wrote:
you can eat the mushroom directly, but I think the reindeer's bowels remove some of the toxicity... I haven't tried it, psilocybin is less toxic and easier to get. My mom said they grew in Latvia and my granma used to slice some up and put it on the windowsill... the flies would eat it and die.So, this reindeer piss thing, is it legal here? Does it work?
https://www.dailydot.com/irl/legal-psychedelics-drugs/
here's 12 legal ways to trip... some are very scary.
Sep 15, 2017 09:03:13 #
SharpShooter wrote:
if you'll notice, all of the knuckledraggers keep bringing her up... those that voted for her, were voting for the lesser of two evils.Braindead has an obsession with Hillary!
I think he's in closet love with her!!!!
I'll bet she doesn't know you exist!!! LoL
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I think he's in closet love with her!!!!
I'll bet she doesn't know you exist!!! LoL
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Remember all the press Romney got after the election in 2012? Neither do I, no one cares about the losers. However, I believe that the regressives keep focused on Hillary and her defeat, because that was the last victory for DJT....
remember how ALL the polls said she'd win... then Donald won! yeah!
Sep 15, 2017 08:56:50 #
Sjfh wrote:
any impact? then why the hell do we bother putting power-robbing pollution controls on our vehicles? Why do we care where we dump our waste if we have zero effect on the planet? We're going through all these motions just so climate scientists can get rich from their grant money?...Since I don't believe that man has any impact on then earth's climate, there is nothing I would consider evidence of man made climate change...
Sep 15, 2017 08:51:25 #
thom w wrote:
You know he lives for conspiracy theories, and the unexplainable, in light of that, your post seems mean spirited. I'm sure he will survive this, but what else do you do when not here? Go around explaining to kids about Santa Clause? Don't listen to him kids.
LOL, Santa Claus is real...perhaps not a flesh and blood person, the the spirit of Santa Claus is very real and shines through the overt commercialism of today's holiday celebration. But the most fascinating aspect of the Santa Claus story is that it is an amalgamation of several different characters.
How did this St. Nicholas become a North Pole-dwelling bringer of Christmas gifts? The original saint was a Greek born 280 years after Christ who became bishop of Myra, a small Roman town in modern Turkey. Nicholas was neither fat nor jolly but developed a reputation as a fiery, wiry, and defiant defender of church doctrine during the "Great Persecution," when Bibles were put to the torch and priests made to renounce Christianity or face execution.
http://realitysandwich.com/238049/shaman-claus-the-shamanic-origins-of-christmas/
Santa's costume and the flying reindeer that pull his sleigh are attributable to Finnish Shamans, who would drink the piss of reindeers to get high. The reindeers ate the amanita muscaria mushrooms and the psychedelic substances pass through their bodies.
Sep 15, 2017 08:39:40 #
thom w wrote:
well spoken!Coming from someone who says "facts are overr... (show quote)
Wellhiem wrote:
remember, that most evil organization, the Roman Catholic Church, had their hands on the Bible for 100s of years...in charge of translation and interpretation along with some re-writes to keep the masses in line.The legend of Robin Hood was probably based on Robin of Loxley who did exist. The New Testament may or may not have been based on a real character. The same goes for Muhamad. The stories told about all three, have largely been made up.
Sep 15, 2017 08:17:19 #
luckily it's in our bill of rights to own big-ass muscle-cars... that will never happen on 'murican soil!