Everybody is ticked off about the high price of gasoline.  How many of those people look in the mirror when they need to place blame?  I would doubt very many, how about you?

Myself, I blame the American people for many reasons but I'll give you just one.  Our doggedly loyal support of China.  That's right, the folks who bring you fine cuisine on every street corner, "Pass the Kung Pao Chicken please", are gobbling up fuel like its going out of style.  Their country's economy is doubling EVERY SEVEN YEARS FOLKS.  Now, tell me something.......  For a country to be making that much CA$$H, somebody must be buying their crap.  Who could that be?

That's right, its the American consumer in pursuit of low low prices, we are buying up Chinese goods, causing China to become rich and gobble up more fuel which in turn sends our fuel skyrocketing!  Simply put, WE ARE SCREWING OURSELVES!!!

Next time you brag to your friends about how cheap you got that "silly something" at Walmart, remember the pain at the pump!  Bet you won't hear this from CNN......bye bye then.

Watch as our presidential candidates have a 3-way socialistic orgy.

We're against illegal wiretapping, unless we need to snoop on the tramps that Bill slept with!

The Democrat party:  Stupid ignoramuses need to belong to something, right?

We're not happy until you're not happy.

Sure we're pusssies, but we're also liars and hypocrites, what's your point?

We change our position because one position is just too uncomfortable.

We're for free speech, until you disagree with us, then we'll shut you up.

Equal rights matter, particularly when it comes to terrorists and criminals.

We'd rather concern ourselves with the spotted owl than an unborn child.

Over 2 years ago, on 1 June 2006, I wrote in the "Meat and Potatoes Blog" that our Marines who were accused of murder in Haditha deserved the same kind of justice they were fighting to protect.  Well over the past 2 years, almost all have received just that!  If you google the name LCpl. Justin Sharratt, USMC, you will see that all charges were dropped against this young defender of freedom after he was so callously "convicted" by Jack Murtha on national TV during the summer of 2006.  Did you miss it?  Just go to YouTube and search for "Jack Murtha on Meet The Press" and you'll find the clip of Congressman Murtha throwing "due process" right out the ole window!  What is "due process" you might be thinking?  Please go back to my column on 6/1/2006 and I give a highly illustrative example of how important this principle is to our freedom.

Now, there were several Marines involved in the Haditha incident and some of them have not yet been exonerated for the shootings.  The reason I picked Lcpl. Sharratt is that he happens to be from the same region of the country as the "big mouthed curmudgeon", Jack Murtha.  In fact, the Sharratt family may even be in Murtha's voting district.  HOW IRONIC  IS THAT?  You would think that any time an event happens which involves a member of your voting constituency, as a typical politician, you would handle it with "kid gloves", right?  Mishandle it, and you might build up a public relations "tsunami" that would wash you right out of office!

So, why did the "big mouthed curmudgeon" run right out there and have his own little "blab-fest" on national television?  Why did he convict American soldiers in the court of public opinion without ANY investigation, let alone a military trial of some sort?  Why did he put soldiers and their families through a living hell for over a year?  I'll tell you why:  HE WANTED IT TO BE TRUE SO BADLY FOR POLITICAL PURPOSES and even if it wasn't true, he knew that making it seem true would achieve short-term political objectives!

Let's go back to summer of 2006 for a moment if you'll indulge me.  The Democrats were in the minority and desperately seeking what they always seek (besides higher taxes and more dependency), power.  The 2006 election was coming up and they knew that the Iraq War was growing increasingly unpopular.  What better way to drum up more anti-war sentiment than create a "Mi Lai Massacre" style story and rally the Woodstock nutcases who are now in their 60's but can still push a voting booth button!  It worked, the hard left-wing nutcases came out in droves that November and enough of the moderate dunderheads (who never really pay much attention to the news with so much other good stuff on TV) were convinced that giving Democrats control of Congress seemed like a good idea.  The rest is history, my friends.

But now, we have to look to the future.  Where does LCpl. Sharratt, Lt. Col. Chessani and the rest of their Marine Corps faithful go to get their reputations back?  How do we prevent this from happening again and remind our brave troops that we will stand behind them when a similar event like Haditha occurs?  You hesitate in combat over worries about a possible court-martial back home and BAMMO, you're dead!

We do it by trumpeting from the rooftops the following message:  Congressman Jack Murtha is a "cold blooded" liar and he should be run out of office in utter shame!  Just as the British Parliament turned its backs in shame on Chamberlain as he left, each member of the House of Representatives should give Murtha the cold shoulder, along with the American people as well.  We should demand an apology from Murtha on the floor of the "People's House", where he candidly admits how he jumped the gun, convicted these men without a trial and begs for their forgiveness.  Only by making a hideous example out of this guy can we ensure that it does not happen ever again.

Ok you Grassroots Troopers, I've got a new slogan and it might shock the living dogsqueeze out of you!  But the situation is grave these days and I feel something of this magnitude, is indeed justified.

"Drill the shelf, or I'll KILL myself!"