Rambling Thoughts

Wow, a ABC anchor/reporter is wounded in a terrorist bombing and it's MAJOR news. However to find the news that 6 Catholic/Christian churches were bombed yesterday you'd have to dig REALLY deep.

If it wasn't so terrible it would be funny. Let U.S. forces chip a piece of paint off a mosque and the news is all OVER it, but if Christian churches and churchgoers are bombed into oblivion it's not even worth mentioning.

But of course there's no bias in the media, right?

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Now that Hamas has been legitimized by the recent Palestinian elections despite their radical views and history, I suppose they think that gives them a pass in international politics.

Although they are not willing to change their policies in regard to the extermination of Israel, they are now complaining and asking countries who have supported the Palestinian people financially to NOT discontinue sending money to the country. I don't know about other countries, but personally I don't understand why the U.S. has been contributing over $200 million a year to Palestine when as far as I know oil-rich Islamic countries do not step in to elevate the Palestinians standard of living. I mean I understand why the Saudi Arabias and such aren't doing so: In order to keep a fire lit under the conflict... I just don't know why the U.S. has continued to send funds to a country that wants to wipe an ally from the face of the earth AND hates us as well.

It's obvious that we can't buy them, so why bother trying?

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According to Reuters, Exxon had yet another blowout record quarterly profit. Their profit for the quarter was almost 11 BILLION dollars. Now I understand that corporations are in the business of making money, but considering the news (which is not limited to Exxon, but other oil companies as well) don't give me any bogus crap about the price of gasoline at the pump being directly related to the cost of oil per barrel.

I can understand fluctuations in the price of oil, but it stinks to high Heaven that oil company profits increase so bloody dramatically while the price per barrel is skyrocketing. That tells me that consumers are getting doubly gouged and that gas prices could be a lot lower than they are at the pumps right now.

Thanks, Washington for doing such a great job for your lowly citizens.

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Hi there! Sorry, this site is no longer about the classic horror movie Suspiria. I acquired this domain recently and since it's based on a scary theme, have decided to use it as a place to post my thoughts about stuff that I consider scary. Of course I won't limit it to that, but also to whatever happens to pop into my head, news tidbits and other items of interest.

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