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A GLOWING REPORT ON RADIATION by Anne Coulter It may take a little explanation here to show just how bat-shit insane Ms. Coulter is, and how dangerous her "advice" is. She can cite studies all she wishes; she has no understanding of what radiation is, nor what the people of Japan are being exposed to. We're not dealing with just radiated energy from a source, like standing in front of an X-ray machine. The reason high levels of radiation are being measured in the air is due to airborne particles from steam vapor and smoke fumes. These microscopic particles settle over an area and increase the radiation exposure because the particles are radioactive due to their once being part of the nuclear fuel in the reactors. Even if they are washed away, they are still radioactive where ever they accumulate. The size of the tiny particles does not determine the level of radiation they emit. A smaller particle of plutonium can emit more radiation than a larger particle of cesiu...

The next few days are going to be even more revealing in Wisconsin. Gov. Walker has achieved his tear-filled dream of stripping the citizens of his state of their First Amendment rights (peaceful assembly and petition to address grievances). I'm sure freedom of the press will be going into the crapper soon. We'll then find out why it was so important for the citizens to be deprived of their collective bargaining rights:  Walker will cut all state employee pay (except his own) across the board. Naturally state employees will rally to protest, whereupon Walker--emotionally chocked with gratitude--will then fire all protesting state employees. Be sure he will single out teachers for the hardest blows of the axe--for some reason he really hates teachers. With the (illegal) firing of his state employees, Wlaker will then make up the $140 million budget shortfall he created by funneling money to his cronies. Conservatives have stressed in their political campaigns that local g...

"The ultimate test of any political movement is whether, on Election Day, that movement can defeat the politicians who crossed it. In order to get elected officials, beltway media, organizational leaders and other decision makers to take you seriously, the specter of electoral defeat is the only iron-clad, 100%-effective method." from Daily Kos by Chris Bowers

With all of Bohner's weak protestations of "But come on! We're broke! We've got to make tough decisions," I find myself favoring the old union suggestion: Cut from the top! Here's my plan: Part A.  So, all members of congress cut their pay. In fact, while we're dreaming here, all members of congress take the pauper's oath (like they used to do) and serve without pay or compensation. The taxpayers thus don't have to pay for the representation they're not getting anyway. Part B.  To prevent our members of congress from suffering from such problems as lack of affordable health-care, we have corporations take up the slack. They're already spending obscene amounts of money on our elected officials anyway, so let's just formalize the process. We use the US Chamber of Commerce to handle the congressional payroll and benefits. Result.  Everything's out in the open. We know who's paying who—and how much—by simply looking at their t...

"I t's random Republicans who act as if that certificate of live birth doesn't exist so they can continue to peddle their racism under the guise of concern for the Constitution. And they'll continue to do it as long as the traditional media gives them a platform and pretends that there is a controversy with two sides and is worthy of debate. There isn't and it isn't." Barbara Morrill

It's too bad the 30-day return feature on our politicians has expired already. I mean, we all supposedly voted for conservative candidates who claimed they spoke for the American people, would unify us all and bring the country around. Instead all we get is like this governor in Wisconsin whose favorite strategy is like all other Republicans: divide-and-conquer, divide-and-conquer, divide-and-conquer. I don't recall us voting for  divide,  nor for conquer.  Is there a product return policy at our voting places? (On a side note about unions and collective bargaining: I don't recall seeing unions exporting jobs out of the USA. So why are we blaming them?)

Starting to wonder: Conservatives aren't addressing rampant unemployment for a simple reason: They can't. Republicans are unable to create jobs. Not due to any ideology (that just provides their excuses), but rather they lack the tools, the ways and means to do so. Not won't , but can't . In the recent past, conservative strategy has been to ignore or divert attention from things they can't do or provide, places where they don't have answers or solutions. Yes, in this past election cuycle they've talked about jobs. But only in an abstract sense. Rather then directly addressing the issues leading to rampant unemployment and the loss of available jobs, they spoke of jobs appearing as a benefit  of their economic measures, not as part of the machinery of recovery. Fix this, they said (usually something social/cultural or even racial) and we'll have jobs again. Not where we create jobs and much of the social ills are thus corrected. For example, to cre...