ragincajun03

re: How much longer do non major bowls last?

Posted by ragincajun03 on 8/21/26 at 2:35 pm to Fun Bunch

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If I can't live in a world where Marshall plays Troy in the Beef O'Brady Bowl, I don't want to live anymore

Well since they've been in the same conference for four years now, should Chicken direct his staff put you on suicide watch?

re: Pro-Vax Posts from Random 20-21 Threads on Topic

Posted by ragincajun03 on 8/21/26 at 11:04 am to Judnnc

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President Trump’s swift, decisive response to the Coronavirus saved millions of American lives. Amid heavy criticism, President Trump halted travel from China, restricted all other foreign travel into the United States, and rapidly repatriated more than 100,000 American citizens stranded abroad.

He established the Coronavirus Task Force to manage the Administration’s response efforts and launched Operation Warp Speed, which successfully saw two safe and effective Coronavirus vaccines in distribution by the end of 2020. The President’s historic investment in the U.S. industrial base was the largest since World War II, and he invoked the Defense Production Act more than 100 times to accelerate the manufacture of essential materials and lifesaving personal protective equipment (PPE).

On President Trump’s watch, the United States led the world in Coronavirus testing and pioneered groundbreaking treatments and therapies that reduced the mortality rate by 85 percent—saving over 2 million lives.

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Brought the full power of American medicine and government to produce a safe and effective vaccine in record time

Launched Operation Warp Speed to initiate an unprecedented drive to develop and make available an effective vaccine by January 2021
Pfizer and Moderna developed two vaccines in just nine months, five times faster than the fastest prior vaccine development in American history
Pfizer and Moderna’s vaccines are approximately 95 effective—far exceeding all expectations

AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson also both have promising candidates in the final stage of clinical trials
The vaccines were prepared for administration within 24 hours of FDA approval
Made millions of vaccine doses available before the end of 2020, with hundreds of millions more to quickly follow
FedEx and UPS will ship doses from warehouses directly to local pharmacies, hospitals, and healthcare providers
Finalized a partnership with CVS and Walgreens to deliver vaccines directly to residents of nursing homes and long-term care facilities as soon as a state requests it, at no cost to America’s seniors
Signed an executive order to ensure that the United States government prioritizes getting the vaccine to American citizens before sending it to other nations
Provided approximately $13 billion to accelerate vaccine development and to manufacture all of the top candidates in advance
Provided critical investments of $4.1 billion to Moderna to support the development, manufacture, and distribution of its vaccines
Provided Pfizer up to $1.95 billion to support the mass manufacturing and nationwide distribution of their vaccine candidate
Provided approximately $1 billion to support the manufacturing and distribution of Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine candidate
Made up to $1.2 billion available to support AstraZeneca’s vaccine candidate
Made an agreement to support the large-scale manufacturing of Novavax’s vaccine candidate with 100 million doses expected
Partnered with Sanofi and GSK to support large-scale manufacturing of a COVID-19 investigational vaccine
Awarded $200 million in funding to support vaccine preparedness and plans for the immediate distribution and administration of vaccines
Provided $31 million to Cytvia for vaccine-related consumable products
Under the PREP Act, issued guidance authorizing qualified pharmacy technicians to administer vaccines
Announced that McKesson Corporation will produce store, and distribute vaccine ancillary supply kits on behalf of the Strategic National Stockpile to help healthcare workers who will administer vaccines
Announced partnership with large-chain, independent, and regional pharmacies to deliver vaccines

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Former President Donald Trump has dismissed claims that COVID-19 vaccines are broadly unsafe while asserting that his own role in the development of the vaccines may have saved 100 million lives.

Trump touted the effectiveness of Operation Warp Speed, his administration's program to accelerate the development of COVID-19 vaccines and therapeutics, during a Monday interview on the conservative podcast The Water Cooler.

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"I was able to get something approved that, you know, that has proven to have saved a lot of lives," Trump said, ignoring Brody's request to weigh in on the anti-vaccine narrative. "Some people say that I saved 100 million lives worldwide."

LINK

I am grateful President Trump was able to cut through red tape and get a safe and effective vaccine on the market to save so many lives...and allowed people the right to choose if such effective and life-saving vaccine was right for themselves to take.

:usa:

re: GOP senator places hold on Trump nominees over wetlands policy

Posted by ragincajun03 on 8/20/26 at 9:03 pm to Jbird

If this were Fetterman or Manchin doing this to Biden to get him to repeal this act that Cramer wants repealed, we’d all be praising them.

But this guy, who had been a Trump ally, has an angle to get President Trump to repeal this Biden Admin act, and we’re pissed he’s using it?

re: What happens if the college athletics bubble burst?

Posted by ragincajun03 on 8/20/26 at 2:54 pm to KosmoCramer

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They would.

Nah…think I agree with him/her more.

Maybe dedicated huge fans of NFL teams would to see how their farm team looks, but overall, probably not.

But I don’t care. Those who don’t want to play school should then go play without the school’s name on their uniform. Go collect all the money your heart desires.

re: What happens if the college athletics bubble burst?

Posted by ragincajun03 on 8/20/26 at 2:52 pm to KosmoCramer

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athletes are actually student athletes that aren't good enough to get paid, and the NFL is forced to create a minor league.

Sounds good to me.

re: MAGA is "Killing it" in making debt

Posted by ragincajun03 on 8/20/26 at 12:57 pm to jp4lsu

After midterms, the Administration will re-enact the Gold Standard, and all this will be resolved.

-7

re: Cook Political shifts 4 key statewide race ratings:

Posted by ragincajun03 on 8/20/26 at 12:10 pm to Circle K Beggar

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Texas GOP could have run anyone else (Brandon Gill, Wesley Hunt, etc) and that race wouldn’t even be close

Just imagine the TX GOP could be framing this race as the All-American soldier, and proud husband and father of a beautiful family that is visible in the TX community, Wesley Hunt, vs James Talarico who is ok with high school boys competitive in girls sports.

Instead, you have to figure out how to promote a sleeze ball who instead participating in America 250 celebrations to promote himself and his campaign was prancing around in Europe with his mistress, and ditching her to run away from cameras.

re: GOP senator places hold on Trump nominees over wetlands policy

Posted by ragincajun03 on 8/20/26 at 11:58 am to MrLSU

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Sen. Kevin Cramer (N.D.) has been anti-Trump from Day 1.

Actually, I believe he was one of the first members of Congress to endorse Trump in his run for the 2016 GOP nomination. He voted against investigating Jan 6. He was a big supporter of the proposed DOGE cuts.

So no, he has not been “anti-Trump from Day 1”.

re: Engineer warned Trump admin of peeling pool liner a month before vandalism charges

Posted by ragincajun03 on 8/20/26 at 11:44 am to ugasickem

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Who gives a shite?

Lots of people did for a while. Enough to be pissed when the charges against the alleged vandal were dropped.

re: Federal judge just dismissed coastal damages lawsuit against Exxon in Vermilion Parish

Posted by ragincajun03 on 8/20/26 at 11:42 am to loogaroo

Interesting. The Landry Administration was all about its trial lawyer backers suing the crap out of the oil & gas industry…until suddenly this came up.

At the end of the day, SpaceX investment in the state should hopefully be a big net positive.

re: 3 time Olympian Jenny Simpson suffers cardiac arrest at track meet

Posted by ragincajun03 on 8/20/26 at 8:34 am to Ingeniero

Have an upvote.

re: Evangeline bread

Posted by ragincajun03 on 8/20/26 at 8:31 am to Biggins

Yes.

Food and Drink

re: U.S. Shale Majors Cut Spending Despite Higher Oil Prices

Posted by ragincajun03 on 8/20/26 at 8:29 am to aTmTexas Dillo

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we are pretty oil thirsty.

Not for long. We will soon have all the solar panels, windmills and cobalt batteries we need.

re: U.S. Shale Majors Cut Spending Despite Higher Oil Prices

Posted by ragincajun03 on 8/20/26 at 8:28 am to fightin tigers

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Thought I read that upstream was at some of it's lowest employment in the last 20 years or so.

It is.

Though it’s worth keeping in mind you don’t need the same amount of bodies these days as 20 years ago. Between these 2 mile+ horizontal laterals, consolidation of operating acreage to minimize rig movement, the construction of large well pad to drill 8+ wells off a single pad with step outs, and construction of large consolidated batteries and facilities rather than a pad by pad or per 640 acre section basis, less manpower is needed.

Talking just the Permian, companies are producing oil at a higher rate than just 10-15 years ago with way less rigs needed.

re: U.S. Shale Majors Cut Spending Despite Higher Oil Prices

Posted by ragincajun03 on 8/20/26 at 8:02 am to RanchoLaPuerto

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There’s a mess of companies out there spending more.

Devon sure spent like there was no tomorrow in the most recent Federal Lease Sale in New Mexico. I think they might be regretting it some now. :lol:

re: Trump accounces economic "D Day" against Iran

Posted by ragincajun03 on 8/20/26 at 7:56 am to Woodsman

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Iran does business with China, India, and Pakistan. So let's go total sanctions of all those 3 countries, lock their funds, kick them all out of Swift system. Cut all trades with them and so no more oil for them.

I wouldn’t necessarily be opposed, but one of the terms of a trade deal Trump was making with India in exchange for not tariffing the hell out of them was for them to buy oil, and a bunch of LNG, from the U.S.

India and China are two of the largest customers of U.S. oil. We barely send half a turd of oil to Pakistan.

U.S. Shale Majors Cut Spending Despite Higher Oil Prices

Posted by ragincajun03 on 8/20/26 at 7:48 am

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U.S. oil companies dominating the shale patch are planning to trim their spending plans and instead take advantage of higher international oil prices to reduce debt and boost shareholder returns. This is bad news for production growth.

Bloomberg reported earlier this month that all the big names in shale had reduced their spending over the first six months of the year. Chevron and ConocoPhillips spent 10% less in the period while Occidental slashed its spending on operations in the Permian by as much as a fifth over the first half of the year. Others, including APA Corp., HighPeak Energy, and Matador, are also spending less, the Bloomberg report also said.

The fact that Big Oil and independent shale majors are cutting spending to reward shareholders and pay down debt is not news. The industry has been following the path of fiscal discipline and shareholder return prioritization for years now. The fact that this path remains the one of choice for the majors means production growth in the world's top producer may slow down in the coming months—while the world slips into a shortage.

The global oil market is about to slip into a deficit of 1.8 million barrels daily, the International Energy Agency said in its latest monthly Oil Market Report. U.S. crude oil production has been breaking records, reaching 13.714 million barrels daily in May, the latest data from the Energy Information Administration shows. Drilling rig numbers are on the rise, with the total 43 rigs higher than a year ago as of the second week of August.

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In the years between 2017 and 2020, oil production soared from 8.8 million barrels daily, as of December 2016, to 11.188 million barrels daily as of December 2020, according to data from the Energy Information Administration. This was a gain of almost 2.4 million barrels daily in four years, one of which years saw the sharpest, deepest demand destruction in history as countries locked down to contain the spread of Covid. Excluding this event, U.S. oil production hit 12.865 million barrels daily in January 2020. On this basis, total production growth between December 2016 and January 2020 stood at over 4 million barrels daily.

Between 2020 and May 2026, however, growth has slowed down to 2.5 million barrels daily, with production in the current year actually slightly lower than the average monthly for October 2025, for instance, which stood at 13.864 million barrels daily. The average for November 2025 was also higher than the latest monthly average, at 13.789 million barrels daily.

What this suggests is that U.S. shale oil producers are not, in fact, boosting production considerably in response to the crunch caused by the war in the Middle East. They are, based on the data, producing at consistent levels without making any sudden moves.

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This would come as no surprise to those who have been watching the shale patch for a while. The years of burning through cash and accumulating piles of debt just to see how much oil you could squeeze out of the shale rock are over, and they are not coming back. Discipline and shareholder returns are the name of the new game.

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Of course, well depletion and productivity decline may well have a role to play in the industry's agenda, too, and that role should not be underestimated.

LINK

re: Best Wood-fired Streaks in Houston area?

Posted by ragincajun03 on 8/19/26 at 5:47 pm to Badmug

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The most favorite item is the not-to-be-missed Deviled Crabs.

Made reservations this morning at Fielding’s since we want to be able to hang out in that part of Houston Friday evening; however, we will definitely be making our way to Credence soon. I want to try the deviled crabs and the roasted oysters with the chilis.

Food and Drink

re: some more polling data

Posted by ragincajun03 on 8/19/26 at 2:11 pm to FATBOY TIGER

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RCP has him 1.5 down.

It’s early, so we’ll see if that holds. RCP, from what I can tell, compiles an average based on polls that I suppose they deem trustworthy.

RPC Average for Cruz vs Beto was Cruz +6.8. Cruz ended up winning by 2.6. That was 2018.

2024 TX Senate race, RPC average was Cruz 4.7 vs Allred & Brown combined. Cruz won by 8.5 over Allred and by 6.1 over Allred and Brown combined.

2024 Presidential Election, RPC average had Harris +0.1. Result was Trump +1.5.

RPC did have Trump winning EC, but only 287 to 251. They had Harris +0.4 in Wisconsin and +0.5 in Michigan. Trump won those.

So right now, especially this early in the race, if they have Talarico up by 1.5, it’s probably more like Paxton is up by 1.5. Still too close for comfort.

re: Gas prices (yes another thread on them)

Posted by ragincajun03 on 8/19/26 at 11:47 am to alphaandomega

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wasnt the SPR more important when we had to depend on others for the majority of our fuel (before fracking, etc).

That theory has been brought up on here before quite a few times. However, if one suggested it from about March 2022 to November 2024, they were a Biden sympathizer who wanted to be dependent on our enemies for our energy needs.

I honestly have no idea where the reality lies of our need to have a beefed up SPR. It does seem to me it would be of help in the event of some wartime type emergency, but that’s just my simplistic guess.