how much are we willing to pay at the pump?

this abu ghraib/guantanamo bay/haiti situation is such a load of bullshit. and if the democrats really gave a shit about the situation "overseas" even a tenth as much as they care about the situation in their own back yard then this story would have broken six months ago or never even happened at all. if they gave a shit and so paid attention. assholes. lying sacks of shit. it's not just the democrats, of course. we americans have just adapted ourselves to settling for fat pimp assholes, self-serving soulless manipulative self-aggrandizing lying greedy unprincipled narrow-minded mafioso politicians. or else sincere idiots. it only takes a few of the former to lead an army of the latter. a ladder to hell, more like it. and i think the thing that perpetuates the situation is the elephant in the motherfucking livingroom: americans are living high on the hog with the current world economic system. and we really can't imagine how we would live without all the oil we use today and the even more that we plan to use tomorrow. to be an american is to be an environmental disaster. and the only way we are going to get all that oil we want at a price we want to pay is to terrorize the oil producing parts of the globe.

until your average american recognizes and accepts the necessity to let go of oil we will be involved in a bloody struggle to get it on the cheap. that's the real test for america. how much are we willing to pay at the pump?

this might seem a bit off topic, but really, all the shit that is going down in latin america is simply a result of how we are living up here in gringolandia. it is our simple greediness up here, our need to have MORE. if your average american could live as simply as your average latin american the world would be much more peaceful, i can tell you that. and it won't be peaceful before that transformation occurs. i can guarantee you that.