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C.

Squid on the waterfront, and zombies ashore.  City hall is already in flames and the Old Safeway has been taken over by mumbling shuffling hordes.  No word if they are stoned greeners or just zombies.

Ever feel cornered?  Trapped like a rat?  That’s how I feel know.  I can’t get away by water.  So far the marina is zombie free.  Maybe we can secure the parking lot.  Time to find a few folks here.  A couple of combat vets, retired GI’s, and the crazy woman who acts like she is on drugs.

I’ll try and update when we get a barricade up and the parking area secured.  I fear we can’t win the battle with the squids.

So am sitting here on the boat listening to R.E.M. and go to fill up my water tanks when I see an odd form slithering through the water.

No worries, stuff swims in the water at night all the time.

I fill up the tank and go back below, and ponder cracking a beer and going to bed when I hear a big splash outside.

I take a look outside and see a large tentacled shape on the dock.

Giant humboldt squid with glowing eyes are climbing out of the water.  I am so screwed.

I ran into my boat and grabbed my beat up old mosin nagant rifle and slam a clip full of hollowpoint ammo into it.

They haven’t gotten to my boat yet…

In the low light the sights are hard to acquire.  One squid slides back into the water…

Squids are big squishy creatures with flayling arms, a singe eye and a big beak.  You have to take out the eye to take out the animal.

I slowly breath out as I stare this demon creature of the deep in it’s horrible face.  I squeeze the trigger…………………..

GOP members in congress have a novel idea. Allow oil companies to drill for oil here in the United States! How shocking! The agenda behind opening up drilling in our nation, is to help drive down gas prices. Now this may seem extreme to any liberal minded reader who happens across my blog, not that I get many readers, but I digress. We have been told for decades that drilling would not bring down oil prices, or get us off dependency on foreign oil. It will take years they like to say. (Fox News).

“We are kidding ourselves if we think we can drill our way out of these problems,” House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey, D-Wis., said during the bill mark-up session.

“The disappointing part about some of the energy policies being promoted (is) that it calls for more drilling when drilling really is the problem. And all we’ve got to show for pretty aggressive (domestic) drilling for the last 35 years is, again, $4 for a gallon of gas,” Manuel said, adding “since the first Arab oil shock in the 1970s, the U.S. has produced almost 90 billion barrels of oil since then, so we’ve tried drilling our way out of the problem and it just hasn’t worked.”

This is a fallacy, We have so limited drilling that we are forced to import oil, and we have refused to drill in places like Alaska National Wildlife Refuge. In the years between 1973 and 2008 have seen dramatic increases in population and increases on demand for products that require oil for production, such as plastics. But the statement by Manuel doesn’t reflect this does it. Not, it is simply out of context, and truth be told simply a liberal lie.

Liberals think the way to address the current artifically high gas prices, is to institute more taxes on the companies which do business getting gas to the pumps and running those pumps. “Americans are furious about what’s going on,” declared Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D. He said they want Congress to do something about oil company profits and the “orgy of speculation” on oil markets. (Hebert) The House bill number 2977 introduced by a Seattle liberal democrat, Bob Hasegawa. Fortunately it was defeated, in the Senate as well, by getting a vote of 51 falling short of a required 60.(HEBERT) Seven so-called Republicans voted with the liberals to support the bill.

Here is a problem with taking more money from Oil companies. Taxes do not fill barrels with oil. Perhaps Harry Reid and Byron Dorgan do not realize this. Further taking money from oil companies will not lower the pump price we are paying. It will not be returned to the tax payers, nor will it likely go to support anything worth while but will instead go to pay for the pork barrel spending by congress.(Riedl, Acosta-Fraser) (Note the Farm Bill and Byron Dorgan’s handy work there in)

WASHINGTON - Saved by Senate Republicans, big oil companies dodged an attempt Tuesday to slap them with a windfall profits tax and take away billions of dollars in tax breaks in response to the record gasoline prices that have the nation fuming.

GOP senators shoved aside the Democratic proposal, arguing that punishing Big Oil won’t do a thing to lower the $4-a-gallon-price of gasoline that is sending economic waves across the country. High prices at the pump are threatening everything from summer vacations to Meals on Wheels deliveries to the elderly.

The Democratic energy package would have imposed a 25 percent tax on any “unreasonable” profits of the five largest U.S. oil companies, which together made $36 billion during the first three months of the year. It also would have given the government more power to address oil market speculation, opened the way for antitrust actions against countries belonging to the OPEC oil cartel, and made energy price gouging a federal crime.

By H. JOSEF HEBERT , Associated Press Last update: June 11, 2008 - 1:39 AM

Read the rest here.
Photo Credit Seth Perlman, Associated Press.

I think this is going to be a title of my posts that are essentially “Random Thoughts on the Passing Scene” as Thomas Sowell would say.

The title comes from the the book by Stephen Hawking called a “Brief History of Time”

In it there is a discussion about Sir Issac Newton and how he was “Occasioned by the fall of an apple” while contemplating things on his mind.

People are sporting loads of Obama08 stickers, and yard signs and what not. He is the candidate of change and has the “Audacity of Hope.” What seems to be getting lost in the gushing of the mainstream media is that there is not a single new idea or any hope that things tried in the past are going to work this time. In April 1979 then President Jimmy Carter said,

“Unless we tax the oil companies, they will reap huge and undeserved windfall profits,” Carter declared in a nationwide address. Americans had a right to recapture some of that windfall and put it to good use. Carter suggested that the revenue be earmarked for mass transit, oil price relief for poor families, and the development of alternative energy sources.” (Thorndike)

Does this sound familiar? This is just one example of the utterly dishonest campaign being run by the Obama. He also says he would be ready to meet with our enemies. So did Neville Chamberlain,

(Cape Cod Today)

(FreeRepublic)

Some times in life we have to stand up for what is right, and not act like dhimmi’s as former President Carter does when he takes it upon himself to deal with a terrorist organization like Hezbollah, who is directly connected to Iran. (Shihri)

What keeps the survivors of the cyclone which struck Myanmar from rising up against the military junta that is preventing the world from rushing aid into help the people? (Associated Press) They should oust the so-called leadership which inflicts this kind of suffering on the people of the nation and assist the world aid organizations in helping distribute the supplies of aid/food/water/sanitation which are piling up as I write this.

C.

P.S. I am having some kind of trouble getting my links to work in this posting. If you go to Tifosi1f1.blogspot.com the links do work there, for the citations and references.

I found this over at SayAnythingBlog.com. It is a conservative political blog from North Dakota. Credit goes to Rob Port and ‘Pilgrim’ on this one. Check out the site, it is really good.

A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

Lawyers for Mayor Bloomberg are asking a judge to ban any reference to the Second Amendment during the upcoming trial of a gun shop owner who was sued by the city. While trials are often tightly choreographed, with lawyers routinely instructed to not tell certain facts to a jury, a gag order on a section of the Constitution would be an oddity.

“Apparently Mayor Bloomberg has a problem with both the First and the Second amendments,” Lawrence Keane, the general counsel of a firearms industry association, the National Shooting Sports Foundation, said.

The trial, set to begin May 27, involves a Georgia gun shop, Adventure Outdoors, which the city alleges is responsible for a disproportionate number of the firearms recovered from criminals in New York City. The gun store’s owner, Jay Wallace, says his store abides by Georgia and federal regulations and takes steps to avoid selling firearms to gun traffickers. Mr. Wallace’s store is one of 27 out-of-state gun shops sued by New York City, and the first to go to trial.

Their reasoning that the Second Amendment should be ignored in the lawsuit on out-of-state gunshops?

City lawyers, in a motion filed Tuesday, asked the judge, Jack Weinstein of U.S. District Court in Brooklyn, to preclude the store’s lawyers from arguing that the suit infringed on any Second Amendment rights belonging to the gun store or its customers. In the motion, the lawyer for the city, Eric Proshansky, is also seeking a ban on “any references” to the amendment.

“Any references by counsel to the Second Amendment or analogous state constitutional provisions are likewise irrelevant,” the brief states.
Many Americans believe that the Second Amendment provides an individual the right to own a gun. Others believe that it provides no right to private gun ownership, but gives states the power to keep militias.

In a recent court deposition, Mayor Bloomberg said he believed “the Second Amendment of the Bill of Rights gives you the right to keep and bear arms.” But in a recent brief to the Supreme Court, lawyers for Mr. Bloomberg argued that the amendment “was not intended to vest armed power in citizens acting outside of any governmental military effort — either federal or state.”

Yikes!

That’s one of our elected representatives telling a court that the Second Amendment is basically meaningless and can be ignored in a trial about…..the Second Amendment.

Pretzel liberal logic at its best.