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It's official: Hell's Kitchen runner-up chef Jason Santos is "in" at Back Bay Harry's, the 140-seat restaurant slated to open in September at 142 Berkeley Street, former home of Geoffrey's Cafe. When word first broke of the spot, Santos was linked; then, as recently as earlier this month, it was said he's not. But Zagat can confirm Santos is on board, and we're sure of it. So sure that we have his opening menu below. (You're welcome.)
It seems like trademark Santos: elevated comfort food with fun flourishes and creative combinations that fans of the blue-haired toque have come to expect. Santos isn't the only high-profile person associated with the project. The Great Gatsby-inspired space has been designed by HGTV and Restaurant Impossible personality Taniya Nayak, who was also behind the looks of Santos's Abby Lane and Blue Inc. And its eponymous owner is Harry Collings, a former Boston Redevelopment Authority bigwig and city power player.
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Chinese BBQ Pork Sliders; cucumber, scallion, pork crackling
Fried Fish Tacos; avocado cream, red cabbage, roasted corn, red chile salsa
The Blue Onion; blue cheese, blue dipping sauce
Local Oysters; atomic horseradish, mignonette, cocktail sauce
House Smoked Wild Salmon; field greens, crispy egg, herb toast, cucumber cream, pickled onion
New England Fish Chowder; fennel, fingerling potatoes, brioche croutons
Manchego "Cheese Sticks"; espelette mayo, serrano ham, black truffle honey, smoked paprika almonds
Sichuan Style Fried Calamari; hoisin, peanuts, mint & mango, honey-chili mayo
Pastrami Mac N' Cheese; mustard cream, pumpernickel crumbs, fresh chives
House Salad Board; cherry tomatoes, green beans, goat cheese, bacon bits, red onion vinaigrette
Caesar Salad; rosemary croutons, hard boiled egg, pickled onions, fried white anchovies
Baby Spinach Salad; roasted grapes, candied walnuts, gorgonzola cheese, maple vinaigrette
Sandwiches; all served with fries, jalapeno pickle & house made ketchup
Grilled Chicken Sandwich; grilled red onions, shredded lettuce, jalapeno mayo, smoked cheddar
Back Bay Burger; slab bacon, muenster, bbq sauce, L.T.O.
Veggie Gyro Baguette; grilled zucchini, goat's milk feta, tomatoes, pepperoncini, black olive aioli
Boneless Buttermilk Fried Chicken; potato puree seared greens, bbq syrup, honey doughnuts
Meatloaf Wellington; butternut mashed, sage gravy, green beans
Vodka Battered Fish & Chips; crushed peas, potato wedges, fried caper tartar, fresh lemon
Grilled Swordfish; carrot mousseline, maple roasted brussels sprouts, pearl onions, dried cherries
Fresh Squid Ink Papardelle; pastrami bolognese, sautéed calamari, parmesan, fresh basil
Flat Iron Steak Frites; green peppercorn demi, bearnaise, arugula, spiced fries
Jack & Coke Baby Back Ribs; apple relish, masa corn bread, queso fresco, chipotle aioli
Philly Cheese Steak Pizza; roasted peppers, grilled onion, jalapeno wiz
Reverse Caprese Pizza; fresh mozzarella curd, basil, sliced tomato, balsamic reduction, garlic oil
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Australia's Cash Economy: Are the Estimates Credible?
The method of 'excess sensitivity' of Bajada (1999, 2000, 2001) indicates a large underground economy in Australia, with estimates of unrecorded income approximately 15 per cent of official gross domestic product. These estimates concern policy-makers, especially those agencies responsible for national accounts, tax collection, economic stabilisation and law enforcement. We show that the method exhibits a severe form of non-robustness, in which the results change markedly with a simple change in the units of measurement of the variables. There is a separate problem in which a key parameter is set to an unrealistic value that makes the estimates many times too high. Copyright 2005 The Economic Society Of Australia.
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- Rolf Mirus & Roger S. Smith & Vladimir Karoleff, 1994. "Canada's Underground Economy Revisited: Update and Critique," Canadian Public Policy, University of Toronto Press, vol. 20(3), pages 235-252, September.
- Klovland, Jan Tore, 1984. " Tax Evasion and the Demand for Currency in Norway and Sweden. Is There a Hidden Relationship?," Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 86(4), pages 423-439.
- Bajada, Christopher, 1999. "Estimates of the Underground Economy in Australia," The Economic Record, The Economic Society of Australia, vol. 75(231), pages 369-384, December.
- Dominik H. Enste & Friedrich Schneider, 2000. "Shadow Economies: Size, Causes, and Consequences," Journal of Economic Literature, American Economic Association, vol. 38(1), pages 77-114, March.
- Christopher Bajada, 2003. "Business Cycle Properties of the Legitimate and Underground Economy in Australia," The Economic Record, The Economic Society of Australia, vol. 79(247), pages 397-411, December.
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TAMPA, Fla. - Jill and Scott Kelley moved here nearly a decade ago, taking up residence in a huge redbrick home with a spectacular view of the water on Bayshore Boulevard, the city's most fashionable street. They quickly established themselves as social hosts to the powerful four-star officers who run two of the nation's most important military commands.
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Working for consistency
by Staff Writer / Ottawa SenatorsSenators alternate captain Chris Phillips thinks the current lineup has what it takes to be one of the top teams in the NHL. |
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As the Ottawa Senators look forward to their next game on Saturday against the Stanley Cup-champion Carolina Hurricanes, head coach Bryan Murray remains confident his team will be able to start playing with more consistency. Coming off three blowout victories last week, the club has lost two straight games.
"We're helping (the players), we're talking, we're showing video on a regular basis," Murray says. "We went into the game (Tuesday's 4-2 loss against the Montreal Canadiens) with a great atmosphere in the room. We had a solid first period but we gave up a short-handed goal and we weren't too good after that."
On Wednesday, Murray ended practice with a grueling skate for his players.
"It was a combination of making them skate, and No. 2 as a conditioning cycle to get them back on track again," Murray said afterwards. "Every time you lose games, a coach looks for one way or another to send a message. They were 45-second shifts (during the skate at Wednesday's practice), and that's what we want them to do in games. I think they each did eight shifts. That's about half a game for most guys. I think we have a good group of guys here, and we will get it together."
Goaltender Ray Emery said afterwards that he thinks the players can rally together after a tough practice like Wednesday's.
"It was a pretty positive day for us. We worked hard in practice. Those type of days can be bonding days. We want to work hard to get ourselves (playing more consistently) and I think you saw that (on Wednesday)."
While the Senators currently sport a record of 5-6-0, captain Daniel Alfredsson knows his team can be much better.
"We've shown we can play good hockey when we all play together. We just have to get better as each day goes on here. "
Senators defenceman Chris Phillips wants to see a full-game effort from the club.
"You can't expect to show up sporadically and win games. You can't expect to win when you play 20 or 30 minutes a game," Phillips says. "We've won games, but we've just been inconsistent.
"When you look back at the end of the season and say if we got two points here, or two points there, we don't want to be one of those shoulda, coulda teams. We feel we have the group here that can turn things around. It's got to start now."
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The appalling revelations about the abusive behavior of the IRS underscore the wisdom of our Founding Fathers, who recognized that human nature is unchanging and that government is inherently abusive. The dilemma they dealt with was how to make a government strong enough to maintain internal order and defend us from external enemies but not be able to oppress us. They came up with the federal system of checks and balances, with power divided among the federal government, the states and the localities.
In the late 19th century the movement rose up, espousing reforms to improve governance for the industrial age. Parts of the movement's program were positive, but an underside was the belief that government had to be insulated as much as possible from "politics" so that trained experts could scientifically do what was right for the public, even if we were not always enlightened enough to appreciate their ministrations. The notion grew that constitutional restraints on central government power was an anachronism in the modern era. Progressives were intoxicated by the enormous, often unrestrained authority Washington temporarily wielded over the economy during WWI. They asked, "Why can't we have such powers to do good in peacetime?" They got their chance during the New Deal, which failed to end the Great Depression. But the virus was there, erupting again during the Johnson and Nixon administrations and, finally, in the current regime. President Obama has put this Progressivism on steroids, making it indistinguishable from an updated variant of socialism.
The IRS scandals--the income tax was a key goal of the Progressive movement--are the inevitable result of Big Government. The IRS' history is loaded with scandal and abuse. After each episode new laws are passed--and the corrupt behavior returns. Why? Because Big Government needs a Big Tax Collector, and contrary to Progressive/Socialist notions about human nature being transformed when part of a government bureaucracy, such an agency will be bent and twisted by power-playing pols.
Our Founding Fathers understood that pious hopes and laws won't protect us from overreach by Big Government. A downsized government is the answer. There are numerous ways to accomplish this.
With regard to the IRS we could start by enacting a flat tax, which would sharply reduce the powers and discretion of that agency. Some would advocate for a national sales tax as the answer, but that would entail major enforcement problems, which, in turn, would still necessitate a federal agency.
Three other areas of major government power are education, Social Security and health care. There are a number of proposals that would return health care power to patients from third parties, such as permitting people to shop nationwide for health insurance, equalizing tax treatment for both individuals and businesses and removing restraints on Health Savings Accounts (HSAs). Regarding Medicaid, give the funds back to the states and allow them to decide what works and what doesn't. A new form of HSA for young people would put the Medicare program on the road to extinction, once the rest of us go to our ultimate reward. The same thing should be done with Social Security: Provide accounts with sensible rules for diversification for young people.
Most of the federal government's approach to education is counterproductive and should be either stopped or sent to the states.
There are obviously many other areas in need of reform. But we should start with the ones that really count. If done right, they will evoke popular support, unlike the trench-warfare approach of trying to cut specific parts.
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This was one of the early missions on the journey of Father Kino, who travelled widely through the area. It was actually quite busy there this day with people attending mass and getting their foreheads smeared. This is the first part of an "Ashtray" series, in which I will be visiting locations around Arizona which are...


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As I noted in my post from yesterday (July 7), President Obama's senior strategist David Plouffe has said the president is likely to come out on top next year for four principal reasons.
Apparently, Mr. Plouffe has come up with another reason why Mr. Obama will begin a new presidential term come January 2013.
Speaking at a July 6 breakfast, Mr. Plouffe said the unemployment rate, which is not expected to drop significantly by the time of the election, will not influence how people vote for president. Given that political prognisticators are constantly saying the '12 contest is likely to turn on whether Mr. Obama has improved the economy, this assertion is surprising to say the least.
Could it be that Team Obama is worried, and already trying out a spin line?
Julianna Goldman of Bloomberg News has written a story on Mr. Plouffe's remarks. Read it right here, and decide for yourself what Mr. Plouffe was really saying.


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My older grandson, who's 5, got his first taste of T-ball this year.
He really likes practice – we're talking about practice, y'all – because there's more hitting and running and doing stuff. He's less enamored of baseball's quiet stretches, an attitude he may get from his grandmother, my wife. Her immortal observation, "Baseball is so boring!" will probably never be enshrined in Cooperstown.
He's learned to adapt.
His mother reports that, sometimes when he's playing in the outfield, he just tosses his glove aside, lays in the grass and stares at the sky.
It looks like he has the right attitude.
With high school and college practices – football and all the other fall sports, too – under way, it's worth considering that we're all looking in the wrong place sometimes. Maybe that big cloud that looks like a monkey is the real point, not the issue of where to throw the ball with a man on second.
We've gotten so cynical about sports – and let's face it, we earned it – that we're not sure what to make of players who seem too happy doing their thing. The pure joy of the Dodgers' rookie Yasiel Puig presents quite a contrast to many of his mercenary rivals.
Whatever his off-court problems, it's the outsized style of Ole Miss guard Marshall Henderson that seems to provoke the most reaction.
My grandson, meanwhile, really does have his eye on the ball – so to speak.
High hopes
I hope the youngsters who're practicing never lose sight of the fact that it's a game. It's hard work, yes, but for the larger purpose of playing well.
I hope coaches who're leading them never lose sight of the fact that these are young people who may not realize it now, but are learning lessons they'll rely on for a lifetime.
I hope the parents and fans keep some perspective – do they make that any more? – and remember that good sportsmanship isn't just a good idea for sportsmen.
And I hope we make every deadline, but along the way I hope we'll have fun getting there.
John L. Pitts (firstname.lastname@example.com) is sports editor of the Daily Journal.


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Searchers have recovered debris from the inflatable dingy belonging to the wreckage of crayfishing boat K'Cee in Doubtful Sound but the two crew remain missing.
In good weather conditions, six vessels and three helicopters continued the search today for skipper Bruce Gordon and Darren Allen.
Searchers recovered two wooden floorboards from the inflatable dingy about 10km north of Secretary Island and a bladder from the inflatable life raft, 400m from Noon Extreme Point on the island.
The emergency locator beacon from the K'Cee has been found on the beach with minor damage, but had not been activated, said police.
Water, air and land searches for the crew have continued since yesterday morning. However, after finding the items from the boat, the outcome was looking "less hopeful'', said police.
"Tragically as time goes on the outcome is looking less positive and searchers had hoped for a better outcome at this stage,'' said a police statement.
The Gordon and Allen families acknowledged the search efforts and said they remained hopeful.
"We are still all hoping for a miracle and appreciate all the support and kind thoughts we have received. We would ask for and appreciate privacy at this time.''
The search was based on the location of the hull and a 400-square mile grid around that area, which included drift patterns and tides.
The hull wreckage has been towed to Neck Cove on Secretary Island where the Police Dive Squad are assessing the opportunities to dive around the wreckage.
This afternoon helicopters carried out close shoreline searches and looked at areas not already covered.


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Oscar 2012 Winners Revealed Early
Mark Wahlberg has friends in the right places who give him inside information, that he is all too willing to share.
Wahlberg recently revealed some "spoilers" as to who is going to take home the Oscar this weekend. He stated,""It's not a matter of who I want to win, it's who I know is going to win."
How he could be so certain about the winners? He said, "Because I've got a friend at PriceWaterhouse."
According to Wahlberg,The Artist will take home the Oscar for Best Picture and The Artist's star Jean Dujardin will beat off stiff competition from Demián Bichir, George Clooney, Gary Oldman and Brad Pitt to win for Best Actor.
He also claimed The Help will clean up at the Awards, with Viola Davis winning Best Actress and Octavia Spencer winning for Best Supporting Actress.
He continued: "Christopher Plummer will win for Best Supporting Actor and the team behind Transformers will win for best sound editing, and Hugo – they will win Best Costume, Production and Cinematography."
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Hope Ben and Michelle win just because it would disappoint Chase so much.
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Hope Ben and Michelle win just because it would disappoint Chase so much.
:yay Ken and Janina!! I was so upset when he jumped in the water. She doesn't do well in water. He treated her with such kindness, very much a gent
I am happy for Ben and Michelle as well
Good show -thoroughly enjoyed it, and no high heeled shoes or sequined dresses to be found :D
I liked both couples but I am glad that Ken and Yannina won. Ben just seems so..hhmmm struggling to find a word, he isn't really hotheaded but I could not imagine being with someone like him all the time. Glad that they are still together though.
I wish they'd shown how Ken and Yanina pulled ahead. Ben and Michele were doing a lot better rowing their canoe. Weird.
I think Ben and Michelle hit the beach first. The next task was to open a crate with two crowbars. Michelle stood back while Ben was trying to smash the crate open. Ken and Janina each used a crow bar and pried the lid right off while Ben was still trying to smash his crate open.
I just love this show. I didn't like it when new people were introduced into the mix half way through, but seeing Ben and Michelle develop a strong relationship has made me change my mind about that twist.
Aaahhhh...was hoping Ben and Michelle would win, they were ahead but I guess they must have lost a lot of time smashing the crate open. Why didn't they simply use the crowbars? That is what they were for. If nothing else Chase didn't panic and used the tools given him. I just wish Ben could also. Also were Michelle and Ben that far behind by the time they opened the crates, was there no hope of catching up? I wish we could have seen both couples race toward the finish line and see a time for each.
The video editing was not the best in this somewhat low budget summer guilty pleasure. Several times there were not enough camera crews covering the extended "adventures" and this caused gaps in the coverage. Of course the teams were scurrying all around the jungle so that might excuse some of the jungle sequences missing pictures. But certainly not the final water sprints of both teams. No excuses accepted here!
Ben is hot headed and just goes after a task without a plan. Sometimes you will luck out and things fall into place, but more often they don't.
*Some* men are like this. Don't read instructions, I'll put together this machine and it will work.
My dad is the same way. Never read instructions, and always thought that things would magically go together. Some projects may work, most don't. If I could make a video about the exercise bike fiasco, I bet it would go viral. It was hilarious!
That was Ben's downfall. He could only see the end goal in mind, and ignored all the little steps that would make the end goal easier to get to.
Ken stayed the course, had a couple of set backs but always regained his focus. Ken and Janina were behind but just smashing the crate any which way he could wouldn't get them anywhere.
SO SO happy for KENINA! I don't get emotional about reality TV people anymore, but these two brought one or two tears of happiness. I was ecstatic that they won!!
Note to Jay Leno people: start promoting your network shows. You've made fun of other shows, especially the Bachelor. Now you guys can brag that your shows have more successful couples than ABC. Bring the 3 couples on the show and get more people watching.
YAY Kenina!
This is the first season I have watched Love in the Wild. Really fun show! But, are all of these couples really together this long after the show and from past seasons? That's crazy!
I totally agree!!!! But with all the manipulation going on by producers on these so called 'reality' shows, I was wondering if that wasn't rigged for them to win because from all I have read, they were the most popular couple. I hate to think this way, because I would actually like to see some reality on these shows.


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FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri Highway Patrol seized control of a St. Louis suburb Thursday, stripping local police of their law-enforcement authority after four days of clashes between officers in riot gear and furious crowds protesting the death of an unarmed black teen shot by an officer.
The intervention, ordered by Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon, came as President Barack Obama spoke publicly for the first time about Saturday's fatal shooting of Michael Brown and the subsequent violence that has threatened to tear apart Ferguson, a town that is nearly 70 percent black patrolled by a nearly all-white police force.
Obama said there was "no excuse" for violence either against the police or by officers against peaceful protesters.
Nixon's promise to ease the deep racial tensions was swiftly put to the test as demonstrators gathered again Thursday evening in the neighborhood where looters smashed and burned businesses on Sunday and police repeatedly fired tear gas and smoke bombs.
After a particularly violent Wednesday night, Nixon said Thursday that local police are no longer in charge of the area, although they would still be present. He said Highway Patrol Capt. Ron Johnson was in command.
The change was meant to ensure "that we allow peaceful and appropriate protests, that we use force only when necessary, that we step back a little bit and let some of the energy be felt in this region appropriately," Nixon said.
"Ferguson will not be defined as a community that was torn apart by violence but will be known as a community that pulled together to overcome it," the governor said at a news conference in the nearby community of Normandy.
Johnson, who is black, said he grew up in the area and "it means a lot to me personally that we break this cycle of violence." He said he planned to keep heavily armored vehicles away from the scene and told his officers not to bring their tear gas masks.
By late afternoon, Johnson was walking down the street with a group of more than 1,000 protesters as they chanted "Hands up, don't shoot," a reference to witness accounts that described Brown as having his hands in the air when the officer kept firing.
Johnson planned to talk to the demonstrators throughout the night.
"We're going to have some conversations with them and get an understanding of what's going on."
Earlier Thursday, President Barack Obama appealed for "peace and calm" on the streets.
"I know emotions are raw right now in Ferguson, and there are certainly passionate differences about what has happened," Obama said, speaking from the Massachusetts island where he's on a two-week vacation. "But let's remember that we're all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that includes the belief in equality under the law, respect for public order and the right to peaceful public protests."
St. Louis County police spokesman Brian Schellman said officers on Wednesday night tossed tear gas to disperse a large crowd of protesters after some threw Molotov cocktails and rocks at officers. More than 10 people were arrested in Ferguson.
"In talking to these guys, it is scary," Schellman said of officers on the front lines of the protest. "They hear gunshots going off, and they don't know where they're coming from."
Residents in Ferguson have complained about the police response that began soon after Brown's shooting with the use of dogs for crowd control — a tactic that for some evoked civil-rights protests from a half-century ago. The county police force took over, leading both the investigation of Brown's shooting and the subsequent attempts to keep the peace at the smaller city's request.
County Police Chief Jon Belmar said his officers have responded with "an incredible amount of restraint" as they've had rocks and bottles thrown at them, been shot at and had two dozen patrol vehicles destroyed.
The city and county are also under criticism for refusing to release the name of the officer who shot Brown, citing threats against that officer and others. The hacker group Anonymous on Thursday released a name purported to be that of the officer, but the Ferguson police chief said later that the name was incorrect.
Twitter quickly suspended the Anonymous account that posted the officer's purported identity and personal information. The site's code of conduct strictly forbids the publication of private and confidential information without permission.
Police have said Brown was shot after an officer encountered him and another man on the street. They say one of the men pushed the officer into his squad car, then physically assaulted him in the vehicle and struggled with the officer over the officer's weapon. At least one shot was fired inside the car. The struggle then spilled onto the street, where Brown was shot multiple times.
The officer involved was injured, with one side of his face swollen, Jackson said.
Dorian Johnson, who says he was with Brown when the shooting happened, has told a much different story. He has told reporters that the officer ordered them out of the street, then grabbed his friend's neck and tried to pull him into the car before brandishing his weapon and firing. He says Brown started to run and the officer pursued him, firing multiple times.
Associated Press writers Alan Scher Zagier and Jim Suhr and researcher Rhonda Shafner contributed to this report.


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Innovation and intangible investment in Europe, Japan and the US
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Driving Home for Christmas - Car Hire Bookings for the Festive Period Up 11%
LONDON, November 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --
Leading car hire comparator eRentals.co.uk latest figures show car hire bookings for the Christmas and New Year period are already up 11% compared to the same time last year
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Big-game fishing has been the subject of novels before, not least those by Herman Melville and Ernest Hemingway, but this is surely the first to be located in 1930s Scarborough, where the sport of tuna-fishing was pioneered and became a fashionable craze.
Robert Hudson has mixed real characters with fictional ones to produce a fast-paced, enjoyable romp that is hard to categorise: his tale, based on a contest between the American writer of Westerns Zane Grey and the equally real English gent Lorenzo Mitchell-Henry, is too witty for farce, not biting enough for satire and humorous rather than laugh-out-loud funny.
The convoluted plot, involving suave aristocrats, mysterious Chinese drug lords, secret agents and relentless bed-hopping of an often distinctly kinky nature, is far too implausible to be taken seriously as anything but a homage to the lurid thrillers of the interwar era. Yet it allows Hudson to have fun with the excesses of the Fast Set, and to play with different voices in letters written by protagonists such as Martha Gellhorn, Hemingway's third wife and later an acclaimed war correspondent.
The book ends with "A Note on the Type": "Goudy Old Style, and not because the font has a jazzy italic 'z' and diamond-shaped full-stops… Or even because of the sharply-canted hyphen…" There is more of this, from which one might conclude that Hudson is a bit up himself. But perhaps it's all part of the undeniable amusement.
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By: GetReal , 01:36 PM GMT am 28. Februar 2012
In my humble opinion, I do believe that the winner of the upcoming Presidential election in November will be decided by the pocketbook issue of gasoline prices. Gasoline prices will directly influence inflation and what we are paying for groceries and other needs. Additionally higher gasoline prices WILL have a direct impact on the alleged economic recovery that the current Obama administration wants us Americans to believe we are experiencing.
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This is just my opinion, but what I am seeing here is just an attempt to cover up the weakness of the Republican presidential candidates. Obama has everything working against him, for his re-election. Everything, save one. A strong Republican presidential candidate. Should there be a strong Republican presidential candidate available, then this blog would be pointless, simply because it would not be needed. The U.S. voters are becoming much more knowledgeable and savvy about how things are done and manipulated to make one party look better than the other, under different circumstances. This, in itself, may make this blog pointless as well since it will be viewed as just more finger pointing. Put up a viable presidential candidate and I will vote for them. I did not vote for Obama in the last election. You should not confuse me, and many Independents, as one that would vote for, "anybody, but Obama!". We may have a "Pinto" in office now, but do not offer me a "Yugo" as a replacement. |
get...no matter what it takes...i'll survive...in fact...i'll make the best out of it...but what i know of you...you're smarter than you're acting by blaming it on a politician you don't like...there's no point in showing the real factors at play here forcing gas prices up...because i'm pretty darn sure you already know them...but if this blog gig makes you happy...by all means...go for it |
Sky I do have to disagree on the Keystone pipeline. The pipeline can be built safely, and create a number of construction and support related jobs in those areas. There are hundreds of thousands of miles of pipelines in this country and coastal waters, that are being safely operated. Make no mistake about it, IMO, the Keystone pipeline will be built, even if Obama is re-elected as payback for union support. He will no longer need heed the wishes of the greens after the election. |
Thanks for the different feedbacks to Nelson's thoughts.. Get Real~ One of Nelson's point is we gave up 8million prime acres in the GOM. Doesn't even mention the recent land give in Alaska. We gave into drill baby drill & speculators are still running wild. They took their restrictions away in 2000. Glad to see him not backing Keystone. There is no way to protect that huge water reserve for a large slice of the country & to risk our water so corporations could refine & sell it to other counties is not helping US. |
Thanks Ric I will continue to post what you desribe as gloom and doom, but what I and many others call reality. I know, like many others around here, that a $100 dollar bill does not buy nearly as much at Walmart as it once did three years ago. Hell it takes $50 or more now to fill up the average late model mid-size automobile gas tank now. So ric you can continue to make up your excuses for yourself, and convince yourself that you and the rest of the country are doing just fine! Check back with me when the national average for regular unleaded gasoline is $4.50 come Memorial Day weekend. |
seems the cpi covers what i spend monthly and yearly...but you keep up the doom and gloom ;-) What goods and services does the CPI cover? The CPI represents all goods and services purchased for consumption by the reference population (U or W) BLS has classified all expenditure items into more than 200 categories, arranged into eight major groups. Major groups and examples of categories in each are as follows: FOOD AND BEVERAGES (breakfast cereal, milk, coffee, chicken, wine, full service meals, snacks) HOUSING (rent of primary residence, owners' equivalent rent, fuel oil, bedroom furniture) APPAREL (men's shirts and sweaters, women's dresses, jewelry) TRANSPORTATION (new vehicles, airline fares, gasoline, motor vehicle insurance) MEDICAL CARE (prescription drugs and medical supplies, physicians' services, eyeglasses and eye care, hospital services) RECREATION (televisions, toys, pets and pet products, sports equipment, admissions); EDUCATION AND COMMUNICATION (college tuition, postage, telephone services, computer software and accessories); OTHER GOODS AND SERVICES (tobacco and smoking products, haircuts and other personal services, funeral expenses). Also included within these major groups are various government-charged user fees, such as water and sewerage charges, auto registration fees, and vehicle tolls. In addition, the CPI includes taxes (such as sales and excise taxes) that are directly associated with the prices of specific goods and services. However, the CPI excludes taxes (such as income and Social Security taxes) not directly associated with the purchase of consumer goods and services. The CPI does not include investment items, such as stocks, bonds, real estate, and life insurance. (These items relate to savings and not to day-to-day consumption expenses.) |
Sorry for the duel post folks. Must've been a hickup. |
Banning the trade in gasoline futures would not be wise. Many fuel intensive industries, such as airlines, need to lock in their future price of fuel since it is such a large part of their overhead. Raising the margin rate on futures trading would decrease the amount of speculation though. |
Banning trading in gasoline futures would not be wise. Many industries such as airlines, need to lock in their future fuel price in advance for obvious reasons since it is a large part of their overhead, however, if they raised the margin on commodities trading it would cut down on alot of the speculation. |
Premium gas at $3.98 in Portland yesterday. Agree with most of this blog. Of course I don't want to see ANWAR opened up and even if the keystone pipeline gets built there will be too few jobs and apparently no oil at all for America from it. I don't believe there's much the President (any President) can do to effect gas prices short term. Short sighted, knee-jerk reason to cast a ballot one way or the other, IMO. |
please do not remove this blog.....since it's been up oil prices and gas futures have declined everyday...you're a great american!!!!! |
Check out the link above to the U.S. national gas price heat map.... It is very enlightening to watch the red spread west to east across the U.S. |
Today here in upstate NY, regular is $3.96 and premium is $4.20. |
Love your gas station sign. Saw one once that said, in order from the top: Arm Leg First Born |
Hi GR, You are back!!!!! Glad to see you here again! |
Equivalent to $8.46 per U.S. gallon today. Im in Europe, of course. The math: Gas station sign says 1.64. 1.64 Euro per liter. $1.37 per Euro today. 1.64 x 1.37 = $2.24 per liter $2.24 x 3.78 liters per U.S gallon = $8.46 per U.S. gallon. Politics? Of course. 75% of the price in Germany is taxes. |
I hate to admit it, but I will agree with Nelson on this issue of the oil speculation market, and the dealing of oil futures. Speculators would be unable to bid up the price if there was more of a will to drill-baby-drill increasing the domestic crude supply. It would have helped if we would have developed the ANWAR field 10 years ago... |
Got this e-mail from Sen. Bill Nelson the other day...looks like he's sponsoring a bill. Not sure how effective it would be. What ya'll think? Getting around $3.80 in east central Florida. Dear Friends, Gas prices most places are pushing $4 a gallon - again. And news reports say it could be $5 or more by summertime. That's outrageous – and unjustified. Whether it's the continuing threat of unrest in the Middle East or the lure of quick profit, the price of oil is driven in big part by traders, speculators and, of course, fear. There's been unrest in the Middle East for thousands of years, as we're seeing right now with Iran and the Strait of Hormuz. Every time we're faced with this international uncertainty, especially in the Middle East, we're reminded why we must get off of foreign oil. Nothing's going to eliminate the volatility in oil prices like becoming less dependent on foreign energy sources. But we've also got to stop a new brand of oil trader who has emerged in the last decade, a middle man of sorts, who's also driving up the price we pay at the pump. Many experts agree we should not allow these traders to bid up the price of oil and flip futures contracts like condos. Yet in the last ten years the share of the oil market controlled by investors and speculators has more than doubled. During the same time, American drivers have seen the price of gas at the pump go from about $1.56 per gallon to around $3.61 per gallon or more. By bidding up oil futures, speculators also increase costs for our airlines, industrial energy users and other businesses. And these higher costs are passed on to consumers like you and me. Fact is, the level of speculation in today's energy markets greatly exceeds the historic norm. If you want to know the truth, it's partly the fault of broken-down policies from a Congress dominated by partisanship and extremism. Congress deregulated oil traders in December 2000. And it hasn't tackled a comprehensive alternative energy policy since Nixon and Carter first talked about one in the 1970s. Anyone can push for gas-tax holidays and the Keystone Pipeline. In fact, I support the pipeline as long as it's in an area where it's not as much of a threat to the entire Midwest water supply and we require that the oil stay here at home and not be sold to foreign countries. We've already given the oil companies more than eight million more prime acres in which to drill in the Gulf of Mexico. Now we should curb the activities of speculators. And, in the long term, we must develop alternatives to gasoline. I think Congress should pass legislation that aims to drastically limit the ability of speculators to artificially drive up energy prices. If this bill passes, there would be the first-ever limits on how much of the oil market speculators can control. The chief cosponsor of my bill is Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV). Plain and simple: the legislation says no single investor could hold more than 5 percent of the oil futures market, thereby greatly reducing speculators ability to manipulate prices. Does this sound like an idea you could support? Please let me know. Also, let me know what else you think we could do to bring down gas prices. Sincerely, Bill Nelson |
Here in NOLA metro area unbranded regular unleaded is averaging $3.56 a gallon; the name brand is averaging $3.70. |
Hi GR 3.79 in Iron Mountain. |
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