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Okay, I know this and I’ve known it for quite some time: the problem is Americans. Our culture, how we were raised, the way we operate. We can’t get out of our own way.

We think that ridiculously cheap gas prices isn’t a privilege or luxury but a GOD GIVEN RIGHT. I just read this story on boston.com and it amazes me. This quote especially:

“I know they could kill me or kidnap me, but the cost of filling my tank in the United States is just too much,” he said.

This guy lives in California and is probably paying somewhere around $4.50 or so per gallon. Let’s say his big old truck is a 25 gallon tank. I have no idea really, but that seems good. That means this numbskull thinks it’s okay to take advantage of an extremely poor country’s government policies, services and resources for his own selfish needs. Oh and at the same time, places the value of his own life and/or freedom somewhere around $115. Wow. I mean really…just wow. And tell me, how much gas does it cost him to drive there and back? How much gas does he burn sitting in the typically long wait to get back into the US? What is he spending for food and drink on these little excursions?

I bet this same m-effer abhors the influx of mexicans who come to america to take advantage of OUR governmental policies, social services and resources. But how is his behavior any different? It’s so much worse. This is why the rest of the known universe hates us… typical american behavior, use, abuse, abandon. Personally, I’ve never had a problem with all the immigrants, legal or otherwise, maybe because I grew up in Tucson and I like all the mexicans, they make me feel all warm and gooey. The way I see it, you can’t strut around proclaiming to be the greatest country in all the world, tirelessly promoting yourself as a land of greath wealth and opportunity, and then not expect people to want to live here.

But I digress. Immigration is a topic for another time. I’m all fired up about this gas business.

What is the purpose of this Reuters news story? To encourage more people to do this? To discourage them? To highlight the shittiness of our country? call attention to the morons who live here? showcase the drug problem in mexico? drive a point home about the chances honest, godfearing hardworking americans are willing to take to avoid paying more for gas? fill me with rage and fear?

I wrote an entry a few weeks ago over how tired I was of hearing about the price of gas and all of the complaining. the people, the media, everyone. kind of “shut the fuck up already will you” type of thing. yeah, gas is costly. It SHOULD be costly. Deal with it. stop driving so much, and just goddamned deal with it. That’s what I wanted to say. But I didn’t post it, because I felt maybe it wasn’t fair of me, I don’t really know what other households are going through or how the economy is affecting them. Everything is more expensive, but when you’re as continually broke as I am, it doesn’t really make a difference. I go to work, I get my check, I make do, and we all live to see another day. but maybe that’s because I have it easy, maybe that’s because, all things considered, I have it pretty damn good. So I didn’t post it, because I didn’t want to seem like an asshole.

But if the media wants to continue running these kinds of stories and the american people are going to continue acting like fuckheads, well, we all deserve what we get. So take that america! loafe is fed up! you hear me? LOAFE IS FED UP!

that’ll show em.

you know, it kinda feels like we’re putting all our eggs in obama’s basket and if he screws up, boy am I gonna be mad. You better not lose this, buddy! and you better follow through!

B.O. probably reads loafe, right?

What’s funny to me is our revered leader admitting that lifting the ban on offshore drilling would take years to have an effect, but then turns and directly blames Congress for the current price of gas because they refuse to lift it & open the arctic refuge to more drilling.

So help me figure this out. Is he trying to tell me that if we lift the ban, oil companies around the world will rejoice and praise allah, and tomorrow we’ll wake up and gas will suddenly become cheap again? Is that what he’s suggesting? And that the answer to our sick and self-destructive dependence on a finite resource is to umm, I don’t know… use up even more of it? The white house insists there are no quick fixes to the problem (because the problem is the problem, duh) but Bush/mccain’s so-called energy plans seem to be nothing but quick fixes. I don’t fucking get it. Tell me 2 + 2 = 4 and I understand. Tell me 2 + 2 = 8 and I have to wonder. Tell me that 2 + 2 = infinity and it’s going to take a lot more than these little white pills to get my acquiescence.

I just don’t see how we can continue raping every inch of this fucking world so that we can gather our miserable families in the car, drive to some lousy too hot too loud too crowded vacation spot where we can eat and drink our fat selves into oblivion and not think about the horrible things our country has done to give us this “right” of ours.

And if I hear one more story about how us poor deprived americans will have to spend the 4th of july at, my god, HOME, because gas is just too expensive…well I think I’ll have to start cutting myself again. At this point only the feel of warm thick blood on my fingers and lips can make me feel better.

“I’ve seen some pretty stiff ones and this was right up there with them,” Bryant said.

oh Kobe, you razzler dazzler. you had me at stiff.

I was all up in arms when I heard wilco in volkswagen commercials. I was all up in arms when I heard royksopp in a goddamned geico commercial. I was all up in arms when… you get the picture. me, ranting and raving about music, my sweet sacred music, shilling for mass consumerism. sigh for all of humanity.

I must change my tune, as it were. I have decided that it’s okay. Well maybe not okay but I have to live with it and in as much good cheer as I can muster. you know why? because I just heard a fabulous song on a commercial for umm… mitsubishi, I think, and I just absolutely love it, I love it so much, I want to give that song my babies all night long. And the thing is, I would never have been privy to it had it not been on the lousy commercial and had I not been watching the celtics. this song, out there existing in the world, unbeknownst to me, this song that has made my life worth living.

then I realized that I hear a lot of new music on commercials, and while most of it is pure shite, there are some decent songs, and sometimes, just sometimes, I find something most excellent.

the crowning jewel on my crown of jewels is when I googled for the name of the song from the mitsi commercial I disovered a supremely cool web site that I would never have found on my own. I love this site so much I am not even going to share with you, for fear of it being ruined by undeserving eyes and ears.

of course, if you’re clever and you think like me, you will figure it out & find this site.

here. a sotd. to soothe the savage beast. sea of love by tom waits. you will love it.