"Abandon all hope, ye who enter..." -Welcome sign above the City of Dis. "Kaos is my son."- Ravager

Yes, a group of Republicans are indeed doing just that, by putting up billboards claiming that Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican.

I wasn't alive when King was, or during the Civil Rights Movement. But I do read, and I read sources at the time; the Democratic Party lost the White Southern Conservative Voter in 1965 when a Democratic Congress and a Democratic President (LBJ) pushed through the Civil Rights Act, the final major step in putting this nation on the right path toward racial harmony (ie, by treating everyone as a human being through edict).

Rev. King worked in concert with many Democratic politicians and grassroots organizers during the Civil Rights movement until his assassination. This is one of many lies told by Republican pundits and activists because, it is my belief, they do not acknowledge reality, and rather prefer living in ideology.

Oh, and here's Rudy Giuliani peddling lies about China drilling off the coast of Florida with the Cubans. Why? To manipulate people into voting against their interests (a healthy ecological coastline) and support offshore drilling. And here is Fox News openly distorting a vote from Obama about the Gen. Petraeus ad condemnation in the senate. And here is Cliff May (conservative pundit) creating a scarecrow argument about the motivations of liberal bloggers at Dailykos. The liars out there spewing their nonsense- it takes a critical audience to detect it and reject it.

The greatest sin for any philosopher in Ancient Greece was to knowingly teach lies, because the entire pursuit of philosophy was finding truth. Our country was founded by philosophes and humanists who held these values highly. Is it any wonder that the worst Americans are those that lie?

In this routine press release style story about NASA's Messenger probe, I caught the following which sent absolute chills down my spine.

The space probe is also interesting because its navigation team is lead by KinetX, the first private company to be responsible for navigation of a NASA deep space mission. Their experts are fully responsible for determining all trajectory adjustments throughout the probe's flight through the inner solar system ensuring that MESSENGER arrives at Mercury with the proper velocity for orbit insertion.

It is no secret that the Bush administration is filled with religious marketeers who believe fully that government fails and private industry rocks their profit driven socks. Everything this administration has done in its 7 years of failed governing (sorta doesn't help when your ideology is that you, as a governing entity, is doomed to failure) is to merge government services with parasitic, for profit corporations that have absolutely no experience or commitment to doing the job right and every motive to defrauding the government. In case you missed it, the Justice Department is only investigating 100 of 900 whistleblower complaints- of the 100, the government has recouped 13 billion that would have been sucked out of our coffers by unscrupulous, greedy fucking corporateers.

Now, the most knowledgable people on the planet relating to space is NASA, the russians over at the Cosmodrone, the ESA, ISRO (India's people) and the CNSA (the Chinese). We went to space not for profit, but for nationalistic and scientific reasons- the scientists figured out that a space race was a good way to get funding. Whatever. The only way for privately owned corporations to gain expertise is to poach the talent at any of the national agencies... you know, the ones who do the fucking hardwork of learning how to put shit up into space and and discovering the math of navigation.

Now NASA is using a private corporation of poached talent and paying them more money to do the telemetry? This is beyond senseless.

Yup, this woman collapsed and convulsed on the floor for 1 hour while hospital nurses and doctors ignored her. It also took 24 hours for anyone to see her in the ER.

Yessir, this is your corporate healthcare at work, killing people for profit through ignorance and an eye on profit margins.

While this isn't in the story, I wonder if its because she was black?

Oh, and be safe this 4th of July. You really don't want to visit the ER. It could take 24 hours before you're treated.

So I'm watching CNN, and noticing that many Republicans are actually taken with the notion that being a POW and failing as a pilot in Vietnam makes a president. These people are fucking stupid.

Look, many people failed as pilots. Not every failed pilot is presidential material. I've noticed McCain keeps referring back to his narrative. As does all his henchmen. That's like the 40 year old remembering what he did in high school as a halfback on the football team.

What I find amazing, is how stupid people make it on television to infect other people with their stupidity. It's like a virus.

Notice how the Media continues to shill Republican non-points? Its as if this (corporate) Media really wants to make Idiocracy real.

As a case in point, check out this difference in reporting between Democracy Now! and MSNBC. Ah, once you see them side by side, now you can taste the corporate.

Hear ye, hear ye! Bear witness upon the missing appendages of poultry slaughterhouse workers, victimized by Corporate Capitalism and a complicit Bush Administration's policies that value corporations over human beings.

Certainly I don't advocate killing police officers, but I do advocate the First Amendment. And this is definitely a First Amendment issue.

Most cops seem to have authoritarian issues. And authoritarians always have problems with Free Speech.

In the religious credo of liberal economists (such as Milton Friedman and his bevy of acolytes), the market should decide just about everything. In an unregulated market, child prostitution would be normal. The market would find a price based on supply and demand.

Just because a price can be set, doesn't make it a good thing. Society's have a right to regulate themselves to protect the least of its citizenry. Anyone who advocates for deregulation is essentially stepping in a direction that privileges plutocracy over democracy. Just a thought.