half baked ideas, loose facts, and my satellite radio
And now you know why Oprah doesn’t endorse my blogage.
I love my Sirius radio, and yes I like the Stern show. You can say what you want, but it is often funny, and it’s interesting to hear a show that’s truly free to say whatever they want. The show can be profane, and at times pornographic, and if that’s not your brand of vodka, I understand. In the spirit of Lenny Bruce, and the late great Bill Hicks I embrace the pornographic and the profane, because braver men than me have given their lives for such freedom. If Stern starts on something I don’t approve of, or don’t enjoy, I simply turn to another channel.
Richard Ashcroft comes out growling on the first track of his new cd, it’s so very Neil Diamond. In fact listening to both releases you would at times wonder which is which. I mean this as praise, it sounds good…seriously.
Are you getting much out of your pinky toe? I’m thinking we may be evolving away from that one. Intelligent designed obsolescence if you prefer.
I’m as shocked as anyone when I swish.
Whenever I hear Filibuster, I think it’s a sandwich a DQ. This is a thought I imagine W shares. Yes George, and if you’re good, a butterscotch dilly bar for desert.
Exxon announces record profits, even higher than Wall street predicted. Don’t be surprised when W mentions ‘alternatives’ in his speech this week. Even a good ol’ oil man can’t hold on to this dinosaur anymore. And Georgie’s handlers are too savvy to let this pass.
There is debate about whether our involvement in Iraq is making new terrorists. I say how can there be any doubt? You mean to tell me that every Iraqi involved in the placement and detonation of IEDs would be doing such things anyway? Bush himself said 30K Iraq civilians have been killed, and the loss of loved ones might be a strong motivation don’t ya think? That and tanks rolling down your street. And is it really democracy we want? When the Palestinians freely elected the wrong party, we didn’t seem to like it. What if Iraq elects to keep tribal justice etc. What if they freely choose these things? We need to be okay with that right? I think the popular assumption that people, given a choice will choose as we have chosen is wrong. Shit! I sound like a Neil Peart lyric. Lately with all of you ready to give up the very freedoms we’ve fought for, just for the promise of safety from terror, I wonder if we would even make the same choices if faced with them again. Would we have the balls to stand up to the Brits, commit treason, and risk our lives to form a new country? No effin’ way, we’d have magnetic union jack ribbons and call anyone who didn’t an unpatriotic liberal.
I hate it when news agencies refer to it as the terrorist network, it sounds like a channel. Coming up after the break, more footage of us training on monkey bars in the desert.
And later, we look at the South Beach diet.
Lastly no meal replacement protein bar tastes good, okay let’s get that straight right away, there are simply varying degrees of badness.
I love my Sirius radio, and yes I like the Stern show. You can say what you want, but it is often funny, and it’s interesting to hear a show that’s truly free to say whatever they want. The show can be profane, and at times pornographic, and if that’s not your brand of vodka, I understand. In the spirit of Lenny Bruce, and the late great Bill Hicks I embrace the pornographic and the profane, because braver men than me have given their lives for such freedom. If Stern starts on something I don’t approve of, or don’t enjoy, I simply turn to another channel.
Richard Ashcroft comes out growling on the first track of his new cd, it’s so very Neil Diamond. In fact listening to both releases you would at times wonder which is which. I mean this as praise, it sounds good…seriously.
Are you getting much out of your pinky toe? I’m thinking we may be evolving away from that one. Intelligent designed obsolescence if you prefer.
I’m as shocked as anyone when I swish.
Whenever I hear Filibuster, I think it’s a sandwich a DQ. This is a thought I imagine W shares. Yes George, and if you’re good, a butterscotch dilly bar for desert.
Exxon announces record profits, even higher than Wall street predicted. Don’t be surprised when W mentions ‘alternatives’ in his speech this week. Even a good ol’ oil man can’t hold on to this dinosaur anymore. And Georgie’s handlers are too savvy to let this pass.
There is debate about whether our involvement in Iraq is making new terrorists. I say how can there be any doubt? You mean to tell me that every Iraqi involved in the placement and detonation of IEDs would be doing such things anyway? Bush himself said 30K Iraq civilians have been killed, and the loss of loved ones might be a strong motivation don’t ya think? That and tanks rolling down your street. And is it really democracy we want? When the Palestinians freely elected the wrong party, we didn’t seem to like it. What if Iraq elects to keep tribal justice etc. What if they freely choose these things? We need to be okay with that right? I think the popular assumption that people, given a choice will choose as we have chosen is wrong. Shit! I sound like a Neil Peart lyric. Lately with all of you ready to give up the very freedoms we’ve fought for, just for the promise of safety from terror, I wonder if we would even make the same choices if faced with them again. Would we have the balls to stand up to the Brits, commit treason, and risk our lives to form a new country? No effin’ way, we’d have magnetic union jack ribbons and call anyone who didn’t an unpatriotic liberal.
I hate it when news agencies refer to it as the terrorist network, it sounds like a channel. Coming up after the break, more footage of us training on monkey bars in the desert.
And later, we look at the South Beach diet.
Lastly no meal replacement protein bar tastes good, okay let’s get that straight right away, there are simply varying degrees of badness.
posted by Robert_M at 5:27 PM
2 Comments:
I find several flavors of the Luna Bar to be quite tasty.
On one hand, you are right – Exxon making $36B in profits last year is hard to imagine – especially when gas prices are so high. However, you have to look at the objectively and not jump to a socialist/protectionist attitude. Profit is only meaningful when compared to something else – like revenue. Exxon had $370B in revenue. I don’t know how that compares to the tax revenue of the countries of the world, but I’ll bet it’s in the Top 20….maybe Top 10? $370B means their profit was less than 10%. Damn good – no doubt, but obscene? I don’t think so. If this is the standard we use then everyone should be pissed as hell at:
Microsoft $12B profit on $40M revenue – 30%
General Electric $16B profit on $150B revenue – just under 11%
Intel $8.8 / $38.8 – 22.6%
Heck, UPS was at 9%
And I confess, the company I own had revenue of $660K last year…with a profit just under $60K.
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