Why is my gas so expensive?

First let me say that your gas price has absolutely nothing to do with the president or any member of the American government ... If you want to blame anybody.. You need to look in a mirror. It is the price it is Because we need it... If tomorrow the world did not require oil you would have a hard time giving it away.. And that mirror is not big enough as you need to look behind that person in the mirror and see all others that are using this same finite organic residue from swamp plants a billion or so years in age.. Finite. Not going to last forever in fact it is running low now... A secret that the those in power do not want you to know. But the problem is right now more people want it and there is less to go around. But what about the cost, a barrel of crude and there are grades, in fact there Is a whole secret community that we don't see or hear about, that jealously guards this information about how the pricing is set, but once set a barrel of crude is the same if it cme out of west Los Angeles as out of Iran. It's just another barrel on the world market. So cry drill baby drill .it means nothing and means even less at the pump. Oh but it does mean more for my 401 as I am heavily invested in oil futures.

D

You Ladies Need to Graciously Submit to your husbands

Graciously submit --- I have heard this on more than one occasion, and of course when I suggest this as a mode of behavior that my wife should adopt I get a sharp elbow to the ribs. However, it's a mode that I am hearing more and more from the right. In fact the whack job that just got the nod for the Republican ticket in New Jersey had a law suite with a previous employer that demoted her based on their employment practice stating simply that " women should be in subordinate positions". I position that is codified in law in several states and just an aside she lost the law suite.

And as a Republican and Tea Party ( I know this is new) active supporter I hardily agree.. WOMEN SHOULD SUBMIT.. and this is especially true when it comes to voting.

I wanted to bring this up in this election cycle as it is critical to our ( actually my) success that we get rid of these anti American, communist, socialistic and anti my way of life, Dems who are in power. Men, and I am taking to you TP's and true Republicans, If you can't control your woman in the booth, then don't let her vote. It's as simple as that.

I call it American Muslim ism.. while we can't stone a woman to death in this country for stepping out on her owner.. excuse me.. husband .. at least not yet, we can keep her under control in the work place, home, and church... and most importantly in the voting booth. And the right wing ( my god send) is doing everything they can to keep it that way.

And it is working.

My voice, bought and paid for, is getting the TP'ers excited about saving my tax cut, ( to the tune of several hundred thousand dollars ..not say how many of those but more than a few) so that when they get in to those figures where it counts.. $250,000 to $300,000 in income themselves.. (chortle) ..no it could happen. They will have the same tax cut. God, I still find it so funny that most of you got a check for $1,500 and were happy as W cleaned out the treasury. I certainly spent my 1,500, happily. So the TP'ers are well financed.. your welcome.. and we are changing the national perception that any tax increase is evil. I certainly agree.

But back to submitting, the growth of Muslim ism around the world is due to one thing, and one thing only and that is the subjucgation of women. And the Right wing and TP'ers are taking that cue and running with it. Down with abortion, down with stem cell research, up with school prayer, up with owning a gun ( bigger the better) and my favorite and this is then most important to me,, "I have got mine and I'm going to keep it". Ask a TP'er about women's rights, equality, or representation and your going to get a blank stare. Ask them about raising taxes, welfare, equal opportunity and you will get spit in the face. My kind of people.

New ipad

So this a new post that is strictly from the iPad
There is no learning curve .. You open the Box and off you go. My Dads day present , birthday, and may be an early Xmas day . I have not
Not counted the application s I have loaded but as the kids ( all adults..so hardly kids ( except when the get around each other) all get aghast when they see my computer icons. Although the new computer has not been fully inundated with demos as the lSt one was. Give it time.

So as this the first post in almost 3 years Lot to catch up on.

But for another day

Since this Already published.. I am just editing it.
And agAin from just my I pad.
Still try g to figure away to post pictures
Soon

It was Stolen.. You Tube.. and the bloody tide in Iraq.. and other comments from your favorite True Republican

It has been so long since I have posted. I know it is really no excuse, but I have been busy. But more to the point I have been sulking.. And this week since it is now inevitable the dems have taken over both my senate and my house, of which I thought ( among so many of us true republicans) we would never lose. I mean we had bought and paid for our government many times over. It was like somebody came in the night and stole it from us.

Last few weeks I thought we were going to get at least the senate back,, but that old fart didn’t die.. he's just a vegetable.. so he can still stay in the senate.. non voting but it gives the dems the place with one vote.. but we have a guy posted outside his hospital room and we know his blood pressure and brain wave activity better than his own doctors do. And the second it goes flat line.. we will take over.. so we are praying for the white light in the corner of the room. Sounds a little cold. but politics is a dirty and heartless business. And besides this election was stolen.. mmm sounds vaguely familiar, yes.. rings a bell. ( that reminds me of very long joke.. which ends with .. "His face certainly rings a bell".. but I have promised I would never tell it again)

But this week is marked with the passing of Saddam.. wow what a total CF that was.. I saw the whole thing on the net, as did the world.. camera phones.. what an amazing invention. Now everyone can record the events of the day at any time. I saw it on YouTube.. (Factoid: every day enough is loaded on this site that would take you a life time to view. well certainly more than I could ever watch.) But what the film showed despite, historically bad camera work, was the utter chaos this country is in. What do we think we are going to do. I know this guy was bad, corrupt, despotic, a sadist and a pervert.. but he kept that country together. There might be a word but you would have to invent it, that might come close to describing Iraq now.. chaos is not strong enough, anarchy may even suggest some level of organization but in Iraq they are actually losing any level of cohesion. And yet we are now in the midst of calling up and sending in tens of thousands of new troops. A surge they call it.. like a tide.. it rolls in but will it eventually roll out.. Doubtful. My question..how much more blood do you have to see seep into the dirt and gravel, shards and bits of what were cities, before we realize the tide, this bloody red tide, is not worth the price we are asked to pay. I am just glad it’s not my son. I guess it must be yours, and apparently your ok with that. My son’s are doing something important.. making money.

I am back in this new year. and I will observe and comment.. and perhaps the white light will open in the corner of the hospital room and we can pull the Senate back home, .. we paid for it.. it's ours.

as always,

me first

RR

Let’s get something straight …We are not an occupying force.. And we don't want to be there.

This is an open letter to the Iraqi people.

Wake up.. We are going to be gone and in not a few years but a few months. And if you don’t start to pay attention and soon, it will be to late. The living conditions in your country will go from tolerable to devastating, as your cities slip completely into anarchy. You have the semblance of a government, and army and a police force, but you have to support these efforts; they can not do the job of protecting you with out it. And with out a government you have anarchy.

You have to step up and tell the authorities that Uncle Ahmed is building a bomb in the basement, or Cousin Mohammad or who ever is planting IED’s in baby buggies.. You have to tell them that the night group at the local Mosque has a small arsenal of weapons. You have to step up and meet the basic responsibilities of a civilized country, or you are going to live for the rest of your lives under the rules of , who controls the street corner and who has the most rifles. You are going to be living in nightmare, you will not thrive, many will die, and it will be an existence that could hardly be called a life, you will live in anarchy.

I say again, we do not want to be there and we are leaving. If you don’t believe me look at our last election. It was supposed to be “all politics are local“. Well that rule is no longer valid, all politics are now national and the people have spoken. We are history. We came there for mixed reasons, mostly because we had to lash out at someone after 9-11. Saddam was an easy target, and we could do some good, by ridding him from the world‘s stage and from the middle east. We also mistakenly thought, you would enjoy living in a democracy as apposed to a cruel dictatorship. Our naïveté is historic.

You want us gone, fine. Let me use an analogy …What happen when you remove a material that was filling a space, air from a cylinder for instance , you create a vacuum .. Well nature abhors a vacuum, and it will be filled at the first possible instance. How do you want to fill that space. Right now, your space, Iraq, is being filled with our brave soldiers, they are pushing back against the sides of the cylinder that is pressing down on them, and they are being helped by some of your bravest countrymen assuming the role of government, courts, police and armed forces. But unless you support these people and we leave ( and we are leaving) , that pressure is gong to drive them out as well and the cylinder that is Iraq will be filled with a poison gas and you are going to pay that price.

Wake up. You are fighting and killing over religion, you argue and murder each over because your Mullahs are chanting in different cadences. My god or should I say my Allah, how insane can you be. We are not gong to be there much longer keeping you idiots from ripping each other throats out like rabid dogs for much longer. Why? Because frankly we don’t care. Because one asshole wants to visit 18 virgins in his demented vision of an afterlife, 19 of your countrymen are going to die. I can tell you this for certain before that asshole climbed on the bus at least 100 of your fellow countrymen knew about his planned crime and they all said in unison .. You don’t matter. Your life is not worth spit, your daughters or your wives lives.. They are just filth garbage and they deserve to die…We as a nation, can not accept this, and can not understand how you can. So we have stopped caring and we are leaving.

We have a saying, in our country, “step up top the plate“. It means take your turn, and take responsibility for your own future. If you don’t everything you know, love, cherish, have dreamed about will be gone.. Forever.

There are no vestal virgins waiting for the criminals who blow up buses. Killing an American with a high power rifle while he patrols your street should bring tears to your eyes and you should proudly call out the assassin that did it. We are going to be gone, the vacuum that will be filled is up to you.

AS always me first.

RR

We got Texas Thumping.. but just wait

Oh my.. did we step into it this time...

Iraq is not pretty and well I think it bit us in the ass. My guys are no longer in charge, but Bubba boy still has his veto pen, so nothing is really going to get done in the next two years, especially anything that is going to keep me form making and keeping most of my money. But I do have to say enough of you yo-yo's perhaps figured out that Republican’s, and the far right are not really looking after your interests after all. I doubt it, but it is possible you have figured it out.

I guess I just really have to thank the heavens, many different gods, and my wallet, that this was not a presidential election, as then the this tide could have really gotten really ugly.

But I also have to curse the fact that Bubba did not fire Rummy before the election, as this would have and with no doubt, changed things historically. We might have seen a George Allen President one day, but that vision is as dead and nothing, more than a footnote at the bottom of the page and as a Wickapedia entry for Maccaaca.. we sigh for what might have been.

Now we need to count on the short attention span of the American people and get the evanglistas, the right to lifers the haters of homo and protectors of marriage, the NRA and more, and get them focused again on what is important and vital .. that is making me rich. We will convince them again we give a dam about their issues, that we want to fight for what is right, all the rest of the crap that has served us so well. It will take a while at least, a few weeks for you to forget the message you voted for.. that was change.

So I will sit back and count.. made $80,000 dollars, not a great day, but a minor cause for finger wave in the air. We will sit back and wait, you will forget what it was you wanted changed and remember that you don't want Gus and Mike to get hitched. We just will wait.. no problem the stock market still humming. Say, what was that you wanted top change??

As always me first

RR

A Conversation with a Republican

Notice I said Republican not a true Republican like me

I was killing some time waiting for my car and there was another man in the waiting room. He was about my age. He had a gut though that made up 3-4 of mine and I am no slouch in middle age bulge war. Something I need to work on. But anyway I said ….starting a conversation and taking the pulse of America in my own small way.

RR: So who you like in this election

Fat Guy (FG) Bush is my man.

RR: You know he’s not running.

FG: Well I would vote for him again if he was.

RR: HA HA .. The presidential race is not for another two years, this is the mid-term election

( I pressed on) So who do you like for congress?

FG I vote Republican.

RR: Why?

FG: I sure wouldn’t vote for no Democrat.

We really do good work, he said the word “democrat” like it was something you might wipe off the bottom of your shoe.

RR: Why not vote for a Democrat.

FG: Cause they want to take my guns away from me. They want to raise my taxes and they want to surrender to the terrorists.

RR: The evil doers?

FG: That’s right,, democrats just want to cut and run

RR: Do you care about social security

FG: damm straight,, we are going to Florida to retire

RR: That’s great you have a house there?

FG: No we’re going to get a place on the beach and enjoy beers and the sun.

RR: Sounds like quite a life. You have a retirement savings.. a nest egg?

FG: Yeah a nice one we should have near 10 to 20 thousand in it when I leave this dam job.

RR: What do you do?

FG: I am a back-up electrician, I take care of the phones, air conditioning, and heating in this building and the next.

RR: Back up what do you mean “back up”?

FG: I have this job and then I am on call when the regular electrician can’t make it in or is tied up somewhere else.

RR: Sounds important.. pay well?

FG: I get $11.50 an hour and time and half when I work over 40 and double when I work on the weekends.

RR: Imagine working here you get great benefits.

FG: Oh I don’t work for G H and T .. I’m on contract.

RR: Medical benefits?

FG: Take care of them myself

RR: That sure can get expensive

FG: I just don’t get sick

The conversation went on for some time, him telling me his plans for the non existent financial package he dreamt that he had. .

I am still shaking my head.. people must live in a fog. A fog of denial or just plain stupidity. I vote for stupid. Let’s see 40 hours a week.. at $11.50 hour. That’s less than $25,000 per year and before taxes. After taxes it’s more like $19,000. I have that much in my checking account. A house note and a car payment and week of groceries sucks that down. Retirement, savings, health insurance just nothing there, and you yahoos roaming around Walmart all answer to “I am a republican” and I say god bless your stupidity.

Now this guy says he is a Republican and I am sure he would come down on the Republican side of every issue. Just like we have trained him to do. Abortion, gay marriage, gun control, school prayer, stay the course, and so on..( you bone heads are so easy) but he is oblivious as to his plight. Here is in his 50’s in debt over his head, no retirement funds, probably will not be able to make his mortgage payment on his two bedroom brick ranch after he retires, and god knows what happens when he has his first heart attack.. die I guess. But we have him trained to keep the republican’s in control. I feel guilty sometimes, but not often. More money for me.

Me first

RR