Day: October 26, 2008

Here we go again.

According to the Lundberg Survey of 5,000 gas stations, prices have fallen nearly 53 cents a gallon over the last two weeks.

The average price of a gallon of regular gasoline at self-serve stations was $2.78 Friday. Mid-grade was at $2.93 and premium was at $3.05.

Isn’t it fascinating that gas is becoming more affordable just as Republicans are trying to avoid massive losses in next week’s election?

Isn’t it fascinating that this seems to happen again and again and again, as long as there are seats in Congress and the presidency at risk?

UPDATE:The wild eyed outraged entry below was based on what I described I was doing in the first sentence: “Flipping around the channels…” I had several friends let me know that I hadn’t seen enough before I made my opinion and blurted it out on this page. So this evening I watched the entire segment with Brocaw and McCain, and realized I’m wrong in my assessment of what was going on.

Further proof that John McCain is totally OUT OF TOUCH with reality.

Cindy the Beer Vendor?

On Thursday in Sarasota, Governor Charlie Crist introduced J. Robert Long, the CEO of Marine Concepts as a “small businessman.” The man McCain dubbed “Bob the Boat Builder” spent, as Crist noted, most of his career at Wellcraft Marine, which reported revenues of $67 million last year, according to Yahoo! Finance.

In America, we have a long tradition of the secret ballot. We all learn from Mrs. Pringle in eighth grade civics class that the secret ballot is very, very important. This is because, if we didn’t have a secret ballot, thousands and thousands of people would be intimidated into voting against their consciences, fearing they would be beaten up by mobs of marauding partisans for daring to vote against their favorite.

Of course, like most things you learn in eighth grade civics class, this is sheer hokum.