I could say I have seen Ted Koppel look worse but I would be lying:

http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/koppel/slideshows/china/koppel-china-ted.html

At least the still pictures make it look like someone still know what real reporting looks like. It appears I shall discover China by interesting means….

Apparently someone was keeping slave in a European hotel.  Three guesses who:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article4258475.ece

like riding down an ice cube in your skivvies with your ass hanging out

there’s cool breeze blowing somewhere

a tear colored lake nestled among black mountains

a collation of snow pack black crags rising over an icy mist

rocky road through mountainous passes

a sky colored pool at the end of a tar colored rock slide

sky colored waters at the feet sheer black cliffs and a rainbor arching over all

looking through the reflections of clouds to see the smooth stones at the bottom of a pool

At last, a way to share my Bozo

http://www.ireport.com/ir-topic-stories.jspa?topicId=42458

Trust congress to come up with a way to restrict freedom and to fail to come up with a way to increase energy supplies:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/07/03/warner.speed.limit.ap/index.html

Conversvation should be mandatory for government and cons at the state pen. For the rest of us it should be a suggestion peppered with helpful hints. And oh by the way government if your really want to help, clear the legislative and regulatory pathways so we can drill here, drill now and pay less.

It’s good to see government doing something creative and useful for once:

http://money.cnn.com/2008/07/03/news/economy/utah_work.ap/index.htm?cnn=yes

Some wags might say it’s another case of lazy government workers conspiring to do more nothing. But I would not agree. For one thing, even though they are doing the 4 day work week thing, they still have to do 10 hour per day. It still works out to be 40 hours. And suppose they were actually doing more nothing. You cynics are trapped therein by your own rhetoric. I remember some famous despiser of all things government saying something like “When congress is in session, no man’s wallet is safe!” If they do less, the screw less, so to speak.

I just heard Bozo died. Darn I thought some Bozo was president of the United States!

http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/07/03/obit.bozo.ap/index.html

Well, maybe it’s another bozo.

mapping out the swamp

at the intersection where four roads meet by four great grassy mounds

at sunset on one of the hills over looking bare trees at the first taste of winter

walking on frozen water in the cool winter sunshine

at first falcity or first falsehood wherein Spring teases that she may come early

and spreads a hint of thaw throughout the icy lands locked in winter

and just when things begin to melt, winter reasserts himself and lets the world know he is not yet finished

the roiling of oily seas

In some quarters, notably in the French Quarter, I am dangerously politically incorrect. However, there really is only so much good money we should throw after bad. If someone is asking for, or worse yet demanding government help, then the people of the United States should be able to say something about how, where and why that help is given. We should not help people to live in places that are likely to be destroyed. That goes double for the poor and elderly who will not be able to escape inevitable disaster. In the long run, it might be much cheaper to put some up in some interior state, away from the flood plains of course, in a situation where likelihood of disaster is low. Anyone who wants to live in a risky areas should be required to be fully self insured. If you refuse or can’t afford that kind of insurance then in my view, local, state, and the federal government should actively resist your moving to or living in a high risk area. In order to keep the politics out of it I would roughly designate areas that have sustained a million dollars or more damage in the last ten years to a population of a 100,000 as a high risk area. I am quite certain that someone somewhere has a better definition but we have to start somewhere. Let’s throw our money down better ratholes!

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-9982575-52.html

The Marxists in America have never liked you or your job.  They like Euro Socialists much better, so damn it, why don’t they move!

Look at the Leftist gloating: