A Friendly Reminder

"Just because you legally possess a gun in the sanctity of your locked home doesn't mean that we're not going to walk into that home and check to see if you're being responsible and safe in the way that you conduct your affairs,"

And if there's no further questions..

And We're Off!

Hurricane season '07 is here! Wow, I can't believe it's been a whole year since the last hurricane season started. Seems like it's only been about 49 weeks.

With Subtropical Storm Andrea's arrival, many people are pointing to her as just another example of the disastrous effects of global warming caused by human interference. Some scientists will agree, while others will lie and distort, but I think the single culprit here is quite obvious.

On August 8, 2005, George Bush signed into law the Energy Policy Act of 2005. With the passage of this bill, Bush attempted to help out all of his oil buddies. By moving Daylight Savings Time up by 3 weeks, the extra hour of sunlight hitting the ocean was bound to move the hurricane season forward.

Oil and gas prices are sure to follow suit during Bush's extension of the hurricane season. As we look forward to $5 a gallon gas this summer, maybe Bush can look forward to yet another charge added to the lawsuits against him.

An Incoincidental Truth

Senator Harry Reid lashed out at big oil companies today, exposing their ravenous agenda.

"It's outrageous ...Isn't it interesting every year about this time, a refinery goes down for repairs," said Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid of Nevada.

"Is that coincidental? Or is it part of a plan that these multinational, huge companies who are making obscene profits in the tens of billions of dollars -- is this part of their game to keep the profits going?" Reid said.

I think Reid is on to something here. I've never associated a maintenance schedule with a plan to keep a business profitable, but it certainly seems plausible. Thankfully, Reid is impervious to detailed EIA reports.

Not to be outshined, newly crowned Speaker Pelosi announced a multitude of hearings dealing with everything from price gouging to Bush administration failures.

"Years of Bush administration policies that have favored Big Oil over the consumers have resulted in record dependence on foreign oil," the California Democrat added.

While Pelosi isn't quite as clear in her message as Reid, I believe I agree with her. Bush's failure to open ANWR and the Florida coast to drilling has forced us to rely on foreign oil supplies and consequently kept the price of oil artificially high by capping production.

I only hope I can still afford to drive to work in 2008.

Ourspace

Young Joe Anthony started the amazingly popular myspace.com/barackobama page with the goal of one day seeing the man whose values he supported, become the saviour America has been waiting for. After years of painstaking web design, late nights of building a social network 160,000 strong, and unwavering support for one of the most cherished presidential contenders in history, Anthony has finally had one small part of his dream fulfilled.

Monday night, with the help of MySpace staff, the Obama for America campaign decided that Anthony had contributed his fair share towards their project, and took over the site. At first, Anthony offered to sell the site, and the work he had put into it for the last two and a half years, for a hefty $40,000. After much LOLing all around, Anthony cheerfully agreed to just donate the site to the campaign. As an inside joke, the page now states "Paid for by Obama for America".

Work must go on though, as being homepageless has left Anthony nowhere to store his 160,000 friends. Rumor has it, he can currently be reached through myspace.com/duncanhunter.