Wolfgang von Skeptik

SLASH GAS COSTS, LEARN HIDDEN TRUTHS

THREE LINKS FOR YOUR weekend pleasure and contemplation, all seasoned by a solemn promise that on Monday I’ll be back to serious blogging: the November deadline frenzy is behind me and my sore throat is diminishing to a mere tickle.

Link Number One is purely utilitarian – a huge money-saver I’ve already put to the test – something called GasBuddy that helps you find the cheapest fuel in town just about anywhere in the United States. It’s available here (with a hat-tip to the always-useful WomensWallStreet site for the original link). You just type in your zip-code, compare your alternatives and purchase accordingly: in my test run this afternoon it saved me 10 cents per gallon.

The remaining links – two and three – are vitally informative.

Number Two is to Col. Oliver North (USMC Ret.), who tells us what really happened in that Fallujah mosque – the place where a radical NBC-TV cameraman claims a Marine committed a war crime and so gave Islam another hate-America propaganda film. If you read nothing else this weekend, read this. North’s account is close to what I guessed had actually occurred, which suggests the Marine deserves not a court-martial but an “attaboy” for being on his toes, never mind the contrary testimony of a man who seems to take his hairstyle cues from Charles Manson. Once again I am compelled to ask: what suicidal dementia possesses the Bush Administration it allows enemy propagandists to accompany our troops into battle?

The third link is a tragic letter that tells us what life in politically “correct” Canada is really like, especially when you’re a law-abiding citizen desperately seeking protection from one of Canada’s protected minorities – in this instance, predatory crack addicts. I’m reminded of Manhattan in the 1960s, when most of the politicians (and too many of the cops) believed that if you lived in a bad neighborhood, you didn’t deserve any protection against the pukes and scumbags you necessarily had to share the turf with. But in the City it was merely another expression of the old adage that “money talks.” In Canada it’s something far worse: reverse bigotry enforced by men with badges and guns against a citizenry that it is totally disarmed and thus pathetically powerless – just the sort of place our gun-hating leftists would love.

Another reason to give heartfelt thanks for the United States of America – and have a fine weekend too.

Posted by Loren at November 19, 2004 04:04 AM