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I have an Infiniti FX 35 that gets 18 miles a gal, and Land Rover that gets 13 miles a gal, and a Jeep Cherokee that get around 17. The Infiniti is the best of the 3 on gas, but at 18 miles a gallon, at near $4 a gallon, I may as well drive a Sherman tank.  

(This sounds like a country song, doesn’t it?)

The SUV trend that saved the American Car makers is quickly sending them to the grave. Because dealers are offering little for a SUV trade in, (because they can’t get rid of them) the remaining value leaves you upside down on your car loan. This balance is then placed on top of the already over priced fuel efficient cars loan, combined, you really don’t save any money.

Will the high price of gas put the final nail in the American car maker’s coffin, or force them to be more fuel efficient?

...not withstanding, why are all the hybrids so damn ugly?

Douglas Chick

 At the gas pumps in this morning, I stare at the swiftly spinning dials, and the cycle of anger begins. Oil Robber Barons strike at the pumps again. I check out at the grocery store, Oil Robber Barons impact the food I eat. I come home and watch the nightly news, Oil Robber Barons, Oil Robber Barons, something about Hilary and Obama, Oil Robber Barons.

It is true that we are a capitalistic society, and our country enjoys the luxury of a free market, but when our economy is driven by Oil Robber Barons, where is the line between a free market society and out of control greed?

The countries that regulate thier oil sales, have a stronger dollar then the U.S. (They are financially stronger than the United States.) Why, because they know their economy is based off the cost of fuel. Do we need the same regulations to protect our country, or do we allow Oil Robber Barons to drive down America until we are a weak, over inflated, hollow country, dependant on the generosity of other nations? 

With all the people I would like to blame for the economy and the ever diminishing dollar, I think the American economic demolition awards should go to the Washington Lobbyist. It is their success in persuading a weak Congress, Senate and White house to pass laws that took away from America and gave greedily to the corporations they represent. This lobbyist/political partnership did more harm to the U.S. than our enemies could only dream.

The lobbyist/political partnership is simple; lobbyist provide the money to elect a politician, and once in office, or re-elected, the politician passes laws to make the corporation more money. And by hedging a “global economy” against a weak and leveraged American debit, we have a pillaged America. Like the fall of the Roman Empire, the roads to the U.S. have been opened by greed and quickly invaded. All this while our soldiers are sent away to fight for freedom of people that would wish us all dead. We have no heroes to protect us from the money changer hordes.  

I wonder who the lobbyist want for President?

Global Warming; fact or fiction?

I don’t know if global warming is true or not, but it sure looks like a whole lot of ice is melting, and I’m confused to why. Is it gas emissions causing the melt down, or just time for the earth to shed its skin? In other words, is God causing the ice to melt or man? I think if it is God melting all the ice then there is really nothing we can do about it, so I’m going to keep my SUV and have a second gas tank added. However, if man is the culprit, a whole lot of politicians and oil lobbyist better think about faking their death’s like Ken Lay of Enron. And all those companies and people moving to that wonderland paradise being built in the United Emirates better make way for more people, and make the walls on their artificial islands high, real high, higher than an Air Craft Carrier.  

Still, many people believe that Global Warming is a lie made up by the Liberals because they want everyone to give up their guns and big cars so we can all be socialist. While others believe that George Bush is responsible for melting all the ice so he and his buddies can get to all the oil beneath the ice. Truth or not, do you believe the ice is melting?

Seven years ago I learned a lesson called Greenbacks for Oil that I never knew before. The lesson goes like this: All oil in the world is purchased with the U.S. dollars. It doesn’t matter what country purchases oil from whom, they do it with the U.S. dollar. Iran sells its oil using U.S. money. Venezuela sells its oil with U.S. money.  The United States went from the Gold Standard to the Federal Reserve. (Or Greenbacks for Oil) The Federal Reserve prints out greenbacks and sells it to other countries to purchase oil with. Iraq one day decided that it would no longer accept U.S. money and switched to the Euro dollar. So to purchase Iraqi oil, you must use the Euro dollar. Other Arab nations were about to fall in line with Iraqi, and so we invaded Iraq to liberate them. This is why France and Germany protected so much, because their countries had the most to gain from it.

Now that the U.S. dollar is falling, it takes more U.S. dollars to convert to the Euro dollar, so the price of crude oil rises to account for the low value of the U.S. dollar. (Other country now must purchase more U.S. dollars to equal their dollar.) Because the dollar is weak, stronger foreign money is worth even more. The weaker we become the stronger other nations become driving us down even more. President Bush did not invade Iraq to protect us from terrorist, but for Greenbacks for oil. Our economic wealth is based on the purchase of oil from countries that would wish us all dead. The strength of America used to be on our technology and manufacturing. Perhaps it is not too late to return to that?

After much thought, 1500 years, and waiting for a response from God, the Vatican has updated its Seven Deadly Sins.  

The original offences and their punishments

Pride: Broken on the wheel
Envy: Put in freezing water
Gluttony: Forced to eat rats, toads, and snakes
Lust: Smothered in fire and brimstone
Anger: Dismembered alive
Greed: Put in cauldrons of boiling oil
Sloth: Thrown in snake pits

  New Seven Deadly Sins

1.``Bioethical' violations such as birth control
2. ``Morally dubious'' experiments such as stem cell research
3. Drug abuse
4. Polluting the environment
5. Contributing to widening divide between rich and poor
6. Excessive wealth
7. Creating poverty

Is this revision directed at President George W. Bush?
And do priest have there own list of Seven Deadly Sins, because I did not see “Child Molestation as a sin?

If we continue to vote for politicians that support the “Global Economy” as the business model of America, you and I will have no jobs! Being a liberals or conservative will mean nothing if the communist have all the jobs. The government leaders that bed with lobbyist are not looking after the interest of the American people; their greed has consumed them to such a scale that America is in danger of economic collapse. Economic terrorism is when you allow American jobs to be outsourced to countries.  Economic terrorism is when American tax dollars bail out foreign investors from the sub-prime crime. Economic terrorism is when the government gives you $600 hoping you spend it on Chinese made products. Economic terrorism is when gas prices are so high that it pushes a country in to a depression. And economic terrorism is when the government is too weak to stop it!

Voting for the same old politicians that caused this countries problems, will not fix them.

Four more years with the wrong president will only barcode the American Flag.  

Are you far to the right, or far to the left? After listening to your favorite radio talk show host, are you convinced that the world in doomed? Does your religious organization speak more about your participation in politicians than God? Do you or your friends often speak of how the radical media controls the world? Do these questions anger you?

If you answered yes, you might be an extremist… :-)

I read that the school system in Pakistan is collapsing and this is of great concern. Why, because uneducated people are easily converted into terrorist? Can this also be true in other countries? Can a lack of formal education, verses religious education, move people towards extremist violent acts? In the book The History of Violence, if there were such a book, I think it might read, “…most organized acts of violent are committed by the followers of organized religious.”  

I wonder, how many people I know in my daily life that feel the same passion to commit violence for their beliefs, as the terrorist do?

Douglas Chick
DouglasChick@gmail.com

We are a country of fat lazy Americans, even our pets are fat. Blaming the Mexican workers for unemployment and the economy is a tactic to divert blame from the real culprits. If we kick out all the Mexicans, Who will harvest our vegetables and shovel the earth, and toil the land?  Who will do all the hard work while others collect unemployment, in their government assisted homes with air conditioning? A Cuban may stay in America if he or she can reach and touch the soil. That is their only qualification, touch the land receive immediate government assistance. I’m not suggesting that Cubans do not contribute to this country, but it is pale in comparison to the labor of Mexicans. Mexican workers are an American resource.

I find it suspicious that high tech jobs, degreed, and manufactured jobs are allowed to be outsourced to China and India, but losing your ditch digging, and your fruit picking job, is an outrage. There is no greater opportunity in any other country in the world as there are in the United States. If your job is in jeopardy by a Mexican worker, then you did not take advantage to all the opportunities granted to you by being born in this great country.

Mexicans, Liberals, and Conservative are not the problem in this country. The problem is the lobbyist that convinces Washington to allow U.S jobs to be sent to China and India.

Ask your congressmen, “Where’s the Jobs!”

Douglas Chick
DouglasChick@gmail.com

 http://www.fakechecks.org/

This Web site is a central source of information and advice about business... lottery... and checking scams. NCL created the site in collaboration with the Alliance for Consumer Fraud Awareness, a coalition of consumer and business organizations, government agencies, and companies that are committed to fighting fake check scams.

It's rather humorous... my favorite is the guy with the beard who the site says is a "damsel in distress."

In the mist of what seems like so many political sex scandals, I find it more than curious that The New York Times is being attack for running the John McCain sex / lobbyist scandal? Killing the messenger is a staple political response to getting caught with your “hands” in the cookie jar. If true, is this a case of being in a lobbyist’s pocket and pants? I wonder if the most successful lobbyist put out? After all, you don’t give up military secrets to frigid spies?  My questions are:

If a politician lies, should they be banded from holding any type of office, like convicted felons are to vote?

If a news organization prints false allegations that ruin people’s lives, should they be held financially accountable? 

I read that Nike workers in Vietnam are unhappy about the working conditions at the Nike plant "in Vietnam" and have gone on strike twice. They claim that their $1 (U.S) a day is not enough for long work day, and they want more money and treated like human-beings, not slaves.

Was not this the start of the Vietnam War, French textile workers revolting because of harsh working conditions and slave wages? Did they not want to join the communist party to be liberated? And now the communist party is the largest manufacture of textiles in the world? Does this mean that the over 40,000 Americans that lost their lives, gave their lives for nothing? Will Iraq parallel Vietnam; no matter how long we are there it will ultimately revert back to the way it was?

And finally, does it matter whether we are there for 10 years or 100; can time mask or justify our loss of live and resources?

What is your opinion regarding this?

Douglas Chick
DouglasChick@gmail.com

 When unchallenged, character is the easiest of all attributes to fake. When faced with peril, bravery, courage, and honesty can only be proven with actions, not words. But how quickly character abandons a politician during an election year. I am embarrassed that this is what our country has been reduced to; politicians that will say and do anything for one more term, begging for just one more chance. They over promise, and under deliver, or deliver nothing at all. I read that members of the congress and senate only work 2 days a week, and spend 3 day raising campaign money, not just during an election year, every year.  The fear of having to enter into the private sector job market and compete with the rest of is justifiably frightening.

George W asked for one more chance because he said he wasn’t finished. Now the Clinton’s are back also asking for another chance. With oil, insurance, and pharmaceutical companies on the right, god only know what the left has to offer us. A vote for the same old family of politicians is a vote for the same lobbyist and special interest groups.

Every four years we have a chance to make a choice that is best for us and our country, but we become

influenced by the promises of false prophets. Wolves in wolves clothing. Liberal wolves blame conservative wolves and conservative wolves blame the liberals. And the only voices they really listen to are from the special interest groups the fund their campaigns. 

The Unchallenged Politician will say and do anything to be elected, because they know that once they are in, we can never get them out again. I believe that the only way to make these career politicians stand by their promises is to remove the ones that do not produce results. Once enough career politicians are fired and replaced, the new ones and remaining ones will find a way to work together for the better good of America.

Congress a ridiculous spectacle

What a ridiculous spectacle, with so many issues in the United States that need to be fixed, and with our enemies pounding on our door, that congress holds a hearing on steroid use. Each congressperson used this circus event as nothing more than a chance at free press in an election year, rather than a serious hearing regarding American sports. Congressmen, when you are confused to why you were voted out of Washington this year, I want to you remember the time and taxpayer money you spent on all of your ridiculous spectacles.

Douglas Chick

The largest healthcare benefactors are employee’s of the government. The same government leaders that say that National Healthcare is socialism enjoy the privileged benefits of free healthcare for not only themselves, but for their families as well. The same people that say the government can not manage healthcare efficiently run the government. No one knows themselves better then they do. So why should we vote for the same people that say they can not efficiently run a national program? 

Government leaders are now saying that healthcare should be taken out of the company and purchased by the individual user. Does this also include government employees? The United States is the largest employer in America. They have the largest healthcare plan, and it is paid for by the tax payers. (I do not mean the military. Soldiers that fight in wars should undoubtedly receive free healthcare for the rest of their lives.) They say that a large portion of Americans have healthcare, but they do not exclude the national healthcare package for government. They say we can not afford national healthcare for the people, but we can afford it for them. 

Oligarchy (Greek Oligarkhía) is a form of government where political power effectively rests with a small elite segment of society (whether distinguished by wealth, family or military powers). The word oligarchy is from the Greek words for "few"  and "rule". Compare with autocracy (rule by one person) and democracy (power in the people).

If my tax dollars, (and I pay a lot) If my tax dollars can not pay for mine and my families healthcare, why would I want to pay for yours.