that we can go on polluting the planet, without immediately dieing from carbon in the atmosphere.

but i do wish there was some way for people to get rich by reducing population, non-violently. the only long term solution for homo saps is stable population, probably under 10% of the current level. clearly, we aren't going to figure this out until there's a profit in it.

maybe a sterilization bonus? have one child, or none, and retire.

wielding bow and spear have recently been sighted in the northwest. rumor has it that crazy horse's ghost has been seen laughing at tourists visiting little bighorn nm.

worse yet, china is slowly shifting out of usd and into euros. the last days are on us, and not a minute too soon. i could endure yanks who were loud-monthed, and ignorant, as long as they paid cash. but lately they have been shooting people to get what they want, instead of buying it. that's gotta stop.

the old one doesn't work very well, even when officers are trying. it has no protection against subversion by party or by money. it simply doesn't address modern life in the usa.

i recommend democracy.

america's problems are more fundamental than these bandaids can fix.

america needs democracy.

america needs prudence, thrift, and a more evenly distributed national pie.

america needs to revisit the first lot of 10 commandments: pay special attention to the ones about murder and theft- they weren't limited to just your neighbors, i believe. that's what you're up to in the middle east. grand scale and uniforms doesn't change it, except to lift the crime from petit larceny to war crime.

begins with hanging dubya, cheney, rumsfeld and wolfowitz fron a scaffold in front of the washington monument. relatives of american war dead should have dibs on the front row seats. then the world might begin to pay attention to what america has to say about iraq.

but americans still think iraq was a mistake, at worst, and don't hang people for mistakes. hell, look at calley- 3 years confined to barracks for machine-gunning 350 women and kids in a ditch. just an over-eager boy, carrying out american policy...

bush isn't wrong, he's a murderer. iraq is no kind of mistake. it doesn't make sense for america to leave iraq now- yer stuck so far into the tarbaby of evil that rational behavior and moral behavior can have no connection.

really, what those men have done to america is beyond hanging. they should be wrapped up and delivered to a taliban village by parachute.

motivation is everything, you know. corporations, for instance are driven to provide profits. if corporations control governments, governments will be driven to maximize profits, too.

do corporations control governments? you bet! not as well as they'd like, of course. but when a nations policies are in the hands of a few hundred politicians, those politicians can be bought, and the policies with them. that's why "representative" democracy is leading america to resource depletion and ecological disaster.

there is no cure, we're dealing with the human race, here. but a nation with citizen initiative can create long term policies whose goal is not profit for a few, but well-being for the nation. too bad america, for all it's talk, is not a democracy.

of being ruled by people like this?

the system generates this kind of politician, just like mother nature generates hyenas to cull the wildebeest. if you want a better nation, you need a better system.

try democracy next, it's a big improvement on earmarks, sexual abuse and preventive war. and you can save heaps by winding down the military-industrial-political complex.

the usmc learned it's trade ' south of the border, acting as the enforcer for united fruit. when it came time to spread democracy in the phillipines and south east asia, they knew how to do it.

of course, the army already knew, from cleaning up terrorists in the west.

americans still imagine they are a peaceful, christian nation. shows how important it is to write the history books.

on the word of a politician?

the best way to get the dem nomination was to talk most effectively against mccain. when this doesn't happen the question is, a: are the the candidates trashy politicians, or b: the voters trashy jerks, or c: both of the above?

then there's the concept of superdelegates. that seems to assume 'b'. kind of hard to remember that republicans are a whole different level of evil: not only venal, greedy, corrupt, and brutal, but also guilty of mass murder more recently than the dems. ah, my country, tis of thee...

leaving aside america's foreign policy (too scary to talk about), the repubs have actively sought to subvert the constitution. remember that, next november. vote for any democrat you see on the ballot, lest you have to give up voting.

obama and clinton should be running against mccain, and voters should select the one making the best case against the republicans.

but they aren't. this is the reason selecting a 'national leader' doesn't even pretend to be in the national interest. it's just a means of letting two oversized egos yell "i wannit, i wannit" with the richest, and/or trickiest, yeller getting the prize.

i was confident that the repubs were going to have a very bad year, when the campaign began. 'any democrat' was going to win. unfortunately, that meant that two candidates with a race and gender handicap both felt that 'i am going to be president.' so they continue to make life very much easier for a republican who should be contending with goldwater for the 'hopeless' title.

it's a hell of a way to run a nation, time for a new constitution, folks.