How Much Would It Cost To Kill Your Town?

Question: How much would it cost a company to kill a town, destroy the livelihood of most its current inhabitants, and change the landscape forever?

Answer: $500,000,000 - or approximately $15,000 per resident after twenty years of waiting for a so-called "speedy trial".

Reason: It helps if this happens during the lawless reign of an oil-man and more than half of the highest court owe their lifelong cushy gig to like-minded individuals.
Details can be found here.

Moyers Takes On Media Reform

If you believe the mainstream media has serious problems, in particular telling Americans of any particular political persuasion what they want to hear (e.g. CNN=tending toward Left of Center ideas/Fox News=tending toward Right of Center ideas) and not what they need to hear (i.e. facts, convenient or otherwise, and not advocacy), then you should probably watch this video of Bill Moyers addressing the National Conference for Media Reform '08. One quote I find particularly poignant:

'So it is that Democracy without honest information creates the illusion of popular consent while enhancing the powers of the state and the privileged interests protected by it...

In essence, the mainstream media have been the willing mouthpiece for those looting our treasury, the PUBLIC treasury, for very powerful private corporations - instead of being the watchdog who should bite their greedy little hands.

Hillary Supporters Chant "NoBama" and "McCain"

I fear our country, my own party rather, the party of my father and his father, is still too racist to allow Barack Obama the presidency. According to a story in The New York Times (Democrats Approve Deal on Michigan and Florida), Hillary Clinton's supporters showed they would rather elect John McCain than allow Barack Obama the Democratic presidential nomination. My own father, I'm ashamed to report, feels the same way and has no problem admitting to his racism. When Hillary supporters didn't get their way with the rules committee yesterday, they chanted "McCain!McCain!McCain!". Makes me sad for my country - again.