The Road to Montezuma, Costa Rica

Crusing around Tracy Arm with friends

Plow That Broke the Plains, 1 of 3

This movie, produced in 1936 documents the terrible dust bowl years on the high plains. I am reading "The Worst Hard Time" by Timothy Egan about that chapter in our history. Stark terrible chronicle. But I highly recommend reading it.

Protestors clash with police in Iceland

The bailouts are our government’s attempt to avert the kind of banking collapse that would reduce accumulated wealth to near zero (via a sudden nationwide bank run). My fear is that the banks are going to blow up anyway, and that if the Fed goes down with the ship, government will be powerless to help us out of this mess.

tiny toons:yakiti yak!

My Dream Cabinet

State: Juan Cole
Defense: Wes Clark
NSA: Samantha Power
Attorney General: Vincent Bugliosi
Treasury: Brad DeLong (or Paul Krugman or Yves Smith if DeLong is not available)
HHS George Mitchell (total hero of the Clinton failed reform effort)
Intelligence Director Valerie Plame
Labor Larry Katz (been there done that -- sortof)
Interior Al Gore
Energy Bill McKibben
Commerce Merge with Treasury
Veterans Max Cleland
Transportation Duncan Black
Education Claudia Goldin
HUD Atrios
Homeland Security Abolish the department
Agriculture: Ed Schultz
UN Zalmay Khalilzad
(holy mother of Allah, I agree with Bush on something)

CNN Reports on President Bush - Where's the Love?

The Ruler (Malcolm to Barack) by Fly Gypsy (feat. Kuku). 2nd version.

Links I posted tonight on Facebook

In The Know: Should The Government Stop Dumping Money Into A Giant Hole? | The Onion - America's Fin 9:00pm

Source: www.theonion.com

With the economy sliding deeper into a recession, panelists discuss whether it's time to stop throwing our money into a massive pit out in the desert.

Bruce and Barack: The Rising in Cleveland 8:38pm

Source: www.youtube.com

Greg Mitchell: Racial Incidents and Threats Against Obama Soar: Here Is a Chronicle8:35pm

Source: www.huffingtonpost.c...

, Barack Obama, Editor And Publisher, Hate, Hate Crime, Kkk, Obama Assassination, Obama Racial Incidents, Racial Incidents, Racism, Secret Service, White Power, Politics News

Keeping track of the hate...

Cory Booker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 8:35pm

Source: en.wikipedia.org

Cory Anthony Booker (born April 27, 1969) is the current Mayor of Newark, New Jersey. He is a Democratic politician and former Newark Councilman and community activist who ran unsuccessfully for mayor in 2002 against longtime incumbent Sharpe James. ...

A proponent of the Declaration of Interdependence. I expect to see more of this savvy and intellectual politician in our future. He is a vegetarian too!

Krugman schools Will 8:33pm

Source: www.youtube.com

Paul Krugman un-revises history at George Will's expense. Classic. 11_16_08

Nobel laureate Paul Krugman was around to remind Will of some history -- that the economy improved after the New Deal, and that it was FDR's attempt to balance the budget in 1937 (a move favored now by many conservatives) that then cut into that progress.

The 43rd President’s Dark Legacy—By Scott Horton (Harper's Magazine) 8:27pm

Source: harpers.org

Over the last week, the American press has been filled with drip after drip from smug, generally anonymous Bush Administration clones who promise that when Barack Obama is saddled with the responsibilities ...

Patricia Wald, one of the nation’s most respected retired federal appellate judges, compared the current allegations surfacing about detainee abuse authorized by President Bush with the cases she examined coming out of the war in Yugoslavia—that resulted in the indictment and conviction of a number of political leaders in the Balkans.

BAGnewsNotes: Your Turn: Welcome to My World, Barack 8:24pm

Source: www.bagnewsnotes.com

his coming weekend, the NYT Mag is publishing a major article about "where this government has taken the United States and what sort of world it will leave for the next president." I'm interest in your take on these prominent, and rather strange accompanying illustrations.

Signs of Protest - bbd - Open Salon 8:19pm

Source: open.salon.com

A sometimes artist and photographer, I arrived in Dallas for love in 1980 and have lived here ever since. My photography has been published in several city guide books and displayed at the City Gallery of Dallas. ...

Photo montage of protests against H8te

Drill for Natural Gas, Pollute Water: Scientific American 8:10pm

Source: www.sciam.com

The natural gas industry refuses to reveal what is in the mixture of chemicals used to drill for the fossil fuel

This is an "I told you so" for me. I have been saying for years that the water destroyed by coalbed methane gas drilling is of far more value here in the arid west than ephemeral natural gas that will be burned in our generation and gone. The water table will never recover in a thousand years.

Who’ll clean up when the party’s over? — High Country News 8:08pm

Source: www.hcn.org

There are efforts to reclaim oil and gas drilling sites, but many fear it’s too little, too late.

Another sick legacy of Bush/Cheney.

at-Largely: CBS, the disgrace... 7:59pm

Source: www.atlargely.com

Sure, CBS corporate burned Lowell Berman (legendary 60 Minutes producer) and his source Dr. Jeff Wigand (Big Tobacco whistle-blower). Sure, CBS corporate hired a twit to report the evening news. Sure, ...

I've known this for some time after reading Marsh Mapes's "Truth and Duty: The Press, the President, and the Privilege of Power" and Sidney Blumenthal's extensive writings on this. I am surprised but pleased that this is finally getting legs. The scandalous throwing under the bus of Dan Rathers for the exposure of Bush's National Guard service and how he shirked his duty while patriotic Americans were dying in another criminal war.

Sarah Palin Redneck Women

Subterranean Homesick Blues - Bob Dylan (High-Quality)

David Suzuki gives the most important speech of 2008 on the environment. No hyperbole at all!!!

Barack Obama: Imagine/I Have A Dream

Barack Obama on Energy in Lansing, Michigan

Michael Moore posts videos

Great set of election eve live videos from across the nation. Keeper!

Celebrating Obama New York subway-style!

Viggo Mortensen and Dennis Kucinich on stage at Sara ...

World Reaction to coming President Barack Obama - Russia

A Reader in the White House

I saw somewhere on a blog that Steve Coll's "Ghost Wars: A Secret History of the CIA" is what Barack is reading at this time. I am reading "Legacy of Ashes: A History of the CIA". I need to read Steve Coll's book next. Wouldn't it be great if Barack were to post his reading list? I would like to read everything he is reading to try to track with his mind. Isn't it great to have an intellectual again as president? The last one was JFK.

Barack Obama in Pueblo, Nov 1st 2008

My personal video of a wonderful day in the sun.