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		<title>By: araratararat</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/01/24/exxon-set-to-hit-record-profits/comment-page-2/#comment-4242808</link>
		<dc:creator>araratararat</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:19:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well,  now the ex-CEO Raymond,  of Exxon can  afford to get something to eat, poor thing he looks emaciated. He&#039;s been fasting for the last five years cause money has been was so tight for these transnational oil companies.

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well,  now the ex-CEO Raymond,  of Exxon can  afford to get something to eat, poor thing he looks emaciated. He&#8217;s been fasting for the last five years cause money has been was so tight for these transnational oil companies.</p>
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		<title>By: LividLib</title>
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		<dc:creator>LividLib</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:17:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Bye bye, Republicans, we hardly knew ye.
Comment by VerbalKint â€” January 25, 2008 @ 2:46 am
 

Actually, we know the bastards all too well!

Exxonâ€™s obscene profiteering is proof that the surge IS working!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bye bye, Republicans, we hardly knew ye.<br />
Comment by VerbalKint â€” January 25, 2008 @ 2:46 am</p>
<p>Actually, we know the bastards all too well!</p>
<p>Exxonâ€™s obscene profiteering is proof that the surge IS working!<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4242799', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: macd</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/01/24/exxon-set-to-hit-record-profits/comment-page-2/#comment-4242634</link>
		<dc:creator>macd</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 14:56:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>dick cheney just cremed himself</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>dick cheney just cremed himself<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4242634', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Doc Rock</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/01/24/exxon-set-to-hit-record-profits/comment-page-2/#comment-4242626</link>
		<dc:creator>Doc Rock</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 14:52:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m shocked!  Shocked, I tell you!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m shocked!  Shocked, I tell you!<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4242626', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: plunger</title>
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		<dc:creator>plunger</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 14:06:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>CFR control of the media:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPlvdSQ6cAM</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>CFR control of the media:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPlvdSQ6cAM" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPlvdSQ6cAM</a><a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4242574', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: plunger</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/01/24/exxon-set-to-hit-record-profits/comment-page-2/#comment-4242571</link>
		<dc:creator>plunger</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 14:03:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Rockefeller employs Cheney to drive up Exxon&#039;s oil price:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1cFwkmSOXg</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Rockefeller employs Cheney to drive up Exxon&#8217;s oil price:</p>
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		<title>By: plunger</title>
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		<dc:creator>plunger</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 14:02:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>David Rockefeller IS Exxon:

In order to determine actual Rockefeller family control over Exxon and the other offshoots of the original Standard Oil Trust (Mobil, Standard of Indiana, Standard of California, Chevron, Sohio, Phillips 66, Marathon, et al)we must gather all of the pieces of the puzzle we can find and carefully fit them together. In his testimony before Congress, Dilworth revealed that the Rockefeller family has approximately $324,600,000 worth of oil stock. This represents an average of about 2 % in each of the four giant oil companies. But,in 1966, testimony before the Patman Committee indicated that the nine Rockefeller family foundations also controlled an average of about 3 % in the Standard Oil Trust descendants. This known total of 5% would give the Rockefellers effective working control over the four giant corporations:

In addition, there are shares held in trust by the Rockefeller banks, insurance companies, universities and other groups whose boards of directors and trustees are interlocked with the Rockefellers.

And yet, incredibly, oil is not even the Rockefellers&#039; biggest business. That honor is reserved for international banking. The Rockefeller family banks are the First National City Bank and the Chase Manhattan Bank. The Chase Manhattan is the third largest banking establishment in the world; and while only number three&#039;, it is by far the most influential.

The largest bank in the world is Bank of America in California, inventor of the bank credit card, Bank Americard, which now has 39 million cardholders worldwide. Bank of America became a giant through branch banking in California, where it has over 1,000 offices. Until recently, however, when it linked is overseas operations with the Rothschilds of Europe, the Bank of America lacked international horsepower. Now it too has joined the internationalists&#039; crusade for World Government.

Chase Manhattan was created by the union of the Rockefeller-owned Chase Bank with the Kuhn, Loeb controlled Manhattan Bank. The marriage has been a huge success for both families; in 1971 Chase Manhattan claimed $36 billion in assets. This is impressive enough, but the New York Times has pointed out that it is not the whole story:. . a major portion of their [Chase Manhattan&#039;s business carried on through affiliated banks overseas is not consolidated on the balance sheet.&quot;

Time also emphasizes the immense power of the Chase Manhattan, noting that &quot;The Chase has 28 foreign branches of its own, but more important, it has a globe encircling string of 50,000 correspondent banking offices.&quot;Fifty thousand correspondent banks around the world! if each correspondent bank were worth only a paltry $10 million, it would give Chase potential world wide clout of five hundred billion dollars ! Such a figure is simply incomprehensible. Unfortunately, it is probably, conservative estimate of Chase&#039;s power and influence.

Such financial clout would give the Rockefellers the ability to create an international monetary crisis over, night. Could it be that it is they who have been yo-yoing the price of gold, dollars and foreign currencies during the past few years-creating panics for most investors, but profits for themselves?

Every time an international monetary storm blows up hundreds of millions of dollars flow into European banks&#039; When the storm subsides, those who were&quot;in the know&#039;: at the beginning have made enormous sums of money, That the Rockefellers have been very profitably involved through the Chase Manhattan Bank and its overseas facilities, seems more than reasonable.

By almost any standard, Chase Manhattan has become virtually a sovereign state. Except it has more money, than most. lt even employs a full-time envoy to the United Nations.

As just one illuminating statistic, during 1973 Chase board chairman David Rockefeller met with 27 heads of state, including the rulers of Russia and Red China, plus scores of lesser dignitaries. Not even Henry Kissinger, he of the - shuttle diplomacy - and much- publicized state dinners, can match Rockefeller&#039;s influence with the men at the top.

Chase Manhattan&#039;s annual reports contain much information detailing the worldwide expansion of the bank. lt has gone international on the grand scale. And it shows no signs of slowing down. In fact, Chase Manhattan is the undisputed world heavyweight champion when it comes to international banking.
During the Senate hearing on Nelson&#039;s confirmation, he claimed,&quot;I do not own any shares in the Chase Manhattan Bank.&quot;However, he neglected to mention that his family owns 623,000 shares, or 2.54 % of the Chase Manhattan stock. And he also conveniently overlooked the fact that the Rockefeller Brothers Fund owns another 148 000 Chase shares and Rockefeller University holds 81,296.

Myer Kutz tells us in the New York Times of April 28, 1974:&quot;The Rockefellers and Rockefeller institutions own a major, essentially controlling interest, estimated at more than 4%,in The Chase Manhattan Bank.

The Chase Annual Report for 1974 reports that the total assets of The Chase Manhattan Corporation stood at $42,532,003,302. That&#039;s over forty-two billion dollars. From this, reports Chase, they had a net income of $180,801,382 for the year 1974 That&#039;s over $180 million profit in just one year-or $3.5 million in profit a week-of which the Rockefeller family pockets over four %, or roughly 7.2 million dollars. That&#039;s not bad, considering Chase is mainly a device for holding and boosting many of the family&#039;s other financial interests.

Once again we must note that actual ownership by the family in Chase Manhattan may be much greater than is admitted. Professor James Knowles in his highly detailed study, &quot; The Rockefeller Financial Group&quot;states:

It is impossible to establish conclusively that the wealthy families represented on the boards of the banks in the Rockefeller Group own a controlling share of the stock. The ownership of large banks is a carefully guarded secret. Even when banks are required to disclose their largest stockholders, as was the case in the 1962 Patman investigation of chain banking, they have used what are called &quot;street names&quot; in referring to stockholding in trust.

These &quot;street names- are wholly fictitious and bear no resemblance to the actual beneficiary or trustees. In the case of Chase Manhattan Bank, for example, its reported twenty largest stockholders in 1962 included fifteen &quot;street names,&quot; (e.g., Dudd &amp; Co., Don &amp; Co., Atwell &amp; Co.) .... (1)Â·

If fifteen of the twenty largest blocs of stocks are held in fictitious names designed to hide the identities of the real owners, it is impossible to doubt that some, if not most, of the actual owners are part of the Rockefeller Empire.

When the few facts that are available to the public are considered-that the Rockefellers control by far the largest amount of stock in Chase Manhattan, that other families closely connected with the Standard Oil fortune from its beginning also own substantial blocks of stock, that the board of directors of Chase Manhattan reads like a who&#039;s who of Rockefeller lieutenants, and that David Rockefeller is chairman of the board of the bank-no one can dispute Rockefeller control of the Chase Manhattan Bank.

http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=2802</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>David Rockefeller IS Exxon:</p>
<p>In order to determine actual Rockefeller family control over Exxon and the other offshoots of the original Standard Oil Trust (Mobil, Standard of Indiana, Standard of California, Chevron, Sohio, Phillips 66, Marathon, et al)we must gather all of the pieces of the puzzle we can find and carefully fit them together. In his testimony before Congress, Dilworth revealed that the Rockefeller family has approximately $324,600,000 worth of oil stock. This represents an average of about 2 % in each of the four giant oil companies. But,in 1966, testimony before the Patman Committee indicated that the nine Rockefeller family foundations also controlled an average of about 3 % in the Standard Oil Trust descendants. This known total of 5% would give the Rockefellers effective working control over the four giant corporations:</p>
<p>In addition, there are shares held in trust by the Rockefeller banks, insurance companies, universities and other groups whose boards of directors and trustees are interlocked with the Rockefellers.</p>
<p>And yet, incredibly, oil is not even the Rockefellers&#8217; biggest business. That honor is reserved for international banking. The Rockefeller family banks are the First National City Bank and the Chase Manhattan Bank. The Chase Manhattan is the third largest banking establishment in the world; and while only number three&#8217;, it is by far the most influential.</p>
<p>The largest bank in the world is Bank of America in California, inventor of the bank credit card, Bank Americard, which now has 39 million cardholders worldwide. Bank of America became a giant through branch banking in California, where it has over 1,000 offices. Until recently, however, when it linked is overseas operations with the Rothschilds of Europe, the Bank of America lacked international horsepower. Now it too has joined the internationalists&#8217; crusade for World Government.</p>
<p>Chase Manhattan was created by the union of the Rockefeller-owned Chase Bank with the Kuhn, Loeb controlled Manhattan Bank. The marriage has been a huge success for both families; in 1971 Chase Manhattan claimed $36 billion in assets. This is impressive enough, but the New York Times has pointed out that it is not the whole story:. . a major portion of their [Chase Manhattan&#8217;s business carried on through affiliated banks overseas is not consolidated on the balance sheet.&#8221;</p>
<p>Time also emphasizes the immense power of the Chase Manhattan, noting that &#8220;The Chase has 28 foreign branches of its own, but more important, it has a globe encircling string of 50,000 correspondent banking offices.&#8221;Fifty thousand correspondent banks around the world! if each correspondent bank were worth only a paltry $10 million, it would give Chase potential world wide clout of five hundred billion dollars ! Such a figure is simply incomprehensible. Unfortunately, it is probably, conservative estimate of Chase&#8217;s power and influence.</p>
<p>Such financial clout would give the Rockefellers the ability to create an international monetary crisis over, night. Could it be that it is they who have been yo-yoing the price of gold, dollars and foreign currencies during the past few years-creating panics for most investors, but profits for themselves?</p>
<p>Every time an international monetary storm blows up hundreds of millions of dollars flow into European banks&#8217; When the storm subsides, those who were&#8221;in the know&#8217;: at the beginning have made enormous sums of money, That the Rockefellers have been very profitably involved through the Chase Manhattan Bank and its overseas facilities, seems more than reasonable.</p>
<p>By almost any standard, Chase Manhattan has become virtually a sovereign state. Except it has more money, than most. lt even employs a full-time envoy to the United Nations.</p>
<p>As just one illuminating statistic, during 1973 Chase board chairman David Rockefeller met with 27 heads of state, including the rulers of Russia and Red China, plus scores of lesser dignitaries. Not even Henry Kissinger, he of the &#8211; shuttle diplomacy &#8211; and much- publicized state dinners, can match Rockefeller&#8217;s influence with the men at the top.</p>
<p>Chase Manhattan&#8217;s annual reports contain much information detailing the worldwide expansion of the bank. lt has gone international on the grand scale. And it shows no signs of slowing down. In fact, Chase Manhattan is the undisputed world heavyweight champion when it comes to international banking.<br />
During the Senate hearing on Nelson&#8217;s confirmation, he claimed,&#8221;I do not own any shares in the Chase Manhattan Bank.&#8221;However, he neglected to mention that his family owns 623,000 shares, or 2.54 % of the Chase Manhattan stock. And he also conveniently overlooked the fact that the Rockefeller Brothers Fund owns another 148 000 Chase shares and Rockefeller University holds 81,296.</p>
<p>Myer Kutz tells us in the New York Times of April 28, 1974:&#8221;The Rockefellers and Rockefeller institutions own a major, essentially controlling interest, estimated at more than 4%,in The Chase Manhattan Bank.</p>
<p>The Chase Annual Report for 1974 reports that the total assets of The Chase Manhattan Corporation stood at $42,532,003,302. That&#8217;s over forty-two billion dollars. From this, reports Chase, they had a net income of $180,801,382 for the year 1974 That&#8217;s over $180 million profit in just one year-or $3.5 million in profit a week-of which the Rockefeller family pockets over four %, or roughly 7.2 million dollars. That&#8217;s not bad, considering Chase is mainly a device for holding and boosting many of the family&#8217;s other financial interests.</p>
<p>Once again we must note that actual ownership by the family in Chase Manhattan may be much greater than is admitted. Professor James Knowles in his highly detailed study, &#8221; The Rockefeller Financial Group&#8221;states:</p>
<p>It is impossible to establish conclusively that the wealthy families represented on the boards of the banks in the Rockefeller Group own a controlling share of the stock. The ownership of large banks is a carefully guarded secret. Even when banks are required to disclose their largest stockholders, as was the case in the 1962 Patman investigation of chain banking, they have used what are called &#8220;street names&#8221; in referring to stockholding in trust.</p>
<p>These &#8220;street names- are wholly fictitious and bear no resemblance to the actual beneficiary or trustees. In the case of Chase Manhattan Bank, for example, its reported twenty largest stockholders in 1962 included fifteen &#8220;street names,&#8221; (e.g., Dudd &amp; Co., Don &amp; Co., Atwell &amp; Co.) &#8230;. (1)Â·</p>
<p>If fifteen of the twenty largest blocs of stocks are held in fictitious names designed to hide the identities of the real owners, it is impossible to doubt that some, if not most, of the actual owners are part of the Rockefeller Empire.</p>
<p>When the few facts that are available to the public are considered-that the Rockefellers control by far the largest amount of stock in Chase Manhattan, that other families closely connected with the Standard Oil fortune from its beginning also own substantial blocks of stock, that the board of directors of Chase Manhattan reads like a who&#8217;s who of Rockefeller lieutenants, and that David Rockefeller is chairman of the board of the bank-no one can dispute Rockefeller control of the Chase Manhattan Bank.</p>
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		<title>By: theswan</title>
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		<dc:creator>theswan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 13:59:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>For sure they will be included in tax refunds as a result of the housing crisis.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For sure they will be included in tax refunds as a result of the housing crisis.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4242566', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: plunger</title>
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		<dc:creator>plunger</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 13:58:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Name the politician from the Republican or Democratic Party who will be available for (s)election this fall who is NOT a member of the CFR.

Good luck.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Name the politician from the Republican or Democratic Party who will be available for (s)election this fall who is NOT a member of the CFR.</p>
<p>Good luck.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4242565', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: plunger</title>
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		<dc:creator>plunger</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 13:56:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Is the news of the rebate checks supposed to soften the blow to this obscenity?

Comment by had enough â€” January 24, 2008 @ 8:30 pm

Has anyone articulated who it is that actually pays the costs of sending out those rebate checks?

The money being paid to tax payers is coming from TAXPAYERS.

The result will be the APPEARANCE of stabilizing home prices and the rise in stock prices - while the value of the dollar collapses.

If your home price remains constant, and your stocks rise 5%, while the dollar drops another 20%, you lose - while the news media and the (s)elected politicians tells you you&#039;re winning

But at least you&#039;re the one paying for it all  - to the benefits of the banksters and the oil barons, and of course, the foreign country that benefits the most from it all.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Is the news of the rebate checks supposed to soften the blow to this obscenity?</p>
<p>Comment by had enough â€” January 24, 2008 @ 8:30 pm</p>
<p>Has anyone articulated who it is that actually pays the costs of sending out those rebate checks?</p>
<p>The money being paid to tax payers is coming from TAXPAYERS.</p>
<p>The result will be the APPEARANCE of stabilizing home prices and the rise in stock prices &#8211; while the value of the dollar collapses.</p>
<p>If your home price remains constant, and your stocks rise 5%, while the dollar drops another 20%, you lose &#8211; while the news media and the (s)elected politicians tells you you&#8217;re winning</p>
<p>But at least you&#8217;re the one paying for it all  &#8211; to the benefits of the banksters and the oil barons, and of course, the foreign country that benefits the most from it all.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4242563', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: tarazan</title>
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		<dc:creator>tarazan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 13:28:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>And if Giuliani wins...,he will make Cheney looks like a saint. Giuliani made a big fortune out of 9/11...

Imagine him being the president. As  a war monger and likudite...he will make ton of money out of coming wars.

Romney looks nicer, but they all,except of  R. Paul, want  more wars, less taxes..otherwise  Al-Qaeda will come to get you.

Romney wants to double the defense spending,but keep giving coporate taxes..
And when the question was given to McCain ..about how can you continue wars and defense spending and cut taxes in the same time,McCain  injected Al-Qaeda fear..but never answered the question directly....</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>And if Giuliani wins&#8230;,he will make Cheney looks like a saint. Giuliani made a big fortune out of 9/11&#8230;</p>
<p>Imagine him being the president. As  a war monger and likudite&#8230;he will make ton of money out of coming wars.</p>
<p>Romney looks nicer, but they all,except of  R. Paul, want  more wars, less taxes..otherwise  Al-Qaeda will come to get you.</p>
<p>Romney wants to double the defense spending,but keep giving coporate taxes..<br />
And when the question was given to McCain ..about how can you continue wars and defense spending and cut taxes in the same time,McCain  injected Al-Qaeda fear..but never answered the question directly&#8230;.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4242557', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: evil_framers_of_the_constitution</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/01/24/exxon-set-to-hit-record-profits/comment-page-2/#comment-4242555</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 13:19:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>hmmm 39.2 billion ....$600. How much was that other little &quot;tax rebate&quot; Bush threw out way back when? $500-1000. So he spent $1100-2200 on the people who needed it. And then allowed Big Oil to rape us for huge profits while he was around. Think about it, any tax rebate given to you has either been pumped into your gas tank, or burned by your furnace 10 times over. Yeah, history is going to be REAL KIND to this @sshole.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>hmmm 39.2 billion &#8230;.$600. How much was that other little &#8220;tax rebate&#8221; Bush threw out way back when? $500-1000. So he spent $1100-2200 on the people who needed it. And then allowed Big Oil to rape us for huge profits while he was around. Think about it, any tax rebate given to you has either been pumped into your gas tank, or burned by your furnace 10 times over. Yeah, history is going to be REAL KIND to this @sshole.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4242555', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Angry McAngus</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/01/24/exxon-set-to-hit-record-profits/comment-page-2/#comment-4242551</link>
		<dc:creator>Angry McAngus</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 12:57:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Jeez, what&#039;s all the hubub up in here?  You&#039;re supposed to get a few hundred dollars rebated.  That should quiet the mob.

--Marie Antoinette</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Jeez, what&#8217;s all the hubub up in here?  You&#8217;re supposed to get a few hundred dollars rebated.  That should quiet the mob.</p>
<p>&#8211;Marie Antoinette<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4242551', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: MWG</title>
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		<dc:creator>MWG</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 11:47:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hmmm....An oil company reaching &quot;record profits&quot; while the rest of the country flounders...who woulda thunkit? *scowl*

I think the oil companies should immediately start charging $8.00 a gallon for gasoline.  Why?  &lt;em&gt;Because necessity is the mother of invention,&lt;/em&gt; and the sooner we are forced to get off the petroleum teat (say, by astronomical prices) the sooner alternative fuels will be developed for mass use.  

Raising the price only gradually doesn&#039;t force us to look for other fuel sources and quit buying gas, it just leaves us feeling like (h/t) RUCerious stated so eloquently in #7.
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hmmm&#8230;.An oil company reaching &#8220;record profits&#8221; while the rest of the country flounders&#8230;who woulda thunkit? *scowl*</p>
<p>I think the oil companies should immediately start charging $8.00 a gallon for gasoline.  Why?  <em>Because necessity is the mother of invention,</em> and the sooner we are forced to get off the petroleum teat (say, by astronomical prices) the sooner alternative fuels will be developed for mass use.  </p>
<p>Raising the price only gradually doesn&#8217;t force us to look for other fuel sources and quit buying gas, it just leaves us feeling like (h/t) RUCerious stated so eloquently in #7.<br />
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		<title>By: wallen</title>
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		<dc:creator>wallen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 11:03:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I think a better way to approach this would be to determine how many gallons of ExxonMobile gas were pumped and calculate that into the equation with the $39.2 Billion. Then we&#039;ll know exactly how much the price of gas should be and how much we are being gouged. Anyone?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think a better way to approach this would be to determine how many gallons of ExxonMobile gas were pumped and calculate that into the equation with the $39.2 Billion. Then we&#8217;ll know exactly how much the price of gas should be and how much we are being gouged. Anyone?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4242538', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: woodguy</title>
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		<dc:creator>woodguy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 09:12:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hypothetically speakingâ€¦

If you knew that someday you would become the inheritor of significant stock in this industry. Say that maybe several generations had continued to grow this basically since arriving. When some of it fell mostly by accident and shared DNA, into your lap, what would you do?

Comment by dbadass â€” January 25, 2008 @ 12:51 am

HYPOCRITICALLY  speaking..

Call for an end to the modest inheritence tax and give it the misnomer &quot;death tax.&quot; But only if I was Grover Norquist&#039;s butt buddy.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hypothetically speakingâ€¦</p>
<p>If you knew that someday you would become the inheritor of significant stock in this industry. Say that maybe several generations had continued to grow this basically since arriving. When some of it fell mostly by accident and shared DNA, into your lap, what would you do?</p>
<p>Comment by dbadass â€” January 25, 2008 @ 12:51 am</p>
<p>HYPOCRITICALLY  speaking..</p>
<p>Call for an end to the modest inheritence tax and give it the misnomer &#8220;death tax.&#8221; But only if I was Grover Norquist&#8217;s butt buddy.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4242533', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Jackie</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jackie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 08:06:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You don&#039;t hear any out cry from Americans with this information.  It was so easy for the Bush Administration to rob Americans no wonder the Oil Companies just get stealing.  Now when you get the 300 dollars George is giving you remember don&#039;t ask for anymore because Bush has given the Iraq men jobs at about 4000 dollars a month with US taxpayers dollars.  I had to laugh when the US gave Iraq 280 billion dollars which was stolen from the bank in the Green Zone and the US wouldn&#039;t investigate the robbery.  But Bush asked Congress for more money to cover the lost.  Yes now Bush is making a deal with Iraq to seal the corrupt contacts he made with Iraq in hopes the new President will be boxed in.  Hillary explained it but as usual Americans could care less.
We see people of Canada buying up foreclosure homes and even Spanish people are buying up property.  
We should put a sign out USA FOR SALE, because thanks to the Bush Administration it is.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You don&#8217;t hear any out cry from Americans with this information.  It was so easy for the Bush Administration to rob Americans no wonder the Oil Companies just get stealing.  Now when you get the 300 dollars George is giving you remember don&#8217;t ask for anymore because Bush has given the Iraq men jobs at about 4000 dollars a month with US taxpayers dollars.  I had to laugh when the US gave Iraq 280 billion dollars which was stolen from the bank in the Green Zone and the US wouldn&#8217;t investigate the robbery.  But Bush asked Congress for more money to cover the lost.  Yes now Bush is making a deal with Iraq to seal the corrupt contacts he made with Iraq in hopes the new President will be boxed in.  Hillary explained it but as usual Americans could care less.<br />
We see people of Canada buying up foreclosure homes and even Spanish people are buying up property.<br />
We should put a sign out USA FOR SALE, because thanks to the Bush Administration it is.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4242532', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: VerbalKint</title>
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		<dc:creator>VerbalKint</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 07:46:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;By the way, idiot, inflation is over 4 percent. Is that hard for you to understand?

Comment by Sabyen91 â€” January 25, 2008 @ 1:29 am&lt;/em&gt;

Muckdog is not an idiot.  He is a paid liar.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>By the way, idiot, inflation is over 4 percent. Is that hard for you to understand?</p>
<p>Comment by Sabyen91 â€” January 25, 2008 @ 1:29 am</em></p>
<p>Muckdog is not an idiot.  He is a paid liar.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4242528', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: VerbalKint</title>
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		<dc:creator>VerbalKint</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 07:46:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This news is sure to go over well with voters during a recession.

Bye bye, Republicans, we hardly knew ye.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This news is sure to go over well with voters during a recession.</p>
<p>Bye bye, Republicans, we hardly knew ye.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4242527', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Max-1</title>
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		<dc:creator>Max-1</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 06:31:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>.

Reg. Unleaded = $3.45 = Billions of &quot;change&quot; for corporations and less in Americans savings.

CORPRATISM = FASCISM

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<p>Reg. Unleaded = $3.45 = Billions of &#8220;change&#8221; for corporations and less in Americans savings.</p>
<p>CORPRATISM = FASCISM</p>
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