I usually don't post things from sites most of us go to...however I believe this needs its own post



Now read the article, especially the second page, and see a good reporter ask some awesome questions calling out the 360 and its shottiness!

http://www.1up.com/do/feature?cId=3147131&did=1

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http://www.townhall.com/blogs/capitolreport/TimChapman/story/2006/01/26/183899.h...

If true...I like it.  I know it might be bad for some things but without the line item veto, there's nothing we can do...except this!

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20060126/ts_csm/ochrislam

Reactions anyone?

Mine is that these people are so wishy washy that they're not just sitting on the fence but have made an entirely new fence to sit on.  While I appreciate the good intentions of both religions to try and co-exist we all know that the "road to hell is paved in good intentions".  I just can't see how a person can claim to be both.  Jesus said "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life.  No one can come to the Father except through Me."  where as Muhammid also claimed to be the only way (although the Koran teaches it's by works you are saved and not by grace...as in the scales you will be weighed when you are dead).  How could you be both and believe both these things.  Pretty stupid to me...but hey I'm just a narrow minded Christian fundamentalist evangelical...right?!

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Screw Exxon. 36 billion dollar PROFITS for last year.

While we are payin out the rear for gas, they are rollin in cash. How about some regulations about this sorta thing? Anyone? Congress?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060130/ap_on_bi_ge/earns_exxon_mobil_5

I'm not defending the oil industry (far from it!), but the thing to remember is that we really don't know enough about their financial status to take any concrete stance.

Let's say I make widgets.  I can manufacture 100 widgets per year, and they cost me $1,000 to produce.  I charge a simple markup of 10% on my widgets, meaning I market them for $1,100 and pocket $100 as profit.

Well, the raw material for my widgets (let's call it widgetanium) goes through the roof, so I have to charge more for them.  Let's assume I can still only make 100 per year and I'm still selling complete out of stock.  I now have to pay $2,000 to manufacture a widget.  If I keep my 10% markup, I now sell my widgets for $2,200 and get to pocket $200 as profit.  Is that wrong?

I don't think it's unfair of the gasoline producers to keep a static percentage of their wholesale cost of oil as profit.  In other words, if they pay $1.00 to manufacture a gallon of gas, and want 10% profit, they can charge the gas station $1.10 to buy their gas.  Likewise, if they pay $2.00 to manufacture a gallon of gas, I have no problem with them keeping their 10% margin and charging the gas station $2.20 to buy a gallon of their gas.

Likewise, I don't have a problem with the gas station doing the same thing.  If they want an x% margin, all the more power to them.  That's the law of supply and demand, right?

Sure, it sucks to get gouged at the pump, but that's capitalism folks.

-b0b
(...doesn't like paying it either.)

I prefer imperialism.  Let's just take it all.  That should keep the prices down, right?

-b0b
(...nods nods.)

http://www.herald.ns.ca/AftUpdate/9000538.html

YOU GO GIRL!!!

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