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Every time I see someone lighting a cigarette, I also see the Big Tobacco CEO holding a knife to their throat – “SMOKE OR DIE!” is what they say.

Don’t you know that Bill Gates amassed all that cash so he could pile it up, then jump in and play, like kids do with piles of leaves in autumn?

The only reason that someone would drill for oil is to dump it on the ground after bringing it up.

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RICHMOND, Va. – The head of cigarette maker Philip Morris International Inc. told a cancer nurse Wednesday that while cigarettes are harmful and addictive,but it is not that hard to quit

Got a link for the article where this revelation was originally posted?

Nicotine is one of the most addictive substances known to man.

Citations of evidence?

I tried smoking when I was 15 – it took all of half a cigarette (if that) for me to decide that it wasn’t worth doing. By this standard, I’m apparently a freak of nature.

Or maybe it’s not as true as the tobacco haters would like to believe.

Will, are you writing for Republic magazine now? Last issue I picked up had a “Will Grigg” listed on the masthead.

Oh and concerning Oil the current supply has nothing to do with price. Oil prices are based on how much the oil companies believe it will cost them to refill their refineries and storage tanks. So it is based on oil futures. That is why the price of gas is based on oil not yet pumped out of the ground. It is based not on the cost of the current supple, but on what someone guesses the supply and price will be months down the road.

So oil prices aren’t dependent on supply, but they really are, in the end?

Needless to say, I’m not at all a fan of this sort of double-talk. Psychiatrists call it “cognitive dissonance.”

Regardless of what it’s called, for those wanting the Imperial gaggles called “Congress” and “the Obama Administration” to regulate oil-price speculators need only follow proper Constitutional procedures first – pass a Constitutional amendment allowing such regulations.

All this requires is for the proposed amendment to get a two-thirds supermajority voting to support it in the U.S. House of Representatives, then a two-thirds supermajority voting to support it in the U.S. Senate, then ratification by three-quarters of the State Legislatures.

What are you waiting for – get started on that amendment!

Colonel Robert F. Cunningham said:

Even so, the thought of having anybody as morally bereft as Soros & Company in charge of this nation is appalling. We have the most prime example – right now – in the White House and in control of too much of the government and Free Enterprise.

I think Mr. Pickel’s actual concern is, that Donald Trump – a world reknown CEO – just might be able to REMOVE Obastard without actually running, and the communists can’t have that. There are a few of us who are personal friends of Gary Johnson and fully aware of how his business acumen straightened out the economic mess NM was in. There’s no doubt, in my mind at least, that Gary would be one hell of an improvement over the Kaks, RINOs and damned socialists we’re suffereing under right now. I don’t think the money is there for him to win, nor does he have the name-recognition among the TEAPs and Independent voters.

But if the question is CEO or another communist, the CEOs have my vote hands down.

AGH – Soros vs. Trump – what a choice!

Both of them are CEOs who have made bundles playing around with debt and fractional-reserve currencies while courting favor from governments. Trump has only been bankrupt four or five times, when he wasn’t bulldozing little old ladies’ homes for parking lot space at one of his casinos. Soros, on the other hand, seems to have no problem at all with drilling for oil, as long as he makes a bundle off it.

I’d really like to see the both of them were to go head-to-head in the markets and take each other out, such that afterward, they’re both dumpster diving for their meals.

Anyway, IF Trump can win the GOP nomination, then he still has to beat Obama, and I doubt that he can do that. All the Trump “campaign” is about is Seasons 11 and 12 of The Apprentice.

In Trump, we have a CEO who plays political football with his professed principles. Think of him as a male version of Heather Wilson, with a bigger mouth. The big difference between Wilson and Trump is that while Wilson is a sock puppet with someone else’s hand up her rear moving her lips, with Trump the hand is his own.

George Soros is a futures trader – the very sort of speculator that Pickel was complaining about. Soros makes a bundle speculating, moves his own cash out of that commodity, then complains about others doing the same sort of thing.

By the way, Soros is also the very sort of capitalist that Karl Marx was complaining about when he and Engels wrote The Communist Manifesto. Frederic Bastiat put out similar complaints about mercantilist plutocrats like Soros when he wrote The Law – except that the solutions advocated by Marx and Bastiat are wildly divergent.

And about Dinelli – while he was working for Slick Marty Chavez, he was the point-man on eminent domain efforts to seize low-income homes and businesses under the guise of “cleaning up ‘urban blight.’” Hardly someone for advocates of smaller government and free markets to pay any attention to, other than as opposition research.

Bradley Grower said:

The internet is a wonderful invention for the mentally disturbed, because it allows them to ramble on incessantly without fear of being institutionalized. (SEE: All above comments)

Considering the source, I’ll take this as a compliment.