Replying to a message of JIM HOLSONBACK to BOB ACKLEY:

 BA>> Seems to me that the price of a barrel of crude could drop all the
 BA>> way down to a dime and the retail price of gasoline/diesel wouldn't
 BA>> drop much below  $2/gallon.

 JH> It's depressing to read statements like that.  The level of cynicism
 JH> and negativity I see these days coming from the Fidoliberals is just
 JH> amazing.

I find it amusing that you right wingers label me a liberal because I criticize
the present administration.  I rarely have anything good to say about Democrooks
too; and I didn't have much if anything good to say about Bush minor's immediate
predecessor during that administration, but you guys ignore that.  FYI I will most
likely sit out the 2008 election; the first time for that since 1964, I will not vote
for any of the four candidates presently running, I'd love to be able to vote against
*all* of them.

In any case, I've found that if one always assumes and expects the worst,
especially about and from government at any level, one is seldom surprised -
and since the worst is expected whatever surprise there is will be pleasant.
Cynic?  Certainly.  And proud of it, been one for decades.  Curmudgeon?  Sure,
you can throw that one in too.

Remember, politicians got their reputation the old-fashioned way.  They earned it.
(Apologies to the late John Houseman - for those unaware it's from an old
Smith-Barney
commercial - hmmm, very old, I haven't watched television regularly for over 25 years
now).  Mark Twain had their number a century ago, he just didn't go far
enough.  In the
US today, there's no such thing as an honest politician, and hasn't been
for the better part
of half a century.  People are (finally) starting to notice, thus the
popularity numbers.

I was, BTW, absolutely *astounded* at the recent USSC decision WRT Sodom-on-the-
Potomac's gun control laws.  I thought that was going to be a done deal for the gun
grabbers (because in order to control the population government must first disarm it,
and absolute control of the population is the demonstrable goal of both the left and
right wings in this country).  And, of course, it was *pleasant* astonishment.

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