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- American Airlines charging $15 for the first bag and $25 for the second makes me think they are in trouble. Big trouble. I'm not sure we won't see, gasp, the federal government transform air travel into public transportation in the next 50 years.
- I actually bought a whopping 100 shares of American Airlines stock at $2 a share right after 9/11. Yep, a whole $200! It went up into the $30s and now is back around $6. I never know when to sell.
- Don't care about American Idol. Don't care about American Idol. Don't care about American Idol.
- I had the experience of doing a smell test on my milk this morning only to find it had suddenly gone sour. I hate that moment.
- Steve Curtis Chapman tragedy.
- New York Jets cheerleader tryout page made me disable my pop-up blocker. (And some jokes just write themselves.)
- Watched The Thin Blue Line documentary last night - the story of Randall Dale Adams. I thought it would be great in light of the recent exonerations out of the Dallas DA's office, and I was not disappointed - it was fantastic. But there's been a heck of a lot happen in the case since the film was completed. Edit: Page from Dallas Times Herald about 10 years after conviction.
- Three TCU athletes had their lives ruined last year when they were arrested for Aggravated Sexual Assault. Yesterday, the final case was dismissed. Arrests are thrown around like candy.
- Saw, in the back window of a pickup this morning, the words "Git Ur Dun" that had been placed there with the use of individual letters and a great deal of care. My head almost exploded.
- The biblical story of The Rich Man posted yesterday has fascinated me for years. I asked my pastor hard questions about it 29 years ago. Didn't really like the answers back then either.
- When I was kid, everyone in my neighborhood let their dog run lose. No chains. No fenced back yard. Just let 'em run wild. And they never ran off and never really caused a problem.
- Yeah, we're probably getting ripped off by Big Oil but having Congress drag the oil company execs in for hearing of sound bites is silly and a waste of time.
- Glanced at our district court stats yesterday: It looks like one out of every three cases is drug related.
- The Decatur baseball team has a game in Abilene of Friday night and the on Saturday afternoon. I presume they are spending the night.
- Those Tommy Lee Jones ad for "Friends of the Barnett Shale" (or something like that) is weird.
- Odd note: "The San Antonio Spurs spent Monday night aboard their chartered 727 at the airport in New Orleans after winning a semifinal game over the New Orleans Hornets, according to ESPN.com. The plane was grounded by mechanical difficulties, there were no hotel rooms available in the city and the team had to wait for a replacement plane to arrive."
- Edit: I called a prosecutor an "idiot" a couple of days when he/she mad a post on her blog lumping "Nigerian Prosecutors" into one negative lot. Surprise. Surprise. It's now gone.
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American Airlines wants people to pack less and carry on, lightening the planes and therefore the fuel needs. They are not in trouble, they are trying to stay out of trouble as best they can.
Anon @ 7:25 Our CEO Arpey just took a 6 million dollar "bonus" last month. Its bad enough he is treating the employees like "Suckers' now he is treating the customers the same way !!!
Everyone carry on your suitcase then when it wont fit in the overhead just gate check them ... no charge ... LOL
odd story: http://www.wsbtv.com/news/16359548/detail.html
I would wear her sparkly bra like a GRILL !
Mr. Brain Child,
I love your blog.
Yours Truly,
Double Fake Fan
The girl in the sparkly top looks exactly unlike that track and field athlete from Rochelle High School.
People complain about vehicle fuel costs, but they will continue to drive 70 mph plus, vote for Republicans that have created the big oil opportunities to make these rediculous profits, especially since 9-11. The Saudis are jamming these prices up our butts because we have helped to "stabilize" their situations in the Middle East.
Tommy Lee Jones is the weird thing in those commercials. No makeup hardly, and he looks like he's had way too many years of drinking way too much booze, especially the one without his cowboy hat on! In fact in the one without his hat on, he looks like he's just coming off a binge from the night before!
I'm interested in hearing how Republicans are responsible for the "rediculous" (sic) profits the oil companies make.
Absent government interference, a larger supply of oil should reduce the price. So step 1: Get government/Democrat/environmentalist special interest groups out of the way of private enterprise; and step 2: Allow access to the billions of barrels of oil that are available on (or under, to be technically accurate) American soil.
Very roughly, oil company profit on a gallon of gas is 3%. Taxes on that same gallon of gas are roughly 10-13%. Additionally, the government doesn't have to pay for exploration, drilling, production, transportation or royalties.
So why not the same outrage over the enormous "profit" the government is making on a gallon of gas?
Look for the Alliance Maintenance Base to be shut down soon. Kansas City and Tulsa kiss sAAtan's @ss and give them all kind of incentives, but Fort Worth will tell them to fly South!
F.U.R.P.
aka F.U. Arpey!
i get really tired of all the blame on big oil and bush and the saudies. does anyone remember the energy bill in 2001 that was filibustered by the democrats in the senete. the argument was it would be years before we reaped the benifit from anwar and the gulf. well now its been years and were reaping the benifit of the filibuster.
screw democrats , they are the biggest fraud ever.
btw im glad i bought exxon stock, its been good, will sell it nov 4.
wordkyle, why do you suklly the name of Bob by using his visage as your avatar?
I feel like a pawn. The oil companies and Arabs raise the price of oil and fuel. So the automobile industry makes my vehicle obsolete by increasing the fuel economy of the new ones. This is just fine with the oil companies. They would rather sell one gallon of fuel for $4 than two gallons for $2 each. Cuts their refining in half, cuts transport to us end users in half, cuts storage facilities in half, cuts the number of refineries in half, etc. Those of us who use diesel are really hurting. The pumps cut off my debit card purchase at $100 so I can't even fill my tank. I don't believe the 3% profit. All us business people know how to play the IRS game.
1116 - Because I'm devoted to the pursuit of slack.
Oil company profits are huge in terms of raw dollars, but only about 8 percent in terms of margin. (for those that need it...basically that is revenue over expenses). In other words, most companies we buy stuff from are marking up prices more than oil companies are.
Senior VP of Exxon claimed in front of the Senate judiciary committee yesterday that the worldwide demand of oil is what's causing the prices to spike as they have been and possibly, in four years or so supply will not meet demand. Who knows? But missionaries from our church are leaving for Zambia, Africa next week and oil costs 8.50/gal there. At least we're not there...yet.
11:18, You should feel like a liberal weenie. Oil companies and Saudi's don't set the oil price. Speculators in the commodities market do. Why aren't you outraged at your own party that won't allow for more drilling and building of oil refineries? Your anger is aimed in the wrong direction. How much has the price gone up since your party took over the senate in 2004?
"Git Ur Dun" makes me cringe. ewwww.....
zoo- you need to get back to work.
So the Jets cheerleaders are known as "The Crew". Seems about right.
Hooray for the Jets being the first major sports team to allow transgender cheerleaders.
(Pease note: You don't HAVE to be transgender to make The Crew, they still accept ugly and skanky!)
A gallon of gas is very close in price to a gallon of milk. Maybe we should bring the milk producers in for congressional time wasting since it surely is easier to milk a cow than drill for oil. Like Ma Bell, Exxon got the ill communication. Perhaps it should be broken up into regionals. Surely THAT would lower the price of gas (sarcasm module installed).
Also, I wonder how well AA would run if they paid their CEO only $1 Million a year? Wanna risk it?
The Tommy Lee Jones ads wouldn't be as creepy if I hadn't just seen No Country for Old Men.
Sorry 1:28, I have voted for the Republician nominee for the past eight elections. I served my country in the Kennedy/Johnson war in Vietnam. Many of my friends, high school classmates and cousins have their names incribed on the black slab of granite. I hated Johnson and Kennedy for that and swore never to vote for the likes on them. To be conservative does not mean that I am your clone.
It drives me nuts when these intellectual giants expound on the existance of God. If their finite minds can't grasp it, it can't possibly be real. The Bible says that there is a way that seems right to a man but leads to destruction. The evolutionists try to explain the existance of matter and energy without divine creation. Their explanation runs out of gas when called on to explain where the matter or energy came from to begin evolution. The laws of science support adaption not evolution. The reference to Einstein is laughable as if he was the last word. If he was the last word, where is he now?
7:19, Sorry for thinking you were a lib weenie. I would have thought anyone smart enough to be a Conservative would understand that oil companies and Saudi's don't control oil prices. It's just the way you portrayed them that made me think you were off your rocker. Thanks for your service to our country and you definitely have earned your right to speak your opinion on here.
Lactaid milk stays fresher longer and still tastes good. Also,that one they sell in the glass bottles from Floresville TX stays fresher. It has a picture of a Jersey cow on the label and is awesome in chocolate flavor! ummmm cowie...
Man I got to quit getting so high so early in the morning!
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