Gas prices topping $4 and headed higher

I’m guessing you’ve seen the gas prices around Concord.
At roughly $4 or more, depending on where you fill your tank, it’s getting harder to make ends meet. It used to cost me $32 to fill my tank. Now it costs me more than $60 and it’s not just my gas tank that’s being affected. Oil prices are raising the prices of everything.
When will the madness end?
Actually, it never will.
I suggest you look up Peak Oil on the Internet and be afraid, be very afraid.
What can we do?
Nothing really.
Well, that’s not true, if we could get the Chinese and Indians (no, not Native Americans you idiot, the ones from India) to stop driving, life would be a whole not better for us. Too bad they don’t give a damn about the life style we’ve become accustomed too.
Pretty soon, we’re going to get a forced education in the lifestyle they’ve become accustomed too.
This sign posted by a Morganton gas station owner says a lot.
If only people would follow its suggestions.
Not the choke an Arab part.
I don’t think he meant that literally, but think he meant more like choke off their oil, but didn’t have enough room.
Too bad people won’t stop driving until their forced too.
The only fun I’m getting out of life right now is traveling to the local gas station to watch Concord residents with gas guzzlers pay more than $100 dollars to fill their tank and cussing while they do it.
Serves them right, really.
People have been saying for years that Americans need to start saving gas.
Did we listen?

Nope.

Now it’s too late and we’re all paying the price - literally.

Daily Cartoon

Prius vs Lexus = rich vs poor

It seems the majority of Americans are lining up for the $21,000 Toyota Prius hybrid that is reportedly getting around 46 mpg as it is currently the No. 1 selling car in America.
On the flip side, the rich, and those pretending, are showing they don’t give a damn about anything but themselves making the No. 2 car selling in America the $74,000 Lexus SUV that gets 14 mpg.

Just more proof that as the majority of Americans suffer, the rich don’t give a crap.

The same goes for you Hummer drivers

Here's the article

http://http//autos.yahoo.com/articles/autos_content_landing_pages/593/hardest-to-get-cars/;_ylt=AlgIxKLlC_BtIrOJACRMSywazJV4

Nuff Said

By Trent Steele

Eve of Destruction

Well crap.
First it was the polar bears and now it’s the penguins.
Will it never stop?
According to news reports penguins are another in the growing list of animals that are in trouble do to man’s stupidity.
Read more here.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080701/ap_on_sc/sci_penguins;_ylt=Al7txkHvA6NnpFhipVCM8LDQOrgF

Under the circumstances, this seems appropriate.
http://www.brownielocks.com/eveofdestruction.html

Hot researcher bares all on Web

I’m not sure how many more shocks to my system I can take, first a gun selling pastor and now a hot female research scientist.
Next thing someone will tell me is there is such a thing as an honest politician.
Yesterday, Jennifer Ouellette, who has written such books as "Black Bodies and Quantum Cats: Tales from the Annals of Physics” and "The Physics of the Buffyverse," reminds us in an article for the Discovery Channel Web site that June 30 was the 100-year anniversary of the mysterious Tunguska event in which a meteorite exploded over a Siberian forest along the Tunguska River in 1908, leveling 2000 square miles of trees.
Damn, here I thought all this time it was that alien Predator thingy.
I watch way too much TV, if there is such a thing as too much.
Check out her article on that and how we will all eventually die.
http://blogs.discovery.com/twisted_physics/

Opening Salvo

Am I the only one that sees a problem with a local church pastor selling guns?
In an article by Josh Lanier in Monday's Independent Tribune, Mike Threadgill, owner of Eagle Guns and pastor of Gordon Heights Baptist Church said business is booming (no pun intended).
There is so many things wrong with this article I don’t know where to begin.
According to the article, Mike said he believes people have the right to own guns for protection and believes more crimes may be prevented if people owned more guns.
Really?
I would never have guessed a gun shop owner would advocate people owning more guns. Hell, I’m surprised he didn’t suggest people buy a gun for every room in their house, and if he did, I’m more surprised Josh didn’t print the quote in this Eagle Guns fluff piece.
Come on; you never know when someone might break into your house while you’re in the throne room.
Apparently, a 60% increase in gun sales isn’t enough for the good pastor. Next thing you know this pastor will be advocating children bringing guns to school – but only if you buy them from him.
Did I miss something?
Did the Pope delete the passage, “Thou shall not kill?”
I wonder what his sermons are like.
“Remember, we are all God’s children, but if one of those children should break into your house, do unto him before he does it to you. To make sure, please visit Eagle Guns and tell them Pastor Mike sent you and receive a 15% discount.”
I guess he’s got to pay for gas somehow.
The worst part of this article comes from Josh himself.
He’s not even trying to be objective.
In the second part of this article Josh interviews Darrell Noles whose father was killed in the recent Sun-drop shooting.
I can only guess at the type of questions Josh asked to illicit Nole’s quote: “If my father would have had a concealed weapon, he could have protected himself.”
No he could not. Sadly, it all happened too damn fast for anyone to react. All that would have happened is the killer would have walked away with the cash 'and' and new gun.
I can at least understand Darrell's point of view considering what just happened, but what I don’t understand is the need to interview a person whose father was just killed by a gun-toting criminal and expect to get any other response then what you got.
Good objective reporting there Josh.
For your next trick make sure you show up at a house fire and ask the father who just lost his wife and six children how he feels.
Where did you get your journalism degree – a crackerjack box?