What I have to say isn't going to change anyone's opinion but I'll say it anyway.

Sarah Palin scared the hell out of me.

It's not for what she 'didn't know', but what she 'knew'.

• The VP 'controls the senate'.
• Witches and evil spirits swirl around you.
• The only way out of the energy crisis is to rape and pillage our shorelines and national parks.
• There's nothing wrong with her teenage daughter being pregnant.
• Riding snow machines across the pristine Alaska tundra is fun and everyone should do it.
• Polar bears are not valued members of the world.
• God would never let humanity disappear from this planet.
• Coal is our friend.
• Once a terrorist, always a terrorist.
• I (she) am entitled to have it all.
• God has chosen me (her) to be president.
• Evolution is a crime.
• Global warming is a hoax.
• Lobbyists are great at parties.
• Lying down with pigs shouldn't cover you in mud.
• The ends justify the means
• America can be deceived by cute talk and winks.
• That running one of the most dangerous and filthy campaigns in the history of this country has no 'blow back'.
• That she has a future in American politics.
• That Ted Stevens did something wrong, and she hasn't.

• That among other things makes me either wish for her immediate elevation to high office so she flames out and makes people realize that 'stupid is as stupid does' or she learns that she really IS that stupid and stays in Wassilla, breeding the next wave if ignorant and entitled white trash... No doubt that she as a person is probably one that people could like and tolerate but as a leader of the country and dealing with people that make a terrible-two cranky child look like a week old kitten, her 'mind set' and grossly apparent ignorance and lack of nuance and common sense make me certain that as a hockey mom she's probably aces but as a world leader? Yeah, right... We dodged a bullet here 'my friends'... A bullet aimed at our head...

Corporations have taken the upper hand throughout Bush's (Cheney's?) reign.

First it was healthcare costs and then it was regulatory expenses and then it was energy costs and then it was greedy unions all apparently joining together in the backrooms of the vice president's residence to roger the living hell out of the US economy and anyone employed that wasn't an owner or 'head cheese'.

It used to be that if a corporation announced that they were cutting 20,000 jobs, their stock would plummet. Well, no longer because it seems that cutting 20,000 jobs here is good news because those jobs can be done by workaholic automatons in India or Pakistan or Korea for literal pennies on the deflated US dollar. Now admitting that you have to ruin other American citizen's lives gets you a run up on the stock price and a beaming board of directors and a management team who lineup for their bonuses for screwing the company up so well...

One of the distributors we deal with went to India to handle all their ordering and customer service. We dropped them because of the constant screw ups over orders. So, unannounced, our other distributor does the same damn thing. Yes. We get to talk to someone who can't understand a lick of english and now get stuff that we didn't order and then have to talk to them to try to get it returned.

Why is this country so screwed up? Ask your DINO politician...

It's time to stop scapegoating the employees of these companies and start blaming the corporate teams of prima donna tutu wearing divas that demand excessive compensation and get it for being able to play the game and kill their corporations and the environment for profit.

One thing that ticks me off are those American Chemistry Council commercials. You know the ones... Does 'Essential' ring a bell.

I have stood on meetings over the massive contamination in our area and had people call me nasty names (I even got death threats) because the mighty Dow Chemical Corporation threatens to pull out of the area if they aren't treated with respect. Yes, they would bankrupt their headquarters to avoid having to cleanup their massive contamination and the people stewing in their filth WANT to for the jobs. They actually want a 'clean coal' plant belching filth in their backyard because it might bring a handful of jobs. They live in total ignorance of the damage that their corporate neighbor seeks to do to their world just to save a few million dollars and get their way.

I don't want to put them out of business, I just want them to take their PR campaign to heart and respect the environment and the people that work for them. We can't live without some of what they do but if they had been cognizant of their 'Human Element' crap before when they started using barrels of chemicals to line the river and dumping and pumping hideously toxic chemicals in the river and deep wells and turned the river different colors and killed anything that tried to live in it.

You see, I don't want them or any industry closed down. Unless they can't honor their commitment to operating a clean plant well within the rules and stop using their money to buy politicians and governors (Granholm) to get their way.

Why do I fear that the Obama administration isn't going to do much in this regard? We'll see but I hope that I'm wrong.

He could start by pushing the EPA dioxin reassessment that has been started from scratch yet again...