Have you had a project that you involved a child, or other family member, with? Of course, doing something in service to others has unique value, and something we all want to share with ones we love.

Statler and Waldorf — Take Ten Terrific Girls, from episode 409 of The Muppet Show.

But at least for everyone who’s tired of the depressing squabble, it’ll be over soon because of the upcoming Treasury default deadline, right? Umm…. maybe not.

Watching the fall of Rupert Murdoch play itself out has brought back old, old memories. Memories of the only political scandal I’ve experienced in my homeland that comes even close to what’s been unfolding in the UK right now: Watergate. And to judge from this British piece and this Canadian one, I’m not the only person to be thinking of Watergate in connection with all of this.

By popular request, a re-run from last November.

Barack Obama is walking down the street when he looks in a neighbors garage and sees an old rusty push mower. Knocking on the door, he is surprised to see …

More than three weeks later and after building up great support from activists, academics, celebrities and others in the US and around the world, the leaders of the prison hunger strike in the Pelican Bay supermax prison have brought an end to their strike and have begun to eat again. They emphasize that the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) has given them a few good-faith token gestures and that the end of this strike is entirely conditioned on achieving the long-term policy changes that they have demanded.

A clearly agitated President Obama pronounced that Congress had run out of time to come up with a big solution on deficit reduction tied to the debt limit. The President clearly shifted this to Plan B, saying that the leadership has been summoned to the White House tomorrow morning.

Why not take advantage of this situation—which has the added advantage of being the truth—and demand a clean vote, and only a clean vote, on the debt ceiling? Why not tell the American people that if we do this, and keep the money supply cheap and fluid, then government can do what it is supposed to do—what it can do: care for its people, create jobs in a time of need, repair aging infrastructure, research and develop new, greener energy sources (hint, hint—which will not only wean us off of expensive oil and nuclear power, but it could help build the economic engine that could power the US economy for the next decade), and provide a better life for every level of society?

No — we’re not there yet.

STILL AT RISK: Despite the certification issued today, it is still unsafe for service members to come out until September 20, 2011, when repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” will become final.

The President is negotiating secret deals behind closed doors, with no transparency, making it almost impossible for the people directly impacted by impending cuts to Social Security and Medicare benefits to learn about what’s in store for them until it’s too late.

So we are doing our best to get the word out to those affected. We created the following online ads that will be targeted at senior citizens in Florida and other key 2012 presidential election states. It takes 24 hours to get statistics back on which ones are performing the best.