Too much good stuff

The world has been swirling , it seems, and I have not been collecting my thoughts as readily as I'd like to. But I have had several this morning. Sorry. For the most part I have been very appreciative of these articles I have accumulated here, and have included th URLs for you to read, if you haven't gotten them elsewhere. The piece from Op-Ed News, "Ameri-Conned" http://www.opednews.com/articles/Ameri-conned-by-hal-smith-080820-870.html really got my juices flowing (at o-dark thirty) and I went on a roll. The comment I made there is my contribution to the day.

By the way, I have been called to task for calling Michael Phelps "Mark" Phelps. That was an obscure reference to Mr. Spitz, who was the last olympic swimmer to be temporarily called the "world's greatest athlete". Nobody got the joke, so I won't do it again.

As a blogger said the other day, "I didn't know the Russians had invaded Atlanta". Well, they haven't but most of those in the know think our neo-cons set up the Georgians to start a fight so we could stick our noses in and be even more irrelevant. Thanks, Condi, for nothing. You are no help and you should stay home and play the piano or play with W. Laura won't care as long as you keep him out of her hair. And do you really expect us to believe that missles in Poland will protect the US from Iran? You have lost it completely and the MSM has bought it all, hook, line and sinker. Of course, most of us don't believe you can play the piano anyway. You sure can't play diplomat.

Let me see if I can post the rest of these lovely news items. More stuff you won't find on NBC, et.al.:
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080820_cheney_bush_and_habbush/

http://www.alternet.org

Your Own Private Ohio: Seven Ways Your Vote Might Not Count This Novemberhttp://www.alternet.org/democracy/95974

Michael Moore Dares to Ask: What's So Heroic About Being Shot Down While Bombing Innocent Civilians?http://www.alternet.org/blogs/waroniraq/95906

All of these should keep you busy for a few minutes, Jen won't want to read them and Barbara will wonder what I have been doing with my time.

Here's a high school math puzzle for you: If John McCain has 8 houses and leaves home, heading "straight" east in his wife's jet, at 2:00PM, and Obama has one house, and leaves home, heading west at 3:30 PM, with his secret service detail, in a black Chevy Suburban, what time will the two meet in Omaha to have steaks for lunch with that guy with all the money? Answer: It doesn't matter because McCain forgot which house to leave from and Obama is still in Chicago, talking to Oprah.

This campaign is a circus, and the Clinton's are sure to destroy the convention, party unity and McCain will win through the malaise and ennui of the American people. 100 years from now it won't matter because we will all be dead and our troops will still be in Iraq.

Life goes on in Texas.