record profits, disgruntled postal workers, and friedman is an idiot...

here's a big shocker...record profits for oil companies at the end of last year following the hurricanes. natural disasters and the hysteria they created allowed these schmucks to run up the prices at the pump and blame it on disabled refineries (sp?)... now, i'm just as for gauging hummer driving assholes as the next person, the problem is that high gas prices hurt the people that can afford it the least the most... it is the same reason i am torn when it comes to higher gas taxes...it becomes the poor man's tax, yet another way for the american elite to hold onto a bigger chunk of the pie then they deserve. it is exactly because of that that i wonder how some decision makers at exxon can sleep at night...not only are they stealing from the poor and giving to the rich (the american way), but they used a tragic disaster to line their own pockets even further. note to alberto...take 'em down...

another disgruntled postal worker went, well, postal...7 dead at a sorting plant near santa barbara, including the shooter. i really can't put my finger on what makes postal workers crazy...maybe there is something in the adhesive of letters and stamps. it does make for a great song though, disgrunteled postal worker...look it up...

i am reading friedman's new book wherein he apparently thinks he is a genius for realizing the world is flat thanks to technological advancements. welcome to the world we've all been living in for the last decade asshole. he also apparently has bought into the dying economic superpower bullshit and believes that it is possible for us to keep leading the pack. while he makes some good points, he tends to go astray once he points something out.

globalization is a bad thing for the united states, and it tends to be a bad thing for the vast majority of people in developing countries...but at some point we stopped listening to abraham lincoln and no longer recognized labor's superiority over capital...we made capital god...and so now we imagine our quality of life is getting better as the elites all over the world fleece the rest. friedman's answer for american workers losing their jobs because the manufacturing infrastructure in this country is collapsing around us...inevitably to leave us as has-beens...learn more. yea...it's just that simple...train yourself for really high tech jobs and you will be fine...go get another degree...and then you can move up to starbucks with the other graduates that can't find work because there aren't enough white collar jobs to go around as it is...that of course is if you are lucky enough to be born into the right family and right nieghborhood so you can afford to get advanced degrees. god help us.

we were not told one thing that we could learn...