Sure I sound paranoid because my radar is blaring full alert. I’ve learned over the years to trust this instinct because it has proved correct when I thought it was preposterous. Same for 9/11 I’m afraid, but not based on the coincidental evidence or the suspected conspiracies. Like you, I prefer concrete evidence, and so while watching “Zeitgeist” as mentioned by noone;

http://www.jonhs.net/freemovies/zeitgeist.htm

there came one image in the rubble of the WTC that was undeniable. It only lasts for a few seconds and I should see if I can get the still. If you chose to watch it, it would be interesting if the same one catches your undivided attention. But we don’t need to discuss that topic now.

As for Peak Oil, why didn’t the recently released IEA Report get any MSM coverage other than buried back in the business sections of NYT, LA Times, and WSJ? This is probably one of the most important news topics of the year. Too boring? Whitehouse and Iraq War still taking all the oxygen in the room? Projections too far out for the average American to pay attention? MSM collusion with corporate overseers? Who knows. In some regards, I’m glad because it gives me more time to make preparations without the frenzied masses. No, I’m not preparing for the end of civilization. These are long term actions much the same as planning for pre-retirement and retirement.

…GOP leaders told Bush that his hardcore push to renew the more onerous provisions of the act could further alienate conservatives still mad at the President from his botched attempt to nominate White House Counsel Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court.

“I don’t give a goddamn,” Bush retorted. “I’m the President and the Commander-in-Chief. Do it my way.”

“Mr. President,” one aide in the meeting said. “There is a valid case that the provisions in this law undermine the Constitution.”

“Stop throwing the Constitution in my face,” Bush screamed back. “It’s just a goddamned piece of paper!”

I’ve talked to three people present for the meeting that day and they all confirm that the President of the United States called the Constitution “a goddamned piece of paper.”

Still paranoid?

Im down with your Peak Oil stuff, but I think you live in a paranoid world otherwise. And while I am not a big fan of Bush’s, I don’t remember him saying the constitution is just a “piece of paper”.

“Over the years, courts have considered numerous claims that one or another nonapportioned tax is a direct tax and therefore unconstitutional. Although these cases have not definitively marked the boundary between taxes that must be apportioned and taxes that need not be … some characteristics of each may be discerned. Only three taxes are definitely known to be direct: (1) a capitation … (2) a tax upon real property, and (3) a tax upon personal property…. Such direct taxes are laid upon one’s “general ownership of property,” [citations omitted], as contrasted with excise taxes laid “upon a particular use or enjoyment of property or the shifting from one to another of any power or privilege incidental to the ownership or enjoyment of property.” … More specifically, excise taxes include, in addition to taxes upon consumable items, … income from employment…. [Emphasis added.]”

I guess Bush was right, the Constitution is just a piece of paper. You’re f**ked, and well on your way to a fascist state - sorry.

Unfortunately, we have become a culture that values the car more than the human.

Yes, it is sometimes dangerous commuting on a motorcycle, because cars resent/envy, don’t watch for us, and don’t see us.

But if lots more people rode two-wheeled vehicles, and the consequence was less cars, then it would be less dangerous for bikes. See? Simple. Lots of big, crowded, European cities have significant motorcycle/scooter/bicycle contingents, and though I don’t know the statistics, I bet bikes are much safer option there, where they’re expected, integrated, and ubiquitous.

http://www.jonhs.net/freemovies/zeitgeist.htm

The law has two sides for both the citizen and the authority. Otherwise we are just Sheeple. And no, I don’t plan on living here too much longer…