Many older men who populate the music industry have gotten there not because they are good men, or even manly men, but because they ARE completely driven to WIN in the field.

For a man to WIN, often the shortest route is for him to abandon his 'soul' or connection to his real person. You can see many of the Masters of the Universe [in any profession] are really outward focused, not really comprehending what they feel or how it might affect them or others, for that matter.

So, you get these horny old goats running the business and they spot a powderpuff who knows how to dance but who is ALSO out of her element, not comfortable in her body or with her sexuality (she admits as much herself).

Her outward behavior matches the way the men feel, outcasts floundering outside the stream of life as they themselves are.

That she is relatively talentless is irrelevant. You can turn nearly anyone into a star with modern technology.

I hope to escape this mess soon, since I am (technically) a dual citizen.

All I know is that my VOCAL Anti-Bush rhetoric online these past SEVEN YEARS has COINCIDENTALLY been met with my having "former" CIA handlers hanging out around me, telling me they know the elder Bush personally and that he is a 'snake' (in their words, but it makes PERFECT SENSE), me being arrested on the misdemeanor of having my driver's license fee being sent to a SEVEN YEAR OLD FORMER ADDRESS, and the IRS maintaining that I owe them $11,000 for money they IMAGINE I must have made to support the mortgage I now have (which I am about to hand over the keys BACK to the bank on, PRECISELY because I CANNOT afford the mortgage.

This country is fucked. I am beginning to imagine I must be lucky to REMAIN ALIVE.

How pathetic can a nation get? Particularly one that professes to be a nation of FREEDOM?!?

I blame this society. Every single one of you who stand by quietly as this crap continues to FESTER (except the ones who actually do NOT just stand by with your thumb up your caboose). WHERE ARE THE FUCKING LAWYERS ON THIS? Do we STILL not have enough of them, in a NATION of LAWYERS???

would buy 700 World Trade Center towers.

SEVEN HUNDRED.

Or it would cover all the costs of providing healthcare to all citizens TEN TIMES OVER.

Just how many people are there on Wall Street who stand to directly benefit from this GIMME? Ten or twenty?

I guess the Swiss banks must be working OVERTIME handling the sheer number of deposits being made by the swindlers who got their claws into this society and are now dragging it down as punishment for us not handing over our children's future to them.

Is there anything BESIDES evil on this planet???

I am AWED by Living Colour's second album, Time's Up. That is one incredible (preposterous, really) record.

The songs are all over the map in terms of style, each one loaded with hooks and played in a distinctive manner, many of the songs interspersed with clever or interesting mini songs.

A few of the highlights out of many on the record: New Jack Theme still blows me away every time I hear it, with its anti gravity interplay of bass, drums and guitar, Information Overload speeds through its universe of pseudo electronic bleeps, album ending This Is the Life evokes the best of Zeppelin, down to its mystical elements, sharp, sarcastic humor feeds Elvis is Dead and Love Rears Its Ugly Head, and Solace of You could stand side by side with any of the best feel good songs by Jimmy Cliff or Bob Marley.

I miss them.

Unemployment, meanwhile, stood at 4.2 percent when Bush came into power. Today, it is at 6.1 percent.

using the same accounting methods employed during the Reagan years, the unemployment rate is closer to 14 percent today.

This, by a former Wall Street Journal editor and Republican fiscal appointee whose name slips my mind at the moment.

We're being screwed in ways we cannot even imagine by this one party/two party unified ANTI HUMAN government.

and SUE the living hell out of the fraudulent, criming pirate banks that dicked with our economy and put us into this place?

I vote for the LATTER. And ASAP too.

Don't we have enough lawyers in the USA YET?

Have Americans become sniveling little communards so quickly?

Where are the people prepared to SHAME the evil out of existence? I thought this was A M E R I C A, land of the FREE!

I am very sorry I was apparently so damn WRONG and that we are NO BETTER than Nazi Germany or the Communist Soviet Union. The elites know us humans inside and out and know we are COWARDS at core.

That banks lend to you is only a form of VOLUNTARY SLAVERY.

The bailout for the criminals is a way to see if we bite and volunteer to help them maintain and enhance our incarceration, indebted as we are for life to them.

What ever happened to people buying things they can afford? for CASH?

Why do we need to be imprisoned by a corrupt evil system that would poison us if it increased their bottom line?

This is why everyone is so angry-- the criminals who already run the asylum want MORE skin.