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Turkish parliament supports Turkish raid into Iraq. This situation is getting worse by the minute. Parliament approves mission. Bush urges Turkey not to strike Iraq. And Nancy Pelosi plans to purposefully aggravate this situation by angering Turkey with her genocide resolution. Fortunately, some grown-ups in the House are turning against the resolution despite Pelosi's support. It's all political fun and games until somebody loses an eye or our troops get killed in the cross fire. Why do we re-elect these irresponsible, anti-American representatives over and over?

Oil hits $89 a barrel. Iran and Russia are rolling the dough that we're paying them. I wonder what Putin's special nuclear message to his buddy Ahmadinejad was. As much as Putin promotes and supports Iran to drain our resources, he cannot want Iran to get a nuclear weapon. Iran could use a nuke against Russia as well as the west if Chechen rebels get their hands on it. Israeli PM Olmert to meet with Putin in Russia. This must be about the mysterious nuclear message.

Japan and China are unloading dollars which will cause it to drop further. The falling dollar will boost tourism and trade. That's not much of a consolation for all the jobs we're losing. Our economy is a house of cards, based the poor health and education of our workers instead of manufacturing innovative products, and it's going to fall down hard.

British to claim undersea land off of Antarctica.

Blackwater owner refuses to allow his employees to be arrested and tried in Iraq. This just highlights the failures of our government to provide security to our own people. We should never contract that out. Our broken bureaucracies are not accountable to our broken representatives, and the result is failure at everything the government does.

There is validity to the use of symbols and visuals in politics, so I applaud George Bush's meeting with the Dalai Lama and sticking it in the eye of China. But this won't move China towards reform, nor will it help us win China and Russia's new Cold War of Terror against us. We need real policy changes, not symbolism.

Spanish judge frees US salvage ship captain previously arrested by a Spanish warship in dispute over salvaged treasure.

Oakland restricts smoking outdoors.

I can't count how many times my mother left me in the car with it running. Maybe she was trying to have me kidnapped. This is not a crime. Pretty soon, they'll make it a crime if you allow your child out of the house without a government sanctioned bubble-wrap suit.

Reason supports ending employer paid health insurance. Me too. Adopt the FairTax.

Reason highlights a new Great Society plan. Bush and co. have taken us back to the days of LBJ style socialism. Sure, Democrats are worse, but both parties are socialists. There is no clean ideological line between the 2 parties.

Reason points out that SCHIP should not exist at all. Duh. We have Orrin Hatch to thank for this socialist program.

Slate shows that people believe gossip over facts. This dovetails well with the Big Lie theory which Democrats, and Republicans to a lesser extent, use so well.

Bush's approval at 24%. Congress at 11%. But we'll re-elect 90% or more of our representatives, and we'll re-elect both parties to power. In a sane society, we would punish our representatives and both parties for failure by kicking them out of office. We're not a sane society.

Ron Paul supporters take on CNBC. I think the rabid Ron Paul supporters are really loony left anti-war activists trying to influence the Republican primary. It's their militant form of activism that gives them away. And it's too bad. Ron Paul is the only candidate who endorses Constitutional government and the dramatic reform of government we so desperately need.

This is going to blow up: Scientist claims Africans are not as smart as westerners.

A new drug resistant staph infection is more deadly than AIDS. If we keep breeding super-bugs, they will eventually kill us. Hospitals are the breeding ground. I think we need a policy in which hospitals are demolished, buried, and treated like toxic waste every 20 years or so.

Obesity is more dangerous than smoking. I'm sure. I know plenty of smokers who lived very long lives.

Swearing at work boosts morale. I always told my bosses that, but they never believed me.

George Lucas is planning a Star Wars TV series? That could be cool, but not if it's like the prequels.

College student suspended and forced to undergo "mental health evaluations" for sending an email suggesting that students should be allowed to carry concealed weapons on campus to defend themselves.

Boortz reports that Al Gore came out in support of a socialized medicine plan the type of which is failing all over the world.

I have a better way than either Clinton or Bush's big government plans for retirement - adopt the FairTax so people can save their own money tax free for their retirement.

It's about time Israel decided to wipe out the terrorists in Gaza. It's unconscionable that Israel has allowed daily rocket attacks from Gaza for years without rooting out and killing those terrorists.

A good week for nerds.

Dick Morris wastes his time talking about Al Gore beating Hillary. Al Gore is not dumb. He knows his global scam would be exposed by honest debate, and he knows that if he enters the Presidential race, he can't avoid honest debate like he can now. If Al Gore runs for president, every lie he's told on his way to make $10s of millions and his bogus awards will be exposed, and both he and his socialist agenda would be ruined. I have no doubt Gore's ego is pushing him to run, but I think he'll chose to continue reaping millions from his con of the world.

Pat Buchanan worries that Democrats may be unfit to lead, based on Nancy Pelosi's attempt to push through the condemnation of Turkey, despite how badly Republicans have read. Sounds like he reads this blog.

Taxes may become a 2008 issue. I should hope so. Adopt the FairTax.

How Google is and is not transforming into Microsoft. One difference is Google doesn't have a monopoly and use monopoly power to destroy competition and new technology.

The global marketplace is being transformed by capital instead of goods.

This is a good question: would Republicans be as nasty to a Democrat President as Democrats have been to Bush? I doubt it. Republicans are never as nasty as Democrats. I think all Hillary's qualified judges and attorneys and everything else will get through the Senate just fine.

Essay points out that the press proved Gen. Sanchez correct in it's biased and incomplete reporting of his statement.

12 former Army Captains say Iraq is worse off now than when we invaded and we should pull out and allow Iraq to descend into civil war. No wonder they're former Captains. Fortunately the US military doesn't have a defeatist attitude, and neither does General Petraeus.

Editorial explains that retiring baby boomers will bankrupt America. We've known this for decades, but the 2 parties refuse to fix social security and Medicare. In fact, they refuse to fix anything in our broken government, and just break it further year after year like obnoxiously spoiled children. Yet Americans re-elect them 94% of the time. We deserve the government we voted for. We did this to ourselves. It's our fault. Stop the madness and vote third party.