Why we will be paying $5 dollars a gallon for gas and how we can get back control.

Why we will be paying $5 dollars a gallon for gas and how we can get back control.

Most Americans I know are resigned to the fact that the price of gas is going to hit 5 dollars sooner than later. How did we get to this and what can we do about it?

Pitiful attempts to get your votes by suspending the federal gas tax was the McCain answer. While our Nation is at war and running the largest deficit in history they wanted to take the only thing in the price of gas that actually benefits the American public. The gas tax is to be used in building infrastructure, which is sorely needed.

I am not some communist who wants to nationalize the oil companies or refineries or even unfairly tax their profits. I am however absolutely opposed to giving big business huge tax breaks so that they can price gouge us into the poor house.

When W took office remember his MANTRA, privatize, deregulation, trickle down economics. Well that has served us well, or maybe I should say served them well. The number one purpose of the CORPORATION is to make as much money as legally possible and many times as illegally as possible. Most CORPORATIONS couldn’t care less their impact on you and me. I am not an expert in commodities trading so I am not going to try to get into the intricate details just the generalities.

Here goes, there is a regulatory loophole allows hedge funds along with institutional investors to control unlimited quantities of oil contracts. Some say these speculators control as much as 60% of the oil contracts.

With the deregulation the CFTC has exempted investment banks upon the limit speculative buying and overseas markets. Also the CFTC staff has been cut to its lowest levels since its creation, so there is little oversight. If you control the volume of oil available you can manipulate the price. This is what is going on right now.

The first thing that needs to be done is to not elect John McCain because he is married to the beast and I don’t mean Cindy. Then we need to close the loopholes created by W’s gang of thieves and staff the CFTC so that they can enforce the laws against price manipulation and maybe even as we see in the news today put a few of these SOB’s in jail.

Peace and Liberty through intelligence, strength, and integrity

FISA (the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act)

These guys never give up trying to get their pals out of hot water.

FISA (the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) has been in place for 30 years and has dictated the necessary and appropriate ways for U. S. Law enforcement to collect intelligence on its own citizens for the sake of national security.

The Phone companies broke the law when they handed over information on US citizens to this whacked out administration without search warrants, violating the Second Amendment of our constitution protecting us from unreasonable search and seizure.

In February 2008 the House of Representatives did its job and rejected the Bush / Cheney FISA “reform” proposals there by protecting our Constitution but now the Senate is getting ready to give W’s pals in the Telecom immunity for breaking the law.

Senator Kit Bond. R(MO), is now proposing a complete revamping of FISA. He wants to strip us of our rights by including unlimited warrantless wiretapping for the executive branch for the next six years, without any meaningful judicial oversight. It also grants retroactive immunity to the telecom companies that broke the law and handed over our records to King George and is lackeys.

We have to speak out LOUD & CLEAR and reject this shameful legislation. If the House will keep their backbone and stay with their current version of FISA, in order for the government to spy on you they will have to get a warrant and have just cause to gather information from your phone conversations and emails. That is what our founders knew to be the right way to keep us safe from oppressive tyrants who would use this to quell dissent.

Write, call, fax, or visit your congressman and tell him if they vote for Senator Bond’s catastrophic FISA compromise when it come to the house that they will not have your support or vote this November.

Tell your friends and family or anybody that will listen to reject this compromise of our freedom and keep the Telecom industry and your government officials liable for their actions and do not grant immunity to lawbreakers. Congress stand strong on your February vote and stick with the current version of FISA

Feel free to use or alter my letter to send to your representative.

Find your congressman here

http://www.house.gov/

Congressman

I strongly urge you to stand strong on the House’s February vote on FISA. Stick with the current version of FISA and vote for the Constitution by voting against Senator Bond's catastrophic FISA "compromise" when it comes to the House.

Sincerely,

Peace and Liberty through intelligence, strength, and integrity.

Stop Big Media from dismantling media ownership limits.

Just imagine if Dick Cheney owned several major newspapers, TV and Radio Networks!!!

Still thinking? You know what you would get non-stop neo-convict propaganda the likes of Faux News a la Rupert Murdoch. The old media ownership rules prevented this from happening.

The Senate who once in a while gets some thing right, has passed a bipartisan resolution of disapproval that would nullify the Bush appointed FCC’s attempt to stop diversity in media ownership by dismantling longstanding media ownership limits.

Last December, the FCC voted to remove the “newspaper/broadcast cross-ownership” ban that prohibits one company from owning a broadcast station and the major daily newspaper in the same market. The resolution of disapproval (Senate Joint Resolution 28), introduced by Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.), would nullify the FCC’s new rules if passed by Congress and signed by the president. The House version of the resolution was introduced by Reps. Jay Inslee (D-Wash.) and Dave Reichert (R-Wash.) in March.

Already King George has decided to show how out of touch he is with the will of the American people and opposes the resolution and says he will veto it. George seems to like media outlets that will parrot his delusional agenda polluting our airwaves with the likes Glenn Beck, Bill O’Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coultergeist, etc, etc.

Don’t stand idly by and let Bush / Cheney undercut this bipartisan effort in congress and green light big media’s expansion.

Send a letter to your Congressman to stand with the Senate and overturn the FCC decision to allow more media consolidation.

Peace and Liberty through intelligence, strength, and integrity.

Feel free to use or alter my letter to send to your representative.
Find your congressman here
http://www.house.gov/

Congressman

I urge you to stand with the Senate’s bipartisan resolution of disapproval (Senate Joint Resolution 28), which would nullify the FCC’s new rules to allow greater media consolidation. The House version of the resolution was introduced by Reps. Jay Inslee (D-Wash.) and Dave Reichert (R-Wash.) in March.

Consolidation has brought us to the point where two corporations control 70 percent of market revenue in an average radio market. While I respect the free market, it should be the role of government to stand between corporations and consumers when the public interest is at stake.

Relaxing restrictions does not serve the people just the big corporations. Local media must remain local, diverse and free.

McCain Too Old????

"Did you hear about this?


Two State Department employees were fired -- this is a bit of a scandal -- because they were looking at Barack Obama's passport file.


Not only that, but the same person was also looking at John McCain's Civil War records."


Who knows when the Clintons will throw in the towel but I am going to stick with some humor for now because the nastiness is about to start.


Just watch fox in the AM. I did today and they were slamming NBC for having Keith Olbermann covering the election returns. They said he was bias and called NBC the New Barack Channel.


I think everyone has it right when they call the Fox News “FAUX NEWS”. They are the last ones on the entire world of media who should complain about bias.


That being said I think they are right. Keith Olbermann should be left as a progressive commentator not a news person like Tom Brokaw, or Dan Rather. The reason Keith Olbermann was on though is because he will raise ratings and NBC is under the GE banner and we all know what GE is about and that is profit and profit only.


One of the most important issues of the coming years will be media control and access. We must limit the control of large media conglomerates on the information we get if we are to remain a free people.


If you are concerned with these issues there are some progressive sites that will give you current information on issues regarding truth in media and legislation that is going before congress.


www.freepress.net


www.mediamatters.org


Stay alert, search for the truth, and take back America.


Peace and Liberty through intelligence, strength, and integrity.


P.S. thanks for the pict BEE

May your sacrifice always honor peace and liberty.

We will remember your sacrifice

George Bush can’t even spell appeasement

It seems that the sorry excuse of a president, George W can go over to Israel and label democrats as in favor of appeasement of terrorists. For the first time, I somewhat agree with the Neanderthal in the White House.

The Democrats are guilty of appeasing the terrorist Neo-Convicts who have all but worn out our armed forces, bankrupted the country, and has all but shredded the Constitution in frenzy of eroding the rights of every citizen of the United States.
The president said:
“Some seem to believe we should negotiate with terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along,” said Bush, in what White House aides privately acknowledged was a reference to calls by Obama and other Democrats for the U.S. president to sit down for talks with leaders like Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
“We have heard this foolish delusion before,” Bush said in remarks to the Israeli Knesset. “As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American Senator declared: ‘Lord, if only I could have talked to Hitler, all of this might have been avoided.’ We have an obligation to call this what it is — the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history.”
The Neo-Convicts are trying to hold onto power by fear mongering again. The Vote for us or die tactics are falling short of the success though. Even the conglomerate news media is attacking this logic. McCain is already fear mongering labeling Obama as the Hamas candidate of choice. I can’t wait for all the crap we will get from the Faux News channel and the Ditto Head himself.
Obama responded immediately and said “It is sad that President Bush would use a speech to the Knesset on the 60th anniversary of Israel’s independence to launch a false political attack,” Obama said in the statement his aides distributed. “George Bush knows that I have never supported engagement with terrorists, and the president’s extraordinary politicization of foreign policy and the politics of fear do nothing to secure the American people or our stalwart ally Israel.”
All of the Glenn Beck’s, Bill O’Reilly’s, Rush Limbaugh’s, Sean Hannity’s, Kevin James and Ann Coultergeist’s of the neo-convicts will fear monger and try to sway your vote to the side of fascism.
Fortunately there is some sanity not Hannity on some of the networks. On Hardball with Chris Matthews he took the Neo-Convict radio talk host Kevin James to the mat when he appeared on Hardball to give the Obama is an appeaser side of the story.
Kevin James showed that he is just a parrot and repeats neo-convict talking points without understanding the words coming out of his mouth. He actually had no idea of what the actual appeasement of Neville Chamberlain to Nazi Germany was. He started pumping up his volume and tried to change the subject but Matthews was relentless and in the end James finally admits he doesn’t have a clue and was just as Rush would say dittoing the president who quite frankly probably didn’t know what Chamberlain did to appease the Nazi’s either.

Here is a history lesson for the dunder heads who parrot the likes of Bush and his other neo-convicts on history. This is the very short version and any Library has books on this and many other facts that this administration seems not to get.

Here goes, the Nazi’s were behind the assassination of the Chancellor of Austria, Engelbert Dollfuss and pressured for the annexation of Austria which England and France agreed to. The second crisis came over the Sudetenland area of Czechoslovakia, which was home to a large German minority. The Munich Agreement, engineered by the French and British governments, effectively allowed Adolf Hitler to annex the country's defensive frontier, leaving its industrial and economic core within a day's reach of the Wehrmacht. In March of 1939 Hitler invaded Poland then swallowed the rest of Czechoslovakia and WWII began.

If you are a talk show host and you start talking history you should at least know of what you speak I say Kevin James is the Neo-Dick of the week.

Peace and Liberty through intelligence, strength, and integrity.

A New Stadium for the Rays ???

The St. Petersburg City Council is having a hearing on the proposed new waterfront stadium being proposed for the Rays baseball team.

I for one am totally against building a new stadium in the downtown waterfront area for the following reasons.

Cost Issues
The ballpark is estimated to cost half a billion dollars and the rays only want to put up 150 million. Services are being cut fire and police etc so How exactly do the Rays intend to pay for the ballpark? How much will taxpayers be asked to kick in? The Rays will pump millions of $ for ads to support the stadium!!!!

Will the voters get to decide the issue?


Traffic Problems -- 80 days a year parking problems and traffic gridlock!!


Huge environmental impact...

What happens to marine life if part of Tampa Bay is filled in?

To fit the giant stadium where Al Lang is now, the Rays plan to dredge and fill the Bay to make more room. They plan to dump the equivalent of 1 foot concrete blocks stacked over 25 miles high into the Bay right near a freshwater spring that supports federally endangered manatee and seagrass beds. This will take several acres of the Bay and turn it into land. Because the Basin is too shallow for the thousands of cubic yards of dirt to be barged in, expect to see hundreds of dump trucks driving through our downtown City streets for months.

Bad for Business

They say the stadium is good for business but what is likely is that all the other people (you know, the tens of thousands who aren't going to the game) will stay away from our downtown area on game days because they won't want to deal with all the traffic, let alone looking for a place to park. The result? A sharp decline in business. Couple that with the increased competition from all the NEW businesses at the redeveloped Trop site and you can see why this would really hurt current downtown business owners.

Secrecy and Fairness Concerns.

The city knew about this plan for over a year even during the last elections. Yet the public was kept in the dark until late November (and even then only after the story was leaked to the St. Pete Times). What’s more, the bidding process has proceeded in a way that is only fair to one developer: Hines.

Better Alternatives

Tropicana Field is downtown already!! Why not redevelop the existing site?
Another, simpler, alternative would be to build structured parking to the West of the Dome and develop everything East of Booker Creek, without building a replacement stadium. The existing stadium could be updated to some extent.

I like having the Rays in St. Petersburg. What I don’t like is this issue being railroaded down on the people of St. Petersburg. There are better alternatives than a waterfront ballpark so let’s tell the City of St. Petersburg to come up with another plan that will not cut services and harm the environment or our existing businesses.

Peace and Liberty through intelligence, strength, and integrity.