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Mulch Ennui

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11-09-2005 14:28

That is the headline at drudge at this particular moment.

you can read the story of how the oil people don't feel that they are bloated and living high on the hog.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20051109/D8DP6KLG2.html

I will include a couple gems from the article

From: someone

Democrats had wanted the executives to testify under oath, but Republicans rejected the idea.

Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., made the issue personal, noting that the executives were reaping multimillion-dollar bonuses on top of multimillion-dollar salaries as "working people struggle" to pay for gasoline and face the specter of soaring home heating bills this winter. "Your sacrifice appears to be nothing," Boxer told the executives.

But sometimes, pictures speak louder than words, and the pic at drudge screamed at me to post here

do you think guy is bloated with excess ?

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Mulch Ennui

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idolatry

11-09-2005 14:50

From: someone

BARTLEBY

You are responsible for raising an icon that draws worship from the Lord. You've broken the first commandment, but more than that, I'm afraid none of you passes for a decent human being. Your continued existence is a mockery of morality.

Like you - Mister Bernard.

Last year you cheated on your wife of seventeen years, eight times - twice with prostitutes. You even had sex with her best friend while she was at her garden club meeting and you were supposed to be watching your kids.

LOKI

In the bed you and your wife share, no less.

BARTLEBY

And you, Mister Newman.

You got your girlfriend drunk at last year's Christmas party, and then paid a kid from the mailroom to have sex with her while she was passed out, just so you could break up with her - guilt free - when she sobbingly confessed the next morning that she cheated on you. She killed herself three months later. You sent flowers to her wake.

Mister Pereira disowned his gay son; Mister Turran put his mother in a third-rate nursing home and used the profits from the sale of her house to purchase an oriental rug for himself; Mister Barker flew to the Phillipines on the company account to have sex with an eleven year old boy; Mister Bloom okayed the production of Mooby dolls from what he knew were unsafe and toxic materials because it was-less costly.

Bartleby stops at the female Board member and looks at her, relieved.

BARTLEBY

You, on the other hand, are an innocent. You lead a good life and have never misused your power here.

She stares at Bartleby. Loki pats her on the back and urges Bartleby on.

BARTLEBY

But you, Mister Whitland. You have more skeletons in your closet than this assembled party. I can't even mention them aloud.

Bartleby leans over and whispers something unheard into Whitland's ear. Whitland goes green. Bartleby steps back. Loki stands beside Whitland.

LOKI

You're her father, you sick fuck.

Whitland begins sobbing.

BARTLEBY

(to Loki)

Can I go now?

LOKI

(cheerily rubbing his head)

Go on, you crazy kid.

Bartlebv exits. Loki turns menacingly on the others.

LOKI

With the exception of Miss Pryce, there is not a decent human being amongst you. Do you know what makes a human being decent?

Fear. And therein lies the problem. None of you has anything to fear anymore. You rest comfortably in seats of inscrutable power, hiding behind your false idol, far from judgement - lives shrouded in secrecy even from one another. But not from God.

I wonder why this scene came to my head...

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Juro Kothari

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11-09-2005 16:48

From: Mulch Ennui

do you think guy is bloated with excess ?

I think its an allergic reaction from the glue holding down that rug on his head.

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Juro Kothari

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11-09-2005 16:49

Oh ya - and I lurrrve Boxer!

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Mulch Ennui

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11-09-2005 17:00

From: Juro Kothari

Oh ya - and I lurrrve Boxer!

so do I, we are lucky and proud in Cali to have her

she at least makes up for the insanity of our govonator

but we terminated his dumb ass last night =)

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Neehai Zapata

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11-09-2005 17:16

It's not just that they are making such profits, but that we subsidize them so they can.

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Juro Kothari

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11-09-2005 19:41

From: Mulch Ennui

so do I, we are lucky and proud in Cali to have her

she at least makes up for the insanity of our govonator

but we terminated his dumb ass last night =)

Yes we did! I wonder how he feels today.. poor thing.

Muahahah!

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Magnum Serpentine

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11-09-2005 19:49

I loved how they screamed, "Don't you dare tax my funds for my vacation to Europe next year"

I think the Federal Government should Nationalize ALL U.S. Oil companies then drop the price of gas to 0.95US$

Roland Hauptmann

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11-09-2005 19:57

From: Magnum Serpentine

I think the Federal Government should Nationalize ALL U.S. Oil companies then drop the price of gas to 0.95US$

ROFL.. ya man. That's how it works.

While we're at it, I'd like the government to give me a magical unicorn that can fly.
Oh, and shoot laser beams out of its eyes.

Freaking lasers. Hell yeah.

Ulrika Zugzwang

Magnanimous in Victory

Join date: 10 Jun 2004

Posts: 6,382

11-09-2005 20:32

Given that the oil companies are private entities (albeit subsidized by tax dollars), there will be no price fixing. The best one can hope to do is to add a tax on oil companies on excessive profits to dissuade profiteering. (Capitalism regulates through taxation.)

However, I suggest as an alternative that oil companies should be federalized, subsidies should be eliminated, and fuel should be taxed on energy content (not volume). A relatively high rate of taxation (4 US$/gallon total) will serve to pay for alternative transportation, alternative energy distribution methods, and sustainable zoning. Anything else is just waiting around for the disaster after the oil runs out.

~Ulrika~

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Chik-chik-chika-ahh

Mulch Ennui

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11-09-2005 22:02

From: Roland Hauptmann

ROFL.. ya man. That's how it works.

While we're at it, I'd like the government to give me a magical unicorn that can fly.
Oh, and shoot laser beams out of its eyes.

Freaking lasers. Hell yeah.

well...

low gas prices are not in the cards... the deck has already been stacked:

From: Vice President Dick Cheney

"Let us rid ourselves of the fiction that low oil prices are somehow good for the United States."

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Enabran Templar

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11-10-2005 00:24

From: Roland Hauptmann

ROFL.. ya man. That's how it works.

While we're at it, I'd like the government to give me a magical unicorn that can fly.
Oh, and shoot laser beams out of its eyes.

Freaking lasers. Hell yeah.

I can top that one.

From: Magnum Serpentine

I feel that even in the Real world everything should be free. We can get Robots and computers to make everything. And computers can be designed to repair themselves.

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Magnum Serpentine

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11-10-2005 00:32

From: Ulrika Zugzwang

Given that the oil companies are private entities (albeit subsidized by tax dollars), there will be no price fixing. The best one can hope to do is to add a tax on oil companies on excessive profits to dissuade profiteering. (Capitalism regulates through taxation.)

However, I suggest as an alternative that oil companies should be federalized, subsidies should be eliminated, and fuel should be taxed on energy content (not volume). A relatively high rate of taxation (4 US$/gallon total) will serve to pay for alternative transportation, alternative energy distribution methods, and sustainable zoning. Anything else is just waiting around for the disaster after the oil runs out.

~Ulrika~

I like your plan better

Magnum Serpentine

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11-10-2005 00:35

From: Enabran Templar

I can top that one.

Please stop your personal attacks against me.

Oil Company Execs Defend Huge Profits
Mulch Ennui 15 Minutes are Over Join date: 22 May 2005 Posts: 2,607	11-09-2005 14:28 That is the headline at drudge at this particular moment. you can read the story of how the oil people don't feel that they are bloated and living high on the hog. http://apnews.myway.com/article/20051109/D8DP6KLG2.html I will include a couple gems from the article From: someone Democrats had wanted the executives to testify under oath, but Republicans rejected the idea. Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., made the issue personal, noting that the executives were reaping multimillion-dollar bonuses on top of multimillion-dollar salaries as "working people struggle" to pay for gasoline and face the specter of soaring home heating bills this winter. "Your sacrifice appears to be nothing," Boxer told the executives. But sometimes, pictures speak louder than words, and the pic at drudge screamed at me to post here do you think guy is bloated with excess ? _____________________ I have of late--but wherefore I know not--lost all my mirth, that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. http://forums.secondcitizen.com/
Mulch Ennui 15 Minutes are Over Join date: 22 May 2005 Posts: 2,607	idolatry 11-09-2005 14:50 From: someone BARTLEBY You are responsible for raising an icon that draws worship from the Lord. You've broken the first commandment, but more than that, I'm afraid none of you passes for a decent human being. Your continued existence is a mockery of morality. Like you - Mister Bernard. Last year you cheated on your wife of seventeen years, eight times - twice with prostitutes. You even had sex with her best friend while she was at her garden club meeting and you were supposed to be watching your kids. LOKI In the bed you and your wife share, no less. BARTLEBY And you, Mister Newman. You got your girlfriend drunk at last year's Christmas party, and then paid a kid from the mailroom to have sex with her while she was passed out, just so you could break up with her - guilt free - when she sobbingly confessed the next morning that she cheated on you. She killed herself three months later. You sent flowers to her wake. Mister Pereira disowned his gay son; Mister Turran put his mother in a third-rate nursing home and used the profits from the sale of her house to purchase an oriental rug for himself; Mister Barker flew to the Phillipines on the company account to have sex with an eleven year old boy; Mister Bloom okayed the production of Mooby dolls from what he knew were unsafe and toxic materials because it was-less costly. Bartleby stops at the female Board member and looks at her, relieved. BARTLEBY You, on the other hand, are an innocent. You lead a good life and have never misused your power here. She stares at Bartleby. Loki pats her on the back and urges Bartleby on. BARTLEBY But you, Mister Whitland. You have more skeletons in your closet than this assembled party. I can't even mention them aloud. Bartleby leans over and whispers something unheard into Whitland's ear. Whitland goes green. Bartleby steps back. Loki stands beside Whitland. LOKI You're her father, you sick fuck. Whitland begins sobbing. BARTLEBY (to Loki) Can I go now? LOKI (cheerily rubbing his head) Go on, you crazy kid. Bartlebv exits. Loki turns menacingly on the others. LOKI With the exception of Miss Pryce, there is not a decent human being amongst you. Do you know what makes a human being decent? Fear. And therein lies the problem. None of you has anything to fear anymore. You rest comfortably in seats of inscrutable power, hiding behind your false idol, far from judgement - lives shrouded in secrecy even from one another. But not from God. I wonder why this scene came to my head... _____________________ I have of late--but wherefore I know not--lost all my mirth, that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. http://forums.secondcitizen.com/
Juro Kothari Like a dog on a bone Join date: 4 Sep 2003 Posts: 4,418	11-09-2005 16:48 From: Mulch Ennui do you think guy is bloated with excess ? I think its an allergic reaction from the glue holding down that rug on his head. _____________________
Juro Kothari Like a dog on a bone Join date: 4 Sep 2003 Posts: 4,418	11-09-2005 16:49 Oh ya - and I lurrrve Boxer! _____________________
Mulch Ennui 15 Minutes are Over Join date: 22 May 2005 Posts: 2,607	11-09-2005 17:00 From: Juro Kothari Oh ya - and I lurrrve Boxer! so do I, we are lucky and proud in Cali to have her she at least makes up for the insanity of our govonator but we terminated his dumb ass last night =) _____________________ I have of late--but wherefore I know not--lost all my mirth, that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. http://forums.secondcitizen.com/
Neehai Zapata Unofficial Parent Join date: 8 Apr 2004 Posts: 1,970	11-09-2005 17:16 It's not just that they are making such profits, but that we subsidize them so they can. _____________________ Unofficial moderator and proud dysfunctional parent to over 1000 bastard children.
Juro Kothari Like a dog on a bone Join date: 4 Sep 2003 Posts: 4,418	11-09-2005 19:41 From: Mulch Ennui so do I, we are lucky and proud in Cali to have her she at least makes up for the insanity of our govonator but we terminated his dumb ass last night =) Yes we did! I wonder how he feels today.. poor thing. Muahahah! _____________________
Magnum Serpentine Registered User Join date: 20 Nov 2003 Posts: 1,811	11-09-2005 19:49 I loved how they screamed, "Don't you dare tax my funds for my vacation to Europe next year" I think the Federal Government should Nationalize ALL U.S. Oil companies then drop the price of gas to 0.95US$
Roland Hauptmann Registered User Join date: 29 Oct 2005 Posts: 323	11-09-2005 19:57 From: Magnum Serpentine I think the Federal Government should Nationalize ALL U.S. Oil companies then drop the price of gas to 0.95US$ ROFL.. ya man. That's how it works. While we're at it, I'd like the government to give me a magical unicorn that can fly. Oh, and shoot laser beams out of its eyes. Freaking lasers. Hell yeah.
Ulrika Zugzwang Magnanimous in Victory Join date: 10 Jun 2004 Posts: 6,382	11-09-2005 20:32 Given that the oil companies are private entities (albeit subsidized by tax dollars), there will be no price fixing. The best one can hope to do is to add a tax on oil companies on excessive profits to dissuade profiteering. (Capitalism regulates through taxation.) However, I suggest as an alternative that oil companies should be federalized, subsidies should be eliminated, and fuel should be taxed on energy content (not volume). A relatively high rate of taxation (4 US$/gallon total) will serve to pay for alternative transportation, alternative energy distribution methods, and sustainable zoning. Anything else is just waiting around for the disaster after the oil runs out. ~Ulrika~ _____________________ Chik-chik-chika-ahh
Mulch Ennui 15 Minutes are Over Join date: 22 May 2005 Posts: 2,607	11-09-2005 22:02 From: Roland Hauptmann ROFL.. ya man. That's how it works. While we're at it, I'd like the government to give me a magical unicorn that can fly. Oh, and shoot laser beams out of its eyes. Freaking lasers. Hell yeah. well... low gas prices are not in the cards... the deck has already been stacked: From: Vice President Dick Cheney "Let us rid ourselves of the fiction that low oil prices are somehow good for the United States." _____________________ I have of late--but wherefore I know not--lost all my mirth, that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. http://forums.secondcitizen.com/
Enabran Templar Capitalist Pig Join date: 26 Aug 2004 Posts: 4,506	11-10-2005 00:24 From: Roland Hauptmann ROFL.. ya man. That's how it works. While we're at it, I'd like the government to give me a magical unicorn that can fly. Oh, and shoot laser beams out of its eyes. Freaking lasers. Hell yeah. I can top that one. From: Magnum Serpentine I feel that even in the Real world everything should be free. We can get Robots and computers to make everything. And computers can be designed to repair themselves. _____________________ From: Hiro Pendragon Furthermore, as Second Life goes to the Metaverse, and this becomes an open platform, Linden Lab risks lawsuit in court and [attachment culling] will, I repeat WILL be reverse in court. Second Life Forums: Who needs Reason when you can use bold tags?
Magnum Serpentine Registered User Join date: 20 Nov 2003 Posts: 1,811	11-10-2005 00:32 From: Ulrika Zugzwang Given that the oil companies are private entities (albeit subsidized by tax dollars), there will be no price fixing. The best one can hope to do is to add a tax on oil companies on excessive profits to dissuade profiteering. (Capitalism regulates through taxation.) However, I suggest as an alternative that oil companies should be federalized, subsidies should be eliminated, and fuel should be taxed on energy content (not volume). A relatively high rate of taxation (4 US$/gallon total) will serve to pay for alternative transportation, alternative energy distribution methods, and sustainable zoning. Anything else is just waiting around for the disaster after the oil runs out. ~Ulrika~ I like your plan better
Magnum Serpentine Registered User Join date: 20 Nov 2003 Posts: 1,811	11-10-2005 00:35 From: Enabran Templar I can top that one. Please stop your personal attacks against me.

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