No, no it says he doesn’t have to write about his free trip! And all of Dick Cheney’s friends and former coworkers at Haliburton were going to be giving hime money anyway.

How y’all can fall for liberal propoganda is beyond me.

We will take a tour of Chevron’s Blind Faith platform before they deploy it

[giggling uncontrollably]

Sometimes retaining the moral high ground is much less fun than being evil.

I’d love some sweet wingnut welfare. I just can’t do the whole ‘Head Crammed Up My Ass’ thing.

Although, if you talked to some of my acquaintances, they may beg to differ…

In fact accepting the trip is a tribute to his powers of objective reporting, since no dollars will be going in his pocket. Just like no conservative bloggers get any wingnut welfare of any type. No sirree Bob.

Hey Brad, why don’t we ever get invited on junkets?

Hey Brad, why don’t we ever get invited on junkets?

Because:

a.) Labor unions don’t generate enough cash to waste on Internet propagandists
b.) HollyWEIRD rightly believes that we’d drink their free champagne and make fun of them anyway

a.) Then why the hell do they force their members to pay dues, if not to bride Internet propagandists?
b.) Right on both counts.

if not to bride Internet propagandists?

I can marry anybody these days! Let freedom reign!

Q: a.) Then why the hell do they force their members to pay dues, if not to bride Internet propagandists?

A: So they can donate money to the likes of Joe Liarman.

I love this bit:

“This does pose a few questions about credibility, which I hope to address. First, no money has made it into my pockets.”

Oh, so taking a $1600 trip (coach!) does not constitute *real* payment, eh?

Similarly, Jonah Goldberg wrote just two days ago:
“By being a spokesperson for Frito Lay, I got a lifetime supply of tasty Cheetos brand cheese poofs. This does pose a few questions about my credibility, which I hope to address. First, no money has made it into my pockets, which are now stained by the occasional ball-scratch whilst I munch…”

Or, similarly, as Bradrocket wrote last week:
“I want to thank George Soros for sending me that sweet E-class convertible last week after I (coincidentally) wrote that glowing report about how well his plans for helping Islamic gay abortionists take over the world are working. This does pose a few questions about my credibility, which I hope to address. First, no money has made it into my pockets, and even the glove box full of cash was quickly turned into a non-cash gold statuette of Mighty George…”

Bubba- More like, “I want to thank the Patriots to letting me carry Tom Brady’s jock an…”

Ew. No. Even I cannot go there.

Bubba said,

“…the glove box full of cash was quickly turned into a non-cash gold statuette of Mighty George Tom Brady…”

There, now.

Damn, I’d of posted before brad if I didn’t have to check and see whether Peyton Manning or Tom Brady was the New England Colts qb.

Statuette of Tom Brady- nice add. I was struggling to think of something clever.

By the way, how do you do italics or links in comments?

Bubba- know anything about HTML? Here’s a quick primer.

Italix, I just cut and paste and then use [i] finished by [/i].

Links, [a href=”linkiethinghie”>and your name here for said linkiethinkie[/a]

In all cases, square brackets [ and ] are just placeholders for angle brackets .

E.G. HTML Links.

for italics. (remove the spaces)
Do the same thing to close the italics, but put ‘/’ before the ‘i’.

If you google HTML entities, you can find quite a few examples.

®
µ
ß
I’m not sure how to tell you the link trick, because since we are in HTML, it is difficult to type it without the parts doing something weird.

“Special” Ed wants us all to know that Chevron is sooo altruistic, they comp him the big-buck vacations even though he’d retail their cheesiest propaganda for free!

When you really come to “know” the oil industry (or they come to “know” you, in the Biblical sense), you find out that their generosity in such matters is limitless! Not to mention their good old-fashioned Spirit of America(tm) urge to boldly go where no man has gone before…

(Or wanted to, Ed. Because, as the old joke goes, there are *some* things a lab rat just won’t do.)

Unless you are that guy, in which case you will have proven your superiority to me.

What’s with the Day By Day cartoon on that page? Is it one of those experimental things where they take three frames from random different days and stick them together?

This guy is some kid’s grandfather? Ai yi yi. That creeps me out, for some reason.

Cap’n Ed: “Ahoy, matey, I’ll be the finest corporate wench the likes of which ye have never seen…”

The proper term is “peg boy.”

“I’ll have more over the next two days. Keep an eye on me, and I promise to report exactly what I see and hear, and remain honest in my analysis.”

How appropriate he’s going to a rig called Blind Faith.

I wonder if he’ll be going to Exxon’s new Gullible Shill platform after that.

Arky’s name up there reminded me:

Do y’all know that there is such a thing as being turned on by intelligence? I knew it existed, but to have its own name?

Sapio-sexual.

Sounds like some kind of lizard thing to me, but there you go…

Do y’all know that there is such a thing as being turned on by intelligence?

My impression was that fifty percent of the planet knows this and the other fifty percent like big butts and they cannot lie.

Does it make me a bad person to be in the latter category?

Does it make me a bad person to be in the latter category?

Whuzzat? Passing schoolgirl distracted me.

I’m glad I’m not the only one who didn’t know wtf the day by day cartoon was supposed to mean.

Do y’all know that there is such a thing as being turned on by intelligence? I knew it existed, but to have its own name?

Sapio-sexual.

And the opposite is a GOP-sexual.

Fortunately, people attracted to this particular type can find mates by hanging out in bathrooms.

And damn it, now I’ve got the Pete Shelley song stuck in my head.

I just found out that one of the bathrooms at one of our Co-Rec soccer fields is a popular cruise spot.

No wonder everyone was always using such a wide-stance in there.

What does it mean when you are sitting there, minding your own stance, and a soccer ball rolls under the partition?

Question 11.
What makes the world go round?
(a) Rotational inertia;
(b) Fat-bottomed girls.

Wheeeeeeeerrre has everybody…gone.

B, dude. B.

I believe, if I’m not mistaken, that fat bottom girls make this rockin world go round…

mikey

there is such a thing as being turned on by intelligence
If this be true, then prolonged exposure to the WWW has reduced my sexiness substantially.
This is a better explanation than blaming my age and declining personal hygiene.

HTML lesson for HTML teachers around here—

Seems we give out HTML lessons every once in a while to various regulars and passers-by, but everyone has some little trick to make sure the HTML isn’t parsed by WordPress. Well, here’s a little trick: &lt; is the less-than sign, e.g. <, and &gt; is the greater-than sign.

Combine the two…

<html> magic!

See? it even works for <a href=”foo”>links</a> too. Anything. Much more readable than using brackets and telling people to replace it manually.

Now, how did I get the &lt; and &gt; above, without those being parsed? Simple. &amp; is the escape code for &.

(Now I’m really going to look stupid if WordPress fucks up this comment)

Phew

Well, Simba, you are the King.

It’s a shame about Mufasa, though.

I am but a hyena to your highness.

My impression was that fifty percent of the planet knows this and the other fifty percent like big butts and they cannot lie.

There will surely be some union of the sets of those who like the intelligent and those who like the “well-grounded.”

mikey-

is there any other kind of world?

In honour of Brian May receiving his doctorate, Q. 11 needs revision:
What makes the rockin’ Zodiacal Dust Cloud go round?
(a) Rotational inertia;
(b) Fat-bottomed girls.

There will surely be some union of the sets of those who like the intelligent and those who like the “well-grounded.”

Oh yes. Quite right. No doubt about it. In fact I myself have the distinction of being one who is equally satisfied by the… the… was that like Jennifer Lopez walking by or something?

HTML lesson for HTML teachers around here—

Seems we give out HTML lessons

I’m not a field of study, I’m a human being!

What does it mean when you are sitting there, minding your own stance, and a soccer ball rolls under the partition?

Dunno… I’d try over at RedState.

We want information.

Thank you for the lesson guys & gals.

I’m way attracted by intelligence, but somehow a big-bottomed boy just doesn’t do it.

What does it mean when you are sitting there, minding your own stance, and a soccer ball rolls under the partition?

It depends upon the color of the ball and which side of the stall it came in from. It’s pretty complicated.

I’m way attracted by intelligence, but somehow a big-bottomed boy just doesn’t do it.

Well… i guess it all depends on what you mean by “big”. I mean, sometimes if their so big, and round, and out there… you know, like some rapper’s boyfriend’s butt…

It’s like, what did you get your degree in?

I like big, healthy, husky guys myself. Well-fed.

I have never been able to understand how thin was supposed to be attractive. In either gender.

I’m not saying husky. I’m pretty skinny myself.

But when a boy walks in with an itty-bitty waist and a round thing in my face I get… why am I doing this?

Simba B: I also like big guys. And shorter guys too actually, as long as they don’t have that short-man complex thing goin’ on. Nor have I ever understood the attractiveness of very thin in either gender. In women it seems mostly a cultural dictate; but in men, seems more of a narcissistic thing.

Just don’t want no big butt, is all.

[…] Finally, for some perspectives on an API trip, you might want to spend a few moments at Sadly No. […]

The fact is, this criticsm of the Captain is unwarranted and biased. The biased MSM takes ad dollars from oil companies and still submits them to liberal bias standards that would not be applied to Hillary Clinton or pot smokers. There is seldom good to say in nightly news about Big Oil, so they need to get the balanced word out there by inviting fact seekers to see the ground truth themselves and spread the word the nightly brainwashing of the networks hides, such as the fact that the greenshirts and ecohippies have strangled the refinery business for decades by not allowing new ones, therefore making them uncompetitive. The liberals want us under communism. Of that, the fact is, there is NoDoubt.

Nice little hidden shout out to Gwen Stefani, there, gary.

Thing is, though, she’s just not that into you.

Could be your great big ol’ white ASS…

mikey

Thanks for not addressing the susbtance of my arguement, like a tru lie-beral. You caanot admit that the refineries are being stopped by hippies, which is why gas cost so much, but I bet libs love that, if it will make us into yurotrash.

…like any industry that has important public-policy connections, (oil company) representatives engage the blogosphere on a regular basis.

Cap’n Ed looks forward to Chevron representatives engaging his connection on a regular basis, as they demonstrate new advances in exploratory drilling. But he is not accepting any money for these activities.

Gary Ruppert wrote:

Thanks for not addressing the susbtance of my arguement, like a tru lie-beral.

Yure wellkum.

Do y’all know that there is such a thing as being turned on by intelligence?

My impression was that fifty percent of the planet knows this and the other fifty percent like big butts and they cannot lie.

Tina got a big ole butt
I know you’ve just made a compelling argument
But Tina got a big ole butt
So I’m leaving you

Less-than sign, greater-than sign? What are you talking about? Those are alligators, and they’re hungry!

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Fake Gary’s comment reminded me of this:
Bender: Isn’t it true you that you have been paid for your testimony?
Pramala: Yes. You gave me a dollar and some candy.
Bender: And yet you haven’t said what I told you to say! How can any of us trust you?

Oh my god, an alligator ate that guy!

He was tasty, too! And meaty. Thanksgiving’s early this year.

I’m more worried about the tracks coming up the page and turning off to the right. There’s a rogue emu around here somehere.

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Futher interesting “disclosures” from TEH Captain’s ABOUT page:

My original Typepad blog had an explanation of the origins of “Captain Ed”, but here it is again so I don’t mislead people by mistake … It’s a nickname bestowed on me by a former girlfriend during a time in my life when I was a huge Star Trek fan, and had named my first car the Carship Enterprise, and had bought a license-plate frame with that on it. For a birthday gift, she got me a set of personalized license plates that read CPTN ED to fit within it.

Oh my god, and all this time I thought you were some macho military dude, mon Captain! After all those “expert-like” bloviations on military matters you’ve made on your fucking blog (linked by your pal Instapundit), one would have thought you were a hard chargin’, cigar-chompin’, blood-and-guts military officer. To learn you’re a pasty-faced, tubby, Star Trek-lovin’ goof is…wow. I am floored. FLOORED.

Why, exactly, are we supposed to take these wingnuts seriously? I seemed to have forgotten why.

Whoa, thanks for the HTML link. I have seriously thought this was a browser issue and tried this site on various browsers and computers looking for the built in comment options….HAHAHA….That’s a bit easier. But now I no longer think that you are all magic. Magical, yes. Oh, you know. Magical, but not like that mormon underwear.

Actually, I think you are super magical, especially today. I’ve been reading the Gates of Vienna post comments about being “refugees” from those “PC, left-coast” sites like Little Green Footballs. I might reread them and just post a video of me laughing so hard that I fall out of my chair again. Now I can comment with italics there if I want! I loved the “Catholic conspiracy” comment about LGF. This one deserves an award.

One of Cap’n Ed’s commenters praises his efforts, saying:

We no longer have a State Department to do these things

Thereby confirming the generally held belief that oil companies are a nation unto themselves, rather than American.

Cap’n Ed, embedded reporter in the 101st Oil Corporation Corps… No doubt every word he writes will be unbiased and true.

Going OT again and back onto making this rockin’ world go round, it cheered me up immensely to read that the guitarist in question is to be the next Chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University.

Money quote from the Vice-Chancellor: “In this age of celebrity culture, it is rare to find someone who has fame, fortune and universal acclaim and yet who remains true to his core values of learning and enlightenment.”

A friend of mine, Vido, once dressed up as the Starship Enterprise for Halloween.

Surprisingly cool and easy costume, and you have place to put your drinks.

is there any other kind of world?

t4t3r, I thought you said you grew up in the Midwest in the previous thread?