Good morning all,

It keeps up we may be entering the last things we remember as we kill ourselves for power and profit.

Anybody believes in nuclear now is nuts, like our stupid president.

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.

How’s that just and lasting peacey thing workin out for ya? /Palin

Is that the right article? What side did the GOP officially now switch from, to?

Today they’d be the Confederates and the Copperheads, depending on whether they live north or south of the Ohio. Traitors then and now.

I don’t have a problem with someone making that statement. I just don’t get why a story on Japans reactor that has no tie to the US GOP would be cited as evidence.

While contemplating the present occupant of the WH I could not think of enough vile epithets to describe him so went looking for a list of vile epithets…could not find any but did get this list of words from the Thesaurus as a starting point. So for those of us that wonder just what it is that occupies the seat in the Oval Office herewith the list:

1. wicked, base, evil, mean, bad, low, shocking, appalling, ugly, corrupt, miserable, vicious, humiliating, perverted, coarse, degrading, worthless, disgraceful, vulgar, degenerate, abject, sinful, despicable, depraved, debased, loathsome, contemptible, impure, wretched, nefarious
2. disgusting, foul, revolting, offensive, nasty, obscene, sickening, horrid, repellent, repulsive, noxious, nauseating, repugnant, loathsome, yucky or yukky

PLease note that this list can apply to anyone in gummint.

America’s civil war. Then as now, energy is the key? What America fails to realize is, servitude to “energy masters,” deprives all of liberty. Every reduction in America’s standard of living has a direct nexus to the underlying cost and in efficient use of energy. The confederates way of life was predicated on the exploitation of a slave’s uncompensated labor. His energy. Today as our most basic liberty is supported by system which undermines liberty. Sure as “Scott” was denied protection of law, a benefit for the slave owner’s interests, Americans are today enslaved, economically by interests using the color of law to protect those economic interests. I guess the question is to what extent will the present corporate aristocrats challenge the rule of law, without a response from the governed?

Today is also the five year anniversary of the Mass Healthcare Insurance mandate signed into law by quick Mitt. Interesting how old ideas resurface under new names. State’s right for state based corporate heath insurers like BCBS, a public charity? Coercion under fear of a punitive financial penalty compelling one to pay a “life tax?” Segregation and fugitive slave laws come to mind. Nice job Mitt, coming from a republican? America…wake up and smell the coffee…………

Good morning, pups. It’s Brooks and Nocera today. In “Poetry for Everyday Life” Bobo says metaphors are central to our thought life, and thus are worth a closer look. Mr. Nocera says we should “Pass the Boone Pickens Bill,” and that natural gas is cheaper than oil. It’s cleaner. And it’s ours. Congress should take action.

Here they are.

The coffee and tea are ready, and I’ve got toasted Thomas’ English muffins with lots of butter and your favorite jam. Time for me to go and open up a new bag of kitteh food and take care of the pacing and mewing ones. Have a great day.

Good morning all,
An estimated 620,000 lost their lives in the war that started 150 years ago today not to mention those that lived with horrific injuries in the years afterward.
Here we are with two more wars and a possiblity of introducing ground troops into Libya but we cannot find the money to take care of our own sick and poor. Shameful.

Good morning Marion,
Your breakfast sounds great this morning!

This is what the banksters fear:

California bankruptcy court Denies US Bank as trustee relief from stay; Court says recording is required BEFORE foreclosure, not after.

And more of this is what the Obama administration is desperately trying to avoid
with its “global settlement” of the mortgage mess.
Are You In(solvent)?

As I recall the Japanese gov’t has always been secretive and coy about releasing embarrassing facts on any controversial subject. The media and public are left mostly in the dark when possible.

It was weeks ago, early on, when the French, with their own frank assessment, had opined that the accident was far more severe and out of control than the Japanese had admitted. The problem for Japan is as much a loss of credibility as the radioactivity, itself.

Then came all the contradictions in the media which surpassed the well of excuses about the difficulty in obtaining reliable data. A lot more was known than was being told. It probably still is.

Sweet reading, this mornings good news.

Well, y’see, alan1tx, the story is really about commemorations on a certain day, and the Japan reactor is used as an example of…ah, forget it!

Thanks for indirectly raising the natural gas issue, Marion. If you don’t mind, I would like to offer another point of view on natural gas extraction. Here in the Marcellus Shale Natural Gas Deposit, in NY and PA, we are the target for new drilling. Our research shows that this is an unregulated industry which has a documented history of polluting wells and acquifers, moreso out West where there are thousands of wells. Hydrofracking our shale using toxic chemicals to release the natural gas is questionable here, because our shale is permeable and not a closed system. So where I live this looks like another Gulf oil spill about to happen in slow motion right before our eyes. We oppose it 100%.

US GOP is wholly owned subsidiary of USACorp, USACorp is the builder of the nuke plants in Japan.

At AJE, when covering the story of the INES severity level from 5 to 7,
the oiece included this from Jasmina Vujic, professor of nuclear engineering at University of California, Berkeley, who said:

“…that there were major differences between the Chernobyl and Fukoshima disasters.

Chernobyl was situated in an area with a high population density in the centre of Europe, she said, while the Japanese plant is in a lightly populated, coastal region.

“From that point of view, the impact on environment and population, would be much smaller than Chernobyl,” Vujic told Al Jazeera.

I think that The Environment will be mighty glad to hear that, don’t you?

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“PLease note that this list can apply to anyone in gummint…”

Or, perhaps just plain mad, as in ‘hatter’…”without one glimpse of reason or of heaven.”