In the second week of March, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear a

price case against two oil companies. Prices increased by 20 cents per gallon within one week.

In late March, the Energy Information Administration released an inventory of oil and natural gas, saying crude oil inventory was at an eight-year high and natural gas inventory was 63.5% above the five-year average for this time of the season. Prices continued to rise.

Politicians do not complain - they are getting money for their campaigns from the oil companies or political action committees. We must not re-elect any politician who does not speak against these ridiculous prices.

Common excuses from the oil companies include switching to summer or winter blends, supplies remaining tight, concerns because of world uncertainties, etc. Oil companies are on track to make between $40 billion and $50 billion.

When will it stop? Never, unless we complain! Setting prices based on the New York commodity market is ridiculous. That market needs to be investigated because it is always reacting to situations and causing prices to increase despite high inventory levels in this country

 

That's this writers thoughts!  But I'm sticking to it"

More from the mouth of king spineless

Bush pledges to help the Iraqis rebuild their golden dome, known more formally as the Askariya Shrine, that was destroyed in what could only be described as the most blatant sign of civil war in Iraq. What he fails to understand is that it cannot be rebuilt.

Yes, physically, it possibly could be cobbled back together, but it will never be the same. Perhaps the president's parents should have taught him the meaning behind the children's rhyme Humpty Dumpty. Like his credibility, which has been shattered by his repeated lies and incompetence, this Humpty Dumpty can't be put back together again.

Just my thoughts" But I'm sticking to them"

Another grand rhetoric from the commander in stupidity!

The topic of the president's photo op last week was admirable, but the messenger can hardly be considered in the same respect.

It's curious at best that the president talks about alternative energy at a time when his 2006 budget cuts two-thirds of the funding for renewable energy research. The president has decided that feeding oil companies over 15 billion of our tax dollars for no justifiable reason is a better policy. This is even more ridiculous when one considers the record profits oil companies have gouged consumers for this year.

In the end, I hardly find anything about this surprising. Bush continues to underwhelm the country with his empty slogans and dead-end policies. He should be impeached.

Just my opinion but I'm sticking too it"

The sorrowful fact that Assistant Senate Minority Leader Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) finds "modest, sometimes even minor improvement" in the bill that would extend the USA Patriot Act as reason enough to "move forward" is indicative of the weakness of understanding our current political leaders have as to the true value of the government, the people it serves and what their duties actually are as elected officials

The abridgment of civil liberties, our most precious definition of what freedom in the United States actually means, found within the Patriot Act would cause our Founding Fathers to spin in their graves. That this "move on" mind-set about our most sacrosanct beliefs is seen as reasonable by our elected leaders should be a wake-up call to all Americans as to the dangerous times we live in - a time when our real American values, not the values Madison Ave. propagates in election hyperbole, are in perilous danger.

Kudos to Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) for having the moral conviction to again stand up to the business-as-usual crowd, those sheep in political clothing, in speaking out with eloquence and force for what America is really all about.

That's my opinion" But I'm sticking to it"

Hello Bloggers, time for another rant....

Military spending proposals show politicians out of touch

I was shocked and utterly dismayed to read how much of our proposed national budget will be spent for defense ("Smaller Army, fewer enemies, bigger U.S. defense budget," Feb. 12). A whopping $513 billion! "More than two-thirds of total worldwide defense spending," according to the Government Accountability Office.

As an Army veteran, I can attest to the need for an effective defense, including adequate body armor and safer military vehicles. But this amount boggles my mind and makes our national priorities seem totally skewed.

Think of it! F-22 fighters at $300 million each, the Navy's new destroyers at $3 billion each and $161 billion for the Army's new fleet of weapons systems. Topped with our out-of-sight national debt, tax cuts for the rich and a slew of pork barrel projects, it seems that our national priorities are being formulated by politicians completely out of touch with reality and their constituents.

How many of our hungry and homeless will the cost of one new F-22 fighter feed? How many hospitals could be built instead of a $1 billion destroyer? What about better health care, lower education costs and improved community infrastructures rather than spending $161 billion for the Army's new weapons systems?

May God Bless Our Nations Future

Just my opinion" But I'm sticking to it"

In his Senate testimony, Atty. Gen. Alberto Gonzales claimed that "President Washington, President Lincoln, President Wilson, President Roosevelt have all authorized electronic surveillance on a far broader scale."

Putting aside the question of what kind of device Washington might have employed to effect wiretaps in the 18th century — a pair of tin cans and a very long piece of string? — I find it interesting that Gonzales neglects to include Richard Nixon on his list of presidential Peeping Toms.

Perhaps Gonzales was hesitant to remind the senators that it was Nixon's wholesale abuse of executive power in the 1960s and '70s that led to the passage of the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act — the very statute that the current administration finds so troublesome.

It would seem to me that Mr Gonzales needs a refesher course in american history! or needs to to do a better job of bullshitting!!!

Just my thought" But I'm sticking to it"

Hello Bloggers.. My latest question on the thimblehead running the asylum, who knows maybe you have had the same thought!

It has been stated that if people have nothing to hide they should not object to President Bush's unwarranted wiretapping program.

It occurs to me that that same standard should apply to the President himself. If he has nothing to hide, he should not object to Congress exercising its Constitutional oversight function. But the President has denied Congress oversight access, saying only he can be trusted to know what is going on. The question, then, is inescapable: what is he hiding?, maybe it is time for the american people to force congresse"s hand to see what this president is doing!

That is my thought Like it or hate it" I'm sticking to it"

Will the president and Congress be able to meet the goal of cutting the budget deficit in half by 2009,

Hello Fellow Bloggers, My view of the budget deficit, is as follows....

 

This is a silly, counterproductive piece of propaganda by the Bush administration. They cannot cut enough out of social programs to do that, without provoking riots and rebellion, and they probably know that. They could and should cut the military, but they won't. They could restore progressivity to the tax system, but they don't want to. Further,the budget doesn't need to be balanced, though it does need to be redirected away from warring and toward things that are useful for human beings.

 

We're in the middle of an insanely expensive war, tens of millions of baby boomers are getting set to retire, Social Security and Medicare are going for broke. George Bush has RUINED this country and the American people have let him do it by believing Bush's preposterous notion that he can massively cut taxes without cutting Social Security, Medicare and all the other entitlements everyone has come to expect from the government. Let's see how popular the tax cuts are when 100 million people go to sign up for Social Security and Medicare and it isn't there. It's sad to see a great country destroyed like this.

Those are my views" But Heck I'm sticking to it"

Hello Fellow Bloggers, Yest it is time to rant & rave, as americans we can no longer stand back and have our so-called leaders, decieve us, mis-lead, and cold out lie to us, I'm sorry but spying is illegel, If I or my fellow readers would do this we would be arrested!, No man is above the law, he may have the title of president, but he is still just a mortal man who has to follow the same conduct under God!... This whole administration is built on deception & cunning practices for example...

Nearly all the Republican leadership are either facing indictment or investigation for crimes that include lying to Congress, the UN and the American people to take us into war, outing an undercover CIA agent (working on WMD) as payback, insider trading, criminal conspiracy, money laundering, campaign finance fraud, violations of state election laws and others too numerous to mention. Throw in the double whammy of the hurricane and the FEMA debacle, allegations of rendition, secret torture camps, assassinations, war profiteering (KBR and Halliburton posted new record highs), flaunting the Geneva accords and just plain poor military planning before, during and up to present day in an illegal war. Now comes the illegal wiretapping of dissidents, peace activists (the Quakers are listed as a "terrorist organization") a la Nixon.

Why is "Dubya" smiling? Could it be the same fine folks would stop just short of rigging elections here (Diebold made the voting machines) while staging elections in Iraq? Yeah, right.

People like to say Dems and progressives have no ideas. Not so, it's just that they don't like those ideas. I just had one: impeachment. If that is treason, then so be it. I'm in good company.

Support the troops. Bring them home now. Peace is possible.

That is my opinion" but I'm sticking to it"

P.S contact your congressmen or Women to impeach!!!!

Good Morning fellow Bloggers, It seems like everybody is boarding the bash bush express these days!!!... Below are the comments from former President Jimmy Carter, a Man in his day that wasn't much brighter then the fool already occupying the oval office.


   Former President Jimmy Carter criticized the Bush administration's domestic eavesdropping program Monday and said he believes the president has broken the law.

"Under the Bush administration, there's been a disgraceful and illegal decision - we're not going to the let the judges or the Congress or anyone else know that we're spying on the American people," Carter told reporters. "And no one knows how many innocent Americans have had their privacy violated under this secret act."

Carter made the remarks at a union hall near Las Vegas, where his oldest son, Jack Carter, announced his candidacy for the U.S. Senate.

The former president also rebuked Attorney General Alberto Gonzales for telling Congress that the spying program is authorized under Article 2 of the Constitution and does not violate the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act passed during Carter's administration. Gonzales made the assertions in testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, which began investigating the eavesdropping program Monday. "It's a ridiculous argument, not only bad, it's ridiculous. Obviously, the attorney general who said it's all right to torture prisoners and so forth is going to support the person who put him in office. But he's a very partisan attorney general and there's no doubt that he would say that," Carter said. "I hope that eventually the case will go to the Supreme Court. I have no doubt that when it's over, the Supreme Court will rule that Bush has violated the law."

The former president said he would testify before the Judiciary Committee if asked.

"If my voice is important to point of the intent of the law that was passed when I was president, I know all about that because it was one of the most important decisions I had to make."

Sounds Like carter knows what he is talking about!

I could be wrong" But I'm sticking to it"

Hello Fellow Spacelanders & Bloggers, time for my daily rant... and its all about the grand knucklehead masquerading as a president, this article is prrof that this man's intelligence is somewhere just north of a bedroom slipper!!!!

President Bush's $2.77 trillion budget is fiction masquerading as fact, a governmental version of the made-up memoirs that have been denounced up and down the continent lately. The spending proposal is built around the pretense that the same House and Senate that are set to consider a record deficit of $423 billion will now impose a virtual freeze on everything other than Pentagon and homeland security outlays. The budget writers even fantasized an end to Social Security's lump-sum death benefit — a whopping $255 per recipient — as if Congress would dare to do something so heartless and easy to exploit in an election year.

The point of all these imaginary financial projections is to give the president leeway to cement in place hundreds of billions of dollars in tax cuts the nation can ill afford and does not need. The cuts were made temporary in the first place because there was no way to even pretend that budgets could be balanced in the future with such an enormous loss of revenue.

Now, to pay for his top priorities — the military and tax cuts — the president is relying on proposed spending cuts. While Congress will never make some of them, it may make others, but only at the peril of the poor and the middle class. Those cuts include basic needs in education, environmental protection, medical research, low-income housing for the elderly and the disabled, community policing, and supplemental food for the needy.

The budget is steeped in campaign-year pretensions, billboarding $65 billion in "savings" across the next five years — more than half of it in Medicare — even as tax revenue is further choked. A Congress up for re-election should be wary of taking that path, particularly as the open-ended costs of the Iraq war dwarf all promised savings.

Mr. Bush was praised last week for calling for an end to dependency on oil imports without dragging out the ill-advised — and meaningless — administration fixation on oil drilling in protected parts of Alaska. Yet there it is, back again in the budget. There is little new in the plan, except for small but worthy initiatives that would be paid for with cuts in equally useful programs already on the books.

The president's plan was, on the whole, depressingly familiar. The administration that produced shattering deficits is at it again. Even the fiction was plagiarized from failed budgets of the past.

this administration is being run more like a dictatorship than a democracy!

That is my opinion" But I'm sticking to it"