Monday, October 6, 2008
jeeze...
...looks like they aren't going to even wait (DOW 9,869.48 11:48 AM ET) until the election!!!
Saturday, October 4, 2008
Dear Mr Panza,
While running on the beach this morning, w/ the weight of the world on my shoulders -as usual - about 1/4 of the way thru, this total & complete "lightness" came over me (I now know what Saul felt like).
I suddenly realized that I had been relieved of "my stewardship" of the country. I was a free man! The government had broken its contract w/ me...in fact the contract had been broken long ago (we've been living in some kind of hybrid oligarchy since about '62), but I was too blind to see it. Of course, in my own defense, it was more subtle than these last few years, & far more subtle than these last few daze, but none the less... I also realized that you had been telling me that very thing for years! ...but I refused to hear - they don't call me rockhead for nothing, ya' know. Suddenly the windmills were merely windmills, still there, but there was nothing I could do about them any longer. Still taunting me, but now only windmills, now only a whisper. I was free of all of them!
Oh, be assured I shall do what is expected of me as a member of society, & my own rules of ethics & morals shall keep me in line, but I am a freeman! I don't even need to read the book. I've realized all this on my own...if only I had been listening to you sooner - if only...
Thank you, Sancho for sticking w/ me during my rants & raves, gently leading me to the promised land.
Welcome to "Fortress Rock"!!!
xos, Don
I suddenly realized that I had been relieved of "my stewardship" of the country. I was a free man! The government had broken its contract w/ me...in fact the contract had been broken long ago (we've been living in some kind of hybrid oligarchy since about '62), but I was too blind to see it. Of course, in my own defense, it was more subtle than these last few years, & far more subtle than these last few daze, but none the less... I also realized that you had been telling me that very thing for years! ...but I refused to hear - they don't call me rockhead for nothing, ya' know. Suddenly the windmills were merely windmills, still there, but there was nothing I could do about them any longer. Still taunting me, but now only windmills, now only a whisper. I was free of all of them!
Oh, be assured I shall do what is expected of me as a member of society, & my own rules of ethics & morals shall keep me in line, but I am a freeman! I don't even need to read the book. I've realized all this on my own...if only I had been listening to you sooner - if only...
Thank you, Sancho for sticking w/ me during my rants & raves, gently leading me to the promised land.
Welcome to "Fortress Rock"!!!
xos, Don
Friday, October 3, 2008
9:00 PM - Friday
Congress, this afternoon, has said to "We the people...", "you have no say in OUR decisions." Read that again, please.
That dupe of a president has signed it ("The Bail Out" of Amerika) & it is now "alive" in the land...the Land that minds like Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, et al., put their souls into, gone. Just like that. Gone.
I'm gone too.
Good bye.
-John Wm. Ballouz
That dupe of a president has signed it ("The Bail Out" of Amerika) & it is now "alive" in the land...the Land that minds like Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, et al., put their souls into, gone. Just like that. Gone.
I'm gone too.
Good bye.
-John Wm. Ballouz
Thursday, October 2, 2008
an open letter to two friends:
It is about 5:30am, Thursday & I've been up since about 3:am "stewing in my own juices". This is only going to two people - the two who(m?) I actually give a flying f* what they think - & they both are well versed in my "stewing"!
I've been pounding the keys for a couple of hours about the impending House vote on the rip-off of America. It was so boring, that I bored myself. So a simple DEL & Gone... & here is probably my final "will & testament" to the political process...short & hopefully sweet, as my forced retirement is imminent.
Put this away until July 1, '09 & give it a quick read. It may prove enlightening...but, then again, maybe not.
With this final unabashed rip-off of $700B, the Union is in such financial distress, the "bail-out" is all but assured, the people's will ignored - I shall resign. Please no weeping, for it is to a better place I go.
But, before I do - I shall keep it hopefully short - lets look a just a few things.
1. I don't have to go into the particulars of this "thing" because you both are well aware of it all.
2. We are witnessing such open theft that we may not recover in our lifetime.
3. This "thing" will effectively produce a 4th branch of government - accountable to no one. Operative Concept: non-transparency of any stripe!!!
4. Paulson - I call you a traitor. You have substantially weakened the Union for your - & your henchmen's (you see Goldman-Sachs hand in every cranny of this; & Buffet you should be held accountable, you lying fraud, because people look to you. ...a stretch? maybe, but so what?) - personal gain.
5. Bush - I call you a fool. You are but a tool, but should be held accountable, none the less...be assured history shall judge you for what you have done & allowed to be done.
6. The "Fed" - remember it consists of 12 privately owned banks - will now become the famed 800 lb. gorilla. (My thanks to K for first sending me on the scent, lo, those 20-25 yrs ago.)
7. I ask the NY Fed - where is the $4T that goes unaccounted for since '89?
8. - further - I ask the NY Fed why hasn't there been an audit - of any kind - since '95?
9. I ask Congress - why have you not performed your fiduciary responsibility & represented the people? Avarice or stupidity?
10. - further - I ask Congress why have you, in your unlimited hubris, ignored the will of the people (K, you were right & I was wrong, but to what end?) & passed this abomination (Redundant? So what?)?
11. - further - if it is in your (Congress) self interest - including the prospect that you've been bought - I accuse YOU, too, of treason.
12. - further - if you (Congress) are just stupid & non-informed of the facts, that is ALMOST, but not quite, excusable. You must be held accountable in so far as losing your job - at the least.
13. The "will of the people" is non-existent...they (the people) said: "no," you (the Congress) said: "so what"? Question: what does that - directly - speak to?
------------------------------------------------------------
Predictions:
Thursday, October 2, 2008 - remember that date - put this away until July 1, '09, then dig it out & call me fool or prophet.
(the paragraph breaks are artificial, but are simply there to make it easier to read)
Tomorrow when the House signs off on this "thing" the markets will probably jump. The exchanges world-wide will probably jump. Everyone will be slapping each other on the back saying: "...we did it."..."...saved the world."..."...we knew better than the people."..."...why, we're the pundits."
BUT watch: this will hold until the elections - maybe until the inauguration in January - but the incoming President will find himself in financial prison.
Mid-March, when the "corporates" come due, you'll see - if not sooner, mind you - the smart money being taken out & going elsewhere. The markets will crash...will make Tuesday's 777 look like "mice nuts" (quote my brother).
April 15 & - I do truly give it less than 100 to 1 - a tax revolt. I don't think that is really viable, but I also didn't think "the mob" would stir (K you were right, but again, to what end?) against this "thing"...so we'll see.
From then on you'll see a housing crash - unless the banks do exactly what (stalking-horse) got them into this "supposed mess" in the first place - the likes of which has NEVER been seen.
----------------------------------------------------
I could go on, but that's what I DEL'd, so why bother - you're both smart enough to get the "drift". My "Swan Song" should have been better & broader, but it would've entailed the third "B" - boredom.
I know when I SEND this I'll remember 100 other things I want to say - but I'll spare you both.
I've been pounding the keys for a couple of hours about the impending House vote on the rip-off of America. It was so boring, that I bored myself. So a simple DEL & Gone... & here is probably my final "will & testament" to the political process...short & hopefully sweet, as my forced retirement is imminent.
Put this away until July 1, '09 & give it a quick read. It may prove enlightening...but, then again, maybe not.
With this final unabashed rip-off of $700B, the Union is in such financial distress, the "bail-out" is all but assured, the people's will ignored - I shall resign. Please no weeping, for it is to a better place I go.
But, before I do - I shall keep it hopefully short - lets look a just a few things.
1. I don't have to go into the particulars of this "thing" because you both are well aware of it all.
2. We are witnessing such open theft that we may not recover in our lifetime.
3. This "thing" will effectively produce a 4th branch of government - accountable to no one. Operative Concept: non-transparency of any stripe!!!
4. Paulson - I call you a traitor. You have substantially weakened the Union for your - & your henchmen's (you see Goldman-Sachs hand in every cranny of this; & Buffet you should be held accountable, you lying fraud, because people look to you. ...a stretch? maybe, but so what?) - personal gain.
5. Bush - I call you a fool. You are but a tool, but should be held accountable, none the less...be assured history shall judge you for what you have done & allowed to be done.
6. The "Fed" - remember it consists of 12 privately owned banks - will now become the famed 800 lb. gorilla. (My thanks to K for first sending me on the scent, lo, those 20-25 yrs ago.)
7. I ask the NY Fed - where is the $4T that goes unaccounted for since '89?
8. - further - I ask the NY Fed why hasn't there been an audit - of any kind - since '95?
9. I ask Congress - why have you not performed your fiduciary responsibility & represented the people? Avarice or stupidity?
10. - further - I ask Congress why have you, in your unlimited hubris, ignored the will of the people (K, you were right & I was wrong, but to what end?) & passed this abomination (Redundant? So what?)?
11. - further - if it is in your (Congress) self interest - including the prospect that you've been bought - I accuse YOU, too, of treason.
12. - further - if you (Congress) are just stupid & non-informed of the facts, that is ALMOST, but not quite, excusable. You must be held accountable in so far as losing your job - at the least.
13. The "will of the people" is non-existent...they (the people) said: "no," you (the Congress) said: "so what"? Question: what does that - directly - speak to?
------------------------------------------------------------
Predictions:
Thursday, October 2, 2008 - remember that date - put this away until July 1, '09, then dig it out & call me fool or prophet.
(the paragraph breaks are artificial, but are simply there to make it easier to read)
Tomorrow when the House signs off on this "thing" the markets will probably jump. The exchanges world-wide will probably jump. Everyone will be slapping each other on the back saying: "...we did it."..."...saved the world."..."...we knew better than the people."..."...why, we're the pundits."
BUT watch: this will hold until the elections - maybe until the inauguration in January - but the incoming President will find himself in financial prison.
Mid-March, when the "corporates" come due, you'll see - if not sooner, mind you - the smart money being taken out & going elsewhere. The markets will crash...will make Tuesday's 777 look like "mice nuts" (quote my brother).
April 15 & - I do truly give it less than 100 to 1 - a tax revolt. I don't think that is really viable, but I also didn't think "the mob" would stir (K you were right, but again, to what end?) against this "thing"...so we'll see.
From then on you'll see a housing crash - unless the banks do exactly what (stalking-horse) got them into this "supposed mess" in the first place - the likes of which has NEVER been seen.
----------------------------------------------------
I could go on, but that's what I DEL'd, so why bother - you're both smart enough to get the "drift". My "Swan Song" should have been better & broader, but it would've entailed the third "B" - boredom.
I know when I SEND this I'll remember 100 other things I want to say - but I'll spare you both.
Monday, September 29, 2008
I...
...continue to wait & see the resolution of the $700B bail-out...but until then the words of Thomas Jefferson may have some validity:
“No country and no people can be free and ignorant at the same time.”
“No country and no people can be free and ignorant at the same time.”
Sunday, September 21, 2008
comment: news link #26
paragraph 2:
...
"The proposal, not quite three pages long, was stunning for its stark simplicity. It would raise the national debt ceiling to $11.3 trillion. And it would place no restrictions (emphasis mine) on the administration other than requiring semiannual reports to Congress, granting the Treasury secretary unprecedented power to buy and resell mortgage debt.
..."
...
"The proposal, not quite three pages long, was stunning for its stark simplicity. It would raise the national debt ceiling to $11.3 trillion. And it would place no restrictions (emphasis mine) on the administration other than requiring semiannual reports to Congress, granting the Treasury secretary unprecedented power to buy and resell mortgage debt.
..."
Saturday, August 23, 2008
082208
Yesterday I lost everything on my computer.
Yes, it was backed up, but, w/o going into boring detail,
it is unaccessable.
All my pictures, all my writings . . . everything gone.
Let this be a lesson to us all.
Yes, it was backed up, but, w/o going into boring detail,
it is unaccessable.
All my pictures, all my writings . . . everything gone.
Let this be a lesson to us all.
Friday, August 15, 2008
Thursday, August 7, 2008
comment: link # 24
Careful - little tough to watch at times, but see it before it's pulled off the NET. This is the last place where it can be accessed.
Thursday, July 31, 2008
comment: news link # 23
...absolutly none needed...but allow me to bring to your attention - in case you may have missed it - this quote from paragraph 2: "...the highest-ever profit by an American company. Exxon broke its own record."
Now, is there any possible chance of you waking up & realizing that that was done on YOUR back? Answer: no chance what-so-ever.
Now, is there any possible chance of you waking up & realizing that that was done on YOUR back? Answer: no chance what-so-ever.
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Leaderless Resistance
"The concept of Leaderless Resistance was proposed by Col. Ulius Louis Amoss, who was the founder of International Service of Information Incorporated, located in Baltimore, Maryland. Col. Amoss died more than fifteen years ago, but during his life was a tireless opponent of communism, as well as a skilled Intelligence Officer. Col. Amoss first wrote of Leaderless Resistance on April 17, 1962. His theories of organization were primarily directed against the threat of eventual Communist take-over in the United States. The present writer, with the benefit of having lived many years beyond Col. Amoss, has taken his theories and expounded upon them. Col. Amoss feared the Communists. This author fears the federal government. Communism now represents a threat to no one in the United States, while federal tyranny represents a threat to everyone . The writer has joyfully lived long enough to see the dying breaths of communism, but may, unhappily, remain long enough to see the last gasps of freedom in America." - Louis Beam
Monday, July 14, 2008
translation of news link #22
What first needs translation is it is just a huge lie!
p1,L5: "...federal dollars..." = your money
p2,L2: "...Federal Reserve..." = private bank = you pay, but "they" get the profit
L6: "...'to promote...markets." = bailout yet another big corp. at your expense
p3,L1: "...Fed..." = remember the Federal Reserve Bank is NOT a gov't bank
L7: "...$300 billion..." is better than $5 trillion, no? Guess it doesn't matter all that much when "they" pay w/ your money. Hey, did you get your $600.00 back yet?
Look, just read the article & be sure to keep the "blue bucket" close at hand.
p1,L5: "...federal dollars..." = your money
p2,L2: "...Federal Reserve..." = private bank = you pay, but "they" get the profit
L6: "...'to promote...markets." = bailout yet another big corp. at your expense
p3,L1: "...Fed..." = remember the Federal Reserve Bank is NOT a gov't bank
L7: "...$300 billion..." is better than $5 trillion, no? Guess it doesn't matter all that much when "they" pay w/ your money. Hey, did you get your $600.00 back yet?
Look, just read the article & be sure to keep the "blue bucket" close at hand.
Friday, July 11, 2008
comment:news link #21
Did you read the third & forth paragraphs in this article?
Are you screaming at your monitor?
Are you wailing at the top of your lungs?
Are you thrashing around knocking over everything in the room?
No?
Are you brain-dead?
Are you screaming at your monitor?
Are you wailing at the top of your lungs?
Are you thrashing around knocking over everything in the room?
No?
Are you brain-dead?
Thursday, July 10, 2008
from the Int'l Herald Tribune 07.10.08
"The head of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries warned Thursday that oil prices would see an "unlimited" increase in the case of a military conflict involving Iran...
Iran, the second-largest producing country in OPEC, after Saudi Arabia, produces about four million barrels of oil a day out of the daily worldwide production of close to 87 million barrels."
...do you actually understand what that means?
...& do you actually understand that the time has come to seize it all & quit fooling around?
Not one more GI life is acceptable...NOT ONE!!!
(see: news link #20)
Iran, the second-largest producing country in OPEC, after Saudi Arabia, produces about four million barrels of oil a day out of the daily worldwide production of close to 87 million barrels."
...do you actually understand what that means?
...& do you actually understand that the time has come to seize it all & quit fooling around?
Not one more GI life is acceptable...NOT ONE!!!
(see: news link #20)
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
NYT 07.09.08
- QUOTATION OF THE DAY -
"I'd like to get it, but what do you pay first? Do you pay the mortgage? Do you pay your child support? Do you pay your car insurance? Do you pay for your medicine?"
- CHAIM BENAMOR, on the cost of health insurance.
"I'd like to get it, but what do you pay first? Do you pay the mortgage? Do you pay your child support? Do you pay your car insurance? Do you pay for your medicine?"
- CHAIM BENAMOR, on the cost of health insurance.
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Monday, July 7, 2008
Saturday, June 28, 2008
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Latest Monologues:
‘Flirty E-Mails’
-jay leno
Aired Wednesday night on NBC: For the first time ever, gas across the entire country averaging $4 a gallon. Or as we call that in Los Angeles, the good old days.
And believe me, the oil companies, they are laughing all the way to the bank that’s foreclosing on your house...
-jay leno
Aired Wednesday night on NBC: For the first time ever, gas across the entire country averaging $4 a gallon. Or as we call that in Los Angeles, the good old days.
And believe me, the oil companies, they are laughing all the way to the bank that’s foreclosing on your house...
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
my email to poster
You know I don't like this sort of crap, but...
& I don't know how correct any of this information is.
Anyone can write anything about anything.
Doesn't make any of it true.
I just don't trust this at all, but who cares what I like, eh?
& I don't know how correct any of this information is.
Anyone can write anything about anything.
Doesn't make any of it true.
I just don't trust this at all, but who cares what I like, eh?
Monday, June 9, 2008
- QUOTATION OF THE DAY -
"I paid so much for gas to get to work I couldn't
pay my payments anymore."
- CLEVELAND WHITESIDE, a farm worker whose car
was repossessed because gasoline
prices have broken his budget.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/09/business/09gas.html?th&emc=th
pay my payments anymore."
- CLEVELAND WHITESIDE, a farm worker whose car
was repossessed because gasoline
prices have broken his budget.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/09/business/09gas.html?th&emc=th
Sunday, June 8, 2008
Guest Editorial (V):
"...people should never fear the government;
governments should always fear the people."
governments should always fear the people."
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Guest Editorial (KB):
Rock:
Here's the thing ..... (and this is kind of a mental jam session...okay????)
A Libertarian patiently explained to me why "the rich" would probably never intentionally completely ream "us little folks".
Pretty simple, actually: We are production and consumption units. Their wealth is founded upon our availability/ability to buy the goods and services of the companies they own, and to actually produced the goods and services the companies that they own provide to the marketplace.
Henry Ford said he never wanted to make a car his workers couldn't buy. This is maybe on of the greatest understandings of what a free market cold ideally be. (Henry Ford had a lot to say about TWMBO. Dearborn Independent. Maybe some day your turtle head will poke out of its intellectual carapace and you'll track this one down. But I digress..........)
Specialization of production skills requires a certain sized population. People must be lured to work. Slave labor works, but pretty inefficiently.
Hear me out ... hear me out ... roll another one.....
Slave labor works efficiently for direct physical tasks. Cool Hand Luke and the Boys kept those goddamm weeds down, didn't they? The boss man walks up and down the line and he can see, from the swings of the sickles, who is doggin' it.
But slave labor begins to loose efficiency with more complicated tasks. How can you push an accountant to crunch numbers faster? You can try, but you'll start getting errors. And how, as the slave master, can you get inside the accountant's head and see that he's truly doggin' it??
Now take this into the realm of engineers, and physicists, and honest-to-God thinkers ... the fundamental creative people whose imaginations and logic and problem solving skills are at the root of all the wealth that the Bad Rich People control.
Dude, you gotta treat those house n* better than the field n*. And you know what? A certain number of field n* will see those house n* and want to be working in the house. You need a pool of raw labor from which to draw for replenishment.
Rock, the human psyche probably hasn't changed much since our ancestors were pounding iron and plowing with horses in the 1700's. That's why Jefferson's and Hamilton's and Franklin's words ring true to us.
VOLUNTARY SERVITUDE (see The Constitution) is legal in these United States. But "The Rich" know that we worker bees have to be deceived into believing that we can actually own the fruits of our labors. You "own" your house? Nope...The Bank owns it. You "own" your car? Not likely...The Bank owns it. You own your labor? Nope...The Government (which is really the guys who also own the bank) owns it. Anything that you have to rent is owned by another entity. Property tax (it's rent,isn't it?) is the greatest inroad of communism in the history of America. You can't even own a piece of dirt free and clear!!!!! What a f*n' scam!!!
We are almost all of us sharecroppers (actually renting that which we think we own!) with a floating contract that flutters up and down at the will of the Plantation Owner. This is done by the manipulation of actual exchange value of "money" (their green inked paper).
Enter the entrepreneur class. Actually, you should be one of these, but your f*ing Granite Brained Contrariness seems to block your ascent into the land of the Rich Nerds. These guys are my heroes. Woz and Jobs and Paul Allen and ... gulp, gag, choke ... that f* with the bad hair and glasses...
The Bad Rich People know that they depend on this class. If you can enter this strata of the labor pool you start eating off the Big Table.
Now, what to do with the field n* who won't work. Hmmm.................... What is the Massah gonna do with them? Hmmm.................
Hasta,
Here's the thing ..... (and this is kind of a mental jam session...okay????)
A Libertarian patiently explained to me why "the rich" would probably never intentionally completely ream "us little folks".
Pretty simple, actually: We are production and consumption units. Their wealth is founded upon our availability/ability to buy the goods and services of the companies they own, and to actually produced the goods and services the companies that they own provide to the marketplace.
Henry Ford said he never wanted to make a car his workers couldn't buy. This is maybe on of the greatest understandings of what a free market cold ideally be. (Henry Ford had a lot to say about TWMBO. Dearborn Independent. Maybe some day your turtle head will poke out of its intellectual carapace and you'll track this one down. But I digress..........)
Specialization of production skills requires a certain sized population. People must be lured to work. Slave labor works, but pretty inefficiently.
Hear me out ... hear me out ... roll another one.....
Slave labor works efficiently for direct physical tasks. Cool Hand Luke and the Boys kept those goddamm weeds down, didn't they? The boss man walks up and down the line and he can see, from the swings of the sickles, who is doggin' it.
But slave labor begins to loose efficiency with more complicated tasks. How can you push an accountant to crunch numbers faster? You can try, but you'll start getting errors. And how, as the slave master, can you get inside the accountant's head and see that he's truly doggin' it??
Now take this into the realm of engineers, and physicists, and honest-to-God thinkers ... the fundamental creative people whose imaginations and logic and problem solving skills are at the root of all the wealth that the Bad Rich People control.
Dude, you gotta treat those house n* better than the field n*. And you know what? A certain number of field n* will see those house n* and want to be working in the house. You need a pool of raw labor from which to draw for replenishment.
Rock, the human psyche probably hasn't changed much since our ancestors were pounding iron and plowing with horses in the 1700's. That's why Jefferson's and Hamilton's and Franklin's words ring true to us.
VOLUNTARY SERVITUDE (see The Constitution) is legal in these United States. But "The Rich" know that we worker bees have to be deceived into believing that we can actually own the fruits of our labors. You "own" your house? Nope...The Bank owns it. You "own" your car? Not likely...The Bank owns it. You own your labor? Nope...The Government (which is really the guys who also own the bank) owns it. Anything that you have to rent is owned by another entity. Property tax (it's rent,isn't it?) is the greatest inroad of communism in the history of America. You can't even own a piece of dirt free and clear!!!!! What a f*n' scam!!!
We are almost all of us sharecroppers (actually renting that which we think we own!) with a floating contract that flutters up and down at the will of the Plantation Owner. This is done by the manipulation of actual exchange value of "money" (their green inked paper).
Enter the entrepreneur class. Actually, you should be one of these, but your f*ing Granite Brained Contrariness seems to block your ascent into the land of the Rich Nerds. These guys are my heroes. Woz and Jobs and Paul Allen and ... gulp, gag, choke ... that f* with the bad hair and glasses...
The Bad Rich People know that they depend on this class. If you can enter this strata of the labor pool you start eating off the Big Table.
Now, what to do with the field n* who won't work. Hmmm.................... What is the Massah gonna do with them? Hmmm.................
Hasta,
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Friday, May 30, 2008
Monday, May 26, 2008
VINDICATION!!!
In today's International Edition of the Wall Street Journal (see: news link #9) an article that explains the "Rumors...". Ohmygod, maybe...maybe what? I don't know...but there it is, for your perusal.
Friday, May 23, 2008
news link #8
NY Times - May 23,2008
- QUOTATION OF THE DAY -
"We don't know what we got."
- MARY L. UGONE, the Pentagon's deputy inspector
for auditing, on the
absence of records for millions (read: billions) of dollars spent
in Iraq.
goto: news link #8
- QUOTATION OF THE DAY -
"We don't know what we got."
- MARY L. UGONE, the Pentagon's deputy inspector
for auditing, on the
absence of records for millions (read: billions) of dollars spent
in Iraq.
goto: news link #8
Thursday, May 22, 2008
comment: news link #6
paragraph:
3 - what'a joke
4 - f* the "oil 'executives'"!
Hey Congress, don't ask 'em, tell 'em. ...& I'll say it again & again & again: JUST LOOK AT THE QUARTERLIES!!!
4(cont) - jeeze, other than the obscene amounts of money being made x the oil companies, maybe this is item #2 on their agenda. Wadayathing?
5 - operative phrase: "...to seem..."
13 - "...well, does it punks." - paraphrased &, of course, rhetorical.
14 - who cares? Mr. Oilman, how come you're making all that money on our backs? How can you justify that? New exploration? More opportunities for you to cash in - ya' freak.
15 - let me translate: "screw you, we're getting all we can. Oh, & did I mention, SCREW YOU"
-----Page 2-----
paragraph:
3 - oooh, go get 'em DiFi...
5 - now I ask you, did he deliver that w/ a straight face?
6 - ya' think?
Question: I think we've all had enough, eh, so what is to be done?
Reminder: always look at the quarterlies
Homework: find out exactly the "the hows & whats" of the Spot Market. ...not what they tell you on pap-media. I guarantee that the next time some bobble-head tells you "...oil set a new record today on the spot market, so..." you'll go ballistic.
ps if all that doesn't outrage you, lie down, you're dead...
3 - what'a joke
4 - f* the "oil 'executives'"!
Hey Congress, don't ask 'em, tell 'em. ...& I'll say it again & again & again: JUST LOOK AT THE QUARTERLIES!!!
4(cont) - jeeze, other than the obscene amounts of money being made x the oil companies, maybe this is item #2 on their agenda. Wadayathing?
5 - operative phrase: "...to seem..."
13 - "...well, does it punks." - paraphrased &, of course, rhetorical.
14 - who cares? Mr. Oilman, how come you're making all that money on our backs? How can you justify that? New exploration? More opportunities for you to cash in - ya' freak.
15 - let me translate: "screw you, we're getting all we can. Oh, & did I mention, SCREW YOU"
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3 - oooh, go get 'em DiFi...
5 - now I ask you, did he deliver that w/ a straight face?
6 - ya' think?
Question: I think we've all had enough, eh, so what is to be done?
Reminder: always look at the quarterlies
Homework: find out exactly the "the hows & whats" of the Spot Market. ...not what they tell you on pap-media. I guarantee that the next time some bobble-head tells you "...oil set a new record today on the spot market, so..." you'll go ballistic.
ps if all that doesn't outrage you, lie down, you're dead...
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
comment: news link #5:
...remember I voted Republican the last two elections.
Mea Culpa. Mea Maxima Culpa.
Mea Culpa. Mea Maxima Culpa.
Friday, May 16, 2008
comment: news link #4:
About damn time!
W/ all the crap that we - the people - have to contend, a bright spot!
...& those of you who are outraged, I have but a simple question for you: why do you care?
W/ all the crap that we - the people - have to contend, a bright spot!
...& those of you who are outraged, I have but a simple question for you: why do you care?
Thursday, May 15, 2008
comment: news link #3
Coupla' quick things W -
1. Not talking is very intelligent, you petulant poser.
2. Your present plan, on the active front (war - in fact we're not in a war. What you have done is make our service personnel targets & that's about all) works well, does it not?
3. Your present plan, on the diplomatic front & your "politics of fear" works equally well, does it not?
3. ...& how in hell did I actually vote for you? I'm the biggest damn fool here!
1. Not talking is very intelligent, you petulant poser.
2. Your present plan, on the active front (war - in fact we're not in a war. What you have done is make our service personnel targets & that's about all) works well, does it not?
3. Your present plan, on the diplomatic front & your "politics of fear" works equally well, does it not?
3. ...& how in hell did I actually vote for you? I'm the biggest damn fool here!
Sunday, May 11, 2008
comment: news link #2
"What can Washington do to reduce the gas prices in the near term. The short term answer, alas, is not much." - qoute the NY Times
What? The answer is simple - rein in the god-damn oil companies. Yes the petro-dollar is weak, but the oil companies continue to make "windfall profits"! That is a simple fact. Simply undeniable. EXXON (see outrage) just posted its 2nd highest quarterly earnings in history. Re-read that: "...in history." Enough said, time to think for yourselves, people. Your elected oil-company-lap-dogs are not about to do anything for you. ...or don't think for yourselves & you'll continue to get what you've gotten up until now - SCREWED!
What? The answer is simple - rein in the god-damn oil companies. Yes the petro-dollar is weak, but the oil companies continue to make "windfall profits"! That is a simple fact. Simply undeniable. EXXON (see outrage) just posted its 2nd highest quarterly earnings in history. Re-read that: "...in history." Enough said, time to think for yourselves, people. Your elected oil-company-lap-dogs are not about to do anything for you. ...or don't think for yourselves & you'll continue to get what you've gotten up until now - SCREWED!
Saturday, May 10, 2008
Thursday, May 8, 2008
...from the rumor mill:
There was a meeting of the board of EXXON last week attended x the Rockefeller's - they still own controlling interest in the company. Apparently, the Rs are a bit self-conscious about the obscene profits that have been - & continue being - made x the oil companies. The gist of it was they - the Rs - want to put something back into the pot.
I'll report when I actually can verify.
I'll report when I actually can verify.
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
...oh, is that it?
NYT Tuesday, May 6, 2008
- QUOTATION OF THE DAY -
"It clearly evokes a visceral response because
we're the only industry that has our prices in
two-foot-high letters on the street corner."
- JOHN FELMY, chief economist at the American
Petroleum Institute, on gas
prices.
...couldn't have anything to do w/ the fact that you continue to make "windfall profits" & you know you are safe because no one does, or can do, anything about it? ...that you have the public & the politicians totally cowed? Your hubris runneth over...you stinking, arrogant, hypocrite!
- QUOTATION OF THE DAY -
"It clearly evokes a visceral response because
we're the only industry that has our prices in
two-foot-high letters on the street corner."
- JOHN FELMY, chief economist at the American
Petroleum Institute, on gas
prices.
...couldn't have anything to do w/ the fact that you continue to make "windfall profits" & you know you are safe because no one does, or can do, anything about it? ...that you have the public & the politicians totally cowed? Your hubris runneth over...you stinking, arrogant, hypocrite!
Saturday, May 3, 2008
Exxon
Why is there no outrage about the fact that Exxon has just posted the 2nd most profitable quarter in its history? ...on our backs? I can't wait until I can publish the other oil companies quarterlies.
Everyone is wandering around wondering why the economy happens to be in the state it finds itself.
Answers: the cost of: 1)the "War" - ripe for its own outrage; 2)the price of gasoline.
Get it, bubba?
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All that being said, what can we do about it?
Help me here. ...at least vent here. Please
Everyone is wandering around wondering why the economy happens to be in the state it finds itself.
Answers: the cost of: 1)the "War" - ripe for its own outrage; 2)the price of gasoline.
Get it, bubba?
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All that being said, what can we do about it?
Help me here. ...at least vent here. Please
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