Gal's Common Sense

I checked for proper inflation of my tires and got a tune up over a month ago and it still costs a lot of money for me to fill up my gas tank, so what other brainbuster ideas do you have??

........ that McCain owns??

He served his country and gave more than 99% of every other American out there including me.  He and his father-in-law have both lived the American dream and have benefited from the work they have put in.  Because McCain is successful then Obama is attacking him saying that McCain is not in touch with the American People.

Obama himself made over 4 million last year.  He just returned from vacation on a private beach in Hawaii and his own house cost 1.65 million dollars.

Obama's plan is to raise taxes and is opposed to producing more energy here in America as gas prices have reached an all time high.  This shows that he is the one out of touch with the average American. 

Yes, wind and solar energy can be the energy of the future, BUT that is in the FUTURE and not attainable now.  The answer is to pursue making wind and solar and other energy more attainable and effective but until they are effective then drilling for the oil under our own soil.  We have 7 times more oil under our feet then what Saudi Arabia has available to them but we are not allowed to access this oil.  Instead we are sending more and more money into the hands of terrorists.

And Oil companies are not the bad guy here.  Their profit margin is 4%.  It was 4% last year and the year before and the year before etc. etc.  But our own government profits 15% from  our oil.  Yeah, who is the real bad guy?  Exxon spent 8 BILLION of their own money trying to get more oil in canada since our own congress will not allow us to drill here.

History will say that we misunderestimated George W Bush

By Andrew Roberts

As he leaves the White House at the end of his second term, the President has a poll rating of only 23 per cent, and is widely disliked and even despised. His foreign policy has been judged a failure, especially in view of the long, painful, costly war that he declared, which is still not over.

He doesn't get on with his own party's presidential candidate, who is clearly distancing himself, and had lost many of his closest friends and staff to scandals and forced resignations. The New Republic, a hugely influential political magazine, writes that his historical reputation will be as bad as that of President Harding, the disastrous president of the Great Depression.

I am writing, of course, about Harry S Truman, generally regarded today as one of the greatest of all the 43 presidents, and the man who set the United States on the course that ended decades later in the defeat of Communism.

If the West wins the modern counterpart of that struggle, the War Against Terror, historians will look back in amazement at the present unpopularity of George W Bush, and marvel at it quite as much as we now marvel at the 67 per cent disapproval rates for Truman throughout 1952.

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For several decades, the Democratic Party has pursued policies designed to drive up the cost of petroleum, and therefore gas at the pump. Remarkably, the Democrats don't seem to have taken much of a political hit from the current spike in gas prices. Probably that's because most people don't realize how different the two parties' energy policies have been.

Congressman Roy Blunt put together these data to highlight the differences between House Republicans and House Democrats on energy policy:

ANWR Exploration:
House Republicans: 91% Supported
House Democrats: 86% Opposed

Coal-to-Liquid:

House Republicans: 97% Supported
House Democrats: 78% Opposed

Oil Shale Exploration
House Republicans: 90% Supported
House Democrats: 86% Opposed

Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Exploration
House Republicans: 81% Supported
House Democrats: 83% Opposed

Refinery Increased Capacity
House Republicans: 97% Supported
House Democrats: 96% Opposed

SUMMARY

91% of House Republicans have historically voted to increase the production of American-made oil and gas.

86% of House Democrats have historically voted against increasing the production of American-made oil and gas.

More at www.TalkKC.com

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BIRTHDAY!!!

I just felt the need to start my own blog on this subject since people apperently cannot figure out how to comment on someone else's topic ABOUT THE SAME SUBJECT. 

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This might be a stupid idea, but why don't we all comment on the first blog made on a subject instead of making 53 new blogs about a subject?  I wonder if it is a sense of pride that people start their own blog so that they might get featured or hear their name mentions on the news so that they can sit back and pat themselves on the back.

A Sacred Heart University Poll found significantly declining percentages of Americans saying they believe all or most of media news reporting. In the current national poll, just 19.6% of those surveyed could say they believe all or most news media reporting. This is down from 27.4% in 2003. Just under one-quarter, 23.9%, in 2007 said they believe little or none of reporting while 55.3% suggested they believe some media news reporting.

....The perception is growing among Americans that the news media attempts to influence public opinion -- from 79.3% strongly or somewhat agreeing in 2003 to 87.6% in 2007.

And, 86.0% agreed (strongly or somewhat) that the news media attempts to influence public policies -- up from 76.7% in 2003....

By four-to-one margins, Americans surveyed see The New York Times (41.9% to 11.8%) and National Public Radio (40.3% to 11.2%) as mostly or somewhat liberal over mostly or somewhat conservative.

By a three-to-one margin, Americans see news media journalists and broadcasters (45.4% to 15.7%) as mostly or somewhat liberal over mostly or somewhat conservative.

And, by a two-to-one margin, Americans see CNN (44.9% to 18.4%) and MSNBC (38.8% to 15.8%) as mostly or somewhat liberal over mostly or somewhat conservative.

Just Fox News was seen as mostly and somewhat conservative (48.7%) over mostly or somewhat liberal (22.3%).

The most trusted national TV news organizations, for accurate reporting, in declining order included: Fox News (27.0%), CNN (14.6%), and NBC News (10.90%). These were followed by ABC News (7.0%), local news (6.9%), CBS News (6.8%) MSNBC (4.0%), PBS News (3.0%), CNBC (0.6%) and CBN (0.5%).

In 2003, CNN led Fox News on “trust most for accurate reporting” 23.8% to 14.6%.

Ok, did a search of my computer name and I came up with 6 pages.

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I do not remember going to MyFoxUtah but when I clicked on the link I saw a whole post of comments from people in Kansas City.  Something fishy is going on here.  Are they trying to make their site look more popular than it is?

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http://community.myfoxutah.com/blogs/snapper/2007/0
3/20/Rove_and_Miers_Will_Talk_But_Not_Under_Oath>

I can totally understand the post approvals while the blogsite was being attacked but only getting approvals between 9-5 is already getting old.

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We post here for the conversation and debate factor, but since you (webteam) only work from 9-5 you leave out half of your audiance.

What is up with the message board being down after 5p?  Didn't see anything today like last Friday.

I honestly believe that we need to change how our prisons are ran.  I totally agree how in Arizona the prison was a huge tent city, they ate balogna sandwiches everyday.

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I would open a prison where they have to work for credit and with that credit they could pay for a better meal if they wanted to but if they cannot pay anything then they don't eat.  Part of life.

Ok, they have more info on the "Seen on TV section" but this is nothing new.

We played this game 14+ years ago in highschool.  We actually played it between schools and had a ton of fun.  I camped on a persons roof all night and waited for them to leave for school to get my target.

The way we played:

Cost $5 to play (Chicago is $40)
You get a name, picture and address of a target.
You try to eliminate your target ( we used a nerf or plastic disc gun)
When you eliminate your target you get the name of that person's target and you go after them.
You basically keep going until eventually there are only two people left with each others name.  The winner got a majority of the money.

Our rules were:
Could not shoot them while on school property
Could not shoot them while at work
Could not shoot them while they or you are driving

This game was a blast.....Hmm, maybe I should do a Kansas City Chapter.

One of the hottest teams in baseball.

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Bet you never thought you would hear that this year.

ATM they are tied for last place and 15.5 games out of first place, but I believe this time last year they were around 25 - 30 games out of first place.  They are definitely playing better this year and honestly they have been a little excitng as of late winning 4 of their last 5.