Looks to me like a replay of 1978 and 1979, with long gas lines and signs on stations that read: NO GAS.

Expect to pay, when there is a supply, $5+ for a gallon of gas very shortly.

It’s starting.

Thank you oh so kindly, Mr Obama, Leftists, Demorats and Religious Leftists.

BZ

The human being has always pushed the envelope into and beyond the realms of danger. This is the ninth of various weekend postings displaying how restless Man is with the mundane and how he purposely crosses the threshold into danger willingly — and sometimes unwillingly.

Anyone wishing an application for the job?

BZ

And I would have to complete agree.

For whatever reason, these Santorum quotes are running rampant through the internet and, of course, plastered all over the Leftist blogs and some completely daft Conservative blogs. “How could he say that?” these blogs rail.

Easy. He’s entirely correct.

An earlier quote, from December 20th of 2011:

The reason you see some sympathy among the American public for them is the grave concern — and it’s a legitimate one — that blue-collar workers, lower-income workers, are having a harder and harder time rising,” the former Pennsylvania senator said at a presidential campaign stop. “They talk about income inequality. I’m for income inequality. I think some people should make more than other people, because some people work harder and have better ideas and take more risk, and they should be rewarded for it. I have no problem with income inequality.

“President Obama is for income equality. That’s socialism. It’s worse yet, it’s Marxism,” Santorum said. “I’m not for income equality. I’m not for equality of result — I’m for equality of opportunity.”

“The key in America is that people can rise, that there are opportunities to move up. In that area, America is falling short now. We are not as income-mobile as even some western European countries, according to a lot of the data. So that is something that as Republicans we should be talking about and be concerned about.”

There is income inequality in America. There always has been and hopefully, and I do say that, there always will be. Why? Because people rise to different levels of success based on what they contribute to society and to the marketplace and that’s as it should be.”

“We shouldn’t have a society that has a President who envies or creates class warfare or envy between one group of people and another.”

“We should celebrate like we do in the small towns all across American — as you do here in Detroit. You celebrate success. You build statues and monuments. Buildings, you name after them. Why? Because in their greatness and innovation, yes, they created wealth, but they created wealth for everybody else. And that’s a good thing, not something to be condemned in America.”

Our nation is founded but upon an attempt for equality of opportunity, but no guarantee whatsoever in terms of outcome. Leftists want — no, demand — equality of outcome.

And that just can’t stand.

I repeat, at risk of revisiting the Department of Redundancy Dept:

Rick Santorum, here, is absolutely correct in his statements.

All others are simply wrong.

BZ

From HumanEvents.com:

The House Thursday passed an energy measure to fund highway and transportation projects that also included contentious language to kick-start the Keystone pipeline and open the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to drilling.

The bill seeks to expand offshore drilling for oil and gas and create a shale oil leasing program, and passed mostly along party lines 237-187.

“Instead of more gimmicky stimulus spending or pork-laden bills of the past, this bill would permanently remove government barriers to job creation and support improving America’s roads and bridges,” said House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio).

Rep. Doc Hastings (R-Wash.), chairman of the House Resources Committee, said that in addition to developing energy for the U.S., money paid to the government for leasing the federal property would pay for infrastructure projects without raising taxes or adding to the deficit.

“Sadly, the president’s actions in office have been anything but pro energy,” Hastings said. “In fact, his rhetoric is 180 degrees from his action — since taking office, this administration has repeatedly blocked energy production.”

An excellent idea, with one major roadblock:

The US Senate.

BZ

I’ve written that “demography is prophecy” in my blog for years and years.

Few people seem to take that phrase to heart. It gets down to this: whoever has the most kids, wins. Plain and simple. In the US: Mexicans. In terms of religion: Muslims.

Heather MacDonald writes about that very same point, as applied to Mexicans in Fornicalia, in her article “California’s Demographic Revolution.”

California’s Demographic Revolution

If the upward mobility of the impending Hispanic majority doesn’t improve, the state’s economic future is in peril.

California is in the middle of a far-reaching demographic shift: Hispanics, who already constitute a majority of the state’s schoolchildren, will be a majority of its workforce and of its population in a few decades. This is an even more momentous development than it seems. Unless Hispanics’ upward mobility improves, the state risks becoming more polarized economically and more reliant on a large government safety net. And as California goes, so goes the nation, whose own Hispanic population shift is just a generation or two behind.

The scale and speed of the Golden State’s ethnic transformation are unprecedented. In the 1960s, Los Angeles was the most Anglo-Saxon of the nation’s ten largest cities; today, Latinos make up nearly half of the county’s residents and one-third of its voting-age population. A full 55 percent of Los Angeles County’s child population has immigrant parents. California’s schools have the nation’s largest concentration of “English learners,” students from homes where a language other than English is regularly spoken. From 2000 to 2010, the state’s Hispanic population grew 28 percent, to reach 37.6 percent of all residents, almost equal to the shrinking white population’s 40 percent. Nearly half of all California births today are Hispanic. The signs of the change are everywhere—from the commercial strips throughout the state catering to Spanish-speaking customers, to the flea markets and illegal vendors in such areas as MacArthur Park in Los Angeles, to the growing reach of the Spanish-language media.

Routine domestic violence is another Third World import, especially from Mexico. More than a quarter of the 911 calls to the Santa Ana Police Department are for domestic violence, reports Kevin Brown, a former Santa Ana cop who now serves on an antigang intervention team. “Children are seeing it at home—they’re living the experience,” he says.

Hispanic underperformance contributes to California’s dismal educational statistics. Only Mississippi had as large a percentage of its eighth-grade students reading at the “below basic” level on the 2011 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP); in eighth-grade math, California came in third, after Alabama and Mississippi, in the percentage of students scoring “below basic.” Only 56 percent of ninth-graders graduate in four years in Los Angeles; statewide, only two-thirds do.

The future mismatch between labor supply and demand is likely to raise wages for college-educated workers, while a glut of workers with a high school diploma or less will depress wages on the low end and contribute to an increased demand for government services, especially among the less educated Hispanic population. U.S.-born Hispanic households in California already use welfare programs (such as cash welfare, food stamps, and housing assistance) at twice the rate of U.S.-born non-Hispanic households, according to an analysis of the March 2011 Current Population Survey by the Center for Immigration Studies. Welfare use by immigrants is higher still. In 2008–09, the fraction of households using some form of welfare was 82 percent for households headed by an illegal immigrant and 61 percent for households headed by a legal immigrant.

Hispanics’ reliance on the government safety net helps explain their ongoing support for the Democratic Party. Indeed, liberal spending policies are a more important consideration for Hispanic voters than ethnic identification or the so-called values issues that they are often said to favor.

Let me cut to, again, the proverbial chase.

Lower class young blacks and Mexicans are one-and-the-same: they want their Free Cheese and their popularized go-nowhere cultures are held in high by way of GOWPs who are whoring for votes, and by a national and state government mindset that supports the kicking of males to the curb and, by way of cash, advocating the continuance of single-mother households.

In both cultures, it isn’t cool to learn. It isn’t cool to achieve. It isn’t cool to leave the neighborhood and cast your fellow LOSERS behind. It isn’t cool to read. It isn’t cool to become educated. It isn’t cool to be honest, courageous, to help others. It isn’t cool to become assimilated. It isn’t cool to realize that there is more to life than your silly-ass gang.

It is cool to be violent. It is cool, for males, to fuck your bitches and cast them aside. It is cool to kill your own. It is cool to stand up for your turf, as meager and minimal as it may be. It is cool to wear your pants so low that your underwear is exposed. It is cool to talk ghetto, stay ghetto, “be real” and “represent.” It is cool to be a thug and to advocate for a continuing Thugdom-ocracy.

The only reason Mexicans are “beating” blacks to the welfare dollars? Demography. Illegal Mexicans are out-babying both blacks, Asians and, of course, dullard whites.

Beware, my readers. The things that start in Fornicalia come soon to a state near you because, after all, the base, emotive desire for Free Cheese trumps most everything in terms of votes.

Just a heads-up, my friends.

Heather MacDonald simply placed it onto the internet with a readership access that I simply cannot match.

But you know that I wrote about it here and here, and here and here first.

BZ