I just can't wait to get on the road again! We're hot & heavy today on the PA Turnpike, The Race For 2008, Osama Bin Laden, and more. If you can't join us on the air, on the phones, or however, you can leave a post in this thread and we can address it. It could be an interesting week, so sit back and enjoy the ride!
Monday, May 19, 2008
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Gary,
As to the moonbat response to President Bush's comments about appeasement, former Ambassador Bolton last week said, "Bush 'hit the nail on the head yesterday in Jerusalem. And today, the nails started to complain'"
BWAhahaha - you gotta love someone with scruples, convictions, a clear vision and who isn't afraid to call libs appeasers.
Try it. It's true after all.
On the Turnpike:
Your guest from the Commonwealth Foundation is obviously in favor of leasing out the turnpike and when asked about why the current gas tax is not keeping pace with maintaining our roads offered up that it's because our cars have increased their gas mileage and at the same time are driving more thus cutting into the amount available for repair, etc.
If you look on the roads you see mostly SUV's and Trucks, the later being more. The mere fact that many Americans have reverted to gas guzzling SUV's should suggest to any one of us with some common sense that our average MPG is probably not much different than it was in the 70's. But not even considering the MPG factor the sheer amount of traffic since the 70's has probably doubled while the capacity of most of our roads hasn't been increased since the day they were initially constructed so I don't feel that his "facts" have much basis in reality.
But even ignoring those items let's examine the turnpike deal from the "renters" perspective. With all these restrictions that will be placed on them how do they intend to make a profit? What is it that makes them so able to extract money out of the turnpike that the state just can't accomplish on it's own? They can only cut costs or increase tolls. While there may be some ability to cut costs I can hardly imagine that there is 99 years of fat that can be trimmed to make it profitable which means that they are going to have to raise rates at a faster pace than the state has done. The Commonwealth Foundation also suggested that the Turnpike Commission's rate increases have been erratic, which may well be true, but they also didn't raise rates every single year.
One final Turnpike thought. The only way that I can see the "renter" would be able to make money would be rerouting interchanges for special interest groups. How that might play out I'm not sure but what I do know is when influential groups get involved with the government the public had better get ready to bend over.
On ANWAR. As I suggested in a recent e-mail I sent you the Shell CEO said they have no interest in ANWAR as the return on the investment is too small and based on a recent article I read concerning ANWAR oil they predict it to only supply about 4% of our need. I personally could care less if they drill in ANWAR as long as it's done responsibly. I would rather have them drill there than in my backyard. But all this rhetoric around being able to develop new ares is also in conflict with what has been happening when the government has released new areas for development. The oil companies rush in and buy out the leases and don't develop them. They are basically hoarding the leases while putting forth rhetoric that the politicians won't allow them to drill. Why would they do that you might ask - PROFIT. The oil companies as fudiciaries to their stock holders have an interest in providing the least amount of oil at the most expensive price. Not to provide oil that will insure the consumers continually use more and more. The oil companies make the most money when there is a tight balance between oil availability and the discussion about alternative energy.
And finally as to their interest in building new refineries. You gotta be kidding. They have no interest in increasing refineries. As they learned many years ago when refineries where still being developed there is a glut of gasoline available after the creation of a new refinery pushing prices downward. This on top of the fact that refineries have historically very low profit margins. The current refinery that has been proposed for AZ has been unable to get off the ground because they can't get enough investors to put their money up.
Whatever happened with the Greatest Sports and Social Question of All Time? Did anyone get it? Did it get scrapped because the question was faulty?
I'm just looking for a reason to go back to WOW.
Jeez, you need a reason?
Well Jay, I'll say this: if I could afford to drive into West York, eat out, and then put gas in my car and drive back to Shrewsbury I'd do it every day. Free food is good bait though, so that's why I say it would give me a reason.
The greatest sports question got scrapped because YOU blew holes in it Doug. That's what happens when you have to deal with these computer super-genius geeks, and you are just a lowly common-sense radio talkshow host who doeesn't have to google to brush his teeth. In short, the questioned sucked, and needed to be updated, so instead of taking responsibility for not having vetted the question out to present-day, I thought I would rant on you, Doug. I hope you don't mind the transference of responsibility. I'm just doing what any good governmental representative would do; blame someone else for my miserable failure. GS
You want a great question Doug, so you can go up to Jay's beautiful WOW Cafe and Wingery and be a prize-Ho? (Do you feel guilty yet?) God, I even go there and pay for everything. Anyway, here's a sports question that YOU might not even be able to gouge into the Internet to find. (Is it ok to still say Internet or is there some other "cool" sphere word I'm missing. God, I want to be hip.)
What catcher caught the next game for the New York Yankees after Thurman Munson died in his airplane crash?
Alright, fine. I'll take responsibility for that one. And I did get some satisfaction out of blowing that question apart with my superhuman Googling skills.
And since you asked for it...the answer to your question, straight from the web-o-sphere (although it's still okay to call it the internet):
Jerry Narron started at catcher the day after Thurman Munson died. Narron batted 8th and finished the day 0-2 with two strikeouts and was replaced later in the game by Brad Gulden, who didn't even get an at-bat.
The Orioles won the game 1-0.
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