It's been termed the 'falling of the wall' in Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen, Jordan...countries we've supported in the Middle East. Iran is already expressing 'deep satisfaction', and expectations that hardline Muslim leaders can make inroads. Barack Obama can't seem to get in front of it. Joe Biden, sent out as a talking head, speaks counter to Obama AND American interests (who knew?).
The bottom line is that oil prices have surged to over $100/bbl; if the Suez Canal is lost, baby you've got problems. You likely can't afford $6, $8, $10, $20/gallon gas prices, can you?
Sarah Palin, in 2008...
Let's see how the moochers react when gas hits 8 bucks a gallon. 'Pump my free gas, bitches!', indeed.
Fuck 'em all, these leftists.
DRILL, BABY, DRILL! But it's a bit late for that. We'll likely suffer mightily before BHO and his ilk realize their mistakes.
The bottom line is that oil prices have surged to over $100/bbl; if the Suez Canal is lost, baby you've got problems. You likely can't afford $6, $8, $10, $20/gallon gas prices, can you?
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| Sarah Palin faces down Joe Biden in 2008 |
"The chant is 'drill, baby, drill.' And that's what we hear all across this country in our rallies because people are so hungry for those domestic sources of energy to be tapped into."All across the country people agreed with Sarah Palin, except of course for smarmy ideological leftists who would rather see our nation and way of life succumb and disappear forever before they relent on their beliefs.
Let's see how the moochers react when gas hits 8 bucks a gallon. 'Pump my free gas, bitches!', indeed.
Fuck 'em all, these leftists.
DRILL, BABY, DRILL! But it's a bit late for that. We'll likely suffer mightily before BHO and his ilk realize their mistakes.
Not to worry, we get twice as much oil from Canada and Mexico than we get from the Middle East. There are huge untapped reserves in Brazil as well. Personally, I don't care much about gas prices, since my commuter vehicle gets 75 mpg and my daily commute is 3 miles round trip. With my house paid off, thinking about buying a Prius.
ReplyDeleteKnowing Serr8d, he probably drives a redneck V8 truck of some sort.
BTW... your hero Ayn Rand was a typical teabagger
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ReplyDeleteAyn Rand wrote the following in “The Question of Scholarships,” The Objectivist, June 1966.
"The recipient of a public scholarship is morally justified only so long as he regards it as restitution and opposes all forms of welfare statism. Those who advocate public scholarships, have no right to them; those who oppose them, have. If this sounds like a paradox, the fault lies in the moral contradictions of welfare statism, not in its victims.
"The same moral principles and considerations apply to the issue of accepting social security, unemployment insurance or other payments of that kind. It is obvious, in such cases, that a man receives his own money which was taken from him by force, directly and specifically, without his consent, against his own choice. Those who advocated such laws are morally guilty, since they assumed the “right” to force employers and unwilling co-workers. But the victims, who opposed such laws, have a clear right to any refund of their own money—and they would not advance the cause of freedom if they left their money, unclaimed, for the benefit of the welfare-state administration."
Ayn Rand availed herself of what she put into the system. Granted, she did so under her married name; that seems slightly off kilter. Maybe she couldn't find her birth certificate.
I can't blame Ayn for taking the free cash, because she actually did NEED it, and she was fortunate enough to live in a society that recognized her NEED.
ReplyDeleteSo let's not quibble on the details. Let's instead revel in the fact that...
1.) She didn't have enough money to support her in her old age, so she wasn't able to move away to her own personal Gulch while waving her middle finger at the world. This must have galled her.
2.) She got into this sad condition after developing lung cancer from cigarette smoking, an ILLOGICAL habit that she heartily endorsed for nearly all of her adult life. At some point, she could no longer DENY REALITY and realized that her adherence to the pleasure principal had slowly killed her.
Even still, she never issued any sort of statement about the dangers of smoking, or perhaps an apology to her longtime fans for telling them, over and over, that smoking is fine and sexy and a symbol for the fire in man's mind, or some such rubbish...
....because, most likely, she was utterly incapable of admitting a mistake. She probably spent hours trying to convince her doctors that her lung cancer was caused by overhearing Adlai Stevenson speak, or something.
Meh.
ReplyDeleteAyn Rand did the same thing my dad, my mom, and everyone else in the '10's throughout the '00's has done, the nassty habit of smoking. Thankfully we've seen a downturn in that. If you smoke, I recommend the electronic cigs.
I used to steal my dad's smokes, the old "BelAir" brand (what came with coupons!), and smoke 'em at school. I smoked Kool Milds for about 5 years afterwards, then finally quit cold-turkey. Occasionally I'll enjoy a Friday cigar, a good one, kept in a humidor.
Something kills everyone, sooner or later. I'll be lucky, I hope, and die in my sleep; not burning to a crisp in a vehicle fire at an intersection in Atlanta. But one will never know, until one's Time is Up.
Meh.