RUN Idiot?

Are you really surprised?

2008-07-01T08:44:00.000-07:00

Are you really surprised that:

Sears is in such financial trouble that they should be purchased by Kmart (only months after Kmart was in bankruptcy) when Sears doesn't open it's doors until 10:00am? Walmart, Lowes, Home Depot and every other store opens their doors at 6:00am or 7:00am, so why would anyone shop Sears for tools, home improvement, lawn and garden care...?

Gas is $4.00/gal and Congress takes a nice holiday break while the speculators go on and on and on, jacking the price of gasoline up without any real reason, other than to line their pockets with YOUR CASH?

The US continues to pay for Iraq's rebuilding when Iraqi's themselves are responsible more than anyone else for the decay and destruction of their infrastructure, while they sit on oil reserves and bank accounts that grow daily? Why aren't they reimbursing the US for the cost of rebuilding, security for their disfunctional "government" (haha!) etc.?

At the number of Republicans which are bailing out of Congress this year? As a dyed-in-the-wool lifelong Republican, I can tell you that the Republican Party I belonged to has been hijacked and is now the Theocratic Party, of which I will have nothing to do with. There is nothing to be feared more than a religous zealot. And our greatest threat to homeland security are the religous zealots within our own borders.

You're NOT surprised? R U N Idiot?

Patriotism In Presidential Politics

2008-07-01T08:33:00.000-07:00

Today's Washington Post had yet another article about Obama's patriotism being questioned. What on Earth is going on? (After Bush was elected TWICE, I realized that Karl Marx was right about one thing: the majority of the people are too stupid to govern themselves. Even an idiot is right once in his lifetime...) Maybe all those imbeciles questioning Obama's patriotism should see a doctor quickly, as they are suffering from RCI (recto-cranial inversion). John McCain is beyond doubt a patriotic individual, but to think he is more patriotic than Obama is beyond assinine. What I question more than someone's patriotism is whether or not they are too trigger-happy, as was Bush Jr., and might take us into wars that are not only unnecessary (Bush Jr again) but also jeopardizes this country's future... and McCain seems too trigger happy for my health.

If there is one thing that Bush Jr. should have taught this country is that what counts MOST is one's judgement. Who is least likely to exhibit the poor judgement of Bush Jr. (choosing Cheney and Rumsfeld, going into Iraq when Osama bin Laden still roams free, pissing on our allies and enemies alike, ignoring our economy and making it more profitable for our companies to send jobs overseas, and the list goes on seemingly endlessly...)

I don't care which political party our president hails from, each and every single one of them, without exception, and all those who have run for the office and failed to win it, again without exception, have been patriotic individuals with the best interests of this country at heart. All that is beyond whether you agree with them or not. But to challenge someone's patriotism in an election in this country proves stupidity beyond belief.

R U N Idiot?

On the Energy Crisis...

2008-06-25T09:44:00.001-07:00

The media would like us to believe that the current price of a gallon of gasoline, around $4.00 here, is the result of an increasing global demand and, in particular, due to the booming economies of India and China. Yet the price of a gallon of gas has risen $1.09 in the past year (according to a report today on CNN). If that is true then the cost of gasonline has risen by 35% in one year (from approx $2.95/gal to approx $4.00/gal).

Raise your hand if you think gasoline consumption has risen by 35% globally, or even just in India and China alone, during the past 12 months. (If you raised your hand, congratulations - U R N Idiot!)

A couple of thoughts come to mind:

1. The speculators are the reason for the skyrocketing cost of gasonline. THAT is where our government needs to take immediate action if we are to see immediate relief.

2. As an environmentalist (I was one of the first individuals in North America to become a certified (by the Ecological Society of America) Ecologist years ago), I appreciate and wish to preserve our natural resources as much as possible within the realm of reality. And reality is that our society is based upon petro products. Therefore we need to tap our national reserves of oil - on our land and on our shores - in an enviornmentally-sensitive manner. The current hands-off our national natural resources is beyond assinine and must change immediately.

3. We must convert our society from a petro-based society to one which uses biofuels, and in particular, ethanol from sugar. And what better way to do this than to do what we did during World War II: let our military lead the way by converting, within 5 years, absolutely every piece of military hardware that uses petro-fuels to bio-fuels. Think about that for a moment: if the military alone, or the entire federal government on the whole, were to convert their fleet of vehicles to bio-fuels within 5 years, we'd see commercial vehicles making the conversion in approximately the same time frame. Let bio-fuels become the next Jeep or Humvee. Not only would the federal program spur the rest of the economy to a bio-fuels-based economy, it would simultaneously result in a military which is totally and absolutely free from the potential of any and all oil shortages.

4. My current SUV gets an average of 15 mpg. (Before I continue, let me state up-front: I use an SUV because it is the only vehicle which I can readily get in and out of given my current medical situation.) Let's say I were to trade that vehicle for a new hybrid SUV that gets 30 mpg. I drive approximately 12000 miles/year. My current vehicle uses 800 gallons at $4.00/gal and thus costs me $3200/year. If that new vehicle doubles my gas mileage, my costs would be cut in half to $1600/year. That new vehicle would cost me $35000 and so the break-even point will be in approximately 22 years, and that doesn't take into consideration the loss of income (interest) I could glean on that $35000 for 22 years nor the additional cost as a result in the increase in my auto insurance premium for having a new vehicle. OK Jack Cafferty, now you know why I'm not running out to purchase a new vehicle. Oh, don't get me wrong - I would absolutely love to get a new vehicle that would double my mileage, but it's cost prohibitive for me now.

5. The energy crisis is more of a threat to the American Homeland that any terrorist organization, bar none.

R U N Idiot?

2008-06-25T09:37:00.000-07:00

Seems every day I pick up the Washington Post or turn on CNN or MSNBC, I am hit with item after item that makes me wonder if the object of the story is an idiot or if I am missing some subtle point along the way. I've concluded that I'm not missing subtle points along the way, and that these people and their stories are idiots with little or no common sense.

Hence this blog's title, "R U N Idiot?"

Like Lewis Black, if I don't get things off my chest soon, I think I'm going to explode in a cosmic cataclysm.