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August 19, 2008

Drilling Me Softly ….

Biggy Rat and Itchy Brother are back in the news. Obammer reported today that he is going to try and do something about gasoline prices in America.  Part of his new policy of “hope and change” which is basically “I hope they do not remember all these promises, and I sure hope things do change.“  He is pretty sure he is not able to either walk on water or change it into petroleum at this stage of the game.

McSame continues to run all over the country pandering votes, and ignoring roll calls in Washington DC on critical issues concerning energy.  Two of which recently failed by “one vote” and on one of them, he was in his office, but did not bother to go to the floor for the vote. I understand he was in Aspen this weekend, big hotbed of voters there? More >>>

His new policy seems to be convincing young people of America that “liver spots” are the new tattoo of the twenty-first century.  And flip flopping on drilling in Anwar. McCain earlier said he’s “more than happy” to consider flip-flopping on Alaskan oil drilling, but then quickly back-tracked, reiterating his position that the Refuge “is a pristine place and if they found oil in the Grand Canyon, I don’t think I’d drill in the Grand Canyon.”

I have been to the canyon, even rode a goofy lop-eared mule named Sarah to the bottom and this is a safe bet John, there aint no oil in the canyon ……… Trust me.

John McCain is talking a lot about opening up new areas to offshore drilling, and now Barack Obama appears willing to consider the idea, too. A government report supposedly found that drilling won’t lower gas prices, but I’ve also heard that the report was flawed. What’s the deal with offshore drilling, why all the focus on this?

How about solar, how about wind.  How about just showing up to vote on the bills when they come up for a vote. Or the rather obvious solution to this entire problem. How about you boys try removing your collective heads out of the part of you that goes over the fence last!

Three months is a long time during a presidential campaign. Back in early June, neither candidate supported any additional offshore drilling. Now, the Outer Continental Shelf has become Topic A in the presidential race.  Talk about “wind-power” these guys blow back n forth like sunflowers on the Kansas Prairie.

I sure hope that neither of these two guys are “sperm donors” anywhere.

Perhaps we should do like this lady in Estherville, Iowa, did this past week.  I am reading where an elderly woman has been rescued from the trunk of a car that was discovered on a farm in Emmet County in western Iowa.  Sheriff’s officials say a landowner found what looked like an abandoned vehicle on Wednesday afternoon. The man reportedly looked into the car, found a hole in the back seat and discovered there was a person inside the trunk.

Sheriff’s officials say when they arrived at the scene they talked with the 70-year-old woman and eventually found keys and opened the trunk.  They did not identify the woman, who they say was dehydrated and incoherent.

Authorities say foul play is not suspected.  Sheriff’s officials say Spirit Lake police had notified law enforcement on Monday that an elderly woman was reported missing. They didn’t confirm whether it was the same woman who was found in the trunk on Wednesday.  After reading all the way through my copy of USA Today there are times when I feel that she possibly has the best idea.

Drill that boys…

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Internet Flamers

Filed under: Oklahoma,random,Recent,Uncategorized — ldsrr91 @ 4:11 AM
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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:  “Men are from earth … Women are from earth … Deal with it.”

Not long ago I ventured over to a familiar haunt of mine on the net and was surprised by the content.  The author had chosen this medium to flame someone who had evidently done him wrong, and his choice of words on the subject were as we would say, “rather inappropriate.”

Really surprised me as I enjoyed this site quite a lot and it seemed so pointless and unnecessary.  Later on in the day, he pulled the offensive material down, evidently having second thoughts about it.

When I happen onto a site that is laced with profanity, hate speech or downright rudeness, I tend to not hang around all that long.  And taking it one step further, if you do this sort of thing on any kind of regular basis, you are not going to build up any kind of readership at all.  It is a turn off, plain and simple.

At least that is my take on it.

If you write one of these things (blogs) with any kind of consistency you are eventually going to have to deal with people who do not share your opinions or outlook on life.  That is a given.  Every now then you find a terse message written to you that is hurtful, mean spirited, and downright nasty.  It is the nature of the beast, and there are people who are going to avail themselves of the anonymity feature of the net.

One of the most alluring things about the Internet is the “Anonymity” of it.  People feel as if they can come on here, and say or do anything they want, because virtually no one is going to track them down and politely shove their head in a wastebasket.  I affectionately refer to these poor lost souls as “Trollers or Flamers.”  They come in, take the shot, and then silently go away (most of the time).

There are after all, no penalty’s for being rude and stupid on the net.

Necessity is the Mother of Invention they say, so it had to happen, along comes NiceCritic.com.  You go there and you will find a nice collection of pre-packaged “comments” for those who are shall we say, too timid to make their own.  All the comments are courteous and polite to a point, regular flamers will not appreciate this, but for the timid and the shy amongst us, it is the perfect retreat.

“One academic study has shown that people correctly interpret the intended tone of an e-mail only about 50 percent of the time. Justin Kruger, a professor of marketing at New York University who co-authored the study in 2006, says NiceCritic is a bit like teasing. “Good intentions are often much less obvious to the other person than the teaser thinks,” Kruger says. “Even well-meaning individuals can be expected to have their well-meaning attempts go awry.”

From my own personal standpoint, I have often found this to be true.

Now there is hope for the passive-aggressive behavior impaired in our society.  NiceCritic.com … We now have a site, where you can tell someone to go to hell (in a nice way), and actually have them looking forward in great anticipation to the trip.

What’s next?

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