Post Scripts

I want a car, demands the child. Work for it, insist the parents. Why do you hate me? asks the ingrate. – JG

Posted by Tina

Poverty is the default human condition. It is the factory preset of this mortal coil. As individuals and as a species, we are born naked and penniless, bereft of skills or possessions. Likewise, in his civilizational infancy man was poor, in every sense. He lived in ignorance, filth, hunger and pain, and he died very young, either by violence or disease. *** The interesting question isn’t “Why is there poverty?” It’s “Why is there wealth?” Or: “Why is there prosperity here but not there?” *** At the end of the day, the first answer is capitalism, rightly understood. That is to say: free markets, private property, the spirit of entrepreneurialism and the conviction that the fruits of your labors are your own. – Jonah Goldberg Townhall.com

Read the full article, The Spolied Children of Capitalism, its pure truth and wisdom.

by Jack Lee

It works like Amway, you buy your Gogi juice product from your supplier and then you become a supplier and you unload your product via a network of your friends and families members and then they too become suppliers/dealers (buying the product from only you of course) and they sell to all their friends who get sucked in to being…and it keeps building layer by layer. Then suddenly and with almost no effort on your part you are a muliti-millionaire!

It’s so simple…. Not. This is a pyramid scam and a bare handful of people are making any doe.

Continue reading “Nuther Pyramid Scam – The Gogi Berry Craze” »

Not exactly nothinas we shall see.

Posted by Tina

It isn’t just the product we put in our cars or what makes it possible to fly the “friendly skies”. It isn’t just the stuff that makes it possible to transport products…it is the products themselves:

Products made From Oil

Ammonia, Anesthetics, Antihistamines, Artificial limbs, Artificial Turf, Antiseptics, Aspirin, Auto Parts, Awnings, Balloons, Ballpoint pens, Bandages, Beach Umbrellas, Boats, Cameras, Candles, Car Battery Cases, Carpets, Caulking, Combs, Cortisones, Cosmetics, Crayons, Credit Cards, Curtains, Deodorants, Detergents, Dice, Disposable Diapers, Dolls, Dyes, Eye Glasses, Electrical Wiring Insulation, Faucet Washers, Fishing Rods, Fishing Line, Fishing Lures, Food Preservatives, Food Packaging, Garden Hose, Glue, Hair Coloring, Hair Curlers, Hand Lotion, Hearing Aids, Heart Valves, Ink, Insect Repellant, Insecticides, Linoleum, Lip Stick, Milk Jugs, Nail Polish, Oil Filters, Panty Hose, Perfume, Petroleum Jelly, Rubber Cement, Rubbing Alcohol, Shampoo, Shaving Cream, Shoes, Toothpaste, Trash Bags, Upholstery, Vitamin Capsules, Water Pipes, Yarn…

Find more at the following:

http://www.seed.slb.com/qa2/FAQView.cfm?ID=905

http://www.ranken-energy.com/Products%20from%20Petroleum.htm

Try making aspirin or a heart valve from a windmill!

From Harold Ey who received this dribble from our Senator…

Dear Friend:

Thank you for contacting me regarding high gasoline prices. I appreciate the opportunity to hear your views on this important issue, and I share your concerns.

Gasoline prices reached an all-time high this year, and costs for food and other basic necessities are rising drastically. As millions of Americans struggle under this increasing burden, oil companies continue to report massive, record-breaking profits – $123 billion last year alone. This is unacceptable, and I want to assure you that I am working hard to lower prices and protect Americans from price gouging.

I am proud to be an original co-sponsor of S.3044, the Consumer-First Energy Act of 2008. This important bill would impose a windfall profits tax on oil companies to discourage price gouging and to help consumers offset the high costs of energy products, punish any country or company colluding in setting the price of oil, and limit excessive speculation in oil markets. Unfortunately, the Senate minority has blocked further consideration of S.3044.

In addition, I strongly support S.3268, the Stop Excessive Energy Speculation Act of 2008. This vital legislation would help to lower energy prices by increasing regulation of energy futures trading and eliminating excessive speculation. S.3268 would provide more staff, resources, and authority for the Commodities Future Trading Commission, the agency charged with regulating commodity futures. This bill is currently being considered by the full Senate.

At a time when so many Americans are struggling to make ends meet and having to make the impossible choice between buying food for their families and filling up the gas tank, it is crucial that we pass both S.3044 and S.3268.

Opening up drilling in the United States is not the best way to achieve lower gas prices. For example, drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) would provide us with six months of oil at most, and at great cost. Furthermore, it would be more than a decade before we saw any of that oil. Ultimately, we need to move away from our dependence on oil and gasoline by developing renewable and efficient energy technologies. Right now, we need to go after the big oil companies that are holding Americans hostage with their exorbitantly high prices.

Americans deserve better than oil companies that gouge consumers in order to make huge profits, and Congress needs to take action to help alleviate this crisis. Rest assured, I will continue working for the passage of S.3044 and S.3268, and I will keep fighting to help Americans enjoy fair and reasonable energy prices.

Again, thank you for writing to me. Please do not hesitate to contact me in the future on this or other issues that concern you.

Barbara Boxer
United States Senator

Posted by Tina

Lord Nelson and Captain Cooks shiplogs question climate change theories, by Tom Peterkin The Telegraph, London, UK

Scientists have uncovered a treasure trove of meteorological information contained in the detailed logs kept by those on board the vessels that established Britain’s great seafaring traditition including those on Nelsons’ Victory and Cook’s Endeavour. *** Every Royal Naval ship kept a detailed record of climate including air pressure, wind strength, air and sea temperature and major meteorological disturbances. *** A group of academics and Met Office scientists has unearthed the records dating from the 1600s and examined more than 6,000 logs, which have provided one of the world’s best sources for long-term weather data. *** Their studies have raised questions about modern climate change theories. A paper by Dennis Wheeler, a geographer based at Sunderland University, recounts an increasing number of summer storms over Britain in the late 17th century.

Posted by Tina

DUBAI – Al Qaeda confirmed on Sunday that Abu Khabab al-Masri, a chemical and biological weapons expert, was killed with three other militants in a suspected U.S. air strike in Pakistan’s border region last week. Masri, who carried a $5 million U.S. bounty on his head, had been earlier identified as the likely target of the attack on a house in a Pakistani tribal area bordering Afghanistan, according to Pakistani officials. Reuters

In many ways on many fronts. This one is significant as al-Masri is said to have written the book on chemical and biological warfare for terrorists around the world.

President George Bush, the military, countless men and women here at home, and our allies and friends around the world are on the job and will remain diligent in their efforts to keep us safe and free…never forget that.

Posted by Tina

The Burlington Free Press reports the following in an article titled, Lesbian bigamy battle unfolds:

The two women married in Canada, obtained identical tattoos and picked out adjoining burial plots with the expectation that they would be together till death and beyond. Then one of them fell for someone else, and without getting a divorce, entered into a Vermont civil union in Stowe with the new woman. Now the woman who says she was left behind is alleging that her estranged spouse committed bigamy and that Vermont authorities are neglecting their duty…

And so another layer of zany craziness begins. All I can say is, too many people have absolutely no idea what marriage is.

by Jack Lee

Containment and mop-up are the buzzwords heard most often at our Mobilization Office this week. The scuttlebutt is, at least for our part, that we will be drawing down our personal to a minimum of staff to finish off the de-mob part. This is all good news for Californians and despite the fact we’ve barely entered the traditional “fire season”.

Continue reading “FIRE REPORT FROM SACRAMENTO” »

Jimmy Carter’s windfall profits tax led to a 6% drop in domestic oil output and as much as a 15% surge in oil imports, according to the Congressional Research Service. – IBD

Posted by Tina

Americans are feeling the pinch of oil prices both at the pump and at the grocery store. Americans are also very smart shoppers. When prices get too high we refuse to buylogical and necessary, right? But waitwere told this has created quite an emergency. Well…I submit it isnt half the emergency for the good citizens of America as it is for BIG GOVERNMENT. BG depends on the enormous amount of cash it gets from taxes on gas and diesel fuel. Now that Americans aren’t indulging in excessive driving the money flow to government has become a slow drip. So Congress is in a pickle. The bigger plan is to eliminate (destroy) oil companies and get us off the roads and onto bicycles, BUT in the mean timehow to replace the missing tax money now that we’ve cut back on consumption with all of our smart budgeting? The answer, of course, is more taxes! (with democrats it always is)

Continue reading “<strong>Its an Emergency All Right!</strong>” »

Posted by Jack

More people are depending on the government to bail them out! The economy is again showing signs of weakening with a slightly lower than expected GDP report, however exports offset slumping home sales and inventories. Wall Street had expected the GDP to grow greater than the 1.9% reported today and that set the market mood. The DOW has been in reversal for the last two days bringing an end to brief financial stock rally. The DOW is hovering just above 6 month lows at 11267…down over 80 points at the time of this report. Meanwhile new jobless claims hit a 5 year high at 448,000 and an overall total of 3.282 million Americans now out of work.

Rising oil and food prices have caused most Americans to cut back on discretionary spending, especially on big ticket items like cars and that is expected to be felt more severely in Q3 report. (See GM story below) Speaking of energy…all the drilling bills have stalled in Congress and any further action is unlikely until the summer break is over. Energy related bills will have to wait until Congress comes back from their August vacation.