Five Dollar a Gallon Gasoline is Coming

We are in a worldwide oil crisis. The price of a barrel of oil this morning has risen to $135.00 per barrel. There is no indication, as with housing, that this "bubble" will burst and prices will collapse. Indeed world wide demand is continuing to rise all the time as China and India citizens continue to purchase automobiles for the first time. What's more, the reason why the Saudis and the Russians as well as other OPEC nations like Venesuela aren't increasing production to meet demand is that they don't have it. We have entered a C change in the world energy ballance where there is a world wide shortage situation all the time. People in this country say demand will not appreciably drop unless gasoline rises to six or seven dollars a gallon, and this is certainly foreseeable. Indeed some have predicted gasoline prices in excess of ten dollars a gallon in the US. $150.00 per barrel for crude is very forseeable and we may see that before summer's end. Of course our economy will be cripples as long as prices are this high. Our transportation system for goods and services will be squeezed as truckers struggle to stay in business. Airline travel may become a thing of the past except for the very rich. We should all be ready for a repeat of the 1970's and our old friend, Stag-flation. Some remedies are obvious. We need to open Anwar up for drilling in the Arctic. New oil has been discovered in the Gulf of Mexico and Chevron has six wells already and the find is expected to yield several hundred million barrels of oil. We will need every bit of that. As long as our US dollar continues to be devalued by our President's trade policies, the price of crude oil will continue to rise. Even now about half of the rise in price is explainable by a drop in the value of the US dollar abroad. Obviously we need to find alternative energy sources but knowing human psychology the price may have to rise past $150.00 per barrel for enough people to get off their asses and do something about it. The House yesterday passed a bill to make OPEC price gauging illegal and for the US to investigate and perhaps bring criminal charges. But even though the bill was passed in excess of a two-thirds majority, the bill will have tough sledding in the Senate, and the current president will probably never sign it. Randi Rhodes and others have proposed measures that could be instituted to get the price of oil down. Clearly we need some sort of windfall profits tax. If you make the tax on profits steep enough, corporations will lose their incentive to gauge for that last dollar because they'll only have to pay it to the government.

I was watching Goleft.tv yesterday and there was a guy on the stage dressed in a nice suit like a Christian evangelist with styled hair and everything, only he was a spokesman for Air America. He spoke of the "glimmer in the eye" that executives of G E had in 1966 had in launching Ronald Reagan into politics remaking the political landscape. They have accomplished all their goals. They have gotten rid of anti trust laws, they have re-made the Supreme Court, and they have abolished the Fairness doctrine in 1987 so that the people are only hearing one side of the news. It's pretty much right wing radio or nothing at all in too much of the country. People in the South may never even have heard of things like the US torturing prisoners. They're much more concerned about Brittany Speers or Paris Hilton's latest arrest. The US population is strangulating on an all sugar diet of info-tainment. We are in that George Orwell world where the media tells us what to think, and the comon people believe every word.

Hillary Clinton's candidicy is alive and well. Now she has surged ahead in the popular vote if you count Michigan and Florida. Hillary told the people yesterday, "You people in Florida did not break any party rules". It's hard to fight the cry of "count the votes". They say May 31st. is a key day when a decision will be made. We know that with Hillary as candidate we will have a fighter running, even though she is a dishonist, dirty fighter. If I had to guess right now I'd say that the Michigan and Florida deligates will be seated, as is. I think the political pressure will be too great to resist the "will of the people" even though Obama's name was not on the ballot in Michigan. The fact is that Hillary since the first of March has one most of the contests in the major states. She's won the popular vote in Texas, Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Kentucky. That's an impressive block of states. Hillary easily won the agragate popular vote in last Tuesday's elections. Some of us "Obamakins" will just have to shut up and like it, or else vote Republican, which is what I have consitered doing though no decisions are set in concrete yet. I want to see how Mc Cain stacks up issue by issue that I really care about. I think Obama was the last hope of the liberals hoping to clean up the ethics of congress and diminish the power of lobbiests. Mc Cain's influence from the lobbiiest is of the utmost concern to me.

THE SECRET OF SKULL AND BONES

"The material for today's movie is not new. You've seen it through and through. You've seen your life, and your death. You may remember all the rest. Did you have a good world when you died?" These words of course are from Jim Morrison. Today as you may or may not know is the probable anniverary of us Bosc mates getting "Bones" as a kitten one Saturday night, either May 22nd. or 29th. and I'm leaning twords the former. Some people might say that Mark Campbell "became me" because he took my old bedroom at the Bosc house. Of course, all of the Boscs were Indiana Jones fans. That's almost a requirement to being a Bosc. Bosc, of course stands for Blue Oyster Secret Cult, and Jim Cooper came up with that achronym. Jim Cooper of course is an avid Indiana Jones fan. The secret to the Oyster is that if it contains a pearl, the pearl, representing the Christian Church, is really built upon a grain of sand that gets trapped in the Oyster. The sand represents something basically alien to what people think a Pearl is. As you may or not know- - Stewart Sutcliffe has had many incarnations. He was John the Baptist. Later he was that Priest in Renes Le Chateau named Soniere, who extorted money from the Roman Catholic Church threatening to expose some secret. And finally Stewart was a black and white cat. A black cat with seven white spots. You may also know by way of review that historically there is NO CONNECTION between the ministries of John the Baptist and Jesus. The deciples were separate, and in my oppinion unequal. John the Baptist lived about 30 AD. As you may also know the Knight's Templar worshipped a skull and crossbones, that were roomered to be the remains of John the Baptist. The Knights were an organization for a while used by the Church to try and take back the Holy Land from the infadels. But they were mistrusted because they were rich, and fell into disfavor. The Skull and Bones fraternaty is a continuation of this legasy. As to the Pirate flag, the black in Romulan symbology symbolizes "submission to God". Silver symbolizes redemption. Stewart is insensed to this day that the desciples of Jesus "ripped off his ministry". Stewart regards Jesus as a man who became a phoney. In truth there was a multiple "analog" or historicity of Jesus. Jesus is noted for his many meracles and yet in his last week on earth he didn't seem to do meracles while in Jerusalem. Is this for "unknown reasons" or could it be that this last week's activities was actually describing a different man? As you may also know, Judas of Galilee had many sons and several just coincidentally had the same names as Jesus alledged brothers, such as Simon and Judas. There was a revolutionary named Theudius, who lived in 44 AD. Our theory is that Theudius had a brother named John or Jonah, who was responsible for the "meracles" that are attributed to Jesus. There is also another man and the reference books note him, who came before Pilate and said the famous line "I will tear down this temple and in three days I will build it up again". Supposidely Pilate tagged him as insane and had him carted off somewhere. But you say "what about the Jesus we all worship?" OK, two desciples of (?) who lived in Egypt came up with the core Gospel. They were Matthew and Mark. They were desciples of Philo of Alexandria, who in our theory visited Palestine in the year AD 35, which in the Hebrew "Jubilee year" figuring it was the "favorible year of the lord". My guess is it was this Jesus who went around telling people "I'm the son of God but keep it a secret". This is also the Jesus who met up with James, a mysterious person who had some sort of influence in the Temple in Jerusalem in the middle of the first century. We know little about him. We also know that Jesus, or Philo of Alexandria, was known to be alive in Egypt after 33 AD or 35 AD. We know that he may have been called "Crestus" and that the Christians of Rome in Nero's time were followers of this Crestus. Now if you're fermiliar with StarTrek I, the movie you know that two different sattlites or probes were sent into space. One was an explorer probe and the other was some kind of agricultural sattalite, and these two "combined their forces" when they were both damaged, and what emerged was this killer Voyager of the movie. Well, I believe that these followers of "Crestus" met up with Paul about 95 AD and that Gnosticisum was infused into the other Jewish followers of Crestus. Paul mixed up these vials and out of it came the witch's brew today we know as the Church. "Strange brew - kill what's inside of you!"