Yes, your DemocraT congress, the same one whose rating, currently a 91% You Suck, is addressing the pain at the pump by proposing — are you ready? — an INCREASE in the gas TAX !!

Who said this and when:

“Democrats have a common-sense plan to help bring down skyrocketing gas prices by cracking down on price-gouging; rolling back the billions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies, tax breaks and royalty relief given to big oil and gas companies; and increasing production of alternative fuels,” Pelosi wrote back in April 2006, as part of her efforts to convince Americans to elect Democrats.

Weeelllllll ……. wee’rre waaiting!!

Life is like a roll of toilet paper.  The closer to the end, the faster it spins.

Fridays are coming at me faster than ever and the weekends faster than that.  As usual I have a boatload of things to do and look up.  There’s always something to clean and someone to contact.  The biggest deal this weekend is the assembly of the pergola or arbor type thing on the front deck.  It will not be the cookie cutter porch roof we see in the neighborhood, but a solid, decorative piece that will shade the front door in style.  It will be an open lattice roof for full ventilation of heat, so it’s main function is shade and decoration.  I will be picking up hanging plants for the street side to give it more of a garden appearance.

(camera, camera, where’s the camera? not the car, the cluttered and disorganized pseudo-office, not in the purses in the closet — where’s the ca—- oh, there it is)  I took a before shot and tomorrow and when it’s finished will take the after.  I don’t want to make solid promises until it’s done.  It’s 90 degrees now and expected to remain so throughout the weekend.

It’s 7:45 and Honey just got home after a 9 hour day, a trip to Lowe’s, a stop at Kroger and then Home Depot.  He’s tired, crabby and hungry.  Time to sit with feet …. up.  And a movie.

Adaptability:  Spotted owls can and do nest in K-Mart signs.  I bet they taste like chicken.

On the climate change hoax: Cleaner skies have contributed to global warming!  Oh, nooooo, Mr. Bill… I can’t afford to run the Buick to re-pollute the atmosphere!

Stupider and stupider:  Children in the UK are considered racist when they say “yuk” to an ethnic food.

Economics: A recession is 6 consecutive months of negative growth.  Anything else is …. growth.  We haven’t experienced even 2 months in a row of negative growth since GW took the oath of office the first time.  Can you say “tax cuts create more revenue”?

Our government at work: 9% approve of congress’ performance.  That leaves 91% of us who think they suck.

Statistics:  The top 1% of wage earners pay 40% of all taxes.  The bottom 50% pay 3%.

Drinking Kook-aid: BHO wants to tax the rich.  He defines rich as over $100,000 per year (gross).  Really rich people don’t work.  They live off investments and don’t report taxable income so they don’t fall into BHO’s rich category.

Reality check: Rich people sign my pay checks and poor people don’t hire.

Eyes open!: Small business, most of which are Mom’n'Pops, are the employers of 70% of all working Americans.  They are also those who have hired 80% of all new jobs.  They are the 1% that pay 40% of all taxes because they have to report gross sales as income.  Their personal take home can be less than $50,000.  When BHO increases their rate to as high as 67%, they will lay off as many workers as it takes to maintain any lifestyle they’ve worked for.

(That’s more than one line, but some people need extra information to get a point.)

Kids: American boys are being sent to madrasas, schools that train extreme Islam, in Pakistan (even though we have friends there).  It’s brainwashing and terrorist training, make no mistake.  So, the one liner is –

If you don’t indoctrinate your children with your beliefs before that open window of total trust in you starts to slide shut after their 6th birthday, someone else will indoctrinate them in their beliefs. Their minds are someone else’s before they’re able to decide for themselves. “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it” but it’s a nail biter if they stray in the meantime.

One more on economics: As recently as Bill Clinton’s administration, an unemployment rate of 5% was traditionally considered a margin of error and was called Full Employment, a rate his administration didn’t see more than once or twice.  Now that the unemployment rate has risen from a never before seen 4.5% to 5% under George Bush, it is considered a sign of a lousy economy.

Ancient History repeats itself: A school in London was holding a mandatory exercise to help students understand being a Muslim.  At the point at which they were told to bow to Allah, two boys refused to bow to a god that was not God.  They were simply reprimanded.  Guess there wasn’t time to fire up the microwave that day.

And we want to be more like Europe.

Unless we wake up and take control of our country again, we are a footnote in history.

It’s Sunday.  Let’s lighten up and sit back for an old fashioned giggle fit.

That makes no more sense than “you can’t drill your way out of the gas crisis.” The other mantra talking point rant is “drilling won’t bring down the price of gasoline tomorrow.” Technically, mostly true. It could take as much as 2 months. The rest of that truth is that if all of congress, senate, executive, and media said “we’re going to search out every possible source of domestic energy we can think of starting now, with an ultimate goal of total independence” we’d put the Saudis on notice and they would immediately capitulate on prices and supply.

What’s in it for Saudi Arabia if we don’t need them anymore? Nothing! For starters, they wouldn’t have us face down over their oil barrels when it comes to what we as an armed force will and won’t tolerate. For instance, we could say we won’t tolerate 19 or any number of their trained terrorists flying into any more buildings. A bigger punch is that we won’t be sending them $billions in cash, more money than we’re spending on keeping terror at bay in Iraq. I think that last one would speak louder than the terrorism point. After all, the sweet deal they struck with us to allow them to establish unlimited Islamic K-12 schools on US soil has created a potential domestic terror base we don’t want to think about. In case you’re puzzled, look up the school in Virginia our government has investigated, threatened to shut down, but won’t because (see above reference to position over oil barrel).

I had a recent conversation with a left leaner. I expressed concern for those in Nebraska who live at least 30 miles from everywhere. For a political group who is supposed to bleed for the underdog, she instead said, “They should have thought of that before they lived in Nebraska.” There’s no response to that. I had another conversation with someone who’s spent time in Europe. “So now you’re finally catching up. They pay almost $10 a gallon now.” And his point?? There’s no public transit where I live! There’s no bike trails or sidewalks! What happened to diversity??

What a grand pity that our livelihood, our commerce, the means by which our food is placed on the table is being vilified by a lie. That incomprehensible lie is that man’s use of fossil fuels and use of the resources such as renewable forestry, and of course, farts!! is ruining the planet, that people themselves (uh, God’s special creation??) are responsible. What a shame, a dangerous shame, that making every effort to remain strong and becoming oil independent has become a politically partisan issue. Thank you Algore for casting the tie breaking vote that we should burn our FOOD for fuel when it’s proven that ethanol pollutes more than gasoline, takes more effort and costs more to come to the pump. Thank you Bill Clinton for vetoing the decision to drill in ANWR in 1995. The reason was that it would take at least 13 years to see the benefit. That would be now.

So if that’s a valid argument, why go to college when it would be a good 4-8 years to see the benefits? Why make a baby when it would be a good 26 years and high costs before the child contributes to society with taxes for redistribution to welfare recipients? Why set standards for the auto industry (aren’t they private enterprise??) 10 years ahead —- oops, pardon me. That’s a good thing because it puts clamps on an evil corporation for the sake of the plaaaaanet.

LBJ punched a hole in the Social Security boat and it’s been dribbling effectively enough to leave our boat dry docked in 5 years. Two jobs, one trip to church on Sunday and another when choir resumes totals over 1800 miles a month. I won’t give up church. Do the math. We’re a matter of months away from 60. We won’t have enough to pay for traveling to see our family unless………

The people who have been blocking progress and simultaneously designing the demise of our strength as a nation listen to the people and start drilling yesterday. P.S. The current leases don’t have oil, but we’ve found more oil under North Dakota. Combined with shale, discoveries off the Florida coast, and ANWR, we have more oil than Saudi Arabia. We know how to tap it without bothering a single spotted owl or snail darter. Let’s make this a non-issue, drill, build refineries, and tell the Saudis to feel free to sell to China, Russia, and India. Oh, and by the way, don’t be sending anymore planes into our buildings or teaching kids to hate us. Thanks.

Honey>Herb>Wesley>George>Orlando>George>Jesse. Virtually every source for 50 years has declared George’s father was Jesse who married Rebecca Howard whose line went back into English nobility and through the London Tower 3 generations in a row, 2 of which lost contact with their heads. Great story! Nothing to do with us after the DNA project showed that George and Jesse could not possibly be related.

by Stan Brock, (guest)

There are some things in life a person needs to write about. The gospel writers must have said this over and over as they themselves experienced the miracles of Jesus and the wonders of his love.

I’ve said it so many times to my Wife and friends concerning my need to be in church every week. Why? Because if I’m not, I’m afraid I’ll miss some great event in the life of God’s children. Sort of like a remarkable mystery unfolding in front of us.

When I talked to the ticket guy, he said there was going to be fireworks, I assumed, after the performance. Everybody’s leaving. Maybe we should sit back down. Do you think if we ask somebody ….. ? “The car’s this way.”

The newest used car, only 9 years old instead of 17, has a CD player in it. Actually, we went to Circuit City and had one put in. Those of you who became accustomed to not only a CD player but one or more DVD players, and now GPS devices inside all your vehicles since their beginnings are not impressed. So don’t be. Thffft. I am.

The last line in the previous post is “if the watchman on the wall does not warn the people of the danger approaching, the watchman is responsible for the destruction.”

Apply locally. If a parent sees a hungry predator approaching her child and makes no effort to stop the predator or warn the child, …………