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NEW YORK, April 23 (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc’s Sam’s Club warehouse division said on Wednesday it is limiting sales of several types of rice, the latest sign that fears of a rice shortage are rippling around the world.
Sam’s Club, the No. 2 U.S. warehouse club operator, said it is limiting sales of Jasmine, Basmati and long grain white rice “due to recent supply and demand trends.”
U.S. rice futures hitting an all-time high Wednesday on worries about supply shortages.
On Tuesday, Costco Wholesale Corp the largest U.S. warehouse club operator, said it has seen increased demand for items like rice and flour as customers, worried about global food shortages and rising prices, stock up
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nobody sees it coming and it'll be over before the denial crowd can say WTF... :D
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http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=132908 (http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=132908)
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I kind of want some steak & rice right now :)
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The party is over... Time to start over... That's not my quote. :)
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nobody sees it coming and it'll be over before the denial crowd can say WTF... :D
Well said.
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I think I read they were limited to 4 twenty pound bags.
That's still a heck of a lot of rice
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I think I read they were limited to 4 twenty pound bags.
That's still a heck of a lot of rice
depends on how you see it, If told someone this a few years back they would have laughed, if you told someone this 15 years ago, they would have said, WTF won't happen. You could get a hundred pound bag for 15-20 bucks. anyway, with the amount of poor around the world that count on this stuff, it's an indicator of serious shit imo.
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depends on how you see it, If told someone this a few years back they would have laughed, if you told someone this 15 years ago, they would have said, WTF won't happen. You could get a hundred pound bag for 15-20 bucks. anyway, with the amount of poor around the world that count on this stuff, it's an indicator of serious shit imo.
Yeah - I agree that this is some shitstorm we got brewing here at the moment
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Yeah - I agree that this is some shitstorm we got brewing here at the moment
No. We live in paradise, just ask beachbum. The govt will always take care of us.
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No. We live in paradise, just ask beachbum. The govt will always take care of us.
well bum does live in Hawaii and I live in Northern CA (which I think is pretty damn nice).
The shitstorm is on the horizon though.
I'm not too confident the govt can (or wants to do anything about it)
Fuck - Bush wasn't even aware of the high cost of gas as of ~ 2 months ago and when asked his only comment was "that's interesting".
Then again - A Bush solution is on the way and all our economic woes will be a thing of the past.
http://www.foxbusiness.com/article/stimulus-rebates-start-arriving-monday_579666_39.html
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well bum does live in Hawaii and I live in Northern CA (which I think is pretty damn nice).
I've spent time in both. No comparison. Northern Cal is a nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there.
But I can't even see the mountains this morning. The vog is terrible. Somebody put a lid on that dang volcano. >:(
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I've spent time in both. No comparison. Northern Cal is a nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there.
But I can't even see the mountains this morning. The vog is terrible. Somebody put a lid on that dang volcano. >:(
No doubt Hawaii is nice but I'd prefer to visit it occassionally rather than live there.
to each his own.
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No doubt Hawaii is nice but I'd prefer to visit it occassionally rather than live there.
to each his own.
Yeah, who needs clean air (except for today), breathtaking mountains and ocean, 82-85 degree weather year round, beautiful people, safe streets and neighborhoods, etc., etc. :)
There is that whole money/expense thing, but it isn't much different than most big cities, including places like S.F., L.A., and S.D.
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don't forget that Hawaii has legal gay marriage
That's another one in the plus column for you
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don't forget that Hawaii has legal gay marriage
That's another one in the plus column for you
lol. No they don't.
But S.F. is the gay capital of the U.S., so I completely understand why you'd rather live there than paradise.
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But S.F. is the gay capital of the U.S., so I completely understand why you'd rather live there than paradise.
Weird that you are gay-bashing, and you are by FAR the person who starts the most gay-marriage threads here.
It's always the loudest ones that keep the secrets, eh? ;)
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don't forget that Hawaii has legal gay marriage
That's another one in the plus column for you
LOL.
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lol. No they don't.
But S.F. is the gay capital of the U.S., so I completely understand why you'd rather live there than paradise.
well I coulnd't give a rat's ass if gays want to marry but I guess you're right that it's better living here than stuck on an island with a bunch dim-witted, bible thumping bigots..... not you of course but all those other ones.
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well I coulnd't give a rat's ass if gays want to marry but I guess you're right that it's better living here than stuck on an island with a bunch dim-witted, bible thumping bigots..... not you of course but all those other ones.
I hear you. I wouldn't want to live with all of the dense, humorless, pot smoking, paranoid, anti-religious extremists in S.F. Not you of course, but all those other ones.
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I hear you. I wouldn't want to live with all of the dense, humorless, pot smoking, paranoid, anti-religious extremists in S.F. Not you of course, but all those other ones.
the only part that fits is anti-religious which is more aptly described as anti-superstition or maybe just pro-intelligence.
Actually I look at religious people the same way I look at gays - I don't get it but I also don't give a shit ....until you start forcing your belief upon me.
So far no gay people have tried to force their beliefs on me but I can't say the same about the religious kooks
BTW - I'm sure your little island puffs at least as much herb as Cali but then you knew that already
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So far no gay people have tried to force their beliefs on me but I can't say the same about the religious kooks
incredible quote there.
I have never had a gay person push their lifestyle on me.
But once a week, like clockwork, I have to answer the door and tell the jehoviahs witnesses that I'm not interested.
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However Straw, public schools have began pushing the gay agenda on YOUR children. What do you think about that?
Also....how the fuck is there a food shortage? Did soil conditions get worse? Is food output worse? I don't see how, as more and more people are dying of starvation so surely bulks of food can't possibly be going over there. And why does the US need food exports anyways? We can grow and more than adequately feed our entire population with more than enough left over to import.
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this is all mainstream news... drudge, cnn, Ny times, NY sun, WSJ:
wall street journal encouraged people to stock up.
UN Chief said bad things ahead.
several countries (brazil, USSR, argentina) stopped all food exports.
gas/oil prices up.
Food riots in haiti/egypt, elsewhere.
CNN reporting that many people are hoarding, Sams/Costco rationing rice.
I don't know what to make of it.
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However Straw, public schools have began pushing the gay agenda on YOUR children. What do you think about that?
Also....how the fuck is there a food shortage? Did soil conditions get worse? Is food output worse? I don't see how, as more and more people are dying of starvation so surely bulks of food can't possibly be going over there. And why does the US need food exports anyways? We can grow and more than adequately feed our entire population with more than enough left over to import.
I think the gay agenda is more about learning tolerance for the choices of other people and trying to understand that people are different.
If our society has to tolerate other peoples religious beliefs then those religious people have to tolerate other people non-religious beliefs.
This goes for all reglions except radical Islam for which I think there's very little hope of mutual tolerance.
I think the problem with food is more of rising costs than actual shortage (though I haven't paid much attention to this either).
Rising fuel costs are effecting everything
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I think the problem with food is more of rising costs than actual shortage (though I haven't paid much attention to this either).
there is no shortage here.
In some other countries, there are some rough spots. All we have had here, is rising food prices and people hoarding, causing sams/costco to start ratinoning/limiting what people can buy.
That scared some people. The Wall Street Journal scared a lot MORE people, by ENCOURAGING people to hord food. That article made no sense to me.
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this is all mainstream news... drudge, cnn, Ny times, NY sun, WSJ:
wall street journal encouraged people to stock up.
UN Chief said bad things ahead.
several countries (brazil, USSR, argentina) stopped all food exports.
gas/oil prices up.
Food riots in haiti/egypt, elsewhere.
CNN reporting that many people are hoarding, Sams/Costco rationing rice.
I don't know what to make of it.
I've been hoarding canned fish for the past few months - mostly because I love it and I've seen the prices go up recently.
I bought 4 cases of uber premium copper river salmon late last year now that the salmon fishing season was cancelled this year I'm really happy I stocked up.
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IMO, it's wholly irresponsible to tell the general public to hoard food. Because the idiot media is just dying to report some empty shelf somewhere, which will throw the public into a panic.
maybe it's good for ratings, but disrupting our system during tight economic times is irresponsible.
Of course, the writer who wrote that in the WSJ (that people should stock up on cereal, rice, etc) happened to own stock in Quaker....
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Since grains are a commodity and the world economy is being affected by economic instability, the slightest movement anywhere causes over reaction. Doesnt help that corn is trying to be used as fuel which takes millions of acres away from food production. If they wanted less fuel to be used, just tax it to $5.00 glln........people would use less immediatly and food would still be around.
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The USA grows most of our crops here. So we don't have a lot to worry about. There will be gradual rises due to gas prices - and there will be a few spot shrotages cause pricks are stocking up - but in the end, we take care of America first.
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The USA grows most of our crops here. So we don't have a lot to worry about. There will be gradual rises due to gas prices - and there will be a few spot shrotages cause pricks are stocking up - but in the end, we take care of America first.
But a lot of farmers are jumping on the ethanol band wagon, id imagine. wonder how many were converted this year?
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But a lot of farmers are jumping on the ethanol band wagon, id imagine. wonder how many were converted this year?
yeah, that did reduce crops. The global warming whiners actually caused food prices to jump!
They said they're opening more fields for agriculture (here and worldwide) and the problem will correct.
The population is just growing too quickly in non-industrialized nations. Middle east/africa... they keep having babies and not contributing. In the USA, we aren't growing nearly as fast.
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yeah, that did reduce crops. The global warming whiners actually caused food prices to jump!
They said they're opening more fields for agriculture (here and worldwide) and the problem will correct.
The population is just growing too quickly in non-industrialized nations. Middle east/africa... they keep having babies and not contributing. In the USA, we aren't growing nearly as fast.
True. Be nice if theyd quit fvcking for 10 yrs or so.... ;D
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True. Be nice if theyd quit fvcking for 10 yrs or so.... ;D
Hell yes. Looking at the stats, it's insane. The population in africa, asia, and the middle east is exploding, and the US population is very stable. They are using way more resources, which hurts us here.
They need to just put the dick down.
Attn people on the other hemisphere: YOUR MOUTH CANNOT GET PREGNANT!
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Attn people on the other hemisphere: YOUR MOUTH CANNOT GET PREGNANT!
lol
It's a crazy world.