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Rush Limbaugh Live Thread Wednesday 10-18-2006
Rush Limbaugh.com ^ | 10-18-2006 | Rush Limbaugh

Posted on 10/18/2006 9:03:11 AM PDT by MNJohnnie

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1720277/posts

Why Gas Prices Dropped money.cnn.com ^ | October 16 2006 | Nelson D. Schwartz

Posted on 10/16/2006 10:31:49 AM CDT by kellynla

(Fortune Magazine) -- If the recent plunge in gas prices is the result of a conspiracy by President George W. Bush to help the Republicans retain control of Congress, as 42 percent of Americans believe, according to one Gallup poll, a lot of Wall Streeters wish they'd been in on the plot.

So what really drove prices down - if not an Oliver Stone-worthy scenario involving the Commander-in-Chief, the House of Saud and Secretary of the Treasury Hank Paulson cajoling his cronies at Goldman Sachs to sink the crude market?

By late summer, hedge funds and other investors had poured billions into long positions in oil, gasoline, natural gas and the rest of what traders call the "energy complex," all betting on a replay of the severe 2005 hurricane season that sent prices soaring in the wake of Katrina and Rita. But one day after oil reached a monthly high of $76.98 a barrel on Aug. 7, government meteorologists downgraded their hurricane forecast and cautioned that a repeat of 2005 was "unlikely."

That announcement, combined with the end of the summer driving season and a recalibration of the Goldman Sachs (Charts) commodity index that reduced the weighting of gasoline, prompted speculators to head for the exits even faster than they'd piled in.

The switch in Goldman's basket of commodities had been previously announced by the firm, but that didn't stop the conspiracy theorists.

(Excerpt) Read more at money.cnn.com ...


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To: meema

http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20061017-100243-8868r.htm


381 posted on 10/18/2006 10:48:25 AM PDT by MaestroLC ("Let him who wants peace prepare for war."--Vegetius, A.D. Fourth Century)
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To: quidnunc
A few years ago before he went into detox Rush went on a two-week Bush-bashing rant during a radio ratings sweeps period.

It really soured me on Limbaugh; so much so that I cancelled my Limbaugh Letter and Rush 24/7 (I was a charter subscriber to both).

It would help if you were more specific than that.

382 posted on 10/18/2006 10:48:50 AM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (Karl Rove you magnificent bastard!)
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To: Last Laugh

Welcome (a little late!) to FR, Last Laugh!


383 posted on 10/18/2006 10:49:19 AM PDT by American Quilter (You can't negotiate with people who are dedicated to your destruction.)
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To: BigSkyFreeper

This may be a good idea to go back to the archives and see what he is talking about.. I don't recall this.


384 posted on 10/18/2006 10:49:23 AM PDT by mnehring (http://abaraxas.blogspot.com/)
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To: TexasPatriot8

Or jobs, consumer confidence and housing.


385 posted on 10/18/2006 10:49:44 AM PDT by AliVeritas (If there were no God, there would be no Atheists.)
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To: nitejohnboy
nitejohnboy wrote: So why listen to him? Spend your time with someone who is consistant. Air America or its replacement or Michael Savage can probably use the ratinings.

No, I listen to Dennis Prager — a staunch conservative who is also intellectual — via Salem Broadcasting.

386 posted on 10/18/2006 10:49:55 AM PDT by quidnunc (Omnis Gaul delenda est)
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To: mnehrling

I don't either, and I've been a dittohead since July 1989.


387 posted on 10/18/2006 10:50:11 AM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (Karl Rove you magnificent bastard!)
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To: Sensei Ern

Ben Nelson (if I'm thinking of the right Senator) is the only Democrat that can reasonably be called "moderate" and he's still a Democrat about 60% of the time. More then even the most liberal RINO in the House or Senate. There isn't anyother Democrat that even comes close that I can think of. There are NOT and REAL conservative Democrats like there use to be. They're all flaming libs, or closet libs, and mostly vote the same when it matters. The closet libs vote against the party when it doesn't matter to placate their less than liberal constituancy, but not when their vote is really needed. There are liberal Republicans and moderate and conservative Republicans, but basically there are only flaming and closet liberal Democrats now a days, and a very few moderate Democrats, and they're scared to death to assert themselves.


388 posted on 10/18/2006 10:50:23 AM PDT by TexasPatriot8 (The Democrats gave up trying to win elections on issues, they're now trying to win on fixed scandle.)
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To: AliVeritas
Hee Hee, yeah they're lost. Kinda like that commercial. Harry Harry should I take a left up here? Or Nancy Nancy which way is the plastic surgeon's office? Since Daschle is gone, (thank God!) I won't use his first name.

Conyers made comments either really late last year or earlier this year about regaining control and 'payback' for the Clinton impeachment. I am not sure if it was mentioned earlier than his comments, but its been a common theme in the blogs and even Rush spoke of it earlier this year.

389 posted on 10/18/2006 10:50:28 AM PDT by takeemout (God Bless Jesse Helms!)
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To: suburban_republican

To think I took my child there 8 weekends to stump in '04, PA needs to wake up.


390 posted on 10/18/2006 10:50:40 AM PDT by AliVeritas (If there were no God, there would be no Atheists.)
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To: SuperSonic

Nice sketch--ROFL!


391 posted on 10/18/2006 10:50:50 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
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To: Kerretarded


That's a bit different. One man making one choice, which can be appproved or not by the worthies in the Senate. As opposed to voters in 50 states making many choices, which will affect us all but about which we can do nothing.


392 posted on 10/18/2006 10:50:58 AM PDT by nitejohnboy (I'd say I'm leaving the country except that the whole world is screwed up.)
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To: dawn53; mnehrling

yes he's missing the liabilities part of the equation


393 posted on 10/18/2006 10:51:00 AM PDT by petercooper (Polls Schmolls.)
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To: Sensei Ern

"Boy, he REALLY was for term limits. x):-)"

I believe I didn't make myself clear. He ran for a second term and won. I'm not sure, it could have been his third term. Can't remember. I do know he served at least one full term.


394 posted on 10/18/2006 10:51:18 AM PDT by imskylark
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To: BigSkyFreeper
My parents grew up poor in NYC in the 30's and 40's. They had what they needed and ate lots of pasta for meals. Anyway my mom is the same way and always was with the spending. She never had a credit card bill and if she did it was paid off the same day it came in the mail. She always says "I never pissed money".
395 posted on 10/18/2006 10:51:27 AM PDT by angcat ("IF YOU DON'T STAND BEHIND OUR TROOPS, PLEASE FEEL FREE TO STAND IN FRONT OF THEM")
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To: SuperSonic

That night life must be hell on an old ACLU moonbat.


396 posted on 10/18/2006 10:51:33 AM PDT by RasterMaster (Winning Islamic hearts and minds.........one bullet at a time!)
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To: Clint N. Suhks

How much is it worth to you?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC24MfUehJ0


397 posted on 10/18/2006 10:51:40 AM PDT by Sensei Ern (http://www.myspace.com/reconcomedy - For a good time visit www.laurelbaptisttemple.org)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

I see whiners sometimes here, but it seems like most of these gutless "conservatives" who won't vote next month don't have the nerve to speak up about it. That's what annoys me. They will fold like a cheap tent and help Democrats get elected, and still claim to be such a good conservative. Voters like that wouldn't make a pimple on a REAL conservative's a*s!!! That's a fact.


398 posted on 10/18/2006 10:51:55 AM PDT by TexasPatriot8 (The Democrats gave up trying to win elections on issues, they're now trying to win on fixed scandle.)
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To: TexasPatriot8
....Democrats can legislate liberty to its grave.

Nicely turned phrase - and true! Kudos.

399 posted on 10/18/2006 10:52:17 AM PDT by aligncare ("I see dead people...and illegal aliens - voting")
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To: spatso

Rush is speaking from a non-democrat position. As am I.


400 posted on 10/18/2006 10:52:35 AM PDT by nitejohnboy (I'd say I'm leaving the country except that the whole world is screwed up.)
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