CIA to let some senators see bin Laden photos LINK.

Can’t wait for DiFi to explain to us what she saw.

Neat graphic of CO2 emissions by nation.

The Donald (trump) a grifter.

Donald Trump, the developer and would-be presidential candidate, portrays himself as a swashbuckling entrepreneur, shrewder and tougher than any politician, who would use his billionaire’s skills to restore discipline to a bloated and bankrupt federal government.

In his near-constant denigration of big government, however, Trump glances over an expensive irony: He built his empire in part through government largesse and connections.

Damn fatster I was just about to post that link.

Isn’t that sweet? The future ex-Senator from Connecticut who wears his faith on his shirtsleeve wants to oogle a dead body.

We won’t have Trump to kick around much longer. The new NBC schedule comes out next Monday and rumor is Apprentice will be coming back.

Meanwhile The Donald ponders the price of greatness: I might be too good to win.

Feinstein last week: “no need to release photos since other evidence has already proven that bin Laden is dead.”

Feinstein last night: “I actually haven’t thought much about [whether to see the pictures], but I likely will.”

Good enough for thee but not for me.

She is a disgusting war profiteer.

A little bit of good green news.

At least Mideast peace isn’t getting further away.

<a href="see more There I Fixed It“>Have you ever wanted to just beat your computer?

Boxturtle (It’ll take several of us to adequatly cover for Dday)

Crap, don’t bother with the last link it’s trash.

Boxturtle (I shoulda looked to see how much crap the source was loading in)

She should hang up her Senatorial hat and just do stand-up comedy instead. Those are great quotes.

(Wasn’t trying to ace you, bmull, but I couldn’t wait to provide that link. I knew it’d catch your eye.)

U.S. post has $2.2 billion loss, warns of Sept insolvency LINK.

They have been trying to get rid of the US Post Office/Postal Service since 1971 (Nixon). Wikipedia has a pretty decent description of the history of it.

Here’s something you might find very engaging and well worth your while. I surely did.

Exxon, Conoco [and BP] Chiefs to Face U.S. Senators on Taxes LINK.

The BP guy is none other than Lamar McKay, he who refers to us as “small people.”

I’m sure they’ll call lots of us “small people” to testify if they continue to think of stomping on us via cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.

National Academy of Sciences have published a peer reviewed study showing clear signs of gas in drinking water due to fracking, acc to ProPublica

They also have an article showing nursing homes overmedicating due to drug-industry pressures.

Chris Hitchens thinks Noam Chomsky is stupid.

US Senate mulls Syria, inconclusively

Clyde Prestowitz thinks that up is down wrt US trade policy with China. In leveraging with our deficit, or their investment here and our investment there, and adding a token protest about human rights, Prestowitz claims our policy has shifted to something that makes more sense for the Chinese and no sense for us. He claims everyone’s afraid of protectionism but it keeps them from working it all out.

Greg Kaufmann tells the tragic tale of poverty and the unemployed in OH.

Two American hikers imprisoned in Iran will get an appearance in court Wednesday. From Reuters.

Fake inhaler hype shows how ‘not that into’ childhood asthma, the coal industry actually is. An example of attacking the beast where it lives. Story thru common dreams.

Libyan rebels claim gains in Misrata.

Chomsky is one of those people, like Nader, who is sometimes hard to listen to and is frequently misunderstood, but he’s almost always right.

Hitchens was one of the early cheerleaders for the Iraq war. Who cares what that jackass thinks.

It can be seen a couple ways. In a week where the right have called out all the dogs, to affirm and re-declare their manufactured justification on torture, the Very Serious feel the need to distance themselves from that but also go bash Chomsky in the same week that so many on The Hill have to be coaxed out of viewing the ‘Get Out of Afghanistan Now! movie again. In short, I see it as a document of where the hawk’s narrative is, a point in time. But if they have to do that to revive themselves, I’d like to think they’re feeling a bit on the ropes. Like the other thought I heard float, the ‘letting China deal with Pakistan’ meme.

thanks, I sometimes have imaginings along those lines.

Chomsky lecture in which he discusses propaganda,

from Radio Discordia, and posted at the Internet Archive

http://www.archive.org/details/RadioDiscordia022NoamChomsky-PropagadaAndThePublicMind

It says, “. . .For the first time, a scientific study has linked natural gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing with a pattern of drinking water contamination so severe that some faucets can be lit on fire. . .”

I’m going to try this instead of the $4 per gallon at my next fillup. Just don’t drink it.

Very interesting images, that’s for sure. I guess “edgy” applies, though that term may be passe by now (so many terms short-lived in the popular culture, but if it’s one I like I tend to grab it as it flies by and keep it).