An Idea Whose Time Has Come

They say that speculators have driven up the per barrel price of oil 40% over what it would be "naturally" be selling for following the natural market forces of supply and demand. I don't know how you can price $125.00 a barrel is too high but I suppose they've taken inventories and know these things. George Bush has supposedly just visited Saudi Arabia and was turned down when he asked the Saudis to increase production of oil. So here's what we should do. I think as President I could declare a "compelling state interest" in ceasing enough control over the oil companies to fix the price of gasoline at the pump to say $2.50 per gallon. This would insure that the necessities of the American people would be satisfied. If there are in fact still shortages I think the President could assume other "executive perogatives" as he has assumed in other areas such as terrorism, and control how much gasoline actually gets sent to stations. If it indeed turns out that gasoline has been over valued then the price will fall and the speculators will get wiped out, but nobody will be shedding a tear. If shortages remain, then people will just have to improvise. They say that necessity is the mother of invention and suddenly things like car pooling that just seemed to "inconvienient" before will, through governmental intervention, suddenly "make sense" after all. I don't know just how much any President can get away with but I say it's about high time that someone should try to push the envelope of executive power. The thing is- there is a "compelling state interest" because our economy is going into the tank and prices all over with food and such are being driven up and truckers are being squeezed and airlines are going out of business. Of course corporations that refused to comply would be sumarily "detained" just like those in Guantanamo Bay, untill they did.

The big joke now is "What does George Bush call a Nazi?" and the answer is "Grandpa". Prescott Bush apparently made his fortune laundering Nazi money and was later prosecuted but somehow all the charges got thrown out. As to Bush's statements in Israel, I wasn't bothered by them and I really think Obama overreacted to them. Had Obama said nothing the statement would have blown over and would now be forgotten. As it is now it's a republican debating point that Obama is soft on terrorists. I certainly think Bush's ties to Saudi Arabia should be talked about during this campaign. Obama should put HIM on the defencive rather than the other way around. I think Prescott Bush's life ought to be given a new airing- - and people including myself should be made plainly aware of the facts. Condemnation by imuendo and association works, we all know that. Joe Biden referred to the President's remarks in Israel as "Bullshit and malarky". But the fact that Obama is perceived as less than pro Jewish is not "malarky" but has been pretty well established. Rather than defend his own record, or lack of one, Obama should go on the attack by changing the subject and reminding the people that fifteen or the nineteen hijackers of 9 - 11 were from Saudi Arabia. Just think about it.

This supreme court ruling on gay marriage in California will never stand. I wouldn't be a bit surprised if the edict were never allowed to go into effect but a "Stay" was put on the ruling untill after the November election. At that time there will be a proposed constitutional amendment stating that marriage shall consist of one man and one woman. Let's face it. Gay Marriage is one idea whose time has NOT come. Few people will complain is not one gay is allowed to be married. Apparently the polling on this issue is 61% of the people in California prefer a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. They say gays all over the nation are watching California to see what they do. If this pro gay ruling were allowed to standing it would be the most outragious ruling since Roe verses Wade. Nobody has overturned that one yet but this time we are ready for them, and over a million people are already to sign petitions.

WHY I DON'T THINK IT EVEN MATTERS

OK I'm going to talk about the theory of relativity a little more. One reason why the whole theory doesn't make sense is that for us to perceive time "speeding up" and "slowing down" and space expanding and shrinking, we would have to have some constant to measure it against. But if time slowed down one milisecond, then the speed of light would not be a constant. The theory of relativity says the one constant in the Universe is the speed of light. But if we could actually measure time speeding up and slowing down, we would also be measuring alterations in the speed of light. If you want to cheat a little with the math you could say in einstinian math that one half the speed of light, plus another half- - equals three fourths. Two thirds plus two thirds equals eight nineths, and three fourths plus three fourths equals 15/16. While it's true that from ONE VIEWING DIRECTION all the things Einstein says may appear to be true- - but viewed from any other direction such as laterally or approaching- - his bold thesis falls apart. The whole theory could be done away with and replaced by much explanations we do see for things we "can't explain". The theory is kind of an article of Faith, just like saying Jesus is God. But the trouble is then we start defining what we perceive about Jesus' life in terms of his being a God. If Jesus were ever presumptuous sounding or egotistical, we say "Well, it's because he's God and he knew it". But what about his suffering. Is it really worse than say some scientist shipwrecked on a tropical island and slowly dying of some horrible tropical disease? Is it worse than people like Joan of Ark, or for that matter, John Mc Cain suffered. For who else does suffering have a clear expiration date or the Exit sign so well lit? If Jesus was a 33 year old virgin, would not a forty year old virgin beat out his record? I noticed back in 1991 that one thing you don't see in reports of Jesus's life is Jesus ever being given or following a direct order? Who's really more humble? Jesus or the average working stiff working overtime he resents? And so it is with the theory of relitivity. We only believe in it because "It's there". And we assume it's holy writ. But bringing back the ether theory will explain most of the problems the theory perports to solve, and much more simply. That's my opinion; how about yours?