Good Morning!

I'm so happy the weather is great today.

It's Mayday, and I'm so looking forward to heading downtown today for the military parades. Ever since we became a socialist country, this is really my favorite holiday. I don't know about you, but a fine spring day spent celebrating the worker's paradise while we parade tanks and missiles through the streets and fighter jets fly overhead....well, that's me!
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12 comments (Latest Comment: 05/02/2010 00:39:05 by TriSec)

Yesterday, it was revealed that in order to protect fragile wetlands on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, the United States Coast Guard began a 'controlled' burn of the leaking oil from a BP owned oil rig that has sunk to the bottom of the Gulf. We have been told that it is leaking 5,000 barrels a day, not the original 1,000 a day that was originally estimated by Deepwater Horizons (the operator of the rig) and BP. Even more unsettling is the appearance of a third leak.

In 1989 the Exxon Valdez spilled 10.8 million gallons. At 42 gallons per barrel that comes to approximately 250,000 barrels of oil. 5,000 barrels a day would take 50 days. The rig off the coast still spewing crude in the gulf has either been burning or leaking for 7 days. What does that mean? In 43 days, if not stopped, it will have spilled as much oil as the ship that destroyed Prince William sound. Doesn't seem likely, but it is. The oil may reach land much earlier than expected according to Coast Guard sources. They are deeply concerned that Friday the oil will make landfall.
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25 comments (Latest Comment: 04/29/2010 22:13:21 by livingonli)

Good Morning.

Today is our 2,596th day in Iraq and our 3,124th day in Afghanistan.

We'll start as we always do, with the latest casualty figures from our ongoing wars, courtesy of Antiwar.com:

American Deaths
Since war began (3/19/03): 4393
Since "Mission Accomplished" (5/1/03): 4254
Since Capture of Saddam (12/13/03): 3930
Since Handover (6/29/04): 3534
Since Obama Inauguration (1/20/09): 165

Other Coalition Troops - Iraq: 318
US Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 1,049
Other Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 686
Contractor Employee Deaths - Iraq: 1,457
Journalists - Iraq: 338
Academics Killed - Iraq: 437


We find this morning's cost of war passing through:

$ 987, 568, 600, 000 .00

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32 comments (Latest Comment: 04/27/2010 21:33:36 by Raine)

Bob Dole is the AntiChrist!

I recall declaring that sometime during the 1992 presidential election campaign. Of course, in time I was proven wrong and he's since faded into old-man obscurity..except for that flaccid penis thing.

Julia Roberts is the Antichrist!

A movie actress? Really? Well....I really can't stand her or her films, and for a time it seemed that everywhere I looked, there she was. Seemed like a natural extension for a while.

You can say all you want about George Bush, but in the big picture...he's a nobody. For my money, the Antichrist was probably Adolf Hitler.

But what is the AntiChrist, exactly? Not surprisingly, it seems to be a construct of man. While the ancient religious texts are rife with references, none seem to come from Jesus. It's John and Paul that did most of the writing about it. And interestingly enough, most of the major religions have a similar character in their text. [All references from the wikipedia.]

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5 comments (Latest Comment: 04/25/2010 00:31:56 by Will in Chicago)

How far we have come since the first official 'Earth Day'. 40 years ago, there was no Environmental Protection Agency. There was no Clean Air, Clean Water, Endangered Species, Safe Drinking Water, or Toxic Substances Control Acts. We still have a long way to go. The man who is largely credited for Earth Day wrote the following on the 25th anniversary of this day in 1995, the words are still relevant. From Wisconsin Sen. Gaylord Nelson:
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30 comments (Latest Comment: 04/23/2010 04:35:43 by Raine)