We’ve Lost Our Darned Minds

Firs things first:  John got sent on an unexpected business trip to Omaha, NE this week.  His plane is probably starting it’s decent right about now.  Yep, there he is:

He’ll be back on Friday morning, so it’s not so bad this time; although rumor has it that I might be getting sent back to Huntsville again.  Two ships passing in the night, we are.

Oh, there’s been so much to talk about in the news lately.  Like this gem from Obamination in Oregon this week:

“We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times … and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK.  That’s not leadership. That’s not going to happen.”

Obama will be slightly more qualified to tell me what I can drive (it gets nearly 30mpg, btw) when he starts running his campaign from a commercial airliner and a Ford Focus.  When it comes to gas, he has no room to talk — his “other car” (when he’s not toddling around in private jets and SUVs) is a Chrysler 300 which gets, on average, worse mileage than our Dodge Ram diesel truck.

And that brings me to fuel prices.  When we bought the truck diesel was a lot cheaper than gas; but not so anymore — although gasoline is quickly catching up.  It’s $3.87/gal for regular out here now, and diesel is $4.65.  How crazy is that?  This isn’t some supply and demand fad.  Katrina was supply and demand (broken pipelines plus people topping off == expensive gas).  Oh no; there’s plenty to go around.  The current situation lies at the feet of speculators who have driven oil futures up by more than 100% in the last two years, a congress who refuses to allow us to tap our own oil reserves because of some no-existent carribu and a NIMBY attitude, and a President who thinks the solution is to go to the Middle East and grovel for more oil.  On March 15th, I predicted that regular gasoline would hit a permanent $4.00 per gallon by the end of the year.  Looks like the chickens are coming home to roost early.  Heck, it went up by 10 cents today alone!

And speaking of roosting — how about that news on Ted Kennedy’s brain cancer?  I’ll state first that I am praying for a miraculous recovery because I think that’s the only thing that will change his heart — won’t you join me?  As he is embarking on this journey in medical science, he will likely be receiving far better care in his special Congress-Critter health insurance program than a standard elderly person would on Medicare.   It’s inoperable brain cancer.  Medicare would probably leave a person to rot rather than spend the money on treatment that would only prolong life for 12 months.

And what is Medicare but government sponsored health care?  If it were so great, the Congress-Critters would be using it as their health care plan.  But it’s not, so they’re not.  There are plenty of people in Canada and Great Britan (who are waiting months for life-saving bypass surgery or pulling their own teeth because of the year-long waiting list for a dental surgeon) who can tell you how great government health care is.  If Senator Kennedy were on Medicare, he would probably not be getting top-notch chemo and radiation treatment, and he’d be gone in a matter of months.  But he’ll get chances that someone else won’t because he gets to operate outside of the system.  For someone who’s trying so hard to tie us all to government health care, that’s just wrong. As soon as his condition was announced, Nancy Pelosi was immediately exploiting the situation to call for government health care so that everyone would get the care he’s getting.  How tacky.  Eating their own, I tell ya.

Enough ranting for tonight (John just landed, btw).  Please pray for Ted Kennedy tonight — we could all use a miracle right now.

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