Well, it was for me, $3.439 per gallon for regular. Just filled up. Was $3.199 per gallon last time I filled up, same station, not quite three weeks apart. Expected to go higher too.

At the pump, meanwhile, gas prices rose another 2.1 cents Friday to a record national average of $3.577 a gallon, according to AAA and the Oil Price Information Service. Gas prices have been following oil futures higher, but are also rising due to concerns about whether gasoline supplies are adequate to meet peak summer driving demand.

Analysts expect gas prices to continue rising for at least another month to $3.70 to $4 a gallon. To a large extent, how high gas prices peak depends on what oil does.

Next higher grade was up there, they didn’t waste any time here raining the price. Why the rise? Today? Oh just this.

Oil prices rose sharply Friday on news that a ship under contract to the U.S. Defense Department fired warning shots at two boats in the Persian Gulf. Retail gas prices as expected rose further into record territory, nearing $3.60 a gallon.

Crude prices rose on initial reports that a U.S. ship had fired on two Iranian boats; the news raised concerns that a conflict between U.S. and Iranian forces could cut oil supplies from the region. A Navy spokeswoman said the origin of the boats was unclear.

Just what we needed, a provocative move by Iran. Not! Oil and gas prices are doing just fine going up on their own. Don’t need Iranian help.

The news was enough to send light, sweet crude for June delivery up to $119.55 before the contract retreated to settle up $2.46 at $118.52 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

Least oil is still below $120 a barrel. Some consolation.

From the header of my WordPress.com blog, I can post to three blogs, this one, my test blog, one of them anyway, and obviously from my WordPress.com blog. I can access the dashboards of all three too. Note this one is still using WP 2.3.3, the test blog is running WP 2.6 (bleeding), and the WordPress.com blog is running WP 2.5 customized for WordPress.com. Doesn’t seem to matter.

All my blogs are using WordPress’s API key so not sure how they picked those three. I could state in my profile which one I considered my main blog, obviously this one with some 15mb worth of data. Another interesting bit of trivia.

Course, not annoying like when I started a Blogspot blog so I could check out their themes and it imported all the posts I had made to my original blog circa 2001 - 2003 hosted on my site admittedly using Blogger. Still wondering how they did that. I had thought that once I posted them to my site, they were mine not Blogger’s. Note one need not go there to see the old posts as I long ago imported them here.

Just discovered I can view the stats for all three WP blogs from all three WP blogs although I have to log in to WordPress.com each time even thou I am already logged in and I click “remember me” every time, same browser.

The Reverend Wright’s comment on Barack Obama’s comment on Reverend Wright’s comments to his congregation which were taken out of context according to Reverend Wright.

“He goes out as a politician and says what he has to say as a politician. I continue to be a pastor who speaks to the people of God about the things of God.“

Got that? Obama has to say what he has to say as a politician, typical. Not some innovator arguing for change, a politician. P. O. L. I. T. I. C. I. A. N. And we know what they’re like.

Oh, incidentally, from that comment and others he has made and been widely circulated on FoxNews, looks like Wright considers his black congregation the people of God. Never mind historically, it has always been the Jews. Brief primer on history, Christianity was taken to the Gentiles after the Jews, God’s people, rejected it and, even then, they proceeded to pervert it.

Yes, I consider Black Liberation Theology a perversion of Christianity and I am not alone in that assertion.

And the Messiah who will come isn’t black either. Whether one believes him to be Jesus, a Jew, or not, he will still be a Jew.

There, I’ll get off my soapbox and go back to petting kitties.

Prefer cats to politics: BKCFoC CotC ARK WCB

Maybe there will be peace in the land today unlike yesterday when Cece decided to interrupt Meowza’s roll in the dirt. Note Cece watching Meowza bare it all.

And he jumped right on poor defenseless Meowza too. Well, not really defenseless. Meowza has sharp teeth and claws.

Now I know it wasn’t a food fight as Cece had just been in to chow down, twice in one day. I think Meowza’s tummy is just so irresistible he couldn’t help himself. Cece just isn’t into petting tummies is all.

It’s a cat thing.

Weekend catting: BKCFoC CotC ARK WCB