and may i remind everyone about skippy: altho now in second place in the all-important large blog authority between 301 - 500 category, we are waaaaay behind the rightist drivel of jammie wearing fool. so please, vote for me!

I don’t know if I can handle a sequel to the Winnie-the-Pooh books, look what happened when they did that to Peter Pan and even Tinker Bell; I didn’t need to find out that Bell was the family name.

Only man left in politics with a brain

"from the wilderness":

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090110/ap_on_re/...

It would be nice to see the Congress vote in support of the Constitution of The United States. It would be worth it just for the novelty.

An old used broken megaphone going for over $45,000 dollars on Ebay.

Spider-Man to save Inauguration Day!

PETA saves a 140 year-old lobster from dinner. A consumer actually gets compensated for crappy phone service. The Howard Jarvis Mafia only cares about constitutional law when the Dems try to pass a tax around the Republicans; it doesn't matter to them if the Dems are the majority in Cali, though. The U.S. was as prepared to deal with Afghanistan as it was to deal with Iraq. Cheney the Dick has the gall to tell Obama not to make rash decisions regardig Iraq. Madoff survivors might have been unwitting accomplices to his crime. Will Americans over-eat their way out of a recession? Another "controversial" Obama pick. Expect slower mail, due to the suckonomy. The Army is openly brain-washing(I mean recruiting) youngsters through video games. Obama wants time for consumers to get the coupons for those converter boxes. Wal-Mart and Wall Street are hurting.

Despite Obama's recent decisions, such as Dick Warren, I actually think he's smart. He's trying to win over conservative voters who will then wonder why those obstructionist Republicans aren't willing to reach across the aisle in the same way for his policies. It also works against the Republicrats, because the voters will be wondering why they don't want to work with a guy from the same party, when they were willing to enable the war and the bail-out with a President of a different party. This thus has the effect of the public kicking out the bad apples on both sides who are most likely the a-holes who got us into this mess in the first place. It's like that analogy the Hollywood Elsewhere guy was using about letting Lieberman go. "Keep your enemies, closer."

You see, voters want immediate action for themselves, not for the military and the banks. So the public is going to be wondering what's holding up legislation, and it'll realize that it's the same jerks who rolled over for Bush. These Congresspersons seem to think they can either pass the buck to Obama or to the GOP minority; but the public hates Congress, not him. And their view of Congress is not going to change with a new President. He'll have three more years to argue his case to the voters, while these scumbags will only have one more year. Who do they really think is going to take the political hit? So now I'm starting to understand how Bush got this far. The people who passed his destructive policies are as much arrogant idiots as him. Checkmate in 2010, indeed.

Heres the link:

Pat Robertson Says God Told Him About Obama, Socialism, Islam And Russia

Yesterday's stuff. Cali sues over the '07 bay spill. The Pentagon doesn't care about PTSD people. The sheriff who starved his prisoners gets out of jail free. Cheney's in CIA torture denial. Arnie hates taxes, but loves screwing tax-payers waiting for returns with IOUs.

Glad he kept 1/2 of war and torture facilitator Pelosi in there looking smug.

i continue to be interested in this financial meltdown and the "bailout". of interest is tax havens/shell identities that are used for example by citigroup(C). these financial institutions use these tax havens to hide bad investments if you will from REGULATORS. i could be wrong i still believe there is a huge effort by wall street to spread the blame, dilute it. i understand people should pay their mortgage but difficulties/challenges happen and usually you can refinance. well, NOT anymore for many because they slice and dice these mortgages to turn them into financial investments. making it almost impossible to refinance. the likes of citigroup who received billions in tax payer money(s) to cover their ass/derivatives knew they had bad investment they just hid it in TAX havens in european/carribean countries. this "bailout" money is to pay for bad bets(credit default swaps/mortgage backed securities). when a large institution like (C) does this strategy they all do it. that's why they wouldn't lend money to each other which hurt other businesses ie. automakers. you DON'T and won't hear much about this because it's in the multi- billions of dollars.

The Sanjay Gupta shit isn't worth my time when over 40 million people in this country don't have any kind of healthcare coverage.

But the thing that went on in Oakland is.

The Word For Today Is "Riot"

Is Feinstein hoping her covering for CIA war criminals won't prevent her for running for Governor?

MSM AP Spins Hard For Feinstein.

I was born in San Francisco, raised in California, and I know Feinstein. She has changed over the last 40 years in the wrong direction. If she was part of the French assemblee generale, she would be in one of the Far Right parties.

So I resent AP's presentation of her in the piece at the link I’ve posted below.

"The former San Francisco mayor is repeatedly ranked as California's most popular politician, bested only a few times by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger."

This is the senator who supported the Michael Mukasey nomination - disaster. This is the senator who supported amnesty for the Telecoms. These are only some tips of the iceberg.

And look at this krap:

"She's a larger-than-life figure," said Garry South, a California Democratic strategist who has run unsuccessful campaigns against Feinstein. "She has a certain mystique about her."

After reading that, all I have to say is, "Can someone please hit me over the head with a 2x4!?"

The only real, senator on the Left from California is Barbara Boxer. I've been writing emails and letters to Feinstein for years, criticizing her senate decisions and blogging against her online - waste of time. Her constituents are the U.S. corporate and elite classes.

Easy algorithm for debutants to evaluate politicians : If the Main Stream Media loves a politician, you can be confident that you should not.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090110/ap_on_go_...

Cheney is a Dick; always has, always will be. I am pretty sure I am right about this.

Baltimore Mayor Sheila A. Dixon was charged today with 12 counts of felony theft, perjury, fraud and misconduct in office, becoming the city's first sitting mayor to be criminally indicted.

The case stems in part from at least $15,348 in gifts Dixon allegedly received from her former boyfriend, prominent city developer Ronald H. Lipscomb, while she was City Council president. She also is accused of using as much as $3,400 in gift cards, some donated to her office for distribution to "needy families," to purchase Best Buy electronics and other items for herself and her staff.

Lipscomb was not indicted in the Dixon case, but he and City Councilwoman Helen L. Holton were charged this week in a separate $12,500 bribery scheme. Both cases grew out of a nearly three-year probe by the state prosecutor into City Hall corruption.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/baltim...

Must be so hard NOT taking all the little extras that come with political jobs. This has Family Guy written all over it.

NOT! It seems there is no law that says you can't gouge out your customer's eyes as well as wallet!

American Expess has increased the cost of borrowing on one of its credit cards to 46 per cent — more than 30 times the Bank of England base rate.
The company now charges 46 per cent APR on the British Airways Premium Plus card, making it Britain’s most expensive credit card.
Consumer groups said the cost of borrowing on some credit cards had now lost all touch with the base rate.
A series of other cards also have APR over 35 per cent — despite interest rates now being at the lowest level since the Bank of England was set up in 1694.
Other cards include Virgin Money American Express at 37 per cent and Citi MasterCard at 41 per cent.

Forget buying the Orman books. Go to the public library and check them out. The advice is just ABC advice and you can use the money you would have spent on the book for some simple home accounting software or get it free on line; and remember two things, 1. Never buy what you want until you've waited until you have the cash. 2. Monitor all your accounts at lest once every three month to see if there is a problem. The rest of the stuff is about investing, and nobody should invest in anything until they are debt free.

It took me thirty years to get that advice set in my head, and it works for me and several thousand other people too.