WINDFALL PROFITS TAX FOR BIG OIL?

Fuck that.......

For more than a decade, oil companies weren't makin' any money 'cause the price of the oil was too low.....the world decried them then for not spending any money on new exploration, maintaining refineries, and the like.......they didn't have the money.....

Now, for the last couple of years, global demand has allowed them to make a reasonable profit.....they're pouring money into new exploration and not only upgrading but expanding refineries........

But now, you get loudmouths like that Schumer fella outa New Yawk saying that the oil companies oughta be charged a windfall profits tax......gotta love election-year politics.....this is a guy, I'm sure, who has benefitted disproportionately from the Bush tax cuts, although he'd ever admit it......or any of those other asshole legislators who have a lot more money & perks than you or I could ever hope to have........

The three largest oil companies....Exxon Mobil, Chevron, & ConocoPhillips....made a profit of 8.19 percent.......Shit, I'd be willing to bet that Schumer made a better profit than that on all the money he has in "blind" trusts......

On the other hand, the three largest Internet bellwethers......Google, Yahoo, and eBay.......made a profit of 19.2%......more than double that of the oil companies......

Who oughta be taxed for windfall profits?

SPRINGTIME IN MINNESOTA.....

Finally......a weekend when it wasn't either raining or just too fuckin' cold for my old bones........

So I hit the spring yardwork full bore.....

Yesterday, it was raking & cleaning all of the shit & debris outa the flowerbeds (well, 20% of 'em, anyway).....all bending-over type shit....by the end of the day, I didn't think my back would allow me to ever again stand upright.......

Today, though, I was once again out bright & early, tending to trimming hedges & shrubs & doing some pruning......so, instead of bending over, I was mostly working with tools above shoulder level.....in spite of taking frequent & increasingly lengthy breaks, I caved in really early, 'cause my rubbery arms were incapable of anything more strenuous than combing my hair....or lack thereof....

Fuck.....I sit at my job all day, and sit in front of the computer at night.....being on my feet is entirely foreign, especially when it involves movement....I'm sitting here now wondering if my rubbery legs are gonna be able to make it up the stairs, let alone stand erect when I push my chair away from the computer.....which I must, of course, since the first ice-cold beer I just guzzled to replace the loss of fluid through that vile bodily function known as perspiration is empty........note to myself......start drinking beer out of a can rather than a bottle, 'cause those glass bastards are much too heavy.....

If I'm not mistaken, there once was a comic book hero called Rubberman....or Plasticman....or Elasticman.....whatever......fuck, is that ever fiction.....if his arms were as rubbery as mine, he wouldn't be able to brush his teeth, let alone save the world.......

PRIORITIES....LONESOME GEORGE

Santa Claus is coming to town......

Hu Jintao, the Chinese President , is scheduled to visit with the Bush Administration on Thursday...but first......

Let's place importance on the priorities of his visit......

First, a tour of a Boeing plant (he's placed an order for 80 of the aircraft)......

Second, dinner with Bill Gates at Gates' home (Chinese PC makers have agreed to purchase hundreds of millions of dollars worth of licensed versions of Windows)........

Lastly.......

A state dinner with Dubya.......who's anybody kidding? The prior two engagements have one helluva lot more importance.....this'll be just a kinda postscript.......his last stop, matter of fact...

Karl & Scotty: "Hu's coming to town..."

Lonesome George: "Who?"

Karl & Scotty: "Yeah, Hu....."

Lonesome George: "Dammit, Who?"

Karl & Scotty: "Yeah, Hu Jintao....."

Lonesome George: "Who's in charge?"

Karl & Scotty: "Yeah, Hu Jintao."

Lonesome George: "Dammit, you guys, who's in charge?????''

Karl & Scotty: "Yeah, Hu Jintao!!!!"

Lonesome George: "Who?........Never mind!!...... Who's in charge don't really matter, I guess.....
But who'm I gonna eatin' dinner with?"

Karl & Scotty: "Hu."

Lonesome George: "Who? Dammit, you guys, you make about as much sense as Cheny &
Rummy......Who?"

Karl & Scotty: "Yeah, Hu......"