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Big oil has a big interest in the presidential election too. They want someone in the Whitehouse to protect their interests by relaxing rules on drilling and to keep the big tax breaks in place. All while they are making billions of dollars of profits as Americans struggle.

CNN’s special report: Oil’s Washington juggernaut
Under fire for high gas prices, the industry is spending record amounts on influence in Washington. Plus: How it’s playing in the presidential race.

The amount spent on lobbying by the industry, along with lobbying money in general, has been setting records since 2005.

With record gas prices, a contentious fight over energy legislation and a huge election on the horizon it’s not surprising the industry spent so much on lobbying this year.

Dozens of bills have been introduced in Congress. Generally, Democrats and environmentalists have favored a strategy heavy on taxing oil companies and funding renewables, while Republicans and the oil industry have pushed for more drilling.

The GOP is know as the Gas and Oil Party and it is not a coincident.

If cash equals friendship, then John McCain and the oil industry are best friends.

The Arizona Republican has taken $1.4 million from oil industry employees in the 2007-2008 election cycle, more than any other politician, according to CRP.

If McCain wins it looks like we have another four years of big oil being represented in the Whitehouse, young Americans dieing for oil in a foreign land, and Americans are left standing on the outside looking in, knowing they are not represented.

I am getting tired of seeing McCain standing in a group of veterans and telling us how much he is an American. All I see is a cranky old guy living in the past with not much future left.

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CNN is running a story:Caught cheating — what’s next for couple?

But, if you’ve been cheated on, take heart. “One of the myths out there is that if someone cheats, they’re going to do it again and again,” says Schwartz. “Most people just do it once, and never again. The guilt, the fear that their partner will find out — it consumes them.”

Don’t include me in your bullsh*t. I am kicking you to the curb and looking for someone else who can be trusted. And don’t ask me to be friends either. If I wanted a friend I would go to the pet shop and buy a dog.

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According to the Associated Press: Ohio Burger King worker fired for bathing in sink

XENIA, Ohio (AP) — Burger King Corp. said Tuesday it had parted ways with an employee who was recorded taking a soapy bath in a utility sink in one of its restaurants in a video that ended up on his MySpace page.

The nearly four-minute video, which was posted online Thursday, shows the man taking the bath to celebrate his birthday. In the video, shot by another worker, the employee refers to himself only as “Mr. Unstable” and appears to be naked.

They fried the employee! Wow!!! As if working for Burger King is a great career option.

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