Is this really one of our elected officials? Geez, I need a drink, he’s making me sick.

I suggest the phase FUBAR-twit to describe the Senate Majority Leader.

FUBAR
US Army acronym: “Fucked Up Beyond All Repair”

Twit
An offensive term that deliberately insults somebody’s commonsense or consideration for others (slang insult)

But yeah, we have, in this country, a bunch of oil that can be pulled out of the ground and from shale (hundreds of years worth in Colorado, apparently, or maybe a couple thousand years worth, at current rates of usage), even if it’s not “easy” to get compared to the imported stuff. There’s also offshore oil-if Schwarzenegger doesn’t like it, well, send him and his anorexic Kennedy bride back to Österreich and let ‘em sulk. Coal to gas is a fine thing as well. Kim du Toit’s buddies in South Africa were working on that years ago, and the Sasol corporation (for one) knows all about it-apparently the process becomes profitable if the retail price of gasoline climbs over $1.50 per U.S. gallon, which it has, at least in my ‘hood. Seems to me instead of planning to junk all our cars and ride bikes and ‘lectric golf carts, it would be nice to come up with more fuel we can burn in the cars we already own as replacement automobiles are expensive, something the granolas and elected mandarins don’t seem to get.

Off-topic, but Herr Chaffin’s love of the Cuban sammich has led me down a winding road toward making my own version cheaply, which isn’t working very well, but I’ve discovered the wonders of the Jimmy John’s sub shop bread, which one can buy separately from the sandwiches, $2 per 17″ or so loaf, 50 cents for the day old stuff-great taste and wonderful crust, sez I.

The R Man

I think my gramps would have called them the relatively non-offensive “sidewinder” - although thinking back on that to his mind that might not have been a reference to a snake.

C’mon out to Vegas in December. Clear the calendar; I want to buy you a beer and share a minute with like-minded folk. Our other pokering not-as-like-minded friends will be there too, and I know they like you too.

You know, if we could get Congress to put the same energy into oil and coal and developing wind, solar and alternative fuels, all at the same time, then we’d easily be out of the woods.

The sooner they do that the sooner we can tell the whole Middle East OPEC fucktard poltroon oil-squirting cartel to go fuck themselves.