Help If You Can

From Kathy at Left-Handed Nib in its entirety “We Need to Look Out for Each Other” That is the title of a post by Gotta Laff, in which she writes about Strange Appar8tus, a contributing blogger at Rumproast, who very much needs our help after suffering a traumatic brain injury: Regulars and friends of Rumproast who have been [...]

Newt Wants To Drug Test Seniors

Yahoo News has this piece by Chris Moody on Newt Gingrich campaigning in Naples, Florida. About half way through the piece, I found this question and Newt’s answer. Speaking of Ron Paul, at the last debate, he said that the war on drugs has been an utter failure. We’ve spent billions of dollars since President [...]

Afghanistan

Can anyone tell me why we are spending blood and money on Afghanistan?  I don’t want the gov’t line or the political talking points. I can already recite them. I want to know what is the real strategic U.S. interest in Afghanistan?

I Know It Is A Little Late

But this, while accurate and appropriate, it does not mean that I will not vote for Obama.

All The More Reason

To do everything possible to get Ms. Elizabeth Warren in the Senate. Barney Frank is not going to run for re-election. I realize that she won’t have shit for seniority, but she has a boat load of brains and is not the least bit bashful about speaking out.

And That’s Not Counting Idle Resources

From Steve Benen at Washington Monthly comes this info from the NY Times These four graphs From the NY Times’ Floyd Norris IN the eight decades before the recent recession, there was never a period when as much as 9 percent of American gross domestic product went to companies in the form of after-tax profits. [...]

Is This Funny

Or why is this funny?  Or does the ol’ Chief have a warped sense of humor or are some readers just old ‘sticks-in-the-mud?’ Tatyana Limanova, an award-winning newsreader, was talking about Russian President Dmitry Medvedev assuming the chairmanship of the Asia Pacific Cooperation organization. When she mentioned the post was previously “held by Barack Obama,” [...]

Monte Wolverton

While some of you may be familiar with the political cartoonist Monte Woverton, I just found him. This sums up the Repubs/neocons for me. This seems as appropriate as any on a day we are supposed to be giving Thanks.  The R’s have their heads in the proverbial sands on virtually any item about which [...]

Why Lawyers Have A Bad Rep

From McClatchey “Because the court accepted the prosecutors’ repeated assertions that they were complying with their obligations and proceeding in good faith, the court did not issue a ‘clear and unequivocal’ order directing the attorneys to follow the law,” Sullivan stated. The Bar Association does have ethical rules/guidelines and these two clowns are saying that [...]

22 Nov

It was Friday.  I was nearing completion of a year long electronic design and engineering course at Treasure Island, a U.S. Navy base in the San Francisco bay, accessible by the Bay Bridge and Yerba Buena Island. The morning had been consumed with test taking, a weekly ritual to ensure the Navy was getting their [...]