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Gas prices, WTF!!!!
shvd64cdy
+1y
3.10 a gallon here in vegas.
SHORT n SWEET
+1y
I Just heard on the news the Australian Government is making AU$2 million a day on tax from fuel!!!!!
That House is Bullshit!!!!
mccook8
+1y
Originally posted by 2bad4ya
that mansion is un-believable
Damn straight it's unbelievable.....probably because it's all bullshit. It's a HOTEL, guys:
http://www.snopes.com/photos/architecture/nahyan.asp
that mansion is un-believable
Damn straight it's unbelievable.....probably because it's all bullshit. It's a HOTEL, guys:
http://www.snopes.com/photos/architecture/nahyan.asp
hotridesmag
+1y
(from www.commondreams.org)
Published on Friday, September 2, 2005 by Michael Moore
Vacation is Over... an Open Letter from Michael Moore to George W. Bush
by Michael Moore
Friday, September 2nd, 2005
Dear Mr. Bush:
Any idea where all our helicopters are? It's Day 5 of Hurricane Katrina and thousands remain stranded in New Orleans and need to be airlifted. Where on earth could you have misplaced all our military choppers? Do you need help finding them? I once lost my car in a Sears parking lot. Man, was that a drag.
Also, any idea where all our national guard soldiers are? We could really use them right now for the type of thing they signed up to do like helping with national disasters. How come they weren't there to begin with?
Last Thursday I was in south Florida and sat outside while the eye of Hurricane Katrina passed over my head. It was only a Category 1 then but it was pretty nasty. Eleven people died and, as of today, there were still homes without power. That night the weatherman said this storm was on its way to New Orleans. That was Thursday! Did anybody tell you? I know you didn't want to interrupt your vacation and I know how you don't like to get bad news. Plus, you had fundraisers to go to and mothers of dead soldiers to ignore and smear. You sure showed her!
I especially like how, the day after the hurricane, instead of flying to Louisiana, you flew to San Diego to party with your business peeps. Don't let people criticize you for this -- after all, the hurricane was over and what the heck could you do, put your finger in the dike?
And don't listen to those who, in the coming days, will reveal how you specifically reduced the Army Corps of Engineers' budget for New Orleans this summer for the third year in a row. You just tell them that even if you hadn't cut the money to fix those levees, there weren't going to be any Army engineers to fix them anyway because you had a much more important construction job for them -- BUILDING DEMOCRACY IN IRAQ!
On Day 3, when you finally left your vacation home, I have to say I was moved by how you had your Air Force One pilot descend from the clouds as you flew over New Orleans so you could catch a quick look of the disaster. Hey, I know you couldn't stop and grab a bullhorn and stand on some rubble and act like a commander in chief. Been there done that.
There will be those who will try to politicize this tragedy and try to use it against you. Just have your people keep pointing that out. Respond to nothing. Even those pesky scientists who predicted this would happen because the water in the Gulf of Mexico is getting hotter and hotter making a storm like this inevitable. Ignore them and all their global warming Chicken Littles. There is nothing unusual about a hurricane that was so wide it would be like having one F-4 tornado that stretched from New York to Cleveland.
No, Mr. Bush, you just stay the course. It's not your fault that 30 percent of New Orleans lives in poverty or that tens of thousands had no transportation to get out of town. C'mon, they're black! I mean, it's not like this happened to Kennebunkport. Can you imagine leaving white people on their roofs for five days? Don't make me laugh! Race has nothing -- NOTHING -- to do with this!
You hang in there, Mr. Bush. Just try to find a few of our Army helicopters and send them there. Pretend the people of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast are near Tikrit.
Yours,
Michael Moore
Published on Friday, September 2, 2005 by Michael Moore
Vacation is Over... an Open Letter from Michael Moore to George W. Bush
by Michael Moore
Friday, September 2nd, 2005
Dear Mr. Bush:
Any idea where all our helicopters are? It's Day 5 of Hurricane Katrina and thousands remain stranded in New Orleans and need to be airlifted. Where on earth could you have misplaced all our military choppers? Do you need help finding them? I once lost my car in a Sears parking lot. Man, was that a drag.
Also, any idea where all our national guard soldiers are? We could really use them right now for the type of thing they signed up to do like helping with national disasters. How come they weren't there to begin with?
Last Thursday I was in south Florida and sat outside while the eye of Hurricane Katrina passed over my head. It was only a Category 1 then but it was pretty nasty. Eleven people died and, as of today, there were still homes without power. That night the weatherman said this storm was on its way to New Orleans. That was Thursday! Did anybody tell you? I know you didn't want to interrupt your vacation and I know how you don't like to get bad news. Plus, you had fundraisers to go to and mothers of dead soldiers to ignore and smear. You sure showed her!
I especially like how, the day after the hurricane, instead of flying to Louisiana, you flew to San Diego to party with your business peeps. Don't let people criticize you for this -- after all, the hurricane was over and what the heck could you do, put your finger in the dike?
And don't listen to those who, in the coming days, will reveal how you specifically reduced the Army Corps of Engineers' budget for New Orleans this summer for the third year in a row. You just tell them that even if you hadn't cut the money to fix those levees, there weren't going to be any Army engineers to fix them anyway because you had a much more important construction job for them -- BUILDING DEMOCRACY IN IRAQ!
On Day 3, when you finally left your vacation home, I have to say I was moved by how you had your Air Force One pilot descend from the clouds as you flew over New Orleans so you could catch a quick look of the disaster. Hey, I know you couldn't stop and grab a bullhorn and stand on some rubble and act like a commander in chief. Been there done that.
There will be those who will try to politicize this tragedy and try to use it against you. Just have your people keep pointing that out. Respond to nothing. Even those pesky scientists who predicted this would happen because the water in the Gulf of Mexico is getting hotter and hotter making a storm like this inevitable. Ignore them and all their global warming Chicken Littles. There is nothing unusual about a hurricane that was so wide it would be like having one F-4 tornado that stretched from New York to Cleveland.
No, Mr. Bush, you just stay the course. It's not your fault that 30 percent of New Orleans lives in poverty or that tens of thousands had no transportation to get out of town. C'mon, they're black! I mean, it's not like this happened to Kennebunkport. Can you imagine leaving white people on their roofs for five days? Don't make me laugh! Race has nothing -- NOTHING -- to do with this!
You hang in there, Mr. Bush. Just try to find a few of our Army helicopters and send them there. Pretend the people of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast are near Tikrit.
Yours,
Michael Moore
sarusan
+1y
I feel like the store owners who are being robbed by the looters. The government is robbing me from my pockets everytime I go to the pump.
bigdaddybob
+1y
You guys are worried about gas prices? Hell, I'm just glad to have a home. Countless people I know and about half of my customers now have no homes or jobs to go to. My in-laws don't have a home now because of flooding. Hell, I might be worried about gas prices IF WE COULD EVEN GET GAS! Our gas lines are about 1-2 hours long here and our city is destroyed. All I can say to those complaining is we'd trade you right now down here for cheaper gas if you could give back the lives and futures of those that have been lost.
mccook8
+1y
Originally posted by sarusan
I feel like the store owners who are being robbed by the looters. The government is robbing me from my pockets everytime I go to the pump.
Hey, Einstein, it's not the TAXES that went up dramatically, and the government doesn't OWN any oil companies or chain of gas stations.
You want a LEGITIMATE target for your anger? Be angry at the environmental activists, including the frickin' E.P.A., who have blocked any new refineries for about the last 30 years, as well as new drilling (ANWR ring a bell?).
supply -- demand -- and, I'm sure, more than a small amount of just plain GREED
.....but it's not the government's fault, except by perhaps the tyranny of (uninformed, misguided, tree-hugging, tofu-munching, Birkenstock wearing moonbat) good intentions.
I feel like the store owners who are being robbed by the looters. The government is robbing me from my pockets everytime I go to the pump.
Hey, Einstein, it's not the TAXES that went up dramatically, and the government doesn't OWN any oil companies or chain of gas stations.
You want a LEGITIMATE target for your anger? Be angry at the environmental activists, including the frickin' E.P.A., who have blocked any new refineries for about the last 30 years, as well as new drilling (ANWR ring a bell?).
supply -- demand -- and, I'm sure, more than a small amount of just plain GREED
.....but it's not the government's fault, except by perhaps the tyranny of (uninformed, misguided, tree-hugging, tofu-munching, Birkenstock wearing moonbat) good intentions.
westerfluff
+1y
all i know is.. if the prices continue to sprial out of control the cost of living is going to have to go up.. most people have to drive 30+ minutes to work.