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		<title>Petrol Protest</title>
		<link>http://brickblog.net/2008/03/14/petrol-protest</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 14:04:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kayakermanmike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not entirely sure of the legitamacy of some of the information in this, but the concept seems sound&#8230; Hi All, THIS IS NOT THE &#8216;DON&#8217;T BUY&#8217; GAS FOR ONE DAY, BUT IT WILL SHOW YOU HOW WE CAN GET GAS &#8230; <a href="http://brickblog.net/2008/03/14/petrol-protest">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Not entirely sure of the legitamacy of some of the information in this, but the concept seems sound&#8230;</p>
<p>Hi All,</p>
<p>THIS IS NOT THE &#8216;DON&#8217;T BUY&#8217; GAS FOR ONE DAY, BUT IT  WILL SHOW YOU HOW WE CAN GET GAS BACK DOWN TO     $1.30 PER GALLON.</p>
<p>This was sent by a retired Coca Cola executive.  It came from one of his engineer buddies who retired from Halliburton.  If you are tired of the gas prices going up AND they will continue to rise this summer, take time to read this please.</p>
<p>Phillip Hollsworth offered this good idea.</p>
<p>This makes MUCH MORE SENSE than the &#8220;don&#8217;t buy gas on a certain day&#8221;  campaign that was going around last April or May!   It&#8217;s worth your consideration.  Join the resistance!!!!</p>
<p>I hear we are going to hit close to $ 4.00 a gallon by next summer and it might go higher!!  Want gasoline prices to come down?   We need to take some intelligent, united action.  </p>
<p>The oil companies just laughed at that because they knew we wouldn&#8217;t continue to &#8220;hurt&#8221; ourselves by refusing to buy gas .</p>
<p>It was more of an inconvenience to us than it was a problem for them.   BUT, whoever thought of this idea, has come up with a plan that can Really work.  Please read on and join with us!</p>
<p>By now you&#8217;re probably thinking gasoline priced at about $2.00 is super cheap.  Me too!  It is currently $3.49 for regular unleaded in my town, Seattle.</p>
<p>Now that the oil companies and the OPEC nations have conditioned us to think that the cost of a gallon of gas is CHEAP at $1.50 &#8211; $1.75, we need to take aggressive action to teach them that BUYERS control the marketplace..not sellers.</p>
<p>With the price of gasoline going up more each day, we consumers need to take action.</p>
<p>The only way we are going to see the price of gas come down is if we hit someone in the pocketbook by not purchasing their gas!  And, we can do that WITHOUT hurting ourselves.</p>
<p>How?  Since we all rely on our cars, we can&#8217;t just stop buying gas.</p>
<p>But we CAN have an impact on gas prices if we all act together to force a price war.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the idea: For the rest of this year, DON&#8217;T purchase ANY gasoline from the two biggest companies (which now are one), EXXON and MOBIL.</p>
<p>If they are not selling any gas, they will be inclined to reduce their prices.   If they reduce their prices, the other companies will have to follow suit.</p>
<p>But to have an impact, we need to reach literally millions of Exxon and Mobil gas buyers.  It&#8217;s really simple to do!  Now, don&#8217;t wimp out on me at this point&#8230;keep reading and I&#8217;ll explain how simple it is to reach millions of people!!</p>
<p>I am sending this note to 30 people.  If each of us send it to at least ten more (30 x 10 = 300) &#8230;  and those 300 send it to at least ten more (300 x 10 = 3,000)&#8230; and so on, by the time the message reaches the sixth group of people, we will have reached over THREE MILLION consumers .<br />
If those three million get excited and pass this on to ten friends each, then 30 million people will have been contacted!</p>
<p>If it goes one level further, you guessed it&#8230;.. THREE HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE!!!</p>
<p>Again, all you have to do is send this to 10 people. That&#8217;s all!</p>
<p>(If you don&#8217;t understand how we can reach 300 million and all you have to do is send this to 10 people&#8230;. Well, let&#8217;s face it, you just aren&#8217;t a mathematician. But I am. So trust me on this one.</p>
<p>How long would all that take? If each of us sends this e-mail out to ten more people within one day of receipt, all 300 MILLION people could conceivably be contacted within the next 8 days!!!</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll bet you didn&#8217;t think you and I had that much potential, did you! Acting together we can make a difference.</p>
<p>If this makes sense to you, please pass this message on. I suggest that we not buy from EXXON/MOBIL UNTIL THEY LOWER THEIR PRICES TO THE $2.00 RANGE AND KEEP THEM DOWN. THIS CAN REALLY WORK.</p>
<p>Keep it going</p>
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		<title>Heath Ledger. . .</title>
		<link>http://brickblog.net/2008/01/24/heath-ledger</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:04:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kayakermanmike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not a cold bastard here, honest, but people, GET A FUCKING CLUE. We have soldiers around the world dying every day for us. No I don&#8217;t agree with all the reasons they are there, but I do give my &#8230; <a href="http://brickblog.net/2008/01/24/heath-ledger">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m not a cold bastard here, honest, but people, GET A FUCKING CLUE. We have soldiers around the world dying every day for us. No I don&#8217;t agree with all the reasons they are there, but I do give my support and hope they get to come home very very soon.</p>
<p>So why on Earth is every single news story about some actor that died? Was he a good actor, sure. Is it tragic that he died at 28? Yes. But I think the news media really needs to get a clue about what is important here. We have a liar sending our people off to war, who couldn&#8217;t handle foreign relations if it were a paper bag and he were holding a lighter, and the message we&#8217;re broadcasting around the world in HD is that an actor died.</p>
<p>Good job folks.</p>
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		<title>Political Endorsement</title>
		<link>http://brickblog.net/2007/11/20/political-endorsement</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 13:49:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kayakermanmike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This beats the pants of Strong Kids, Safe Kids I found this on ExtraLife, so when your done watching go on over and give the site a little traffic. It&#8217;s well worth it. There&#8217;s a lot of funny stuff to &#8230; <a href="http://brickblog.net/2007/11/20/political-endorsement">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>This beats the pants of <a href="http://brickblog.net/2007/05/25/strong-kids-safe-kids/">Strong Kids, Safe Kids</a></strong></p>
<p>I found this on <a href="http://myextralife.com" target="_blank">ExtraLife</a>, so when your done watching go on over and give the site a little traffic. It&#8217;s well worth it. There&#8217;s a lot of funny stuff to see. Meanwhile, enjoy this political announcement.</p>
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