Anyone missing Michael? I am. "This is it" will be the final performance to witness.

This official site's link at the title to this entry. Thank you. I watched the trailer videos at least through so far. I need to get a ticket and see the movie. Wow. Hard to believe he isn't here anymore.

He was on his game. I been swearing under my breath for the last month and a half. I mean for God Sake he wasn't on an apnea monitor. Jesus. There wasn't a damn thing wrong with him. Those rehearsals were effortless for him. "I need to cue that..." I swear.



Michael Jackson's "This Is It" Conquers the Global Box Office/Here at Home, Not So Much. Explain.
November 2, 2009
10:36 AM
Taking in a huge $101 million on its worldwide opening, Michael Jackson's This Is It — a concert film drawn exclusively from rehearsal footage — has now extended its intended two-week run in theaters through Thanksgiving. Maybe now the American audience won't drag its ass. The $21.3 million domestic total for the weekend was enough to hit No. 1 and send the hot-hot-hot Paranormal Activity to second place, with $16.5 million, even on Halloween. But, please, America, your middling interest in This Is It almost had the late King of Pop eating the dust of the OMFG dreadful Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds 3-D Concert Tour.

If the Senate Republicans want to go on haitus during the committee work up of the Clmate Bill is means NO PORK AMENDMENTS. YES !

Former Vice President Al Gore

When did they know and how did they know it?

The Senate Republicans have a real problem. A real problem. It is stated in their own words. When it come to health care reform they wanted more time to study it, when it comes to legislation to protect Earth from the abuses of burning fossil fuels the Senate Republicans want more time to study the issue.

The Senate Republicans are INCOMPETENT. They chronically need time to study issues so well documented the VOLUMES of facts and figures require entire sections of libraries to house. The science stating there would be and NOW is a problem with Greenhouse Gases goes back five decades. There isn't anything else to learn.

The American people, through appropriations to NASA and NOAA have spent billions on the science of Earth and its fragile troposphere. Now, the Senate and House have to pass legislation based on the science of these agencies and a world of scientists that have settled on a consensus.

The issue of health care reform is two decades old. People have died due to the negligence of Republicans to protect them since Gingrich declared, "Contract with America." Does he care people died? No. There is no remorse by Gingrich that people have died, he now seeks to make money and plenty of it by exploiting the conversion of medical records on millions of Americans to electronic media.

People have died from Human Induced Global Warming in the USA. Have the Republicans as recent as today ever expressed remorse regarding those deaths? No. It is time for the Democrats in the House and the Senate, Blue Dog or otherwise to protect the lives of Americans through Climate legislation that controls Greenhouse Gas emissions and through new regulations for the Health Care Industry that includes a ROBUST Public Option.

Let's get the job done. The Democrats were given majorities in the House and Senate and a President in the White House to do exactly that, now they simply need to act on that trust expressed by the people of the USA. Just that simple.

The Retreat of the Greenland Glaciers due to Human Induced Global Warming. The recordkeeping at NASA doesn't get any more perfect than this. What is there to question? Those are trickles from puddles. They are rivers from tonnes of melting ice.

Boxer pushes Climate Bill forward, whether the GOP likes it or not (click here)
November 2, 2009
...As chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, Boxer said she is initiating the markup of the bill — revision before it heads to a vote — bringing it one step closer to approval. To do so, she used a loophole in committee rules requiring two members of the minority party to proceed with a markup. As long as a majority of committee members are present, it can happen, she said (a tactic that is rarely used). Luckily for her, democrats outnumber republicans in the group by 12 to 7....

Why do I get the feeling as though the Bush/Paulson $700 billion Bailout didn't work?

EXCEPT, of course, for the CEOs and their personal bailouts. Don't do this again, okay? See, the problem as it exists today, is that Wall Street primarily runs on 'steam.' That's right, water vapor. The moist air that comes out of the lungs of CEOs. But, now that 'steam' if you will, is recognized a 'toxic asset' and all the 'belief system' has wained.



Citizens Financial Group may be sold (click title to entry - thank you)
November 2, 2009 02:46 PM
By Beth Healy, Globe Staff
British regulators have stepped up pressure on the Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC to sell off assets in the wake of its massive government bailout, and the bank could be forced to sell Citizens Financial Group Inc. here in the United States.
The Scottish banking giant, which is 70 percent owned by the British government, is expected to announce its forced divestitures Tuesday, according to UK press reports. In a statement, the company said its decisions "will include some divestments not initially contemplated."...

Joe Lieberman is a liar. There isn't one word he states that is the truth. He is a political hack for the Republicans.

One might note the 'Case in Point' regarding the Right Wing Extremists masquerading as Independants. In case one doesn't understand the terms, "political hack."
A political hack is a negative term ascribed to a person who is part of the political party apparatus, but whose intentions are more aligned with victory than personal conviction.

Tell me the paragraph below makes sense.

"...came out of nowhere."

THAT is a lie. Joe Lieberman is 'playing' with symantics. A Public Option has always been a part of the discussion regarding the reform of health care. Whether it had that same name is the only aspect that is debatable.

"...it (the public option) not necessary to...Make insurance more affordable, and extend it to the 'uninsured (my word not his).'

He makes NO statement about the alternative to doing nothing. He only complains that the approach is going to cost him more in taxes. He doesn't state that, but, by avoiding the issue and spinning its crisis status is clearly stating, "I don't want to pay more taxes."

How indeed will insurance companies lower their costs if they don't have to? They won't. Wall Street has a long history of disregarding the best interest of the public in opting for profits over quality services and inclusion of even people unable to afford the vital services of life such as health insurance.

..."There're so many good things we can do to make health insurance more affordable and to extend it to people who don't have it now, but I feel so strongly about the creation of another government health insurance entitlement, of the government going into the health insurance business, I think it's such a mistake that I would use the power I have as a single Senator to stop a final vote."...

There are so many things? Like what?

"...the creation of another government health insurance entitlement..." There is no CREATION of another entitlement program. The bills before the House and Senate EXTEND the current Medicare and Medicaid programs to the uninsured with financial qualification. There is NO expense in creating anything. We already know how Medicare and Medicaid are run and how much it costs.

"A Single Senator..." My, my what a martyr, huh? There is NO WAY Lieberman is a single Senator within this issue. He represents the opposition to the priorities of the Obama Administration. He is a Republican. There is no other reason to consider him differently. He is an Extremist Conservative. He speaks words that reflect his electorate so they will put him back in office. He has no oppositon to them, now does he?

In his political rant about Afghanistan he simply reiterates the same old song. My words, not his, 'We need to nation build and continue to kill people that don't contribute. And hey, you know, this corruption thing can be overcome as it is simply an addiction that a good 12 step program can take care of.'

WASHINGTON, Nov. 1, 2009
Lieberman: Public Option Is "Wrong" (click title to entry - thank you)
Renews Vow to Filibuster Any Health Care Reform Legislation that Includes Gov't-Backed Coverage
By David S Morgan
...Lieberman told moderator Bob Schieffer that the public option "came out of nowhere," and said it was not necessary to achieve what he described as the two goals of health reform: "Make health insurance more affordable, and to extend it to people who don't have it now....

The Exploitive Bush Years, when the sky was the limit in Executive Compensation. It isn't realistic to believe it could ever continue.

What has happened to the cost of education?

What has Wall Street learned about the 2008 fiscal bailout?

They learned that money can be printed faster than their executives can spend it.

THAT, however, is not what they are teaching.

Do they practice what they preach? No. When the 'money supply' increases it devalues to actual value of the printed currency. What does that do? INFLATION, uncontrolled and unmitigated inflaction. Perhaps one might recall Germany post WWI.



...Rensselaer, in Troy, New York, paid Jackson $1.6 million in salary and benefits in the year ending June 30, 2008, according to a survey released today by the Chronicle of Higher Education. Columbia University, in New York, paid Lee Bollinger $1.38 million. Bollinger, in sixth place, was the best paid president to lead one of the eight schools in the Ivy League.
Presidential compensation rose 6.5 percent to a median of $358,746 in fiscal 2008, according to the survey of tax data from 419 nonprofit institutions. That growth outstripped the 4.8 percent rise in the consumer price index. Median pay at the 32 biggest research universities grew 16 percent, the Washington- based Chronicle said. Some of Jackson’s compensation included deferred bonuses and other benefits, reflecting increased complexity in the pay packages, said Jeffrey Selingo, the editor.
“It’s not the presidents who set these salaries, it’s their boards and many include people from corporate America,” Selingo said in a conference call with reporters on Oct. 30. “For them, these salaries and pay structures are not unusual.”
Since the financial crisis of 2008, many universities have experienced declines in their endowments and have since frozen pay for presidents, Selingo said. In some cases, presidents are returning a portion of their salaries to the schools, he said....