They're never going to reveal those sources. They reveal the sources, and there could be a great unraveling. I think there's something very, very fishy here, something that goes very high up into government.

ABC was likely in on it, in some way, and I just don't see them ever giving up where they got their propaganda.

We'll never see the oil from "offshore drilling"--and if we do, it'll be very little and way too late.

Offshore leases are just a way for oil companies to pad their reserves, raise their stock price and make money for their executives. Period. It's a scam. And if Paris had a brain cell in her head, she'd know that already.

And, has been pointed out, alternative technologies are ready for prime-time right now in some capacity. Current offshore fields won't produce for 20 years or more, and the situation will be far different by then.

Much of the oil now being talked about as future reserves is, in fact, an energy sink. It'll take more energy than is contained in an existing barrel of oil, to extract the new barrel.

Now, if you use only renewable energy sources to extract the oil, that's a different matter. But at the moment, what many energy companies are doing, is extracting expensive energy out of the ground using existing cheap energy--cheaper energy *from fossil fuels!*

I suspect more than a little of the oil now being extracted from difficult fields is *already* an energy sink, but by monetizing-sleight-of-hand, no-one knows that but the energy companies themselves, who, let's face it, by all the evidence, don't give a shit about the future, just about their next quarter bottom-line.

"Drill here, drill now" is merely the final act in the 100-year-old comedy of Big Oil bribing the US government into giving away resources that BELONG TO ALL OF US! As citizens of this country. It's a fraud. A scam. And people should go to jail for it.

Oh, one final note: anyone who thinks Big Oil won't sell off the last of US reserves to China if China is willing to pay the higher price, is a fool. Oil is among the most fungible resources on Earth. There is no way to tell if "our" oil is being sold here..or anywhere. The GOP is telling so many lies about this...I'd wager not one straightforward truth about this entire business has exited the mouth of a GOP hack since the discussion started.

But, then, the GOP would rather lie than tell the truth..since, as is becoming clearer and clearer, the truth has a liberal bias. Can't have that.

"That is the disturbing news from these new poll results: A loss of efficacy among Americans who, despite having every reason to be frustrated, show little faith that the politicians and policies chosen by their votes don't matter. "

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was I the only one who had trouble figuring out what this last sentence meant? What are you trying to say here, Mr. Schaller?

A loss of efficacy? Efficacy of what, exactly? "little faith that the politicians and policies chosen by their votes don't matter."?? Hate to break this to you, but that phrase has real trouble making sense.

My gf induced me to watch the hair-cut show twice, and I swear that's IT. Aside from everything else that's bad about it, Jaclyn Smith sounds like a wind-up toy reading a teleprompter badly, and while she may actually tear up when bidding adieu to some talentless hack (pun intended), I all can hear is her expressionless drone that sounds like nothing so much as a bored grade-school teacher taking role..

Just for the record, the recordings by Musica Antiqua Koln and Hesperion XX are the most impressive representations of the original music, and include the companion Gigue, part of the original publication. The Gigue is actually a crucial part of the piece, designed to dispel the contrapuntal tension set up by the Canon.

As for the rest, I love the break-dancing-beat-boxing guys. Too cool.

And I'm guessing Pachelbel would have been fine with all of it, as long as his royalty checks arrived on time.

Atrios summarized this ad precisely:

"He's An Uppity Negro Who Wants To Fuck Your Sister "

That's what the white girls were doing in the ad. They serve the purpose of being sexually alarming white-girl celebrities. The multi-level dog-whistle at work here really was brilliant, if crude. It's not entirely clear who it was aimed at, but it was certainly aimed at the Villagers. Whether it's working or not? Subject to debate at this point.

Remember. This is the same guy at work who did all that sleazy shit for Bush in 2000.

I wonder if a majority of Americans will ever finally repudiate this crap. Be nice if Obama won going away this Fall, just so these scum-bags would go back under their rocks for awhile.

we won't see Fred Hiatt writing about chinese domestic spying. Even he's not that stupid, or shameless.

Brownback on the other hand is...I'm not sure there's a word in English to describe him. Pure political hack, I think that's the closest I can come. Also, Sam ain't too bright from what I've heard over the years. It's just barely possible he doesn't see a connection between his enthusiastic support of our domestic spying, and what the Chinese are doing.

Because, according to the Fuehrer's Princip--the Fuehrer's word is above all written law--whatever YOUR daddy does is good. Whatever OTHER daddys do is bad.

People who can vote people like Brownback into office again and again are what's wrong with our country, and the solution to that? Better Democrats. Other than that? I don't have a clue. One thing I do know: Sam Brownback is a posterchild for what's wrong with our representative government.