Been with ya every step of the way from the very first column.

Bravo!

(Still workin' on that 'Houston, we have a problem' issue. Gack!)

Wrong track is a euphemism. We are a people in clinical depression. Americans know that the ideals that once set our nation apart from the world have been vandalized, and no matter which party they belong to, they do not see a restoration anytime soon.

- Frank Rich, "The Coup at Home"

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/11/opinion/11rich.html?ref=opinion

Stat of the Week

Over 50 U.S. billionaires received federal farm aid subsidies in the two years before 2006, the most recent years with data, Scripps Howard reports. Among the beneficiaries: five heirs of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton and nine heirs to the Hyatt Hotel fortune. The biggest payout: $306,627 for Whitney MacMillan, a Cargill agribusiness heir worth $1.2 billion.

'We're ill prepared to deal with disasters, especially the natural and industrial disasters that present far greater threats to the nation than terrorism. Our declining public health and educational systems rank among the lowest in developed countries. Real wages are at a 59-year low and corporate profits at an all-time high. Extremes of wealth and poverty rival the Gilded Age of the robber barons, while the military economy is fast bankrupting our future.' - Kenny Ausubel, Bioneers

This rot has spread so deeply that no one in any branch of this mal-administration has clean hands.

Forget Justice. No one's home.

I nominate John Dean. Man, wouldn't that be a trip?

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only

temporary; the evil it does is permanent. -Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Not aspirant to public office should refuse to endorse:

'I want a Chief Executive whose public acts are responsible to all and obligated to none, who can attend any ceremony, service, or dinner his office may appropriately require of him to fulfill; and whose fulfillment of his Presidential office is not limited or conditioned by any religious oath, ritual, or obligation.' - Jack Kennedy

And there's little matter of the Founders:

“On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have been quarreling, fighting, burning and torturing one another, for abstractions unintelligible to themselves and to all others, and absolutely beyond the comprehension of the human mind.”

- Thomas Jefferson

You have no clue the demeaning crap small breasted women must endure.

Wish I had a quarter for every snotty woman who made a crack about my 'boyish' figure.

For every deranged man who told me that he bet I was good in bed 'because flat chested women have to try harder.'

Please. Spare me.