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President Obama today hosted a bipartisan health care summit in Washington, D.C. He invited Democrats and Republicans together to debate the health care proposal. They met for a little more than six hours, which, coincidentally, happens to be exactly the average wait time at the emergency room if you were to go in with something bleeding. - Jimmy Kimmel
 

The-World-Will-Be-A-Safer-Place-Without Saddam

• Iraqi death toll rises markedly in February

• Two blasts hit Afghanistan's Kandahar, six dead

• Militants destroy NATO oil tanker in Pakistan

• Dubai police: Hamas agent was drugged, suffocated

• Al-Qaida growing in strength and numbers in Africa

• Al-Qaida bomber calls for attacks on Jordan spies

• Tony Blair 'considered resigning in wake of Iraq war'
   

Dick Cheney Advocates Waterboarding of Killer Whale

By Don Davis

China Believes In Global Warming

China is starting to prepare for the commercial and strategic opportunities arising as global warming melts the polar ice cover in the Arctic, an international peace research group said Monday.

Researchers expect the North Pole to be ice free during summer months in a matter of decades, opening up new shipping lanes and potential resource exploration in an area believed to contain as much as a quarter of the world's undiscovered oil and gas
 

Disturbing News

• Chile quake death toll over 700 as rescue ramps up

• France storm death toll hits 47; overall up to 53

• Iceberg breaks in Antarctica not where expected

John McCain at Health Care Summit: ‘Have C-Span Cover My Prostate Exam’

By Don Davis

Two top House Democrats have introduced a measure aimed at blocking the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating pollution-causing greenhouse gases.

House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson of Minnesota and Armed Services Chairman Ike Skelton of Missouri want to veto the EPA's finding in December that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare.
 

Republican-Shenanigans News

• Senate impasse puts federal employees out of work

• DeMint Tries To Coronate Conservatives

• Paul burned by Tea Party blowback Seattle Post Intelligencer

Bush Won't Criticize Current Prez, Only Past Prez

"I have no desire to see myself on television. I don't want to be a panel of formers instructing the currents on what to do...I'm trying to regain a sense of anonymity. I didn't like it when a certain former president -- and it wasn't 41 or 42 -- made my life miserable."
 

Rock-The-Voter News

• Pelosi says Rangel ethics finding "not good"

• White House OK on health care with or without GOP

• RFK's grandson decides against run for US House

Political, religious and sexual behaviors may be reflections of intelligence, a new study finds.

Evolutionary psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa at the the London School of Economics and Political Science correlated data on these behaviors with IQ from a large national U.S. sample and found that, on average, people who identified as liberal and atheist had higher IQs.
 

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

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Biz-Tech News

• Oil rises above $80 as regional stocks gain

• AIG agrees to $35.5 billion unit sale to Prudential: sources

• Toyota president apologizes to Chinese customers

• Greek bailout hopes lift world markets

• 'Buy farmland and gold,' advises Dr Doom

• Mysterious glitch renders PlayStation 3 units inoperable Ars Technica

"The labor movement was the principal force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress. Out of its bold strugges, economic and social reform gave birth to unemployment insurance, old age pensions, government relief for the destitute and above all new wage levels that meant not mere survival, but a tolerable life. The captains of industry did not lead this transformation; they resisted it until they were overcome. - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 1965

 The US Supreme Court on Monday will take up the appeal of former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling, who is serving 24 years in jail for his role in the energy giant's 2001 bankruptcy and one of the biggest corporate scandals in US history.

Bush-Prison-Torture News

• Senator: Find missing e-mails on interrogation

One Toke Over The Line

President Obama continues to struggle to quit smoking and has a slightly elevated cholesterol level, according to the doctor who conducted his physical Sunday at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md.

Go-F**k-Yourself News

• Liz Cheney: Dad is well, following doctor's orders AP

Canadian Men’s Hockey Team Celebrates Differently Than Women

By Don Davis

2010 Fundraiser

Thank you Ann, John, Z-MAC and John in Alaska!

Offline Donation - Lisa Casey - PO Box 88 - Ashford, AL 36312

 Email me lisa@allhatnocattle.net