"To the victor goes the spoils" If I'm not mistaken, that is the universal understanding of what happens to the assets of the conquerd after the conquest. Well, Iraq has beneath its soverign 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 stablize the country. Mean while we are still spending over 2 BILLION per Week for esentially 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 psycological problems! Nor the repair and replacement cost of all the equipment used and abused in this conflict. There are many other ansillary 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 faught and died to save and return to function. Suadi Arabi(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 realiztion of the deliemma 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 Exxcon-Mobil is, coincedently, 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 stagggering 40 billion dollar profit! Meanwhile back at the "farm", the gov.(ours) is now paying farmers not to grow food but instead corn for ethenol (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 miniscule 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/ Barak Obama incedent is as clear a sample of what is holding back any hope of moving forward from racism. Here is a self-centered, hatefull, biggoted, 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 handedly 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 anounced 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 diarehia showed up all over the web. But, when he gave that almost perfect speech( all he had to do was what no other politicin 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 Congradulations 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) merrying(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 distent 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 Secratary of State (C.Rice) Joint chief of staff (C.Powell) Opera, Montel, last years Superbowl coaches(both of them), A shuttle comander 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 delt a dockout 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 exsists 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.....

Why, must we continue on a path, that we can say without doubt, will lead us to very dark times? The warning signs are everywhere you look! Can it be we are illiterate to the language? What other possible excuse can there be? Those signs are even the universal language of danger, bright red and flashing. Yet, onward we march. Charge forward into oblivion as though our feet are glued to a conveyor belt and we are unable to get off. Have we just excepted it as our fate, without ever picking up arms? Now is the time to fight! We are always eager to take up arms against one another to protect what we have from those who are threatening to take it from us. Now we are all threatend and what do we do? We cower in own corner of our little made up lives hoping others will defeat the enemy before they get to us. The enemy is you(us).......................We are all closer to ourselves than to our friends. Giving truth to the statement, "Keep your friends close, but keep your enemies closer."

If you watched the news(any news) in the last two days, you are aware of the death of a 66 yr old retired veternarian do to a shark (Great White) attack. He was swimming, as he and a dozen others did three times a week, while in training for a triatholon in the murky waters of Southern California. The attack was typical of a Great White going after it's "normal" food source, the seal. It attacks from dark depths below and is usually done with enough speed and violence to propel both the shark, all est 1500 lbs of him, and the victim into the air. In the very rare case of a mistaken identity, which unfortunately for the victim still doesn't bode well, the shark usually abandons the mistaken prey and swims off, as it did in this case. But, the single strike from a evolutionary biologically perfected killer, is all that is really needed. Now, I have mentioned in several posts that humans (mostly Chinese for shark fin soup or used in some ritual) kill over 100 MILLION sharks per year! The even more horrible fact is that most are rounded up in a massive kills(hunts) that begins with crop dusters chumming an area of the ocean up two 2 miles! Sharks can detect one drop of blood in over a billion gallons of water, so you can imagine the area sharks are drawn from. They are pulled aboard giant industrial fishing ships, their fins are cut off, and while still alive, thrown back in the sea to drown (sharks must move to breath) or become a last supper for other unsuspecting sharks. World wide on the average there are approx 7-10 attacks per year resulting in an average of 5 deaths! With billions of humans entering their backyard, I would say we are pretty lucky. I don't so feel bad when they get one of us. What type of revenge would humans extract on sharks if 100 million people were killed. The fate of this one lone Great White, if able to be caught, will be a sure death. They will also probably kill a few innocent ones in the process. Before finding the "guilty" one. Guilty of what?Because in it's normal course of trying eat, in a world that has all ready made it more difficult by reducing it's natural food, it made a mistake and took a bite out of one of us, it's only known threat! The irony lies in the fact that this man devouted his life to saving and healing animals. Just as with the accidental death of Steve Erwin from a stab in the heart from a sting ray. The animals are not "out to get us" we are out to get them. We have caused the extinction of more species in the last 100 yrs than of all extictions since the creation of life on Earth! Everyday we lose a hundred more totaling over 35,000 a year, due to our lack of understanding, greed and negligence. THATS 35 THOUSAND LIFE FORMS A YEAR THAT WILL NEVER EXSIST AGAIN!. Everyday we slaughter millions and millions of live stock to feed our over popoulated planet. We put to sleep millions of unwanted or stray pets. They breed, because we don't prevent them from breeding, as they are our responsibility. We hunt and kill another million or so every year so we can hang their severed heads on our wall or use their limbs for "fancy" table legs or coat racks. We "exterminate" millions of "pests" each day because we classify them as unhealthy or harmfull to the our world. I for one would classify humans as unhealthy or harmfull to the our world(and theirs) good thing the "other" animals on this planet don't see it my way, they still out number us a billion to one. Isn't it nice to know they don't hold a grudge and are willing to forgive and forget..... Those are examples of intentional killings. Then you have those animals that just get in our way. Like bugs on your windsheild must number in the billions and those animals we run over or hit with our cars, boats and planes. Let that great creature that has graced this planet for millions of years, before we came along, go on it's way. It is smart enough not to make the same mistake twice. Thankfully, Sharks don't like the way we taste. I think we probably taste toxic. No wonder, they say you are what you eat! from that single interaction the shark has learned....I wish we could learn too, not to make the same mistakes over and over....