CitizenK

re: Confirmation in the Catholic Church lowered from 11th grade to 7th grade

Posted by CitizenK on 5/8/25 at 3:50 pm

It used to be 6th grade

re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

Posted by CitizenK on 5/8/25 at 9:43 am

But but Nuland. Then again, Tucker is a stupid phucker or laughing all th way to the bank. We already know that Larry Johnson and the Pedo incompetent former officer are.

re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

Posted by CitizenK on 5/8/25 at 7:40 am

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Yet as plain, obvious and telegraphed as you claim it was, no one at the time seemed to have a clue it was coming. How odd. In fact, our Administration was so unburdened by concern that it supposed a US-backed coup d'état was strategic brilliance.

You pay too much attention to YOUR media outlets. Putin's speech in Munich of that year all but said, we are getting all those nations back. I have found that the vast majority of journalists are clueless but good writers or look good on TV. The same goes for the vast majority of bloggers. It matters little what political ideology they have

There was more than enough capacity with Brotherhood Pipeline system to expand a little to supply Germany and much less expensive than building Nordstream. The problem for Putin was that it mostly went through Ukraine.

re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

Posted by CitizenK on 5/8/25 at 7:34 am

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It is beyond ironic that Gabrielius Landsbergis would be a citizen of the USSR if it weren't for the US "worldview." The fact he so easily forgets that speaks volumes.

Do you mean Reagan's small wars and crashing USSR's economy with getting the Saudis to pump more oil and crash the price? Do you mean because Gorby allowed Soviet states to have control of their destiny and voting to leave the USSR?

re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

Posted by CitizenK on 5/8/25 at 7:26 am

That price per barrel breakeven is likely due internal sales, rather than international sales. Most refineries are inland unlike the US with most near the coast.

Of course, tight shale crude in the US was already going to take a hit with drilling budgets slashed ahead of 2025. It's not just that some Arab nations have turned on the spigot, but that there are new fields coming online this year and next year globally. 1 million more barrels here, another there begins to add up. If Libya gets its shiite together it will be even lower.

The recent Russia-Venezuela pact doesn't make a rats arse, Rosneft has been in Venezuela for a decade and still hasn't been able to increase production appreciably. The Chinese have been there just as long with the same results.

re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

Posted by CitizenK on 5/8/25 at 7:11 am

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Pushing the idea of Ukraine joining NATO was one such red line. Europe crossed it.

A nation has to check a number of boxes to join NATO, Ukraine was never closer than a decade from joining.

It should be plain as the nose on your face that Russia was planning the 2014 invasion since at least 2007 once you know the moves it was making.

re: What’s the most gross thing you ever saw someone eat?

Posted by CitizenK on 5/7/25 at 8:23 pm

The freshly caught minnows from drainage ditch at school on a classmate's sandwich at lunch. I put them on his sandwich. He ate the first sandwich with minnows on it, then halfway through the second he saw have a minnow dangling off lettuce, barfed in his lunch bag and didn't return to school the rest of the week.

re: Diamondback Energy CEO: “Likely that U.S. onshore oil production has peaked”

Posted by CitizenK on 5/7/25 at 5:34 pm

There already is a pipeline operating at a fraction of capacity.

The way it looked in 2010, we a 20 year window of opportunity in the shale patch which is NOT desirable to refineries

re: Diamondback Energy CEO: “Likely that U.S. onshore oil production has peaked”

Posted by CitizenK on 5/7/25 at 5:31 pm

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Now that fracking is over maybe the tap water will stop catching on fire

That was happening long before this, coal seam methane is all over that area.

re: Diamondback Energy CEO: “Likely that U.S. onshore oil production has peaked”

Posted by CitizenK on 5/7/25 at 3:58 pm

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Peak oil? Is it 1980 again?

No, there is plenty of oil but cost to drill for and produce isn't cheap.

Utah's Uintah Basin is just cranking up but its very waxy and cannot be sent in pipelines.

re: Why do they make some bridges so high?

Posted by CitizenK on 5/7/25 at 3:55 pm

The standard air draft for bridges established by feds is 135 feet clearance. The Rainbow Bridge from Bridge City to Port Arthur was built before the standardization. thus 175 feet clearance. My dad hitchhiked from Laffy to ride over it when it first opened in the 1930's

re: Why do they make some bridges so high?

Posted by CitizenK on 5/7/25 at 3:52 pm

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Gov. Huey Long built the "old" bridge north of the city low across the river in the 1930s so that the ocean-going vessels couldn't proceed further upriver.

WRONG. There is a rock ledge formation just above the Old Bridge. Other than mini-ships none can go further upriver. The rock ledge is what holds the sand from coming down river and why all the sand dredges above it.

re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

Posted by CitizenK on 5/7/25 at 3:47 pm

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Are you running out of material?

He does what he is told to do

re: Another dress shirt thread

Posted by CitizenK on 5/7/25 at 2:50 pm

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Goodwill

When Salvation Army has store on Government, wife would pick up dress shirts for me to wear at work. Pretty good deal for a shirt which might get chemicals or grease on it at one of Dow's plants in LA, since I had offices in Taft and Plaquemine but made trips to Greensburg and Sterlington plants.

I always wore nice looking throw away shirt.

re: Female college student murdered while visiting Columbia SC.

Posted by CitizenK on 5/7/25 at 2:24 pm

A friend who got his PhD from USC Columbia said the town was depressing and a real shithole

re: JBE Mid Barataria corruption

Posted by CitizenK on 5/7/25 at 9:02 am

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You are FOS. I was heavily involved in this project, and can tell you this is 100% false. DumBel told the President of XOM Chemical that he had enough petrochemical plants in Louisiana, and he could take the project to Texas for all he cared.

Would you want to pay for pipeline transport to Baton Rouge or to Corpus? Now Exxon is about to build another at Point Comfort.

The Hayride thought we had an advantage because of Haynesville play because they think all natural gas is the same and don't understand what feedstock is used for ethylene crackers.

I get the IPA plant which a biz client was over the project when first built in BTR using Propylene from Cat Cracker gases initially.

re: Top 7 reasons Jeff Landry is garbage.

Posted by CitizenK on 5/6/25 at 11:57 pm

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He and the Louisiana Republican Party are a corrupt clique . The fact that he got the Republican endorsement so early in the race is criminal imo.

He got the endorsement because he made a deal with the trial lawyers on coastal lawsuit then got their backing in campaign funding. Starting out with a huge war chest matters a lot. He schmoozed Donnie Jr (who was getting taken by Gavin Newsom's ex) with alligator hunts and played him like a Coonass accordion.

I voted for Wags. I regret voting for Landry to get rid of Caldwell.

re: John Bel Edwards discussed Senate run with top Democrat Chuck Schumer

Posted by CitizenK on 5/6/25 at 11:29 pm

I don't doubt it. He is seeing the know nothings think that just getting rid of Cassidy is what there is. All that would happen is the vote split like a mofo an JBE waltzing into office.

re: JBE Mid Barataria corruption

Posted by CitizenK on 5/6/25 at 11:27 pm

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Probably the closest thing to the only honest reporting in the state commie.

Sometimes yes, but they have been carrying Landry's water for over a decade and never reporting his sins, which are well known.

They don't know shiite from shinola about business, manufacturing, oil/gas etc... McKay was big mad that we ran Exxon's new ethylene cracker to Corpus but it was always going to be there. Exxon just played Louisiana to get more from Texas. The NGL;s feedstock ain't coming from Louisiana, but from Permian and Eagleford.

Lejeune dude is paranoid AF. There is a conspiracy to take his Catholicism away from him.