Anyone besides me wondering what the Hell happened to reality?

Anyone besides me wondering what new abortion will occur day-by-day?

Anyone thinking that, daily, our lives are becoming true extensions of a version of an actual Kabuki Theatre?

Me too.

Where did we go wrong?

And when did we lose control?

Or, a question: has control truly been lost?

Or is “control” only subject to discussion when times are “bad” — or, perhaps more significantly, when times are perceived as “good”?

Does your reality change day-to-day?

And, moreover, does perception rule reality?

BZ

The purpose of this post is to provide your ability to weigh in on your declarance on your ideal place.

Where would you live, stay or inhabit if you could, when you could, where you could, as you could.

My point would be the above small office as stationed above.

This wouldn’t necessarily be your home, per se.

It would, though, be a place that you could identify as your own, where you could retire as an individual. Gather your thoughts. Collect your thoughts.

Perfectly: plan and write your novel.

With that in mind:

Places you’d recommend?

You can see mine, ideally, above.

BZ

And that, of course, is coming because of current events.

Hayley Barbour states the obvious when he says:

WASHINGTON – Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, a potential presidential contender, accused the Obama administration Wednesday of favoring a run-up in gas prices to prod consumers to buy more fuel-efficient cars.

Barbour cited 2008 comments from Steven Chu, now President Barack Obama’s energy secretary, that a gradual increase in gasoline taxes could coax consumers into dumping their gas-guzzlers and finding homes closer to where they work. Chu, then a Nobel Prize-winning professor, argued that higher costs per gallon could force investments in alternative fuels and spur cleaner energy sources.

“This administration’s policies have been designed to drive up the cost of energy in the name of reducing pollution, in the name of making very expensive alternative fuels more economically competitive,” Barbour said during a U.S. Chamber of Commerce breakfast across the street from the White House.

Do not, I submit, count on Mr Obama to stop or curtail delayable petroleum sourcing.

Do not expect Mr Obama to attempt to ameliorate the coming petroleum issue because he would acquire what he wants: a forced oil crisis. In keeping with his philosophy.

Let me state this now: ethanol production via corn simply deprives the United States and the rest of the world of corn. There are people starving in various nations around the world because US corn production is diverted to ethanol. Thank you, Mr Obama, for killing people globally. And, by the way, ethanol is less energy efficient than gasoline and provides less energy in combustion and less mileage per gallon. What? No one tells you that?

Additionally, for those not so informed, Mr Obama would rather this nation be smacked down with a transportation crisis than to resolve it with available domestic resources.

Highly refined gasoline is only a portion of the petroleum issue. Of greater concern is the availability of diesel — not quite so highly refined — but, like forms of unleaded gasoline, forced to conform to any number of localized state boutique forms. When you pour gas or diesel from a pump, you have no idea what the local laws may be regarding your fuel content.

Your car runs, likely, on gasoline.

You have to realize that bulk global transport runs, instead, on diesel.

The smaller transport trucks that deliver goods or packages to your local areas and home run on diesel. Mitsubishi, Funo, Isuzu to name a few. UPS and FedEx run diesel vehicles and hybrids.

From there, larger trucks run America: Kenworth, Peterbilt, Western Star, Freightliner, Volvo, Mack.

Further, there are two dominant locomotive builders in the United States: GE (General Electric) and EMD (Electro Motive Diesel). Trains move the greatest amount of bulk commodities around this nation on the thinnest of rails because of such a low friction point on said rails. Locomotives are diesel/electric hybrids. The diesel engine runs a generator which, in turn, drives the traction motors on each locomotive axle.

Then, overall, the bulk of current ships run on hybrid diesel/electric propulsion systems, much like locomotives. Diesel engines power and create electrical generation that, in turn, propels the shafts of ships.

If Mr Obama wants to shut off oil, he wants to shut off progress and, moreover, current existence. He wants to BREAK you on behalf of his AGENDA.

Be warned, dear readers.

As Rahm Emanual said: “You never let a serious crisis go to waste.”

BZ

Although, to many of my readers, I merely state the obvious.

Oddly enough, Mr Holder seems to be taking recent heat over his decision to decline prosecution of the “New” Black Panthers who intimidated voters at the polls with their presence, words and batons in Philadelphia, 2008.

Holder recently said:

Attorney General Eric Holder finally got fed up Tuesday with claims that the Justice Department went easy in a voting rights case against members of the New Black Panther Party because they are African American.

“Think about that,” Holder said. “When you compare what people endured in the South in the 60s to try to get the right to vote for African Americans, and to compare what people were subjected to there to what happened in Philadelphia—which was inappropriate, certainly that…to describe it in those terms I think does a great disservice to people who put their lives on the line, who risked all, for my people,” said Holder, who is black.

“My people.”

What would have occurred had a WHITE Attorney General made mention of “my people”?

I wrote about the entire case and event here.

Mr Obama supported Holder’s decision. Imagine that. “Compare and contrast”, as my university professors used to say, their shared melanin count. Hmm. Similar, I’d wager. Again, imagine that.

Even The Washington Times weighed in and said there was racial bias.

On the other hand, it is clear that TEA Partiers are racists — although, it was proven, they are not. The US Capitol Police confirmed this. Some blacks — again, against prevailing thought — embrace the TEA Parties.

But those are predominantly facts to be ignored. Mr Obama cannot be wrong and Mr Holder cannot be wrong either. Blacks cannot be racists because they are members, when they wish to play that card, of Victims First.

Take a look at the video. Yes, there was video evidence and yet, despite that, Mr Holder determined the New Black Panthers were simply out on a calm daily stroll and had no bad will or ill mien in mind. They were simply “security patrols.”

Right. Security patrols. When was the last time YOU saw “security patrols” at YOUR point of voting? Why that would be: never.

Also check this.

Politico writes:

In a series of questions and comments earlier in the hearing, [ Rep. John Culberson (R-Texas) ] Culberson insisted that race had infected the decision-making process. “There’s clearly evidence, overwhelming evidence, that your Department of Justice refuses to protect the rights of anybody other than African Americans to vote,” the Texas Republican said. “There’s a pattern of a double standard here.”

Double standard?

YOU make that decision. Please weigh in.

BZ

A Rolex Submariner, produced a number of years ago.

Jewelers have told me that this combination of gold and blue is rare and, further, no longer produced.

This is the most beautiful watch I’ve ever seen.

It’s not like, for example, a Casio. I possess a number of expensive Casio GShocks for their atomic timekeeping but they constantly update. There are some gorgeous watches but, for the ultimate “man-produced” there is nothing akin to a Rolex.

Primitive? Yes, that would define Rolex. If you don’t wear it, move your wrist, it will die.

But, Lord, their quality and beauty is phenomenal.

BZ