Greetings,

    I could well have chosen foreign affairs, or a few other topics, but safety and security will do, since that's what it boils down to. As long as we continue to buy gasoline-powered vehicles and fill them up at the pumps, we will continue to line the pockets of the very people that want to kill us all. It really doesn't make any sense - until you use some Common Sense: 

    What’s been missing in all of the hoo-hah going on today is good ol' common sense. The reality of our world calls for things we simply no longer have, such as access to accurate information and the ability to think for ourselves as individuals, and as a nation. Our colleges have “dumbed-down” their graduates to the point that adult news outlets (magazines and newspapers) seem geared to the elementary school abilities of students from the 1950’s.

    “Whaddya mean by that, pal?!,” you may be thinking. Well, that’s a good question, and I’m glad you asked. Our topic for today, and for some time to come methinks, is Common Sense as it applies to the dangers that beset us here in America in 2006, and they are legion my friends. Watch for an upcoming article in foreign affairs that deals with this issue.

Item 1: If you watch any TV at all, you may have noticed the tremendous increase in car ads. They are pushing high-horsepower, inefficient vehicles. Why are they doing this, you may ask? We all know that the bad guys control the oil flow from the "Middle East," and that fuel prices are at record highs. Luckily, common sense still exists, so stay with me and see if you can connect the dots.

Item 2: Now that you see that something isn’t adding up, let’s think about all the inventions that come and go. You all know what I’m talking about; you talk about them at work, at the ball game, at the bar, with family – you know, devices that people invent to dramatically alter or even remove the need for fossil fuels. Whatever happened to those?? There have been highly efficient electric cars around for quite some time. (check out myersmotors.com) Some of today’s hybrids have an onboard re-charging system that eliminates the need for plugging the vehicle in. Duh – every car in the world has an alternator that recharges the battery. How intelligent is that? Yet this is being touted as “new technology.” We all know good and well that patents are bought from inventors so big oil and our “friends” in Detroit can continue living on cognac and caviar. Over the past ten years, there have been no less than three different inventors that came up with a way to use air as a propellant instead of gasoline. It worked! What do you supposed happened to those inventions?

Item 3: This one is painful, so fasten your seat belts. Every dollar you spend at the pump helps fund the people that want you and your families to die. So, when you buy or lease a new car, you do so with the understanding that the manufacturer has intentionally designed this vehicle to;

a. use lots of gas and oil, making the Islamo-fascists ever more wealthy and dangerous.

b. rust.

c. become obsolete and/or undesirable in two years due to style or high maintenance.

d. make them even richer and,

e. make you think you need something like this in your life, which includes insurance, maintenance, and monthly payments higher than what your parent’s mortgage used to be. In these times, do you really need this? Use some common sense and think about that.

    Once you understand this, you have to ask, “Why are they doing this?,” and “Who are "they?’” Americans, you would think, don’t want to hurt other Americans, right? Kind of makes you wonder who’s pulling the strings, doesn’t it? I mean, if the Islamo-fascists in the Middle-East could paint a scenario for themselves, it would look much like America today – a population dull and spoiled, too flabby and silly to know when they are in mortal danger – and we are indeed. We would rather fund terrorism so we can go 100 mph in our living rooms. Like it or not, that's the bottom line of our lifestyle today.

     The folks we are giving billions of dollars to spend it on weapons that are becoming as sophisticated as what we have to work with. Iran is working on a nuclear weapon and thumbing their noses at the U.N. (Useless Nonsense) and guess what they will do with it the instant the last bolt is in place? Yep, wipe Israel off the map. That’s in their national charter, and every Arab nation over there feels the same way. And Iran is developing and purchasing ever longer-range rockets and missiles from our other pals in China and North Korea. It is only a matter of time before we see them coming towards our shores. 
* I will have more to say about our "friends" in BigOilistan in another article. Look for it under foreign affairs in the next few days*
It is nearly too late, but there is still something we can do.

Solution 1a: Wake up America! I am calling for an all-out strike against all automobile makers, American or otherwise. DO NOT BUY ANY CARS, ESPECIALLY NEW CARS, UNTIL THE MANUFACTURERS RELEASE THE TECHNOLOGY TO CUT OFF OUR DEPENDENCE ON FOSSIL FUELS AND FOREIGN ENEMY OIL!

1b: Until they do, STOP DRIVING AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. TAKE THE BUS,

CARPOOL, WALK, BICYCLE, AND PREFER PUBLIC TRANSPORT THAT

USES ELECTRICAL POWER.

1c. Convert your home heating to either electric or wood. DO NOT heat with gas or oil!

Think about the ramifications of those actions. If we actively, ACTIVELY, do these things and not wait for our neighbors to do them, we could cut off the money supply to the bad guys in short order, or at least reduce it significantly. In time, if we get the technology released, we could do without one drop of their oil. They can keep it all, and drown themselves in it for all we care. DO THIS AMERICA!! WRITE AND CALL YOUR CONGRESSIONAL REPS OFTEN AND TELL THEM THAT THE TIME HAS COME FOR ACTION. THEY WON’T RESPOND, THOUGH, UNTIL THEY SEE YOU ARE SERIOUS AND HAVE STOPPED BUYING CARS AND PAYING TERRORISTS FOR THE FUEL TO RUN THEM!! MAKE SURE YOU DO YOUR PART AND SPREAD THE WORD TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW. THIS IS NOT THE TIME FOR COMFORT AND EASE. WE ARE AT WAR WITH A RUTHLESS ENEMY THAT IS ALREADY ON OUR SHORES!!! DON’T CONTINUE TO SUPPORT THEM WITH YOUR MONEY ANY LONGER!!

This should be an American Revolution! Our Constitution allows from an overthrow of our government if that government is no longer providing for our safety and security, and they most certainly are not! Rather than violence, we can achieve our ends peacefully, but it will take sacrifices. We can no longer live beyond our means. No more going 100 mph in your living room, no more driving a gas-guzzling, bus-sized s.u.v. all by yourself to work every day. If you have to take a hit financially to free yourself from your fossil-fuel car, suck it up. Get yourself an electric or hybrid vehicle, and share it with your fellow workers. Maybe a group can chip in for the vehicle, or maybe, MAYBE, your wealthy employer would be willing to purchase a fleet of vehicles for their employees to car-pool with. Once free from the influence of the foreign oil barons, we would take a much different view of world events. I am working towards doing this now. I have contacted electric vehicle suppliers, Congress, the White House, and many television and radio hosts. I am also working on my own invention that will (hopefully) run on air and batteries. Plus I'm writing this blog!

Colonel Oliver North said it best, although only in passing. A TV journalist was listing for Mr. North the atrocities of the Muslim terrorists in the "Middle East" against their neighbors and how they never fall into condemnation for their actions, which include years of terrorism and rocket attacks against Israeli citizens, yet Israel is constantly vilified for simply defending itself against terrorist attacks. The journalist wanted to know why. The Colonel said, and I paraphrase Mr. North; “To put it bluntly, Israel doesn’t have any oil.” Common Sense tells me that oil is behind the machinations taking place today. Buy oil, support the enemy. It’s that simple. Oil and those that control the oil, are your enemies, be they from Iraq, Saudi Arabia, or Texas. That’s a bitter pill to swallow, but Common Sense tells me that it’s true. Check your wallet and check the news; What has "Big Oil" done for YOU lately??