The evironmental movement is wacky enough, but did you know that TerraPass will take your money to help you ease your wounded councous.
Depending on how much “carbon” you emit, you can buy a Terra Pass and all is forgiven. What do you get for your $29-79 bucks?
A sticker for your car.
Don’t you feel better now. Of course (wink) Terra Pass will take your cash and “invest” it in things like.
1. Wind Tunnels (like the wind being blown up your ……)
2. “Bio Mass” (That’s about …

This is sad:
“WASHINGTON (AP) — A Senate hearing that began with glowing tributes to a St. Louis businessman and his qualifications to become ambassador to Belgium turned divisive Tuesday after he was criticized for supporting a controversial conservative group.
Sen. John Kerry, D-Massachusetts, grilled nominee Sam Fox about why he donated $50,000 to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth during the 2004 presidential race. The group of Vietnam veterans made unsubstantiated allegations against Kerry — then the Democratic presidential nominee — and charged that Kerry did not deserve the medals he …

Why is this necessary?
“Republicans plan to force a floor vote on Rep. William Jefferson’s move to the Homeland Security Committee in an unprecedented maneuver to force Democrats to go on the record supporting their embattled colleague who is the target of a federal bribery investigation.
House Minority Whip Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) pledged to call for a recorded vote on the House floor when Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) introduces a resolution to make the Jefferson move official.
Pelosi removed Jefferson from the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee in response to Justice Department allegations …

This is not the fault of not having insurance, it’s child abuse.
“Twelve-year-old Deamonte Driver died of a toothache Sunday.
A routine, $80 tooth extraction might have saved him.
If his mother had been insured.
If his family had not lost its Medicaid.
If Medicaid dentists weren’t so hard to find.
If his mother hadn’t been focused on getting a dentist for his brother, who had six rotted teeth.
By the time Deamonte’s own aching tooth got any attention, the bacteria from the abscess had spread to his brain, doctors said. After two operations and more than …

Seems that Keith Olbermann is just content at being everyman’s Cpt. Queeg. After getting a prop-job by Rolling Stone, he can’t help but go after those who have, you now, what he doesn’t have – success. Referring to Glenn Beck – who has success AND an audience, Mr. Queeg spews:
“(he is) A wolf in sheep`s clothing. The very dangerously bigoted guy who is selling himself as a pragmatic philosopher. I don`t think he sees his own bigotry. There`s something about him that suggests that, one night, he`ll …