So here it is.  What’s really important?

What set of beliefs, goals, or anything else is it that people really want?  Is it to live out a life peacefully?  To have a home?  A family?  Mabe food?  The right to terminate a pregnancy if your daughter that was a product of rape from your father was raped by your father (dad rapes his daughter, daughter gets pregnant, then father rapes his daughter he had with his daghter)?  The right to practice sodomy with your loved one?  [Here's a hint -- sodomy is oral sex too!]  Maybe people only want to breathe?

I’ve been saying for years that the only thing people can do for free these days is breathe, but only until they find a way of cleaning the air — apparently in Canada they’ve recently created some CO2 scrubber for the environment.  Know what that means?  Yep, as soon as it’s used, you’ll have to pay money to breath too.

More and more people seem to be diagnosed with depression these days.  People seem to be diagnosed with some disease constantly.  Think for a few moments and see how many people you know that have no diseases.  I’m talking about any diagnosed thing from migraines to cancer.  How many people do you know?  Any?

Everything’s getting to the point of businesses are deciding who gets elected to make sure they get money whenever they want – and laws passed to keep them in business.  Then the businesses create things that make it so you either have to pay them for their services, or risk losing your kids, house, or just being thrown in jail (some places have a “you must have city water and sewer or else”, not saying that it in itself is bad….).  Now while a number of these business services (food, water, etc) are useful and basically required for life — we could live without them (albeit at a drastically reduced population and potentially more health problems).

The main problem with a lot of things is that you have no choice in it.  Want water?  You’ve got to pay.  Think you can take it from a river?  Well…. depends on who owns the river in the area.  Even if you don’t get arrested, you might be breaking the law by drinking it – or even risking your life if some corporation’s dumping in it.  Think you can grow your own food?  Yeah, but you’ve got to own the land.  Own land?  OK… but you’ve still got to pay taxes.  Need money?  Well then you’ve got to work for a business, or just of had a good inheritance.

So what is important to you?  If you want freedom to live in peace, don’t vote for the democrats or republicans.  They’re the candidates for the corporations.

This is another post regarding the fall festival that took place October 4, 2008

One of the biggest complaints I had about the fall festival around me was the waste of gas.  And no, I don’t mean because there were more cars, trucks and SUV’s than you could shake a stick at in the parade either.  What I’m talking about is a local construction company that for some reason decided to put his entire fleet of Semis, Back hoes (large construction digging vehicles), etc in the parade.  We’re talking large black smoke puffing loud vehicles.  They weren’t throwing candy, weren’t handing out anything (or if they were, they ran out long before where I was at) — they were there for the purpose of advertising their company.

Now don’t get me wrong, that in itself isn’t a bad thing — but they didn’t need their fleet of vehicles in the parade wasting gas to do it.  They could’ve walked, or had, I don’t know, a float in the parade made by them?  Think of it, it’s a construction company that builds houses and lays concrete!  I doubt making a float would be difficult — they could’ve even used spare parts from their projects to save money.

But it wasn’t just me thinking this.  I heard a number of people commenting about the wasting of gas, and how they were practically bragging about their money when most of the people they were parading in front of have been conserving gas just to survive.  I was actually surprised that I heard people commenting about it — even more so that I saw some people shaking their heads in obvious disbelief that they even thought of doing it.

i know there’s a lot of people happy over this, but really it’s not a good thing.  People have stopped walking around more – instead they’re taking their cars places again.  Prices in the store haven’t dropped (around me at least).  No other discounts on products or services that were raised “because of the gas prices”.

Yet I kept on hearing people saying “if gas was lower prices will drop in the stores!  Yeah…. what happened was all these places discovered that people would spend more money for things, so now there’s no reason to drop them — more money for the businesses.  Now I don’t blame them entirely… as you never know what the gas prices will be one day to another — but i just goes to show that the prices people were used to won’t be around anytime soon.

But doesn’t it seem all-too-suspecious that prices dropped right around election time?  Sometimes a coincidence is a coincidence — other times not.  But considering that there’s basically one party in favor of the oil companies and a number of other parties, well not “against” but not as “favorable” towards them, it sure does seem to be an election plot by the oil.

Media chooses who does and doesn’t get spots and when during shows, and the edit the news for what’s “newsworthy” which has the effect of deciding who gets elected in a sense — and now the oil companies help out the other way to make it “balanced” —- or other company based on the election, but generally the media seems more democrat based than republican, although I’ve seen them be “discriminating” against both parties in my lifeime.

That’s right everyone, if you drill it, it won’t make it cheaper.  And it doesn’t even take a brain to realize why:

• It’d cost millions to find the oil and find a way to reach it
• It’d cost millions to reach the oil once we find it
• It’d cost millions to get the oil pumping to the surface and onto ships to be offloaded on shore
• Oh, and it’d take up to 5 years (one year at best) to even get the oil to us.

So after the price of gas keeps on going higher, and higher, and higher…. we’ll get the “low, low” prices of more than we’re spending now if the oil is found.  But here’s the thing.  We need to stop looking for oil for gas.  We need oil for so many other things (no more roads, cars, motors, problems with getting new homes, medicine, clothing, etc), that we need to move away from the fuel now.

We have the technology, and in all honesty not everyone needs a car.  Not everyone has a car.  If you can walk, and don’t have more than a three mile trip to work — you don’t even need wheels.  But I digress.

We could find out that the center of the earth isn’t magma — it’s really oil — and it won’t do a single thing for gas prices today, next month, or even next year.  It’ll be so far into the “gas price” future that when the discount does finally hit, we’ll literally be paying more for gas than we are now and considering it a “low” price!

I remember paying under a $1 for gas, and thinking $1.14 was too expensive.  The it became standard, then $1.14 was cheap.  Then $2 was the new $1.  Then $3 became the new $2.  Right now at the pumps — I look forward to only having to spend $4/gal for gas — because it’s “cheap”.  A year ago papers put in “gas prices to hit all time high over $4!”  Now it’s “Gas ONLY $4 might be around the corner!”  Assuming gas prices will raise $.50/yr, if it took 5 years to get a break on gas — gas will be about $6.50/gal standard.  Do you really think they’d cut it back to the old gas prices?

When the oil companies boast “record profits” you know there’s not a shortage so much — but it does make a person wonder: are the oil companies trying to get people to stop buying gas?  A number are investing in alternative fuels (even putting them on site).  Makes a person wonder what they know, and aren’t telling others.  It’s almost as if the oil companies know there’s a oil problem — and they’re gouging everyone now so they can keep afloat while they convert their entire business to other sources.

But then, maybe they just really do want to rake in so much cash they could build a house from $100 bills and have it be structually sound.