HarperLee

HOUSTON — Exxon Mobil Corp. reported second-quarter earnings of $11.68 billion Thursday, the biggest quarterly profit ever by any U.S. corporation, but the results were well short of Wall Street expectations and its shares fell.

The world's largest publicly traded oil company said net income for the April-June period came to $2.22 a share, up from $10.26 billion, or $1.83 a share, a year ago.

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Link to entire article: Oil Profits Shatter Records

I hope those of you who voted for Bush 43 even once are proud of the oligarchy you helped create.

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EvilMonkey

Better elect McCain so we can keep that money in their pockets.

JeffinCO

Exxon posts record profits....(AGAIN).

Autonomous regional branches of AlQaeda continue to emerge around the world.

The top 1% are richer than ever, while the middle class is being foreclosed.

...And defense contractors are still raking in mountains of government money in a never-ending occupation in Iraq.

You know, other than the Iraqis not signing off half their shit to Bush's buddies, it sure looks like
Mission Accomplished - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Vicariously I

Again is right.

You know what I find "funny" about all this? A few of my friends bought into all of Bushes bullshit not once but twice. And back in 2000 when I talked about how Republicans only care about the rich, starting wars and fucking the middle class I was laughed at by them.

There are only two kinds of people who vote Republican, rich people and morons.

But hey it's not it's not like what I told my friends back in 2000 was right.........all this shit is just a coincidence.

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JeffinCO

And FAUXnews is pandering to the moronic masses as we speak.

Attention fucking idiots !..oh sorry....FOX news viewers!!

Obama = Osama.

News Hounds: FOX identifies Osama bin Laden as Obama - AGAIN

News Hounds: Another Obama-Osama mix-up on FOX "News"

Dirty evil mutts gathering up the water-head racist masses. Despicable.

Anyways, I digress.

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Vicariously I

How the fuck can this be the reality of America? How can this be what we have become? It's fucking ridiculous.

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ibex

The Supreme Court of the US decided in a majority opinion a few months back that $2.5 billion, which works out to about two or three weeks worth of profits for Exxon/Mobile was to high a price for them to pay in the lawsuit filed on behalf of the residents of Alaska whose lives and environment were destroyed by the Valdiz disaster of almost twenty years ago. This my friends is the helping hand of compassionate conservatism, otherwise known as the middle finger.

JeffinCO

I seem to remember them bragging that they would come in and run the government with corporate efficiency, in 2000.

I guess I just didnt realize exactly what that meant.

I didnt realize the scope of their intent.

I didnt realize they would set up a corporate public relations/ advertising department. (fox)

I didn't realize they were looking to use their new corporate/government reigns to enforce the hostile takeover of their top campaign contributors' world market competition.

I didnt realize that American taxpayers would provide never-ending funding to what amounts to a corporate agenda.

I didnt realize, that much like a corporation, our leaders would accept little or no personal responsibility or accountability for the decisions made by "the corporation".

I had no idea that the corporate operations manual would over-ride Madison, Jefferson, and Adams.

..We've been hornswaggled, Vike.

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Vicariously I

I have used this quote many times in the last 7 years and I am sure I will use it again.

“The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.”

Robert M. Hutchins

It was our apathy, indifference, and undernourishment that allowed this to happen. We let our country go because we were to busy caring about ourselves and the shit we owned. We failed in our responsibilities. The truth is we got what we deserved.

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HarperLee

Vicariously, I am not sure which is the quote and which is your words,
but "we" did get and are getting what "we" deserve. It is just so unfair to those of us who did not vote for and enable these greedy,
thieving murderers. How much money does Dick Cheney need to leave to his children and grandchildren? Don't they know how to invest it? (Is Mary's little kid in the Cheney's will, even though
Mary was not allowed to appear with the family at the 2004
convention?)

The McCain ads are making me incoherent -- but in my mind there
is a big connection with no one in this "Christian" country giving a
flying fuck that probably close to (if not over) a million innocent
Iraqis have died because of us, several million more exiled, a million or so more gravely injured -- and that our tax money has gone
and will go to perpetuate this obscene war. Karma, blowback --
we will be punished for being greedy consumers who watch reality television, and write off anyone who can speak in complete, complex
sentences (with clauses, even) as elite and unelectable.

Presidential elections are no more important than Superbowls. All that
matters is that we all vote to make sure the wealthy continue to control all the wealth. And no one has to worry much that we might
vote for the wrong guy -- the Republicans own Diebold. If the
government's own GAO discovers down the road that there were
many irregularities with the Ohio vote, everyone knows it will be too
late to make a big deal out of it.

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Oliver Stone on George W. Bush: "the banality of evil"

http://www.nationalpriorities.org/costofwar_home