Yes, the heat is brutal in NC as well...99 today and no real relief until Wed when it's supposed to rain then and on Thurs, and temps will then fall to the 80s over the weekend. The humidity was down yesterday, to 32%, and it was much easier to breathe.
And summer isn't even here yet...A/C runs 24/7, but I turn it up to 85 at night. Just hope summer isn't 3 months of 100 degree temps. It's mostly humid heat here in NC and horrible but not as bad as in the city where they have to contend with all the concrete, asphalt, and high rises that block air, esp downtown.
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· 1 year ago
We had unsually cool temperatures all sping here in Louisiana. It's been nice but now the hot heat is on. The power plant here runs on coal so should see a price hike but might from some gouging. I keep reading online more and more new posters who haven't a clue politically but are adding to the comments now online. The rising cost of gasoline is bringing them to speak out. Still not interested in researching and then understanding the problem. They're just mouthing, "Drill everywhere including ANWR" or "Drop all the taxes on a gallon of gas." Typical moron Americans. I think I dislike them the worst. They're like vacuous pigs who only make their voices heard when they're poked.
ruthlessgravity
· 1 year ago
Why is John McCain advertising on AmericaBlog?
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· 1 year ago
Just to annoy you.
ruthlessgravity
· 1 year ago
Lol....Don't you think a campaign with such limited financial resources should try to target people who would actually vote for him? They really need to get some marketing people over there that know what the fuck they are doing. Anyway, I'm happy that he keeps lighting cash on fire by spending it on ad inventory on a progressive blog. Keep up the good work.
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· 1 year ago
I was just keeding. I think the way it works is that they're randomly generated robot ads. Keywords like "McCain" which is used here sends an ad to this blog. They're not able to tell the difference between anti-McCain comments from pro-McCain comments.
ruthlessgravity
· 1 year ago
Its through Google AdSense, so they can target which pages and what context to place the ad. Either they didn't go that far into specifying or they are targeting this blog
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· 1 year ago
How can you target a website with a robot ad other than how many times a word is mentioned, whether in a good or bad sense? You can't.
ruthlessgravity
· 1 year ago
Easily, Goole allows you to specify when you do your ad purchase through adwords. You can select which sites your ad gets placed onto. It can go beyond just keyword if you choose to. The algorithm behind it is more complex than just a "robot ad". That's why google is killing the competition in monitizing web ads, because they do it smarter and get more eyeballs.
OlderAndWiser
· 1 year ago
Darn, Obama is going to be in the Raleigh area today...he doesn't need to convince people there to vote for him since it's the hub of Dem politics (although our gov endorsed Clinton) and there are lots of liberals working in the Research Triangle area.
He needs to hit the Rethug strongholds--mountains, and more eastern/southern parts of the state. We have very high unemployment in those areas and shrinking family farms.
Heartbreaking call fron older single woman on CSPAN, unemployed, broke and needing an extension on unemployment. She sees the "end" nearing, bless her heart. Can't find a job, and almost penniless. I can relate and so should everyone else. We're on our own folks.
25 years of Rethuglicon rule and this country is in shambles.
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· 1 year ago
I saw a woman crying while digging around for change on her vehicle floorboard at the gas station last night. It's $3.93 here. I only had enough money on me for my own vehicle or I would have given her some. Then a woman this morning paying with a credit card for food at the store and after, getting a cash advance. I work in the banking industry and the bankruptcies going on now are ominous.
OlderAndWiser
· 1 year ago
Yes, last week I gave $5 (all I had until my SS check came) to a woman at the health clinic because she didn't have enough gas to get home...and I was glad to help just that little bit. She was there for a mass in her breast...and her husband's small business had failed; even so, she was looking for work in an area that has lost thousands of mfg jobs and couldn't find anything.
Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas
· 1 year ago
Gee our Preznit told us that global warming is a myth.
OleHippieChick
· 1 year ago
Whatsamatta, you don't like air temperatures the same as your blood?
OlderAndWiser
· 1 year ago
If I could kick thru the TV screen, Daniel Mitchell of the Cato Institute would get it in the face.
What a whoring bastard for the rich...doesn't mind the rest of us starving when the jobs aren't there. But you can't have a bit of "socialism" for the masses, you know, just keep bailing out Wall St. instead...so they can get richer and preserve their ill-gotten capital.
Indigo
· 1 year ago
Good morning. It's hot here in central Florida too, the sun is already brutal and it's barely 9 am. It's officially the rainy season but there's no rain in sight.
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
Bush country feels the squeeze:
TCHULA, Miss. — Gasoline prices reached a national average of $4 a gallon for the first time over the weekend, adding more strain to motorists across the country.
But the pain is not being felt uniformly. Across broad swaths of the South, Southwest and the upper Great Plains, the combination of low incomes, high gas prices and heavy dependence on pickup trucks and vans is putting an even tighter squeeze on family budgets.
Here in the Mississippi Delta, some farm workers are borrowing money from their bosses so they can fill their tanks and get to work. Some are switching jobs for shorter commutes.
95% this number is the amount of time that McCain voted with Bush in 2007. This year, when he has voted, (he has missed many votes, especially those on Iraq), it has been 100%.
OlderAndWiser
· 1 year ago
This fact should be repeated, ad infinitum, by the Dems. It's going to be a brutal 5 more months...hit him where it hurts. McBush...
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
‘My marriage ended because John McCain didn’t want to be 40, he wanted to be 25. You know that happens...it just does.’
Some of McCain’s acquaintances are less forgiving, however. They portray the politician as a self-centred womaniser who effectively abandoned his crippled wife to ‘play the field’. They accuse him of finally settling on Cindy, a former rodeo beauty queen, for financial reasons
When McCain – his hair turned prematurely white and his body reduced to little more than a skeleton – was released in March 1973, he told reporters he was overjoyed to see Carol again.
But friends say privately he was ‘appalled’ by the change in her appearance
Ted Sampley, who fought with US Special Forces in Vietnam and is now a leading campaigner for veterans’ rights, said: ‘I have been following John McCain’s career for nearly 20 years. I know him personally. There is something wrong with this guy and let me tell you what it is – deceit.
It's going to be a long hot cruel summer across the land and the people are angry out there...
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
Citing History, Bush Suggests His Policies Will One Day Be Vindicated
<snip>
Unfortunately for the president, many historians have already reached a conclusion. In an informal survey of scholars this spring, just two out of 109 historians said Bush would be judged a success; a majority deemed him the "worst president ever."
The bandruptcies are happening but nobody's saying anything because they're embarassed, feeling like failures. Most times not even to their own extended families.
1billinnj2
· 1 year ago
i would like to suggest that we start calling the republicans" the radical republicans" use radical as much as possible and only when talking about republicans. and if they are religious, it will be" the radical religious republicans or RRR AS IN KKK" thanks and have a nice day.http://disqus.com/people/1billinnj2/ http://disqus.com/people/1billinnj2/
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
I feel vindicated!
All spring I've been saying that obama was practising "small ball politics," scoring on singles and doubles while Hillary was swinging for the fences in the big states.
Now comes this:
Baseball and politics are two of David Plouffe's passions. So it was natural that his love for one game reinforced something that proved crucial in the other: Singles can score runs.
As Sen. Barack Obama's campaign manager, Plouffe was the mastermind behind a winning strategy that looked well past Super Tuesday's contests on Feb. 5 and placed value on large and small states.
The campaign had the money to make such a potentially low-yield wager, and Plouffe had long understood that the Democratic Party's complex system for apportioning convention delegates meant winning even one congressional district in a state could help generate the total needed to reach the magic number.
Hillary was slugging for the fences in the big states, while Obama kept scoring with singles and doubles.
As the primaries got longer, the park got bigger, and eventually Hillary was hitting a bunch of balls out to the warning track in the ninth inning--all to no avail.
Somehow this didn't post, so will try again. The Bushites fear civil unrest in the US, and they have prepared for this with the policies developed over the last 8 years.
Sadly, though, too many people are taking out their frustrations on family, friends and neighbors, instead of on those responsible in DC.
Don't mourn organize! (And re-direct that anger toward those who deserve it.)
lynchie
· 1 year ago
As money tightens and unemployment keeps going up we are going to see a frightening increase in domestic violence, muggings, rapes, etc. It is all a direct result of high stress and the pressure of not being able to feed one's family or even survive. Here in NorthWestern Pa. we are seeing a marked increase in people visiting the local food bank, gas drive offs, arguments and confrontations on the street. We aren't prepared for any of this and our various government officials are incompetent boobs who have given no thought to where this is all going. If people think some are being inconsiderate now wait a few more months when gas is more expensive and job prospects fall even lower.
tlsintx
· 1 year ago
radical repubs...i like it.
on the topic of McTantrum's temper, does it seem that lately, he's been unnaturally calm, even sing-songy when he speaks...? I bet he's being sedated, probably secretly by his own staff...wait'll he finds out...whew.
Excellent post! Those talking points should be memorized by everyone.
OlderAndWiser
· 1 year ago
Let's just hope, though, that McBush's health holds out until after the general. Romney is waiting in the wings, and he's probably far more palatable to many with his free-trade, free market stance, he's been a governor, he's also a multi-millionaire, he's more presentable and handsome than McBush (for the truly shallow) and his religion won't matter to the True Believers.
"The hike is due to speculations of investors who are moving a lot of money into the oil future market due to the weakness of the dollar and other stocks. "Some analysts have already forecast the price per barrel will hit $150 by July [and] growing economies are being [badly] hurt."
In fact, rising oil prices have defied swelling Opec supplies.
Iran said on Sunday it would export over 2.5 million barrels per day (bpd) in June as shipments recovered from a 200,000 bpd lull in demand from refiners during April and May. The country has large volumes of crude sitting in tankers offshore waiting for buyers.
lynchie
· 1 year ago
I have a college buddy who works for Merrill Lynch. He feels there is an artificial shortage. Oil is bought and put into tankers and then put aside to wait for price increases. He also said that the Oil producers will never let the price come down. Keep in mind the daily production is 85 million barrels which equates to $11,050,000,000 ($11 Billion) a day. OPEC loves the money and since they have the oil and the rest of the world needs it we are screwed.
Here is some interesting reading and will show historic prices.
Not a word from Washington about pushing for new technologies. What a useless group. Not a single cell in their brains is registering how close we are to the brink of a major crisis.
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a recipe for anger
And summer isn't even here yet...A/C runs 24/7, but I turn it up to 85 at night. Just hope summer isn't 3 months of 100 degree temps. It's mostly humid heat here in NC and horrible but not as bad as in the city where they have to contend with all the concrete, asphalt, and high rises that block air, esp downtown.
He needs to hit the Rethug strongholds--mountains, and more eastern/southern parts of the state. We have very high unemployment in those areas and shrinking family farms.
Heartbreaking call fron older single woman on CSPAN, unemployed, broke and needing an extension on unemployment. She sees the "end" nearing, bless her heart. Can't find a job, and almost penniless. I can relate and so should everyone else. We're on our own folks.
25 years of Rethuglicon rule and this country is in shambles.
What a whoring bastard for the rich...doesn't mind the rest of us starving when the jobs aren't there. But you can't have a bit of "socialism" for the masses, you know, just keep bailing out Wall St. instead...so they can get richer and preserve their ill-gotten capital.
TCHULA, Miss. — Gasoline prices reached a national average of $4 a gallon for the first time over the weekend, adding more strain to motorists across the country.
But the pain is not being felt uniformly. Across broad swaths of the South, Southwest and the upper Great Plains, the combination of low incomes, high gas prices and heavy dependence on pickup trucks and vans is putting an even tighter squeeze on family budgets.
Here in the Mississippi Delta, some farm workers are borrowing money from their bosses so they can fill their tanks and get to work. Some are switching jobs for shorter commutes.
http://www.eschatonblog.com/2008_06_08_archive....
Some of McCain’s acquaintances are less forgiving, however. They portray the politician as a self-centred womaniser who effectively abandoned his crippled wife to ‘play the field’. They accuse him of finally settling on Cindy, a former rodeo beauty queen, for financial reasons
When McCain – his hair turned prematurely white and his body reduced to little more than a skeleton – was released in March 1973, he told reporters he was overjoyed to see Carol again.
But friends say privately he was ‘appalled’ by the change in her appearance
Ted Sampley, who fought with US Special Forces in Vietnam and is now a leading campaigner for veterans’ rights, said: ‘I have been following John McCain’s career for nearly 20 years. I know him personally. There is something wrong with this guy and let me tell you what it is – deceit.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-10249...
<snip>
Unfortunately for the president, many historians have already reached a conclusion. In an informal survey of scholars this spring, just two out of 109 historians said Bush would be judged a success; a majority deemed him the "worst president ever."
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/6/9/32626/22...
http://disqus.com/people/1billinnj2/
All spring I've been saying that obama was practising "small ball politics," scoring on singles and doubles while Hillary was swinging for the fences in the big states.
Now comes this:
Baseball and politics are two of David Plouffe's passions. So it was natural that his love for one game reinforced something that proved crucial in the other: Singles can score runs.
As Sen. Barack Obama's campaign manager, Plouffe was the mastermind behind a winning strategy that looked well past Super Tuesday's contests on Feb. 5 and placed value on large and small states.
The campaign had the money to make such a potentially low-yield wager, and Plouffe had long understood that the Democratic Party's complex system for apportioning convention delegates meant winning even one congressional district in a state could help generate the total needed to reach the magic number.
Hillary was slugging for the fences in the big states, while Obama kept scoring with singles and doubles.
As the primaries got longer, the park got bigger, and eventually Hillary was hitting a bunch of balls out to the warning track in the ninth inning--all to no avail.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/chi...
Sadly, though, too many people are taking out their frustrations on family, friends and neighbors, instead of on those responsible in DC.
Don't mourn organize! (And re-direct that anger toward those who deserve it.)
on the topic of McTantrum's temper, does it seem that lately, he's been unnaturally calm, even sing-songy when he speaks...? I bet he's being sedated, probably secretly by his own staff...wait'll he finds out...whew.
and did ya see that godawful speech he made the other night? scary...
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/6/9/7255...
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/4C9C8DC4...
snip:
Speculation blamed
"The hike is due to speculations of investors who are moving a lot of money into the oil future market due to the weakness of the dollar and other stocks.
"Some analysts have already forecast the price per barrel will hit $150 by July [and] growing economies are being [badly] hurt."
In fact, rising oil prices have defied swelling Opec supplies.
Iran said on Sunday it would export over 2.5 million barrels per day (bpd) in June as shipments recovered from a 200,000 bpd lull in demand from refiners during April and May.
The country has large volumes of crude sitting in tankers offshore waiting for buyers.
Here is some interesting reading and will show historic prices.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_oil_crisis
Not a word from Washington about pushing for new technologies. What a useless group. Not a single cell in their brains is registering how close we are to the brink of a major crisis.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/74322DC9...
Spanish lorry drivers are staging a nationwide strike to protest against high fuel prices.
Tens of thousands of them began an indefinite strike on Monday, blocking highways that threaten to bring the country to a standstill.
snip:
Meanwhile, Spanish fishermen are in their second week of protests, also against fuel costs.
At MercaMadrid, the main wholesale food market for Madrid, supplies of domestic fish are drying up, and most of the fish passing through is imported.
Jose Lopez, a fish seller, said: "At the moment it's not noticeable, but tomorrow it is going to start to show [the lack of fish]."