I'm going to start you all off by moving some posts that I made on my Myspace account over here. I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship. Enjoy!

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Supreme Court declares U.S. Constitution unconstitutional!! I just wrote a check to the federal government for like $4,500. It's okay, though. I feel pretty good about it b/c i know the idiots in congress need that money to pay for the healthcare and education of millions of people who aren't citizens of this country and aren't here legally. Meanwhile, I'm struggling to pay for my own education and whatnot, but who cares? I already vote!! I don't need to be convinced of anything!!

jefferson poole - april 15

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vive le riots!

Everybody must now observe the wisdom found on thepeoplescube.com. What a genius website!

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You know, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad reminds me of Hitler a whole lot more than Bush, Cheney, Powell, Rice, Rumsfeld, and Halliburton combined. Feel me?

jefferson poole - april 15

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che: THE revolutionary

To be like Che we must:

1. Disassociate ourselves from our trust-fund money and middle-class parents.
2. Attain the "I've been in the Amazon jungle for six weeks" look. Those clean clothes from Old Navy aren't going to cut it. Rush out and buy a Che T-shirt first. A bedraggled combat jacket is also essential. Heavy boots are a must.
3. You've had your last wash buddy! From now on all forms of personal hygiene are to be abandoned. Haircuts are a thing of the past.
4. Induce Mom and Pop to buy an old, beat-up Volvo (something from the mid 80s should do). Your fellow revolutionaries dare not see you in the Lexus or the Infinity.
5. If you have to leave the revolution (campus) for a trip home to Mom and Pop (capitalist pigs), try sleeping in the basement or outside with the trash. Your revolutionary look must be kept up at all costs.
6. Endear yourself to your fellow revolutionaries by making up tall stories of a hard life under capitalist oppression. Something along the lines of "my father was small turd farmer in Nebraska until the Republicans ruined everything."
7. Visit Starbucks not more than once a week. That stuff is expensive; you're supposed to behave like a common peasant.
8. Never be seen leaving or entering the bank.
9. Diss America.
10. Develop a mild dependence on recreational substances.
11. Exhibit utter disdain for large corporations, such as, McDonalds (until you seek employment from one, in about five years). If Che were alive today he would be actively fighting against such an "enemy."
12. Your Internet access is strictly for gathering information on the revolution.
13. While on spring break, practice revolutionary skills. Try to collapse the local government with your band of revolutionaries (drunken buffoons). Remember to bring MasterCard or Visa in case of bail.

    -ThePeoplesCube.com

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    Not buying gas won't do anything.

    Not buying gas will not do anything except make you have to buy some the next day.

    The following is in response to a post I saw somewhere about not buying gas every friday for a year. Bottom line: good intentions, zero effectiveness. I agree with everyone being frugal regarding their gasoline usage, but that goes along with everything else. We should be frugal with our money, food, etc. for our personal health and our personal economies, not to impact the world economy b/c it won't do anything. What I'm about to say is really important to understand.

    This not buying gas on friday thing will not sufficiently lower oil demand in order to bring the price of oil/gas down.

    The best thing we can do is to work on the other side of the equation. If we can encourage Congress to allow oil companies to increase oil SUPPLY, gas prices WILL come down. If there's more gas out there, each gallon can be sold for cheaper. That means the oil producers need to be allowed to hit up the Gulf Coast, the Alaskan oil field, and whatever other oil we can find.
    

    Greed is not the issue, except maybe in the case of the idiots in Congress.
    

    In any event, nothing substantial will happen regarding this issue in the next five years. This is a problem that could have been avoided if Congress would have allowed oil companies to expand production twenty years ago, or even ten. The world population has grown, chinese and indian economies have grown dramatically due to the benefits of capitalism, yet our idiotic Congress thinks that a stagnant supply of oil will sufficiently supply the world economy's energy needs! Idiots! This could have been fixed twenty years ago.

    Demand won't change due to "don't buy gas fridays." We have to work on SUPPLY. That means pressuring everyone in every legislature to allow the oil companies to do what they have wanted to do for thirty years. Let them expand production, so we don't have to pay five dollars per gallon of gas. Hydrogen/alternative fuel sources are at least twenty years from being mainstream. If you want to screw the oil companies - do it then! Until that point, increasing SUPPLY is the only way to bring the price per gallon down.
    

    Finally, please notice something. The american "environmentalists" who like to raise hell about expanded drilling haven't said jack about mexico's plan to hit the gulf. Ted Kennedy would have been in front of every television camera within two miles of his office (translate: his favorite seat at the bar) if an American company would have announced such a proposal. I understand that Kennedy doesn't represent Mexico, but you have to understand that "the environment" is just a vessel that the "environmentalists" use to hit their real enemies - and those are America, Capitalism, successful businesses, and Freedom. "Protecting the environment" is just a disguised way of saying "destroying america as we know it." As crazy as Mexico is, their right about this one!

    jefferson poole - april 19