The claims that "everybody" was "for torture, war..." after 9/11 and the absolutely ridiculous claims that bush the small "kept us safe" by doing so, AFTER ignoring warnings to the extent the he ALLOWED 9/11 TO HAPPEN should be enough to give anyone with a scintilla of personal honesty, or even basic adolescent level self awareness enough pause to avoid hitting "enter" before posting their absurdist, reductionist talking points. Obviously there will always be these sorts of apologists and just plain intentionally ignorant amongst us.

Maybe you didn't notice Serafin, but really... George W. Bush? He had been president for six months BEFORE 9/11. So saying that "he kept us safe AFTER 9/11" only highlights that he DIDN'T "keep us safe" on the day of the worst terrorist strike on US soil in our history. Giving him praise for his inexcusable malfeasance is like thanking the horse thief for closing the gate behind him as he rides off on your prized stock.

Cheney should be in prison, AT LEAST. Personally, I'd prefer sending him to Nuremberg and eventually to the gallows.

was an imaginary character.

Just so you know.

It looks like you've taken a few too many blows to the head.

I assume they're uniformly well marbled.

Sell me your stocks - heavily discounted due to your sage advice, of course. I'm in for the long haul and I'd love to make money off your paranoia and anger.

Just frank and to the point. Of course, he's gay... but that shouldn't bother pachydermboy, since only latents are bothered by some other guy's sexual orientation.

Some of these jerks - who all, btw, are more responsible than damn near anyone for the current economic melt down - don't even work for AiG anymore - and they got million dollar plus bonuses anyway! So much for that b.s. argument.

I kind of like the tack that Cuomo is on. Find out the names and amounts and publicize them. I'm sure some pitchfork wielding internet site will then find out their addresses. I'd like to see mobs with torches out front of these m.f.er's homes 24/7.

It's only right that these people are ruined. Completely. That's the LEAST they deserve. Jerk their children out of the posh private schools, give up the multiple Mercedes Benzes, lose the "summer cabin" in Martha's Vineyard, make them ineligible for section 8 housing and unemployment, even. Nothing... ruined.... reduced to selling pencils on street corners.

Out here on the left edge, heavy construction is still dominated by the construction trades unions. Hispanics have taken over residential construction somewhat (60% of the workforce by some recent estimates), but not highway, governmental, or commercial construction.

I don't really think it matters all that much who is getting the paychecks from construction work anyway. A large percentage of it will be spent quickly, which is, after all, the whole idea. It might be on menudo, it might be on micro brews... as long as it gets spent.

And the analysis is spot on for my beloved state. I can only hope that we finish driving the stake through the heart of the GOP corpse once and for all. I want to beat out Massachusetts for least Republican state in the nation.

Excuse me, but HORSESHIT....

Anybody with a basic understanding of human nature and a middle school grasp of numbers knew the whole house of cards of the United States' (and most of the developed world's) economy was a totally fiction. Once we gave up our industrial base - the market sector that actually MAKES things, and turned over the economy to "Financial 'services'" it was only a matter of time. I've been waiting for this to happen for well over a decade.

House flippers, vastly overcompensated CEOs, insane redistribution of wealth upwards... all these and more were the unmistakable signs of a completely fictionalized economic model. It was the equivalent of acquiring dozens of credit cards, quitting your job, and simply charging every luxury in sight... the very definition of instability.

All these vastly overcompensated "brightest guys in the room" knew it too. They were just gambling that they'd pass the shit stick on before the INEVITABLE day of reckoning arrived. For at least the last thirty years the first world economies have essentially been vast Ponzi schemes.

I assume it will be a comic book.

A ghost written comic book.

The governor is also leaving the door wide open for the legislature to accept additional funding

as sure as sunrise, we'll be reading stories soon out of the permanent Republican welfare state of Alaska that Sarah Palin will be deriding the legislature for "taking the pork barrel spending that I REFUSED".

Is readerx2 in an orgiastic coma....??? Why aren't there four or five missives from this seriously deluded bozo on this thread yet? Should we be concerned? (or elated?)

Just in defense of Alaska.... There are many reasons why the flow of federal money is so out of proportion to that state. It's very sparsely populated; has little infrastructure, and that of dubious durability in the harsh climate; it's remote. So.. there are reasons that it NEEDS more from the federal coffers that its small population could ever hope to contribute. I don't hold that against the state. It is one of the - if not the MOST - spectacular natural areas on earth, not just this country. Everyone should try to go there at least once in their lifetimes. In particular, those of you from less geologically blessed areas.

Let's not blame the beautiful, unique state for the bozocity of its Governor.

The award for the most positive, uplifting letter goes to.....