Kerrey has an unwarranted confidence in the power of his own intellect and the rightness of his ideas. As we have seen in the past, Kerrey practically considers it his duty to torpedo the Democratic caucus, whatever Democrat might be in residence in the Oval Office, and everyone in the nation who still clings to some shred of hope that the Democratic Party will finally wake up from its big-money-induced coma and do right by the American people.

`I work in the corporate office of a major bank for a boss who represents everything wrong with the financial industry.'

The blogger said that his boss will tip exactly one per cent of the bill `every time he feels the server doesn't sufficiently bow down to his Holiness.'

And, of course, "Amphetamine"...they closed the main set with it and whipped up such a frenzy I wouldn't have batted an eye if people staring spontaneously combusting into flames. No exaggeration.

One of my cohorts got a signed set-list from drummer extraordinaire Linda Pitmon when she thanked him after the show for buying her a brewski mid-set.  She was working the skins hardcore and looked thirsty;)  I got to shoot the sh*t with Mr. Wynn for a couple minutes...super nice guy.  I told him Steve Wynn & The Miracle 3 is the best band in NYC, and he replied "I won't argue with ya!".  

Let me be blunt - there's no way you would have made it this far without that degree.

And as for the brainwashing - I'd call that church.

Does everyone "need" a college education?  Probably not.  But the greater point that is being missed by all that is that what Obama actually said is that everyone should be able to afford a college education.  How much money your parents made should not be the factor that determines whether you can go to college or not.

Barack Obama is close to becoming the first president in at least half a century to finish a full term without making an appointment to a U.S. appeals court, considered second in importance only to the Supreme Court.

Marcy Wheeler:

The DC Circuit is the most important circuit court because it hears the appeals on all the most important cases emanating from the seat of our federal government. If it involves Executive Branch decisions, federal agency decisions, decisions on foreign entanglements of the US government and, notably over the last decade plus, all Guantanamo detention cases. The entire set of federal Habeas Corpus law appears to lay in the hands of the DC Circuit and Obama, through derelict neglect, has put it in the destructive hands of Janice Rogers Brown.

There were two openings on the most critical Circuit court in the country when Barack Obama took office, and he did not bother to even make a single nomination for nearly two years and, instead, waited until his huge senate majority was effectively down the crapper with the 2010 Congressional election disaster. Since that time, another seat has gone vacant on the DC Circuit, and Obama barely lifted a finger to support his sole nominee, Caitlin Halligan, whose nomination went down in flames in December.

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Compare and contrast the reckless malign neglect of Obama with the dogged determination and followthrough effort and success of Bush and Cheney. When Bush nominated Miguel Estrada in 2001, he had a lot smaller numbers in the Senate behind him than Obama has had at any point. The Democrats blocked Estrada. But the Bush White House and their supporters did not put their tail between their legs and hide, they made an unholy racket across the political spectrum that directly led to the confirmation of four other judges to the DC Circuit, including Janice Rogers Brown, Brett Kavanaugh and the now Chief Justice, John Roberts.

As much as those Supreme Court nominations are important, the importance of the Federal judiciary, in particular the DC Circuit, cannot be overstated.

Well, I go to the Safeway to do my weekly shopping and pick-up the Rx.  The Pharmacist tells me they can't fill that particular med over the phone but the Dr's office has the Rx waiting for me.  Fine, what.ever.  I load the groceries in the truck and drive all the way over to the Dr's office and pick-up the Rx.  Stop back at the Safeway to drop it off to get filled.  

No can do says the Pharmacist, they misspelled the drug name (an "I" instead of an "E").  Can't change that and doesn't know "how much of an as@hole the friendly local Fed would be about it" if he went ahead and filled it.  Grrr.  He calls the local DEA office to check and of course, has to leave a message because gawd forbid they actually answer the phone.  

Official found dead, head covered with plastic bag after measuring radiation in Tokyo park
February 25, 2012

According to a Japanese news outlet, Iza, on July 1st, 2011 63-year-old Mr. Takashi Kabayama was found dead with a plastic bag over his head in his home office.

Kabayama was a member of the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly for the Liberal Democratic Party and had been measuring radiation in an assortment of locations throughout Tokyo. He would then upload his findings to his blog for the world to read, and on the day before he died (June 30, 2011) he  measured 0.25 microSv/h in Mizumoto Park in the Katsushika ward located  in Tokyo.

Fukushima Diary reported on February 22, 2012 via Gendai that ludicrously high levels of cesium contamination were discovered, also in Mizumoto Park. These levels were so high that they "turned out to be the same level of [the] `off-limits zone' in Chernobyl."

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Dear kids,

Please watch this movie.  We decided you would like it much better than a documentary, and you would be all amped up and we would have to lie to your face less to get you to sign on that line.

"Democrats put their hand on the Bible and agree to uphold the Constitution."

"Republicans put their hand on the Constitution and agree to uphold the Bible."

Ultimately, in any authoritarian solution, the people with the power get lazy, and stupid, and they start making enough mistakes that people get tired of living with them. It's one of the reasons we don't have East Germany anymore. And baseball always has had a sweet tooth for the authoritarian solution.

See which one the fans support.  

Do we really want professional sports leagues in which every one is required to take PEDs?  That is what you have if Pierce's position is adopted because the main advantage of taking PEDs is competing against those who don't.

Officials from the global intelligence company Stratfor allegedly discussed that Israel may have already destroyed the Iranian nuclear facility, according to one of the emails released by Wikileaks Monday.

Polls show a back and forth between both Romney and Santorum, but recent polls and actual voting from other states have differed in that they have had a tendency to underweight the Santorum vote and/or overestimate the strength of the Romney vote.

RCP has Romney with a 1.5% edge and Nate Silver gives Romney a 67% chance of winning. Neither of these mathematical models take into account what I believe is the milquetoast Romney support. The strong conservatives are voting Santorum and the I'll vote if I feel like it vote is going to Romney.

The best friend Romney has right now could be Michael Moore, who may stir up just enough of the "I'll vote if I feel like it" GOP contingent to make it to the voting booth today for Romney to eke out a win.

"The president said that those like Romney who advocated taking a tougher line with the UAW were pursuing "anti-worker policies in hopes unions like yours will unravel.""

They're definitely in campaign mode.

Meanwhile, the economic picture in Michigan is more complex:

"Since the recession ended in mid-2009, some 94,200 jobs have been created"

"One reason Michigan's unemployment rate is falling is because people are leaving the workforce in droves. Nearly 224,000 residents have dropped out since the recovery began, either because they have left the state, retired, returned to school or are too discouraged to look."

"while the addition of 94,200 jobs is certainly a plus, it only puts a tiny dent in the overall job loss since 2000, which exceeds 850,000 positions"