Americans = Idiots On The Higest Magnitude

Recent reports have stated that far too many students can't pass the High School Exiting Exams. In fact some kids are suing their State government, because they've passed all their classes and done everything else required by their school district to get a diploma, but the State says no.

One huge problem with the United State Education System is that each little township controls the educational standards.

Funny thing is people enjoy being dumb. Take the Gas Pricing, it's averaged out to 2.51/gallon. Pretty much what it was when everyone was screaming bloody murder last year, and the Oil Industry made such record profits that the leaders of that Industry (part of the Bush cabal) have been called up to testify in front of Theocratic control GOP run Congress.

And do the under-40 set give a shit? Nope!

The public is so selfishly caught up in what ever else is infecting their puny little lives that they've just absorbed the price hike like it ain't no thing.

What it is, is a Tax that feeds the corporate robber barons, instead of the government, to pay for the War In Iraq. Bush is playing it smart, he's refusing to raise taxes, because that just puts money in the hands of the Government; by enabling the petroleum industry to gouge the fuck out of the consumer, the so-called Gas Tax is making all the Bushies who are getting no-bid hand-outs, uh I mean contracts, from the Government more wealthy than they need to be.

What's the biggest kick in the pants (or should I say nutsack) is that Hybrid Car sales are faltering, because consumers have "done the math" and feel that the premium price tag of the hybrid doesn't off-set the higher gas prices (at their current level, they will go up by next summer, breaching $3/gal. for most places except the Heartland of America) IN THE MUTHAFUCKIN' SHORT RUN.

The issue with hybrid cars is not to save a quarter or two at the pump, but to ween the country off of diminishing fossil fuels for transportation; thereby localizing oil for use only as a power source for the Big Grids that juice up our over-populated megaopolises.

If I still didn't owe money on my car (5 payments left!!!), I look into getting a hybrid. Only thing is I'm NEVER going to have a Car Note again. Which means that if I don't the cash to pay for it, or some other income stream that can handle the car note and still pay for the rest of car owning expense AND still kick me a little cash, then I'm not getting rid of my current car for another 3 to 5 years.

Have you ever seen how the Taliban-esque Evangelical Christians that dominate the South and Republican politics believe in this janky-ass concept called Imminent Rapture? Not the expert, it's basically a concept where the Earth is 'bout to get ass-fucked and only the true believers of Christ's teachings (as outlined by people like Jerry Falwell) will survive by going to Heaven (apparently there's a whole cottage industry on this belief, with millions of books being sold and converting Southerns into this boolshit line of thinking). Anyway, the shameless trick about Imminent Rapture is that it forecasts a wild explosion of the society that we know, which makes planning for the future, completely and totally unnecessary.

We can listen to Prez. Bush with a tin ear, 'cause he doesn't really have to means or power or political clout to ween the adicted American economy off of oil from those chumps in the Middle East.

Americans will reap what they've sown. Malcolm X said it, and I'm saying it again.