This pretty much sums it up.

Can we levy windfall profit taxes on the government?

Beer goggles real!

This may be true, but it can get ugly!

For the first time, scientists have proven that "beer goggles" are real - other people really do look more attractive to us if we have been drinking.

Surprisingly, the beer goggles effect was not limited to just the opposite sex among the ostensibly straight volunteers recruited for the study - they also rated people from their own sex as more attractive.

Scientists in England gave 84 heterosexual college students chilled lime-flavored drinks that were either non-alcoholic or given a dose of vodka equivalent in alcohol to a large glass of wine or a pint-and-a-half of beer.

After 15 minutes, the volunteers were shown photos of 40 other college students from both sexes. Both men and women who drank booze found these faces more attractive, "a roughly 10 percent increase in ratings of attractiveness," said researcher Marcus Munafo, an experimental psychologist at the University of Bristol in England.

Let me tell you, from experience, that one glass of wine may make the world look more rosy, but a half of a gallon of vodka a day makes it look pretty grim. Do that for 4 years or so and it gets bad.

Yea, Russia has stopped in Georgia.

Looks like Russia may not be telling the whole truth when it come to the aggression against Georgia. This, Russia, shows me that we need a strong leader that will have a backbone when it comes time to make a decision. I'm all for hope and change, but maybe some good old USA cowboy diplomacy is exactly what is needed. I don't think that what Holland thinks of us is really important right now.

DNC Convention

Well, its started. The Clintons are not giving up yet. This from the AP

WASHINGTON - Hillary Rodham Clinton's name will be placed in nomination along with nominee-in-waiting Barack Obama at the Democratic convention in Denver, an emblematic move intended to unite the party after a divisive primary fight.

Democrats will officially nominate Obama at the convention but the state delegations will do a traditional roll call for his vanquished opponent as well.

The arrangement — which the rivals-turned-allies agreed to after weeks of negotiations — is intended to help the Democratic Party heal after a bruising primary while mollifying still-disgruntled Clinton backers and acknowledging the former first lady's groundbreaking presidential run.

"I am convinced that honoring Senator Clinton's historic campaign in this way will help us celebrate this defining moment in our history and bring the party together in a strong united fashion," Obama, an Illinois senator, said in a joint statement.

Added Clinton, a New York senator: "With every voice heard and the party strongly united, we will elect Senator Obama president of the United States and put our nation on the path to peace and prosperity once again."

Some 35 million people participated in the Democratic primary, and Obama and Clinton said they wanted to "honor and celebrate these voices and votes."

We all know that the Clintons and their followers do not like Obama. Hillary will still try and take the nomination and may well succeed. Obama's poll numbers are falling fast and Hillary will not hesitate to point this out.

Get your popcorn ready. Denver may well be messier and nastier than Chicago in '68.

Russia and Georgia

We can all use the response from the candidates as to how they will lead. McCain and Obama had the chance to give us all a glimpse into their thinking. Strange that a guy from Australia has it figured out.
Side note, who do you think has our country in a higher regard?



Or this one.




We could be in big trouble soon.

Pelosi coming around?

I really doubt that San Fran Nan is really serious about allowing a vote on drilling. I wonder how she is going to avoid the slamming that Dems are going to get in November in a year when Dems had super majorities seemingly locked up in both the House and Senate. The Republicians , the five dummies in the Senate not included, have an issue that they can take to majorities in the House and Senate as well as the White House. Here is SF Nancy's "maybe" on drilling:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Monday night dropped her staunch opposition to a vote on offshore oil drilling in the House.

Republicans, reacting to high gas prices, have demanded a vote on additional oil exploration in the Outer Continental Shelf, where drilling is currently blocked by a moratorium. Until now, Pelosi (D-Calif.) has resisted the idea as a “hoax.” But in an interview on CNN’s Larry King Live, she indicated that she was open to a vote.

“They have this thing that says drill offshore in the protected areas,” Pelosi said. “We can do that. We can have a vote on that.”

She indicated such a vote would have to be part of a larger package that included other policies, like releasing oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, which she said could bring down prices in a matter of days.

“But it has to be part of something that says we want to bring immediate relief to the public and is not just a hoax on them,” Pelosi continued.

She even indicated that she might support a package that includes drilling. She said her decision on whether to support such legislation would depend on how the policies are packaged.

“It’s not excluded, let’s put it that way,” Pelosi said.

I know that drilling is only part of the answer, but it is part of it and we better get going now. We send way to much money to people that really do not like us.

We need an "All of the Above" type of plan. Oil drilling, shale oil, coal to gas, nuclear, coal fire plants, tidal electricity, wind, solar, biofuel (as long as its not burning the food supply), all of them. Our needs are just going to grow. The "alternative energy" sources are way off. We can't plan on having them and stop traditional energy methods. The day will come, if we do, that we do not have the new sources in place and are in no shape to get energy the old way. Look past today!

Russia, back at it.

I'm glad that I'm not the one responsible for making decisions right now. With Russia attacking Georgia, not the state of Georgia, Obama, we kind of have our butt in a sling. Georgia is one of the few trumpeters of democracy in Eastern Europe. Russia is becoming, well, Russia again. We have over half of the Government and nearly the full media that portrays the USA as weak and heartless. We have a President that is ridiculed and mocked when he does what is right, not what is popular. Something has to be done, but what?
Do we go in and start a full scale war with Russia? Do we sit by as Russia reclaims the Soviet Union? McCain seems to think that we need to pressure Russia and get in and help Georgia. Obama come through with the typical UN babble. Don't wait for the UN, doesn't turn out to well.
This one has me worried.