That’s right, folks. While we’ve all been fighting and scratching to make ends meet, to pay our mortgage every month, utilities, groceries and put even a little bit of gas in our cars to get us to work every day — if we even have a job — the huge oil company Exxon Mobil has been making record-breaking profits! According to the report:
Exxon Mobil Corp. set a quarterly profit record for a U.S. company Thursday, surging past analyst estimates.
Exxon Mobil (XOM, Fortune 500), the leading U.S. oil company, said its third-quarter net profit was $14.83 billion, or $2.86 per share, up from $9.41 billion, or $1.70, a year earlier. That profit included $1.45 billion in special items.
The company’s prior record was $11.68 billion in the second quarter of 2008.
The latest quarter’s net income equaled $1,865.69 per second, nearly $400 a second more than the prior mark.
The company said its revenue totaled $137.7 billion in the third quarter.
Wow. They’ve had a banner year, haven’t they! But damn, that picture just doesn’t look right to me. Does it to you? Here’s something else that doesn’t look right: Under John McCain’s proposed tax plan, he will be giving $200 billion in cuts to corporations, and yet ANOTHER $4 BILLION TO OIL COMPANIES! Yes, nay-sayers, it IS true. You can find the facts right here. Un.be.LIEVable! And he says country first??? Yeah. Right.
While you’re at it, check out how the numbers break down for you and me and everyone else when comparing Obama and McCain’s tax plans right here. You can also see where both candidates stand on the major economic issues here. Think you don’t have time to do all that research? Think again. It’s our future and that of our children which is at stake in this election!
It was reported not only to the press, but to McCain himself, that Joe the Unlicensed, Tax-Dodging Plumber would be joining him at his rally in Defiance, Ohio today. They just forgot to tell Joe. Watch as McCain introduces the absent Joe:
Wow. Yet another fine example of the mess that is John McCain’s campaign. If he can’t even run an efficient campaign, how is he supposed to run the country?? If he surrounds himself with forgetful, unorganized buffoons during his campaign, who the hell do you think he’d pick to surround himself with during his presidency?! *shudder* Why, it’s downright SCARY!
I will be SO glad when this election is over and Barack Obama is our new president! Sarah Palin and John McCain are disgusting, loathsome liars. They are two of the biggest hypocrites I have ever had the misfortune of listening to. Want proof? How about this:
And now today Palin is going on and on about a man named Rashid Khalidi, who is a leading scholar of Middle Eastern studies at Columbia, and who was a contemporary of Obama’s while on the faculty of the University of Chicago. She is saying Khalidi was a spokesman for the Palestinian Liberation Organization back in the day, which he vehemently denies. It is true he has been a harsh critic of U.S. foreign policy toward Israel and has accused the country of “occupying” Palestinian territories, but so have many other Americans. Does that mean they’re all “shady characters”, “dangerous” and “terrorists”? Yeah, I know, it’s supremely stupid. We do still have free speech in this country, don’t we? The Obama camp posted this, in part, on their web site:
“ugly insinuations about Barack Obama’s relationship with a former neighbor and university colleague … are completely false.”
Khalidi said Wednesday, “I am not speaking to the media at this time, and certainly not until this idiot wind passes.”
The Obama campaign called Palin’s remarks “another recycled, manufactured controversy from the McCain campaign to distract voters’ attention from John McCain’s lockstep support for George Bush’s economic policies.”
On the campaign trail Obama said this:
McCain has spent the last few days calling me “every name in the book.”
“I don’t know what’s next. By the end of the week, he’ll be accusing me of being a secret communist because I shared my toys in kindergarten. I shared my peanut butter and jelly sandwich.”
Are you ready for more McCain Hypocrisy now?
During the 1990s, while he served as chairman of the International Republican Institute (IRI), McCain distributed several grants to the Palestinian research center co-founded by Khalidi, including one worth half a million dollars.
A 1998 tax filing for the McCain-led group shows a $448,873 grant to Khalidi’s Center for Palestine Research and Studies for work in the West Bank.
The relationship extends back as far as 1993, when John McCain joined IRI as chairman in January. Foreign Affairs noted in September of that year that IRI had helped fund several extensive studies in Palestine run by Khalidi’s group, including over 30 public opinion polls and a study of “sociopolitical attitudes.”
Ouch! Oh John, say it ain’t so! Are you trying to lose the election?? Does anyone on your staff EVER do fact-checking and/or research into the stuff they give you to say before they actually give it to you??? If it weren’t so pathetic and dangerous, it would be comical. But, I guess what you did is different, right? You only gave him thousands and thousands of dollars. Barack Obama attended a farewell dinner for Khalidi when he was leaving the University of Chicago for Columbia University. Yeah, that sounds pretty sinister.
McCain has run some of the DIRTIEST, most NASTY politics I have ever seen in all of my 50 years! They’ve been running most of their campaign on innuendo and evil insinuations. And all of that after he PROMISED he would run a clean campaign! I don’t want to hear any more of his whining about Barack breaking a promise regarding public financing — not after he’s broken promises himself! He’s just desperately jealous of the amount of money people have to given to Obama because they believe in him, including ME!
So what AREN’T they talking about? Well, I invite you to revisit this post of mine regarding why Todd Palin would probably NEVER be able to get a security clearance because of his relationship with the Alaska Independence Party (a very radical group, for which Sarah Palin recorded a video this year for their convention, telling them to “keep up the good work”), and this article about McCain’s relationship with G. Gordon Liddy. An excerpt:
McCain has attacked Barack Obama for his connection to former Weather Underground member William Ayers, who in McCain’s words “was unrepentant over his activities as a member of a terrorist organization.” In the final debate, McCain said that “we need to know the full extent of that relationship.”
But though he thinks it’s terrible for Obama to associate with dangerous militants, he thinks it’s fine for him to do the same thing. And he’d rather go back to the Hanoi Hilton than disclose “the full extent of that relationship.”
[...] I repeatedly e-mailed campaign aides Tucker Bounds, Jill Hazelbaker and Mark Salter with several questions about the association. Their response? The same response I would have gotten had I e-mailed a trio of wax dummies: silence.
This leads us to some inescapable conclusions. The first is that McCain lied when he promised to lay out his relationship with Liddy. The second is that he is hypocritical in demanding something of Obama that he won’t do himself. The third is that he is scared to tell Americans the truth because they won’t like what they hear.
I recommend you read the entire article.
He’s disgusting. And so is Palin. According to two different top McCain aides this week, she is, in fact, “a Diva” and a “whack job”. Nice. That’s a helluva way to get people to believe in your candidate, isn’t it? They’re ALL whack jobs in my opinion!
Don’t forget to watch Barack Obama’s 30-minute special tonight!
If you watched Oprah yesterday, you’re going to automatically know what this is about. She had a very special show in which she, along with Celine Dion, celebrated child survivors from all over the world. In fact, Celine took part in the making of a book entitled “An Incredible Journey with Celine Dion: 12 Heroes”, which chronicles her meeting 12 very special children whose stories were compiled by correspondents from Readers Digest. All the proceeds from the sale of the book will benefit children all over the world. As Celine put it, “It’s an amazing project because you can read and learn about those miracles and heroes—babies, children—you can learn about those stories, and all the proceeds go for needy children and sick children. It was a blessing.”
Well, about three-quarters of the way through the show, Oprah began telling us about a family in Arkansas who did an amazing thing for their precious son, Eliot. You see, two months before he was born, Eliot was diagnosed with Trisomy 18—a genetic disorder with a very low survival rate. His parents, Matt and Ginny, immediately began writing letters to him daily.
“Dear Eliot: Right now you are two months from being born,” Matt wrote in one letter. “Doctors tell us that you won’t likely make it to birth. Your mom and I are praying against that. We’re praying for healing. We are praying for nothing less than a miracle. You’re our first child, and the day of your birth couldn’t come sooner.”
Against the odds, Eliot survived his birth. “You are already a miracle to us,” Matt wrote that day. Every day that Eliot lived, he beat the odds. The median lifespan for children with Trisomy 18 is just five to 15 days—but Eliot just kept on surviving.
Matt and Ginny’s letters to their infant son continued for 99 precious days. They turned their letters and literally thousands of photos of Eliot into a video that has now been seen over a million times on YouTube. (grab some kleenex first!)
I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything that was so happy and so heartbreaking all at the same time. God bless that sweet little boy, and his parents, too, who I think are simply amazing. Oh, and guess what? They are expecting Eliot’s little brother or sister in two weeks!
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If you watched Oprah yesterday, you’re going to automatically know what this is about. She had a very special show in which she, along with Celine Dion, celebrated child survivors from all over the world. In fact, Celine took part in the making of a book entitled “An Incredible Journey with Celine Dion: 12 Heroes”, which chronicles her meeting 12 very special children whose stories were compiled by correspondents from Readers Digest. All the proceeds from the sale of the book will benefit children all over the world. As Celine put it, “It’s an amazing project because you can read and learn about those miracles and heroes—babies, children—you can learn about those stories, and all the proceeds go for needy children and sick children. It was a blessing.”
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