A reckoning will come. I wish I could figure out how.

after your little performance a few threads back, I ain’t readin your stuff anymore

and I didn’t really read any of your rants there either

you’re kinda persona non gratis as far as I’m concerned

you will be ignored until someone here who continues to bother reading your posts grants you a pardon and says that you have offered a BRILLIANT contribution to the conversationbut we can’t know when that will happen, if it ever does

think of it as an unknowable act of pentence

when BMAZ tells you to drop it, you should drop it, on pain of becoming irrelevant

see how that works

I wonder whether they split al Qahtani off from the other 5 because he was the one with a lawyer (who might slow down the capital punishment train).

Catching Up on Siegelman

You would be forcing him to proove a negative at this point. He is not taking Lobbyist money period and has a team as sophisticated as any to vet the sources.

Obama is not the messianic figure the press has built him up to be. He’s just a regular Chicago pol. But he has seriously good strategic political instincts.

I know you feel this with great conviction, but it’s not the first time you’ve felt something with great conviction and had reason to change your mind. You’ll be watching the general and his first year, where you can re-evaluate your first impression. You weren’t following him closely at all when he hit the Senate. Hardly anyone was in all honesty. And you had someone competing for your evaluations in the niche where he now is.

Let’s see what you honestly think after you get a better chance to evaluate him during the general and after his first year or two in office. You owe yourself that much, and at that time your evaluation is going to be more solid whichever way it leans.

It did not seem encouraging when the US President was again seen walking hand in hand with the Saudi Prince and the caption could have read “You Want What???? When???”

There are a lot of columns debating what the cost of gas has to be before it does behavior mod. One adjunct to buying gas Mr. Friedman has is that his wife’s father sports a muti-billion dollar shopping center development fortune and a few billion will fill your tank, and get Mr. Friedman’s daughter through college, but he has worked hard all his life going all over the world to win his Pulitzer and to write his best selling books covering the middle east, and most recently India and China with The World is Flat.

I noticed this morning that 4 GM plants are being closed, and there are serious evaluations of Hummers and other SUVs and reduction of manufacture of SUVs and emphasis on smaller cars.

Toyato, whose Prius is the Yuppie Starbucks of cars has spent a large amount of money behind the scenes pushing their large gas hog trucks.

The House and Senate have done next to nothing to remedy the oil crisis, and many European cars get double the gas milage ours do which is a good thing since their prices are double ours.