Obama

Well, tonight the Democratic convention got under way. I don't know about you but I am SICK of the whole political process. It is bad enough that we have to go through these conventions but why do we have to put up with campaigning for three and four years before the actual presidential elections? Let's give all of these politicians three months to get their message across. that should be enough!

How many of you watched Rick Warren interview Barack Obama and John McCain? Until that night, I really didn't know which candidate I was going to vote for. I thought both candidates are too liberal for me. Boy, was I wrong!

After watching the interviews, I was totally impressed with John McCain. Obama came across as the politician he is. Yes, Obama is a great orator but that does not qualify him to president of the most powerful country in the world. His answers were vague. You can always tell how vague a candidate is by the length of his/her responses. The longer they take to answer, the more they are blowing smoke up your skirt.

McCain was deadly direct with his answers. He is definitely the most experienced candidate. We do not need a rookie like Obama who is going to raise our taxes and take away our guns. If there was any question as to how liberal Obama is, just look at who he picked as his running mate. Joseph Biden is the original author of the 1990's gun ban. He has consistently voted to raise your taxes.

All I can say is, if Americans vote Obama into office in November, then America will get what she deserves, and it won't be pretty!

JayMc

GREEDY Oil Companies are Destroying the United States

Who would have ever thought gasoline and diesel prices would reach $4.00 a gallon? Some sources say $10.00 a gallon is absolutely feasible in the very near future. What will you do if it costs you over $150 to fill your car's gas tank? Will you be able to drive to work, take the kids to school, go on summer vacation, drive to church, take the kids to ball practice?

Not only will you feel the pinch when you fill up your vehicle, food prices are beginning to skyrocket! Everything you buy will double, triple and even quadruple in price due to increased transportation costs!

The value of our dollar bill is shrinking at an enormous rate. So you make close to $100,000.00 a year between you and your wife? What happens when it will cost you over $1,000.00 a month to fill up your vehicles, $2,000.00 a month to feed a family of four? What if your natural gas bill is $1,000.00 per month in the winter and $1,000.00 per month in the summer?

What if you don't make that much money? Let's say you make the median income of around $50,000.00 for a family of four? You won't make enough money to live!

Do not laugh, do not scoff, trouble is here! Oil and gas companies are to blame! If you don't believe me, do a little research and see just how much money these oil companies have made in profits in the last four or five years and even in the first few months of this year. Remember, these are PROFITS,,,,money that is left over after ALL of their expenses, drilling, research,,,everything,,,is paid for!!!

Recently, congress grilled several of the top oil company executives. Their response was, "This is good old supply and demand at work!" Bottom line is, they do NOT care about the American public!

The CEO's of these companies are making several million dollars a year in combined income. Do you think they struggle when they have their servants go to the gas pump for them?

We MUST do something about this travesty of justice! America has laws that keep monopolies under a watchful eye. The companies that sell gas and oil in this country are not monopolies but in a way, they are. They all set their gasoline and diesel prices according to what their market analysts decide. It is time for the American government to get involved! The oil companies obviously cannot control themselves so the government MUST step in.

YOU must get involved! It is not enough anymore to expect anyone else to do the work for you!

Call or write your congressmen and senators and DEMAND that a price cap of no more than $2.00 a gallon be placed on gasoline and diesel! Do it today! Without you, the prices will continue to rise until you cannot feed your family, drive your car to work or pay your mortgage!

Don't believe the lies of the oil company executives that they can't make a profit on $2.00 a gallon!

Click on this link to find out how to write your legislators

Click on this link to find out who your congressmen and senators are and then email them

Please pass this message along to all of your friends! WE MUST DO SOMETHING NOW BEFORE AMERICA OUR WAY OF LIFE IS DESTROYED BY THE GREED OF THE OIL COMPANY EXECUTIVES!!!

Paste the following letter in your email to your SENATOR:

As a citizen of these United States, I DEMAND that congress pass a law to put a price cap of $2.00 on a gallon of gasoline and diesel. Oil companies are not controlling themselves and our country and her citizens are suffering because of the oil companies' greed! As my senator, I DEMAND that you do something about this evil that is being imposed on me as an American citizen.

Paste the following letter in your email to your REPRESENTATIVE:

As a citizen of these United States, I DEMAND that congress pass a law to put a price cap of $2.00 on a gallon of gasoline and diesel. Oil companies are not controlling themselves and our country and her citizens are suffering because of the oil companies' greed! As my representative, I DEMAND that you do something about this evil that is being imposed on me as an American citizen.


JayMc

Weather Modification???

Okay, as you begin to read this article, please don't think I'm crazy! I am just reporting to you what has been reported in other media outlets and I am also inserting some conjecture and some wonderings.

After Hurricane Katrina destroyed much of New Orleans and many more coastal cities, Pocatello, Idaho weatherman Scott Stevens reported on his website reported that the storm was man made. There were also other reports that the Japanese Mafia had steered Hurricane Katrina into the Gulf Coast to avenge America's atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Before you begin to scoff and log off of my blog, consider this; Adolf Hitler in his book, "Mein Kompf" explained that people would believe big lies from a government before they would believe little lies. Of course, to think that anyone could steer a hurricane seems ludicrous at best. But, what if it is a possibility? When I first heard of this theory, I began to do some research and apparently the Russians have tried weather modification. Weather modification goes on in the United States quite frequently too. The North Plains Water District in Dumas, Texas seeds clouds in the Texas panhandle to try to increase average annual rainfall. We know that our government has done strange testing in the past such as ESP and other things so why wouldn't they try to modify the weather.

Many of the "Weather Modification proponents" believe that the United States' uses their HAARP system in Alaska to modify weather. HAARP is an array of antennas in Alaska that is not well known of.

Just a day or two ago, Picher, Oklahoma was totally destroyed by tornadoes. The interesting thing to me is that a couple of days before the tornadoes ripped through Picher, news sources were reporting that the government was going to require all residents to move. Lead and zinc mining has taken place in and around Picher for many years. The lead for American bullets in World Wars One and Two was mined from Picher. Due to the mining, there is a tremendous amount of toxic material around Picher and that is why the government has condemned the area.

As an experiment, did the U.S. government create the severe weather that hit Picher and steer it directily onto its target? It sounds totally crazy doesn't it but we all know that the truth is, many times, stranger than fiction!

Jay Mc

Links:
Weatherwars Website
Cuttingedge.org article
Another article on weather modification
About Scott Stevens

Texas Found Guilty in the Court of Common Sense

As you all know, on April 4, 2008, the State of Texas decided to raid the FLDS (Fundamental Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints) compound near Eldorado, Texas. In doing so, the State of Texas took over four hundred children into custody. Apparently, a sixteen year old girl had contacted someone and said that her husband, a much older husband, had been abusing her.

What was Texas thinking? You don't go hijack everyone in a faith because one person accuses another of violence. Go after the guilty parties, not everyone! Many of us in the United States of America believe that we are innocent until we are proven guilty. This could not be further from the truth. What gave the State of Texas the right to raid a religious compound and kidnap all of the children? Has anyone been charged and convicted of violence? Make no mistake, it could be your church next! Don't think it couldn't.

The last time this sort of thing happened in Texas was in Waco with the Branch Davidians. David Koresh and his followers went through similar attacks by the State of Texas and were eventually found to be not guilty of child abuse. Then, Janet Reno and her jack booted thugs in the BATF decided to attack the peaceful people of the Davidians. It doesn't matter whether we agree with the faith of the Davidians or of the FLDS. What matters is, the constitution of the United States of America is supposed to guarantee our "Freedom of Religion." The Davidians were murdered by the United States government and the State of Texas. Luckily, we avoided another murderous moment at the FLDS compound.

The media continues to exploit the fact that a sixteen year old was married to a fifty year old man. Did you know that it is legal in the State of Texas for a sixteen year old to be married with parental consent? The polygamists of the FLDS faith do not really practice polygamy as it is defined anyway. The men of the FLDS faith take one woman, legally, as their wife. They go to the courthouse like other married couples and pay a tax, or a fee, to receive a piece of paper to say they are married. The subsequent wifes are "married" to them only through a spiritual ceremony. The men that are "married" to these women provide for them. What about the man that lives in your neighborhood that has fathered many children with different women, many of those children he is not even aware of? Is he found guilty of polygamy for fathering these children even though he doesn't provide for his offspring? I have a lot more respect for the polygamous man than I do the guy that is running around impregnating every woman he meets.

The truth is, the FLDS and other polygamous groups are discriminated against because of their beliefs. Even though I do not understand why anyone would want to have more than one wife nor do I agree with their beliefs, they still should have the same religious freedoms I have. When you take away their rights, you hurt every American and you violate the constitution of this country.

The leader of the FLDS faith, Warren Jeffs was recently convicted and given a life sentence for giving his blessing when a sixteen year old girl married her nineteen year old cousin. Again, the marriage was legal by Utah's standards. As a matter of fact, at the time, fourteen year old children could marry with parental consent! Where were the parents in this matter? Obviously they gave their consent for their daughter to marry her cousin. It is insane that they would charge Warren Jeffs. Even if you don't agree with polygamy, you get to raise your children with the beliefs you have. Why should you deny that same right to the FLDS? The minimum age that one can be married is decided state by state, but when someone gets married legally, some states like Utah and Texas prosecute anyway. If public opinion, which is so often molded by the media, is against you, you cannot get a fair trial anywhere in this country. Innocent until proven guilty? Not at all. In fact, if you are "charged", people just assume you are guilty.

Polygamist Tom Green was convicted and sent to prison for marrying one of his wife's twelve year old sister. Green married the girl in Mexico and consummated the union there. Since when do we convict a person in the United States for a crime committed in Mexico? Do I agree with Green's actions? Absolutely not! But I can't condone what the State of Utah did either.

This all comes down to our fellow American's civil rights being violated by our states and our country. You should not be a part of it! You should be outraged that a segment of Americans are being victimized because of what they believe. It could be your church next, it absolutely can be! When the powers that be decide they don't like what the Baptist church down on the corner is preaching, they may just be the next group to be illegally raided and the children could be kidnapped just as they have been near Eldorado, Texas.

JayMc

The High Price of Fuel

Yes, I hate to admit it but, I do work for an oil company in a refinery. Now, I won't tell you which one because I don't especially want to lose my job. It is a small, very small refinery. I used to work at one of the world's largest refineries.

Now that we are seeing $4.00 on diesel pumps the truckers in our country have decided to try to sound the alarm. In certain cities today, several truckers parked their big rigs. They simply cannot afford to keep driving when one fill up costs them more than $1,000. Also today, several oil company executives answered questions from congress. Will this make the price of fuel go down? Absolutely not. The oil companies are greedy and want to make as much money as they can. Besides, the oil companies are supporting many of our congress men and women.

What caused all of this? Well, it all started when Bill Clinton was president. All of the major oil companies began to merge. BP went on a buying spree and bought many of America's largest oil and gas companies and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) didn't do a thing about it. Now that Exxon and Mobile have merged, Conoco and Phillips have merged, BP took over Amoco and Arco among others, there simply aren't many big players. Is it a monopoly? Yes and no. No, in that the oil companies are in competition with one another but yes in the fact that they all set their prices according to each other.

When a refinery, every refinery in this country, can make as much fuel as they possibly can, running at maximum throughput every day,, 365 days a year, and then sell every gallon of fuel they make, they can charge whatever they want. Is it ethical when it is destroying our economy? Of course not! Since when is big business worried about ethics anyway? The oil companies should be very ashamed of themselves. But, as long as the CEO's of these companies make their millions, they don't care about you! America needs to brand these men as traitors!

Now, let's go back a little further and give credit where credit is also due. The eco-nuts of our country are certainly partly to blame for the condition we see our country in. No new refineries have been built in this country since 1976 because of the strict environmental laws. Yes, all the refineries in this country have expanded their production capabilities and why wouldn't they when they can make so much money? Also, the eco-nuts have pushed laws through to take the sulfur out of diesel. It used to be that diesel was one of the easiest products to make in a refinery. Just put the crude oil in a tower, add a little heat and the first product you get is diesel. Now, when diesel is made, it then has to be put through a very high temperature and high pressure process using hydrogen and catalyst to remove the sulfur. So that also runs the costs up.

It used to be, that in the very small refinery in which I work, if we made $25 million a year in profits, we had a very good year. Ever since hurricane Katrina, we have made several million dollars a month pure profit. I'm tlaking anywhere from $8 million to almost $50 million in ONE MONTH! This is PURE PROFIT and one of the smaller refineries in this country! Now, what are the big boys making?

Let's face it, the oil company execs don't care about you, they don't care about me (an employee, after all I don't make anymore money and they keep trying to reduce my benefits) and they surely do not care about the state of our country's economy. $$$ is the bottom line for these dillweeds!

Until we are all sick and tired of it and are ready t park our cars for a week, maybe a month, we won't see any change. Right now, I don't think we have that kind of solidarity in America. We all are too worried about ourselves to join together and bring these companies to their knees and they know it. Until we can join together like they have in France in the past, we will not see any change so get ready to see $5 and more at the pump for gas and diesel. And expect everything else we pay for to increase due to increased transportation costs and also realize that almost everything we touch uses petroleum based products or was made by equipment powered by petroleum.

It ain't looking good for us and the oil companies don't care!

Jay Mc

I'm Back

With Blogspot being taken over by Google, I have been away for awhile. I finally spent the time to figure out how to get things switched over. So, to let you know, I will be posting again soon. Get ready for more "Common Sense Thinking!"

Jay Mc

Get the Facts or Shut the Hell Up!!!

While waiting outside to get a table for lunch on Friday, I heard some fellows talking. It’s not that I was trying to eavesdrop but they were right there. I had to laugh at the main speaker’s points. They were the same thing I’ve heard for the last two or three years; “Iraq had nothing to do with 9-11. It was okay for us to attack Afghanistan because Osama Bin Laden was there. Bush just sent our military into Iraq without approval from congress. Blah, blah, blah, blah!!!

Let me give a hand to the media. They have done a great job of blasting President Bush and the majority of people in this country are followers and believe everything that the media spouts. It is popular to bash Bush! As long as Hollywood does it, all the people that worship Hollywood will follow right in their footsteps. The unfortunate thing is that the people in Hollywood have no idea what it is like to live like the people that worship them. Do you really think that George Clooney has to worry when gasoline goes up to $3.00 a gallon?

It would be nice if all of the Bush haters could spout the truth instead of what they hear from the super-liberals. Let me reiterate once again, the truth.

1.) President Bush had information from the CIA and other agencies in the United States government that Sadaam Hussein had nuclear weapons almost ready to be produced. He also had information that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Sadaam was given several months to allow United Nations weapons inspectors the ability to investigate these allegations and he would not let them do so. The United Nations passed at least sixteen different resolutions calling for Sadaam to be open about his weapon caches.

Another amazing thing that the liberals don’t mention is that former President Clinton also stated that he would have gone to war with the same information that Bush was given.

One thing that the liberals don’t seem to think about too is that Sadaam had several months to move his weapons of mass destruction out of Iraq. Don’t you think he would do that and give them to other Islamic countries? No? Well, remember how dozens of Iraqi pilots flew their planes to Iran at the beginning of Desert Storm and the current Iraqi war? Even though Iran and Iraq are enemies, Sadaam would rather the planes be in hands of other Muslim countries. The same would obviously go for his weapons of mass destruction.

2.) I really hate to break it to the hyper, pointy toed liberals but the majority of congress did vote for our invasion of Iraq. Next time you want to bitch at Bush, take a look at your congressman/congresswoman first!

I could go on and on but why? You pointy toed liberals are going to believe what you are spoon fed anyway. Believe it or not, the majority of people in Iraq are glad we are there. Once we have a stable government in Iraq and once the country is stabilized, it will be better for us in the United States. Don’t believe me? What if we just bailed out of Iraq and let the radical Muslims take over? What if all the Islamic countries decided not to sell oil to the “Great Satan” again? Is $20 a gallon gasoline out of the question? Certainly not. Our economy would be destroyed and our country would be thrust into the worst depression it has ever seen. We must have some stability in the Middle East! If we don’t, our world will be drastically changed, and not in a good way.

Next time you cone headed liberals want to blast Bush over the war on terror, get the true facts before you start spouting your rhetoric. Otherwise, just shut up and save some fresh air for someone else to use!