California Dreaming?

[The_Dude 1,142]

Try to get some over time in while your at it...someone has to pay for all those illegals living in California that get free schooling, medical, etc... btw hows that sales tax working for ya ?

The oil company's give a whole new definition to the word "slime". In the camps on the BP side of the North Slope, they actually bug the phones at the camps. They have "trigger words" like...spill, leak, etc... that not only start the recorder, but actually trace the numbers. It's insane.

It gets even better when the Fed tards show up to have a look. BP takes them on a "tour", gives them some free goodies like BP logo carry on's, caps, sweat shirts, etc... takes them for a boat ride or two, and see's them off.

Sales tax is working just fine. We actually have metropolitan areas here, and thus need infrastructure. I enjoy the services where I live, so I don't mind paying my share of taxes. You Alaskans should do your fair share and pay your share of taxes instead of leeching off the rest of us. If the unemployed leeches of Alaska would get off their lazy arses, maybe states like California wouldn't have to pay for them.

[Captain Oates 911]

Well I am a proud BP shareholder and have been for 20 years.

I bought a ton more stock last year and it is up 50%

Thing is that BP is 50% American owned and their dividends suppport pensioners all over the world

They are owned by pension funds and their profits go to pensioners. They are BP.

Compared to mobile phone companies etc, the big oil companies have much better standards of behaviour and anyone who had dealt with a phone company knows there are so real bandits out there

...and they are not like Walmart where the employees have to turn up early and sing the company song and chant 'We love Walmart'

There are some nasty companies out there but the oil companies are not at the top of the list by any means.

What this has to do with California I am not sure. California has a lot of downside for me - taxes and restrictive laws being at the top. However, I would imagine that it is far better than some aggressively religiously place like Colorado. Christians scare me as their cruelty and oppressiveness knows no bounds - even in a country that was meant to be religiously free.

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

Sales tax is working just fine. We actually have metropolitan areas here, and thus need infrastructure. I enjoy the services where I live, so I don't mind paying my share of taxes. You Alaskans should do your fair share and pay your share of taxes instead of leeching off the rest of us. If the unemployed leeches of Alaska would get off their lazy arses, maybe states like California wouldn't have to pay for them.

Words out that the new style paychecks for California state employee's may look something like this down below...

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Well I am a proud BP shareholder and have been for 20 years.

I bought a ton more stock last year and it is up 50%

Thing is that BP is 50% American owned and their dividends suppport pensioners all over the world

They are owned by pension funds and their profits go to pensioners. They are BP.

Compared to mobile phone companies etc, the big oil companies have much better standards of behaviour and anyone who had dealt with a phone company knows there are so real bandits out there

...and they are not like Walmart where the employees have to turn up early and sing the company song and chant 'We love Walmart'

There are some nasty companies out there but the oil companies are not at the top of the list by any means.

What this has to do with California I am not sure. California has a lot of downside for me - taxes and restrictive laws being at the top. However, I would imagine that it is far better than some aggressively religiously place like Colorado. Christians scare me as their cruelty and oppressiveness knows no bounds - even in a country that was meant to be religiously free.

We should probably give the U.K. Pensioners squeegees and paper towels next time they visit the Gulf of Mexico on holiday.

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

Well I am a proud BP shareholder and have been for 20 years.

I bought a ton more stock last year and it is up 50%

Thing is that BP is 50% American owned and their dividends suppport pensioners all over the world

They are owned by pension funds and their profits go to pensioners. They are BP.

Compared to mobile phone companies etc, the big oil companies have much better standards of behaviour and anyone who had dealt with a phone company knows there are so real bandits out there

...and they are not like Walmart where the employees have to turn up early and sing the company song and chant 'We love Walmart'

There are some nasty companies out there but the oil companies are not at the top of the list by any means.

What this has to do with California I am not sure. California has a lot of downside for me - taxes and restrictive laws being at the top. However, I would imagine that it is far better than some aggressively religiously place like Colorado. Christians scare me as their cruelty and oppressiveness knows no bounds - even in a country that was meant to be religiously free.

Alan, Iv'e read many of your post on this forum, and other than this one they are usually witty and insightful. But are you seriously comparing BP to the phone company's ?

BP is like the anti christ of oil company's...and that says a lot seeing how I don't know of one oil company that isn't a royal lying deceiving pos imo.

BP just signed a contract to drill oil along with Tsar Putin's Gazprom in the Arctic even though there is no fk'ing way on earth they can respond to spill up there. That's not even mentioning the country's in Africa and South America that they have attempted to destroy. BP makes the mafia look like a choir boy.

BP share holder is one thing, being a BP victim is another. When it comes to the environment BP could give two sh&ts less. They are in it for one thing, and one thing only... $$$$$$$. Here in Alaska we have all these bs BP commercials about how BP is doing their part to make Alaska safer in regards to oil development. It's pure BS is what it is. BP has spill after spill in Alaska yet they continue to lay off the workers that maintain those pipe lines. And when it comes to "whistle blowing" in regards to being a BP employee...I would rather have the Russian mafia on my ####### than BP and their thugs.

[Captain Oates 911]

We should probably give the U.K. Pensioners squeegees and paper towels next time they visit the Gulf of Mexico on holiday.

I said its 50% American

that means that American pensioners get 50% of the earnings

The gulf population say:

A their shrimp and seafood is totally uncontaminated and safe to eat

B The beaches are prestine and they encourage people to come on holiday

As they were the people most affected, I think we can take their word for it

My politics are somewhat left center but I don't understand this loathing of industry in general and the more successful industries in particular.

I still don't like California for it's high taxes and small houses and layers and layers of petty regulations and laws.

EG 'sticking your fingers under this lawn mower when it is running or drinking the gasoline in it's tank may cause injury'. Pops my skull all that rubbish.

[Brother Hesekiel 2,236]

Alan,

we missed you!

B Europeans get health care for the extra gasoline cost... Californians get sick and the insurance tricks their way out of paying, (they do), then they lose their house, their stocks, their bank accounts and then they are made bankrupt, their spouse commits suicide and then they die too

Happens every day

Sure, but health care would be socialist. Can't allow that in the Land of the Brave and Free. Brave (or desperate) enough to enroll in the Armed Forces and free to die trying to invade and "liberate" another foreign country.

ps I could only move 10 rounds of ammo into the state and my ar-15 is illegal. Been there 3 times and it hissed it down and freezing cold every time

I am only up the coast from CA and have lived here for 3 years and never been during that time - no attraction at all

I only need 5 rounds in my Colt Snubnose, so I have no problem with that. If I need more than 5 rounds I've gone to the wrong wedding.

And for not wanting to live in California . . . . that's fine, my friend. We Kellyphonians are grateful that not everybody wants to move here. But now imagine Alaska in the winter, and stepping in front of a bus doesn't sound so bad, does it?

Edited March 29, 2011 by Just Bob

[Captain Oates 911]

Alan,

we missed you!

Sure, but health care would be socialist. Can't allow that in the Land of the Brave and Free. Brave (or desperate) enough to enroll in the Armed Forces and free to die trying to invade and "liberate" another foreign country.

I only need 5 rounds in my Colt Snubnose, so I have no problem with that. If I need more than 5 rounds I've gone to the wrong wedding.

And for not wanting to live in California . . . . that's fine, my friend. We Kellyphonians are grateful that not everybody wants to move here. But now imagine Alaska in the winter, and stepping in front of a bus doesn't sound so bad, does it?

Actually I am being abducted to Wisconsin later this year (praps)

After living in Florida and Washington State, I am out of the habit of paying State Taxes so that will be a shock. The sales tax is 3% less so that will cushion the blow - but I have my car boat/guns etc so I don't need to buy anything and only need booze and burgers.

I have done a winter in Wisconsin and it's murderously cold - I mean locked out of the house is a death sentence. It's illegal to carry a gun or a knife etc there - no carry permits. So if the pit bulls (legal in this land of the free) attack me, I will have to set the wife on em.

6 hours 50 mins and $500 return direct Chicago - Manchester so I can get more respite time. It's 20 hours door to door from here in the sticks in Washington State starting with a 150 mile drive over the mountain passes to Seattle. 9 hours from seattle to home at 20mph last trip - sheet ice on the Interstate with no ploughs or salt. Socialist to do things for the community you see - buy a V8 7 liter 9mpg truck like a real man...jeez

[Zero Sum 305]

Criminal offense or not...illegal aliens are subject to arrest, detention, and forcible removal from the USA. The illegal alien cheerleaders love to bloviate and crow that illegal presense is merely a minor civil infraction on par with something like jaywalking or a speeding ticket. Total bullshit!

This attitude also ignores the fact that a huge portion of the illegal alien population commit fraud using stolen and/or fake documents to illegally work in addition to many other illegal acts.

Californians should be outraged that their elected officials are encouraging and incentivizing this sleazy activity by using public funds specifically and purposely for the sole benefit of illegal aliens.

Is that really what these unidentified people are actually saying though?