You're right about Obama being for tomorrow's technology. He is, after all, a progressive. Progressives believe in progression, a reasonable evolution from what's less tenable to what's more tenable. That's why he wants to not focus on yesterday's fuel, which is oil, but on the amalgam of tomorrows' fuels.

Now, if only Palin were a conservative. She's for more tax cuts. How many more, I wonder. Five more for the rich? 10 more? However many more, her wish for more, more, more money is a death wish for all of us. The Soviet Union, as you know, fragmented not because Reagan straddled a horse and pretended to be tough, but because it militarily spent itself out of empire, as Bush, via Bush voters, has done. Palin wants more military spending and more borrowing. Pity you. Pity me. Pity all of us, but most of all, pity our grandchildren, for they'll be taxed for the conservatives' sins.

You're right when you assert that I don't know you.

I only know your narrative, which leaves me wondering, "Why that?!?"

There are fine stories. We can choose to tell this or that, but you choose to tell (again and again and again) an odd story, one of brilliant and glib woman who's obsessed with distant shores, an anonymous and distant pot-shotter and shit-stirrer.

If I can't, in not knowing you, not love you, it's because the casting of your character is crap. Sure, it shines, but that's not the glint of gold. That's the lack of patina. And beneath the girly shine, you're all burrs and bumps. I have urged you in the past to get to your point. Don't confuse being prickly with having a point. I urge you again to abandon your shtick. It's a conincidence that one can easily spell "shit" using the letters in shtick, but in a perfect world, it wouldn't be.

Alas, kickstarts, my nomination means nothing since the red star intern doesn't work weekends.

Yep, you're unlike the Irish that I've known and I've lived with a few and loved a few. So, your narrative is odd AND unappealing.

I can see why you'd keep Salon a secret. If I was a flowergirl for the necons marrying of Jesus and hate, I'd keep it a secret too.

But I'll leave you be. You'll find someone else to dismiss you. You always do, don't you?

I second all that.

I too have noticed that Republicans don't want to admit to being Republicans. Admitting to that is admitting to having voted for Bush. Admitting to having voted for Bush is admitting to beginning the end of the American empire.

I like your hypothesis. It doesn't matter if one asserts compassion. One either manifests it or one doesn't and there are daily opportunities to do so. So, if one alleges that the best mechanism for compassion isn't government, then it is incumbent upon a compassionate person to BE compassionate beyond, "Tsk, tsk." When one's combines Republicanism with alleged Christianity, the imperative for compassion is multiplied. Of course, as I often note, Republicans are the people who torture and allegedly worship the tortured Jesus, so that degree of incongruity pretty much clears them to pass homeless people while singing, "Zippi-dee-dah, zippi-dee-ay, my, oh, my what a wonderful day!"

Yes, yes, yes.

Those with authority should fear the public. Unfortunately, those with authority have sold us fear. I am ashamed for all those suffered through WWII when Bush and Bush voters use the phrase, "Global War on Terror." It is their wet dream of a war, but in 1944, 30,000 people died, on average, every damn day. That's 9-11 times ten, day after day, month after month. It disrespects the magnitude of the suffering endured by the world in 1944, when it wasn't just towers that fell. Whole cities fell.

Thanks!

There are also the White House's comparisons of Bush and Churchill and in this thread, comparing Palin to Truman and Churchill. It would be comically ridiculous if Republicans hadn't be unwilling to pay for their wet dream of global war. Their wars have been funded by foreign powers and fought, to a bankrupting extent, by mercenaries. So, they want war, but they neither want to pay for it nor bleed for it. In the end, bin Laden has won, for, while strongmen come and go, it's collapsing economies that kill countries. I'm guessing bin Laden is cackling in his cave as he sees our financial institutions collapse and fall and as they do, the reverberations will be much more terrible than when the Twin Towers struck asphalt.

I am a Republican. I voted for Bush times two. I even volunteered to waterboard prisoners and I spied on my neighbors. I have voted for Republicans even way back before they became insane. Yep, I voted for Lincoln, but the insanity of quadrupling the debt and torturing in the name of Jesus hasn't kept me from voting Republican. However, for the first time, I'm going to vote for a Democrat because, uh, er, Palin spent 67 days away from Wasilla when she was supposed to mayoring. Yeah, that's my reason! That's the ticket!

See how silly you sound, Concern Troll?

I have some individual plants with scores of bees. Here's how my yard became bee haven:

Hundreds of raspberry canes.

Dozens of sedums.

Very little grass.

As Pablo suggests, I have flowers spring, summer, and fall and I don't use poisons.

When my yard was mostly grass, it was a dead zone.

I love it and will vote for whatever party promises to fetch that big peach pie from the sky.