"Calif. Gov. Takes Action as Gas Prices Keep Rising"

Calif. gov takes action as gas prices keep rising - WFSB Channel 3
 

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Gov. Jerry Brown is taking action in an effort to drive down the cost of gasoline as California drivers cope with record-breaking prices at the pump. For the third straight day Monday, the statewide average price for a gallon of regular rose to an all-time high, hitting $4.668, according to AAA.
That topped Sunday's price of $4.655 and Saturday's price of $4.6140, which broke the previous record high of $4.6096 per gallon set on June 19, 2008.
Due to a temporary reduction in supply, California gas prices in recent days have surpassed those in Hawaii to become the highest in the nation.

Comment....Ahh...A name from the past... Jerry Brown, Linda Ronstadt's ex-boyfriend. Do you remember that and what happened? Bear in mind I don't watch the news so I'm bound to make some mistakes but so far I think he is the first Politician that is saying something about the gas price issue in this country. The others obviously don't think its an issue. I say its the number one reason that the economy and the United States is going down the drain. But that's just me. The millions of immigrants (illegals) in Jerry's State must really have him backed against the wall. Not to mention the taxpayers who have to foot the bill for all the medical care, welfare and gas for all those immigrants (illegals). There is something really wrong with what is going on with the way Washington doesn't care. Hmmm I wonder what that is??? The millionaires who are running for political office in this country obviously don't care how much it hurts to put gas in your car or truck a few times a week to be able to afford just to go to work. At home here I noticed that since all the tourists went home... I live on the shoreline of Connecticut, is that people have slowed down to 60 and 65 on route 95 and of coarse there aren't so many cars. Someone is feeling the pain. Can you imagine the credit cards that are maxed out and the bills that are not being paid just from last summer?. How about this winter and the people who heat those big beautiful homes with oil? I believe its too late now and the price of gas will never go down. What is happening in California will happen here soon in the Northeast and all around the country. I'm afraid that after the election the price of gas will go to 6 or 7 or maybe 8 dollars a gallon. I can feel it in the cold, cold wind......

"Who Me, Where?"

Did you ever wish you were invisible? I mean so no one could see you. To be able to walk down the street and not be looked at all the time. To walk into a room and not be noticed or talked to? To be able to stand anonymously by, not saying a word and being bothered by anyone or anything. Well, I have and I have been wishing this would happen to me more and more lately. As you know or don't know I'm having a problem with our constantly changing world and I want to be left alone but not all the time, just some of the time. Let the world change at lightning speed while I stay where I am mentally and without the problems that go along with all the confusion and instability. The way things are going these days, its just moving too fast for me to understand so I am practicing being invisible because being the center of attention or visible also comes with the responsibly of setting a good example and as we all know these days that is impossible and almost non-existent. I mean who sets a good example these days? I don't want to be part of all that stuff. So being here and there or somewhere and being invisible works for me...Does it work and can you really do this, you may ask? I say, it works it really does but only if you practice. I mean I'm still here and there but barely noticeable. I have gotten so transparent lately that people don't say hello anymore and that's a good thing. Oh, some do but only if I want them too. You may not believe this but later on in the future you or I won't be here and no one will really care anyway. So from now on I'm going to practice not being here or in other words, being invisible. I will only become visible when I drive my car because it wouldn't look so good for a car to be going down the road without a driver.

"Windsor Locks Connecticut Officials Hoping Foreclosure Auction Happens"

Windsor Locks Officials Hoping Foreclosure Auction Happens This Time On Saturday - Windsor Locks-East Windsor, CT Patch

   

The complex has been neglected for years and its owners owe the Town of Windsor Locks more than $400,000 in back taxes and liens.

A tax foreclosure auction on the Montgomery Complex, 25 Canal Bank Road, is scheduled for noon Saturday, in order to secure the back taxes on the property by the Connecticut River and Windsor Locks Canal.

The current tax liability owed by Canal Bank Realty is $403,342.20, with interest accruing monthly, officials said. The town also has liens against the property for the expenses related to a fire that destroyed a part of the mill complex on July 16, 2006.

 Comment.....Why has it taken so long to go no where? Suffield and Enfield Connecticut have resolved the old factory issues years ago. At this point its too late to build condos, the building has deteriorated too much and who would actually buy a condo where the blaring horns of the Train Diesel engines echo between the walls of Senior housing, CVS and that place. Now they have another extension to pay Taxes? Not only does that old factory smell, this does too. So the old flood prone, fire trap factory and railroad station still sit there rotting as I write this. No progress just extensions and excuses. Its classic lets bleed the taxpayers by not making any decisions. I mean how long is it going to take to find someone to say tear them down and plant grass. What is going on here is absolutely ridiculous....Can you imagine if you or I owed $400,000 dollars. Say $400,000 out loud....Four Hundred Thousand Dollars....

Note......Windsor Locks is my old home town. My Mom worked in that factory and years ago I did electrical work in the building.. 

"Neeson Surprised He Is Seen as a 'Badass"

Neeson surprised he's seen as a 'badass' - UPI.com

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Liam Neeson says he is flattered to be offered a flurry of action-hero roles at this stage of his career.

"Hollywood likes to pigeon-hole you," the 60-year-old actor told reporters at a recent roundtable interview in New York to promote his new thriller, "Taken 2."
"After 'Schindler's List,' I was pigeon-holed in a certain way and then with the success of 'Taken,' I was re-pigeon-holed again," he said. "I started receiving quite a number of action scripts where the hero is obviously 30 years of age, but they changed it to late 40s, early 50s. It's quite flattering."

Comment...  I know that this is the last guy I would want after me so I would avoid him like the plague. You would think that the bad guys would do the same thing but we all know they weren't in the right line when they handed out the brains.... Mr. Neeson plays such a convincing protector of his family that you believe him when says, " I'll do what I do best"..  There is a clip on the link... In the movie "Rob Roy", Neeson has a sword fight with a very young actor named Tim Roth. I have seen all of Mr. Neeson's movies since then and I won't miss this one.....

"Issues and Google Plus"

When I post my Blog on Google Plus I send it to other members that are in my circles. I also Tweet it and Facebook it... I really do not understanding exactly how all this works. The question here is...If you don't want me to do this, please tell me and I will try to stop the EMs sent to your mail...In the almost 30 thousand page views I've had three people ask me to stop...There was that one Troll who I deleted and banned and 2 regular people who asked me to stop. If you want me to stop and don't want to tell me just dump the post in your spam box and the problem will be solved although I can't imagine why you'd want to do that. Thank you...

"Hoffa The Way I Remember It 40 Years Later"

Vanished Hoffa still fascinates after almost 40 years - CNN.com

 To date, none of these theories have panned out. But wherever the truth may lie, one thing is for certain: Jimmy Hoffa -- former Teamsters leader, convicted felon, Kennedy enemy and alleged mobster cohort -- hasn't been seen since July 30, 1975.

 

 

On Friday, police again looker for the union boss who was declared dead in 1982, under the driveway of a house in Roseville, Michigan, just outside Detroit. A tipster told police that a body was buried at the spot around the same time the Teamsters head disappeared. Police found no "discernible remains" in the search, police Chief James Berlin said.

It's a disappearance that has held on to the public's imagination far longer than Hoffa was in power -- a testament both to Hoffa's high profile and the power of mystery, says pop culture expert Robert Thompson of Syracuse University.

 Comment........ I remember when this happened. I did not do any research for this. All this is from memory. Can you imagine how many times I did research and said to myself,  Hey. That's not the way I remember it. Some of the powers to be seem to have the knack of even changing History. Robert Kennedy the Attorney General of the United States at the time was, to make a long story short was very angry at Hoffa for insulting him. I don't remember what he said. Mr. Kennedy fired back accusing him of lying to congress and the verbal battle began.. Name calling and insults going back and forth via the media. It was pretty bad.  From what I understood at the time Kennedy and his brother who happened to be the President were very upset. Or at least that's what the press said. Later on from what I could read between the lines Hoffa, a big shot union leader and suspected gangster disappeared. It was then while old Giant Stadium was being built in New Jersey that the rumors started that Hoffa was buried under the Goal posts. Hey, you tell me what happened. I'm still trying to figure out what happened to Martha Mitchell who died suspiciously during the Nixon administration. She had a habit of talking to the press about some very embarrassing things. I seem to remember she liked being in the limelight. However while looking from the outside years ago. Our leaders used the CIA, FBI and various Government agency's for some from what I consider unusual things when they couldn't get what they wanted. Like the Marilin Monroe incident and her JFK issues but that is another story for another day....    

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hoffa

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Beall_Mitchell

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_Monroe

"More Deaths by Suicide than Car Crashes"

PressTV - Suicide leading cause of injury deaths

 

More Americans now commit suicide than die in car crashes, making suicide the leading cause of injury deaths, according to a new study.

In addition, over the last 10 years, while the number of deaths from car crashes has declined, deaths from poisoning and falls increased significantly, the researchers report.

"Suicides are terribly undercounted; I think the problem is much worse than official data would lead us to believe," said study author Ian Rockett, a professor of epidemiology at West Virginia University.

In the past year, over 2.2 million adults revealed they had made suicide plans in the past year, and over 1 million reported attempting suicide.

Comment ...... The title statistic here is what captured my interest.. Morbid yes but very real. This is a subject people don't like to think about, putting it on the back shelf saying it can't happen to me. Well, yes, it can happen to you and your family.  First, I think the primary reason for suicide is the hopelessness of Alcoholism and Drug Addiction. Its all around you and if look really close someone in your family has this disease. Yet this is only the tip of the iceberg and one of the many reasons for suicide... Look at the declining family values and morals and all the Mom and Dad divorces? The Television in your house if you can still stand to watch, is constantly programing you to do some not so nice things and buy, buy, buy and spend, spend, spend. Even the music of today is suggesting you have sex and is using foul language encouraging you with the lyrics. If young men and woman think they can do this without guilt and consequences, think again. When getting a job means working in a fast food restaurant or a Super Market stocking shelf's or checking out people, listening to that constant high pitched beep at the computer register.... They call that a career?... Do they expect you to do this for the next 30 years and be happy? Of coarse now there is more and more credit card debt. If you can't afford it just charge it and pay later. Right? Then student loan debt and losing a real job and the career you thought was safe and would last forever. Along with this comes losing your home and living in a country where greed is the key word and all they want is your money... All these things lead to anger, rage, loneliness, despair and depression. There is only so much people can take. So now with the continuously rising gas and food prices, a Presidential election coming up and from what I can see no real changes, I expect this statistic to go up...