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The Fox News anchors took their turns at cracking jokes and making fun of him, which I think was the only reason why he was brought on the show. This in itself pissed me off. Are we as a country that idiotic to assume that we are alone in this galaxy? Even Carl Sagan, the renowned astronomer, never denied that we should always continue to search and study all claims of UFO’s. While he stated that we have no evidence that extra-terrestrials had ever visited us or will in the near future, we would be fools not to study all of the evidence given.

So these Fox News anchors asked him about how many people thought he was crazy, and if he was a moon-bat, and lampooned his efforts to suggest something that, our Federal government has already done. So are we saying that because our Federal government has done some research that our local governments should not even broach a subject? We have trained emergency response teams for all sorts of things, should not local civic planners at least consider the implications of every “what-if” scenario that they can come up with in order to not be faced with the scenario and not have some guidelines?

In fact that many cities and towns across America did not ever think that someone would fly some planes into the buildings in New York. But now across America small towns now include contingency plans on the happen stance that terrorists would try to destroy a building or a plant or a factory in their humble corner of their state. So given something like this – do we have to wait until an event happens before we at least give some thought to the civic duty of at least developing some sort of plan?

All this man is really suggesting is that we as citizens write up how we should handle situations. Logically it makes sense. We plan for outbreaks of super diseases, asteroids hitting the planet, etc. Why would you want to deny that we should at least discuss a common sense approach to how we could deal with the situation as far-fetched as it may seem.

I guess what bothers me is that people can be so dismissive and close minded that they don’t look at the logical aspects or possibilities. The fact is that we really don’t know our real probabilities of being visited. In the absence of evidence we don’t know if we have in the past or will in the future but we all are truly morons if we are arrogant enough to assume that we are the only ones out of the vastness space out of the billions of billions of stars and solar systems.

After terrorizing our airwaves for six years, Sue Johanson is ending her show.

Maybe now, finally, our long national nightmare may be over. Now, Beerslinger can flip through the channels without worrying about finding her show and screaming “GYAAAH!!! Old Lady selling dildoes, OLD LADY SELLING DILDOES!!!!” (True story about the first time he saw her, and one of the funniest damn things I’ve ever seen.)

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Here, we present Episode 4 of our podcast in which we discuss the latest superhero movie to come out, Marvel’s Iron Man. I also discuss a bit of my history with the character, and why i had to see the movie twice to see the whole thing. This one… well, it could only happen to me, folks.

Oh, and I’ll try to have the next podcast out by the end of the week. We know we’re a bit behind on this one, but we’ll make up for it with a double-shock this week. Don’t forget, you can also subscribe to the Podcast through iTunes.

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McCain:
Called for several highly targeted tax cuts and federal spending initiatives. Included were a summer gas-tax holiday that would suspend the 18.4¢ federal gas tax and 24.4¢ diesel tax, and a doubling of the personal tax exemption for dependents, from $3,500 to $7,000

Clinton:
“We will pay for it by imposing a windfall profits tax on the big oil companies,” she said on Tuesday. “They sure can afford it. This is a big difference in this race. My opponent opposes giving consumers a break from the gas tax but I believe the American people are being squeezed pretty hard.”

Hillary will impose a windfall profits tax on oil companies and use the money to temporarily suspend the 18.4 cent per gallon federal gas tax and the 24.4 cent per gallon diesel tax during the upcoming peak summer driving months.

Obama:
Against Summer Holiday but for windfall profits tax.

Ok, so first of all, we decide to give ourselves a break 18.4cents per gallon. What’s the up and downside? Upside, gas may be slightly cheaper. Downside, our regularly scheduled repairs and maintenance to our bridges and roads won’t have their budget to do their jobs. Where do we get the money?

Secondly, to get the money we tax the bejesus out of the oil companies, who because of demand and the cost of a barrel of oil rising, have made more profit. Some would call it a Windfall Profits Tax. But what about the billions of dollars they lost prior to this year?

Cause:
Tax Oil Companies to Pay for 18cent/gal summer.

Effect:
Demand goes up, price of oil goes up more.

Because consumers see “oh look, we might save some money because of a fed. holiday on gas prices” the normal demand on fuel increases, thus because supply is still short and our domestic oil production is still stagnent, the price of gasoline increases.

I’d like to do the dirty math though to see what I’m really supposed to save. So being that I’m in Austin, what is that math?

Gas Tank: 18gallons
Average Tank Fills Per Month: 3.5
Cost of Premium: $3.77/gal
Cost Per Month: $237.51
Gas Holiday: .184/gal
Savings: $43.70
Cost with Savings Per Month: $193.81

So, I’d save $43.70 a month over the summer. Obama stated that it would average out to $28 over the entire Summer, so his Math is fuzzy. But let’s look at what really will happen.

Cost of Gas during the summer: $4.05
(Including Oil Companies Taxation)

Cost to Fill 18 Gallons 3.5 times:255.15
Savings: $46.94
Cost with Savings: $208.21

So now I’m paying $14.40 dollars more because of the demand of oil, inflation of the dollar, and the summer gas holiday paid for by taxing the bejesus out of the oil companies. Yeah, sure this is all a real good idea.

Where is Dennis Miller when you need him?

You know what this country needs is a jolt. Look we are fighting with these people over there, they’re our worst enemies. They live to kill us. I mean and we’ve got Alaska sitting up there and we bought it for dirt cheap, it’s loaded with oil and yet we don’t go in because there’s like five caribou in there, you know? Screw the caribou! I don’t give a shit [bleeped out] about the caribou! I say you run a pipe in there and suck it dry. The caribou can wait.

Seriously people, lets relax the tax and EPA regulations and boost our own supplies here in the US.

Topics covered: Austin road trip, new apple macbook, “Yes, I assure you, we’re open”, Clerks Reference, Huts Hamburgers, the Oasis, Apple Store, date, Jenna Jameson, Team Building, the View.

Listen to this via itunes or directly below.

Expect an updated Podcast from us here at wetwired at some point today or tomorrrow.  Sorry for the delay.

Also remember, head out to Cedar Park to the Exxon on Bagdad Road and get some cheap gas!

Members of the HighPoint Fellowship, non-denominational church in Cedar Park, will buy down the price of regular unleaded gas to $2.49 at the Exxon station, 1900 Bagdad Road in Cedar Park, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday. Customers will get to pay that low, low price for their gas as the church pays for the rest.

Austin-area gas prices hit an average of $3.44 this past week, according to AAA Texas.

The last time Austin-area gas prices were at the $2.50 range was in March of last year.

Wow, now that’s cool stuff. I just hope if I manage to get out there, people are respectful when they go to fill up and don’t fight over the lines.

I have a new podcast recorded and ready to go. New music, even.

However, I just bought a new laptop and this one doesn’t have any ftp software installed yet, and furthermore I need to get some info from Pylorns to get the server info again. (My bad, admittedly, that I didn’t bother to write any of this crap down BEFORE SELLING MY OLD NOTEBOOK.)

So, be patient. There will be a new podcast hopefully within the next 24 hours.

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