Just when it seems that the depths of Republican depravity can't go deeper—nope, there's a lower place. The Dems who are part of this little frat-boy cabal all appear to be DINOs who may as well convert to the GOP now.

Given the right wing obsession with homosexuality, what are the odds that the (ahem) "prayer meetings" have also included some gay dalliances? Nothing wrong with that per se, unless you're part of the culture trying to make being gay a sin punishable by death, of course. I'd bet long money on orgies, drug parties, you name it. These filthy hypocrites know no bounds and have no shame as long as everything is couched in Jesus-speak.

Yet more evidence that the GOP must be stomped into a sticky paste and replaced with something like a fully active Green Party.

I, too, would love to trust BHO, but this is simple. Either you follow through on transparency or it was just a bullshit campaign quip and now you're dedicated to the same imperial, secretive government as your incompetent predecessor.

Obama deserves time to work on the economy, healthcare, Iraq, etc. He doesn't need shit to open up government, end torture, end spying and so on. He just won't do it. Which means he's a fucking liar.

The Dow is a psychological indicator, and what it indicates is that the financial world has been doing nothing more than holding out for a return to the status quo: consume, borrow, package, sell, screw.

In a world of shrinking resources, this will inevitably lead to another economic collapse that will make this one look like a kid's birthday party. Only then will we be emotionally and psychologically ready to accept that the only path forward is to completely remake the economy around sustainability, local markets, economic health and the value of the work of each individual, rather than rampant profit. This is happening on a small scale in communities throughout the country, but it won't happen nationally until we have one more monstrous crash.

...what does all this say about our recovering from the collapse in a sustainable way over the long term? Not much. It seems to me that most Americans, especially the lords of the financial sector, are simply waiting for business as usual to restart. We need to be remaking our economic system from the local level—sustainable, personal, valuing all work, eco-wise and based on conservation, reusing items and paying fair wages for quality. That's hardly the direction we're headed in, which makes me think we'd better look out below in another decade as this happens again...only worse.

A legislator told the truth about his own Redneck Party! Stone him! Kill the heretic!

Must...listen...to...Rush...to...recover...equilibrium...

There's no call for this "armed camps" approach when it comes to allopathic versus alternative medicine. Either brand of healing is just a tool, and thus neutral. It's the practitioners and methods that are either effective or destructive. Both approaches have their benefits and weaknesses.

I'm a ghostwriter, and I just finished a book for two co-authors: a naturopath and a Nobel-winning pharmacologist, working together seemingly from opposite sides of the medical spectrum to come up with a cogent theory and application for supplements. Great stuff. Well, in developing the book, I interviewed eastern and western healers from all disciplines: Ayurvedic docs from India, western cardiologists and oncologists, dieticians, acupuncturists, the whole range. The consensus was clear: allopathic medicine has its place and alternative medicine has its place; you have to know which is the right place.

The professionals I talked with agreed that for acute care—cancer, a heart attack, a gunshot wound—nothing beats Western medicine. But for fostering wellness and preventing long-term problems without terrible side effects, alternative medicine is superior.

I've seen the experimental evidence for distant healing; it's quite compelling if incomplete. More work needs to be done to find out if there's really something there. But it's disingenuous to claim that if alternative medicine worked, it would be folded into "mainstream" medicine. It's very difficult to get something accepted that challenges the dominant paradigm, and that includes the surgery-and-drugs paradigm.

I call on Rupert Murdoch and News Corp. to found the Batshit Crazy Network--Birther news, 24/7!

As long as every single reference to this asinine "controversy" is prefaced with the fact that it's Republicans and conservatives who are behind it. Talk about a recipe for alienating every last independent voter out there.

We can get this network started! Si se puede!

Man, I hope the punk'd story is true. That would be epic.

Orly's giving dentist/lawyer/Realtors a bad name, if that's possible.

I just had a mental image of Orly's taint and became nauseous.

...for Obama, Pelosi and a few other key figures to go on prime time TV and state, without mincing words, that these events are racist bullshit and the people involved are either ignorant, deluded or cynical political manipulators. To hell with the fallout; this needs to be said by the President.

What exactly are you suggesting? And please support it with well-reasoned argument, not ad hominem attack.

Take:

- 1 recession

- Millions who are worried about their jobs, homes, and healthcare but feel powerless

- An electorate largely ignorant and apathetic about learning anything substantive about policy or even exposing themselves to views other than their own

- A desperate Republican party willing to do anything to take down Obama

- The nascent and overt racism many white Americans feel toward BHO

- Our country's fascination with Byzantine conspiracy theories

- The fermentation vessel known as the Internets

Stir vigorously in the screaming right-wing environment of talk radio and Fox News.

Result: This kind of insanity, which is basically the incoherent, foaming grunting of terrified people with no other way to express their rage and fear.

Ill-serves: 300 million