A strict reading of the bible, and more importantly the teachings of Jesus, supports a philosophy of socialism. The first Christians lived communally. The real comic irony is that the bible does not support the bizarre "Christian" conservative philosophy of god ordained capitalism. The bible says that the love of money is the root of all evil. Capitalism is based on a love for money - thus it is not to far a stretch to conclude that the bible would consider capitalism evil. If followers of Jesus actually followed his teachings they would actually be progressive liberals. I don't personally believe in god or God, but it is fun to throw the teachings of a spiritual figure into the faces of their followers and see them squirm.

WOW! We have actually got to the point where people look up to a certified nut-job? What the hell is in the water these days? Glenn Beck is nothing more than a pile of dog shit - actually he aspires to be dog shit - and people look up to him. Either I've given humanity too much credit to be able to recognize dog shit when they see it or we have truly gone through the looking glass. My apologizes to all my k-nine friends.

The clip of Baucus getting "tough" is all for show. Baucus is smiling and interrupting and actually being the one who seems to be slowing down the process. I thinks it's time for progressives to show up at town meetings and march on Washington with GUNS - then maybe they would listen.

This morning NPR morning edition decided to do a story on the ACORN "controversy" and mentioned how it was "all over" the cable networks - and to prove their case they played two segments of Glenn Beck spouting his usual vacuous mindless dribble. It was bad enough that they couched this as a broad based controversy when in fact no one except Fox News listeners had even heard about this brouhaha. But they decided to take a fringe story promoted by lunatics and lend it some credibility and, to add insult to injury, actually broadcast Glenn Beck's comments. No one with half a brain gives a shit what Glenn Beck has to say - so NPR has decided to join the brain dead nation. Well I hope Mr. Murdock wrote them a big fat check because they will never see another dime from me in donations. I wrote to all the NPR stations I had previously supported and told them to remove me from their membership roles.

The race card is so tiresome...

It is racism, which you freely admit exists, that prevents us from seeing health care as a right instead of a privilege. Racism causes people to deny others what should be a fundamental right - good affordable health care for all.

Homogeneous societies tend to have more empathy and concern for their fellow man - because their fellow man looks like them. How sad that many still can't see past physical differences in appearance; how they continue to demonize those who don't match their mirror image. As a species, we have not advanced very far on the social scale. Yes, we've made some remarkable strides, but I'm continually amazed by the racist aptitudes I see on a regular basis.

By the way, the PR firms rarely lie. They just never tell the whole truth. Outright lies would be too easy for the herd to figure out. They leave the lying to the politicians.

Telling half truths to encourage people to reach the wrong conclusion is the same as lying. Like Bush claiming he never said Saddam Husein was responsible for 9/11 - but he certainly made it seem like he was.

Also, if these PR firms are responsible for supporting conservative talk show hosts to gen up fears with lies - then they themselves are liars. And companies who continue to support the cesspool of conservative hate and fear mongers with their ad dollars are also complicit in the lies.

It is hard to know what to believe anymore as we have become a country of opportunistic liars. Money is our god and all else be damned.

I was really hoping for an answer, because beleive me - I have searched and there is none to be found. It is damn scary to not only have an answer - but to consider what really went down on 9/11.

No one, let me repeat that, NO ONE, has explained how WTC 7 fell because the only logical explanation is controlled demolition. If you know of another credible explanation and can point me to it - I would love to read it. I would love to be proved wrong. SO PLEASE, share your great knowledge of how a structurally sound building that didn't have any fires and was not hit by anything larger than a gust of wind - how was it reduced to a pile of rubble in a matter of seconds? Controlled demolition can produce that result. Do you know of some other method that can make a building fall from the sky onto its own foot print? Well???? ........... No, I didn't think so.