It’s us. We agreed to everything that promised us a chance to save 50 cents. We outsourced our productivity to buy it back for 50 cents less. We outsourced our personal responsibility to local govt., county govt., state govt., and federal govt., sayin’ politics isn’t our thing. And so we outsourced ourselves for about 50 cents on the dollar. Ya git what ya give. Adult folk are actin’ like the kid we tell to be careful on their bike. They don’t really believe anything bad can happen to them. They haven’t reached that developmental stage to ‘internalize’. We need to grow up real fast. Real real fast. Someone said recently and I can’t remember who, some economist I think, ‘We’re the only rich country that is third world.’ A couple of national sick days in a row for starters folk and stay home. Don’t drive, don’t go to the company stores. This is much much more serious and sinister than most folk will allow themselves to think through. We are systematically bein’ takin’ out! The foundation is implodin’ from the bottom up and will go all the way to takin’ out the lower upper class. All those who were afraid to look down for fear of fallin’ will fall. It is your fear to see the Tree from the bottom up that is the biggest tool of the multinats and the pimpin’ lawyers and prostitutin’ legislators. As we speak 1 in 6 planatarians are without water or without food and sometimes both. Emigration has already begun all over the planet. Why do you think the Bushkid wants to put up Walls everyplace? My gawd are we Rip VanWinkle? Stuperd stupid?

TOCTOC- “This is much much more serious and sinister than most folk will allow themselves to think through. We are systematically bein’ takin’ out! The foundation is implodin’ from the bottom up and will go all the way to takin’ out the lower upper class. Why do you think the Bushkid wants to put up Walls everyplace? My gawd are we Rip VanWinkle? Stuperd stupid?” Hate to say it…but you’re right on all accounts, yes it’s planned, yes it’s sinister, and yes, most are totally asleep and stupid.

I think of only three words: “Texas, Oil, Bush”.

The current crop of alternative fuels cannot compete on any level with oil. The short term solution is to drill for oil in this country. Eventually, cold fusion could be a permanent solution. Open question to everyone—can anyone explain the hostility displayed toward conservative points of view on this site? Did I miss the sign on the Home Page that said “Liberal Women Only”? Why don’t you “kitties” (as Ginny so aptly put it) retract the claws already? Try, at least to be congenial to others with different points of view. And an aside to “Mugsy, Princess” et. al., how in the world could people who think they are so brilliant, possibly think that I was Dr. Klein? I read some of his posts and his views are nothing like mine—I never said anything about women and father’s rights etc.! Not to mention, it is clear he is a Dem and equally clear that I am not. Where’s Peggy Noonan?

We know how to make synthetic oil for $45 dollars a barrel. Also the massive increase will give inventors and corporations incentives to create new technologies. And we have to drill, drill, drill - China and India are sucking up the oil like never before. Speaking of the power of the collective: I’ve created a blog to help my friend who has had a long series of unfortunate events culminating last Friday in her daughter’s, 12, eye fracture, and car breakdown on the way to the ER. Her car is fixed but still in the shop because she doesn’t have the money to get it out. No car no income. The blog has all the gory details - and a way to contact me with suggestions - or anything else. http://friendlysurvival.blogspot.com/

Oil prices went through the roof during President Carter’s presidency and I don’t recall anyone blaming the American president for the creation of OPAC. Does anyone remember the long, long lines to the fuel pumps? The president was blamed for not handling the crisis but not for creating the crisis. Perhaps the same should be said of President Bush? There are 60,000 windmills-generating-power in an area of California east of Oakland, the largest windmill field in the world. Is it THE solution to our energy woes? I doubt it; but until cold fusion or another energy source is developed, those windmills, as silly as it seems, are helping.