The great people at WesPAC and BraveNewFilms are drawing attention to a very important bill that is scheduled to appear today on the House floor.

Reading back into Putin's recent political manipulations, and then, even further back, at how Putin seized, consolidated, and has used power in Russia, it is apparent that Putin will shortly seize power in Russia.

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I've previously written about Regent Cheney and his Office of the Unitary Regency of the U.S.A. (O.U.R.U.S. - here, here and here).

Two nights ago, during his interview on CNN, Regent Cheney let the truth of the matter slip out from his own mouth.

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I just read something that has verily shocked and outraged me. Via Raw Story - Workers told to shape up or pay up:

"Looking for new ways to trim the fat and boost workers' health, some employers are starting to make overweight employees pay if they don't slim down. Others, citing growing medical costs tied to obesity, are offering fit workers lucrative incentives that shave thousands of dollars a year off health care premiums."

At the last, the companies and corporations are now flatly coming out, unafraid and unfettered, to proclaim their intent of actually controlling your lives as they see fit.

Countdown: Signing Statements Weaken the Law

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Crossposted from Left Toon Lane & My Left Wing


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John and Joan Public have been reduced to having to beg the World to do the right thing. We see it daily in the Newspapers, on the TV and the Blogs. We see it in America, Germany, Darfur, Iraq, and every other country. It's a pitiful statement on the world and it's leaders. Pitiful because for the most parts, all those pleas go ignored.

It is well understood that neocons are adpet at accusing others of doing/thinking what they are actually guilty of doing/thinking.

Yesterday, U.S. V.-P. Dick B. Cheney gave a commencement address at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York. Maybe he drank the wrong brand of tea that day, or perhaps he slightly over-medicated himself - in any event, he came out and revealed publicly the motus operandi of the President, himself and their neocon administration, condemning all they stand for, their ideological agenda, and everything they have been doing in the process so far. As reported, Cheney delivered his remarks in the context of moral and ethical lessons that the graduating cadets at West Point had learned in the course of their studies. Dixit Richard (Dick) B. Cheney:

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This is what I have previously written concerning incompetence and violence:

Ignorance breeds fear. Fear fosters hate. In turn, hate leads inevitably to violence.

The History of Humanity constitutes a sad and tragic testament to this senseless and vicious progression. Incidentally, there is a further underlying, self-evident axiom to this assertion which posits that violence is the last refuge of incompetence - incompetence as nations, as communities, and as thinking, reasoning human beings.

Cross-posted at DailyKos.

The massacre at Virginia Tech this week was a horrible incident that, like many other horrible incidents in our past, has given rise to questions about our society, and about the laws that are meant to protect us.

One area of concern has been the role that Virginia Tech itself should have played in stopping the shooting before it occurred. Questions have been raised about why others were not informed about Cho Seung-Hui's condition, or even about why he was allowed to stay on campus at all.

What obligation do colleges have to warn students about a classmate who suffers from mental disabilities? How far is it acceptable for institutions of higher learning to go in the name of protecting others?

I discuss those questions below.

It's amazing how quickly you can get somewhere when someone else is paying for it. And if that person runs a bar with a door in the basement that leads to tunnels that Tom Delay and the K Street Project used to speed people and money under the congested streets of the capitol, well let's just say that Uncle Bud doesn't have to worry about his Amex balance overwhelming him on the 25th of the month. I was in DC less than 10 hours after my Great-Uncle Bud, my Grandmother's youngest brother, asked me to return to the city to help him divide up the GOP "resources." The different factions of the party had splintered after the 2006 election debacle. Fingers were pointed and insider fighting began before the final vote counts were in. The empty GOP slot for the 2008 Presidential Elections drew the "Next Presidents of the United States" like cat hair to your best suit. The battle was engaged and Uncle Bud's decades old status as a man who worked for whichever GOP faction carried the day was as close as the Republicans could find to an honest broker.

As was repeated several times on Daily Kos yesterday, Tony Snow is right that the Constitution of the United States does not directly number oversight among the powers of Congress.

An honest man is one whose price is higher than the market rate, Mark Twain wrote. And like most of the things MarkTwain wrote, this is right, mostly.

In the current political climate, many people prefer to support a candidate who is perfect.
We find something to not like about a candidate, and attack the candidate without rest.
This is going to continue for about 600 days, and soon will get very old.