I am LOVING the gas prices right now…and I can’t wait for them to get higher.  No, I’m serious…I want to see $20 a gallon gas.  If that happens, then one of my childhood dreams might come true.  When I was a kid, there were a few movies I saw that contained dialogue in certain scenes that I’ve been wanting to use in real life and actually mean it.  For instance, when Darth Vader said “He’s as clumsy as he is stupid” and “You have failed me for the last time” then force-chokes a dude, I have always dreamed of saying those lines and actually be able to mean it.  Would that not just rock?  Another is from the movie “Heavy Metal” when that one leader of some army goes “Death to those that oppose us!” right before they charge into that city as Black Sabbath’s “The Mob Rules” starts blasting.  So what does any of this have to do with high gas prices?  Because if it keeps going up and up, then one day I might get to live my dream of saying “Just walk away and I’ll spare your lives…just walk away”.  What?  You don’t remember that?  That was said by the Ayatollah of Rock-n-Rolla himself:  Humongous from “The Road Warrior”.  Oh yeah…I’m gonna get this cool looking dune buggy and start taking steroids and get a really cool looking hockey mask to wear.  In fact, everyone should probably start stocking up on shoulder pads for their post-apocalyptic warzone wardrobe, because that’s where we’re headed.  I look at it this way…I’ll never have a chance to be Darth Vader, but realistically I COULD be Humongous if gas keeps going the way it is…and in fact I could also use the “Death to those that oppose us” line if the people protecting the gasoline don’t walk away.  Wow…I could use two movie lines I’ve always wanted to use in real-life and actually mean them!  Hey, everyone needs something to aspire to, right?  But I could tell you this…I wouldn’t be as stupid as Humongous.  I mean there’s this huge fort, and when Max goes to move the gas in the tanker escorted only by a handful of cars, I would know the tanker is just filled with sand and was a decoy.  I might send some people after them just to finish them off, but I would keep a detachment at the fort to chase down anyone else who was leaving.  I’m just trying to look at the positives of the gas prices going up…just getting closer to a childhood dream.  Now I'm not really all into the leather diapers like he wore, but when you're that much of a badass, who is really going to say anything?

About the gas prices, isn’t it funny beyond belief how vilified the oil industry is by Congress?  They want panels and hearings and investigations and blah blah blah into the oil company profits.  The part that has me scratching my head is that the oil companies make nowhere NEAR the money the government does off gasoline.  Yes, I’m serious.  Did you know that oil companies on average make about seven cents out of every dollar spent on gas, while the government makes anywhere from twenty-five cents and in some states up to over fifty cents out of every dollar spent on gas?  In fact, last year ExxonMobil reported a profit of $36 billion.  Guess how much the government made in taxes off oil and gas?  The United States Government, the same people that are whining about “price gouging” and screaming for investigations made $54 billion last year.  If this doesn’t show what absolute idiots are running this country, I don’t know what does.  It makes me wonder why the two industries that are the most vilified by the government, oil and tobacco, are the two industries that the government profits the most off of with taxes?  In fact, people who do buy tobacco products are really getting screwed because on top of the government taxes, you also have to pay a sales tax.  Yeah, a tax on a tax, which is complete crap.  Back to oil…the oil companies average a 7% profit which is a hair above the national average of something like 6.8%.  Average retail profits are around 10%, and a lot of pharmaceutical companies average around 15-17%.  Why aren’t there investigations going on about any of these companies?  Oh, it’s because everyone needs to buy gas, right?  Well, no.  I mean you could ride your bike to work.  Gas in not a necessity in most of our lives, it’s a product that allows us to have more convenience.  Pretty dangerous when a product ingrains itself so deep in all our lives that we feel we’re entitled to it.  Imagine how cheap gas would be if we could build more refineries and drill in new areas on our own land…of course for that to happen we’d have to imagine having actually leadership in this country too.  Instead we’re stuck with a bunch of morons who want to add more taxes to the oil profits…and they also want to have legislation to force car manufacturers to have minimum miles-per-gallon specs.  Well, that spec was forced on car manufacturers in the 1970’s too…you know what happened?  Traffic deaths almost tripled.  The reason being is cars had to be made lighter which meant they weren’t as safe.  Our government at work…you gotta love it.

Monday is the big day!  That’s right…we can all walk off our jobs and out of school to show our support for a bunch of people that broke the law.  I think Tuesday we should do the same for bank robbers…after all they just can’t find jobs that pay enough to feed their families.  Maybe Wednesday we could march to show support for pedophiles because it’s not their fault they were born as disgusting perverts.  Heck, Thursday we could march to show support for serial killers because they are only a product of how they grew up, and then Friday we could march to support drug dealers because they’re only trying to use the system of capitalism to make money.  I honestly can’t believe that these people are going to march on Monday in various cities to show how important they are to the economy and blah blah blah.  If they REALLY wanted to show how important they are to the economy, then they need to leave this country and quit leeching off of taxpayer dollars.  Now what cracks me up is President Bush said deporting them all wouldn’t be feasible…my question is “why?”.  After all, on Monday they’re all going to be gathered together which cuts down the manpower and hours needed to track them all down.  Just start dropping nets out of helicopters flying over the crowd and there you go.  I can’t believe that some companies are actually shutting places down Monday because of the walkouts.  I say they should STAY closed because it’s quite obvious that if they have to shut down for that day…then they apparently have a few illegal immigrants working there.  Oh, and kids are going to be allowed to walkout of schools in California???  Man if I was a teacher, I would give a pop quiz that Monday that was worth like half your grade for the semester.  All of this bending over backwards for these people is REALLY ticking me off.  It makes me so friggin mad now, that when I see the Mexican flag flying somewhere I want to rip it down.  Call me a racist, a hate-monger, whatever…I don’t care.  If you come to this country then learn English and become part of the country, otherwise get the heck out.  Oh I know, that’s just hate speech isn’t it…I’m so intolerant.  Yeah, I am intolerant of some things and I have no problem saying so.  All this multi-culture garbage is such a joke.

It’s no secret I like my guy stuff – war movies, action movies, heavy metal, football, boxing, etc.  And when it comes to video games I don’t differ that much – war games, football, boxing, etc.  Well what I played over this past week raises the bar and will be known as the new game which all others will have their testosterone level judged by.  The game is “God Of War” and it is a real man’s video game.  Oh?  You say “real men” wouldn’t play video games?  Well I beg to differ…and I can prove it.  First off, I’m a real man and play them, so that’s exhibit A and should be enough to prove my point.  But I will go a step further.  Imagine a game where you’re this huge, mean looking, pissed off dude who is ready to slaughter everything in his path…a guy who has chains that are permanently wrapped around his forearms, fused to his skin by the god Ares, and at the end of these chains are the Blades of Chaos which are wielded to destroy anything in his path.  The guy’s name is Kratos, and NEVER has there been a bigger badass in all of video game history.  He can walk into a room filled with all sorts of creatures, some of which are 5 times his size if not bigger, and unleash the Blades of Chaos, slaughter everything, and treat it like it’s all in a day’s work.  Even if you combined the toughest and coolest parts of Charles Bronson, Steve McQueen, Lee Marvin, Clint Eastwood, and even added some Bruce Lee, that would never compare to the badass known as Kratos.  The guy is completely fearless.  If you've never played it, you have to pick up "God Of War"...it is truly a man's game.

Ok, I'm out for now...off to finish watching the NFL draft.  Oh...you didn't know I was a dork already?  Just wait...next week I'll have a big story...I'm too ticked off right now to go into it.