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Saturday, July 19th, 2008
According to one theory, oil is the international currency. Might as well be.
Now, putting aside all feelgood rhetoric and wishful thinking, let’s ask the unspeakable question — how much is America worth? According to this calculation, the United States of America is worth 400 billion barrels of oil.
And it just ...
Posted in Economics, Middle East, World News, capitalism | 3 Comments »
Thursday, July 17th, 2008
As you know, it’s been a record year for fires throughout the Western states, especially California. And the fire season has barely begun.
The need for fire safety is on a collision course with the exploding population in fire-prone areas. More and more self-absorbed yuppies are moving to their own private ...
Posted in Miscellaneous, greed, ownership society | 22 Comments »
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
Iraq and Iran are sooo yesterday. The next battleground over Cheap Oil will be Nigeria. How soon is anybody’s guess.
This article by Scott Thill describes a new book — "Curse of the Black Gold: Fifty Years of Oil in the Niger Delta." The article includes a short video and an ...
Posted in Economics, Environment, Exploiting, World News | 1 Comment »
Saturday, July 12th, 2008
Washington will soon become (if there’s a God) the second state to have an assisted suicide law. Oregon’s Death With Dignity Act has been in effect since 1997.
The initiative has already gotten more than enough signatures. Assuming enough of these signatures will be valid, the assisted suicide law will be ...
Posted in Dying, Health, Illness, Religion | 62 Comments »
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
Talk about being careful what you wish for. Detroit has spent countless millions of dollars lobbying against higher gas mileage standards. And it worked. Those congressional prostitutes always bend over when a lobbyist whips out his wallet.
The Detroit automakers got their wish. And now more and more Americans are buying ...
Posted in Economics, Environment | No Comments »
Monday, July 7th, 2008
All right-thinking Americans must realize the awful painful truth: The Republican Party has sold us down the river. John Pinko McCain? Puhlease!
It’s bad enough we’ve had to listen to a bunch of navel-gazing moonbats whining about “global warming.” Now on top of that we have Tree-Coddling McCain agreeing with them.
He’s ...
Posted in 2008 elections, John McCain, Republican | 2 Comments »
Saturday, July 5th, 2008
When the Supreme Court ruled that child rapists cannot be executed, John McCain issued a somber warning to all Americans. Criminal-coddling decisions like this will become much more common if Barack Obama gets elected.
This anti-war leftist doesn’t even wear an American flag lapel pin for God’s sake. One can only ...
Posted in 2008 elections, Iraq War, Legal News | 6 Comments »
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
That’s the name of a bill that the House voted on last week. The official name is the Responsible Federal Oil and Gas Lease Act — H.R. 6251.
Either the “media” has been awfully quiet about this bill, or I’ve just looked in all the wrong places; and I read several ...
Posted in Economics, Environment | 29 Comments »
Monday, June 30th, 2008
A voter in West Virginia actually said this. He was a lifelong Democrat until 2000, and then: “Bush was a good man and had good morals. I felt he was the better man.” This year — “I don't care for Obama.”
Words like “morals” and “values” have been thrown around so ...
Posted in 2008 elections, George W. Bush, Religion | 4 Comments »
Friday, June 27th, 2008
When terminal cancer patients would like to use marijuana to ease the nausea from chemo-therapy, the government tells them “Tough shit! Suck it up!”
And now the newest group of patients to get shat on by the government: Soldiers suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Ecstasy (MDMA) has been having promising ...
Posted in GIs, Health, Iraq War, Science | 1 Comment »
