Yeah, just forget all that follows and listen to Sagan.....he's hiding in there. I wouldn't doubt this.

It looks like they got to Farheed Zakaria. He opened his show opining that spending was/is a problem. Considering that he has Krugman on GPS, I guess he has to run counter to the truth or he won't have a show.

This comes after a week of wild swings on Wall Street, thanks to the quick-traders who skim off the top with speedy computer trades

It would be nice if someone would protect peoples rights because the deceivers are still working their evil tricks. There are some good cartoons though.

Thom is the man. He's offering his intellectual property for free because he thinks that is the right thing to do. I agree. But while some of us understand that corporations are not people others like nit Mitt do not.
From the same site is a fantasy letter from the President to the people. It's worth the read.

Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky has introduced another good piece of legislation. This one would create jobs, a couple of million jobs. It could easily be funded by her other bill that would create new tax brackets for the super rich.

So much of our financial mess could have been avoided if we simply would have enforced laws that were already on the books, like Glass-Steagall. Then again, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley act removed prudent protections. Does anyone remember Enron, Worldcom and all the others that stole pensions?

Note: might want to check out the archives of MAIN FM they were talking about interesting local things like the Canary Coalition getting a stay against their new radio license thanks to one of the colleges...talked about "white space"...deficits, etc

Domain

I was trying to purchase a proper domain name when I was directed to this page that informed me of another way that the US has been sold out.

I'm all confused now and don't ya know I got distracted and found this page of govt deals on stuff.

people for sale

People are people and should not be perceived as commodities. Our prison system is a shame and lots of people are trying to do something about the situation before more mostly innocent people are killed.

One of the questions is how do we reach those hard to reach people that may never see ALEC exposed? They might need exposure to Brooke Gladstone, but...every one should heed Krugman, he won the big prize ya know. We shouldn't forget about Robert either.

Economics Junkie has a strange graph that I'm trying to understand. Oh, libertarian, I see...

The American Society of Civil Engineers claim that we could save $3 trillion/ year by fixing our damn roads that keep breaking our vehicles.

Somewhere in here or perhaps here is a "man in the middle" con which offers some good evidence that GW stole the presidency a second time from Ohio with a backup system in Tennessee.

There's only one guy handling domestic terrorism in the whole dept. of homeland security. I wonder if he'll go after the perpetrator that threw a malatov cocktail in the abortion clinic, or was that Planned Parenthood? One guy!

Oh... there's a good reminder to link charity navigator. Lots of good stuff there.

Fourth turn

Who are the New Democrats and what do you think we should do with them? Throw the bums out!

May the Fourth Turning guide us from dystopia.

Debt as a percentage of the GDP, that's what's important. How do other countries compare? Let's look....what year was this? Wiki is looking fairly current. Do you trust the CIA? I do for the World Factbook. I like facts.

I like Main Street too with reports about the top 10 job killers.

The Progressive coup' -now or never

I've been reading this brilliant article while falling into a strange mix of melancholy and determination as my grand plan subtly defines. I didn't realize there was this, Al Gore.com and he's communicating to us again.

The elections of 2012 will make us or break us. The results will be the most significant and profound in all of history as it is the Great Tipping point, or as Mr. Gore has written, "Here is the core of it: we are destroying the climate balance that is essential to the survival of our civilization. This is not a distant or abstract threat; it is happening now. The United States is the only nation that can rally a global effort to save our future. And the president is the only person who can rally the United States."

The people must help their President. We must give him the tools he needs for success. The proper tool is an overwhelmingly liberal congress. Narrow democratic majorities are far from majority. Conservative democrats are little better than republicans.





He concludes, "The climate crisis, in reality, is a struggle for the soul of America. It is about whether or not we are still capable — given the ill health of our democracy and the current dominance of wealth over reason — of perceiving important and complex realities clearly enough to promote and protect the sustainable well-being of the many. What hangs in the balance is the future of civilization as we know it."

This is a battle for every soul. Whether by god or by one's own conscience, each will have to answer for their life, their choices. This is the great moment when humanity either repents or condemns.

There are reasonable activists don't ya know.

Have you heard or heard of Buddy Roemer who's running for president? I like him, but he'd get his ass kicked harder and get assassinated quicker than our current President.

Speaking about assassinations....it's the day after the crazy Norwegian killed so many and published his right-wing manifesto. God please, save us from your followers. Some people still don't understand why atheists don't like religion. Okay, maybe Frank Schaeffer understands. It is also worth noting that the crazy killer was a climate denier like all of these politicians that won't understand science.


Rumor has it that Harry Reid introduced a budget with $2 trillion in cuts that doesn't touch entitlements and doesn't increase any revenues. You can read about it here or here. The markets are behaving normally which mean they aren't really worried about default.

Speaking of markets, it looks like the free-trade fools will pass three more agreements that could ship more jobs from the US to other countries. It's good for Wall St and bad for Main St once again. Is that what our soldiers fought for? Twenty-eight percent of new vets are unemployed.

I'm now reminded of Team B , The Power of Nightmares and how presidents have run up the deficit.

FICA(41%), Income(40%), and Corporate(19%) taxes is how the federal government gets most of its revenue.

Ha, ha...it's not the heat, it's the stupidity...too funny, or at least it would be if it wasn't for all the death and destruction that may follow. Environment 360 doesn't offer any hope while

looks like to progressives put out the biggest and best deal. We don't get to hear about that but we can read about it in Rolling Stone or ....

how about some thoughts from Al Gore about reason and doubt