Let me start by praising Glenn Greenwald for keeping the Iran crisis on Salon's front page.  The United States is on the verge of waging war against another Islamic tribal society thousands of miles from our borders; When Likud attacks, the Iranian military will see our hand. The phrase "mo… Read full post »

Re: My Bump

Let me say "YOU'RE WELCOME!" for the role I played in getting you elected; My influence throughout the World is well known. Your such a girly-man you wimp you could never have done it without me; Start by sending Obama back to Africa. I seem to have a… Read full post »

Check out Haley Barbour; Whatever happened to the Party of Law and Order (Sometimes known as "lawnorder")?

After exhaustive biographical study - the first Wikipedia bio found - the former governor does not seem to be a Fundamental Christian Cultist. Unlike the Ricks or, for that matter, Romney; So th… Read full post »

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 Who needs that Lamestream British King Jimmy? (The Bible is too funny for any one person, even Alex Parnee.)

OLD TESTAMENT (abridged)

Book 1: Genius of Genesis

Chapter 7: Then Moses said: "Forget the cruise to Egypt! Some crazy old guy up on that mountain sold me these t… Read full post »

In our modern society, our bathrooms define our home ;  We invest huge amout of time and money in decorating and maintaining the most energy intensive part of our dwellings. Sharing bathrooms has a image in our country of unclean, poor, crowded city living;

When the United States… Read full post »

So we want to "Go Big"??? 

I propose removing a large number of bodies from the labor market, allowing the "unemployment" number published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics to fall.; It seems pretty easy to put the rate wherever we want it, say 5%. First a brief look back, then… Read full post »

The Free Online Dictionary says:1. A relatively calm interval, as in a storm.2. An interval of lessened activity: a lull in sales

Ben Bernanke says our economy is "in a lull".  HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Well-known investment advisor (who appears on CNBC) referred to our current situation as a "Soft Patch… Read full post »

OK, OK, OK, OK, OK, OK, OK....

Anthony??? Were you trying to make voters think you were Italian? Where are the Imperials? I often wondered about you....

So I was sitting in a room today full of people on Facebook. All of them were a lot younger than me; too poor… Read full post »

OK,  another poorly researched post; What do I know about Iraq? What I do know about is GUILT and how badly we humans need to assign it; Especially when our grip on world power is becoming loose. Who wants to listen to all those cable news shows blaming each other? We… Read full post »

This AP story moving Wednesday afternoon: 

U.S. Lt. Gen. Frank G. Helmick said the American military is still focused on leaving in December and is urging Iraqi security forces to acknowledge their weaknesses and try to close those gaps as quickly as possible.

"How they deal with it, that's up t… Read full post »

This essay argues that the Congress of the United States no longer meet in Washington, DC. All citizens of our nation see that face-to-face legislation is no longer working as a process - Meaningful results cannot be obtained over any partisan perspective. Congress is nothing more than… Read full post »

Hey Scouts: Gimme a break! Gas prices just hit 5.5 Trillion/Ryan.

I'm really, really trying to be serious about the Debt Ceiling (grammar natzis: Should this be capitalized?). Dow Jones  is up another 60 points so far; Like Wall Street Cares!!! Robert Reich has written another great article… Read full post »

I was a nerd; White boys were meant to go to college. There were no such words-nerd, white-in April 1961 when I was a junior at a New Jersey public high school. Faced with deciding if I would have the courage to show up at the junior prom. I knew they let kids in stag (now… Read full post »

This may seem old now, but I can't let this go; CIA news lately only makes this more germaine.

Muammar Gaddafi has been operating the largest Private Military Company in the world; Thanks to New York Times reporting last week. The main difference between our mercenaries and his is largely skin c… Read full post »

Don't have much time today, so I thought I'd try some one-liners courtesy of The New York Times. Here goes:

Muammar Gaddafi turned down Bernie Madoff!! hahahahahahaha. Do you suppose sitting in a tent in Libya is better for detecting stock fraud than working for the SEC in New York?? hahahahahah… Read full post »

A lot of soul-searching all over the American political spectrum, even here on OS. For myself, what the President is doing seems like dynamite: Vietnam, Iraq, even "Af-Pak" all big moral and policy TROUBLE.

What Mr. Obama is doing can only be understood through this paste:

29 August 1995
Fiftieth sess… Read full post »

The current issue of New Scientist has a summary of 21st Century Cosmology: "Dark Matter".  The article itself is most accessible; Different fields of work in this complex science are related.

Our species is awaiting the outcomes of several experiments designed to produce or detec… Read full post »

Got your attention (if you remember what that phrase used to mean)...

 What is most like Egypt? The United States House of Representatives. Who knows who's in power: All the people of America see are excited throngs of peasants and students of Feudalism dancing around bonfires made of… Read full post »

This is an old Central Massachusetts expression meaning roughly anyone who "has little". Having lived in several very different parts of the United States, after all this time, the amount of regard Americans have for each other continues to amaze me. Every day we see others on the street with ne… Read full post »

You say you don't have a supercomputer??

You do, or will, or can. They've been around since I was in high school- They just got superer (Palinesque). Now they go by names like expert machine or robot scientist (Note the oxymorons.)

1. Your system has a degree in Theology: "I'm a… Read full post »

Indications:  Headache, a migrane, backache, sore muscles, tension headache, "cough due to cold", eyestrain, high blood pressure, coronary artery disease, PAD, PBT, SAT, poor leg circulation, leg twitching, erectile dysfunction, erections lasting less than four hours,  erection&nb… Read full post »

 It has come to me that a little bit of Atheism would be good for a lot of people at Salon this "Holiday" time of the year. Don't worry - really don't know how to do Philosophy but I can make a list and check it twice (maybe more).

Reason #10:… Read full post »

The President does not have a problem; American political dialogue is stuck in the 90s.

Being Black does not indicate that a person will be confrontational. That perception seems to have been prevalent in America in 2008. While not as bad as Limbaugh or Beck, it is a sterotype; Th… Read full post »

Need a Portuguese reader:

http://livropelacapa.blogspot.com/search/label/etc

Especially interested in work of Luís Miguel Nava: Are these his books (cover art?) or are these from a mag named after him?

From Poetry International Web article by Miguel Queirós  (Translated by Ric… Read full post »

The President's visit to India can be used to convince the American people, before the new Congress, that this will not be 1994. Start the "buyers' remorse" engine for the Democrats, and do the world a favor: Transform India.

India is a nation with a significant percentage of human population li… Read full post »