OIL PRICES

Oil prices crept upward Monday and all those “experts” claim it was because King Fahd of Saudi Arabia died and people were uncertain about how things were going to fall out because of the new King. I hate to sound like I doubt what all these highly educated people are saying but the simple fact is that no such fear existed or at least there was no reason for it. The old king had a stroke in 1995 and Crown Prince Abdullah has been running the country since then. He was quickly appointed as the new king and things go on as they always have.
The real reason for the increase in oil prices is the same one that has caused all the oil and gas prices to go up in the last several months. Greed!!! It’s been going on since the mid seventies and it will continue till the end of time. The oil companies know they can force us to pay the higher prices and they want all the money they can get their crooked little hands on so they raise prices on a whim and then cook up some lie to make it look like it’s totally out of their control.
If shortages and higher crude prices are the case of all the price increases then why are there 1.8 million more barrels of distilled petroleum products available right now than there were a month ago? Just like with so much else that we have to have to live day to day, oil prices are governed by a set of self centered greed motivated executives.


THE INTERNET

A United Nations Working Group study recently released suggests that the United Nations take over running the internet and the agency that oversees the registration of domain names and numbers. Currently this is all done by a not for profit group under the watchful eye of the U. S. Department of Commerce. I can’t help but think that turning the running of the internet over to a group as corrupt as the UN would make as much sense as repairing the space shuttle with Elmer’s glue and duct tape.
Senator Coleman who has read the report says that turning the internet over to the UN would “be a foolish step backwards.” Face it, if it is such a bad idea that a politician can spot it, it has to be really really bad! I frankly couldn’t think of a better way to kill the internet than let the UN run it.



COFFEE SHOP

A lady in Birmingham owns a small coffee shop and was recently approached by a group of atheist that call themselves Universilist and espouse an atheist doctrine. They wanted to hold a meeting in her shop. Since the shop only holds thirty people and group meetings can sometimes get noisy and her shop is rather small she realized that this was a bad idea. That’s where it should end right? Well yes it should but of course it doesn’t.
This lady is a Christian and so the Universilist have decided she is discriminating against them because they are atheist. They are boycotting the shop and trying to organize a counter demonstration reminiscent of the mid sixties south where they take all the seats at the counter and do nothing and buy nothing. Amazing isn’t it. If they were keeping a church group out of a business they owned it would be their right, but since she is a Christian it is discrimination. Well, at least we know why they don’t believe in God. They’re too stupid!!

PARKING TICKETS

A city councilman in Boston has been really big on parking tickets and especially those who don’t pay them. He has proposed doubling the fines and penalties for many of the tickets in order to put a stop to the flagrant disregard of city parking regulations. There are just a few more interesting facts to this story though:
1. In the last two years this councilman has had 115 tickets himself.
2. He has twice been ticketed for illegally parking in a handicap spot.
3. He has been ticketed for blocking a fire hydrant with his car.
4. Ticketed three times for expired registration
5. He has been ticketed for double parking
6. Has illegally parked on emergency snow routes.
7. In all has paid the city $5527 in parking fines in the last two years including $845 in penalties.

Just since this story broke has the noble councilman gone to city hall and picked up his FREE parking sticker allowing him to legally park in his home neighborhood. He says he is human, he makes mistakes. Yeah I think so. The latest is getting caught looking like a fool for picking on someone else when he is a major law violator himself. The total stupidity of some public figures will never cease to amaze me.


A BIBLE COURSE

A “religious” watch dog group in Texas is all upset over a Bible course being offered there in some schools. They claim that the course teaches that the Bible is inspired by God (which it is), that all their science discussions are based on a scriptural viewpoint (which they should be), and that Jesus fulfills Old Testament Prophecy (which He does). The group claims that “No public school student should have a particular religious belief forced on them.” Although barely, this statement just might hold water. The thing is that this is an elective course so even if their allegations are accurate, each student is there because they choose to be, not because the state is forcing them.
Why groups must go so far to eliminate religion, are so scared of God, is a mystery to me. And when that group claims to be religious itself, as does this group, it is even more mind boggling. Obviously there is just enough truth in this class to scare the anti-Christian minority. Way to go Texas!

SOMETHING ROTTEN

Five police officers from Dresden Germany grabbed their friendly cadaver dog and headed to a small village near the Czech border to investigate a foul odor. They fully expected to find a decomposing body of some type but were in for a bit of a surprise. It seems the odor wasn’t from any type of animal tissue but a large stinkhorn fungus. This particular specimen had reached a length of about 20cm (app. 4 inches), larger than usually seen with this particular species. The police headed back to Dresden without citing or taking the fungus into custody.

I wonder if something very similar could be found coming from the office of the junior senator from New York?