Gas Prices

It looks like gasoline is heading toward $4 per gallon real soon. Personally, I think that it's going to go much higher than that, and not just because President Obama and his minions want see European energy prices in order to lower the standard of living of the lower middle classes and working classes in this country, in order to "level the playing field" of the United States in the international world stage. It's because both political parties have done nothing for the past 40 years to make us more energy efficient. All they have done is kick the can down the road, so that it becomes someone else's problem in the future. That problem is now, and we are now confronted with the can.

Realistic energy products,including so-called "Green Energy," are going to come out of the private sector. That means oil companies. Hey hippies, do your homework. Those "evil oil companies" are spending millions more dollars on research for alternative energy sources than the federal government is. Why? Because, it is good for their profit "bottom line." Businesses exist to make a profit and they want to continue to make a profit in the future. Gee, I'm so sorry that you find that offensive. How about giving up your trust fund or daddy's allowance and going out and getting a real job? You perpetually angry at "The Man," Takoma Parkian Victim Industry pieces of shit obviously have way too much time on your hands.

Let me let you in on a couple of not so secret "secrets." First of all, Bio diesel was developed by the United States Military, especially the Air Force Office Of Scientific Research, and the Navy Research Lab. It was not developed by unwashed smelly hippies frothing at the mouth about life's inequities in Takoma Park, Maryland and their Marxist anger,none of whom are going to be willing to give up their cars. There will always be an excuse: "I'm a little white women, and it's not safe to ride the Metro," "Yea, I know, but it's not convenient." "It takes too long, and my time is important." Well let me explain something to you hippies. My time is important too. However, I'm now choosing to rely on public transportation six days per month in order to save money. Guess what? I'm using it, and I'm not making your "all about me" excuses. I'm doing it to save money. I'm saving money two ways. First of all, I'm not spending as much as the gas pump. Number two, the less gasoline I purchase, the less tax revenue is being collected from me. That in itself is worth the extra time spent riding Metro while reading a real good book. Go back to your "green" hypocricy hippies. I can't wait until the day when all the programs you are trying to force on us, jump up and bite you on the ass.

You want more control over education? Here's how.

Liberals talk about the need for the government to provide everyone with a free college education. That's not possible. We couldn't afford it. However, in order to satisfy the hippies’ pipe dream, here is my take on how the government could do that. That being said, there are going to be a lot of very disappointed people, especially the liberals who want that free education. Many of you upper middle class and rich liberals, who worship at the altar of a college degree, so that you don't have to take a job where you get your hands dirty, are going to end up in a job where you get your hands dirty. Do you still want to socially engineer America so that your salary, no matter what job you do, is tied in with your level of education like it is in much of Europe?

Here's the plan in a nutshell: You have a complete federal takeover of our public education system from Kindergarten through doctoral programs. Yes liberal hippies, I did say complete federal takeover. However, my plan will not be to your liking, because it won't offer any favoritism to you and your cronies. Private and religious education would still be available for those that wanted to opt out of the public system. You provide education vouchers that allow choice, so that the public schools have to compete with the private schools for the best students. This will increase the quality of education across the board for all.

From grades K through 10 students will advance to the next grade by passing comprehensive standardized tests. If you don't pass, you don't advance, and you repeat the year. No provision will be made for those that don't "test well." Too bad. Learn how to take tests. Like I said no special consideration for anyone.

At the end of their 10th year, students take blindly graded tests that are graded at the Department of Education. Only the top 10% go on to college prep grades 11 and 12. All others enter into some form of vocational training for the last two years of high school. This can be the hard trades like plumbing and carpentry, as well as the soft trades like computer repair, electronics, administrative assistant, etc. They may also apply for the US Military at the end of their 12th year. No preferences will be made for race or gender. All students will compete equally.

At the end of the 12th year, students take blindly graded comprehensive exams. Only the top 10% go on to a 4-year college. All others may enter community colleges for two years, and then either enter the workforce, test to get into a 4 year college (30% accepted), or apply for the US Military. Those who join the service will be able to take advantage of the military's tuition assistance program and/or enroll in the various services' own community colleges. These will be the only work arounds for the system. You don't get something for nothing. Also, every public college and university will be required to recognize the services' Associates Degrees as a completion of the first two years of college, or forfeit all federal funding. Same with ROTC programs.

For those earning Bachelors Degrees, 10% are allowed to go on to a graduate school and earn a Masters Degree. For those earning Masters Degrees, 10% are allowed to go on to earn Doctorate Degrees, and 10% of Doctoral candidates are allowed to continue on to post-Doctoral work.

Isn't social engineering through education a wonderful thing? Just think Lefties, you'll have the command and control economy that you desperately desire. The problems for you however, is that the command and control will be out of your hands. There will be no special consideration for race, gender, social and political connections, etc. What's the matter? You don't like equality? I thought that you wanted to level the playing field. I guess it's a different story when the playing field is going to be leveled without special consideration for you. Then again, this could never happen. The Left has too much of a stranglehold on education. Any plan to have it benefit anyone other than themselves would never fly.

Riots, Riots Everywhere

The Middle East is exploding. Whether or not the uprisings over there will lead to more democratic forms of government, or whether or not the countries will fall to Islamic dictatorships has yet to be seen. It's hard to get a grasp on the situation, because there are too many conflicting viewpoints. We'll just have to wait and see. In the meantime, here in the US I can sense that the "little people" are getting quite fed up with the status quo. The public sector unions are taking to the streets protesting a modest loss of some of their entitlements, while the private sector lags behind up to 50% of what these spoiled cretins make in salary and benefits. Yes, people are entitled to a fair wage, reasonable job security, and a reasonably comfortable retirement after dedicating a large portion of their lives to a job. I think that things have gotten too far out of hand, and from what I've been reading and hearing, the "Average Joe and Jane" have had enough. If the public sector unions don't back off, there is going to be hell to pay.

The problem is, public sector employees should never have been allowed to unionize in the first place. Even the icon of the Left, Franklin Roosevelt, was against public sector unions. Public servants were never supposed to make 40% to 50% more than the private sector. You took a government job, because even though it paid about 20% less than the same job in the private sector, you had virtually layoff free job security, great benefits, and a decent retirement pension plan. Government service was for those that really didn't want to deal with the dog eat dog climb up the corporate ladder of Corporate America or assume the risks of self-employment. This is the main reason that people make the military a career. For enlisted personnel in the military, the pay is considerably less than a similar job in the private sector. You don't start to make any kind of decent money until you reach the rank of E7 or E8. Then again, once you lose your housing allowances and subsistence allowances, E7 retirement after 20 years of service is just at the poverty line. I retired as an E8 after 26 years of service. My pension is barely enough to live on in the DC area, and I have to supplement it by playing musical jobs 4-5 nights per week and teaching 7 days per week, in order to have a standard of living that is about 30% less than I had when I was active duty, receiving full pay, housing, and subsistence. Believe me, I'm not complaining. I'm just stating facts.

What I'm saying to the civil servants and teachers that are out there throwing their temper tantrums is this: Grow up. You are making a hell of a lot more money than either the military or the private sector. We have an official unemployment rate of 9.6% and a REAL unemployment rate of about 18%, with most of that being confined to the non-degreed working class. If we want to make this country work for all, we have to work together, and that means that YOU have to be willing to make sacrifices, not just those that you look down upon and your lessers. If you don't, you look at a very good possibility that your unions are going to get busted, and then when there is a Republican president and Republican control of both houses of Congress, public sector unions will become illegal. You are being used as political tools by your union leadership, who's salaries by the way, equal the salaries of the CEOs that you love to demonize. Again, grow up and stop being "useful idiots."

Higher education riots

Amazing: I just read an article on the Moonbattery website about the student riots in Britain over the increase in the cost of higher education. I agree with the site's author, Van Helsing. Since when is higher education an entitlement? It's not. Yes, I know that it is virtually impossible to get a good job these days without a college degree, but that's because Liberals have established a marketplace where credentials mean more than knowledge and/or experience or practical know how. Not only that, what is the market for Philosophy majors or "Victim Industry" Studies majors? There isn't one, except for a very limited amount of positions in colleges and universities.

I'm so freekin' sorry that a lot of you spoiled brats just might find yourselves having to work some manual labor job that you consider beneath your dignity. The problems is, too many people are going to college in the first place. If you Liberals think that increasing federal funding so that more people can go to college is the answer, you are seriously misguided. First of all, if the government offers free higher education, it is going to limit the number of college students due to cost factors. The majority of you will not be allowed to attend college. You will be forced out into the workforce and into a career chosen for you whether you like it or not. Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it.

Here's the plan as I see it, and I hope that the PhD in "Revolutionary Underwater Basket Weaving Studies" working for $10 per hour at Borders Books gets it. Life isn't fair, and your choice of field of study has determined what you are worth in our Capitalist society. Yes hippies, Capitalist, that horrible word. Until the time when you get your Socialist dictatorship, you will just have to accept that there are people like myself that are not going to bow and scrape to your "superiority." I, and millions of others like myself, are not going to be the slaves on your "plantation." We do not consider you to be our betters. In fact, we hold you in the same scorn and contempt that you hold us. The difference is, we are the ones that fix the things that you break, and please remember that those of us that fix things for a living, are perfectly capable of breaking things and passing the blame up to you. Are we anti-education? No. However, we want real education reform and a return to high standards, strict discipline, and civility in our schools. Also, we are sick and tired of your excuses about how and why certain kids can't read. It's because you Liberals screwed everything up.

Could Britain's education riots happen here in the US? Yes, they could...and I would hope that Conservatives would put a stop to them once and for all. We need to become a lot less spoiled.

The pendulum swings

It’s been a while since the November election. I didn’t have a chance to blog about it, but I’m fairly pleased with the outcome. I wish that the Republicans could have taken the Senate as well as the House, but having the House means that we control the money. That’s a good thing. All the moonbat stuff can now be de-funded. If you can’t repeal it, you can always make sure that there isn’t enough money to make it work.

The big ticket item right now is the tax rates. Will Congress let the current tax rates expire and allow income taxes to rise for everyone during a recession? Yes, EVERYONE hippies. It’s not just taxes going up for the "rich." Stop lying liberals. The question is, has anyone actually seen the tax bill compromise? Where is it? There is speculation as far as what is in it, and the president stated that there was a compromise agreement, one that he really doesn’t like, but is willing to go along with. What is being reported is that the Bush era tax cuts would be extended for two more years, in exchange for another increase in time for collecting unemployment benefits. OK, that’s fair, and if you agreed to this Mr. President, thank you. I will give credit where credit is due. However, I would like to see a caveat to the unemployment extension: You must prove that you are seeking employment actively and not holding out for a job that is not "beneath your dignity" based on your opinion you have of yourself and your level of education. In another words, you will take any job offered, even if it is shoveling shit off the back of a honey wagon. In exchange, you will receive unemployment compensation that makes up the difference between what you make and what you would make in unemployment benefits. If you are going to make $400 a week in unemployment benefits, and the job pays $200 per week; you would collect the other $200 in unemployment benefits to make up the difference. As you make more money the benefits reduce until you are making on your own what you would have made in benefits. Other caveats: If you are collecting benefits, you are subject to random drug testing, and you are not allowed to drink or smoke. You are not going to waste valuable government resources on non-essential items.

What, you don’t like it? Then get yourself off of unemployment ASAP. There are plenty of "helper" jobs for unskilled labor in the trades. Look at all the highway and infrastructure work that is going on and needs to be done. Who knows you might actually find that you enjoy your new line of work as you develop skills in the trades…or is working with your hands beneath you? If it is, get off your high horse. Your sanctimonious attitude is what cost you educated Elite Liberals this last election. The little people are now in charge. You can take your Socialism and shove it.

Marxist rally...a dud. Sorry whiners, you are becoming irrelevant. Get over it.

I spent a large amount of time this morning reading reports online about the "One Nation Working Together" rally that was held yesterday in Washington, DC. From what I could see, it was pretty much of a flop. Canadian and British news sites showed comparison overhead photos of the rally with similar photos of the Glenn Beck Restoring Honor rally and the Tea Party rally last year. The ONWT rally seemed to have about 1/3 as many people as the Beck rally. In another words, the crowd size was somewhere between 20,000 and 80,000. Let’s split the difference and say 50,000. The Beck rally had crowd estimates between 200,000 and 800,000. I was there, and I’d estimate about 250,000. I didn’t attend the Tea Party last year, but online sources said that the crowd size was about 1.2 million, about the same as President Obama’s inauguration. In the ultimate example of Astroturf, CSPAN used crowd shots of the Beck and Tea rallies in their reporting of the Commie rally, in order to create the illusion that there were more people there than there really was. I’m glad that they got caught with their pants down. Sorry hippies, you’ll have to do better next time. Maybe next time your union thugs won’t pay members to attend a rally, and/or threaten them if they don’t.

Both the Tea Party and the Beck rally had one thing in common, besides the fact that they were populated by the Middle America types that the left hates. They both left the Mall virtually spotless after the rallies were over. People brought trash bags with them, and when the trash cans were full, they pulled the bags out, sealed them, put them next to the trash cans, and put new bags in the cans. Compare that to the condition of the Mall after the inauguration and the ONWT rally. There was trash everywhere. Why is that? Because when you are dealing with the Left, you are dealing with spoiled children who have never grown up, and are used to having other people pick up after them. It fits right into the mindset of these cretins. They gathered on the Mall, because they are mad that they are not getting enough of "other peoples’ money." They are also mad because they know fully well that if the Republicans get control again after the November election, the gravy train of other peoples’ money that is fattening their pockets is going to be sharply reduced.

The Communists and their Fellow Traveler Elites have pushed the American people to the breaking point. Enough is enough. What Comrade Obama and his band of Merry Marxists have done is woken up a sleeping giant. The Tea Party rally had about the same amount of people as the "coronation" of King Barry…without about 50,000 tons of trash left behind for someone else to pick up. Glenn Beck’s Restore America rally had about 250,000 attendees…without about 50,000 tons of trash left behind for someone else to clean up. The One Nation Working Together rally left a lot of trash behind too. Of course, I didn’t hear a peep about that from the environmental groups that were helping sponsor the rally. I guess being a litterbug is OK if it’s for a good cause.

It’s kind of fun watching the Left cave in. I can’t wait to see the long faces and I’m going to smirk and laugh when the whining starts about how the evil Republicans "stole" the election. I was polite to the Left the last time that the Republicans won. This time I’m not going to be. I’m going to go out of my way to rub their noses in their own shit. I’m sure there will be quite a few therapy sessions booked on November 3rd. I have a great idea. They say that doing things for the community is good for one’s self esteem. How about handing a bunch of Lefties a big trash bag and have them clean up after themselves and their brethren for the "common good." It would be nice to see those that have such exalted opinions of themselves out there performing janitorial duty. For their reward we can give them a Happy Meal from McDonald’s. I want to see the revenge against the Left be a dish that is served ice cold…Absolute Zero ice cold. They’ve earned it.

More on the comeuppance

Ah yes, the great comeuppance. I can smell it in the air. The Left is getting desperate. I guess they are going to stage a rally in DC that is supposed to attract a lot of people. From what I read online, the public sector unions and a whole slew of Left Wing, Socialist, Communist, and Anarchist organizations are hiring buses and plan on busing thousands of "Astroturfers" into the nation's capital for this mass group therapy session for disgruntled, spoiled brats.

OK, so who are the major players: the AFL-CIO, the NAACP, the Service Employees International Union, La Raza, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, the American Federation of Teachers, the Rainbow Push Coalition, the Campaign for America's Future. The event is being promoted by Organizing for America, the permanent wing of the Obama presidential campaign. Interesting.

The claim is that "Hundreds of thousands of people from across America will gather at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. to demonstrate our re-commitment to change," organizers say. "The One Nation march will feature human and civil rights leaders, labor leaders, environmental and peace activists, faith leaders, celebrities and sports figures…" Not being mentioned, of course, are the scum that are helping organizing this event: International ANSWER, Code Pink, and the Communist Party USA.

So what we have is a rally in Washington, DC that is sponsored by all sorts of Communist front organizations. Having done some research, I've found that quite a few of the individuals organizing this event on October 2nd sit on the steering committees of the Communist Party USA, World Workers Party, and the Socialist Workers Party. Do you think that the MSM is going to report that information?

Hey Lefties. We know where you are coming from. Some of us are going to make sure that as many people as possible know that you are nothing but Marxist pieces of $#&! that are hell bent on taking this great country down in order to advance your Communist world government with you being in charge. I've got news for you. We, the "little people," are not going to capitulate. You are going to get your Marxian revolt of the Proletariat against the Bourgeoisie, but you forget that you are now the Bourgeoisie. Unlike days gone by, it's not the Proletariat being kept down by the Capitalist Industrial class, it's the Proletariat being kept down by you information age, college degreed professionals who in your warped minds think that you are destined to be the ruling class. It's not going to happen. You know it, and that's why you are desperate. You are seeing your Communist world view going down the toilet. Of course that will depend on how much spine the Republicans can generate after they get control of the House and possibly the Senate. Are people angry? Yes. Let's hope that the anger ends at the ballot box on November 2nd. In the meantime, it's fun watching the world of "hopeandchange" go down the proverbial commode. I'm having way too much fun.