1. Hillary Clinton at this point is like that friend you have or the person you work with that you don't want to talk to. You and everyone else know that they're wrong in what they're doing or not doing but the person just keeps doing the same thing like everything is fine. So you avoid them and when they bring up the issue you change the subject because you know nothing you can say will convince them that what they are doing is wrong. Someone at the highest level of the Democratic party needs to tell her it's time to go home. Besides Bill is looking awfully red-faced lately. Having said that the person that tells her should accept the fact that they'll never be able to have children from that point on. Yeah, she'll cut them right off.
2. One of the reported big movers behind the scenes for the start of the Iraq War was Douglas Feith. He's got a new book out called War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism. Supposedly he tells all about the decisions prior to and during the war. I've got the book on reserve at my local library because I think those decisions are some of the prime causes of W's failing as a President. Reportedly Feith was a Rumsfeld man so it's going to be interesting to see how he sees the principal players. I think Rumsfeld was the worst Secretary of Defense in my lifetime. That's saying something because I can remember when Robert McNamara was SOD.
3. I think the current record oil prices ($126 barrel as I write this) have gone beyond the law of supply and demand. I believe that speculators trying to make a buck (more likely, many bucks) are behind much of this year's run-up in prices. No, I don't have proof. Most sources attribute the rise to demand increases from China and other countries. I think that's part of it but I believe most of it is due to speculators. I don't know how anyone can stop it but I do believe that eventually the prices are going to come down to a level more consistent with the real supply and demand. And if and when they do I hope those speculators lose their ass. In the meantime we need to do everything we can as consumers to reduce our dependence on oil and oil-related products. That means major, major change for all of us. We can do that or continue in the current status of being held hostage to the whim of every sheik, Mid East whacko leader or speculator.
4. And while I'm on the subject of energy isn't it time we start the long process of building nuclear power plants again? The hysteria of Three Mile Island and Chernobyl is long gone. Sure there are risks. But they're like any risks. They have to be managed and managed well. Hell, the French get eighty percent of their power from nuclear plants and they're usually back asswards wrong on any issue. But not this time. It's time to start building nuclear plants in this country again. And yeah, you can build one in my backyard.
5. I know I'm sometimes naive but it's startling to me that in this modern world we still have governments who are so secretive and so afraid of losing control that they make their people suffer to an extreme. I'm referring to the Myanmar or Burma as I know it. As much as I think the U.S. government screwed the pooch after Katrina and it surely did I don't think you can compare the two situations. We're talking a government who simply put their continued existence over survival of their citizens. There's not a word that can describe this atrocity.
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