When a very small, in stature not heart, group of colonists (some of those would later receive the title of Founding Fathers. Samuel Adams, John Hancock and Samuel Quincy Adams) got fed up with the constant taxation by an oppressive and Powerful(the most powerful in the world at that time) British government. They banded together and decided it was time to take a stand. They, in a show of contempt and displeasure, poured a shipment of tea into the Boston harbour to let the British gov. know they were not going to take it anymore! We are all aware what that incident meant in the birthing of our nation. Tyrants, monopolies, and bullies will only stop when confronted with enough resistance to alter their view. No longer seeing it to be profitable to continue those actions. All that was done without the power of the Internet. Well, Today with the tool that we tap away at each day, we can send EXXON-MOBIL as clear, if not clearer, message. I am calling for a boycott of Exxon-Mobil gas stations for just three days over the Memorial Day Weekend. This is usually their biggest weekend of the year, all the schools are out and summer travel is now full on. They are gearing up by raising the price at the pumps to all time highs. Get ready the price of a Barrel of crude closed yesterday 5/5/08 at 122 dollars. Never in the history of man and it's addiction to Oil has it been this high! BOYCOTT THEM FOR 3 DAYS and we will send them a kick in the arse of around 1 billion dollars. That's how much Profit they will make in that same three days if we do nothing! Pass this on to everyone who you have in your E-mail and if anyone other than me is fed up....it will be a historical statement! Wax on wax off....Exxon Ex off it can be that simple! UPDATE 5/22/08 The price for barrel has risen steadily, it now is at 133 dollars. Today "Big Oil" is due to face congress to give their explanation for the record prices....due we really believe that any thing will happen there that will lower prices? I don't! I know The lies they will tell to there buddies in congress. This little theater act has a very covert purpose, its to get congress to over rule environmental protection laws that were put in place to prevent the destruction of what little wild space we have left. They will cry poor mouth and say the prices are due to low supplies. Giving credence to their carefully orchestrated demand to allow them to rape more of the Earths ecosystems in order to suck more oil for them to sell. First, they are intentionally reducing the refining of oil to drive demand/price up. Exxon-Mobil has invested what would amount to about 1/2 of 1 % of their total income to green energy/renewable energy. Ya, that's the kinda company I want to support..what about you?

"To the victor goes the spoils" If I'm not mistaken, that is the universal understanding of what happens to the assets of the conquered after the conquest. Well, Iraq has beneath its sovereign soil the 4th largest oil reserve in the world. It is now pumping at before war levels and that revenue is "supposedly" going towards building up The new "useless" Governments coffers to help stabilize the country. Mean while we are still spending over 2 BILLION per Week for essentially the same thing! That 2 Billion is in actual dollars(borrowed from China) it doesn't figure in the additional costs of medical care and support for all those soldiers returning with injury and psychological problems! Nor the repair and replacement cost of all the equipment used and abused in this conflict. There are many other ancillary costs from a number of different aspects too. I am trying get the actual dollar amount that is being stuffed into the gov. coffers, as well I'm sure into their pockets, from the millions of barrels extracted from wells we fought and died to save and return to function. Saudi Arabia(OPEC) sits on the single largest reserve(264 billion barrels of oil) in the world. The price at the pumps in Riyadh, the capital, are a hefty .91 cents/gal (source-air-inc.com). They have flat out declined to increase production or reduce prices to help their Main Friend and Allie The US, after both Bush and Cheney personally made request for help. They have shown their true color. "Fair weather Friends" is what I call them.... I know all too well what that feels like! In hind sight it is probably better to start a realization of the dilemma that will confront us in the not so distant future(8 to 10 yrs) when we have depleted all the reserves on the planet........... 5/6/08 OK. Now that I've sorted it all. Let me see if I understand it correctly. We are now paying the highest price for gas in history correct? It funny because Exxon-Mobil is, coincidentally, also showing Profits that are higher than ever before in history. So, out of that 3.75 /gal we pay at the pump a portion of it is Gov. tax(our gov.) The same gov. that is giving Exxon-Mobile tax credits and tax breaks so they can use our(yours and mine)public lands for exploration to extract Crude oil from our (yours and mine) land to sell back to us at a hefty enough profit so they can give bonuses to their retiring CEOs (last yr 300 million BONUS to just one of them) And show a staggering 40 billion dollar profit! Meanwhile back at the "farm", the gov.(ours) is now paying farmers not to grow food but instead corn for ethanol (another "Shell" game being perpetuated on us). Which are driving prices up for food in our economy. Now, couple that with the rising cost of getting the food to your table and you can easily see why we are in the pre-dick-iment that we are! I don't want Any of these silly minuscule gas tax breaks being tossed around. What I want is for Exxon-Mobil to fax me (too costly to ship now) a BIG KISS... because that is really what I like to get while being F#$%^D!

I once again find myself compelled to speak about an issue that first of all, I swore I would never comment on again, and secondly It makes the EverReady Bunnie look like a 100 yr invalid on oxygen! But, I think it's a perfect time to use a major current event to illuminate the reality that so many are afraid to point out, in fear they will be labeled a "racist". Well, I'm not afraid for many reasons, only one is necessary to explain. No one that has ever met me, whether for a second or has known me for my life time, will EVER accuse me of having any shred of racism towards any other human being, regardless of the color of their skin, religion, political affiliation, or what sexual tendencies they have. I may differ in opinion, (everyone is clear of that about me) but as long as your opinion doesn't hurt someone in the process and it's not seeded in hate, then carry on! I think that the Rev. Wright/ Barrack Obama incident is as clear a sample of what is holding back any hope of moving forward from racism. Here is a self-centered, hateful, bigoted, ego-maniac, that is willing to put his own agenda (if you didn't see his "performance" you should) ahead of all black people, all of America, The "Black" Church and Barrack Obama! Oh, did I forget to mention that his "agenda and ego" has single handily crushed any hope of America having it's first Black president. No matter in what "context" you take him, he ia a one man, race relations wrecking ball! The Rev. was intentionally omitted from the speaking list the day Barrack announced his intentions to run for president. Yet, Barrack never made any reference to that when he was forced to speak after portions of the Rev. sermons showing his hateful verbal diarrhea showed up all over the web. But, when he gave that almost perfect speech( all he had to do was what no other politician seems ever to be capable of doing...ATMITTING HE MAD A MISTAKE staying at that church, but has as we all do learned from that mistake. DONE Congratulations you are now our next president) he explained that he never knew of the Reverends strong hate filled sermons. Then why did he prevent the Rev. from giving a speech/sermon on the day he announced he was running? Which is it you can't have it both ways. You either knew, and hoped it would never surface. Which would give me serious question as to your understanding of politics, and more importantly, people. Or you really didn't know and you just couldn't fit your spiritual advisor, life time mentor, baptising (his children) marrying(Barrack and his wife) friend, on the program that day. Either way you have almost been derailed bye a racist Black man. How ironic and how sad. The only good I see being able to come from is an awakening of the "Black" population to who is your biggest enemy in racism today? YOU ARE! You just don't want to face the fact that, all though white people did horrible things to your people in the past(even the not so distant past), It was the past and not the present! But in the world of today it's your own people that are doing the harm and In more ways than just this example. I don't need to list them you are all quite aware the the situation you've got yourselves into. Barrack won 98% of the entire Iowa voting population. That state is 95 white, more white than any other state in America! I will mention just a small group of people who have some how, some way over came being black. Like our Secretary of State (C.Rice) Joint chief of staff (C.Powell) Opera, Montel, last years Superbowl coaches(both of them), A shuttle commander on the Discovery team, lets see ...... I could go on. If whites still had the ignorance and hate of the past era, you could say without hesitation that the horribly sad fate of MLK would be the likely outcome of any black man that has risen to the level Obama has today. Barak was almost delta knockout blow by his black family. You see because he orig came out and just verbally condemned the Writes sermons he was going to feel the wrath of the "black" community for not sticking up for his friend and defending the ways of the "black" church. IT IS TIME FOR CHANGE! The problems that we are all facing today will change the course of human history. It's up to all of us to decide what course we take to ensure we have a history. It's not a color of skin problem, it's will our children be allowed to grow up to adulthood and have your grandchildren problem. But, in order to solve them, it will require a unified Herculean effort. No more Afro-American, No more BET, no more Black pride day or million man marches (unless it is to promote the only important race that exists today...... The Human Race!

I know it's kind of confusing to newcomers but, I have three seperate blogs under the one heading Illumination guy's. Illumination-("The war" and all wars, oil and energy, crumbling gov, and anything else that effects the world negitively....cosmic painter-(pimarily enviornmental issues incl. overpopulation) and faith or fiction-( a variety of topics-religion, race relations, crime, and some attempts to be funny or whitty)Please ck them out too, they have been lonley.....