Depraved Barrel Riding

While the entire globe mourns and mobilizes to help its people whose suffering happens to be occurring on our particular patch of dirt this time, the usual suspects of evil, wacko Islamic nutcases who cannot just seem to amble along their determined paths to hell quietly, are chiming in on the disaster of hurricane Katrina:

Islamic extremists rejoiced in America's misfortune, giving the storm a military rank and declaring in Internet chatter that "Private" Katrina had joined the global jihad, or holy war. With "God's help," they declared, oil prices would hit $100 a barrel this year.

Once this crisis is over and we have demonstrated the love and determination and HOPE of our people and nation, we need to get to the business of shutting down the false sense of control created by the everpresent OPEC oil stranglehold. We MUST extricate ourselves from the middle eastern oil teat and begin developing and using fuel mechanisms that allow our nation to self-sustain. These fanatic terrorists continue to labor under the delusion that they have us over a barrel.

Literally.