Why is Gas So High, and Whose is REALLY Responsible?

It's hard to find a CREDIBLE chart that shows the national gas prices for the last decade, but I think it's pretty clear under whose administration the wild fluctuations began and how gas prices got where they are, and that this 5 min. $1.85 a gallon "anomaly," was just that, an anomaly, brought about by the global economic meltdown. It is hardly indicative of any long term or stable gas price that Pres. Obama inherited, lol. I mean, come on people, how can you be suckered by such total nonsense? It's that Glenn Beck style of finding some obscure little factoid and torturing and twisting it into something utterly absurd. Truth does matter.

Oil is a vital global commodity, the price of which should not be some mysterious, unknowable calculation, left up to those who control it and make HUGE profits extorting the people of the world by limiting production to drive up the price. We simply shouldn't allow it. There should be TRUE competition, and prices based on more than the whims and angst of a bunch of high stakes gamblers at the oil market casino.

Of course, ultimately, the answer is renewable energy, but that is not going to happen over night.

How does any of this make sense to ANYone?



"The price of gasoline edged up again today for the 27th day in a row. But here's an interesting twist: Prices are up even though the U.S. is now producing more gas than it needs. In December, for the first time in more than 50 years, the U.S. became a gasoline exporter."

"The U.S. has become a net exporter of gasoline for the first time in fifty years. Thanks to rising production at refineries and declining demand, the United States exported more gasoline than it imported in December. The unusual development reflects the segmented U.S. energy market — the East Coast needs to import gas while the Midwest produces a surplus."

FREE OUR MIND!

BTW, I FREAKING told you so!

The Saints Going to the Big Show . . . a Reward for Dirty, Illegal Play

Here's the thing about Joe Paterno and Mike McQueary

You see a grown man raping a child, you stop him, beat the dog crap out of him, and call the police. There's no - I told someone who told someone, and no one did anything about the pedophile with access to dozens of extremely vulnerable children. WTF?

That part of the entire BULLSHIT conspiracy doesn't ring true at all to me. It's hard for me to swallow that Paterno and McQueary just "told" someone and didn't think they had the duty to do anything else about it. I'm a 5'2" girl, and I would have beaten the dog crap out of someone if I saw them doing that, and hounded them to the ends of the Earth until children were safe from them and they were locked up. Who wouldn't do that? What kind of sub-human just looks the other way? It's baffling that anyone thinks we would buy that crap.

Hate Groups Torture Families of Dead Children and Soldiers with the Supreme Court's Blessing, While "Occupy" Protesters Gassed and Arrested

Police Fire Tear Gas at Occupy Protesters in Oakland

I actually don't think the President has the authority to tell all states, counties, cities, and private parties in the country that they have to let people protest in spite of whatever their local laws are. Further, I don't think it would be a good idea to make this a Democrat vs. Republican thing, and I don't think that would be helpful to the protesters either. I actually think we can get republicans on our side. A lot of them already are given the approval ratings of the Occupy protesters. Not all republicans are totally brainwashed by Faux Spews, and the point of all of this is the 99% who are ALL being dramatically affected by and angry as hell at Wall Street.

One thing I am certain of, is Pres. Obama is weighing all these considerations carefully.

However, if some officials and police around the country continue to behave as if they are on the verge of turning into Mubarak or Gaddafi, at some point, something very, very bad is going to happen, and then, a chain of events none of us has ever even considered might be set into motion, for better or worse.

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Marine Vet Injured Last Night As Riot Police Attack Occupy Oakland

Last night, Occupy Oakland was attacked by riot police for the second night, with the department using heavy-handed tactics to disburse protesters. Video has emerged of Scott Olsen, a Marine veteran affiliated with Veterans for Peace, being carried away after being injured by non-lethal weapons.

It's very hard to understand how this is happening to peaceful, legitimate protesters in my country, including military veterans who put their lives on the line for the rights they are trying to exercise, when those God Hates Fags/Westboro Bapt. Church monsters can legally protest at soldiers' and childrens' funerals.

Gaddafi Dead

They showed video of Gaddafi on ABC news today. I was streaming the president's statement regarding his death, and before the president came to the podium, ABC showed the video. It's only a minute or so, taken with a cell phone I'd guess. It's not graphic violence, but it's hard to watch. Gaddafi is in a huge crowd, being pulled and shoved and knocked around. He is haggard and bloodied, and he is clearly terrified, mortally terrified, and for good reason.

What I found jarring about it wasn't any blood or gore, but the intense fear and rage so visible and palpable in that short clip. You know you are watching someone who is about to be violently killed, someone who surely knows it. This is no movie - it is real, and thank God we don't see that very often, nor do we want to.

I found it extremely hard to take, deserved or not. Surely other leaders in the world who are oppressing their people and trying to stamp out human dignity and cries for freedom should take heed.

Really? The Tea Party is Reinventing Reality Saying Their Movement Was Peaceful? Evidence to the contrary.

WTF!?! I'm SO sick of hearing the Tea Party act as if they were so innocent, like scampering, impish cherubs wagging their finger at big government with flowers and peace signs floating behind them. Fox Spews and Tea Party sheep keep pointing to the arrests in the Occupy movement, arrests related to WHERE they are protesting and not violence or threats, as some sort of condemnation of them as violent criminals.

Give me a freaking break! The Tea Party was/is infested with RACIST, VIOLENT, CRAZY, BRAIN-WASHED, LYING, GUN-TOTING, EXTREMIST FREAKS, including militia and supremacy groups that the Dept. of Homeland Security issued a freaking threat warning about!

And as for the Occupy protesters message being incoherent, the message is so simple, so elegant in its coherence that anyone can understand it: Occupy WALL STREET! They are protesting WALL STREET's power and influence. I'm so sick of the politics of "I know you are, but what am I." It's Faux Spews' signature strategy, and it's a CHILDREN'S TAUNT for God's sake!

There were reports and concern about Tea Party violence and criminality, so Fox says I know you are but what am I about the Occupy protesters. There was no coherence in the Tea Party message, so Fox says I know you are but what am I about the Occupy protesters. It's the SAME crap they always do, and some small minority of people actually buy it. Frankly, it's MADDENING to see my fellow citizens so easily manipulated by a strategy that a 10 year should see through.

However, they are NOT going to re-event reality, as they are so fond of doing on Faux Spews. I have links in this blogs to several articles you may find interesting related to Tea Party violence and threats, which of course were buried under miles of craptastic made up nonsense in the search engines:


Time Magazine - "Behavior: A Chilling Wave of Racism"

Washington Post: "Lawmakers concerned as health-care overhaul foes resort to violence"

Media Matters: "Conservatives warn of social-fasc- commun-Nazi-McCarthy-Marxism | Media Matters for America"

Washington Post: "Ezra Klein - We have something to fear from fear-mongering itself"

CBS News: "Could Tea Party Rhetoric Lead to Another Oklahoma City?"

The Examiner: "Homeland Security issues report warning of right wing extremists one week before Tea Party events"

CBS Miami: "Radio Talk Show Host Arrested At GOP Town Hall Meeting"

CBS News: "Tea Party Getting Violent? 10 House Dems Report Threats, Vandalism - Crimesider"

Christian Science Monitor: "Violence at Tea Party rally: bare-knuckle politics in the streets"

Politico: "Democrats fear for their families - Jake Sherman"

CBS News: Poll: "Is Tea Party Inciting Violence or is the Media Making it Up?"

Tea Party Funding Koch Brothers Emerge From Anonymity - Peter Fenn (usnews.com)

No One Listened to Gabrielle Giffords

Listening to Gabby Giffords in that interview before she was shot, and she has EARNED the right to be heard, really gives me chills. Seriously, WTF is Fox Spews talking about? The Tea Party was not some paragon of peaceful protest virtue - QUITE THE OPPOSITE! Now, I don't want to freaking hear anymore about what violent criminals the Occupy protesters are for being arrested for peaceful civil disobedience! ENOUGH!

Columbus Day - Take a Chill Pill People!

Columbus didn’t mass murder Native Americans. Jeez. He’s celebrated for sailing here and finding this place. I think people are WILDLY exaggerating with their fake-outrage BS, as usual.

I believe this Holiday started as mostly an Italian American thing. Heck, my people have St. Patrick's Day and everyone seems to join in. I don't know squat about St. Patrick, and neither do most people. But, I hear the Easter Bunny smokes crack! :D

It's an interesting discussion, and I suppose it makes people think, but I don't see this kind of insult to an Italian American hero as productive.

I think Columbus' achievements are noteworthy enough. I'm pretty sure there are no perfect people in history, and it really doesn't make sense to vilify all historical figures and erase their achievements from human history. Seems like this is a constant drumbeat whenever we celebrate any historical figure. JFK was a hormonger, right? *rollseyes*

Now Queen Elizabeth was a genocidal maniac, and that's a fact. She exterminated over a million Catholics, but we glorify her in lovely movies with Kate Blanchett. I find them historically insulting, but most people think she was some kind of hero to the female gender. I suppose there's some merit to that.

Have y'all seen the movie, The New World about Pocahontas and John Smith? That is a lot more historically accurate version of what happened. She was a very tragic figure, and he was a veritable scoundrel, but Disney isn't going to be destroying that cartoon anytime soon, lol.

Again, an interesting discussion, but not some major outrage IMO.

I think people are relying on a certain "version" of history with all this labeling Columbus some kind of sadistic slave owning monster guilty of genocide. There's always a "version" of history, isn't there? Most people of “stature” kept slaves and had what we consider barbaric ideas about humanity. I don't condone it, but it's a reality you can't just dismiss, and given the centuries that have passed, I really don't think it's reasonable to take all that as gospel.

I have read so many versions of Thomas Jefferson's life in various biographies that it seems he was several different people. And George Wills' version of Jefferson is particularly vicious. I'm not saying we should just ignore history and not try to learn more - far from it, but I am saying we really do have to take a lot of this with a grain of salt and an ounce of humility. We are sitting on our high perch judging celebrated historical figures based on an abridged, slanted, probably far from accurate or complete version of them, whose lives and times we cannot possible comprehend. If we take this day each year to learn more about history, then it's well worth celebrating IMO.