I have a feeling we'll be needing it...whether she decides to run for yet another office she's unqualified for or simply decides to fling shit at anyone and everyone she's deluded enough to believe wronged her in the past.

to ANYTHING ELSE!!!

Here's an interesting link on the "Moral Twilight Zone" in Gaza:

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/71837.html

U.S. lobbyist ties with Clinton's help Hondurus coup leaders:

http://www.democracynow.org/2009/7/15/honduras

Iraqi civilians being tortured by British soldier:

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article2...

Israel trains assassination squads:

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/arti...

A real win for Single Payer advocates here:

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/arti...

That's it for me folks.

I'm off to dream land.....

You know, it would be a lot of fun watching the Republicans doing their Chernobyl meltdown impression except for one thing.. ..the Democrats don't seem to be that much better. With a huge majority in the house of representatives and a fillibuster-proof Senate they still haven't accomplished much, and have demonstrated no will to restore the damage done by the Bush administration.

Sure, you can laugh at Sarah Palin or RushBo all you like, but the laughter has that diminished quality, as Robert Newman described it, of a cardboard bell with a wooden clapper.

"The Republicans are 95 percent corrupt and the Democrats are 75 percent corrupt. They are accepting money from the same corporations. And of course, that is going to corrupt you."

-- Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. - Fascist America (at Common Dreams)

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/06/26/immelt-lu...

i believe it's important to listen to ceo(s) of these large/global companies.

http://www.thefreelibrary.com/New+Study+Shows...

because of healthCare cost. that's why this is a economic necessity. the G-5 spend .63 cents for every dollar we spend.

"Some centrist members of the Democratic party on Capitol Hill are talking with Republican Congresspeople about building a coalition to oppose the Obama administration’s health care reforms and form an alternative approach on their own, says a House Republican.

Rep. Charles Boustany (R-LA) told Fox News Saturday that “there’s an interesting development occurring behind the scenes right now, whereby some of the moderate Democrats — the so-called Blue Dog Democrats — and business-friendly new Democrats are actually starting to have conversations with us to build a coalition from the center outward to actually come up with substantive and well-founded health care reform.”

i believe it's possible that global financial elites don't want the u.s. middleclass/small-medium businesses to be able to compete. they want/have been developing a more level playing field for
other developing countries(CHINA). countries that are desperate for an increase in GDP. these countries have an abundance of "cheap labor", infrastructure,no to little regulation and many have universal healthCare including CHINA. corporations know only one thing at all cost is profit margin. they set-up in a country until the people ask/require more. they don't want us to be able to compete. large companies like CHINA-MART make it nearly impossible for small businesses to compete but we're told small businesses are the engine of the economy. if we were able to compete we would interfere with their profit margins being made/predicted in foreign countries.

don't look now but is there a slaughter over contraban going on without the knowledge of the MSM? to the south?

Interesting piece at forbes.com on Glenn Beck as a brand.
http://video.forbes.com/fvn/celebrity-09/bran...

CalPers sues Wall Street agencies which gave it bad investment advice. Latest on national rail funding. Arnie don't need no education. R.I.P. oldest WWI vet.

Fewer drunks, more stoners on road
Studies find some good news, with both the number of drunken drivers and traffic deaths falling markedly in the U.S., and some bad, with more than 16% of drivers testing positive for drugs.

http://finance.sympatico.msn.ca/investing/ins...

The thing is, Palin's "quit picking on me!" will probably work in her favor. When the day comes that Palin does shoot a man in Reno just to watch him die, Katie Couric will be afraid of making Palin look like the bad guy for fear of Ann Coulter calling her a liberal. NPR will report on Palin's "afterlife initiating program...some call it murder."

40 Years after a truly huge achievement and we are ... where?

Tomorrow is the 40th anniversary of the landing on the Moon in 1967. Neil Armstrong ("One small step for a man... one giant leap for mankind") ad Buzz Aldrin planted the flag and put out a plaque marking the landing which, in under a decade, had been the result of spending $183 Billion Bucks and upping the confrontation with the Russians, who had achieved the original advance in space by putting up Sputnik and sending two different cosmonauts on full orbits around the Earth.

I was a Junior in college and I know I was impressed. Jack Kennedy, who kicked off the program wasn't alive to see the results he had called for carried out by NASA. Lyndon Johnson, who pushed the budget through, was no longer in office. And Dick Nixon, who was never really a supporter of the space program, but who saw its publicity value, got to congratulate the two moonwalkers by phone as they stood looking at our planet in space.

The reason why the moon oriented space program got the push it did was the Cold War. To let the USSR get ahead of us scientifically, in a way that could have military consequences, was not going to be tolerated. When the military threat of the USSR was gone... when the USSR itself was gone... there was no reason to put that kind of thrust into our rockets. Reagan wanted to put our military budget relating to space into missiles pointed back at our enemies from satellites. George H.W. Bush was concerned with Saddam Hussein's actions, but there was no Iraqi space program to compete with. Clinton saw the public relations advantages of doing a minimal amount of activities with a space station and George W. Bush, well, he barely saw that,

Originally, NASA had planned to have us on Mars by 1987. People, that is. In the 21st Century we have managed to get a couple of crawling robot TV cameras on Mars, and a very old space shuttle is still flying on missions that do very little. And we are bored with it all.

That's right... bored. We rarely know when a shuttle goes up any more (unless it blows up in space... dead people are always news wherever they are) and we don't really seem to care. It is not as important as unemployment or health care or the recession. They talk about getting folks back on the moon by 2020... but you can bet that such a program, without some kind of real, philosophical need by Americans is unlikely to make the deadline. Or, if the Iranians gave up on nuclear power and focused their attention on a Muslim moon base, perhaps we would have a need to beat the date. That's how we're programmed.

The 19th Century and early 20th once had a philosophical and artistic need to get us to the moon. Jules Verne and H.G. Wells created literary works. Filmmakers from the silents to the sci-fi directors of the 1950s got us to the moon frequently (and rarely with rocket ships.) Science Fiction magazines in the 1920s made Hugo Gernsbach a rich publisher and getting us to the moon was an established need. So many youngsters in my generation grew up wanting to be involved that science programs in colleges grew faster than arts programs and that all helped us get to the 1967 landing.

And now here we are, 40 years later, watching a 72-year-old Buzz Aldrin on TV being interviewed about a future that has become the past. We are not pushing for it any more... and that is too bad.

Under The LobsterScope

A long time ago I found out about the song, "Cool Considerate Men" from the musical 1776. It was in the original play and put into the 1972 movie. However, the song was removed from the movie by request of Richard Nixon. When I finally saw it, I realized why people will continually vote against their own best interests up to this very day. Here is the link:

1776 movie - "Cool Considerate Men"