War profiteering

By Greg Palast:

In 1928, oil company chieftains (from Anglo-Persian Oil, now British Petroleum, from Standard Oil, now Exxon, and their Continental counterparts) were faced with a crisis: falling prices due to rising supplies of oil; the same crisis faced by their successors during the Clinton years, when oil traded at $22 a barrel.

The solution then, as now: stop the flow of oil, squeeze the market, raise the price. The method: put a red line around Iraq and declare that virtually all the oil under its sands would remain there, untapped. Their plan: choke supply, raise prices rise, boost profits. That was the program for 1928. For 2003. For 2008.

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In response, Senators Obama and Clinton propose something wrongly called a “windfall” profits tax on oil. But oil industry profits didn’t blow in on a breeze. It is war, not wind, that fills their coffers. The beastly leap in prices is nothing but war profiteering, hiking prices to take cruel advantage of oil fields shut by bullets and blood.

I wish to hell the Democrats would call their plan what it is: A war profiteering tax. War is profitable business – if you’re an oil man. But somehow, the public pays the price, at the pump and at the funerals, and the oil companies reap the benefits.

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Thing is, it's not enough just to demand that gasoline be cheaper and that those who profit so much be taxed for their greed. We need a whole new fucking system. We need a new way to fuel and power our cars and our homes. There's got to be a push for a fundamental change in how we get energy.

Search for "Nikola Tesla" on YouTube and check out some of the vidoes that come up. Seems like conspiracy theory stuff, I know, but some of them are really interesting. Long story short: FREE ENERGY.

Gay Marriage legalized in California

This is really a victory for everyone, not just gays. But I'm not going to explain how. Instead, I will simply post a video I made a long time ago about the subject.

It's called "Gay Marriage: Legalize It":

Could the people on Fox be any dumber?

I don't know who said it, and I don't remember the precise, exact to-the-tee quote, but this is what some idiot said on Fox News this morning:

Diplomacy with Iran would be like throwing a match into a tank of gasoline.

How completely off-the-deep end, stark raving mad do you have to be to think that diplomacy, rather than going to fucking WAR, would be more like throwing fuel to a fire?

Friends don't let friends take Fox seriously.

One Flea Spare

I'm not going to pretend like I know how to review plays.

But I saw one the other day and I feel compelled to promote it.

It's called One Flea Spare, you can get all kinds of info right here.

This play offers all the great offerings a play could offer: sex, drugs, and classical music (not because it's in the public domain and therefore free to use but because it seems to fit the setting). But really, One Flea Spare is a new piece (written by Naomi Wallace) that takes place in England during the Plague and an aristocratic couple gets locked into their home with a couple of peasants: wackiness ensues!! Just kidding, but there are plenty of funny bits, most of them involving the character Kabe (played by Ron Reeder who pretty much stole the show every time he appeared, rock on, bro!).

There's a strong social message in this play, it addresses the main dividing issues between the upper and lower classes, and it does so with very modern style weirdness. Pretty freaking awesome.

If there's just one reason to go out and see it, it's the building. The Convergence Center for the Arts on Magazine Street is COOL, it's like a million years old and has to have some ghosts in it. It looks like you could hide somewhere in the building and just live there in secret forever, go check it out. Also, the play is performed in the middle of the audience on the third floor, it's just really cool vibes all night long baby.


Yeah, One Flea Spare.

Guess what! The surge didn't fucking work.

From The Independent courtesy of Alternet:

U.S. Death Toll in Iraq Hits 7-Month High

The U.S. military death toll has reached a seven-month high as America's war in Iraq enters a new phase -- with its troops primarily engaged in fighting insurgents from the Shia rather than the Sunni community.

click here for the article via Alternet

Oh wait, no, it's because of the liberal media. If them damn liberals in the MEDIA would have acknowledged that the surge worked, it would have boosted morale and Iraq would look like Connecticut right about now! 50,000 more troops and we should be able to git 'er done for good, as long as that there faggot terrorist LIBERAL MEDIA don't hurt the troops' feelings!!!!!!!!!!!1