I came in late yesterday to work with the night crew for a little while. I got in at 12:30pm and got home at 10pm. That has completely messed me up. It was tough getting up this morning. Friday I was out till 2am, so I'm really kind dragging. I did get up early on Sunday, but didn't do a whole lot on Sunday. Remember the day when we could do a 24-hour day and get up and do it again???
Oil Company Profits
ExxonMobile posted a $10.7 Billion profit for the last quarter of 2005. Why does this make me so ill? I understand basic economics, supply and demand and the oil companies have us under their thumb. Oil is one of a few comodities where the supply decreases, prices increase yet demand remains unchanged. And the government (Bush and cronies, all oil men) aren't'/won't encourage any change. Now why should the government encourage change? Why should tax payer money be spent on research to find another energy source? Because it would be in the Best Interest of the country to find another, renewable energy source. But it's not in the Best Interest of Bush, Cheney and other Bush cronies, because they make money off the oil companies. Maybe not directly, but there are campaign contributions, soft money, lobbists and perks to be had. I'm sure someone will 'invent' or discover an alternate source, Americans are pretty ingenious when it comes to making a profit. And maybe there already is an alternate resource, it's just being kept under wraps till Cheney makes all the profits he can from Haliburton and government contracts in the War on Terrorism. Because if we don't depend on Middle East Oil, then what is the reason we are in Iraq??
It's a good thing no one reads this blog.
I'd could be put on someone's list to be watched. Boy, are they in for a long, dull surviellence! My phone hardly ever rings at home, I usually can't find my cell phone, all I watch on TV is the History Channel or A&E, I don't subscribe to any magazines, my trash consists of used cat litter and junk mail.
Putting my time to good use
I start my Small Business Class tomorrow night. I have a friend who's giving me lots of advice about starting my own business, suggesting to me I register the name as a trademark, grab a domain name, etc. I'm still sitting on the fence about this decision, but I may have already made it. I guess I need some excitement in my life (read above paragraph) and this certainly would give me something to do....
More to Come ..
As things happen, I'll be posting. Thanks for taking the time to read. You're opinions are welcome but if you have to start calling me names, don't bother, I won't read them. As my Dad says 'Opinions are like a**holes, everyone has one.'
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Bush and company aren't the only ones making money off of oil. Believe it or not, and it's of public record, Barbra Streisand, Michael Moore, George Soros, and various other well-known Dems are making a fortune off the oil stocks they own. They are the ones that throw out the same old rhetoric about Bush-Cheney and their oil involvements, but these people don't want you to know about their investments, especially in the oil stocks. Hypocrisy at its best.
Anonymous, I'm not all about bashing the GOP. I hate Hypocrisy at any level. This is one problem I have with politics. Whatever is against the other guy is what goes. Notice how many Republicans applauded the Line Item Veto? Remember when they were trying to pass that legislation when Clinton was president? Who applauded it then??
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