2010 - the year the warmongering bailout nation congratulates itself for having done phony health care reform. That will be the official story.

It also be the year of the cognitive disconnect as the evidence of the latest in the long series of war crimes mounts.

One question will be - who is counting? And where does the buck stop?

And then at home - the declining standards of living will be noticed most of all by those experiencing them which will not include the ruling class whose fortunes have been made safe and safer still.

Vic Chestnutt the musician, from Mary Chestnut, the Civil War diarist. Nor would they care.
The man died, they'll say, a suicide. They won't think about what led him to the act. They'll take the act of suicide and label him a coward, even when the man's whole life was an example of courage. Of what someone who had a lot of things going against him, and still was able to make a mark.
People like Chestnutt will be remembered far longer than any fatuous gasbag on TV or radio. Music tends to reverberate longer in our memories than the flickering images of talking heads opining and bloviating on our screens.

HEY! Whats goin on?? Where is McCain today??? I have to listen to Gingrich????

Thanks for putting up this video. My best friend and I were at that show. We took a road trip to the R&R Hall of Fame to see the Springsteen exhibit. I saw that Jonathan Richman was going to be at the Beachland Ballroom. My friend, who did not know Jonathan's music was excited because he loved Vic, who I was not familiar with. Well, it was a transcendent night of music for both of us and made for a perfect musical road trip.

Do you think the GOPers will notice or care? Not bloody likely.

Oh goodie. Pete "Obama's bomber is worse than Bush's bomber" Hoekstra!

After pointing out that Obama has allowed airstikes in Yemen, Chris Wallace points out that "6 Gitmo detainees were released and sent back to Yemen" with no evidence that those six were connected to this recent incident in ANY way, but asked Hoekstra if this incident meant we needed to pay more attention to releasing Gitmo detainees to Yemen.

Shelby tells Wallace that Democrats have "no credibility at all" when it comes to "deficit reduction".

That guy is the only Republican who could win in 2012.
He has presence on tv.
He has enough of his own money.
He'll run for Prez in the near future.
If he takes a centrist route during a campaign. He could win.
He's the only one I see as a threat at this point.

Of course, unless someone digs up some serious dirt on him.
But so far, I haven't heard of any serious dirt.

Gingrich on MtP is certain Republicans will run in 2010 on a platform of "promising to repeal" the healthcare of 30 million Americans.

Gingrich criticized Republicans for being The Party of No and not offering alternatives.

Tommy Sowers for Congress Missouri's 8th District!!

http://www.sowersforcongress.com/

http://www.actblue.com/entity/fundraisers/22999

Talk about an uphill battle!

1. In the last seven elections no Dem candidate has gotten more than 33% of the vote with an average closer to 28%. That number has been steadily going down.

2. Missouri's 8th nearly defines the term redneck. You would have to go to a very poor district in W. Virginia to find a more Evangelical, racist, dumbed down collection of hayseeds. I know. I grew up there!

3. His opponent is Jo Anne Emerson wife of the late Bill Emerson. She took his spot after he died. Bill made Kit Bond look like Gandhi. She is a former lobbyist, and because of her welfare whoring for the big corporate farms in the "bootheel", she is a special interest gold mine.

But he has some advantages...

1. He is a Green Beret major with combat missions in Iraq and Afghanistan.
2. He teaches at West Point
3. Graduated with honors from the London School of Economics
4. He has rockstar charisma!!!
5. Emerson's appeal is wearing thin, even among her core voters.

Conservative columnist David Brooks, on describing where health care reform in now, says "I would prefer Single Payer. Short of that, a Public Option."

Well, since you asked - what's catching my eye is your placement of the word terrorist in quotation marks. Is that to be read as meaning something like "alleged" or "so-called"?

What would YOU call it, Ms Belle? A Christmas greeting? Huh?

Oh, I know, a crying out by a victim of American imperialism. That about right?

To use the tragedy of Chestnutt's suicide as a means of complaining about coverage of an attempt to slaughter innocent Americans is really beneath contempt.