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2004-12-02 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Mark Espinola 2004-12-02 00:35|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The commodities markets not keeping you busy enough, Mark, dear?

P.S. Thanks for all the background info. on oil -- my husband is amazed at how clever I've become on the subject!

Posted by trailing wife 2004-12-02 1:31:46 AM|| 2004-12-02 1:31:46 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Mrs. D, They are indeed, but we need a break too:) On the oil, The bears control it, until the Northeast sinks into the deep freeze. Same with heating oil as well. In early 2005 the Iranian nuclear situation will effect the price of oil greatly. Either Israel or the U.S. will begin removing Iran's nuke plants.

Posted by Mark Espinola 2004-12-02 9:29:34 AM|| 2004-12-02 9:29:34 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Sory, Mark. That was TW. Her hubby speaks to her. I still haven't seen hide nor hair of mine since he and that hussy Gentle ran off.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2004-12-02 9:41:14 AM|| 2004-12-02 9:41:14 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 LOL! I really enjoy these continuing installments of "As Rantburg Turns".

Posted by Dar 2004-12-02 9:59:15 AM|| 2004-12-02 9:59:15 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 I keep expecting to see Mr. D. stagger into the O club one night.

Posted by Shipman 2004-12-02 11:17:27 AM|| 2004-12-02 11:17:27 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Oh, the possibilities... "General Rantburg"..."As the Rantburg Turns"... "The Guiding Rantburg".
Break out the boxes of chocolates and the kleenex!

Posted by Sgt. Mom 2004-12-02 11:40:09 AM|| [http://www.sgtstryker.com] 2004-12-02 11:40:09 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 "Desperate Rantburgers"

"Rantburg 90210"

"Pruitt Place"

"Rantburg Valley NRA"

Posted by Mike 2004-12-02 12:33:12 PM|| 2004-12-02 12:33:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 "Like TCP/IP packets through the router, these are the Rants of oour Burg."

Posted by Seafarious 2004-12-02 12:36:24 PM|| 2004-12-02 12:36:24 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 LOL!

Posted by Shipman 2004-12-02 1:24:38 PM|| 2004-12-02 1:24:38 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Trailing wife & Mrs. D. sorry about the mix up, I must have been half asleep when I goofed that up, speed reading. while keeping an eye on the TV, radio on coupled with glancing at the newspaper, does not make for proper attention.

Who is this "Gentle". We shall not be passing on any economic related tips or general info to that putz.

This is like the Rantburg Sagas. Rant-Soap-O-Rama

Mrs. D I have a great Iraqi energy related web-site for you which is always updated as needed on Iraqi oil related 'problems'. Sabatage by Iranian & other Islamists attempting to keep the Iraqi crude oil based economy in a constant state of chao

Trailing wife the information contained in the Iraqi pipeline section is the only one I am aware of in English.

Also Mauritania

is become the hottest new oil north African crude oil exporter and may become an OPEC member state in the future.

Posted by Mark Espinola 2004-12-02 8:24:14 PM|| [http://www.iags.org/iraqpipelinewatch.htm] 2004-12-02 8:24:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Mark, It might work better if you drank real coffee instead of that virtual monkey piss.

Anyway, Gentle was that supposed female college student at the University of Osama in the UAE or somewhere over in the Gulf. She was always telling us how we didn't understand the true Islam, a ROP, blah, blah, blah. Sort of a female Mike Sylwester with and Arabian accent.

You might recall Murat I disappeared for a while and Gentle's posting diminished. Later My former husband, Mr. Davis, was accused of being a troll. We had some door slamming around here and then he up and walked out.

Shortly thereafter, Gentle stopped posting altogether. It was pretty clear to me what had happened. Mr. Davis and Gentle had some of that internet prom chat going.

Well, then Murat II started posting. A lot of people thought it was an imposter, but I knew that what happened was that Murat found out Gentle was two timing him with Mr. Davis. He told her he'd start treating her like a Muslim woman ought to be. She put Mr. Davis up to defending her honor and Murat came up second best. And to a Kaffir to boot. Now having time, and other things, on his hands, he came back to take it out on the Burg with his newly nasty comments.

And now, all alone, I'm being confused with someone who ain't. And to think that I won the Susan Lucci look-a-like contest for years running at our local tavern. At least ther'e no more crunchies. That's the silver lining.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2004-12-02 9:05:52 PM|| 2004-12-02 9:05:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 btw Mark, where in Mauretania are they finding oil?

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2004-12-02 9:18:54 PM|| 2004-12-02 9:18:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Thanks for the explanation, Mrs. D.

I don't understand what "crunchies" are, though.

Posted by Phil Fraering 2004-12-02 9:35:07 PM|| [http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com] 2004-12-02 9:35:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 My goodness, Mrs. D! I had no idea your cheerful exterior hid such tragedy. I had somehow gotten the impression that Mr. D. was lost on a business trip in the wilds of somewhere-or-other, possibly while on a secret mission for the CIA. (Mr. Wife's [retired Green Beret] uncle insists that those are not business trips he's been going on for the past two decades, but rather clandestine work for Uncle Sam. Mr. W. equally insists its all about manufacturing better soap for the world. Dear Uncle GB is known for his active imagination!).

Clearly, Mr. D. is a fool. No doubt he will soon come to regret acting out his mid-life crisis, and with Miss Gentle, to boot. But equally clearly, I've unwittingly been wise to keep the Rantburg playground to myself -- best not to expose Mr. Wife to such temptations! But you, darling Mrs. D., are still in the prime of life -- and Rantburg plays host to some charming gentlemen. Sauce for the goose, and all that, my dear, when you are ready;-)

Posted by trailing wife 2004-12-02 10:23:03 PM|| 2004-12-02 10:23:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 Wow--before this gets much further along, I'm gonna need a playbill or something to keep track of the cast! Fascinating!

I always wondered what lurked under Gentle's burkha, too. Sorry--I'm funny that way... ;-)

Posted by Dar 2004-12-02 11:19:53 PM|| 2004-12-02 11:19:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 Note my self-restraint, Dar. ;-)

Posted by .com 2004-12-02 11:24:59 PM|| 2004-12-02 11:24:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 Mrs D. It's incredible I do not as a rule drink coffee, just never had the taste for it except Dunkin Donuts with tons of sugar. This Gentle sounds like some other masked jihadists in saying we, the 'infidels' do not understand Islam....we fully fathom their true intentions and that is why that bulk line about not understanding.

I can not say I recall Murat I, nor #II I would like to ask if Mr. D had ever posted what the enemy would consider anti-jihad statements or display an in-depth picture of Muslim history. The reason for asking is two fold. #1 could it be "Gentle" saw Mr. D as another schlep, someone swayed, duped in by her & she could try l convert Mr. D to her Islamic 'cause'...could this be? Or #2, if indeed Mr. D made statements she really despised from an Islamic point knew what she was, right? How could he be tricked by female 'dishrag'?

Maybe for personal security internet protocol publicly state too many details considering whom may be reading every word?

Very, very sorry to hear of all this. Sometimes the bloody computer/internet can be extremely harmful.

Trailing Wife is right in her statement to you which is best female to female on these kind of issues.

In terms of Mr. D, after 9-11 and countless eye opening acts of Islamic mass slaughter around the globe, yet he falls for the lies of the enemy.

On the issue Mauritania: Thus ar what I have uncovered the majority of exploratory drilling is offshore. As of October 7th the following news: 'Woodside Petroleum Ltd said drilling at its Tevet-1 exploration well off the coast of Mauritania in West Africa have shown signs of oil and gas. Woodside owns 53.846 pct of Tevet-1 and is the operator. Australian listed Hardman Resources Ltd has 21.6 pct, Roc Oil, also listed in Australia, has 3.693 pct, BG Group Plc of the UK has 11.63 pct and the UK's Premier group of companies have 9.231 pct.

PS..Mrs D.there are brighter days ahead

Posted by Mark Espinola 2004-12-02 11:26:08 PM|| 2004-12-02 11:26:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 Mark: so this is yet more capitol-intensive and skill-intensive drilling?

How politically stable is Mauritania?

Posted by Phil Fraering 2004-12-02 11:31:20 PM|| [http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com] 2004-12-02 11:31:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#19 Phil check this out. The link is there in case it is erased at midnight. I picked out key points.

NOUAKCHOTT, 30 November (IRIN) - President raises wages ahead of oil boom Brushing aside plots to overthrow him and a weakening national currency, President Maaouiya Ould Taya has announced a massive increase in pay and pensions as Mauritania prepares to become Africa's newest oil exporter.

Some of the 2.8 million people in this desert country in West Africa may have wondered how Ould Taya was going to pay for such a whacking pay rise following this year's devastating invasion by swarms of locusts which destoyed half of all crops and much of the pasture used by nomads to graze their animals.

He badly needs to secure a strong base of civilian support following three failed coup attempts staged by dissident army officers over the past 18 months and his suppression of Islamic radicals who form the backbone of the civilian opposition.

Earlier this month, 181 military personnel and civilian opposition figures went on trial at a remote military barracks in the desert charged with plotting to overthrow the president.

Ould Taya, who in recent years has courted the United States and France and cast himself as a moderniser, marked the latest anniversary of Mauritania's independence by inaugurating a bevy of new projects. These included dams, roads, water supply, electricity plants and 53 public libraries.

The inaugurations culminated in the opening of a new US$36 million terminal for offloading oil products at the port of Nouakchott and a new tank farm that triples the size of its oil storage facilities.

It is hoped these new facilities will help to relieve Mauritania's chronic fuel shortages as the country joins the ranks of Africa's new oil exporters.

Ould Taya said in his weekend speech that "important" new offshore fields had been discovered.

The Chinguetti offshore field will be the first to come on stream, producing around 75,000 barrels per day for export. The neighbouring Tiof field, which is even bigger, will follow a few months later.

But Ould Taya's upbeat speech was followed by disappointing news on Monday, when foreign oil companies announced disappointing results from an exploration well drilled in the Merou offshore block.

The oil and gas information group Rigzone has estimated that oil export will add about $100 million to Mauritanian government revenues by 2008, increasing them by a quarter. At present the country relies mainly on exports of iron ore and fish.

Posted by Mark Espinola 2004-12-02 11:44:56 PM|| [http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/be76155a7c0a4f5467f22c5010978caa.htm] 2004-12-02 11:44:56 PM|| Front Page Top

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