I would think that it would go without saying that when there is more of something, the price would be less than if it were rare. Take diamonds for instance. If you had to clean them up out of your yard in order to mow the grass, they would be a nuisance, and you would want to be rid of them. As it is, they are rare, and thus expensive to purchase.

Oil is no different. Well in some ways it is since we need oil to maintain our economy and way of life. The same principle applies though. If you had to wade through it to get to your car each morning, it would be cheap. It isn’t. Unfortunately, we have put up barriers to getting the oil that is available to us, therefore creating a shortage in our own backyard. The price understandably rises. We have to pay the price in a world market for a commodity that we are sitting on in our own backyard.

If, and I said if, we would make the determination that we were going to use the resources that God has provided us, and start making the move towards actually removing barriers and restrictions, the price would start to drop. The supply could be seen to be getting larger.

We have the technology to do it safely, and cleanly. The question is, are we going to continue to listen to green bullies and snake oil peddlers who tell us that we have no right to use our own resources? We have China, Viet Nam, and other third rate world powers preparing to drill for our oil, off our coast lines right now, while congress sits on their thumbs and twirls about trying to figure out which way the wind is going to blow.

We don’t need to stop looking for alternatives, it is our ingenuity that has made our nation great. We will find new fuels and technologies to run our nation, but it won’t happen if we are all sitting on the side of the road unable to buy enough gasoline to make it to work.

President Bush made a significant first step yesterday, but nothing can be accomplished if Congress doesn’t get off their collective ass and start removing the barriers to progress. Give them a call, I’m sure they would love to hear from you.

But that’s just My Arrogant Opinion.

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A candidate who doesn’t know how many states we have, one who sees the ghosts of fallen heros, and one who doesn’t know what Memorial day is? I just don’t know if he has any business working in the Senate, much less the White House.

And the press say that George Bush can’t talk. sheeesh!

But, that’s just My Arrogant Opinion.

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C-Span was covering it live.  I settled in to watch and was very impressed with what I saw.  Having always thought of myself as a Republican, this year in Politics has caused me to rethink my loyalties.  I took the “World’s Smallest Political Quiz,” and was somewhat surprised that it put me squarely in the Libertarian quadrangle.  I say somewhat because the quiz is on a Libertarian site.

All that aside, the more I looked at what Libertarians stood for, the more I liked what I saw.  This is not meant to be a commercial for Libertarians, but I did want to share my path and this pilgrim’s progress.

I tuned in just in time for the 3rd round of balloting and got to see the various candidates speak and interact with delegates at the convention.  One thing that really impressed me about most of the candidates and speakers was their commitment to their overarching commonality and the goals of the Libertarian party in general.  The one exception that I saw was that of candidate Mary Ruwart, who seemed very bitter towards Bob Barr.  Since they were in a dead heat, it came out vividly, in my view, when she conceded the nomination.

In her concession, she never mentioned Bob Barr to whom she had just lost, she never mentioned the coming days till the November General Election. It was all about her, her staff and supporters, as she vowed to fight on.  This viewer was left wondering a little bit whether she was going to break out of the Libertarian Party and start a new Party, maybe the Bitter Clinger Party, as she seemed bitter enough and certainly seemed to be clinging to her presidential bid.

I had to leave before the Vice Presidential candidate was selected, however, it was Wayne Allyn Root as expected as he was number three in the delegate vote count and threw his support to a Barr - Root ticket at the end of the fifth round of balloting.  You can read more here.

Oh, back to what I was saying earlier; I was aligned with the Republican Party, however that party has made a sharp left turn and abandoned the principals of conservatism and small government that drew me to it in the first place.  And this year, I am not voting for the candidate the polls say is the front runner, or the one popular opinion says has a chance to win.  This year, I am voting my conscience and who I think will do the best job for this country that I love.

But, that’s just My Arrogant Opinion.

P.S. Barr-Root in ‘08

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These weren’t starving children in Africa being slaughtered, they weren’t people at all.  And no, not cute little puppies in some puppy mill in Southern California.  These were the screams of an entire colony of ants as molten aluminum was poured into their homes and burrows.  They were killed in order to excavate their tunnels and see what marvelous engineers they were.  Emphasis on ‘were.’  They are no more as they were killed out to the very last ant.

Now had these been sea turtles, there would have been such a hue and cry as has seldom been heard, and don’t even consider what litigation would have been started had these been baby seals, or polar bears.  A race horse being put down to end the suffering of two broken ankles brought PETA out of the woodwork, but not for these defenseless ants.  Who speaks for them? Who will take the fight to protect the wild ants?

What hypocrisy!  There were no Hollywood actors protesting their plight or raising money to prevent this from ever happening again.  Just the remains of hundreds of thousands of tiny corpses surrounded by the aluminum that was the instrument of their demise.

But that’s just My Arrogant Opinion.

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And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:

It astonishes me that anyone can look at this planet and believe this pile of steaming cow manure called global warming. We have found evidence of trees in artic ice, ocean life in the badlands of Montana and the Dakotas, along with coal deposits in Utah which were laid down in a much warmer time.

The Earth goes through cycles, it always has, it always will. The Sun is a hub of activity changing our climates. Some years are warmer, some cooler, but man has nothing to do with it. The very idea that we can affect climate change is the epitomy of haughtiness. We can’t even predict the weather for next month, by what authority do we claim to know what is going to happen in 10 years?

This entire hoax is an attempt to redistribute wealth world-wide. To make people more dependant on the government. Time will prove these idiots wrong, but I am afraid it may be too late to stop the damage.

But that’s just My Arrogant Opinion.

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At any rate, I will be back with more, hopefully later today. Love it or loathe it, I hope you’ll be back and comment on what you find here.

But that’s just My Arrogant Opinion.

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But that would not befit the most liberal Senator in Washington, now would it? We all have to remember that there is no way to spell Liberal without L I E. It’s crazy uncle Jeremiah again isn’t it? He’s just like a crazy uncle, you don’t agree with him, but he is family. When it became politically expedient to do so, you threw him under the bus, probably to scare your white grandmother who you threw under there a few weeks back.

But, that’s just My Arrogant Opinion.

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Right or wrong, it all started with him not putting his hand over his heart during our National Anthem.  Growing up and as an adult at ball games, rodeos, races or whatever function I have been to where the National Anthem was sung, I have always stood at attention and placed my hand on my heart.  If I was wearing a hat, I took it off and placed it over the heart.  It is a symbolic statement of respect and reverence for our flag.  Not the flag only, but everything the flag stands for, and the blood that has been shed to protect it over the years. 

Now, in all honesty, the freedoms granted to us by our Constitution allows us the choice of honoring the flag or not as we see fit, and no one can force anyone to salute the flag.  It was the very blood shed to protect the flag that pays for our right to ignore it if we desire, but I still feel that one of the requirements of the job of President is to show honor and reverence to the flag and Constitution.

Without love of country, what motivates someone to run for the highest office in the land?  Is it power? Status? Ego? None of these qualify anyone to be President.  I want a man who loves his country so much that he is willing to lay down his life for it.  One who will work tirelessly to ensure that no harm comes to it under his watch.  Someone who will read the Constitution and realize that it is only our power he wields, and realizes what a sacred trust he has undertaken.

Twenty years under the tutelage of Jeremiah  Wright’s sermons damning the USKKK of A.  A wife who evidently believes this whole pile of crap that Wright has been spewing, who is finally proud of her country.  These don’t give me much confidence that Barack Obama is the man who needs to be President.

But, that’s My Arrogant Opinion.

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My blood runs cold at the thought of any of our present choices becoming the President. Both Hillary and Obama have openly stated that they want to turn our country into a Socialist Paradise starting with Nationalized Health Care and then moving on to stripping the profits (and incentives to produce) from our oil companies. Obviously the schools they attended didn’t have economics as a part of the curriculum.

What choices does that leave us with? Ron Paul? I am all about getting rid of the IRS and getting back to a smaller government which actually looks at the Constitution to see what it is supposed to do, but I think his chances are about as slim as a snowball in Global Warming. He also scares me with his ideas about the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. It is just too much, too quick, our country is not ready for that amount of change in one big step.

Where does that leave us? John McCain, War Hero. The only thing I like about McCain is his stand on the war. But you have to wonder about him. War is a dirty business, and there are things done there that you really don’t want discussed in the parlor over tea. I can understand his personal position on torture and Gitmo, but I think that it is wrong to tell our enemies what we will or will not do, what lines we are willing to cross, and those we won’t, but if our Nation’s security is at risk, we should have the freedom to cross those lines if needed.

What about the price of gasoline? All three of the main candidates have proposed their solution for the high price of gas at the pump. The problem is, they are just pandering to the voters. They don’t have a solution. At most, they have a plan for very short term relief for a problem that has far reaching implications. We need to get out of the way and let our country do what our country does best, and that is, find a solution.

Stop this talk about confiscating profits. Stop trying to regulate every aspect of our lives. Give us the freedom to think and experiment. We will never find a solution to any problem when the government has us so tied up and regulated with petty rules that every time we try to do something we trip over the red tape.

Open up our oil fields to exploration. We have technology to drill without destroying the countryside now, let’s use it! John McCain said on the Glenn Beck Radio Program last week that he would as soon drill for oil in the Grand Canyon as to drill ANWR. I agree with Glenn’s commentary on his statement that he was all for it as well, if there was oil in the canyon. Of course, that is a gross example, but we have oil reserves in this country, we have huge coal reserves, we have some of the best scientific minds in the world here and the best facilities. LET US USE OUR OWN RESOURCES!

But, that is just My Arrogant Opinion.

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Maybe it’s just me, but it seems like they should be more concerned with what they will do after they get in office than what they are going to do this summer,  because unless I missed something, not one of these wizards of the gas price has any authority to do a damn thing about it this summer!  We have 3 Senators running around telling people what they are going to do about the high price of gas and making noises like they are in charge of something.

I don’t know of anything that an individual Senator has ever accomplished especially with the margins being so tight in Washington, and none of them have made it to the Oval Office yet to implement their magic spells over the gas pumps. Since the Democrats gained control of the House and Senate in 2006, they haven’t been able to accomplish anything of note.  Gas prices have skyrocketed, as has the price of food.  None of the wonderful things Queen Nancy promised would take place under her watch have come to pass.  Is she a liar, or just a totally ineffectual Speaker of the House?

These candidates need to tell us what they plan on doing when they are actually in office and shut up about what they are going to do right now, oops what they WOULD do if they had unlimited power and authority to act right now.  They sound an awful lot like the little boy who was teasing the dog behind the fence as he walked down the sidewalk then came to the sick realization that the fence didn’t turn the corner when he did.

But, that is just My Arrogant Opinion.

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