Grateful Dead

PLEASE GO BACK TO THE OLD ONE. NO DOUBT THIS IS DUE TO CRAMMING IN ALL THE STORE STUFF. HOW ABOUT SPLITTING THEM UP?

that the war will be over when the Isreali tank driver is convicted of muder for running over a peaceful protester nonviolently protesting. Until then they (IAFs) are all terrorists.

a most passionate, accurate and well stated argument/condemnation indeed!

if you have not come across this before, give it a listen. Enjoy Michael D. Higgins (who was elected president of Ireland last year) is fed up with over-the-top Tea Party rhetoric, and he isn't afraid to show it. Listen to him call out radio host Michael Graham on everything from health care to foreign policy in this heated exchange from 2010. http://www.upworthy.com/a-tea-partier-decided-to-pick-a-fight-with-a-fo…

a ww II vet. called into npr the other day to say that for the first time in his adult life he would not be voting for the pres. he then said the best thing to do from now on is to just place whoever has the most money into office and into congress. Aren't we already pretty close to that? Don't the koch bros.tell their puppets (boner and his cronies) how to vote and what to say? which laws to pass so that american "job creators" have an easier (more profitable) time going over seas to exploit brown people and destroy their environment due to no environmental regulations? Aren't the insurance and oil companies together so far up their asses that they make them cough? I guess i haven't been paying attention. to be honest, i can't believe the repoobs. didn't go for the jugular this time around and announce their ticket of christie /limbaugh (maybe next time). THAT really would have brought the sheeple out of the woodwork. ah yes, the great american plutocracy...........brought to you by at least 51% of american sheeple.ps. anyone seen "idiocracy"; funny "b" movie, but probably more prophetic than it's given credit for.

I think it's the deep-fried butter sticks they consume at their fairs. Either that or Koch Brothers sponsored alien anal probes radiating out from Wichita (a stupid chip is left implanted) Seriously, how people, other than the top 2%, can vote for Republicans is a modern miracle of conditional advertizing! We're all doomed.

Considering the ongoing rhetoric that's been coming out of the Right since President Barack "I'm Not a Muslin" Obama won the election, it flabbergasts me to utter stupification how any even remotely (and I mean REMOTELY) intelligent American can get behind ANYTHING that side is saying. They continue to knod their heads like good little robots whenever the current talking points come on their beloved Fox News, and everything else gets ignored. And then they sit there and point their fingers at their television sets, claiming Obama's trying to take their rights away when it was the party that came before that restricted more of our Constitutional rights than any president in a long, long time. I'm not one of those conspiracy theorists, but is there something in the water out in the middle of the country? Some chemical or remote transmitter that shuts down a citizen's ability to take in information and process it like the rest of us? How do these people think that Romney & Ryan are "one of them" and actually concerned with their station in this nation? Can't they see that, by reducing/restricting taxes on the wealthy means it comes out of the middle class, thus reducing the middle class to a higher-income version of the poor? I swear, whenever I talk about these issues with my Republican friends, I want to throw my hands in the air and scream, "I FEEL LIKE I'M TAKING CRAZY PILLS!!!"

The wraith-like figures of bicycle riders whizz past during the Tour de'France and one marvels at such physical conditioning. Come to find out, just like souped up pitcher Roger Clemens and home run hitter Mark McGuire, they're all on steroids. Lance Armstrong now joins that group. I guess it's a debate if athletes should do enhancing performance drugs. I feel the only real difference is an asterisk in the record book -- pre or post steroids era. Armstong got all his titles pulled and took a tactical defeat to remain a millionaire. What model did you expect athletes to adopt in the midst of a corporate delieneated economy?

Anna, will always be the same. the innocent men, women and children who simply want to live everyday in peace,go to work, go to school,enjoy the daily company of family and friends and find hope for their future generations-just like us- will die or be maimed and suffer unmercifully while those who started and perpetuated the war drums will either be in fully stocked undergound cities, or in other countries entirely -safe and healthy along with their families-plotting their revenge (cue 'war pigs'). This cycle never, ever seems to end and it certainly knows no barriers. It certainly won't change in my lifetime. I honestly wonder if a world run by women in places of "power" would be more peaceful and intelligible. I would like to think so. I've given up hope on my gender completely. I'm convinced that there is a yet-to-be-discovered "i'll show you" gene somewhere in that y chromosome. on a lighter note, "lugubriously lubricated" made me lmao. it brought 3 things to mind. #1: this explains the $10 worth of petroleum products in his "do". #2: GREAT idea for the next pre-election ky jelly commercial...................featuring sen. ryan and the mrs.,sitting in bed and explaining to us masses of sheeple how much better it will feel to get screwed out of our future safety nets if we would just use lugubrious ky products (all proceeds would,of course, appropriately go to the "needy billionaire's fund"). #3 as for romney and ryan together, an old saying comes to mind which fits them most appropriately - "two thieves need no introduction".

Israel is handing out gas masks and conducting air-raid shelter drills in preparation for it's anticipated military strike against Iran. As long as BeBe is the PM these preparations are way serious and not to be dismissed as political theater. Although he was accused of the ultimate bluff after the expiration of the most recent three month time-line (April-June last spring) another three month window is now officially open and planes and missiles are ready to fly through it at a moment's notice. This window is the present moment through the presidential election (or possible transfer of office) Nov-Jan.. The presidential election is considered a time of flux where old, long-held positions hold sway. Israel is greatly concerned that the Obama Ad. is not as supportive as the help it has received since 1980 (though you couldn't see the difference in the billions in military aid it annually receives from US taxpayers). So, the theory being circulated goes, it's better for Israel to launch while the US is preoccupied with it's own political affairs. Israel is worried about Iran's capacity to produce nuclear weapons. It is universally accepted that within three years it is certain that Iran will have at least one warhead with the capacity to deliver it to Israel on a ballistic missile. Therefore, the urgency as Ahdmadhinjahd regularly announces that Israel will be wiped from the map. The problem for Israel is that it is certain that it does not have the capacity on it's own to wipe out deeply reinforced underground bunkers where this nuclear work, which is banned by treaty and denied to have existence by the Iranians, is being done. Therefore it needs the US to help out it's military effort. The US, for it's part, wants severe international sanctions be given more time to work. This is where Obama and BeBe part company. The fallout from a limited joint nuclear strike by the two countries is unknown. Arab countries and their allies such as Russia may rally to retaliate. Or they may do nothing. The region is in serious flux at the moment adding far more uncertainty to the equation. There is nothing good that can come from acting rashly and aggressively at the current moment. Still, we do not have the experience of Israel's exposed position and history of persecution. How much this colors their view cannot be underestimated. Even a successful joint effort would only set back Iran's nuclear ambitions a few more years. Rattling the sabers and seriously preparing for war does not seem like a good long-term strategy.