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To: i-node who wrote (566632)	5/16/2010 11:06:04 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1579278

I want to see the buck stop with this SOB just once.

To: i-node who wrote (566632)	5/17/2010 12:56:58 AM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1579278

Here......you can join up with this idiot. Maybe if you are real good, some oil company will let you be a clerk in their mail room. The Senator Fighting for the Rights of Big Oil gawker.com

To: i-node who wrote (566632)	5/17/2010 1:02:20 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1579278

BP has been lying from the get-go and still you side with them. Next you will be siding with the terrorists. Will you betray your country because of your ODS? BP ‘Burying Its Head in the Sand’ on Oil Flow Size, Markey Says businessweek.com

To: i-node who wrote (566632)	5/17/2010 1:23:00 AM
From: Don Hurst	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1579278

>>" The same media who bashed Bush incessantly for Katrina while he did exactly what he should have... "<< Yup, "he did exactly what he should have"...flew over New Orleans, looked down and continued on his way to his fund raiser on the west coast... And oh yes, later came back and told Brownie "heckuva job", the same Brownie who now says the Gulf BP disaster is "sabotage". And Gingrich is becoming unhinged again with his Kagan nonsense. Watch out; soon the "media" is going to find the repug funny farm where you grow these characters.

To: i-node who wrote (566632)	5/17/2010 8:46:13 AM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1579278

Bad news inode.... Al ==================================================== GM Reports First Quarterly Profit Since '07 By SHARON TERLEP General Motors Co. earned $865 million in the first quarter as strengthening sales and savings won through bankruptcy helped drive to auto maker to its first quarterly profit since 2007. The auto maker made an operating profit of $1.2 billion and generated $1 billion in cash. Global revenue grew 40% from a year ago to $31.5 billion, as the auto maker increased production 57% world-wide from a year ago. The results compare to a year earlier, when GM lost $6 billion as it slid into bankruptcy. Increased revenue propelled GM to a profit in the key North American market, where the auto maker made $1.1 billion. Meantime, savings from massive layoffs, factory closings and billions in debt shed through a government-funded bankruptcy drove down GM's costs. GM finance chief Chris Liddell said the results are driven by increased production in North America and growth in emerging global markets. World-wide sales rose 24%. "These are all important steps as we lay the foundation for a successful GM," he said in a statement. GM's gain attributable to stockholders was $1.1 billion before preferred dividends to the company's preferred shareholders, which are the U.S. Treasury, the Canadian government and a union-run retiree trust. The results mark GM's first quarterly profit it made $891 million in the second quarter of 2007. Chairman and Chief Executive Edward E. Whitacre predicted earlier this year GM would be profitable in 2010 on an annual basis for the first time since 2004. The auto maker last year received $50 billion in U.S. government loans. The company has repaid $6.7 billion ahead of schedule, but the big payback won't come until GM goes public and the government can begin selling its majority stake in the auto maker.