Hey, everyone: Listen to me for a second, please.

[Redstone]

"We are addicted to oil."

Translation: Federal gasoline taxes will double (at least) within ninety days.

And not one red cent of the money will be used to fund alternative-evergy vehicles, or conservation, or hybrid technology.

ALL of it will be thrown down the rathole of Iraq.

Save this post, and tell me three months from now if I'm wrong.

Redstone

[yvr girl]

1. How did your long drive go

Are you home safely, or in a hotel somewhere?

[Redstone]

3. It went quite well, thanks for asking. The weather was miserable,

but the traffic, astonishingly, was light. I guess a lot of people stayed home.

So nice to know that there are people here who look out for me and worry about me. I'm NOT being sarcastic. It's a good feeling.

Redstone

[RevCheesehead]

2. dammit, Redstone -

I hate it when you're right. :cry:

I will, by necessity, be doing a lot of driving this year. :(

[Redstone]

7. I hate it when I'm right about stuff like this, too.

An increase in the gasoline tax fits the Repub agenda perfectly...it comes out of the hides of regular folks like you, and doesn't bother rich bastards one little bit.

(It also doesn't affect me, because we live in town and don't HAVE to drive much. But that doesn't stop me from being angry about it affecting people who DO have to drive a lot. Unlike bushyboy, I do care about other people.)

Redstone

[redwitch]

9. I am a sales rep.

upstate NY. $4.00 or more per gallon? I am out of a job.

[Sugar Smack]

4. I KNOW< JESUS GOD, this will NEVER STOP!!!!

EVER.

[Redstone]

8. Hey, thanks for howling abut that phrase in your post, Sugie.

That's what got me started to thinking about it.

Take it easy, kiddo. Don't let this stuff get under your skin. Too bad you don't live nearby; I'd come over and apply tequila to your bruised sensibilities until you felt better.

Redstone

[Sugar Smack]

10. Thank you, my honey.

I can't really comprehend what I'm hearing on tv.

I love you! :loveya:

[lildreamer316]

5. Noted. Here's mine:

<requires large tin foil hat>)(but for some reason; this rings true to me): OBL does not exist. Or if he is an actual person; he is not nearly as important as made out to be. Please know that I am not like this. My husband said this to me out of the blue one night; and he is not one to come up with crackpot theories. Just sayin'.
Am bookmarking thread for later--I will bet that you are right.

[RevCheesehead]

6. I thought that was an episode of the X-Files.

Except it was Saddam Hussein they claimed to have invented.

Hmmm... you don't suppose they got the idea from Mulder, do ya? :(

[FuzzySlippers]

11. Thomas Fuckwit Friedman

just suggested a big increase in the gas tax, so everyone will have an incentive to go out and buy hybrid cars.

:rofl:

[Redstone]

13. Ha! did I call it, or what?

Redstone

[FuzzySlippers]

14. Glad you made it back home safely, Redstone!

:hi:

[Redstone]

15. Thank you, FS. Am I the luckiest SOB there is, or what?

Big fat greeting from Mrs R and the Little Guy when I got home tonight (he babbled at me for fiteen minutes nonstop), then I have friends at DU who remember that I talked about going on a trip today...Don't care what the temperature is outside, I have a nice warm glow going right now.

Redstone

[LSK]

12. post this in GD when the bloodbath ends later this week

[Redstone]

16. Thank you for the great suggestion, LSK. I'll do just that.

Redstone