I am just so very, very proud and happy that these two guys hold the economic fate of Western Civilization in their very able hands. Two pasty-faced white dudes, maybe half a chin between them.
Posted by pjsauter on July 30, 2011
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I am just so very, very proud and happy that these two guys hold the economic fate of Western Civilization in their very able hands. Two pasty-faced white dudes, maybe half a chin between them.
Don’t forget the orange one, who pushed though a bipartisan bill (sans Dems), that revisits this idiocy in 6 months and requires that a balanced budget amendment not only be voted on but passed. I think I’m going to hide my head in the sand for a while.
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Between that poor ole squid and this poor ole country, I agree =>
The Securities and Exchange Commission sent subpoenas this week to energy companies asking them for documents about how they calculate and publicly disclose the performance of their shale gas wells, according to oil and gas industry lawyers.
The subpoenas reflect the regulators’ interest in determining whether companies are overstating how their gas wells perform and how much gas these companies can profitably extract over the long term.
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One oil and gas industry consultant said that he was called to a meeting in mid-June with investigators from the Fort Worth office of the S.E.C. The investigators, he said, wanted to discuss a range of shale gas companies, and discrepancies between data reported to federal officials and what these companies had told investors about profit and well performance. The consultant asked not to be identified, to avoid alienating the energy companies that are his clients.
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Shale gas wells often decline sharply after their first year, but many in the industry had remained optimistic about the wells’ ability to produce at a slow but steady rate for decades. Others have doubted these assumptions, which may not be holding up.
“A crucial challenge for the industry today,†the newsletter said, is that only a “fraction†— a third or less — of wells show “sustained long-term production,†which makes it difficult for companies to make money on this drilling.
The newsletter added that many of the wells produce poorly and others drop in production sharply after an early period of heavy production.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/30/us/30gas.html
Oops! We need to add another pasty faced white guy to the team: Jim DeMint.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/30/jim-demint-tea-party-debt-ceiling_n_913947.html
Sue, I think you may want to avoid referring to the ‘orange’ here in any way other than complimentary. I don’t think that anyone has ever been banned from the MS blog except in their own minds but disparaging anything ‘orange’ might set precedent. Orange&Black does seem to be a permissible target.
I did see an emo when looking for the bananas the other day for tea-bagging. I shoulda saved it.
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Forgive me Syracuse. Can we dye Boner a different color? Puce or mauve, 2 colors whose names are enough to cause distress, would seem appropriate. But, alas, he has chosen to dye himself orange.
A tea bagging emo would help out but the bananas without pants are so apropos, so often.
Don’t worry, I’m Irish-Catholic (well, kinda sorta Catholic; born into it, but it didn’t take), so other than Kubota tractors and SU, it’s OK to disparage orange.
Especially John of Orange.
It is NOT okay to disparage orange & black. That, too, should be tabu in this comfy home.
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News is breaking.