BluesBlogger's Bloviations

Mood: Pissed at having to pay over $2 a gallon for something that came from dinosaur carcasses
Listening to: the voices in my head.

"Exxon Mobil Corp. posted record profits for any U.S. company on Monday - $10.71 billion for the fourth quarter and $36.13 billion for the year - as the world's biggest publicly traded oil company benefited from high oil and natural-gas prices and solid demand for refined products."

Ok... let me run this by you. We could use ethanol which comes from something we can grow. You may have heard of it; it's called "corn" and, with small family farms going the way of the $5 haircut, this might be the time to make the move to something we can renew.

Also, this would cut the balls off the Middle East and Hugo "I can't wait until Fidel kicks so I can be the designated nutjob" Chavez who bend the world to their will by sticking us up for oil.

Why can't we move this ball away from the OPEC endzone?

Mood: Need a nap
Listening to: B.B. King - Never Make Your Move Too Soon

Work has been too crazy to write,but decided to get back to the writing here.

Something to consider with the Alito mess going on the same day as the State of the Union is the possibility this could be one of the coldest receptions this president is used to getting.

Even if the Dems don't pull the nuke option on Alito, the Republicans are noticeably weakened right now. Their leaders, who have long postured on ethics, are disgraced. Their partisans appear snipey and only interested in their own narrow focus.

Case in point, this AP article on AIDS research funding which says a lot of the money is ending up with religious groups to the exclusion of organizations which work with high risk groups like IV drug users and sex industry workers. These high-risk folks aren't going to go near a religious group with a ten-foot swagger stick if it means they are preached at and villified!

Have said for a long time the only thing that could save the GOP is a McCain-esque candidate arriving on the scene that could energize the moderates and the Blue Dog Democrats and take back the keys from the K Street Kommandos.