Price Gouging

Lets discuss price gouging !

It seems that when ever there is a natural disaster , people tend to try and price gouge for items that are everyday use needs . Milk , water , bread etc: It is obvious when it happens , and in the last few years it has become a subject that the law has looked at and made illegal in the USA.

Not only is it illegal , but its immoral to treat people with such disdain and lack of care and consideration. When the people around us are hurting , why would ANYONE wish to profit from that misery is beyond me . I guess the worlds " lack of love" is a sure sign that peoples "spiritual training" in many cases is just a label .

But I wont dwell on that , the main reason I mention this today is because we see price gouging taking place right now and the government is just as much to blame as the company executives are.

Of what am I referring ? FUEL PRICES !!

The American people , well quite frankly the whole world is being " Price Gouged " with the high fuel prices . There is actually very little direct connection to the cost of a barrel of oil and the cost of a gallon of diesel or gas. Which brings me to another question , Diesel is the cheapest to make and the most expensive to buy , WHY !! PRICE GOUGING !!

If you or I were to double our prices on items of daily need we could be prosecuted , and yet the government allows it to be done daily to us and they stand ZERO responsibility in court !

The Major reason for the high diesel and gas prices is driven , NOT by the wars , NOT by the lack of fuel , NOT by the cost of a barrel of oil !

It is driven by greed ! HOW ? Quite simple actually , People are dumping money into oil stocks right now because they want to get rich off the plight of others . ( see earlier comment )
Have you put money in the stock market for oil? If yes you are PART OF THE PROBLEM !

Want prices to drop , sell your stock , make the oil companies stocks of less value and watch the prices come down . The problem is , it wont work , do you know why ?

Because we live in a dog eat dog , look out for number one , I'm a selfish jerk who deserves to be rich no matter how it affects my neighbor , world !

There is a disaster taking place RIGHT NOW ! And the world is at the hands of Price gouging , not only by the companies but by the governments they live under .

Sad to say , we are a people who talk about whats needed and complain about what is happening , but when the chips are down , most will look out for "me and mine " and that's a sad commentary for the world .

Yes we see price gouging , and no , in reality NOTHING will be done about it !

Sad isnt it !

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HUH ?? Turn Signal ! HUH??

OK I guess I am a felon now . LOLOL I was pulled over today and given a written warning .

Kinda went like this .


"Make a right hand turn" " Look behind me and see red lights"

OK , whats up with this . I pulled over and took out my wallet and insurance card, watching people watch me as I sit there waiting for this Police Officer to walk up to my car .

He approached my car , looked me over and said " SIR do you know why I stopped you ?

Now I know we have all heard these words before , and sometimes a person has the urge to give a smart @$$ answer like " Yes , but sorry , I'm married ! " Any way I bit my tongue and said . NO I don't think I did anything wrong Officer .

Now in this fellas defence , I don't want anyone to think he was being rude , he was quite civil , he smiled and was polite enough so he wasn't being a Jackwagon .

He did then look me in the eye and said and I quote ! " You failed to use your turn signal at that last turn"

NOW I wanted to be a Smart @$$ . I guess I looked Dumbfounded . Immediately , I thought about all the murders , Bank Robbery's , Kidnappings , Meth Producers , Dirty Politicans Etc: that are going down as we speak , and we are taking 20 min out of both of our days because of a turn signal ?

I looked him in the eye and said " Your Kidding Right"? He Proudly said NOPE !

I sat there thinking of all the obvious things that I appreciate my tax monies being spent on , Positive things . And I donate several dollars to various law enforcement agencies each year .

So this isn't about anti police , I'm all for them , play golf with several . Have friends on the force !

DIDN'T USE MY TURN SIGNAL ??

OK !! He came back to my vehicle and handed me a "warning ticket " And I DO appreciate that , my 20 yr run without a ticket fine is still intact . However !

Was that REALLY A NECESSARY 20 minutes of my life ?

OK Ill get off the soapbox . And I will continue to support the local law enforcement !

Hows about we get a lil more realistic about why people are pulled over , ok?

The Turn Signal Kid Signing Off !!

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Do Bears REAAALYY Do it in The woods ?

A priest, a preacher and a Rabbi walked into their favorite Coffeeshop , where they would get together two or three times a week for Coffee and Pie and to talk shop.

On this particular afternoon, someone made the comment that preaching to people isn't really all that hard. A real challenge would be to preach to a bear.

One thing led to another and they decided to do an experiment. They would all go out into the woods, find a bear, preach to it, and attempt to convert it.

Seven days later, they're all together to discuss the experience.

Father Flannery, who has his arm in a sling, is on crutches, and has various bandages, goes first.
"Well," he says, "I went into the woods to find me a bear. And when I found him I began to read to him from the Catechism. Well, that bear wanted nothing to do with me and began to slap me around. So I quickly grabbed my holy water, sprinkled him and, Holy Mary Mother of God, he became as gentle a lamb. The bishop is coming out next week to give him first communion and confirmation."

Reverend Billy Bob spoke next. He was in a wheelchair, with an arm and both legs in casts, and an IV drip. In his best fire and brimstone oratory he claimed, " WELL brothers, you KNOW that we don't sprinkle! I went out and I FOUND me a bear. And then I began to read to my bear from God's HOLY WORD! But that bear wanted nothing to do with me. So I took HOLD of him and we began to wrestle. We wrestled down one hill, UP another and DOWN another until we came to a creek. So I quick DUNKED him and BAPTIZED his hairy soul. And just like you said, he became as gentle as a lamb. We spent the rest of the day praising Jesus."

They both looked down at the rabbi, who was lying in a hospital bed. He was in a body cast and traction with IV's and monitors running in and out of him. He was in bad shape.

The rabbi looks up and says, "Looking back on it, circumcision may not have been the best way to start."

???? HUH ?????

A convicted killer was put to death by injection in Arizona after the U.S. Supreme Court lifted a restraining order that questioned the safety of a foreign-made drug used in the execution.

The first of three drugs administered to Jeffrey Landrigan during the execution was sodium thiopental, a sedative that's in short supply in the U.S. because of raw material problems with its sole American manufacturer. Arizona said Tuesday it got a new supply of the drug from Britain, but Landrigan's lawyers challenged that in court because federal inspectors haven't approved any of the drug's overseas manufacturers.


UMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

I'm Not Taking sides here , this isn't about pro or con death penalty.

I'm thinking about the ludicrous statement . Arizona shouldn't use a drug to KILL someone cause it isn't proven SAFE ??


If its being used to KILL SOMEONE how would ANY drug be SAFE !!


Whats next ?? UMMMMMMMMMMMM The military cant execute by firing squad cause the Bullets arent proved SAFE ?

I'm sorry , I'm really NOT trying to make light of the situation , a man was put to death. However , under the current laws he paid for his crime .

Our Prisons are full because TO OFTEN the criminal gets to use stuff like whats above to skirt the system . I would say this time , based on current laws , it worked out RIGHT


You may not agree with my Opinion , but its my sandbox I'll pee in it if I want to

Public Service Announcment !!

I didn't think twice about this tiny fellow on my baby boxwood until I got this letter:
GARDEN SNAKES CAN BE DANGEROUS...

Snakes also known as Garter Snakes (Thamnophissirtalis) can be dangerous. Yes, grass snakes, not rattlesnakes. Here's why.

A couple in Sweetwater , Texas , had a lot of potted plants. During a recent cold spell, the wife was bringing a lot of them indoors to protect them from a possible freeze.

It turned out that a little green garden grass snake was hidden in one of the plants. When it had warmed up, it slithered out and the wife saw it go under the sofa.

She let out a very loud scream.

The husband (who was taking a shower) ran out into the living room naked to see what the problem was. She told him there was a snake under the sofa.

He got down on the floor on his hands and knees to look for it. About that time the family dog came and cold-nosed him on the behind. He thought the snake had bitten him, so he screamed and fell over on the floor.

His wife thought he had had a heart attack, so she covered him up, told him to lie still and called an ambulance.

The attendants rushed in, would not listen to his protests, loaded him on the stretcher, and started carrying him out.

About that time, the snake came out from under the sofa and the Emergency Medical Technician saw it and dropped his end of the stretcher. That's when the man broke his leg and why he is still in the hospital.

The wife still had the problem of the snake in the house, so she called on a neighbor who volunteered to capture the snake. He armed himself with a rolled-up newspaper and began poking under the couch.. Soon he decided it was gone and told the woman, who sat down on the sofa in relief.

But while relaxing, her hand dangled in between the cushions, where she felt the snake wriggling around. She screamed and fainted, the snake rushed back under the sofa.

The neighbor man, seeing her lying there passed out, tried to use CPR to revive her.

The neighbor's wife, who had just returned from shopping at the grocery store, saw her husband's mouth on the woman's mouth and slammed her husband in the back of the head with a bag of canned goods, knocking him out and cutting his scalp to a point where it needed stitches.

The noise woke the woman from her dead faint and she saw her neighbor lying on the floor with his wife bending over him, so she assumed that the snake had bitten him. She went to the kitchen and got a small bottle of whiskey, and began pouring it down the man's throat.

By now, the police had arrived.
Breathe here...

They saw the unconscious man, smelled the whiskey, and assumed that a drunken fight had occurred. They were about to arrest them all, when the women tried to explain how it all happened over a little garden snake!

The police called an ambulance, which took away the neighbor and his sobbing wife.

Now, the little snake again crawled out from under the sofa and one of the policemen drew his gun and fired at it. He missed the snake and hit the leg of the end table. The table fell over, the lamp on it shattered and, as the bulb broke, it started a fire in the drapes.

The other policeman tried to beat out the flames, and fell through the window into the yard on top of the family dog who, startled, jumped out and raced into the street, where an oncoming car swerved to avoid it and smashed into the parked police car.

Meanwhile, neighbors saw the burning drapes and called in the fire department. The firemen had started raising the fire ladder when they were halfway down the street. The rising ladder tore out the overhead wires, put out the power, and disconnected the telephones in a ten-square city block area (but they did get the house fire out).

Time passed! Both men were discharged from the hospital, the house was repaired, the dog came home, the police acquired a new car and all was right with their world.

A while later they were watching TV and the weatherman announced a cold snap for that night. The wife asked her husband if he thought they should bring in their plants for the night.

And that's when he shot her.