Scuba is snorkeling raised to a very high power. Both in excitement and cost. It IS like being an astronaut, NASA trains people in their full astronut suits in a huge pool. I'd love to be a diver for NASA.

As far as fears go, I hate to fly. People say that I'm 'afraid' to fly or claustrophobic. It's not the plane that I'm afraid of, its gravity. ;-)

I recently spent a week in Hawaii and did a 'Manta Dive'. Aside from feeling guilty that the rays have grown to depend on us to attract their food to those spots every night, I was in total awe of the size and speed of those things. Yes, snorkeling you would be able to see them but on the bottom you actually have to duck (!) when they go by and you feel their wake as they pass. It was incredible!

Snorkeling to me compared to scuba is like the difference between seeing the pictures in a magazine and actually being there. Scuba is being part of that new world. There is so much to see and experience. I've seen barracuda and ells and little shrimps and airplanes and boats and even found money, and a bottle of wine, a toaster (miles from land) but no gold, yet...

I did once describe scuba as being 'better than sex'. It is, sometimes. Although I'm still suffering for that one comment... :-)

After Shrubbery talks, CNN says that this is just about 'the government monitoring international terrorists without a court order' and my comment back to the teevee (which is as productive as speaking to my elected representatives) was and no oversight either.

But we can trust Bush, right? He wouldn't do what his administration has done through the US Attorney's offices and selectively single out their perceived 'enemies' for surveillance and harassment, would he?

The world will never know and the politicians that passed this piece of crap won't believe it anyway...

Bush is a liar. Why is that so hard to believe?

The only thing that Bush hasn't failed at in his entire life is being able to completely fuck things up! But the rich are richer and he's the 'supreme leader'. What else isn't important.

Now watch this drive...

Bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb Iran... There be democracy to spread...

Glenn's lead in question is asking if the 'establishment journalists' are 'ignorant or stupid'. Not a silly question.

While it can be said that they slavishly devote time to embellishing their coverage of any attempt to defy the Bush head long rush to fascism with cute little bon mots dripping with double entendre, it is clear who they feel are the real idiots and ironically it's like another perverted industry in George W. Bush's America: The recording industry.

Both hold the consumers of their 'product' in such high contempt. They lie, cajole, bully, threaten and abuse the people that keep them in business.

If you will bare with me for a moment, I will tell you who the 'establishment journalists' (makes me think of used car salesmen) and the president are playing for.

Yesterday I was following a car in traffic. It was a busy day on that road. A five lane road that runs across the north of the town that I live in. This car was driving a few miles under the speed limit. Nothing unusual about that. But then I became aware that at times I had to slow down about 5 or more miles an hour because the car in front slowed down. Then it hit me. The driver was slowing down before the lights at the numerous intersections that we passed through on this road. But the lights were green. We had the full right to drive the speed limit through those intersections. Why slow down? Why treat every intersection as a possible threat? Why speed up then after passing through one only to slow down when they came to the next one.

I had to see who was driving this 'fear mobile' and who was so timid at intersections. It was a man of I'd estimate in his late 60's or early 70's. Not that I'm knocking age as I'm no spring chicken myself. This is the first time that I've ever followed someone who drove with such fear of the light changing. Such fear of the future. Such deference to authority. Then the bumper sticker made sense. 'Proud to be an American'. A Bush voter I'm sure. (Have I found Bush's base?) The recipient of the force feeding of the fear card from our leader. In their day, when they were younger, the leaders of this country spoke cleanly and clearly about the threats that faces this great nation and urged people to not fear the fear but to keep their country strong and do their part to maintain this great nation. Perfect programming for the 43rd president. A pathological liar who has pulled off a brazen coup d'état in the last country the world would think that it could be done.

Yes, it can (and did) happen here...

Unless the people that will pull the trigger on the Yahoo-News Corp deal are those 'loyal Bushies' that are immune to logic and have no soul or conscience.

Murdock (Mordock?) controlling ANYTHING more than a room full of apes is frightening to me. He is evil and has no morals or scruples just greed and the penchant for bare knuckle lying and fighting. He is Satan to Bush's anti-Christ...

Save Yahoo. Why doesn't Apple buy Yahoo? .mac could use the help...

It sounds more like Bush and 'Mitch' are threatening the American people with great bodily harm and very likly death.

Does that mean that if there is an attack after midnight (which Bush could definitely pull of with his families terrorist ties) there will be congressional investigations into how Bush and 'Mitch' saw these attacks coming?

Well, I can hope, can't I...

Is it time for Orlando Bosch?