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Meet Sister Nancy Beth Eczema:

The Left continues to tout the existence of the elusive female orgasm, despite all biological evidence to the contrary. As I have often said, if The Lord intended for us to have such things, He would have given us penises. But regardless of what the facts and common sense say, liberals continue to pursue their great white whale — and I don't mean Michael Moore (Ha! That joke never gets old!). I've often wondered what motivates them to pursue this specious black-is-white reasoning. For the longest time, I assumed that it was merely another entitlement program created to pander to one of their key constituencies. Today I have my answer: Pure, unalloyed hatred of America. Evidently ladyquakes are the carrots moonbats are using to lead the women of Our Christian Nation over a moral cliff [...]

Before you deluge Sister Nancy with hate mail….it's satire, folks!  

Oil Companies and the High Price of Gasoline

Is there anyone in the US who isn't complaining about the high cost of fuel and – until recently – the high cost of home heating? Okay – anyone who isn't a) mega-rich or b) linked to Big Oil?

Big Oil shared its first-quarter profit sheets with the world, and – surprise – they're seeing record profits. Here's a few:

Chevron – $4 billion profit

Exxon – $8.4 billion profit

ConocoPhillips – $3.29 billion profit
BP – $5.6 billion profit

And, remember, this is profit. This is what's left after all the expenses are taken out.

Can someone explain how this works? Big Oil (and its friends in the White House) are telling us that this is just a result of high demand and low supply and/or refining capabilities, and that they're suffering too.

But, they're seeing record profits, which would suggest to me that they could afford to lower their prices and still make a few bucks. Especially since their little buddy Bush isn't going to make them pay taxes on their record profits.

From Business Week online:

President Bush on Friday rejected calls in Congress for a tax on oil company profits, saying the industry should reinvest its recent windfalls in finding and producing more energy.

"The temptation in Washington is to tax everything," Bush said in an exchange with reporters in the White House Rose Garden. Rather than for the government to reap the benefit from oil company profits driven by the recent surge in global oil prices, he said, "the answer is for there to be strong re-investment."

"These oil prices are a wakeup call," Bush said. "We're dependent on oil. We need to get off oil."

He doesn't really mean that part about getting off oil, of course. He said the same thing in his State of the Union address, but then turned around and issued a clarification that said he didn't really mean cutting our oil consumption.

These prices are a wakeup call, alright – the one that says the faster we get Big Oil and its buddies out of the White House, the better.

In a world gone mad…

When I read the following two articles on msnbc.com, it made me think of the Beastie Boys' song:

In a world gone mad it's hard to think right
So much violence hate and spite
Murder going on all day and night
Due time we fight the non-violent fight

Yesterday, five US lawmakers were arrested at a non-violent protest outside the Sudanese embassy. Representatives Tom Lantos (D-Ca), James McGovern (D-Ma), John Olver (D-Ma), Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Tx), and James Moran (D-Va) were "were among 11 protesters arrested on charges of disorderly conduct and unlawful assembly, a misdemeanor subject to a fine." (AP)

More from the Associated Press:

Five Congress members were willingly arrested and led away from the Sudanese Embassy in plastic handcuffs Friday in protest of the Sudanese government’s role in atrocities in the Darfur region.

[snip]

The protesters cheered as the Congress members and others were cuffed, hands behind their backs, with plastic ties and quietly led to a white police van by U.S. Secret Service uniformed officers.

The arrests were expected. Lantos’ office issued a news release about them in advance.

The protesters called on the Sudanese government to accept a U.N. peacekeeping force in Darfur and allow humanitarian relief organizations full access to victims.

Makes ya feel all warm and fuzzy, right? It seems people are finally getting the message about Darfur – especially since George Clooney added his voice (and face) to the cause. (Read more about that here.)

The warm fuzzies vanish in a heartbeat when you read this, from Reuters:

The United Nations said on Friday it would cut food rations for more than 6 million people in Sudan, half of them in Darfur, due to a severe lack of funds.

Many donor countries appear to have tired of the long-term conflict in Darfur, despite signs that malnutrition is again on the rise among people living in squalid camps, the United Nations’ World Food Program (WFP) said.

WFP said it was halving food aid from the minimum daily requirement of 2,100 calories to 1,050 calories as of May.

[snip]

The Rome-based agency had only received $238 million or 32 percent of its annual appeal of $746 million for Sudan. Africa’s largest country is emerging from civil war in the south as talks continue on a peace deal to end a conflict in Darfur.

Spokeswoman Christiane Berthiaume told a news briefing, “It is scandalous, but we have no choice.”

[snip]

The WFP estimates that 2,100 calories a day is the minimum daily requirement needed to stay in good health. [emphasis mine]