Of course, King, of course — only there's no 'maybe' about it.

Once you begin to analyze things with this insight in mind, the seemingly contradictions dissolve, and things make sense.

Consider: Over a generation of kids have not only been stupefied in general by the public school, but also brainwashed into believe that America is not an exceptional country in spite of all the evidence that we indeed are.

Does that mean all kiddies in the public school have been so crippled? Of course not; just the majority of 'em.

You see these victims of the government schools — and I'm not speaking of the Negroes who the public schools have literally committed academic genocide on — posting against you all the time on your own blog.

Their ignorance and illogic is mind-blowing. And what would be humorous if it wasn‘t so pathetic is that these defects do all their blovating with such an air of certitude. It's as if they can turn their quiz answer of 2 + 2 = 5 into being correct just by their insistence.

This is the true mark of a public school victim — all hot air and no substance; high self-esteem but ignorant in math, science, history, English, Civics, etc., and not to mention reasoning ability.

And it is these people — the stupefied masses like the Akron Atheist (a.k.a. “The Reverend” ), Rebecca or whatever she’s calling herself these days, along with the legion of government dependents — more than anything else that is killing the U.S. Constitution, our Republic and prosperity.

"But this notion of no coal, I think, is an illusion. Because the fact of the matter is, is that right now we are getting a lot of our energy from coal. And China is building a coal-powered plant once a week. So what we have to do then is figure out how can we use coal without emitting greenhouse gases and carbon. And how can we sequester that carbon and capture it. If we can’t, then we’re gonna still be working on alternatives."

Perhaps those companies did not make any profits because of all the loop holes the Republicans have put into the tax code for big business.

I am done here. Bye everyone.

How was it possible for Exxon to make such a record profit?

Unregulated commodity traders bubblized the cost of crude, completely contrary to normal supply and demand fundamentals. Crude prices, and thus gasoline prices, doubled even though demand had only increased slightly. This created a windfall for Big Oil. Big Oil had done nothing whatsoever to merit those record profits….it was a direct result of a gamed system without oversight.

To prove my point…..why has crude dropped more than 55% recently, and gasoline as well? Has world usage dropped 55%? Of course not. The prices had been artificially gambled up and are now returning to fundamental levels in pricing again.

Exxon didn't deserve those record profits and that's why I'm not going to shed a tear when Obama taxes them.

To try to build some kind of larger socialist case using Exxon as the launching pad is misleading.

I'm not close to rich, and the financial crisis cost me my job, so don't talk to me about how all I want is personal wealth. If all I cared about was a couple bucks in my pocket and "free" stuff, I'd vote for Obama. What I want is the correct policies to help the country as a whole, as opposed to policies that
will hurt the country financially for generations to come. If you can't see how helping businesses in America succeed is smart policy, then I feel sorry for you.

Of course 2/3rd's of businesses don't pay any taxes – they don't make any profits.

and who will create the countries biggest deficet ? Mccain
http://www.businesssheet.com/2008/10/mccain-s-economic-plan-will-increase-u-s-deficit

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/03/EDOO13SU3L.DTL

According to the Government Office of Accountability (GAO) 2/3's of US businesses pay no taxes at all between 1998 and 2005 and 68% of foreign companies operating in US also paid no taxes what so ever in the same time period. Nice loop holes if you ask me.

I retired — early by choice I might add- from one of those big corporations. I was on the board. I know what did and did not happen. That chemical company thrived as long as the technical and marketing folks had a say in how the business was run. When the financial MBA types started with their magic and the company forgot about the quality, technical expertise, and customer the downhill fall started. I watched the "magic" those accountants performed to make the numbers look good for the shareholders and yup I was one of them. Still I left in disgust because I could and have never regretted my decision for a day. That company has not folded yet but it is a lot smaller and the stock has gone from $43 to last I looked < $2. As you can see my choice to leave was a good one.

America stands at thge edge of an abyss. Could the country's ability to think actually have been so rotted out by the government schools over the years that it will actually electd a fraud like B. Hussein Obama to the presidency?

There's more that's funny about B. Hussein obama than the sounding of his name and his big ears. From his life story to his associates to his policies, the guy is as queer as a three dollar bill.