Thread: Oil Slick Stuff

I am amused that several of you think I am nasty in tone,but thats ok with me,as these people have usually got all there information via the media and really have zero experience with the Arab mentality and of course your trouble making goon Chavez.How much time have you spent in the Middle East Mr.Griffin?We all know the answer to that through your replies.(NONE)We are dealing with vile people who only understand the edge of a sword.You keep reading Time magazine,but if you want the facts on what is happening on the ground,then ask me.If you are content trying to hypothosise through what you read,then have fun.You are far from correct in your evaluation of me,but you can put me on the ignore buddy list or maybe listen for a change,but we all know thats not your style.I will lighten up when our country is safe and presently we are not,as long as we have Americans using Chavez as the barameter on what is going on with oil.
Muhammad vs. Jesus
Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy....For if you love those who love you,what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?And if you salute only your brethern,what more are you doing than others? Jesus(Mathew 5:7,46-7)
Qur'an or Koran (48:29)
:Muhammad is Allahs Apostle.Those who follow him are ruthless to the unbelievers but merciful to one another."
I must admit I read to much,but at times of my life thats all I could do.We are dealing with vile humans and it is my duty to enlighten folks that are the path of damnation.Now I am going to lighten up with the family,have a beer,and tell my neighbors someone out in TSP Land thinks I am nasty.They will get a kick out of that.Take off your rose colored glasses,and thank God for the fact you live in the greatest land on earth, and there are young men dying right now as I type,to give you the luxuary of spitting out garbage.
Smooth Sailing
THE NASTY VILE MACHINIST MATE

I did respond to you this morning Mr.Griffin,but it got lost in the mail.Seems like this link has several individuals that steer the ship the way they want.It must be fun to erase someones others thoughts if you dont agree with them.Some of the Moderators should be renamed Sterilizers,because it is apparent that if you dont line up with them politicly,then you dont get to respond to smoothies such as yourself.My response got dished,but would be glad to debate you at any level.

Jeez Mr.Griffin,you must be taking your time in responding to me.I guess I am in for a doozy of a reply.You are taking a long time buddy,but the Mods wont let me tear your up in any public forum,as you are a light weight when it comes to debating the Middle East,Oil,Snapple,ect.

I am tired of waiting Griff,but I bet the Mods wont delete your response because you are a TSP Talker that has spent 15 minutes replying to me.I get my material out of my head.Apparently your getting all your facts together via the internet.Thats the difference between you and I.I answer based on my knowledge base,you reply from someones elses.

Oil Slick is very complicated Stuff! Let's grease it up then!

Originally Posted by Machinist Mate

....then you dont get to respond to smoothies such as yourself.My response got dished,but would be glad to debate you at any level.

MM

If you suspect the moderators are removing your posts, it's probably not due to the substance of your thoughts but the way you present them.

There has been a lot of anger floating around due to the current market conditions. Everyone is a bit upset and everyone has taken a fairly hard hit in the past month, you are not alone there. However, tension is high, and the last thing the board needs right now is an extra helping of animosity, and flame wars.

Back to oil, it's up, it's going to stay up as long as the geopolitical stability doesn't improve. There have been some very interesting developments, primarily the death of Zarqawi. I believe it was not a conicidence that we got him. He was sold out to for political positioning by the Sunni, to help stabilize the government, and their position (I don't want to debate this, it's my belief, disagree if you want). This is good news, the iraqi government has numerous problems, but the pieces necessary to establish an agenda are falling into place. I believe Iraq will come out of this intact as a country and beyond the control of Iran. That goes a long way towards regional stability. There is more room for improvement through diplomacy. Another war is definitely not going to 1) help the price of oil, 2) cause more excessive spending resulting in greater inflationary pressures. Summer demand's are going to keep prices high, especially if this turns out to be another active hurricane season. So, in the short term there is room for some small improvemet within a few months. What has changed so dramatically from 18 month's ago globally? We could get back there.

Also, as Fundsurfer pointed out, there are a lot of viable technologies out there at these prices. Once they go into mass production, they will grow quickly as manufacturing improvements are achieved, driving down costs. A swtich to Nuclear energy would substantially improve the situation, especially since it would make all these CoGen plants obsolete, significantly reducing the demands for natural gas. Naural gas is the home heating fuel of choice by a large % of Americans - and they would be willing to switch - if the price was right. There is also room for improvement, the longer we sustain at these levels the more pressure will build. In the long run, time is working against these prices.

The death of Zarquwi was an Army operation.I havent lost money this year,but you are asking me to mourn for others that did not follow sites advice.Dont inflame them,I dont understand at all.I try to give some insight on the countrys biggest threat,but I am deleted on a regular basis,yet I dont get angry.Dont surmise through my responses that I am anything but happy.If you guys want a sterilized surgical site,then I will beg out,but if you want the truth from a person that understands the Arabs,then I will stay.If you want to get your info from Katie Couric and AL Gore,then this might not be the correct site for me.I am sure there are Veterans out in TSP land that understand my take on events in the Middle East,but damn what do we know.
You just have to realize that there are some people on this site that are a half a bubble off and I show up and disagree with them,and they reccomend books I should read as did GrandMa.GrandMa has no practical experience with the Middle East,yet she carries allot of weight that has not been earned through boots on the ground.NNutt is the most sensible fellow on the site.We are all goverment employees,yet I have seen allot of links with responses that are anti goverment and that mixes me up.I support our goverment,yet am chastized by moderators that are basicly Democrats all,except for nnutt.
This site will self destruct as they dont allow balance.If you use the wrong verbage you get deleted,but my way of expressing myself is not allowed.Is every member that fragile?You Moderators and some members need a reality check on this world.You have got lost somewhere along the way and the site will wither away without people like me.If you take the number of TSP participants and do some simple math .00000351 goverment employees look at this site.That aint a good number and the very short time I have been on it,its a fine site,but not for expressing your opinion as you write it.The message board is nothing more than a click,and if someone different wants to express their opinion,its only to the tilting point of the Moderator on guard.A True Democracy? I dont think so.

MM

I joined the military as an E-nothing during the Reagan era build-up. I have been in the DoD in one capacity or another (active duty, reserve and civilan) my whole life and I have another 20 years of service to go. Being in he DoD doesn't create a singularly perfect knowledge of the world or any one aspect of it for that matter, or else the Pentagon wouldn't employee so many folks.

There are a lot of opinions in the world. It's not your job to educate any of us. Share or don't share, but that's what we do at this site, share information, opinions and data. You may want to go back and reread some terms of use of this site. bashing the moderators is not part of the program.

If you want to talk about oil, OK. If not, "out".

You are basicily one dimensional in your outlook on oil.To truly understsand oil,you must understsand the people that sell it to us plus their intentions.Using your logic a doctor would only treat the tumor without understanding the cancer.I believe you were a disenchanted E-Nothing and usually E-Nothings went nowhere,but now you find yourself in a position where you do have the upper hand in that you can delete my opinions with a quick delete.If members want to read my take on things,then what threat am I to you,unless you have got to enjoy being a Brown Shirt and love the control,something you have never had in your life.Allot of people work work at DoF,but that does not mean they did anything of significance.It is apparant that the Mods are corralling me electronicly anyway.I am being harassed by you,not the other way around.I quote from the Bible and quote from the Koran to show people the intentions of the people that sell us oil and I do it by memory,put allot of thought into it,and guess what?The Mods dont like it and decide on their own its not relevent.People have a way on this site to ignore me if they wish,but you dont trust your memberships own judgement, you would rather use your delete button.Talk about freedom of speech! OH and by the way,you must have spent countless hours writing tthe rules as they are completly biased,if you dont agree with the Gang.You could have got a job in Germany back in the thirties real easy with your attitudes.It is amusing though,that not one member has emailed me accusing me of the things that you say,so to me that meens someone enjoys my take on things.Why only the Mods?The Dept. of Homelald Security should take a close look at you,and find out what your true motives are on this so called message board.Is it in your own small way,to undercut this country.I would strongly reccommend that you let this get posted,then I might trust what you say versus what you do.And by the way,his name was Presedent Ronald Reagan,not Reagan.I am sharing my thoughts as per your reply,but have saved them all,especially the many you thought were inappropriate.I challenge you to post them all and let the people decide,but thats not your style as we all know.CONTROL is your forte,and for the first time in your life you are using it,but as Stalin did it.Control is when you are on the ground,responsible for 12 others lives and every decision you make,one man might not make it back home.I never made the wrong decision buddy.If you wave the magic wand and make this reply disappear,then we will all know what type of American you really are.Your mind is closed to the truth,yet if you spend enough time on this site,you can only come to one conclusion,and that is pure unadulteress censorship.Are you really that scared of my opinions or are you scared that the members might be educated on the Middle East,Oil,Terrorism,ect,thats contary of your own.I betting the latter.This might be the last time I am allowed on this board,so want to thank the members that have contacted me and support me,but of couse they had to be private emails on this site.I would not be surprised if the Mods read them also,and a big thanks go to nnutt for keeping me laughing.

Originally Posted by Machinist Mate

The death of Zarquwi was an Army operation.

I’ve been confined to the basement while my wife get’s my FD ready, so I will address this.

Awhile back, we announced that we are closing in on him. Why would we do that? As the leader of the insurgency, his capability to reduce that insurgency made him valuable alive. Consider, what closing in means – narrowing in grid squares? No. That was done specifically to create suspicion in his ranks and to let him know his security network was breached. Consider his actions at that point, he would most likely purged his security of anyone he considered potentially disloyal. Then we had that near miss a few weeks ago, reaffirming that we could still touch him. Think about it, if our intelligence operatives were the one’s who know that we had missed him by hours, then why did we miss him?

That was the final warning “either reign it in, or your dead”. He didn’t get the message, or didn’t care – so he’s dead. But his security network was compromised, repeatedly. Given the fanaticism of his follower’s, what would it take to get to them? The answer to that is a higher power within the Sunni system, with a different agenda. Of course, the Sunni would never take out one of there own, they would leave that to us.

Big picture, The US is putting pressure on every side to bring this government to fruition. The leak didn’t occur because his folks were disillusioned with him. It was one operation in a much larger process. We forced the political issues, we set up the operation, we got him, we deserve the credit. I was not taking credit away from the Army. My point is the Sunni politicians are ready to deal, and once the Sunni, Shia and Kurds negotiate the oil revenues, the oil will flow.

As far as the big red rant goes, I have no control over anything that is or is not posted on this board. I am a member just like anyone else. I was an E-nothing 20 years ago - with the exception of ROTC and the Academies, everyone starts out at the bottom. I have had hundreds of soldier's under my various commands over the years and I am respectful and thankful of everyone of them and everyone that serves. I've had disagreement's with suboordinates and superiors but I would never question any soldier's loyalty simply because they have different opinion. Your attitude that if someone doesn't agree with you then they are not a loyal American, is the most arrogent thing that I have read on this board. I have accussed you of nothing except being nasty and abbrassive, and clearly that is the case. You've attacked me on a personal level, I have no reason to communicate with you any further.

Easy. What we need to know is how oil affects the value of our TSP funds, past present and future. What's up with the crusades and such -- do we really have to go back a thousand years? Maybe it all the fault of the emperor Alexius Comnenus? Talk to us in a way that makes sense.

Dave