Stupid Americans

Chuck Schumer is either stupid or deceitful.

He says that offshore drilling will not bring gas prices down.

Well, all the president had to do was to mention his desire to allow off shore drilling and the oil producing nations increased the supply and the the price of crude fell to $132.00 per barrel and price at the pump has dropped in our area from $4.05 per gallon to $3.84 per gallon.

Congress has pussy-footed around and done ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about the supply of oil.

Their mantra is "All they want to do is 'drill, drill, drill.' We can't drill our way out of this mess."

Absolutely!

But we can get a great start, and all we have to do is determine that we ARE going to do so and the following things will happen:

1. The speculators will see that it is not a good thing to bet against The United States of America and will make the necessary adjustments.

2. The oil producing nations will release more crude into the system, increasing supply and dropping the price of crude oil further.

3. The price at the pump will fall further.

4. Oil companies will hire tens of thousands of people and will begin the process of increasing domestic supplies of oil within a year (It will NOT, in spite of what your stupid representatives might try to get you to believe).

They will do that because they are in business to make money and that will make them money.

On that subject, let me show you how stupid your representatives are.

Let's say I sell $100.00 worth of merchandise (of any kind), and that my total landed cost, including shipping, salaries, utilities, etc., came to $92.00.

I would clear 8% of my landed cost as profit. That comes to $8.00. That would then be distributed as per the rules of my corporation, to stock-holders, etc.

Is that unreasonable?

Is that a "windfall?"

Most businesses would not think so.

Suppose I sold $100,000,000,000.00 worth of merchandise.

If I cleared 8% of my cost as profit, I would earn $8,000,000,000.00.

That's a lot of money.

It is not unreasonable, nor is it a "windfall." It is an earned profit.

If congress were to restrict the oil companies based on the dollar amount they would be allowed to earn, they would force them out of business and none of us could go anywhere for any price.

I don't want that, do you?

Chucky Schumer, which are you? Are you stupid or are you deceitful?

Maybe both?

Look, I know that's not a nice thing to say, but it is outrageous what congress has failed to do, and now they have recessed!

So they will continue to do nothing.

When are you going to wake up and realize that your elected representatives do not care one whit about you, about this country or about anything but themselves and their precious little power struggle?

Hey! I don't care whether you are a Democrat or a Republican, if you don't have the best interests of the country as number one in your mind, you should be boiled in the very oil you don't want to do anything about.

God's Plan for My Life

God has not completed His work in my life, yet, so I am still here.

Come to think of it, that's why we are all still here.

I feel good, went to work, felt good when I left work and feel good now.

So whatever it is that God has for me to do, I am here to do it.

He's good.

All the time.

Home Again, Home Again, Jiggity Jig

I am home, having been in the hospital since Wednesday of last week. I was released last night at 11:30 PM.

I had atrial fibrillation while sitting in the doctor's office. It felt like a bird in my chest wanting out and flapping furiously.

I had a chemical stress test, have 3,914 (give-or-take) holes in my body from needles and lancets, carrots for lunch and dinner every day (in addition to whatever else that stuff was on my plate), am now on cumidin (rat poison), Beta-pace (to "stabilize my heart) and Glucophage (border-line diabetes).

I feel pretty good today, but tired. I'll return to work tomorrow.

Thank you all for your prayers. Don't stop now!

Update 4 on Joe has been added

Wednesday Night at 7pm 7-23-2008

Joe and I went for Joe's his Appointment to see the Heart Doctor Yesterday.We waited 2 hours before the doctor could see him. Joe started not to feel well and his pulse was doing thump thump thump then stop.His heart was irregular beating so they finally got him into a room and hook him up to a machine to read his heart.The doctor then saw a need for Joe to be admitted to the ICU near by Hospital last night. Today so far he is doing better with new meds.they got his pulse down to 50. Joe will be in ICU for 2 more days. I will keep you posted

Thursday 7-24-2008

Joe has been moved to a room # 220 at Lehigh Regional Hospital 239-369-2101. Friday Joe is having a CHEMICAL only stress test. Also Joe was put on a medication for regulating his heart rate and was put on cumidin to thin his blood. He is been watched carefully. He was told he had to stay in the hospital for 3 days. I will keep you posted.

Friday 7-25-2008

Joe had his 'chemical' stress test today and he did well with it. Doctor has put Joe on Metformin 500mg for his Sugar once a day. They did two xrays of his chest. 1 before and 1 after the stress test. Joe is in good spirits,he is anxious to go home. Thats all for now.


Saturday 7-26-2008

We saw the doctor at 7pm tonight he told us that Joe had FLATLINED for 3.7 seconds. The doctor did not tell us when this happened. Doctor thinks it was caused by an interaction with "Abaitapace" medication that regulates his heart rate and the other medicine "Altenol/chlor" for blood pressure. Doctor had cut back on the dose of Abaitapace, but doesn't know what is going on. If Joe continues to have these Flatlines then doctor said he would have to have a pacemaker. So For now doctor wants him to be monitored for 24 to 48 hours. Joe isn't able to come home just yet.

No Breath of Fresh Air

On My way to work this morning I noticed several businesses with American flags out front.

All of the flags were drooping on the poles.

Not a breeze was stirring.

Dead calm.

T. Boone Pickens has a "plan" to get us off of our dependency on foreign oil.

He wants to use windmills.

Congress actually took testimony from him.

This morning, all of Fort Myers Florida would have been without power.

T. Boone Pickens should change his name.

To Don Quixote.

THE REAL ENEMY

Surprise!

Exxon and Mobil and their ilk are not the enemy!

Without them, we would have nothing made of plastic.

Without them we would still be in horse drawn buggies.

Without them, several crucial medicines would be non-existent.

Without them tens of thousands of people would be out of jobs.

Yet we treat them as the enemy.

We "investigate" them in Congress, accusing them of making money.

We call 8% "windfall profits."

( What business do you know of that operates on 8% profit?)

Yet the government, which supplies no oil whatsoever, makes 18% on the same oil!

They do that by taxing the oil companies.

Think how much more profit the oil company might make if they didn't have to pay 18% of their income in taxes!

Why, they could even drop the price of oil and still make more than they are making now.

I say that we must take ALL of the shackles off of the oil companies and let them do what they know how to do better than Barack Obama, John McCain or George Bush combined: explore for, drill for and extract oil, thus providing an abundance of a much needed resource.

We used to hear about the "finite" amount of oil left in the ground that we had almost used up.

There is probably at least twice as much oil yet to be extracted from the earth than we have already extracted.

Extracting it would give us time to find viable alternative ways to power our vehicles and to providing energy for our homes.

You may have heard T. Boon Picking's advertisement about wind power.

It is clean...that's for sure.

It is cheap...once windmills are built.

But it is not dependable. Sometimes the air is still.

Windmills don't turn when there is no wind.

Frankly, I think T. Boon is a nut-case. Rich, but a nut-case nonetheless.

Corn and other vegetation certainly won't do us any good.

Cars get fewer miles per gallon on gasoline with ethanol in it, meaning that even lower prices are not as low as they seem on their face.

Besides, I have noticed that the gas station that sells their product with ethanol in it charges the same price as the one without ethanol.

Furthermore, the sudden infusion of corn-sourced fuel has affected the price of corn around the world and has increased food shortages.

Hydrogen is a viable alternative to gasoline, but is way too expensive to produce with today's technology in quantities sufficient to bring down the cost of transportation.

In case you wanted to know, I really like the idea of hydrogen as a fuel, because it is the most abundant element in the universe.

But not yet. We're just not ready for it yet.

No, we must stay with oil for now.

And oil is our friend, not our enemy.

The real enemy is the United States Congress and Senate.

They have placed the shackles on "big oil" and vilified them to the hilt.

That's because congress wants to be in charge.

They think they should be.

But they shouldn't be.

You and I should be.

So, let's take charge.

Let's tell our representatives to unshackle the oil companies and allow them to do what they know how to do best: get oil from the earth to the pumps.

Frankly, I don't know how to do that, and the government doesn't either.

So let's get at it.

Call, write, Email or fax your representatives today!

The Answer to Everything

It is often said, by people who should know, that I and my sister know everything.

Whenever they ask me a question about a subject on which I am not well versed (as unlikely as that seems to you right now), I simply reply, "That's one of those things my sister knows."

At the end of this discourse, I will give you her phone number, address, email address, personal bank account numbers, PIN numbers and whatever else about her I know so that you can ask her.

So many people believe that the answer to conflict in the world lies in education.

The truth is, however, that if you educate a thief, you end up with a smart thief.

Here are some notes of interest:

Question: Who studied economics and business administration at King Abdulaziz University and later spent a summer at Oxford University?

Answer: Osama bin Laden

Question: Who graduated from Hamburg University with a degree in urban planning and the London School of Economics?

Answer: Mohammed Atta, responsible for the beheading of Daniel Pearl and spreading a video of the event on the Internet.

Question: Who has a medical degree?

Answer: Ayman al-Zawahiri, who worked toward a worldwide caliphate (The eventual world-wide rule of a united Islamic government).

Also: Abdel al-Rantissi, former Hamas leader.

And: The seven upper-middle-class jihadi doctors implicated in the 2007 London/Glasgow bombings.

Question: Who studied microbiology at MIT and did graduate work in neurology at Brandeis?

Answer: Aafia Siddiqui, al-Qaeda scientist and manufacturer of suicide bombs and other killing devices.

Question: Who transferred to North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, where he earned his degree in mechanical engineering along with 30 other Muslims?

Answer: al-Qaeda mastermind and extreme jihadist, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, who oversaw the World Trade Center bombing and the attack of the U.S.S. Cole.

What is the point of all of this?

You might think is is some sort of rant against extreme Islamist terrorists.

It is not.

The point is that there are many in this country who believe that education and diplomacy are the answers to terrorism, wars and crime in the world.

Both contenders for the Presidency have made such statements.

Education is the answer to nothing.

Google well known gangsters, serial killers, and other miscreants in American history and see how many had high school and college educations.

In the end, the only universal answer to evil in the world is Jesus.

As for my giving you my sister's phone number, address, email address, personal bank account numbers, PIN numbers and whatever else about her you want to know, that's one of the questions she knows the answers to...you'll have to ask her.

Major Inaction

They don't believe it.

Neither do you.

It is nonetheless true.

The government works for you.

You don't work for the government.

You tell the government what to do.

They don't tell you what to do.

Only, since most citizens don't bother telling the government what to do, they do what they want to do.

For instance, they make laws against "hate-speech," which laws are expressly forbidden by The Constitution of the United States of America.

I hate "hate-speech."

I don't think you and I should engage in it.

But "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances."

I can abridge your freedom of speech.

Congress can't.

In my house, you have no right to free speech.

You say something I don't like, use vulgar language, espouse a political opinion I disagree with or call someone something I think you shouldn't and I kick you out of my house post-haste.

But you didn't tell them any differently, so Congress thought it would be a good idea to pass a law against "hate-speech."

They pass laws against a myriad of other things, too...like fire-arm ownership.

They can't do that.

The right to bear arms has nothing to do with short-sleeved shirts (bare arms...get it?).

The Constitution of the United States of America recognizes the citizens' right to form a militia when necessary and own weapons in preparation for such a necessity.

But you didn't remind them of that, so they passed laws restricting your right to own weaponry.

These rights are not granted to you by our Constitution, they are recognized by it.

Among the things they have done, without having heard from you on the subject, is to tax businesses and restrict their right to make money from their business.

Businesses exist to make money.

If they don't make money, you (or those of you who work for whatever business happens to be in question at a given moment) don't eat, 'cause you can't earn a living, 'cause they pay you out of the money they make.

"How much should they be allowed to make?" ask some.

Answer: As bloomin' much as they want to.

So what if they are rich?

So what if they make as much as Bill Gates?

So what if they do what they want when they want with the money they make?

One of the beauties of this country is that if you are willing to work like most business owners work, learn what they have learned, sacrifice what they have sacrificed and find a market for what you do, you can make as much as they make.

I don't care where you were born, how poor you were growing up, what obstacles stood in your way, or whatever, you can have what you want to have if you are willing to do what it takes to get it.

That's what the founders of "Big Oil" did.

But now your government, with your permission by default, has told them where they can work, where they can drill, when they can drill, how they can drill, and so-on and so-on, until they are no longer able to conduct business in the United States of America.

So.

Why not start telling your government to BACK OFF!!!

Contact your Senators and Representatives and tell them to unshackle the oil companies, and let them responsibly search for, drill for, refine and produce all the oil they can, and watch our dependence on foreign oil dissolve and gas prices plummet, while the oil companies still make money.

Trust me (for whatever reason you might), they want to make money and will seize the opportunity to do so, hiring thousands of people at good wages to do what needs to be done.

That's good for the economy.

That's good for YOUR PERSONAL economy.

But if you don't tell your government to do it, they will go right on doing whatever they want to do...and hang the consequences, especially the ones that affect you.

More Powerful than a Locomotive

That's what the announcer used to say about Superman.

Remember?

"Faster than a speeding bullet. More powerful than a locomotive. Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. Look! Up in the air. It's a bird...it's a plane...it's Superman!"

Well, if you think that imaginary power was great, think of how powerful the real God of creation is.

Look what Isaiah 48:13 says: "Mine hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand hath spanned the heavens: when I call unto them, they stand up together."

And Genesis tells us that God spoke and it happened.

Now, I've tried that.

The other day I said, "Let there be T-bone steak!"

But there was no T-bone steak.

God says, "Let there be light," and the very unifying particle of physics comes into being.

WOW!

Do you remember pictures of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

They got their power from the splitting of an atom.

Atoms are too small to be seen with an optical microscope. They must be "viewed" with an electron microscope.

Yet they possess the power to destroy entire cites.

There are trillions to the trillionth of power of atoms in the universe.

Our God is more powerful than all of them put together.

He is omnipotent.

In our stupid "Bull Sessions," in college (a name whose initials perfectly describe what went on there), we used to ask the question, "Can God make a stone so large that He cannot lift it?"

My smart alecky answer to the "unanswerable" question was, "Yes, and then He would lift it."

What that means is that when the Bible tells us nothing is impossible for Him, it's not just whistlin' Dixie.

God can create, destroy, heal, and greatest of all, change lives.

What He does and when is 100% His business and for His glory.

He is not one to be manipulated or "forced" to do anything.

He is one to be feared, awed, obeyed and yielded to.

And loved.

Love our all-powerful God with all your heart, mind, soul and strength.

'Cause He loved you first.

This is the Day of Independence

We were Brits.

We served the King of England.

Only we had no say in our own destiny.

More and more rules and regulations were placed upon us without regard for our needs, only for the King's needs and the England over which he ruled.

And his particular brand of religion.

If a person did not believe as he believed, that person had no opportunity to advance as a citizen.

We were restricted in what we could do and what we could become.

There were some of us who had a vision of freedom.

That freedom centered around our desire to worship when, where and how we pleased, and to have control of our own affairs.

We asked the King to let it be so.

He said, "No deal."

But we strongly believed that God had ordained that people should be free. Else why was there this longing for freedom in the breast of every man?

After much consideration, we decided that being free from the bonds of a government far away, that did not have our interests at heart, was worth even bloodshed.

So we fought for freedom against a nation ten times more powerful than us.

The odds were stacked against us.

During the battles there were countless situations that should have gone bad for our troops.

But through hunger, inclimate weather, and every kind of disadvantage one could imagine, we fought, all the time seeing our leaders, even our generals, on the front lines kneeling in prayer to a mighty and just God.

Guarding the entrance to Baltimore harbor via the Patapsco River Fort McHenry faced almost certain attack by British forces.

On the morning of September 13, 1814, British bomb ships began hurling high-trajectory shells toward Fort McHenry from positions beyond the reach of the fort's guns. The bombardment continued throughout the rainy night.

Awaiting news of the battle's outcome was a Washington, D.C., lawyer named Francis Scott Key, who had visited the enemy's fleet to secure the release of a Maryland doctor, who had been abducted by the British after they left Washington.

During the night, there had been only occasional sounds of the fort's guns returning fire. At dawn, the British bombardment tapered off.

Had the fort been captured?

Key wondered, "O say, can you see, by the dawns early light, what so proudly we hailed a the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight or the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?"

And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting air gave proof through the night that OUR flag was still there.

O say! Does that start spangled banner yet wave o're the land of the free and the home of the brave?

In the end, the war against Britain was won by this rag-tag group of armed citizens calling ourselves "Americans."

Wanting never again to be bound to the laws of a foreign nation, and wishing to live freely, we formed a representative republic...a quasi democracy, laid down a charter by which it was to govern itself, and put specific restrictions on that government, saying, "These things the government must not do."

We called that latter portion of the charter "The Bill of Rights."

Not rights given to the citizens.

Rights the citizens already had, given by their creator, that the government could not take away.

Thus was constituted The United States of America.

And I ask you today, "O say! Does that star spangled banner yet wave o're the land of the free, and the home of the brave?"

PLEASE DO SOMETHING...YES, YOU

The high price of oil, and therefore gasoline at the pump, and all oil-dependent industries, is very likely to crash this country.

Your Senators, Congressmen, President and courts are pointing fingers while doing absolutely nothing to encourage the production of a single drop of oil.

It is time for YOU to exercise your rights as one of the "of the people, by the people and for the people" for whom they work.

Please call, write or Email your representatives and the President today and tell them to do three things immediately:

1. Suspend every hindrance to the responsible exploration, drilling and refining of oil in the U.S., including in Alaska, off shore and in the Dakotas.

2. Release 1/3 of our strategic oil reserves at once, thus increasing the supply suddenly, and showing speculators that you don't bet against the United States of America.

3. Immediately stop trying to blame "big oil" and "speculators," putting people ahead of the environment by taking all necessary steps to relieve the oil problem ASAP.

PLEASE DO IT TODAY.

Your grocery bill is higher, any product made of plastic costs more, your car is more expensive to operate, your roads cost more to build, your taxes are going up (to cover the cost of more expensive roads), the price of new housing will go up... even in this depressed housing market, and almost everything else you touch will be more expensive than it was six months ago.

So, PLEASE DO IT TODAY.

PLEASE.

Test the Consistency

If there is one attribute of Christians that bugs me the most, it is their inconsistency.

Since most people do not understand "straight-line" thinking, they do not see how one philosophy they espouse does not jibe with another.

Computers only think "straight-line"ly. They use the "if-then" approach. If such-and-such happens, then this is the result.

Humans tend to think emotionally; ie: "If I want this, it should happen."

God is the ultimate "straight-liner" (that is, unless my thinking on the subject is wrong).

He has three attributes that are unchangeable: He is omniscient; He is omnipotent; and He is omnipresent. That is: He is all-knowing; He is all-powerful; and He is everywhere at once.

These attributes of God are revealed in Scripture.

Now I will not quote a verse to prove each of these, because I deplore Proof-texting.

If you want to know these attributes, you must read the whole Bible.

Let me illustrate why that is necessary.

Matthew 27:5 says "So Judas threw the money into the temple and left. Then he went away and hanged himself."

In Luke 10:37 we read, "...go, and do thou likewise."

In John 13:27, Jesus says, "That thou doest, do quickly."

By putting these Scripture verses together, we may conclude that we should throw money at the temple, and quickly hang ourselves, just like Judas did.

That is proof-texting, and it is always wrong, because we are prone to pick-and-choose the verses that fit our particular philosophy.

Even when the scripture seems to be saying a beneficial thing, we must guard against using it to prove a point.

Example: "Hear my words, O ye wise men; and give ear unto me, ye that have knowledge. For the ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meat. Let us choose to us judgment: let us know among ourselves what is good."

That sounds so right!

I mean, it has the words: "wise"; "knowledge"; "judgement" and "choose what is good."

Trouble is, it also has the words: "my"; "me"; "us" and "ourselves".

We might conclude, from those verses, that we are the ones who get to say what is wise, worth knowing, using good judgement and what is good.

But this is a quote from Elihu, Job's "counselor" of whom God said, "Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?"

So don't go quoting random Scripture verses to me to illustrate some point or other you may want to prove.

I won't fall for it, and neither should you.

"How do we behave inconsistently," I hear you asking.

Well, have you ever heard, "Oh! I know God is here in this meeting today. I can just feel His presence...?"

If God is omnipresent, OF COURSE He is in the meeting. He is everywhere! All the time.

Or He isn't God.

But wait! Doesn't the Scripture say, "For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them." (Matthew 18:20)?

Yes it does.

What does it NOT say?

It does not say, "Only where two or three...", or "Where only one is, I am not there."

Consistency demands that because God is omnipresent, He is everywhere all the time.

Period.

If your god is not everywhere all the time, you do not serve the same God I serve, and your god is too small.

The same reasoning can be applied when we tell children, "Don't run in God's House."

I've got news for you.

God does not live at church.

To be sure, it is a building that has, hopefully, been dedicated to gather His people to praise Him worship Him, and to fellowship with Him and with each other, but let's be consistent about the nature of God.

I will develop this thought some more in a later post.

In the meantime, will you, personally, determine to be a bit more consistant in the way you live out your Christian life?

It will go along way toward establishing the credibility of your testimony when you witness to others.

QUALIFICATIONALLY SPEAKING

I keep hearing pundits, reporters and others challenging both Barack Obama and John McCains "qualifications" to be President of The United States.

Have you ever read the rule book for our county, called "The Constitution of the United States of America?"

Do you know what it says are the qualifications for the President?

If you are reading this post, you probably qualify.

All you have to do is to be born on U.S. soil and be of age.

You can be an actor, a lawyer, a preacher, a doctor, a businessman, a laborer, a mechanic, a pilot, a farmer, a radio announcer, a secretary, or any other vocation and still qualify.

Oh.

And in today's society you also need lots and lots of money.

Lots of it.

A Simple Perspective

I was born in 1942, the son of a United States Air Force officer.

He was the Deputy Director of communications for the South Atlantic Corridor during World War II.

He missed my birth, having been assigned to Brazil just weeks before the momentous event.

When he came home, as the war was drawing to a close, he brought with him the sense of both love and respect for God and duty and patriotism to my country that he instilled in me and that lives in me still.

He was not the only one, however, to instill those values in me.

I went to first grade in Puerto Rico, where my father was stationed.

The school was on the military base, within walking distance of our family officer's quarters home.

My teachers reinforced the same sense of pride in God and my country given to me by my father.

What else would you expect? They taught on an Air Force base.

I went to second grade in our home town of Miami, Florida.

Funny thing. My teachers there continued teaching me the same things.

Throughout my school life, yes all the way through high school in Warner Robins, Georgia, that same lesson of "love God and love your country" was pounded into my head and permeated life from dawn to sundown.

In high school my 9th grade home room teacher, Mr. Watson, led us in a verse of Scripture, The Lord's Prayer, and the pledge of allegiance to the flag.

My 9th grade algebra teacher, Mr. Bowman, had a prayer before every lesson.

In tenth grade, my geometry teach would stand at the classroom door and sing the hymn, "Yield Not to Temptation," as we filed out of the room. He was also my Scoutmaster, and taught me respect for God and country.

Mr. Hampton, the chemistry teacher (who was fond of placing a paste laced with hydrogen sulfide under the nose of anyone who fell asleep in class, waking them to the head-jerking smell of rotten eggs), was a deacon in our church and regularly told us how God had organized the universe such that the laws of chemistry would be obeyed, no matter what.

Our choral director, Betty Rose Caldwell, chose to intersperse the Christian anthems of the masters in our repertoire.

In our history class, a frequent reading of The Declaration of Independence, the Preamble to the Constitution of the United States and of the Bill of Rights was required and tested. Had we tried to convince him that we were a secular nation, we would have failed the course.

Of course, they lived closer to the time that our country's founders lived, so they had not yet learned that the founders did not mean what they said...that they really meant what is taught today...that we are a secular nation.

How a person of more than a 1.3 IQ could read, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." and think that our law makers have any right to tell us when, when and how we can conduct ourselves in matters of religion is beyond me.

Interestingly, according to the latest polls, you are about to elect a president who does not believe one single word of this First Amendment.

Our assumed future First Lady has only recently become proud of our country.

I've been proud of it all of my life, and will give whatever it take to ensure that the next occupants of the White House are, too.

LANDSLIDE!

In a recent NBC affiliate poll, 75% of those polled support offshore drilling if it would mean lower prices at the pump.

I hope Governor Charlie Crist, Senators Mel Martinez and Bill Nelson and our Congressmen are paying attention.

If any of them won their elections by that margin, they would consider it a mandate to rule!

That means that only 25% of the people lean toward the stand of the wacko left-wing over-environmentalists.

The poll adds the caveat that "experts" estimate that it would take 7 years for the drilling to affect prices of fuel at the pump.

That's wrong, and they should be ashamed of themselves for trying to slant the poll responses that way.

Oil companies are in business to make money. There is money to be made in extracting crude oil from the earth. The sooner they get it out, the sooner they make money on it.

That provides the oil companies with incentive to get the job done as fast as possible.

As fast as possible is very fast.

They already know where they need to drill, what it would cost for them to drill (for which they would spend some of those so-called "windfall" profits), and how many people they would need to drill responsibly.

Thousands of high paying jobs would be created...good for the economy, as people with money can spend money.

The snowball effect that high fuel prices are having is driving prices up at every level of our society.

I don't know about you, but I do not have an unlimited income.

My groceries have gone from $85.00 per week to $130 per week in less than a year.

My gas expenses have jumped from $30.00 per week to over $50.00 per week.

Already that increases my monthly expenditures on necessities from $440.00 per month to over $720.00 per month.

But my paycheck has not grown, and if this keeps up, the company I work for could very well cease to exist.

That's not good for the economy, 'cause if I have no money, I can spend no money.

What we need to do, we need to do now.

We need to let our lawmakers, our governors and our president know that we, the people, want this matter dealt with and dealt with now.

Seventy-five per cent (75%) of us are willing to put up with the temporary inconvenience to the environment (temporary because we will still be looking for viable alternative energy sources, inconvenience because no significant impact would take place), in order to make our lives financially secure.

Money isn't everything, but you and I live in a country that has given us the opportunity to be as comfortable as we are willing to strive to be.

Our politicians seem to be bent on taking that away from us.

Let them know today that you will not take that lying down.

When you write or call, be respectful, but don't let them direct the conversation. Tell them to take steps now to release the oil companies to do what they need to do to give us some relief.

Join American Solutions and sign their petition to Drill Here, Drill Now and Pay Less.

http://www.americansolutions.com/

Do it today, and keep the landslide going!

REPRESENTING?

OK...I know that you want me to get off this oil thing.

Sorry.

I am so enraged by the disinformation being pushed by people who are supposed to represent the people and their needs that I cannot let it go.

So bear with me or go read some less emotionally charged blog.

I wrote Senator Mel Martinez about gasoline prices.

He responded with a form email...one that thanked me for my concern for the improprieties of the oil companies and how he is supporting an investigation into their behavior.

Only that was not what I said.

It was clear that the "good" Senator either did not read my email or is not able to understand simple concepts.

Frankly, I suspect the latter.

What I said was that I do not think the oil companies bear ANY responsibility for the high cost of gasoline in the U.S.

That responsibility lies directly in the laps of our law makers.

They are the ones who pressure or don't pressure the Middle East, Venezuela and others to increase their production of crude.

They are the ones who refuse to allow oil companies to extract what needs to be extracted to increase the supply of crude oil, thus bringing down or at least stabilizing prices.

They are the ones who won't let oil companies drill where they need to drill.

They are the ones who want to tax oil company profits, even though they average only $.07 per gallon of gasoline sold.

They are the ones who confiscate $.18 on every gallon of gasoline sold in the U.S.

They are the ones who have discouraged the building of new refineries in our country.

Are you smart enough to understand that the fault does not lie with the oil companies, but with the people you elected to unite you, to ensure that you are treated justly, to protect you, to promote YOUR welfare, to ensure your tranquility and to see that your liberties are not infringed upon?

(See the Preamble to the Constitution of the United States of America.)

It is time to cry out against those politicians and tell them, "Enough, already! Enough!"

Write your representatives in the Congress and the Senate.

Do it now.

Join American Solutions and sign their petition.

Do SOMETHING.

This will help ensure that ours remains a government of the people, by the people and for the people.

An Oily Solution

It is unreasonable and unnecessary for us to be paying $4.00 per gallon for gasoline.

"Big Oil" is not to blame for these prices. They profit only about $.07 on a gallon of gas. Yet without them we would have no fuel, for they provide it all.

The government, on the other hand, profits $.18 on each gallon of gas, and they do nothing to provide one single ounce of it.

There is something you can do that is easy and will at least influence politicians to re-think their positions.

Go to http://www.americansolutions.com/actioncenter/petitions/?Guid=54ec6e43-75a8-445b-aa7b-346a1e096659 and sign the petition to drill here, drill now, and pay less.

See, according to the agencies of each country that has proven oil reserves, we have over 800 years of oil available using present day extraction techniques.

Yet our government refuses to let us bring up the portions that lie within our borders and just off-shore.

It is widely said that it would take more than ten years to get to the oil.

That's if there are no additional hires by the oil companies and if they do no growing.

If we would release them to drill where drilling is needed, they would quickly hire thousands of workers to do the work and our issues would be solved, or would be well on the way to being solved, before the end of this year.

But if we don't insist that our government release the oil companies to do what they need to do, we will continue to pay whatever the Middle East and Venezuela want us to pay.

"But the oil companies make obscene profits!" I hear you saying.

That's just false and is only believed by those who have succumbed to the untruths being put forth by Congress, et. al.

Companies exist to make money. Making money is not evil. For a company to make more than you or I do is not evil, either.

Making money is how they stay in business, hire people (and oil workers make considerably more than minimum wage...by the way), search for oil and all the other things they need to do to provide what we need.

Motivational speaker, Zig Ziglar, is fond of reminding us that we can get anything we want out of life if we help enough other people get what they want out of life.

That's what "big oil" does. They help you get the fuel you need to go where you want to go. In so doing, they get what they want...profits.

Now, I'm all for alternative energy.

But we are not ready for it. It would cost us even more than we are currently paying for fuel!

We will be ready...and in the not-so-distant future.

In the mean time, we must not ruin our economy by not doing what it takes to provide the resources we know how to get at today.

What about the use of corn to make methanol?

(Place a loud buzzing sound here).

Wrong!

What has already happened as we have tried to exploit this resource is that farmers have stopped growing eating corn and have started growing ethanol corn...not the same, by the way.

The entire world is suffering from this lame attempt to "fill the fuel gap."

If you want the price of your food to stop going up because the cost of fuel to truckers and growers is going up because our government thinks it can and should control every aspect of every person's life, including what he/she does to make a living, I urge you to sign the petition provided at American Solutions (URL above).

Do it now, so we can drill here, drill now, and pay less.

Random Rants

Rant #1

I wrote Governor Charlie Crist and got a response...for which I give him credit, even though the response was from an aide, and not the Gov., himself.

I give him no credit, however, for the content of his response.

Governor Charlie Crist believes that the environment is more important than people.

He has bought into the wacko side of environmentalism.

Gov. Crist is going to save the environment from imaginary disasters and global warming.

He is almost a twin of Barack Obama.

Although standing side-by-side one might be able to tell them apart.


Rant #2

I listened to a major national radio preacher telling us why we must "be specific" when praying (even though there is not a single scriptural reference to that being a requirement for prayer). He went on-and-on, saying that if we don't name names, God won't know who to heal, or help, or prod.

I don't know about his "god," but my God (called variously, "Yahweh" [or more properly YHWH], Elohim, Elah and Tsur), is omniscient.

How about yours?

Rant #3

If I form a non-profit corporation for the purpose of generating a petition requiring the Federal Government to get its hands off of the oil companies and allow them to drill responsibly where they want, when they want and to earn what they want, would you sign it?

Oil companies make about $0.07 on each gallon of gas sold.

Your governments (state and Federal), make about $0.18 per gallon sold.

Which one does more to provide us with this much needed resource?

Rant #4

In general, people are ignorant of the facts of energy...where it comes from and what it costs.

Did you know that according to the reporting agencies of The United States, Canada, Mexico, Venezuela, Iraq, Iran, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, The United Arab Emerites, Russia and several African nations, there is enough "proved" oil available by extraction methods in general use today to last the world 886 years?

Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_reserves for the informational chart. Documents and links to the original sources are there, too.

Bet you never have been told that.

With 886 years of oil, we would have time to properly develop alternative energy sources (which I strongly support...and I like hydrogen "fuel cells", by the way).

But there is something going on that has our politicians acting in unison to prevent us from taking that course of action.

I wonder why?

Rant #5

Al Gore is either an unmitigated, bald-faced liar who has fooled you into believing his "Convenient Untruth," or else he is totally ignorant and has learned a gimmick that has turned his ignorance into millions of dollars.

His own chart, in his own book, shows that global warming leads to an increase of carbon dioxide, not, as he says, the other way around.

Either he does not know how to read graphs or he deliberately lied about what the graph shows, trusting that you are too stupid to know the difference.

You are not too stupid, are you?

Rant #6

To be a part of the solution to the energy crisis, and to get results fast, sign up at http://www.americansolutions.com/Default.aspx today!

OK...my rants are over.

For now.

This Is Sick, er, Slick, er, Oily

I want to be perfectly clear, so if I am ambiguous, feel free to make it clearer for me.

The reason crude oil will reach $150.00 per barrel very soon, and gas will top $5.00 per gallon at the pump and the United States will enter a full-fledged recession with double-digit inflation (think Jimmie Carter) and double-didgit unemployment as well, is because, and only because, we have self-serving, power hungry idiots in congress and self-centered citizens in our population.

If you are smart enough to do the research, you will find that there are enough oil deposits at levels we can get at using the same technology we are currently using to extract it to last the world 889 years...if we never find another deposit.

The U.S has about 10 world/years worth, Canada has over 180 world/years worth, etc., etc., etc.

"I don't believe that," you say?

Tough.

I did the research and you can, too.

Of course, we cannot get at the bulk of it because we are not allowed to drill where it is.

Why is that?

Why would politicians who all love America and the American Dream allow that to be the case?

Why is there such a cry to develop "new" energy technology by the end of the week instead of tapping the deposits that are there, thus giving us time to properly develop said technology?

Why, indeed.

Why allow the Middle East, Venezuela and other countries hold us hostage?

Why do we not start releasing those deposits for consumption today?

I guarantee you one thing: if we turned the "big oil" companies loose today and said to them "Drill wherever you want, build as many refineries as you want and make as much as you want," it would take less than a year for the world to begin reaping the benefits thereof.

But you short-sighted politicians, you half-witted, power hungry, fear-mongering, self-serving, anti-capitalist, mush-headed politicians would rather see your country struggle and fail than give up one iota of the control you have gained.

And I include liberal poiliticians, Democrats and Republicans, for their hatred of the historical "American Way," as well as conservative politicians, Democrats and Republicans for your cowardace in confronting and standing for the afore-mentioned "American Way."

You should hang your collective heads in shame for what you have allowed to happen.

If you...any of you...have one shred of character in you, you will resign from office effective this afternoon and let the fifth grade class from Neal Armstrong Elementary School, of any city in the USA, take your place, because you are not smarter than a fifth grader.

You are a bunch of bungling, gorbellied, folly-fallen giglets who cannot think your way out of a wet paper sack.

You will allow this country to sink into ruin, without regard for who gets hurt as long as it is not you.

Only your unmitigated arrogance allows you to sleep at night.

I challenge you (since you are not strong enough of character to resign) to meet in special chambers, or whatever you need to do to take charge of this self-made energy crisis, and do what needs to be done for the immediate future so that we can do what needs to be done for the long-term future.

But you don't have the guts.

What Do You Want?

Not long ago The United States of America had an opportunity to shoot down a failing satellite that posed a potential radiation problem to the earth and its inhabitants.

Using a system dubbed by the press, "Star Wars," technology, which had been vilified and rediculed by many politicos, pundits, and scientists, we successfully shot it down.

Impossible. Could not happen. Never in a million years.

But it happened.

The press has chosen to ignore the event as though it either did not happen or was so insignificant that it does not matter.

Today, several countries have nuclear technology, a couple have the ability to put weapons in space and several are working at trying to put them there.

Combine nuclear techonology with the ability to put that technology in space, and you have a formidible potential for the destruction of other nations.

Now, some countries are reasonable and can be negotiated with. Others, however are not so reasonable.

One last point.

Our constitution charges our government with the responsibility of protecting us from an attack from other countries. It reads as follows: "...provide for the common defense..."

So let me ask you...what do you want?

Do you want a leader who will cut research into missile defense systems?

Do you want a leader who will refuse to put weapons in space, even if those who would like to destroy America are doing so?

Do you want a leader who will reduce the development of defensive combat systems?

Do you want a leader who will form a government board charged witht he responsibility of keeping our defense spending at a minimum?

Do you want a leader who will allow other countries to develop nuclear weapons, while dismantling our own and halting its development?

Do you want a leader who will ask untrustworthy nations to please stop producing nuclear devices?

Do you want a leader who will negotiate with people who have historically proven that they always negotiate in bad faith to take their Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles off alert?

Do you want a leader who will seek deep cuts in our defensive nuclear arsenal, while other countries continue to seek to increase theirs?

Well I have good news for you.

By his own words, which you can hear at

http://msunderestimated.com/2008/03/01/obamas-plans-for-our-military-video/

the leader you want is:

Barack Obama