Question Number One
What makes gas prices go up?
Answer
Any holiday (ground hog day is included), all weekends, and on everyones birthday. That's all.
Question Number two
Do we have an unlimited supply of oil?
Answer number two
Ask the oil companies. They are the experts in this.
Question number two revisted in a different way
Does a balloon full of air have an unlimited supply when you take air out but don't put air in?
Answer number two
Ask big business, they know all the answers.
Final question
Do we live in a democracy?
Final answer
Ask Oil and big business, they know all the answers.
WE SOLD OUR SOUL TO THE COMPANY STORE
Life in general
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Why am I so damn happy?
Someone asked me a few days ago If I was happy with my life. After fumbling for the right words, I came out with a not so convincing "Yes". I have now had a couple of days to think about it, and now my answer is "Hell yes". I am happy with my life, the life that God has blessed me with. Ever since I had my first heart attack I have wondered if I was happy. My wife and I live on disability, our retirement savings have been swindled away, we continue to fight health problems but God has blessed us in so many ways that I am happy with life.
Next year my wife and I will have been happily married 30 years. We have three wonderful children, their spouse, and one grand child that make us happy. We were not able to give them the silver spoon, so they each have to define their own lives. They have not resorted to lives of crime to support themselves, but are pulling themselves up. We as parents and grandparent can do what we can to help them, love them, and for that we are happy.
For 40 years I played piano in church, sang and directed choirs, and contributed my musical talents. This year I have had the chance to step back a watch. I am happy. For years I have served as elder, deacon, and volunteer leader of sundays schools, youth groups, and have seen the best and the worst that the church has to offer. Now I get a chance to sit back, and I am happy.
My wife and I have support other peoples children, in some cases helped raise them, and still have some of them call us Mom and Dad and for that I am happy.
My wife and I both have Jesus Christ as our lord and savior and we hope that we can share our joy with everyone.
Another reason I am happy come from the bible. In todays word of greed and capitalism these words are of great comfort.
"Love God, and your neighbor as yourself", and "It is easier for a camel to fit thru the eye of a needle then for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven".
When my day comes, and I stand before my maker, naked, no wealth or jewelry, my life opened up for everyone to see, and God looks at me and says "Don, How are you?". My response with be, "Lord, I am happy, My treasures of love for others I lay at your feet, and I feel great".
The next time you see a funeral for a rich man, take note of the Uhaul at the end. That also is not fitting thru the eye of a needle.
Someone asked me a few days ago If I was happy with my life. After fumbling for the right words, I came out with a not so convincing "Yes". I have now had a couple of days to think about it, and now my answer is "Hell yes". I am happy with my life, the life that God has blessed me with. Ever since I had my first heart attack I have wondered if I was happy. My wife and I live on disability, our retirement savings have been swindled away, we continue to fight health problems but God has blessed us in so many ways that I am happy with life.
Next year my wife and I will have been happily married 30 years. We have three wonderful children, their spouse, and one grand child that make us happy. We were not able to give them the silver spoon, so they each have to define their own lives. They have not resorted to lives of crime to support themselves, but are pulling themselves up. We as parents and grandparent can do what we can to help them, love them, and for that we are happy.
For 40 years I played piano in church, sang and directed choirs, and contributed my musical talents. This year I have had the chance to step back a watch. I am happy. For years I have served as elder, deacon, and volunteer leader of sundays schools, youth groups, and have seen the best and the worst that the church has to offer. Now I get a chance to sit back, and I am happy.
My wife and I have support other peoples children, in some cases helped raise them, and still have some of them call us Mom and Dad and for that I am happy.
My wife and I both have Jesus Christ as our lord and savior and we hope that we can share our joy with everyone.
Another reason I am happy come from the bible. In todays word of greed and capitalism these words are of great comfort.
"Love God, and your neighbor as yourself", and "It is easier for a camel to fit thru the eye of a needle then for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven".
When my day comes, and I stand before my maker, naked, no wealth or jewelry, my life opened up for everyone to see, and God looks at me and says "Don, How are you?". My response with be, "Lord, I am happy, My treasures of love for others I lay at your feet, and I feel great".
The next time you see a funeral for a rich man, take note of the Uhaul at the end. That also is not fitting thru the eye of a needle.
Monday, May 23, 2011
Will someone please explain to me how we have changed from a democratic society to a purely capitalistic society. The government, which is suppose to be of the people" is not run by the democratic proccess, but by capitalistic reasons. Democracy is suppose to allow capitalism, but the people need to keep capitalism in check. Now, capitalism allows democracy to exist, but in a much narrow definition. We now have the right to say we don't like it, but our other choice is" if you don't like it go somewhere else."
Since when has the "government" become some evil entity? Since capitalism is run uncontrolled, have people forgotten that the government is suppose to be of the people. Once again, capitalist don't like the part where the majority of the people have the choice, it's called voting. When capitalism replaces democracy it has become evil.
We need to defend domocracy and what it stand for. The rights of the people, not just the rich, not just the poor, not just the educated, not just the healthy, not just the sick, but for the rights of Americans as a whole.
Since when has the "government" become some evil entity? Since capitalism is run uncontrolled, have people forgotten that the government is suppose to be of the people. Once again, capitalist don't like the part where the majority of the people have the choice, it's called voting. When capitalism replaces democracy it has become evil.
We need to defend domocracy and what it stand for. The rights of the people, not just the rich, not just the poor, not just the educated, not just the healthy, not just the sick, but for the rights of Americans as a whole.
Thursday, May 12, 2011
Number 10
Life is sexually transmitted.
Number 9
Good health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.
Number 8
Men have two emotions: Hungry and Horny.
If you see him without an erection, make him a sandwich!
Number 7
Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day, teach a person to use the Internet and they won't bother you for weeks.
Number 6
Some people are like a Slinky ...
not really good for anything, but you still can't help but smile when you shove them down the stairs.
Number 5
Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals, dying of nothing.
Number 4
All of us could take a lesson from the weather.
It pays no attention to criticism.
Number 3
Why does a slight tax increase cost you $200.00,
and a substantial tax cut saves you $30.00?
Number 2
In the 60's, people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird and people take Prozac to make it normal.
And The Number 1 Thought
Life is like a jar of Jalapeno peppers;
what you do today, might burn your ass tomorrow.
- - - and as someone recently said to me:
"Don't worry about old age; it doesn't last long."
Life is sexually transmitted.
Number 9
Good health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.
Number 8
Men have two emotions: Hungry and Horny.
If you see him without an erection, make him a sandwich!
Number 7
Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day, teach a person to use the Internet and they won't bother you for weeks.
Number 6
Some people are like a Slinky ...
not really good for anything, but you still can't help but smile when you shove them down the stairs.
Number 5
Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals, dying of nothing.
Number 4
All of us could take a lesson from the weather.
It pays no attention to criticism.
Number 3
Why does a slight tax increase cost you $200.00,
and a substantial tax cut saves you $30.00?
Number 2
In the 60's, people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird and people take Prozac to make it normal.
And The Number 1 Thought
Life is like a jar of Jalapeno peppers;
what you do today, might burn your ass tomorrow.
- - - and as someone recently said to me:
"Don't worry about old age; it doesn't last long."
Monday, May 09, 2011
I havn't written much lately. I have been spending alot of time with my grandson. His needs are much more important than the political needs.
Everyone is talking about the gas prices. They have risen over $4.00 per gallon to around $4.30 per gallon. They then cut the prices back to $4.05 per gallon, and the news media treats it like the second coming. While the cost of oil has gone down, the demand has gone down, and violence in the mid east has gone down, there is still an endless list of why the gas price continue to rise. Greed, greed, and more greed.
If everyone cut back on their gas consumption, the price would continue to rise, because it can and there is nothing you can do about it except pay. The search for alternative power will just make the gas price rise. Peace in the middle east will raise the prices as easily as the violence. The politicians want you to believe that they have the answers, but they don't because they are the problem. They bitch, they moan, they cry, they blame everyone else, but refuse to do anything constructive, because they are supported by big business.
My advice is to stay home this summer, enjoy your local areas and discover what they have to offer. Drive less and bike more. If it rains, go out and jump in the puddles because that is where I will be with my grandson, good free fun.
Everyone is talking about the gas prices. They have risen over $4.00 per gallon to around $4.30 per gallon. They then cut the prices back to $4.05 per gallon, and the news media treats it like the second coming. While the cost of oil has gone down, the demand has gone down, and violence in the mid east has gone down, there is still an endless list of why the gas price continue to rise. Greed, greed, and more greed.
If everyone cut back on their gas consumption, the price would continue to rise, because it can and there is nothing you can do about it except pay. The search for alternative power will just make the gas price rise. Peace in the middle east will raise the prices as easily as the violence. The politicians want you to believe that they have the answers, but they don't because they are the problem. They bitch, they moan, they cry, they blame everyone else, but refuse to do anything constructive, because they are supported by big business.
My advice is to stay home this summer, enjoy your local areas and discover what they have to offer. Drive less and bike more. If it rains, go out and jump in the puddles because that is where I will be with my grandson, good free fun.
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