Mr. President:

Can we talk? Got a minute?

I just filled up my Buick and the price per gallon was $3.40. And even though the American made product is getting 25.4 combined MPG, that's a hurt. A big hurt.

And I know that the high demand from China and India, aka the "excuse of the day" by OPEC, has us by the short hair. And it was the environmental wackos and their hand maidens the Demos and dummy RINOs that kept us from drilling within the US. I mean I know who the evil ones are. The Big Guy and Hannity have told me.

But you see, that excuse has been around thirty years, and even if true, consider this.

It doesn't fix the problem.

You are the man, Mr. President. So I think it is time you start using the bully pulpit and jam some emergency legislation down the Demos throats. Just tell the wackos to piss off and tell the oil companies that they have been talking the talk, but now is the time to walk the walk. Get off your behinds and start drilling some holes in the ground.

At the same time it wouldn't hurt to tell OPEC that they really truly sure enough need to open the spigots because their current actions look like an attack on the US and well, everyone knows what happens when we think we've being attacked. How do you say "spidy-hole" in Farsi? Arabic? Spanish?

Well, that's about it. Wish I could have been more subtle, but I really can't. Because if the public doesn't start to see some actual honest to God change come out of the Repubs, they are likely to start listening to Hussein talk about change.

And no. Not THAT Hussein. The other one. The one from Chicago. The one who can really do some damage to the country.

Regards from a two time voter.

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Silicy, Atlanta and bits and pieces

I read someplace that the latest elections in Italy resulted in, for the first time since WWII, there being no communists in the government... Replay of a golden oldie.

"What's the difference between Eastern Europe and Boulder, CO?"

"There are no communists left in Eastern Europe."

Boulder, of course being the location of the University of Colorado who, believe it or not, beats Nebraska from time to time...Actually they won a national championship in 1990 under the oversight of Coach Bill McCartney...who was deemed a nut because of his professed Christian faith and belief that men should act like men, doing such outrageous things as leading by example and supporting their children...

Beloved between the goal lines, such talk doomed him with the university's administration. Since his departure the team's success has been limited. However, its national exposure has continued by the comments of Professor Ward Churchill who opined that, among other things, that the twin towers on 9/11 had Little Eichmans in them doing things best not known.

Churchill is no longer there. Proving that despite the flood of people from California and other cultural sojourners there are times when common sense rules.

Thinking about Italy I am reminded of my first stay in Sicily... Upon expressing my pleasure in being in Italy I was immediately reminded that, "You are not in Italy, you are in Sicily!" My apology was graciously accepted and no one made an offer I couldn't refuse.

There have been other places that took a similar view.... Atlanta is well known to not be in the south, or at least by true Southerners.....I seem to remember it being called "The New York of the South." That, of course, was when people actually dreamed of making it there...or anywhere... but I digress..

There was an earthquake in central eastern Illinois at 5:46 this morning... Rumors have it this is the start of Illinois south of Chicago and its burbs removing itself from the state that elected Hussein.....

Later chums. Time to play farmer!

There is an old joke about poker players...

"Deal," cried the losers, while the winners were telling jokes.

Such is the case with the man who would be king, aka Hussein. Unused to hard questions and with a political career consisting of no contests, he deemed himself untouchable. But a funny thing has happened on the way to the coronation. A combination of political opposition, talk radio and the Internet has raised questions about who he is, can be beat McCain in November and is he fit to serve?

We have found out many things about him. But the most problematic isn't his relationships with Ayers and Wright, although they now have gone past the judgement issues to raising questions about this belief in this country. No, the real issue has become his wimpiness. As is said sometimes in chat rooms and blogs...

"Want some cheese with that whine?"

Sen. Barack Obama suggested Thursday that he doesn't see any point in having another debate with Democratic rival Sen. Hillary Clinton.

So now we find he no longer wants to debate because they are likely to raise "old issues" that Hussein deems unworthy of debate. It is time to move on to the future. To emote over change. To do anything but face more questions..... to having to explain his record.

He knows he can have whatever he wants. After all, it has always been given to him.

He is soft. His arrogance is born of never having to fight. Of winning without trying. Hillary is right. Can you imagine him being there when the phone rings at three in the morning? Or facing our enemies at High Noon?

Shales' style

I really don't know what a "Style Columnist" is for the Washington Post. But whatever it is, knowledge of current events and fairness evidently is not required. Case in point is Tom Shales attack first on ABC and then his demonstration that he either has not been keeping up with what's going on, or he wants to spin it.
I give you:

The boyish Stephanopoulos.....looked like an overly ambitious intern helping out at a subcommittee hearing, digging through notes for something smart-alecky and slimy. He came up with such tired tripe as a charge that Obama once associated with a nutty bomb-throwing anarchist. That was "40 years ago, when I was 8 years old," Obama said with exasperation.

Someone should tell Tom, "once associated" means "in the past." Ayers and Hussein continue to associate, and are actually serving on the same corporate board. And then there is the large lapse made when Hussein compared Ayers and Senator Coburn.

No sooner was that said than Gibson brought up, yet again, the controversial ravings of the pastor at a church attended by Obama. "Charlie, I've discussed this," he said, and indeed he has,

True enough, but his answers haven't been satisfactory. So now he just says his unsatisfactory answers are OK and we should just move on...

Perhaps it is natural that someone who writes in the Style section of a paper would be more interested in style than facts. But he really shouldn't complain about bias when it is glaringly obvious that he is in the tank for the master of style, Hussein.

Global warming wins!!!

At least for one day. And may I say yesterday was a beautiful day. Cloudless skies and 72 degrees.... reminded me of Hawaii... except I worked and worked... fresh mulch in the flower and bush beds out front.... cleaned out the beds in front of the new addition... chased off a Blue Racer snake..no big deal, they are naturally shy and will leave if given the chance.

The problem is that all my muscles have turned to flab, and when I decided to take out three dead trees on the edge of the woodlot that contains the Palatial Retirement Compound... well, just let me say that it was a major error in judgement, but I think I will be walking normally in a few days.

One of the trees was a cedar and will be missed. The other two were sweet gum. Messy hardly describes them. Yet they provided shade and wind break.

After the severe freeze last year that came after the trees had leafed out and destroyed the leaves, the County Agent said that they would leaf out again, and they did. He also said that some would likely die over the winter. Especially if the summer was dry...and it was... and the next winter was cold... which it was... I saw four more that look questionable... but maybe not.

I didn't watch the "debate" last night. There are some things even I won't do. And the transcripts will be available and more accurate. Besides Hussein exposing his inability to judge moral versus immoral, much is being made over Hillary saying Hussein could win.

You think? Well, duhhhhhhhhhhh.

I think my mind drifted back to Hawaii because of Hussein's comments that he was raised by a mother on food stamps. He also was raised by a grandmother who, in addition to being fearful of black men as all typical whites are... if I can believe Hussein....was a Vice President of the largest bank in Hawaii... Has the candidate of change adopted some of Hillary's hen house ways???

Aloha chums!

Hussein and equivalence

Just when you think it can't get any better, or worse, Hussein does it again.
This from Newsbusters.

Prefacing the issue under the “general theme of patriotism,” and previous questions about why Obama has, at times, refused to wear an American flag lapel pin, Stephanopoulos noted, “[Ayers] never apologized for [the bombings]. And in fact, on 9/11, he was quoted in the New York Times, saying, ‘I don’t regret setting bombs. I feel we didn’t do enough.’” The ABC host pointedly observed that Obama’s campaign has described the relationship with Ayers as “friendly.” Stephanopoulos then asked, “Can you explain that relationship for the voters and explain to Democrats why it won’t be a problem?”

Obama’s response included stating that Ayers's actions happened when he was very young and asserted they weren’t relevant. Oddly, he went on to compare a man who was involved in bombings that killed people to his colleague, Republican Senator Tom Coburn from Oklahoma. Obama stated, “The fact is that I’m also friendly with Tom Coburn, one of the most conservative Republicans in the United States Senate, who during his campaign once said that it might be appropriate to apply the death penalty to those who carried out abortions."

But "oddly?" Not at all. He sees the actions of Ayers as moral. Ayers is attacking the "enemy," who is engaged in "immoral acts." In this case the defense of the country. Hussein also sees that Coburn is attacking the "enemy." In this case those who carry out abortions and thus engage in "immoral acts."

In his mind the actions are equal. Both are attacking what each see as evil. What Hussein has told us is that he cannot distinguish between right and wrong. He lives in a world of no absolutes. Thus he is comfortable with Ayers, and his Reverend and Rezko and Senator Coburn.....

That is a frightening thought about a man who would be President. Doubly so in a time of war.