Politics | 04/25/2008 5:01 pm

The Blame Game: Why Is the Price of Gasoline Through the Roof?

By The Staff at wowOwow.com

Prices at the pump hit another record high Thursday as the average national cost per gallon of regular gas jumped 2.3 cents overnight to $3.556, according to AAA. Whose fault is this? How long will prices hover in this expensive range? Click here to read the story on Yahoo and click here to read about one Wisconsin gas station owner who shut down his pumps in protest. Can protesting reverse the trend? Can anything?

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This little farce is really amusing. Oh so convenient that two “drs’ addressing each other as such in a mutually supportive count/counterpoint. Have not known too many drs so insecure that require the ‘authority’ of title in a casual forum. McGin-Klein…you are having yourself so much fun. Why not a few more wOw accounts…Five or six docs….heck…throw in a vet and pathologist while your at it. And you can ‘all’ have a roundtable. “Tea with the Ethernet Doc” like those kitschy poker playing dogs: http://unpopulartruths.files.wordpress.com/2007/09/dogs-playing-poker.jp… Kind of online performance art….. We could have a poll. What completely worthless thing will the ‘docs’ say next? a) “Dr.McGin, Women cause Global Warming”……..”Dr. Klein, See, that doesn’t bother me at all, it’s fun!” b) “Dr. McGin, Women’s over consumption of beauty products is causing the Earth to tilt off its axis.” “Dr. Klein, Unlike other women on this site, I think that’s a possibility, it’s fun!” c) “Dr. McGin, Because women gain weight the continent is sinking, sucking the polar ice caps down and causing them to break up.” “Dr. Klein, I like your differing view, it doesn’t incite me to abuse you, it’s fun!” Poll Number Two: Dr. Klein has stated that his degree is from Cornell. And Dr. McGinnis did not reveal what college, but only that the degree was also Ivy League. Statistics prove the liklihood of two ivy league doctors showing up on the same new website with relatively few individual posters to bolster each other and both use Dr. before their names is as likely as The Helms Bakery Truck returning into service and making deliveries to the CIA HQ on Sundays in August. Nevertheless, to win your chance to enter a drawing to win Mary’s Feldship, do you believe that Dr. Mc Ginnis’s degree is from: a) Harvard b)Yale c)Penn d) Princeton e)Columbia f) Brown g)Dartmouth h) Like Dr. Klein also Cornell—because I guess he proves that only Cornell Docs hang around websites and say absolutely nothing and both use an average of four lines to do it. i) I don’t give a rat’s behind, gimme the damn boat!

By No GOP on 04/27/2008 4:31 am

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Princess…..it’s fun! I had suggested somewhere within this labyrinth of Dr. McGin-Kleinisms that there was some nefarious reason why kleiney no longer used a photo for his display image. It’s quite ironic that around the same time that his display photo disappeared, Dr. McG magically appeared in his corner……ya think maybe he created this alter-ego so he’d have at least one female supporter? He did used to be a shrink, ya know…..I smell mind games!

By Ginger Richardson on 04/27/2008 9:08 am

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Ginger, Ironic-No, Coincidence-Yes Congratulations, you have now, like Princess, “clevered” yourself into idiocy.

By eleanor roche on 04/27/2008 11:31 am

McGin—-there’s idiots to be sure…McGin-Klein.

By No GOP on 04/27/2008 1:57 pm

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You’ve clearly got major wormholes in the old gray matter, Dr. Troll. 16 years of women secretaries of state? Among the major faults in this statement is forgetting General Powell — well, I suppose you’d include him with Albright and Rice. I suppose it could be argued he’s the the biggest pu**y of all.

By Michael Salling on 04/25/2008 7:52 pm

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Dr. Klein, I think you need to start your own Web page where other men can listen to your tripe…… I’m a 76 year old woman and have been there in the time’s you say were so good. It’s alright to have slaves if you are the slave owner……..if you’re the slave, not so good. Yes some things were better back in the 40’s and 50’s. I vote for FREEDOM everytime….I love being a women who can make my own choices and not just being an appendage of my father and husband. I admire and respect the young women today.

By Dona Howlett on 04/27/2008 2:43 pm

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dona, the slave holders become incapable of doing certain things for themselves (like, shopping, cooking, washing dishes, doing laundry) after a long period of not doing those things. also, they think they are too good to do necessary things.

By mary lou s on 04/28/2008 4:30 pm

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My great-grandmother had to work, my grandmother had to work, my mother did not have to work, I had to work. How did one short period in history become the golden mean to measure all others by?

By Cheryl P on 04/26/2008 1:02 pm

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“Things have relentlessly deteriorated ever since women got the vote” Hey, that’s Adams Apple Annie’s line! That’s right….EVER SINCE AUGUST 1920 when women got the vote….it’s been all downhill for the good old U.S. of A. If only we could bring back Hull House, the Dust Bowl, soup lines, and Prohibition-era gangsters. Gosh that was swell. Numerous misspells, an unneeded adverb, and missing word in that post, Mark, gonna have to mark you down for that. And at the end of the week, tote up your score, and notify Craigslist Erotic Services. Those tarts are picky about the writing quality of a guy’s hate mongering posts.

By No GOP on 04/27/2008 4:56 am

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Dr Klein…you need to emotionally “castrate” yourself - especially when you spew your comments on a forum which is populated primarily by women. My Mother worked her entire life, and she was far from being a “shoulder pad feminist”…she was just another hard-working person who did it FOR THE MONEY, plain and simple. When my Mother got home her work day was not finished, not by a long shot. She still had the responsibilities of a wife and Mother. Try that on for size! I have a feeling you don’t really like women, so I presume you must like men? Your comments have an angry edge - as though you really need to talk to someone. Have you considered counseling? Lots and lots of counseling? My Mother and Father were married for 54 years. My Father was from the “old school”. He was a lot of things - very conservative, alcoholic, stubborn, narrow-minded and crass. I thank God he was not you.

By Hedda Hopper on 04/28/2008 9:30 am

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Oh dear, oh dear. You don’t like us, do you? Someone must have hurt you badly - but to the point. Most women work at crummy jobs because they HAVE to, to make the rent/mortgage, etc. I spent many years as a lowly temp, and none of the women I worked with CHOSE to work, it was dictated by financial necessity. Yes, it might be better if women could rear their children themselves - but the society doesn’t make it easy for them, does it?

By Pamela Munro on 04/28/2008 2:37 pm

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The sad thing is to think that this man was a physician women went to for psychiatric help. Based on the ubiquitous postings from Mr. Klein it is evident that he deeply misses his interactions with female patients and must now settle for tweaking women on WowOwow instead. I can only assume that Mr. Klein’s brief bid as a Republican presidential nominee fell flat due to statements like “I don’t think women are playing with a full deck” and “Is estrogen toxic to the frontal grey matter?” (both comments attributed to him from a recent post on Wowowow.) A google search netted this goodie. For those interested, here he is, in all his glory gals. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oQdn6NvhIU

By Buh- Bye on 04/26/2008 3:56 pm

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Paragraphs 1 and 2 were right on! He’s a sad, lonely, bitter little man. Notice he only posts under questions which he can twist into opportunities for woman-bashing. But how much more time are we going to devote to this clown? You’re so right, Alias, his whole program now is “tweaking”. So let’s leave him alone and let him go tweak himself.

By Ginger Richardson on 04/26/2008 4:03 pm

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You are dead right Ginger and I shall dash from my thoughts all the troubled minds he once impacted in a professional capacity. Clearly a relic of the past confused by the workings of the more agile minds conversing on this wonderful site.

By Buh- Bye on 04/26/2008 8:48 pm