Palin's speech was weird. I think there is a scandal about to break...maybe involving her drug addict son, Track, who was shipped off to Iraq or one of her other kids. Another possibility is that she actually did have an affair with one of her husbands's business associates, as was reported last year by the National Enquirer, and something related to that is about to blow.

I am happy to see her self-destruct. Unfortunately, a lot of people, including some of my relatives are too dumb to see the obvious.

Here is information about Palin's lawyer, obtained by Martindale-Hubble:

Name: Thomas V. Van Flein

Position: Member

Organization: Clapp, Peterson, Van Flein, Tiemessen & Thorsness, LLC

Practice Areas: Medical Malpractice; Dental Malpractice; Legal Malpractice; Employment Law; Personal Injury; Products Liability

Office: Anchorage, Alaska (Third Judicial District)

Van Flein got his J.D. from the U. of Arizona and undergrad from the U. of Alaska. He was admitted to the bar in 1990.

For every dollar in the stimulus package for Main Street, Wall Street got $306.00. They are giving themselves big bonuses, just like before and fighting any regulation through their whores in Congress.

Most Americans are too dumb to see this Its time to leave.

About ten years ago, the managing partner of our law firm, and I developed a web-based case management system that allowed all of the attorneys in the firm, and some of the paralegals, to work from home, at least some of the time. As a result, the firm has a couple of excellent partners who are women and mothers. They have to work hard, as do we all, but they have a greater ability to integrate and plan their family and work lives. One woman lawyer in the midwest has young children and the other woman lawyer, who lives on Long Island, also a PhD chemist, has older children and an ailing mother.

Men attorneys have the same type of control, and can plan their day to accommodate more time for their families, if they want. The case management system allows attorneys in Silicon Valley to work from home, instead of wasting time and energy on long commutes to the office.

We believe that we have been able to attract top legal and technical talent by providing an infrastructure that gives men and women more freedom to plan their days and integrate work and family. It still is not easy. Law firm life is hard, but we do not think that it has to be cruel.

This is what it was supposed to do. I hate to say it but Obama appears to be nothing more than a GS tool, just like Sommers and Geithner and the entire Congress. So what do we do? It probably is time to break out the 21st century version of the pitchfork and take the whole god damn thing down.

The market power of GS and MS is eclipsed by their political power. The only branch of government that they do not own is the judiciary and I'm sure they are working on that. Both of these monstrosities should have been allowed to fail last fall. I would have lost my pension and 401K but I've got a bad feeling that they are going to be stolen in any event.

I was in Beijing earlier this year, working to "drum up" some business from Chinese law firms and companies. It is an amazing place full of contradictions. I visited a Chinese telecom company and got a very chilly reception. The intellectual property manager informed me that they were not at all worried about patent protection in China or anywhere else in the world. This company is one of the Emperor's Daughters, protected because of patronage, fealty and probably corruption.

I also visited a Chinese pharmaceutical company, which was fascinating. I felt like I was in a David Lynch film. The scientists I met were very knowledgable about the pharma business around the world. The first question they asked was how the Indian generic pharma companies broke into the US market.

The Chinese business culture has a lot of corruption within it, as evidenced by the Rio Tinto scandal that is unfolding. However, the Chinese also have a lot of the core technology in the world right now and they know it. What the moronic "captains of industry" in the US did not recognize when they outsourced all of the jobs is that they also gave away the entire future of the technology practiced by people having the jobs.

Invention is almost never about solitary people working in laboratories. It is almost always about taking ideas from one technology and applying them to a new technoloy. If a culture loses its collective memory about older technologies, it is finished.

The US is finished as a technological power. I just completed a survey of the top 300 companies owning US patents. About 80% of these companies are European, Chinese, Japanese, or Korean.

You are right--it is way, way too late. On the edge of Tsinghua University in Beijing are three very large buildings, all institutes of advanced studies. These institutes are funded by Microsoft, Intel, and AMD, respectively.

The issue is the form of the tax. A green tariff forces both China and the US to change in very positive ways. More importantly, a green tariff gives the US some breathing room to manufacture the products it needs for its citizens to survive in this new world.

The problems with tasking the US to pay for pollution control technology in China are two-fold. First, the US whores in the administration and Congress will have to get permission from Goldman Sachs for that kind of expenditure. Second, it turns the US into Somalia.