Wasn't he the Pope who shat all over "revolutionary theology" which stood to transform Central and South America? Some radial idea about the rich feeding the poor for their work...

and I LOVED this comment:

I have yet to see a convincing explanation by anyone responsible for these reports. Could it be that the US government had a vested interest in making the Soviet Union and the Communist system seem much more powerful than they actually were?

Those damned Commies were the Al Queda of yesteryear! GIVE US YOUR TAX MONEY AND SURRENDER YOUR RIGHTS SO THAT WE MAY PROTECT YOU FROM COMMUNISM! I MEAN AL QUEDA!!!

A six-hundred page history correcting all the propaganda we were fed does not sound like a pleasant weekend read, IMHO.

Flashing those choppers and dreaming of 2012. Have you ever heard Joe wax eloquent on how deep his support of Israel runs? It's incredible to hear a US politician swear allegiance to a FOREIGN COUNTRY.

But a foreign nation has intercepted a humanitarian relief mission in international waters and the US media is as silent as it can be on the topic.

That would be news, not some GOP loser's failings.

Is that everyone thinks that they have the PERFECT recipe. And they're all correct, as it turns out...

When you boil the potatoes, boil them in their jackets. Makes a huge difference in flavor down the line.

Yes, DILL. Potatoes have never had a better friend.

The only politician I have ever felt personally comfortable with. Please, Al, stay off of small planes. They murdered Wellstone and they'll be gunning for you.

But "not so scary after all" makes me think they're putting Disney chemicals in your local water supply. The US has cheerfully exporting high-paying jobs for too long. Where are the consumers to purchase US goods? Overseas where the jobs are. Get it?

The initial bail-out last fall and the huge pork train that was passed after Obama was inaugurated stagger the mind with just how much money was gleefully given away. Oversight? Accountability? Who needs those?

Anyone notice that the House Resolution to audit the Fed is slowly making progress? Do we dare drop a rock down the rabbit hole and see if we can hear it hit bottom?

Well, it's still around, but decidedly unfriendly to consumers -- my point being that this absurd junk-science "climate bill" will no doubt create a money flow to and from the immediate circle of political contributors for the politicians who voted for it (without reading it!).

Real change? America isn't up to it. We're too corrupt and we're too fucking stupid. Like someone in a kind of drug-induced stupor, can't clear their heads, can't focus on anything long enough to accomplish it.

This bill is a joke. The bastards didn't even read it. So who knows what's in there? The House needs a staff of babysitters and nannies.

Either Dr. Paul or Dr. Coburn from Oklahoma. Too bad he didn't bother to get his facts straight.

I am truly weary of politicians soliciting money and promising change. They know it's what we want and it burns when no change results from contributions. What do they do with all the money? Burn it to keep warm? Asian hookers? Coke? What???

Yes, GTFO ***NOW*** -- you're wasting your time. Build something better without the psycho in the picture.

"Though Gore came in second in the electoral vote, he received 543,895 more individual votes than Bush."

The Supreme Court Justices were interested in their planned Christmas vacations and appointed Bush43 to his first term.

Too bad the linked YouTube video isn't "Dancing Machine" from 1975... great song. Michael Jackson was very entertaining and original.

At some point later in his career I happened to be in an electronics store and one of the televisions was showing what must have been a music video. Michael Jackson was dancing and singing along with an entire African village. It looked real and spontaneous and the joy on the faces of the people was unmistakable. It was incredible. I'd never seen anything like it. Phenomenal talent.

"Keep it in your pants" is a bit jocular. Is it too much to expect, from a public official, no less, to remain faithful to their wife? I mean, if you happen to fall madly, deeply in love with someone (at the age of 40?!) then take the time to remove yourself from your existing relationships.

By that time, you are old enough to know better, really. The thing is, public officials, politicians, being in the public eye, might possibly have been expected to set at least something of a moral tone through their behavior. I realize that most of the GOP are assholes, but I'm thinking of Gavin Newson (sp?), the mayor of Frisco who boinked the wife of one of this staff members.

Hello? Am I just old-fashioned? You just don't DO that.

Fuck both of them.

"Haven't the bogus elections put the legitimacy of the government at stake?"

Can you name even one single news organization that asked this question about the Bush43 2004 re-election? Why was this question not asked in the US in 2004?

Neither his appointment in 2000 nor his tainted re-election in 2004 brought this question to the forefront in any mainstream media that I was aware of. Was the legitimacy of Bush43 every questioned after his dubious elections?

Like an auto engine run without coolant...just ca-CHUNK, frozen solid from too much hypocrisy.