Here is what they can do: Implement their 100 hour plan and pass bills like raising the minimum wage, environmental protection bills, prescription drug reform bills, etc., laws that can help the middle class.

Send the bills to Bush. He will veto each and every one. Send the preznut enough laws like this, that ordinary people can recognize as benefiting them, so that the repubs can't stand it anymore. They will feel the heat from their districts.

The repubs will have to have their equivalent of the Nixon-Goldwater meeting in order to have a chance of keeping their seats. If that does not work, some, maybe enough, will turn and support impeachment to save their "skins."

Regarding Iraq, the Dems need to apply pressure to the Repubs to implement a plan that is rational. I agree with Pelosi, however, keep the blame where it belongs, on bush.

What is he trying to do in Iraq? What is his goal? I think he has no plan, no idea of what he is doing and has no goal. I am going to play the drinking game this evening, taking a drink everytim I hear, "9/11."

in different ways. It is undermining our individual power but creating opportunities we never could have imagined even ten years ago. For some of us, the Internet has taken our jobs, or reduced our earning power or made our jobs easier and helped us make more money.

The Internet and blogosphere have given journalists much more exposure than they ever could have had without it and also much greater vulnerability to stinging attack. Get used to change. We have to.

I think the postings on Salon are generally good to great, especially on the War Room. They are a validation that I am not the only person who thinks the present administration has taken our country over the cliff. Also, I love Sidney Blumenthal. He is a brilliant wordsmith and analyst.

I will vote for Al Franken. He has the makings of a great senator. He has the wit and oratorical skills to expose Coleman for the hypocrite and power whore that he is. His challenge in winning will be the "ring of fire" suburbs around the Twin Cities. These crackpots elected our Kathleen Harris, Michele Bachman.

Engineering is hard. Software projects can be completed with enough time and money. Engineering projects must also obey all of the laws of thermodynamics. Several years ago, I co-founded a successful software company. Several decades ago, I was one of many engineers who built a power plant that still provides electricity for the city of Los Angeles. Building and starting up a power plant was hard. Developing good software is not that hard. It is a lot of fun!

I am a patent attorney and have been practicing for almost 20 years. I have never seen a level of incompetence anything like what my clients and I have had to endure under the Bush administration. He appointed a political hack, in his own image, as commissioner of patents and trademarks. The individual now running the Patent Office is a despotic thug who is extending an internal reign of terror to individuals and companies seeking patent protection. We learned today that the patent office has sent new, and we believe, draconian rules regarding patent procurement, to OMB for review. The despot has said that the rules are "privileged" and we won't know what they are until they issue!! Have you ever heard of such a thing?

I can't believe it!! The damage these "Mayberry Machiavellis" have wrought on our system of protecting intellectual property will take many years to repair.

Last week, the Supreme Court issued a seminal case for patent law,KSR v. Teleflex. In this case, the Supremes opened the door for federal district courts to invalidate patents because what they claim is "common sense" and other such subjective reasoning. Commentators in the mass media and big Tech congratulated the Court for reigning in those pesky "trolls" and reducing the value of patents.

That decision, along with patent rule changes that will be implemented later this summer will kill the ability of tech startups--especially software and electrical companies-- to protect their inventions. As a result, they will not get money from investors to start up or continue their businesses.

I am waiting for the day that a Chinese company successfully invalidates an IBM patent or a Microsoft patent through a court using the ridiculous reasoning of the Supremes in KSR.

The title of the episode was "Made in America." The irony of the story is that while Tony Soprano was focused on Phil and the NY gang,he did not consider what could happen if the mob to which the "terrorists" belonged found out he was a snitch.

They off'd him, Carmella and AJ. Someone mentioned it previously that Bobby mentioned that you never hear the one that's meant for you.

This is in keeping with endings of seasons past; i.e. Johnny Saks was arrested before he could "take out" Tony.

The FBI used Tony to take out Phil. They also set Tony up for the "hit" and used Tony's death to create the case they needed to arrest and try they guys identified as "terrorists."

AJ was part Cassandra and all fool--to the end.