The Goat Pen

Refineries are closing because companies are not making money by refining.

that doesn't make sense. I always heard the lack of refineries was the bottleneck

Natural Gas refineries are shut down (not closing) because natural gas prices are relatively low. That is not the case for oil refineries, particularly now as domestic production has increased significantly over the past 3 years and percentage of domestic use from the U.S. has increased over the past 3 years.

"We'd just be paying JR Ewing instead of Sheik Baba..."

That's ok, I'd rather have to deal with JR, Punk Anderson, Marilee Stone, et al, than 100 million lunatic ragheads any day.

Refineries are essentially like manufacturing. We are importing more refined products and chemicals from overseas refineries where labor and overhead costs from regulation are lower. Refining in the US is not a particularly profitable business. The 3 refineries referred to, one was closed by ConocoPhillips and the other 2 were closed by Sunoco which is trying to get out of the refining business altogether.

uh oh, bogeyman alert, regulation.

I guess all hispanics look alike, even those of different ages and sizes

Man Cashes $100 Check for $3.3 Million

http://www.bangstyle.com/2012/02/man-ca ... 3-million/

Cashing a check is a great feeling, no matter the amount. It means that you can afford to get the blouse you fell in love with weeks ago, or that you finally have enough money to go on that trip you’ve been saving for. Whatever you tend to spend your earnings on, cashing a check means you are one step closer to indulging in the finer things in life—unless that money has to go toward bill payments, of course. In either case, it feels good to get paid; just ask Florida resident Rodolfo Valladares.

According to the Orlando Sentinel, Valladares was wrongly identified as a bank robber after trying to cash a $100 check at a Bank of America location in Florida. The teller, who alerted police officials by pressing a silent alarm, believed Valladares to be the Hispanic male who was robbing banks in a Miami Heat hat in 2008, when the incident occurred.

Because Valladares was wearing a Miami Heat hat and seemed to fit the description of the bank robber, the teller, Meylin Garcia, alerted police. According to reports, Valladares made no attempt or moves that would have indicated his intentions to rob the bank. Instead, he simply gave the teller his driver’s license and the $100 check he had hoped to cash that day.

Newser.com reported that despite the fact that Valladares is a Hispanic male who was wearing a Miami Heat hat, there was a lack of similarities between the robber and Valladares. The robber was reported to be around 60 years old and 145 pounds, while Valladares was 45 at the time and weighed more than 200 pounds. In addition, Valladares’ hat was different from that of the robber.

According to the press release via the Miami Herald, Valladares was put in handcuffs and kicked in the head by police which has caused the now 50-year-old Bank of America customer to experience regular headaches and blurred vision, as well as post-traumatic stress disorder, the Orlando Sentinal reported.

Now, a Miami-Dade jury is allocating $3.3 million in damages to Valladares. Sure, he had to go through some serious s#!* for it, but hey—he’s probably not complaining.

uh oh, bogeyman alert, regulation.

gasp!

"That's ok, I'd rather have to deal with JR, Punk Anderson, Marilee Stone, et al, than 100 million lunatic ragheads any day."

I don't recall those lunatic ragheads bringing our nation to its economic knees by playing fast and loose with derivatives. No, those were all good, red-blooded Americans that you'd rather deal with. Thank you for validating my opinion of you as a racist, jingoistic fool...

Watching people get all worked up about politics has always cracked me up.

Idiots

Seriously? 3.3 mil?

I thought game change painted palin into a bigger loon then she really is. he chief advisor calling her mentally ill, the stupidity she demonstrated before the couric and rose interviews etc etc

thought mccalin and woody came out good

if they would have vetted her on Foreign policyPwe might be sitting here talking mccain today instead of obamacare. palin more then likely cost mccain although it sounds like mccain was doomed without a Palin homerun anyway

I saw The Lorax in 3D yesterday.

sounds like something I moight have said after a nice hawaiian doob or some window pane

crashcourse wrote:I thought game change painted palin into a bigger loon then she really is. he chief advisor calling her mentally ill, the stupidity she demonstrated before the couric and rose interviews etc etc

thought mccalin and woody came out good

if they would have vetted her on Foreign policyPwe might be sitting here talking mccain today instead of obamacare. palin more then likely cost mccain although it sounds like mccain was doomed without a Palin homerun anyway

I guess it depends on what opinion you had of her to begin with.

I will say this - she didn't try to be something she wasn't and I give her credit for that.

crashcourse wrote:sounds like something I moight have said after a nice hawaiian doob or some window pane

Who said I didn't partake before hand?

eCat wrote:

crashcourse wrote:I thought game change painted palin into a bigger loon then she really is. he chief advisor calling her mentally ill, the stupidity she demonstrated before the couric and rose interviews etc etc

thought mccalin and woody came out good

if they would have vetted her on Foreign policyPwe might be sitting here talking mccain today instead of obamacare. palin more then likely cost mccain although it sounds like mccain was doomed without a Palin homerun anyway

I guess it depends on what opinion you had of her to begin with.

I will say this - she didn't try to be something she wasn't and I give her credit for that.

she was smart enough to realize she was too stupid to try that.

who's hotter? Julianne Moore, Tina Fey or the real Palin?

Tina Fey

Moore

Bklyn wrote:Moore

I"d go with Moore just because of Boogie NIghts