CAN I HAVE A CUP OF $15.00 GAS?

Someone with a gas card deal replied on another blog of mine that we cannot hope the government will fix our gas woes. So I wonder who will? $15.00 gas has been mentioned in the media.

Perhaps we will form citizen bands to pass gas from the refinery in cups down the interstates. We could all stand a few feet apart to cut the transportation cost. We could also get genetically engineered to siphon Hydrogen out of the air with gills so we could afford to stand there. Reverse umbrellas could act as water gathering devises so we can have a cool drink as we pass the cups along.

I feel this is more sensible than letting government, big government, charge us or whatever it does for its services. Unless government is killing people or locking them up it’s of no use. Sure. I believe that! It is everyone for themselves unless wealth’s way of privileged life is in question. Then we are all in this together, thank you that big government. Calling all suckers. Get ready to syphon.

Are you on-board?
I’m selling oil resistant shoes for those inevitable drips.

If all goes well I will be rolling in money, become a big success and not worry over energy cost. I will have the last laugh. Then I will make shares in my corporation public. Wow! Your pain will be my gain! Hurray pain, hurray!  I suppose I will be pro pain then.

FEAR AND PARANOIA RULES

FEAR AND Paranoia, they easily spread like wildfires. This truth, especially as it applies to men, has had the USA both use atomic weapons on another nation, and willing to start a nuclear war over the positioning of nuclear weapons during the Cuban Missile Crisis. We may like to point our fingers at nearly every contrary interest in the world as being dangerous, but when it comes to real WMD use, it is the good old USA that has shown its willingness to use them against other human beings.

Right. When we are at war, we do not consider the other side to be human beings, so that opens up this notion of wiping out your opponent. We are not the first nation or tribe willing to threaten genocide or obliteration of their enemies. Humans throughout history have done to others what they would not ever wish upon their own. This is exactly the problem!

These days we are building the equivalent of concentration camps, but for whom exactly? What worse case scenario are some planning for? Is this not like weaponry, that if someone builds them, they then look for reasons to take advantage of their assumed advantage?

How often is this kind of opportunist mindset, resisted indefinitely? We used atomic weapons right off the bat! And you are to feel justified that we did! Now why would not this kind of rationalization apply to other human beings as well? Well, it so happens it does, as we discovered on 9-11. 19 losers of a sort, allegedly changed the metric on conflict and all our rights being rendered conditional, into a kind of quasi martial law that lets the executive do whatever it wants.

Who knew our history of freedom and standing up for freedom could be rendered mute so easily? We have a new set of violations to the Spirit of America that have more or less gone under the radar. Since we have now established that “appearances” are used as an excuse to trump actual election tallies to completion, we now have a faux or designer pseudo democracy. One where a vote count within a few million can be exorcised with a political party biased court in place. We have already seen how easy it is to overthrow democracy from within, and how safeguards to most institutional abuse are now removed when one party decides to act as if it were to be the one party state!

DEALING THE FEAR DECK

We now have in place, those who do not care what legacy of all of our history they destroy in the perverted name of defending it. We also have a fourth estate and other institutions who will go along with the destruction of freedom, in freedoms name. The nepotism, crony ism, corruption, and incompetence expected when these sorts of conservatives, yes conservatives, decide to save freedom from itself, is blatant today right here in the good old USA. We have seen the willingness of leaders who care not what their actions produce in the world any more than those who drop atom bombs on other nations, for expedience sake of course.

So we are led to speculate on the next scenario possibly being conceived to swing the election from a public that will have its eyes plucked out metaphorically speaking, and so left to the hands that pull their ignorance around their own heads as if it were a gift from God. The blind will and are leading the blind, and nary a one can or will do a thing about it. We have created an authoritarian bank account here in America, all those deposits are going to go to some risky scheme some time.

It is quite possible that Iran is being set up to coincide, like the other attacks and warnings, with the electoral process in the US. We have seen how what is called patriotism, or rallying around the leader and the leaders associates, is expected and usually delivered by a stupefied and frightened public. Indeed, we could say that all the boisterous, and jingoist pandering as occurred before the Iraq war, will be greatly facilitated by a corrupt and compromised corporate forth estate. Who are highly vested in the status quo, as well as US supremacy, no matter how misguided or historically deaf and dumb the blundering investment will be. It is running on a delusional fantasy, with our ankles tied around its lead weight along side the ship of state.

We will also see the usual right wing sycophants with their bull horns, trying to keep any contrary truths out of view, or have them tainted with ad-hominem venom, to poison the public from exercising their critical thinking abilities, and otherwise, act like a cult ready to swallow the cool-aid.

We are being frisked by fear at the gas pump. The soaring prices will be met with other prices going up across the boards, while income dwindles. Corporations have the right to pass on their expenses to you. You have no such right! Hum? How could this set up to rob have happened? So called Free Enterprise? Know who actually gets the prise?

That some pols have the conservative candidate so close to the less, speaks to the lack of light going into many hearts, minds and souls. Under this shadow this Memorial Weekend, while we honor those who gave their lives for our right to be free, those who hate freedoms full expression, will speak of its glory and triumph. This, while those who live under the pale light left visible in the USA, see the glistening of barbed wire points, unwinding above fences around newly constructed internment camps. Who are these for? You may well find out soon enough.

THANK YOU FOR STRANGLING PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION

I remember hearing of how mass transportation was strangled way back when, so the more lucrative car for everybody culture could go forth and strangle us all. Not only does pollution and its car connections threaten the planet, but our consumer lifestyle is driving the worlds emerging “individualist” to all want the same things.

We gamble that some new discovery will magically save us in nick of time, but time may have already run out. Yet where is the US governments response to out of control oil prices expected to top out at up to $175.00 a barrel!  What are the plans?  The We the People plans? Were all in this together only when terror threatens the wealth’s portfolio’s, otherwise, the rest of us are good only for recruiting to fight purposes.  Go screw yourself, you want something for nothing liberals?

In these coming hurricanes, we are all in the bathtub together, the conservatives hands are legally around our necks.  For the structure of nation, the opportunist wind only blows one way.  Who can raise their prices, while you cannot raise you wages, or claim; “I am paying less on all my bills because I no longer can keep up with inflation.”  Right!

So in honor to the upcoming end of things I would like to thank all the predatory opportunist who live to destroy the commons and make a buck out of parting creation out to the highest bidder. I understand why you never gave a damn about me, or us. I know how appealing and addicting greed is. It is so addicting when one rises above the commoners; that being more like God in ones own mind and being able to display the evidence around you, seems like an ego’s grandiose dream come true.

I am glad to pay more and more until the wallet is empty so the wealthy oil executives and stock holders keep secure in their high expectation lifestyle. We live for your service, and I’m quite confident everyone reading this will send you a thank you card (if stamps are under a dollar) when our cars are decommissioned. We will wait for trains that do not come to anywhere near us. Commercials will tell how walking is so healthy for those of you who must.  How secretly lucky you are by your situation.  Don’t be too surprised if it happens.  But then; why would they even waist money on telling us how lucky we are to be in poverty?  Probably won’t have TV sets anymore!

So here’s to opportunist one and all. As societies and cultures atrophy around the rest of us, I hope your mansions air conditioners will work fine off of those personal oil and gas storage tanks of yours.

Keep cool. It is very important.

FOR TEXT ME–NOT

I am glad that I’m old enough not to get in on the texting craze.  Like I need to be typing symbols and nultiple punches just to get one letter, I can barely make out the numbers on my phone!

I once upon-a-time used a pager, before this millennium, to send symbols that meant words.  It was a cute way to send a message and not have to make an actual phone call, whoopee!

I see these kids walking down the street while looking insane and punching out whatever, like the car heading right at them didn’t matter.

Once it was the sorry sorts who had their “heads up in the clouds.”  Now we have the makings of many ailments to come for these join in the crowd text messengers, with their eyes in their fingers  Blurred vision, nerve damage to fingers and what not.  Not to mention that dent they left in some cars hood.

e+=n#j58oy the ride!

STUNNING, JUST STUNNING

The party that gave us K Street; now has some of those same nefarious characters involved in its presidential campaign.

K Street was an unprecedented campaign to get rid of one of the parties in our alleged two party system. As I remember it, corporations that donated to Democrats were to be punished for their “errors” of judgement. This contempt for democracy is said to be back in the ranks of the bumbling but can not be blamed John McCain’s bid for Bushes third term.

While McCain’s main critique of the presumed Democratic nominee Barack Obama, is that he is naive and inexperienced, why is someone so experienced as John McCain, hiring on such highly questionable characters, many involved with foreign governments and lobbies that would quite possibly compromise foreign policy decisions to be? He does not need to answer that further, since he just announced that no one on his staff is to be a lobbyist. But since it was his style or choice so far, what has actually changed? What promise is there for the future? I know. Take his word on it. He suddenly changed again. Get over it. But Barack is responsible for what his ex preacher said, and his wife’s comments taken out of context? Both of those seem inherently less important to the nations interest.

America, the USA, has just endured a group of predatory opportunist who viewed the great American commons as their own feeding ground. Will Bushes third term holder now be beholding to all the compromised characters he seems to keep surrounding himself with? Will America fall victim again to fear and jingoism wrapped up in their security blankets of blind trust of “conservatives” who thrive off of perpetuating insecurities?

You know where help us if these shysters get back into the drivers seat once again. We and the world may not be able to contain their drunken driving skills.

YOU’VE GOT SOME SPLAINEN’ TO DO!

Where you live in the country or world will certainly make a difference in my questions to you, or about others. When I moved from the Chicago to California, I was shocked for how bad the drivers were there. That did not prepare me for how bad they were in Portland Oregon. Which in tern, did not provide any insight at all at how awful drivers could be until I moved to the renowned (actually!) friendly city Of Tucson AZ. However, I do hear that things do not get much better to the northwest in Phoenix.

For this post, I am only talking about driving a car. There are certainly other differences as well.

TRUE FOR YOU TOO?

Nowadays in Arizona, it is not unusual to have cars come up behind you at night an never dim their bright lights. It is not just inconsiderate, it is physically dangerous, blinding the driver in front and making them have to possibly maneuver in position to avoid the glare. That takes concentration off the road ahead.

It might have been this way for some time, but it was not always so in the past. I imagine it is all part of the self centeredness running rampant in a culture that has many feeling they are all on their own to survive, who cares about the other guy. You might be on the phone or talking, doing more important stuff than watching out for one another where it is most relevant in the moment.

Tucson was something like the worst city for light running in the nation. One can often see 5 cars making a left after the light has already turned green for the cross street. Tucson has at least a 3 second delay from red to green to accommodate slow reactions. The amazing aspect of this phenomenon is; you can go from intersection to intersection and see the same thing happen just minutes later. What are the odds that only people who turn left, turn without ever knowing if the light has turned against them?

For some reason, it is implied that a possible majority of drivers will do this; follow the leader and hope for the best. I have seen this happen a hundred or more times and never was there a cop. I have often seen gross moving violations with a cop right in the front of the intersection, and still no action. In 40 years of driving, I have never gotten a moving ticket, (one parking ticket the first year I drove to visit a sister at college and got a parking ticket for parking in a way I did not know was wrong. Ignorance is no excuse)

Then there are those always bright blinding blue lights.

THE CHINA CONNECTION

BIG BOX QUALITY YOU CAN TRUST

Sure shareholders make a bundle off of stock market socialism, that is the pyramid schemes bottom line after all!

And we save our shrinking dollars at at the local WTO store.

But what is best of all, we are left with quality you can hold!!!!!!!

Who said things are not what they used to be?

Expensive plant light in action, approx 2 months into use.

This is the future kids; declining incomes and declining quality goods, but big incomes for savvy business people who know how to work world systems and inequalities.

Remember which political party likes to keep we the public with our blindfolds on when it comes to inequalities, the commons, environmental responsibility’s, and the responsibility’s of those who use the world way more than their share.

Remember, cause the so called party of the people is succumbing to the same money shams as the other one, the one that uses wedge issues to cover their trail. If you do not know what I am talking about. Turn on your light.

DO AS YOU ARE TOLD!

It can be suggested, since I just did, that political candidates try to invoke ones notions of a father, and now mother. To get us to identify with familiar protection and care. But not the listening kind, not the compromise and mutual regard kind like on Super Nanny. It is the do it or else kind, do it or else die at 3 o’clock in the morning kind. And I had a stepmother of that kind!

I suppose a president should know better, but we have just seen how little one need know to rule “The greatest nation like on earth like.” Reading or positioning emotions as the reasons for decision making and asking your “experts” what you are supposed to think; can’t anyone really do it the Republican way? Put the wolves in charge of the chicken house, and at least for a while, count on having some good omelets, or investments.

Of course mention Jesus! That goes without saying, like kissing babies and having a flag fest.

The one decided nominee acts like it is vacation or internment time from intellectual land, that the usual duty of that party to follow its leader will quite possible follow him right to the oval office. Many a good card game will probably ensue from the stranded caboose of the straight talking express, since the rails will have been removed for safety’s sake.

Then we have the lecturing, relentless in your face schoolmarm. She already knows it all from experience, and probably a life of lecturing someone. She is a take charge kind of guy, who at three o’clock in the morning will get on the other phone to her husband. At least that is how the campaign seems. He was not only a chick magnet apparently, but now a media one as well. In this circus he gets to send up the balloons to see which way the wind blows.

But has he morphed into a meteorologist of sorts, or a clown?

Witness now; the greatest show on earth!

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SINCE GAS HIT $10 A GALLON

HELLO END OF THE ROAD!

I wonder if we will get socialism all of a sudden when gas hits ten dollars a gallon? Will we all have to start bike riding and walking 15 miles to work then? I doubt if I will get a raise to cover the thousand dollar a month transportation cost.

Could it be they will nationalize transportation, so the poor and left over middle class could still afford to travel to clean and care for the homes of the very well to do? Maybe we will go back to the walled in estates with servants quarters. Or horse lanes along highways. Will a buss pick up hitchhikers? How about horse pulled little trains.

When gas is $10 a gallon, I guess we will all need gardens very close by. The cost of shipping most everything will have become outrageous. Will those rich or righteous right wingers still call everyone not like them whiners and losers? When the government has to intervene just to keep people alive and not dropping along the road or the sidewalk, will the conservatives still call helping them socialism; the welfare or nanny state?

We will probably find the victims of run away conservatisms greed and fear based economy, being blamed by them somehow, when gas hits $10 a gallon.