http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/15/world/asia/15morgue.html?no_interstitial

This is absolutely gut-wrenching. It is about the earthquake in China. It ripped my heart out!

Sorry for comments not working for so much of the day, all. Should be fixed, now.

Posted by MichaelLink on May 15, 2008 at 07:44 PM

Thank you! You do a great job and are appreciated.

Good evening.

Oh them GOP Chimps!

Brave, brave Republicans abandon their posts. In time of war! Hotlist
by Kagro X
Thu May 15, 2008 at 02:55:03 PM PDT

Bawk! Bawk!

By a vote of 149-141, the Democrat-controlled House rejected a measure that would have given the Pentagon $162.5 billion to keep the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan running through next summer, slightly below President George W. Bush's request.

A large group of anti-war House Democrats voted against the funds. That, coupled with 132 Republicans voting "present," meaning neither "yes" nor "no," killed the measure for now.

Yes, our brave, brave House Republicans have taken the president's valiant example ("Fore!" "Incoming!") to heart and have given up voting while our troops are at war.

You may recall that at about this time last year, Chickenhawk Republicans were demanding that Democrats who wanted to bring the war in Iraq to a close had to have "the courage of their convictions" and vote their conscience on the funding. But today, those same Republicans chose to abandon their posts -- and they're some cushy posts, at that -- and vote "present" instead of having the courage to vote "no" on a bill they disapproved of.

And why? So they wouldn't fall into their own stupid trap. The one that says if you vote against a war appropriations bill, you're not "supporting the troops."

You think maybe some of those troops would like to have the option of answering "present" instead of "Yes, sir!" when they're ordered out on patrol? Not saying they'd exercise that option, of course. They, after all, have a sense of duty about their jobs.

But not our brave Republicans of the "Present" 110th!

Voting's scary!
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Chimpy McFlightSuit would veto it anyway. I am glad that Chimp's gun money is drying up.

McCain is now saying that he can win the Iraq win in "only" 5 years if he becomes president. Only five years. He's gotta be kidding. Just five more years, folks. Sure, that's another 4,000 dead troops and a couple hundred billion a year (that would mean, say, another TRILLION DOLLARS), but other than that, uh, other than that we're basically screwed. McCain isn't even pretending that he'll end the war in Iraq. He's pretty much promising us that if he is elected president, we'll be there another five years. Absolutely astounding.

One more thing. When asked to commit to removing US troops in five years McCain said no. Uh huh.

MCCAIN: I promise I'll be home by 11pm.

AMERICA: Really, you promise?

MCCAIN: No.
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McCrap ... as in full of it!

McCain ... worst than Bush and older!

Biden blasts Bush: "This is bullsh**t" and Bush's "first two appeasers are Rice and Gates"
by Joe Sudbay (DC) · 5/15/2008 01:32:00 PM ET · Link
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Via CNN's Political Ticker:

“This is bullsh**t. This is malarkey. This is outrageous. Outrageous for the president of the United States to go to a foreign country, sit in the Knesset…and make this kind of ridiculous statement,” Biden said angrily in a brief interview just off the Senate floor.

“He’s the guy who’s weakened us. He’s the guy that’s increased the number of terrorists in the world. His policies have produced this vulnerability the United States has. His intelligence community pointed that out not me. The NIE has pointed that out and what are you talking about, is he going to fire Condi Rice? Condi Rice has talked about the need to sit down. So his first two appeasers are Rice and Gates. I hope he comes home and does something.”

He quoted Gates saying Wednesday that we “need to figure out a way to develop some leverage and then sit down and talk with them.”

Sometimes, Biden really does say things better than anyone else does.
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Chimpy McFlightSuit thinks he's Top Gun ... I think Chimpy snorted too much coke in college.

Time for KO!

RJ: I've gotta' go but please see the post on the previous blog at 4:43 PM. Believe this or not, the magazine 'American Conservative' has published in SUPPORT of Sen. Obama for President. Seriously! Mostly it's just an endictment of the failed policies of dub and how lamebrain mcsame will just do worse; but, it's still great!
blog ya later!
GO DEMOCRATS GO!

hi

LOVE IT !!!!!

Rest in Peace, corrupt, criminal, perverted Party!

GOP cancer: Party could lose 20 more seats

For the past 18 months, ever since the 2006 elections, congressional Republicans have been like a hospital patient trying to convince visitors that he is not really all that sick: a bit under the weather; actually feel better than I sound; should be up and about any day; thanks for asking.

Suddenly — belatedly — all pretense is gone.

The Republican defeat in Tuesday’s special election in Mississippi, in a deeply conservative district where, in an average year, Democrats cannot even compete, was a clear sign that the GOP has the political equivalent of cancer that has spread throughout the body. Many House GOP operatives are privately predicting that the party could easily lose up to 20 seats this fall.

Combined with the 30 seats that the GOP lost in 2006, that would leave the party facing a 70-vote deficit against Democrats in the House — a state of powerlessness reminiscent of Republicans’ long wilderness years in the 1960s and ’70s.

Things are not particularly more hopeful on the Senate side, where most analysts say Democrats have a strong chance of adding five or more seats to their current majority.

“The political atmosphere facing House Republicans this November is the worst since Watergate and is far more toxic than the fall of 2006, when we lost 30 seats (and our majority) and came within a couple of percentage points of losing another 15 seats,” Rep. Tom Davis, a moderate Northern Virginia Republican who previously headed the National Republican Congressional Committee, wrote in a 20-page memo to colleagues.

Former Rep. Mickey Edwards, an Oklahoma Republican, said: “I don’t know that I have seen a year like this, ever. The general attitude toward Republicans is so bad nationally.” (YA THINK??) HAHAHAHAHHA

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0508/10366.html

Reports: Cheney's assets nearly triple Bush's

Link

So do they have any secret account in Dubai, or private mansions there. They probably have stockpiled oil there to sell on the spot market.

When we have Scales of Justice with Bush Senior and Junior on it, Junior tips them over in Constitutional abuse tortured redefinitions. Where did Bush Jr. go to school to get Red Chinese influences in governing with John Yoo principles of Executive Privilege Autocratic rule.

Over on C-Spann the Iraq vets against the war are being heard by some committee. This one soldier just gave a damning picture of the administration of the war. He asked where the billions for weapons went, since they were using old vietnam issued weapons. They were told to shoot, what sounded like potential innocent people, using a What-If justification. When they sought mental treatment they were told they were sissys and cowards by the military. When they came home to get treatment the lines were 40 people deep. It seemed as though the doctors didn't want to treat them. They were given drugs and alcolhol to keep them down and numb their pain.

This has to get out to the MSM. The american people deserve to hear it from the soldiers themselves.

Cheney's assets nearly triple Bush's

lester, this is because Bush was always a punk. A typical dry drunk. No ambition, no drive! He stumbled into politics with help from Rove, and even his parents nearly s**t when he got elected Gov then President! Not the sharpest tack in the Bush box, but then none of them are Rocket Scientists!

This has to get out to the MSM. The american people deserve to hear it from the soldiers themselves.
Posted by newsjunkie on May 15, 2008 at 08:19 PM

newsjunkie, I encourage everyone to donate to their cause, which will help them buy Advertising time. and sign up for their emails.

http://ivaw.org/

When my nephew told his commanding officer he di not want to go back for a 2nd tour after the horrors of the first one, he was told that he, the Commander would make sure it went on his record and that he would never be the State Trooper he wants to be if it did. So a second tour he was forced into.

Luckily for him, they decided he was Officer material and sent him to Officer training where he is right now. He is humoring them until his time is up and he tells them all to kiss off.

loggin out for night, Dems.

Blog ya all tomorrow !

I'm starting a site called http://www.askmccainquestions.com/ . The purpose is in the slogan:

Questions the Media and Democrats Should be Asking John McCain!

Everyone is welcome to signup!

Contact: Bill Wicker
Phone: 202-224-5243



Battle over Biofuels

May 15th, 2008

The volume on the food-vs-fuel debate is getting louder by the day. The issue is complicated, and Chairman Bingaman thinks that it’s wise for folks to catch their breath and get better educated on the complexities before charging ahead with changes. That’s exactly what he and his staff are doing -- talking to experts and trying to better understand this growing concern.

Bingaman agrees that there’s an important and thoughtful discussion to be had about the nexus between energy policy and food policy. But before we can have that conversation, more schooling on the subject is needed. So, Bingaman asked the Secretary of Energy and the Secretary of Agriculture to help answer some key questions:


May 12, 2008

The Honorable Samuel Bodman
Secretary of Energy

The Honorable Ed Schafer
Secretary of Agriculture


Dear Secretary Bodman and Secretary Schafer,

I am concerned about recent suggestions that developed countries’ biofuels policies might be responsible for the global increase in food prices. In the United States, the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) was first enacted in the Energy Policy Act of 2005. The RFS, combined with the phase out of MTBE as a blending component for gasoline, led to a rapid increase in production of ethanol and, to a lesser extent, biodiesel. In December 2007, Congress and the President enacted a new and higher RFS that will require 9 billion gallons of renewable fuels to be blended into our fuel supply in 2008.

It is imperative that Congress gain a more full understanding of any link between domestic and international food prices, and the Renewable Fuel Standard. I would like your departments to work together to answer the following questions:

How has increased U.S. ethanol and biodiesel consumption affected domestic agriculture, and domestic food prices?

Has increased ethanol and biodiesel consumption in the United States contributed to increased global prices for agricultural goods? And, if so, to what extent?

How might increased biodiesel consumption, as required by EISA beginning in 2009, affect domestic and international food prices?

How has increased ethanol and biodiesel consumption affected gasoline and diesel prices?

What price levels for gasoline and diesel would be expected if biofuels were removed from the market, both in the short- and long-term?

What affect are biofuels expected to have on gasoline and diesel markets as consumption increases to meet the targets laid out in EISA?
While I recognize that these are complex questions, Congress may be called upon to address related legislative proposals in the near future. I would appreciate receiving your analysis by May 30, 2008.

Thank you for your attention to this important matter.

Sincerely,

[signed Jeff Bingaman]

Refiners slow fuel production as profits drop
MarketWatch ^ | April 21, 2008 2:42 p.m. EDT | By Moming Zhou, MarketWatch

Posted on Monday, April 21, 2008 3:22:27 PM by Ernest_at_the_Beach

Nearly three-year low in utilization rate risks angering consumers, lawmakers
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- A production slowdown at the nation's refineries, now operating at levels last seen in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, couldn't come at a more troublesome time for consumers watching pump prices flirt with $4 a gallon.

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A good time for maintenance
With higher costs cutting into their bottom line, refiners appear to have decided that this spring is a particularly opportune time to take more of their production offline and retool their plants.

"This is a maintenance season. If you can't make a lot of money, you do a little more repairs," said James Williams, an economist at WTRG Economics, an energy-research firm.

Spring is typically when refiners idle parts of their plants to undertake maintenance. But they don't always cut back so drastically. Last April, when the difference between crude and gasoline prices was narrower, the utilization rate touched 90%. The nation's refinery-utilization rate has remained under 90% since early January.

Still, analysts anticipate this production rate could pick up again if gasoline-price growth accelerates ahead of the key summer-driving season.

Posted by marymac_memphis on May 15, 2008 at 08:02 PM
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Ho Mary,

McCain is a total loser. He couldn't gain ground on either Hillary or Barack even when they were tearing each other apart.

Hey, congrats to Hillary for coming to Obama's defense when Chimpy McFlightSuit attacked him viciously in the Isaeli parliament no less!

Nothing like the Bush dog to unite Democrats.

McCain ... as lame as Bush and way older.

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Valero may sell U.S. plants in hard refinery times
Bill Klesse, CEO of Valero Energy Corp., testifies at a U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on the "Consolidation in the Oil and Gas Industry: Raising Prices?" at Capitol Hill in Washington March 14, 2006. Top U.S. refining company Valero Energy Corp said on Tuesday it is considering selling nearly a third of its North American refineries amid a U.S. economic slowdown that is crimping fuel demand, and that it is exploring new projects in the Middle East and Asia. (REUTERS/Jason Reed)

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March 11, 2008
SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - Top U.S. refining company Valero Energy Corp said on Tuesday it is considering selling nearly a third of its North American refineries amid a U.S. economic slowdown that is crimping fuel demand, and that it is exploring new projects in the Middle East and Asia.

more stories like thisThe outlook marks a major shift in Valero's strategy after a decade of sterling profits, acquisitions and expansions transformed the San Antonio-based company from small independent refiner into a behemoth.

Valero Chief Executive Bill Klesse, speaking at the National Petrochemical and Refiners Association meeting, said the company is close to selling refineries in Aruba, Memphis, Tennessee, and Krotz Springs, Louisiana, and has received interest from potential buyers for two other plants.

Klesse did not say what companies were vying for the plants, which account for 840,000 barrels per day of the company's 3.1 million bpd capacity.

But Zurich-listed Petroplus announced in late February it partnered with two private equity firms to buy U.S. refineries, raising some speculation in the oil industry that it could be one of the bidders.

Brazilian state oil company Petrobras has also said it is eyeing opportunities to buy refineries.

Klesse said that at the same time, Valero is exploring potential growth in the Middle East and Asia, where demand for fuel has been robust.

"We have looked in the last six months at opportunities in the Middle East and we looked at a situation in Asia," said Klesse. "Nothing is imminent."

Subsidized prices and a weakening U.S. dollar have helped keep fuel demand high in many consuming nations, he said.

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Leading Dr.: Vaccines-Autism Worth Study

CBS News: Former Head Of NIH Says Government Too Quick To Dismiss Possible Link

Dr. Bernadine Healy is the former head of the National Institutes of Health, and the most well-known medical voice yet to break with her colleagues on the vaccine-autism question.

In an exclusive interview with CBS News, Healy said the question is still open.

"I think that the public health officials have been too quick to dismiss the hypothesis as irrational," Healy said.

Healy goes on to say public health officials have intentionally avoided researching whether subsets of children are “susceptible” to vaccine side effects - afraid the answer will scare the public.

WATCH THE INTERVIEW VIDEO (5:54)

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/05/12/cbsnews_investigates/main4086809.shtml

Well, I just got home from a great day and was running around on my regular blogs to see what people were talking about
Picked this up off McCain's site, posted by the many Hillary shipjumpers
I know I am naive sometimes, but never imagined that a site like this could exist supported by a democrat, while expousing to be a democrat.

Nothing should be offered to her unless she agrees to reject and denouce such vitriolic lies and bigoted behaviour, quoting Fox
I am sickened.

McCain should offer her the VP
We would not be loosing anything.
and I nor has Barack Obama released any direct attacks at all her skeletons, only defended when attacked by her and/or her supporters.

check out the videos on the right
http://hillbuzz.blogspot.com/2008/05/obama-hires-400-new-bloggers-to-sway.html

I will not launch an attack----as I go through the blogs, I have stayed true to just attacking/pointing out the flaws of the republican party, but it is getting really tough, and I thank goodness, I am supporting a candidate that I can trust to handle such people correctly.

I hate to say this, but Bush wants Hillary to be the Democratic nominee, for one major reason, he is more likely to be immunity from her than anyone else and a better deal from all his John Yoo Unconstitutional edicts. (Remember McCain felt Bush's vicious wrath and word edge swords.) Hillary would block the World Court from enforcing International Law that Bush broke "At Will."

Congress needs to impeach the Bush record on Human Rights, Civil Rights, Civil Liberties, Separation of Power, Scales of Justice, Guantanamo, White House judicial power without Federal Court oversights, warrant less ease dropping, and well his whole entire term of autocratic rule.

With Bill wanting to use the Bush's as Goodwill Ambassadors, there is no way King George will face "We the people" justice in the court system of Constitutional accountability. Like Nixon, he will be given immunity present like Blackwater for the good of the people, yeah right. President Bush must face his destiny in a legacy of "Truth" over Intelligence's "Lies" of Mission Accomplished Bush Blunders quagmires.

So Bush will attack Obama with venom using every Republican dirty trick in there Kitchen Sink in Rove and Swift Boat attack adds of Bush "Lies."

Like Bush's intimidated Telecom threats, Congress must hold the ground of Constitutional integrity in a Patriot Army standing their ground in battling for every character in our Constitution, especially the words that has redefined "At Will" by Bush. Congress do your "Home-Work" and hold the line against King George end the treachery of Republican Kitchen Sink diplomacy.

As Bill is tied to Hillary, so is George Bush tied to John McCain. But with Bill and Hillary it is a better team, but both ex’s will be like Putin’s and try to have surrogates follow them, when they really need to break free of the past.

Good evening, all.

McCain is now saying that he can win the Iraq win in "only" 5 years if he becomes president. Only five years. He's gotta be kidding. Just five more years, folks. Sure, that's another 4,000 dead troops and a couple hundred billion a year (that would mean, say, another TRILLION DOLLARS), but other than that, uh, other than that we're basically screwed.

Posted by rjsnj on May 15, 2008 at 07:58 PM

rj,

You know how McCain gets things mixed up. He really meant to say 2113 today. He had it right the first time when he said he might get around to ending the occupation in 100 years...but he forgot.

I'm impressed with his pledge to end obesity in America in five years. I suppose if milk is $15 a gallon and we're all walking to work because OPEC will no longer accept our worthless greenbacks...when then, of course, we'll all lose weight.

His predictions today can be attributed to McCain's uncanny ability to see the future through second sight. He's so senile he doesn't know what century he's in and is always revisting the past...or it that the present....at least for him?

And Spunky is always revisiting Hitler's Third Reich for inspiration...or was that just Bush today promoting hisThird Term?

The more McCain double teams with Bush on foreign policy the crazier they both appear to American voters who have had enough of WMD that don't exist and an Axis of Evil that appears to have the best of them. Their answer to everything is bomb, bomb somebody.

And I bet the average Israeli citizen ran for the shelters when they heard Bush outlining his plans for peace...by way of another pre-emptive attack or two in the immediate neighborhood? They know how much of a straight shooter McCain...and especially Cheney are.

It's time to get out the Straight Talk jackets?

Cheney's assets nearly triple Bush's

Posted by PamB on May 15, 2008 at 08:23 PM

Bush bet all his grandfather's trust fund on democracy in the Middle East?

I think Obama supporters got nasty on the blogs about Clinton because of her behavior. The Jessee Jackson remark, the fantasy remark, the complete gall of hitting him on NAFTAgate when it was her camp actually giving the wink wink, the elitist pegging, the "I take him at his word when he says he isn't a muslum", the McCain and I have more experience to be president (throwing him under the bus), The hard working people, white people remark. With her vote for the war, and her vote last year with bush to name some group in Iran terrorist in a ratcheting up for war in Iran, the obliterate Iran remark, please. If anyone shouldn't vote for her it would be the obama people. If they want 100 more years of war, a reverse of roe vs. wade, tax cuts to the rich, more jobs overseas, more poisened food,medicine, toys and goods, a fema that doesn't work, a fda that protects China, an attorney general that works solely for republican politics, then by all means hillary supporters vote McCain. I dare you.

Posted by FrostyMilkweed on May 15, 2008 at 10:02 PM

And all the interference from their short waves radio antennas kept them from using them? Ole!

Posted by newsjunkie on May 15, 2008 at 11:48 PM
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It appears to have nothing to do with any of that-
the ones on the McCain site would throw their children over the cliff to not address the elephant in the middle of the living room.

They are just as vitriolic, if not more at Edwards and Richardson.

Their support for Hillary had nothing to do with Hillary's opinion on anything.
When I point out that Hillary thought highly of them and asked them to be part of her team, it made no difference hate over-rode

This is going to be a bloody election.

But we got red states turning purple and blue
that alone is exciting.
McCain has moved so far left, what is left is the 19%.

Posted by newsjunkie on May 15, 2008 at 11:48 PM

news,

Like anybody is going to care after the primaries are over?

The closer we get to kicking the Republicans out, the more exciting the prospect of actually doing it will become irresistible. Those who are angry now will be twice as ready to vote against the Republicans as they are against Obama now.

I'm already shelving my animosity toward Bill. He's acted like a jerk, but then I'm not married to him so what do I care.

I'm sure frosty feels the same. After he's cast his vote for the Libertarian instead of McCain this fall, he's going to be so happy he might even introduce Bill to his sister?

I have gotten even excited by the msm----and investigative reporters--------they seem to be getting more and more ba-ls and are braver and braver.
I think this "movement" thing has caught on and they seem emboldened by it, because they know they are going to be supported, and the republican attack machine has lost it's teeth.

Posted by FrostyMilkweed on May 16, 2008 at 12:10 AM

Everyone is out with Lieberman celebrating the 60th aniversary of Israel?

Talk about your traditional Republican Party festivities...Lieberman, Graham, and McCain doing their usual Hebrew folk dance around some Baghdad marketplace to the tune of Sadr's militia firing at their feet.

Life doesn't get any better than that.

I think I'll make like a ghost and disapear.

Good night, all.

McCain has moved so far left, what is left is the 19%.

high,

He'd move to a radical Islamic neighborhood if it would get him one more vote.

I've never seen a Republican tap dance quite the way McCain does. He's all over the place. Left, Right, Wrong...it's all the same agenda to him.

He forgets from day to day what his stated policy was yesterday. Most Republicans just want to forget he's their nominee.

Have a good evening.

This is what it is like living in Florida among the Democrats who won't face reality of what the FL situation is about.

The toxic atmosphere in Florida Democratic circles is shown in this article.

This is what it is like living in Florida among the Democrats who won't face reality of what the FL situation is about.

The toxic atmosphere in Florida Democratic circles is shown in this article.

Gosh, sunny I am sorry
come to California ;-)

Yoe people are so full of sh^t. Have you no understanding of what is at stake here. When Edwards
was out, you all had nice things to say to his supporters. You people have made so many of her supporters feel like you did not care about their votes. Her supporters have been characterized by the people supporting Obama as uneducated, racist, old hags. Well if your "MAN" (The only MAN who can unite America) does not feel like the 17 million uneducated, racist, old white women votes are important; don't get mad when a whole hell of lot of those votes are cast for someone else. Oh and by no means should any of you real true Democrats take responsibility for the role you yourself have played in alienating core constituents that have a long history of phone banking, fundraising, door knocking, and yes the most important- vote casting in support of the Democratic party- faithfully.
Take heart, I am sure you don't need us.

So, the wanna-be drug store cowboy sounded off in Israel yesterday about Obama being willing to negotiate with Iran. Considering Bush's record of lying failure in everything he has touched, it is the height of arrogance for him to comment on anything. If he were wise, he would just keep quiet until he is out of office and then slink off to Paraguay.

The fact that the doddering old fool from Arizona chose to jump in after Bush's comments, only shows that he is again tying himself to Bush. That makes them both what? THE FAILURE TWINS!

I received a email this am from moveon.org. It seems that the SwiftBoat vets are saying they are really going to swiftboat Obama. Big deal! We expect that. Obama just keeps rising above it. Hillary came to his defense BTW. Nice.

All, in all, the Republicans still do not understand their failure, they again underestimate the bubbling anger of the public.

I look forward to the campaign, it's going to be real fun.

It's going to be a wipe out for the Rethuglicans, all up and down the ticket starting with the presidency.

In Texas, Rick Noreiga only trails Senator Cornpone by 4 points. Any small contribution you might make to Rick's campaign will be appreciated.

The fact that Bush took that cheap, cowardly shot at Obama started my day off well. I see the start of the death throes of Bush and his accomplishes already!

I had just got out of the county jail doing ninety days for non-support. Although not on a par with “Scrambled eggs Oh how baby I love your legs” I have always thought this a great opening line for a song. O.K. You have walked out on your wife and children. You were arrested and found guilty essentially of having no money to support yourself. Your car has probably been towed and sold. You are homeless and now are going to make a killing writing a song about the experience. Good luck.
Jim Croce was a somewhat successful song writer of the second millennium . His song about the county jail is not considered his best aside Leroy Brown and Time in a Bottle. He did well with the song. It was probably a million seller.
If I could only have talked with Hitler. Say that and then work it into a meaningful sentence. Personally, if I would have had the audience I would have asked him if he had any good wine in his cellar. My father was in the 101st and broke into Hitler’s wine cellar at Berchtesgaden,(perhaps Goering’s cellar). My father had kind words about Hitler. He said, “He had mighty fine wine
I don’t think the president pulled off his conversation about Hitler so good. Does he have any friends capable of explaining it is not a good idea to bring Hitler’s name up in Israel? If we could only find someone who could talk to the president about getting his speeches cleared for matters of propriety.
We are in the middle of a Jihad. We have been Jihading for 1200 years. America’s first taste of Jihad may have been at the shores of Tripoli. The first battle ever fought (as we perceive modern warfare) was between the Egyptians and Hittites Anthropologists have found evidence Neanderthals eliminated modern man from the region around Israel 23,000 years ago. I doubt there is a quick fix to this eternal conflict. I think though we Democrats can get a short term suspension of the killing inside Iraq. Jack Murtha is in the wings and I am sure he can effect a change of strategy to slow the bleeding. Had we listened to Murtha we would have been were we will be next March several years ago.