I went to buy gas for the Sneed Family Junkster today and it was $1.559 per gallon. I filled up for $17.84. Amazing. The conspiracy nuts who thought George W. was keeping oil prices high to enrich his oil pals, must be scratching their heads. You would think that in the last month of his term, he would really stick it to us. Of course, conspiracies are very rare in real life. I heard a band of knuckleheads at bowling talking about all the unregistered firearms that they have stashed since Obama was elected. Everyone knows that the first thing on the Obama agenda is to go door-to-door collecting the arsenals of average Americans. A fellow in the store told me that his cousin had a friend who bought a Chevy off the lot and quickly discovered that it got 100 mpg. He was as pleased as punch until some "official looking" guys showed up with a new car for him and took the old one away. It had the magic carburetor that Detroit has kept off the market all these year. Never mind that a magic carburetor would make GM, Ford or Chrysler rich beyond their wildest dreams, they had their reasons. Speaking of something that isn't a conspiracy, well it was but it's been exposed, is the sweetheart deal the AARP has with its official insurance company, The Hartford. AARP has been touting the money we geezers can save by switching to The Hartford. You may recall my falling out with the bastards at The Hartford. It seems that AARP has taken hundreds of millions of dollars from The Hartford yearly for their endorsement. Those hundreds of millions were passed along to the loyal AARP members, like me in the form of higher premiums. It also seems that The Hartford allowed AARP to intercept policy premiums and hold them for weeks before sending them along to The Hartford. This allowed the skunks at AARP to use the funds to generate interest revenue for their lobbying efforts. All of this cash allows AARP to stick up the government through their extensive lobbying efforts, as well as generally bothering the public and stirring up legions of elderly cranks. Everyone knows that Merle Wayne Sneed would never join an organization unless he stood to benefit financially and AARP is no different. The last thing I want to do is align myself with a bunch of disagreeable people like me. Misery does not love company, despite what you may have heard. So, sans insurance savings, I have no use for AARP. I quit. When we were unceremoniously booted from The Hartford, we discovered what many others are finding out. Their insurance is way too costly and there are tons of other companies willing to insure you for less, since they apparently don't pay bribes. Things in this blog represented to be fact, may or may not actually be true. The writer is frequently wrong, sometimes just full of it, but always judgmental and cranky