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The Flea Trap / Does Australia really have oil?
January 30, 2016, 10:06:53 PM
...a couple of years back, I read this story that large reserves of oil had been found in Australia which rivaled Saudia Arabia:



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QuoteIn January, officials in Australia announced they had found a shale oil field that contained more "black gold" than what's found in Iran (137 billion barrels), Iraq (115 billion barrels), Canada (175 billion barrels) or Venezuela (211 billion barrels).



Discovered underneath the small Southern Australian town of Coober Pedy in the Arckaringa Basin in 2008, officials estimated the lone oil field contained about 233 billion barrels of oil — just 30 fewer barrels than what officials report is found in all of Saudi Arabia.



Previous to the finding, geologists believed Australia only had 3.9 billion barrels. Collectively the world has 1.9 trillion oil reserves. If the Arckaringa basin does have at least 233 billion barrels, Australia will possess 12 percent of the world's oil reserves.


...but since then, I haven't heard much about these ballyhooed reserves.



Was this all hype? Or does Australia have the potential to develop into the next Oil Superpower?
#2
The Flea Trap / Andrew Jackson could soon be replaced by a woman on the US $20 bill
January 27, 2016, 01:26:02 AM
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QuoteWASHINGTON — If Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew was not aware that Americans have strong opinions about what, and who, is in their wallets, he certainly is now.



Several million people have responded since Mr. Lew issued an unprecedented invitation to the public last June to help redesign the nation's cash. His question: Which woman from American history should be chosen as the first on paper currency since Martha Washington briefly graced the $1 silver certificate in the late 19th century?



The outpouring of responses about the forthcoming redesign of the $10 bill has surprised administration officials both by its numbers and by the volume of unanticipated complaints, forcing Mr. Lew to miss his self-imposed December deadline for an announcement and leaving unclear when he will decide.



"I think it took us all by surprise just how much interest there really was," Rosie Rios, the treasurer of the United States, said in an interview.



Mr. Lew intended to inspire a national conversation about women's contributions to the nation and to generate ideas for new symbols to reflect democracy on currency — "to make a statement about who we are and what we stand for," as he said.



What he got besides was something of a tempest that included reflections about the worth of women and about the relative merits of two particular men, Alexander Hamilton, a founding father, and President Andrew Jackson, whose portraits are on the $10 and $20 notes. The comments showed Jackson to be as reviled as Hamilton is revered, reviving an argument that the $20 bill should be redesigned before the $10 note
#3
The Flea Trap / Do you associate with others based primarily upon their political or religious affiliation?
January 24, 2016, 09:13:44 PM
...Personally I don't.



I don't care what political party my friends support, or if their pov are diametrically the opposite of mine. A friend is a friend is a friend.



Recently, I related how one of my divorced friends is having a tough time, owes his ex/the government over $40,000. Thing is, he's a staunch Conservative, was a supporter of Stephen Harper and is extremely religious. I'm a bit further to the center and the left than he is. And he's a bit rigid for my liking, but nonetheless, I see him as a good guy who's experiencing hard times.



If I had the money, the means to help the guy out. I feel sorry for him. I wish I could help him out, release him from his bondage and his chains. And the astonishing part, is his family isn't supportive of him. His daughters have grown up, have good jobs and then don't provide him with any money to help him get out of that mess. They think he should continue to suffer and pay - their own Dad! The daughters claim that they are also religious, quote the Bible as to justify their views as to why he should suffer and pay up. And I look at their comments with utter disbelief.



I find it incredible that I a more supportive of him as a friend, than his own family is. And they are also closer to him ideologically, philisophically, and ecclesiastically than I am.



I just count him as my friend. And I feel his suffering and his pain.



Anyways, does a person's political or religious affiliation influence whether you will associate with them?
#4
The Flea Trap / Some questions for some of you oil experts about Energy East Kinder Morgen pipeline...
January 21, 2016, 10:00:55 PM
1. Where does Kinder Morgan oil flow to? Is it just for local consumption? To the States? Asia?



2. Does Oil from Alaska get shipped to Seattle & then to Asia or direct from Alaska to Asia?



don't know the answers that's why I'm asking you
#5
The Flea Trap / YouTube sucks
January 19, 2016, 10:18:54 PM
Usually, every time I look for my favorite video or song, I can't find it.



There's always these lousy covers by other people instead of the original artistt.



The selection is becoming poor, and there's too much control.





Even if it was there, it gets snagged by the website, and usu. it's a message which says, "Copyright infringement" or they take away all the sound altogether.



However...this is not a problem on other websites, like those in Europe, South America, Asia, Russia.



I don't even use google to search for these songs, because it doesn't yield the results I'm looking for.



And of course, google owns YouTube, so yer gonna git the same crappy search results as y'all will find on YouTube.



So YouTube is gradually becoming less of my Internet video channel of choice.



Anyone else weigh in? What other alternatives are there to YouTube.
#6
Art, Hard Rock & Harmony / Someone gave away a Bob Dylan CD in my building
January 19, 2016, 09:04:02 PM
...anyways, it was one of my favorites.



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One of the songs featured on it was Oh Sister, released 40 years ago

Vocals: Bob Dylan, EmmyLou Harris



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Oh, sister, when I come to lie in your arms

You should not treat me like a stranger

Our Father would not like the way that you act

And you must realize the danger



Oh, sister, am I not a brother to you

And one deserving of affection

And is our purpose not the same on this earth

To love and follow his direction



We grew up together

From the cradle to the grave

We died and were reborn

And then mysteriously saved



Oh, sister, when I come to knock on your door

Don't turn away, you'll create sorrow

Time is an ocean but it ends at the shore

You may not see me tomorrow
#7
The Guest Nest / Songs, Poems & Skits/Plays of the Reject Rodeo
January 18, 2016, 01:00:29 AM
...got any?



I'd thought of one after Renn insulted me and called me names.



I started ta hum this tune in me head, an' something came out



Anyways, y'all kin make up yer own.



Anyways, here's the Rene Song:



Why Can't I make Rene Happy?


QuoteWhy can't I make Rene happy?

Why can't I make Rene happy?

She huffs and she puffs

As it's never enough

But she can't get enough of a huff!



Why can't I make Rene happy?

Why can't I make Rene happy?

She can't laugh at a joke

And she should take a toke

She needs ganga to make her a bloke


...and so on. I haven't thought of the rest of the verses yet.

I'll post them as they come to mind.

But at least I have the tune composed.

When I have the time, I'll post it to YouTube.
#8
The Guest Nest / I'd like ta give the gang at the Blue Cashoe a Limo ride
January 17, 2016, 09:33:19 PM
I don't drive limo anymore, but I gotta friend who has one.

I think he'd lend me his vehicle for a couple of hours.

So ifyer inerested, I'd invite the gang here.



Maybe I'd put S'Mel in the front seat with the partition up, cuz I'm afraid he'd git savaged by some of the Ladies here. Mind you, Odi aint in such good steed either.



Anyways, it'd be fun.

I kin see that tempers are flarin', everybody's gittin mad at each other.

I think watcha folks need is some extended TLC.

Maybe Fashionista could sit in the middle, calm the warring tribes down a bit.



Anyways, I think ya gotta git out an' laugh.



I suppose Christmas was rough, the weather's miserable, everyones in this heavy sad mood.



A limo ride'd cheer y'all up?



Whaddya say? Be thar or be square!



'jes throw me a couple of $10s $20s, pay for the gas. eh.
#9
The Flea Trap / International Shipping has come to a Halt
January 17, 2016, 11:49:18 AM
....a harbinger of things to come?



I spoke to a friend last night, and thought he was kidding. However, several reports from credible, big name news organizations has suggested that this is the case:



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QuoteBy David J. Lynch, USA TODAY

The unstoppable force has stopped.



With economies in the United States, Europe and Japan slowing simultaneously, the World Bank says that global trade will shrink next year by more than 2%. That will mark the first time in more than a quarter century that the seemingly inexorable tide of globalization will be in retreat.



"Trade tends to be extra responsive to changes in income. When the world economy contracts, trade contracts even more rapidly," says economic historian Douglas Irwin of Dartmouth College.



The trade slump is both symptom and cause of the current global economic distress. For the U.S. economy, which just a few months ago was getting almost all of its forward momentum from net exports, "Trade will be a substantial drag on ... growth," Ian Shepherdson, chief economist of High Frequency Economics, told clients in a recent research note.



Compounding the recessionary gloom, trade is being choked by the credit crunch, which is drying up routine export financing. Entering 2009, the open trading system that has delivered low-cost goods to American consumers while lifting tens of millions of people in developing countries out of poverty faces the danger of protectionism in countries such as China, Russia, France and, potentially, the U.S.


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QuoteCommerce between Europe and North America has literally come to a halt. For the first time in known history, not one cargo ship is in-transit in the North Atlantic between Europe and North America. All of them (hundreds) are either anchored offshore or in-port. NOTHING is moving.



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This has never happened before. It is a horrific economic sign; proof that commerce is literally stopped.



The reason commerce has stopped is simple: People are not buying things.   When people do not buy things, retailers do not sell things, so they do not order more goods for stock.



When retailers do not order goods, manufacturers don't make anything because there are no orders to fill.  When manufacturers do not make goods, they don't order raw materials for manufacturing.



When there are no orders for raw materials, commodities sellers do not sell raw materials. When no raw materials are sold, there is no shipping by large cargo ships, (or railroads or tractor trailers) to move anything.



Put simply, the global economy is LITERALLY stopping.  Right now.  Today.
#10
The Flea Trap / Did 'The King' aka Elvis Presley father any children out of wedlock?
January 10, 2016, 06:55:44 AM
...I was in the superemarket the other day, waiting in line, when I picked up a tabloid which had as its cover a story about Elvis Presley and how he fathered at least 7 children out of wedlock.



So I flipped through the pages, found the story, and it listed Elvis from his teenage years through his years of stardom and how all these people living today were his offspring.



I was quite skeptical about most of these claims or those of the tabloid, except for one - a Desiree de Barbin - allegedly fathered by Presley during an affair with a Louisiana woman named Lucy de Barbin.



Unlike the other claimants, she really does look like 'the King':



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...and 'Dad':



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...what do you think? did Elvis have a number of children which he did not account for?
#11
The Flea Trap / Teaching Creationism in public schools...
January 04, 2016, 10:29:49 PM
...are you for or against it?



I often hear secularists, scientists who are adamantly opposed to teaching a religious version of how the earth was created and how man came to be in public schools. The excuse used is that it is indoctrination and violates the principle of separateness of Church and State.



but is it?



Why couldn't a secular (evolution) and religious version(s) of creationism be taught in public schools? What's wrong with it? Personally, I don't care if they do, and then the student can make up their own minds whether they choose to believe on teaching of the other.



Since no living today was around when the world was created or humans came into existence, no one truly knows how it or we came to be. Therefore, technically speaking, anyone who makes a claim about the origins of the earth and mankind could be right. This is a case where no one has proven to be right and in fact where ALL parties putting forth their accounts, religious or scientific, could be wrong. There's no video footage, DNA samples/tracking, nor even a truly accurate estimate of how old the earth really is. It is just an estimate.



Anyways, what do you folks think? Should we bring back teaching creationism or biblical or some other religious account of our origins into the classroom? Especially if it's put forth as a comparative method of study?
#12
The Flea Trap / Kendra Sunderland - Harlot or someone Naturally expressing herself?
January 04, 2016, 10:09:04 PM
I first saw this story posted in a blog by media personality, Nikki Leigh.



Less than a year ago, there was a story about a student named Kendra Sunderland, then 19, from Oregon State University who exposed herself and performed acts of a sexual nature in the university library with a webcam. She was subsequently caught and arrested, yet her video was uploaded to YouTube.



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Question is, was her behavior the mark of a harlot, or was it just the case of a young vivacious woman who had come of age and was merely expressing herself, however distasteful it may have seemed? Is she a normal girl or someone badly in need of psychiatric attention/



Should she be condemned by society and her peers & severely punished or should the incident be brushed off & treated lightly as a 'youthful indiscretion'?



Anyways, here's the video. Click at your own discretion as some here might find the graphic material highly offensive:



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#13
The Flea Trap / Cat Lovers Corner
January 03, 2016, 02:34:05 PM
Do you have any links, pictures, videos/movies that may be of interest? Post them here!



Here's one:



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#14
The Flea Trap / Should Republican Candidate Ted Cruz be allowed to run for President of the USA?
January 02, 2016, 01:23:01 AM
...he wasn't even born in the USA.



Records show that he was born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.



And that he even held dual Canadian US citizenship until quite recently when he renounced the former.



Given that much of America raised such a stink about Obama allegedly being a non-US citizen born outside of the country and perhaps in Africa, why is Ted Cruz allowed to run for president?



Or was the law changed? Or is Canada thought of as an exception?
#15
The Flea Trap / Is Lust a Sin?
January 01, 2016, 09:43:55 PM
One poster's comments have prompted me to raise the question:


Quote from: "Dove" Lust, is a sin, and good luck madturbating without committing it, I agree. But scripture doesn't tell us not to masturbate...it tells us not to lust.  Take it how you will....lol. I do know if you go telling people not to touch themselves, they are going to do it more than they would if you didnt.


...is merely having lustful thoughts 'sinful'?

Even if a person never acts them out?

And are both genders equally disposed to being lustful?

Is lust only considered wrong, when the person who is the object of lust rejecting the unwanted attention towards them? What if they accept these lustful thoughts and advances? Is it still 'sin'?



Is there such thing as 'unrequited/unfulfilled' lustful urges and 'requited/fulfilled' ones?



Is it only when they have fulfilled them that it becomes a 'sin'?



Anyways, just some thoughts. Hope you don't mind quoting one of your posts, Dove.
#16
The Flea Trap / Happy New Year!
January 01, 2016, 02:59:43 AM
...12 o'clock Pacific Standard Time!



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#17
The Flea Trap / Should the Divorce Laws in Canada and the USA be overhauled?
December 30, 2015, 01:02:48 AM
Here's one sad man's tale which has made me consider this idea....



One of my friends who is divorced still owes his Ex-Wife/Province of British Columbia in Canada over $40,000 in child support

..and he hasn't slept with or been with her for nearly 20 years.

And he's paid over $300,000 so far.

The courts really struck it to him & have made him pay - Big Time.

He's gonna be paying this debt until he dies.

He related these details when I went to see him and his present wife last night.

Even she sided with him, and thought the system is out of whack with his situation and reality.

He can't even get a driver's license as the province took it away, so his present wife drives him everywhere.

He can't have a passport either as he's considered a flight risk who will leave the country and shirk his responsibilities.



It used to be that marriage meant til death do us part.

Now, it seems that divorce/alimony/child support is they only thing a man can hope to take to the grave.

Anyways, his ex has really stuck it to him and now is sure making him pay for his misery.



Oh well.
#18
The Flea Trap / Can Pop Art, Top 40 Music, Top 10 Bestseller Books & Hollywood Cinema be considered as 'Legitimate Culture'?
December 29, 2015, 10:49:45 PM
What was considered decades ago as entertainment for mass consumption appears to becoming accepted as 'legitimate culture'. In other words, it seems to be taking the place of what was considered 'classical culture' ie - Classical Music, Classical 19th or Ancient Literature, Shakespearean Theatre, Greek/Roman Mythology, etc. You know here terms like 'Classic Rock' - that is top 40 hits which were considered fit for 14 year olds a generation ago, but are now part of the mainstream of popular folklore. ie - the Beatles have become the 'Gold Standard' by which much of the population considers musical excellence, as opposed to works by Beethoven or Mozart. Or movies such as Star Wars, or Marvel Superheroes, which have replaced what were once considered the pillars of our civilization, such as Greek Mythology. More Kids seem to refer to Spiderman or Doctor Octupus as their mythological figures of reference as opposed to Zeus or Perseus. Actually if you asked anyone born after 1980 about Greek Mythology, many wouldn't have clue what you're talking about.



Question is - is popular culture which was intended for consumption by the masses and primarily to satisfy the profit motives of venture capitalists, truly 'legitimate'? Or does our reference point of 'legitimacy' merely change from one generation to the next - which makes them perfectly so?



Anyways, it's just something to think about or discuss.
#19
The Flea Trap / What's your bucket list?
December 28, 2015, 02:27:28 AM
...what are things you'd like to accomplish before you pass on?



Btw, this is another RW inspired thread which she posted in another time.
#20
The Flea Trap / My heart says "chocolate".....but my jeans say "for the love of God woman eat a salad!
December 24, 2015, 09:06:10 PM
....it's not just what you eat, it's the quality of the food, Renn!



Actually, ifya ate the right kinda chococlate, it has the potential to induce weight loss.



Ferget those snickers bars, or those fat induced schtuff you typically pickup at the supermarket, eh?



You oughta be seeking that organic chococate with 92% content.



Y'know Renn, all them so called 'organic' foods are, are laxatives.

They make a person shitalot.



they're, jes live food which sits in yer tummy, the intestines an' makes it work harder ta push out the fat, eh?



I betcha ifya ate lotsa organic foods, organic veggies, freshly squeezed fruit juices y'ad lost 20 pounds in no time flat - seriously.



Anyways, I gotta go on a diet soon, too - after Christmas that is.



When I really wanna lose weight, I jes' drink a lotta freshly squeezed fruit/vegetables juices, toilet paper, sit in the can an' shitalot. Not to glamorous my friend, but that's how its done. Basically all them weight loss tablets work on the same principle. They're jes' fancy dancy an chargin' you all kinda money.



Anyways, thaz jes' me threepence.
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