shortest diary ever...

hahahahahahah....i don't know whether to laugh or cry or pick up a gun...

Top executives of the five biggest American oil companies say they know consumers are feeling the pain of high gasoline prices, but argue their $123 billion profits are in line with other industries.

top story on msnbc...

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ps...i wish this was an April's fools joke....i WISH so badly

•  I think the govenment should consider

  nationalizing those companies and their bank accounts and using the money to fix this country's deteriorating infrastructure.

  by psilocynic on Tue Apr 01, 2008 at 10:43:05 AM PDT

•  well i guess you can only pick one in the poll.

  put mentally pick a second

  g

  by thegelding on Tue Apr 01, 2008 at 10:43:06 AM PDT

  •  thought that was the only april fools part. /nt

    by wuck on Tue Apr 01, 2008 at 10:48:39 AM PDT

  •  You should add a link

    to the MSNBC story. I like your tags. :)

    by dconrad on Tue Apr 01, 2008 at 01:53:23 PM PDT

•  "Gun" is winning in a landslide n/t

  by bustacap on Tue Apr 01, 2008 at 10:43:08 AM PDT

  •  Interesting observation, "bustacap." :-) n/t

    by Melody Townsel on Tue Apr 01, 2008 at 10:44:53 AM PDT

•  I work in that industry

  ... on the engineering/manufacturing side, but seeing the profits that ExxonMobil and others gouge out of the American people makes me retch.  There used to be a word for that: it was called "rapine".

  by bustacap on Tue Apr 01, 2008 at 10:46:07 AM PDT

•  meanwhile....

  Average people can't afford to heat their homes.

  by diddosMN on Tue Apr 01, 2008 at 10:46:11 AM PDT

•  Your poll wouldn't REALLY let me pick two!

  So I just chose "laugh"
  even tho it is somewhat maniacal and descends rather rapidly to sobbing uncontrollably.

  sickening

  by Pandoras Box on Tue Apr 01, 2008 at 10:47:07 AM PDT

  •  yes, sorry for that...i am either too dumb or too

    sad or too depressed to figure out how to make a poll that allows for more than one choice

    sorry...will try harder next time...today i am too busy oiling up my gun...

    i may have found a good use for their oil...oiling the gun that comes and hunts them down for profiting sooooo very much while soooo very many are suffering...

    g

    by thegelding on Tue Apr 01, 2008 at 10:50:37 AM PDT

•  ...............

  by Buffalo Girl on Tue Apr 01, 2008 at 10:48:14 AM PDT

  •  

    by Same As It Ever Was on Tue Apr 01, 2008 at 11:26:32 AM PDT

•  Shortest diary ever?

  Nope -- sorry -- this one earns that title:

  http://www.dailykos.com/...

  by Same As It Ever Was on Tue Apr 01, 2008 at 11:25:07 AM PDT

  •  That diary is an instant classic.

    It also started one of the newer methods of dealing with trolls.

    by Scoopster on Tue Apr 01, 2008 at 11:32:47 AM PDT

    •  Far preferable to

      recipes in my opinion.  More succinct.

      by Same As It Ever Was on Tue Apr 01, 2008 at 07:50:17 PM PDT