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Wow so big Oil has decided that they are going to cut supplies to increase prices;

Oil tumbles under $64 a barrel, OPEC cuts output

I guess no longer receiving billion dollar profits every month isn’t their cup of tea. They are still making more money than they did a year ago but it’s just not enough, even though the cost of everything has gone up and now oil is way down and we still are paying 101.5 at the pumps here in Saint John.

Wait are we not regulated in New Brunswick where is the price decrease we should be getting there is no reason for it to be at $1 it should be around 70 cents per liter.  When the storm might hit somewhere prices jumped 13 cents and when it didn’t even touch it took 2 full weeks for the price to come back down to the level of before the storm scare started.

Like most Canadians I’ve had enough they don’t need to cut supplies in Nov. because in November demand is going to go up as people need heating oil, they want to cut supply so instead of it staying at $64 a barrel they can jump it to $100 by saying oh we didn’t know demand would be that high and now our machines aren’t working right. Sounds like what they have done for the last 8 months, and we had an overstock according to this article but they told us we were on short supply, hmmm sounds fishy to me.

I want to know when those truckers are going to lower their added on prices, and the stores lower the prices on their goods, and grocery items to come back down in price as they all complained how it was more expensive to get it but we have had what 2 months of gas price drops. Also our dollar is down so we should be able to sell more they said they had to raise prices and weren’t making profits because of a high dollar remember.

Now has any of these groups lowered their prices in adjustment? Nope… and they wonder why none of us have ran out to go shopping as they all try to keep record high profits instead of just taking the small profit on top. To all of those groups that will start by saying oh but salaries and materials have gone up in price as dollar has less purchasing power well….a profit is after a company has paid all of it’s bills…until then it’s not a profit.

Well Microsoft has posted a date that can be found at

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/live/nxe/faq.htm

For everyone waiting for the NXE the 19th is when it we will all be spending time creating our avatars and checking out all of the cool new stuff.

So, yesterday, I watched The Happening. I was really dissapointed when I didn’t get to see it in the theatre, because it looked like a really good movie. It had lots of my favorite things in it.. M. Night Shyamalan, Mark Wahlburg, and horror. See.. lots of my favorite things. When I watched it yesterday, I was SOOOOOO glad that I didn’t spend 20$ to see it at the theatre. (20$ ? You might be asking.. yes.. 10$ for the ticket and 10$ for the candy. Sheesh)

The script is crappy (but Wahlburg has a couple decent lines, all of them comedic), the plot is crappy ( unknown force making people kill themselves while not so bright 10th grade science teacher tries to find out why), it’s all around not a good movie. When the movie is over, you sit there wondering wether you just watched something real, or imagined the whole thing.. but then you look over at the clock, realized an hour and a half HAS actually passed, and sigh.

I was really dissapointed. So I gave it a 2, and wrote it on the list of movies that I didn’t really like, but would watch at 3am if I couldn’t sleep and there was nothing else on tv.

Okay, so I didn’t have the time to write a review on Iron Man, but since it’s going to be released tomorrow I’m going to take the liberty to write one now.

If you’re a comic book fan.. or if you don’t know anything about comics at all, you’ll LOVE this movie. Quite frankly, I loved it. It’s got it all.. a snobby rich boy who sells weapons because he makes tonnes of money, gone soft after a life altering experience, throw in a little superhero and VOILA.. A fantabulous movie.

I have to admit that I was a little skeptical at first because I really don’t like Robert Downey Jr.  He always has that.. untrustworthy, slime ball look to him, but I have to admit…. he was PERFECT in this movie. I can usually think of someone better to play a part, but I can’t think of anyone better than him. I mean, he might not be the best superhero ever, but I think he’s the best actor to ever play a superhero.  Kudos RDJ!

The action is awesome and not too “all over the place”, the plot is great, the effects are very well done, the script has everything it needs and nothing more.. I could go on forever. I was completely engrossed for 2 hours and 5 minutes and the time went too fast.  Oh, and if you keep watching after the credits are done rolling.. you’ll get a suprise!

So, I gave it an 8 .. and I’m going to make George buy it tomorrow to add to my movie collection.

“Is it better to be feared or respected? I say, is it too much to ask for both?”

Just a quick Update, the date has been given out see

xbox 360 new dashboard release date - Nov. 19th

Swing over to http://www.xbox.com/en-US/default.htm

Here you will see all of the flash ads are dedicated to all of the new features the new dashboard is to bring us, so if the update isn’t happening right now I would be extremely disappointed.

Looks like we won’t have to wait untill November for all of the nay sayers out there, XBOX 360 rules lol.

UPDATE

To much disappointment everything is stating not until November

“Don’t expect the New Xbox Experience to roll out for over a month. In an interview with Scott Austin, Director of Digitally Distributed Games for Microsoft, IGN was told that the New Xbox Experience will be pushed out to Xbox 360s in November. While talking about new ways that are coming to purchase Xbox Live Arcade games, Austin said, “One of the great things we have with the New Xbox Experience that we’re rolling out in November is that we now have web Marketplace available for our consumers.”

http://xboxlive.ign.com/articles/913/913832p1.html