Monday Stuff

Well it's Monday and the weekend is over. More freezing rain today again - this is one weird winter, I'm not going to jinx it yet by saying "it's been a really warm winter". February is usually one of the coldest months so we have a wile to go yet.
Just looking around the web this morning and noticed that the Razzie nominations are out. These are the awards give to movies and actors that were really bad last year. Tom Cruise is up for one for his "performance" in "War of the Worlds". Can't say I'm really surprised by this, he's got to be one of the most over hyped actors around. Will Farell is up for his horrible job on the movie "Bewitched". I was smart enough to avoid "War of the Worlds" and I wish I could say the same for "Bewitched", it was simply a horrible movie that has pretty much sworn me off of anything Will Farrell will do in the future.
The other thing of interest I've stumbled is the reports of record profits from EXXON - gee isn't that shocking - Exxon's profits were up 42% from last year, must be hard to make ends meet. Just something to think about the next time your filling up at the gas pump and see the price at 90 what ever cents a liter. Of course they will have the usual excuses that they don't make any money at the pump and their revenue comes from other "Revenue streams". This has got to be the biggest joke running. Every year the price of gas goes up and the oil cartel's profits go through the roof. If they don't make money selling gas, why bother with all the trouble of pumping out of the ground and offering us suckers the wonderful public service of over charging us at the pump. I can't wait until one day some one has the balls to invent a car that runs on anything other than gas and doesn't sell it to the Oil Cartel.
The part of the article that got me the most was the last paragraph "Analysts also warned that the sky-high profits could also trigger calls from consumer groups and politicians for special taxes to be slapped on oil firms as they have been the main beneficiaries of recent record petrol prices." Yea - guess what they will do with that tax - pass it on to us consumers - cause they aren't making any money selling gas remember. Here's an idea why not actually charge them with price gouging or price collusion. Oh I forgot the politicians in some countries own Oil companies.
OK guess I'm done ranting for now, I'll get off my soap box before my blood pressue goes up any more.