Well, if you didn't learn your lesson from Obama the way I did from Bill Clinton, you will be doomed to another round of voting for a stealth lackey of the globalist elite. All the rhetoric about "hope" and "change" reduces ultimately to bait in the trap that ensnares American workers and the middle class, a trap of the rising burden of public debt, owed largely to the investor class. You can also look forward to an increasing surveillance of the American people and continuing warfare on the edges of the American empire. The only way to change this is to stop voting for these rascals and start supporting candidates with radically different perspectives. OK, it's going to be very tough, since the Mainstream Media is wholly owned by the corporate oligarchs. If you learn of a candidate that is being dismissed as "not serious" because he or she articulates positions opposed to the status quo, that's the one to support. Oh, by the way, I am a registered Republican in favor of prosecuting the Bush/Cheney cabal. I supported Ron Paul and voted for Cynthia McKinney.

Which administration initiated an illegal and unconstitutional program of warrantless wiretapping? Which administration instituted torture as an instrument of interrogation? Which administration launched a war of aggression on patently false premises? Which administration endeavored to govern with the least possible public scrutiny? Which party was out front in committing election fraud?

Until the Republican Party acknowledges and purges the beams in their own eyes, their bleating about the moats in the eyes of others will ring hollow with the public.

The Republican Party does have serious concerns about the Obama Administration's programs, concerns that deserve to be voiced. However, the pervasive hypocrisy of its leaders lends an intolerable moral dissonance to their complaints, so that they sound more as buffoons than serious critics.

I have both Yahoo and Hotmail email accounts. The Hotmail account goes back to its pre-Microsoft days, when it worked pretty well. Since Microsoft took over, they've made it so complex that I don't even bother to access it at home where I have dialup, as it runs so slowly that it would take me an hour to look at a dozen emails. Yahoo works reasonably well with the slow connection. I never have figured out why people use Internet Explorer, either. It seems to me the ultimate in user-unfriendly software. Please, Microsoft, leave Yahoo alone!

I updated my Savings Bond Wizard this morning and found that my some of my more recently purchased I (for inflation) bonds are paying over 8 per cent. The rate on these bonds is connected in some hocus pocus way with inflation rates. Well, common sense tells us that anyone (like the Federal Government) that is already deep in hock who goes out to borrow a gazillion more dollars is going to have to pay astronomical interest rates. What this means is that, in the future, more tax dollars are going to go into the pockets of government securities holders and less of it will go to provide goods and services. Since most government securities are held by large financial interests, including a substantial number of foreign ones, the overall effect will be to further enrich the financial oligarchs and export more dollars abroad.

Republicans seem to be justifiably alarmed at this prospect, but they will not be taken seriously until they show some responsibility and contrition for the many violations of the Constitution and human rights they perpetrated over the last 8 years, as well as the way they themselves enlarge the national debt at a time when we had the prosperity to pay it down had we not been blowing away billions in military adventures.

If Rush Limbaugh's bloviated outgassings, oral and anal (it's sometimes hard to tell the difference), flammable and incendiary, could be harnessed, and put to use rather than simply dispersing into the void, accomplishing nothing beyond increasing social and physical entropy, then the nation would be well on its way to achieving energy independence!

With fewer and fewer people sympathizing with the flatulent, peevish rantings of Mr. Limbaugh, the Republican Party could still maintain its overall weight on the national scene if its members would follow his lead to in self-indulgence gourmandary.

If all the straw men that he creates as targets for his attacks could be burned in a power plant, the entire state of Florida may well enjoy energy self-sufficiency.

If the Republican Party wants to once again be the party of strict constitutionalism, of personal liberty, and of small, efficient government, it has to purge itself of the Bush Era neocon poison. The best way to do this is to get behind the effort to investigate abuses in the Bush Administration and prosecute those who have broken the law. Not a whole lot of people are going to be interested in joining a political party whose practices are diametrically opposed to its supposed political philosophy.