YES! This is exactly what the US of A needs to do. We need to work together, the way we did in WW2. Our resources were focused on getting the job done, and the Manhattan project was an intense dedicated commitment to a possibility, a hope, a chance that we could use the secret of the atom to end the war. Unfortunately it ended up as a bomb, but we now have power plants and medical technology that uses the science that came out of Oak Ridge. We can do it again. We can learn how to do what every blade of grass can do. We can use the free, eternal and beneficent rays of the sun to power our lives. The faster the world leaves the oil economy behind, the better off we all will be.

So how about this school in Mississippi? A woman who self-identifies as a lesbian, wanted to escort another young lady to the senior prom. The school board learned that discriminating against her would be illegal, so they cancelled the whole prom. How wise, how just, how compassionate......NOT. Who would have been hurt had they just let her be who she is, and celebrate her accomplishment like her classmates. What's the point of forcing people to lie and hide their true selves? So what if she's gay? Who does it hurt?

The tragedy of this is that we are not all surprised. Some of us are shocked and appalled, but not surprised. This is not the land of the free and the brave we saluted in school assemblies. This is the shadow world, the world foretold by Orwell. This is the seamy underside that underlies all war, that taints and poisons the future.

If I see the war criminals, Bush, Rove, Rumsfeld, Cheney, in prison before this generation passes, I will believe in America again.

What a nasty person our fifth district representative in congress is. She, rolling in money, famous for stuffing her pockets with free food and goodies at buffets all over, doesn't think little kids deserve one decent meal a day. What kind of a jerk would vote against school lunches for children?

So there's a good reason The Gentlewoman from the 5th district NC wants to eliminate a progressive tax. She is the richest NC member of the House of Representatives and she wants to keep all her money for herself! She has profited quite well from her government job.

So check out this power point presentation designed for Republican fundraisers. Very boring until you get to slide number 29 when we discover just how the Republican party sells its brand. With fear, a sense of entitlement and privilege, and promise of access. It's really no secret, but still rather shocking to see it stated so blatantly.

When we get to slide 30 we see how they plan to use an entirely empty and meaningless catch phrase to arouse emotions and inhibit rational thought. And then - slide 31- it is all laid out, comparing President Obama to the Joker, Nancy Pelosi to Cruella de Ville- pure smear marketing.

What a bunch of crooked bums. They got nothing worthwhile to sell so they sink to the bottom of the barrel to scrape up the dirt.

Oh my, this gem from South Dakota is too funny. People who can't spell, use the English language correctly, or understand the basics of the scientific method are trying to design curricula for science classes.
I counted at least 3 grammatical errors. How many can you find?
They want to teach astrology in school?
Carbon dioxide is the gas of life? Tell that to the Cameroon villagers who suffocated to death when a giant gas bubble of carbon dioxide belched out of their lake.
They think our planet is getting cooler despite the fact that all measured data clearly shows the opposite?
What a group of clowns.