SEC=UGA Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 RALEIGH, North Carolina (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said on Monday he would impose a windfall profits tax on U.S. oil companies as he sought political gain from Americans' pain over high gasoline prices. Launching a two-week focus on the economy after clinching the Democratic presidential nomination, Obama drew a sharp contrast between his economic policies and those of John McCain, his Republican rival in the November election. "I'll make oil companies like Exxon pay a tax on their windfall profits, and we'll use the money to help families pay for their skyrocketing energy costs and other bills," the Illinois senator said. Obama charged that McCain's support for extending President George W. Bush's tax cuts means he is in favor of $2 trillion in corporate tax breaks, including $1.2 billion for Exxon Mobil Corp. "If John McCain's policies were implemented, they would add $5.7 trillion to the national debt over the next decade. That isn't fiscal conservatism, that's what George Bush has done over the last eight years," Obama said. On Friday, oil posted record highs, cruising past $75 a barrel on continued fears of supply disruptions in Iran and Nigeria and reports of spot gas shortages on the U.S. East Coast. Gas prices have shot up nearly 25 cents per gallon over the past two weeks, to a national average of $2.91 for self-serve regular, a survey said Sunday. In January, ExxonMobil Corp., the nation's largest oil company, reported U.S.-record profits for the quarter ($10.7 billion) and the year ($36.1 billion). Sen. I'M A TOOL Levin, a Michigan Democrat, told CNN's "Late Edition" on Sunday, "We need a windfall profits tax, because these profits have been absolutely obscene." "If the president would call the oil companies into the Oval Office and tell them he's going to support a windfall profits tax ... I'll bet that the price of gasoline would come down within a matter of days," Levin said. "But the president will not call the oil companies into his office, because he's been too closely allied with those oil companies. And if he does, it's going to be a window-dressing conversation." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimC Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 Obama is the Mendenhall of Presidents. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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The Next Generation Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 What ever happened to this? Chronovision Father Marcello Pellegrino Ernetti Father Ernetti is fascinating not just because of his work as an exorcist in the Venice region, but more especially because of his work on the “chronovision”. In the 1960s he is said to have claimed he constructed a time viewer of sorts in the 1950s, as part of a group that supposedly included Nobel Laureate Enrico Fermi and Wernher von Braun. The machine was called the Chronovisor, and could allegedly see and hear events of the past. According to an explanation by Ernetti, the luminous energy and sound that objects emanate are recorded in their environment, such that proper use of the chronovisor could reconstruct from said energy the images and sounds of a specific set of events from the past. Through the viewing screen of the chronovisor Father Ernetti claimed to have witnessed a performance in Rome in 169 BC of the now-lost tragedy, Thyestes, by the father of Latin poetry, Quintus Ennius. He also claimed to have witnessed Christ dying on the cross. On his death-bed in 1994, Father Ernetti said that he attended a meeting of all the people involved in the chronovision at the Vatican during which the only existing machine was destroyed. Obama! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bpwallace49 Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 What ever happened to this? Chronovision Father Marcello Pellegrino Ernetti Father Ernetti is fascinating not just because of his work as an exorcist in the Venice region, but more especially because of his work on the “chronovision”. In the 1960s he is said to have claimed he constructed a time viewer of sorts in the 1950s, as part of a group that supposedly included Nobel Laureate Enrico Fermi and Wernher von Braun. The machine was called the Chronovisor, and could allegedly see and hear events of the past. According to an explanation by Ernetti, the luminous energy and sound that objects emanate are recorded in their environment, such that proper use of the chronovisor could reconstruct from said energy the images and sounds of a specific set of events from the past. Through the viewing screen of the chronovisor Father Ernetti claimed to have witnessed a performance in Rome in 169 BC of the now-lost tragedy, Thyestes, by the father of Latin poetry, Quintus Ennius. He also claimed to have witnessed Christ dying on the cross. On his death-bed in 1994, Father Ernetti said that he attended a meeting of all the people involved in the chronovision at the Vatican during which the only existing machine was destroyed. Obama! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savage Beatings Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 What ever happened to this? Chronovision Father Marcello Pellegrino Ernetti Father Ernetti is fascinating not just because of his work as an exorcist in the Venice region, but more especially because of his work on the “chronovision”. In the 1960s he is said to have claimed he constructed a time viewer of sorts in the 1950s, as part of a group that supposedly included Nobel Laureate Enrico Fermi and Wernher von Braun. The machine was called the Chronovisor, and could allegedly see and hear events of the past. According to an explanation by Ernetti, the luminous energy and sound that objects emanate are recorded in their environment, such that proper use of the chronovisor could reconstruct from said energy the images and sounds of a specific set of events from the past. Through the viewing screen of the chronovisor Father Ernetti claimed to have witnessed a performance in Rome in 169 BC of the now-lost tragedy, Thyestes, by the father of Latin poetry, Quintus Ennius. He also claimed to have witnessed Christ dying on the cross. On his death-bed in 1994, Father Ernetti said that he attended a meeting of all the people involved in the chronovision at the Vatican during which the only existing machine was destroyed. Obama! That's pretty sweet! I had to do some Googling of this and I found a bunch of other stuff that Obama has wrecked too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SEC=UGA Posted May 10, 2011 Author Share Posted May 10, 2011 (edited) Glad to see you guys take things so seriously when gas was at 2.95 a gallon, but now that it's at 4.00, there is no issue. ETA: I guess the title pretty much sums up your feelings. Edited May 10, 2011 by SEC=UGA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gbpfan1231 Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 I am just shocked that Obama did not follow through on one of many promises. This has to be the first right?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savage Beatings Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 Glad to see you guys take things so seriously when gas was at 2.95 a gallon, but now that it's at 4.00, there is no issue. ETA: I guess the title pretty much sums up your feelings. Do you honestly believe that taxing Oil Companies more would cause the price of a gallon of gas to drop? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pope Flick Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 (edited) No response for 45 minutes (in the early morning no less) and you're that bored. This took 5 second for me to find, and it came out the same day as your article did I think. Edited May 10, 2011 by Pope Flick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaP'N GRuNGe Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 Maybe he got tired of being called a socialist all the time and decided to let the free market work it out like you guys are always clamoring for. If we've learned anything from the economic calamity of the past few year its that markets are always perfect and connected powerful business interests have the well being of the public as priority #1 at all times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SEC=UGA Posted May 10, 2011 Author Share Posted May 10, 2011 No response for 45 minutes (in the early morning no less) and you're that bored. This took 5 second for me to find, and it came out the same day as your article did I think. In actuality, the articles, very few and far between, over the past two days are what prompted me to post this thread. If my memory serves me correctly, you will find that when gas prices were going up under the previous admin it was all the dems could do to keep themselves from rushing in front of the cameras and reporters to announce that the connection between big oil and the admin was the cause of all of this and that something must change. Now that it is they who are in charge you don't see quite so much clamoring to get the front page and top story headlines... And, yes, I was that bored. You people need to wake up earlier so I can be riveted throughout the day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gbpfan1231 Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 In actuality, the articles, very few and far between, over the past two days are what prompted me to post this thread. If my memory serves me correctly, you will find that when gas prices were going up under the previous admin it was all the dems could do to keep themselves from rushing in front of the cameras and reporters to announce that the connection between big oil and the admin was the cause of all of this and that something must change. Now that it is they who are in charge you don't see quite so much clamoring to get the front page and top story headlines... And, yes, I was that bored. You people need to wake up earlier so I can be riveted throughout the day. More shocking news - politicians are hypocrits. Oh my god shocking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bushwacked Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 I am just shocked that Obama did not follow through on one of many promises. This has to be the first right?? 135 for 42 against Not too shabby and one of the many reasons his approval rating is a whopping 30% points higher than W's when he was done. It's not like Obama promised he was against nation building then started an unfunded 2 trillion nation building welfare program that was instrumental in crashing the world economy. If the economy continues to improve and some progress is made on the deficit, I think any reasonable person can see that history is going to look upon 2002 to 2016 as an era where we had the most disastrous administration in history followed by one of the best. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimC Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 an era where we had the most disastrous administration in history followed by one of the best. I don't know what Ronald Reagan has to do with your argument, but I agree. We should dig him up and he'd be better than anything in there over the past 20 years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
borge007 Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 I don't know what Ronald Reagan has to do with your argument, but I agree. We should dig him up and he'd be better than anything in there over the past 20 years. Thank you -mommy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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