Another billion in debt added by GOP, that was plenty.

Pawlenty, former WTF GOP Minnesota governor, entered the esteemed office facing a $4 billion debt, and left it with $5 billion owed, book keeping acrobatics and no tax raises left it growing for the Democrat Gov to face.  Ah, the good life in Minnesota.
 President Bush did something like this, only better, three whole orders of magnitude better, and most the GOP revere him.

This won't hurt Timmy with the base, it may help.

He can do a trabeculectomy or a lobotomy, steady hand please

For many years I have had glaucoma in one eye.  Treated with drops, it has not progressed until suddenly the last few months I am aware of declining sight in that eye, and the eye is bloody red, the drops now are as much an irritant as a benefit.  The body pumps fresh liquids into the eye, then it drains out.  Glaucoma is an increase in pressure within the eye caused by reduced outflow capacity.  The increased pressure kills off a few light gathering cells now and then, mostly in the peripheral vision area, eventually leaving you with tunnel vision, like looking through a pipe.

My loss up to now is a little different, the amount of light I see in that eye is diminished, things are a bit soft looking, there are a few little areas on the peripheral that I miss, but most I see, just a little smokey.  I am not looking through a paper towel tube yet.  

Happily, there is a surgery that can stop the progression of glaucoma, usually its benefit lasts a number of years, sometimes for a very long time.  Being only 10,000 years or less (only 500 or 600 grandfathers) from the hunter gatherer lifestyle, letting someone mess with my feet or eyes seems the worst risk, the ultimate stupidity we could commit.  The doctor I will use has over 1,000 of these surgeries since 1984, only 1 every 3 to 5 yeas ends in disaster, loss of vision or eye.  Without the surgery, I will be looking through a pin hole soon, a few months, maybe a few years.  I am not worried, I'll go for it.  It's scheduled for about 2 weeks.

Trabeculectomy is: lift the eyelid, cut into the eye, make a pinhole in it, put some crud in it to keep it from healing shut, stitch around it to keep it from spreading, eye patch, meds, 4 weeks do no exercise or strain, (prune juice cocktails).  The goal is end up with a new artificail drain to let the pressure stay low, but not to low, thus a second reason for the stitch, it can be tightened to reduce the size of the hole, after a few weeks it is suppose to be set at the right size.  Of course if I heal it shut then, or years from now, it has to be re done.  Thank goodness for insurance, if I lose my job and insurance or the GOP kills the new health care, I will not be able to get insurance to cover any adjustments to this over the coming years.  In that case I hope you aren't of rotund proportions, I would'nt be able to see all of your fat ass as I peep through my pin hole.  

1 million (green?) jobs just left the US, and you didn't know.

Paris air show, 2 weeks ago.  Airbus kicks Boeings grotty butt.  Sales at the show; about 740 Airbus sold to 130 Boeings.   Direct and indirect downstream jobs, 1 million, sales value between 10 and 20 billion $.   If you are in sales, and your competitor hits a streak like airbus did,  it means they took so many customers out of the market that you are surely screwed for the near future, there's not going to be any low hanging fruit for a while.  It's going to be tough.
The Airbus A320neo was the hot item.  This plane competes with the Boeing 737.  The "neo" or some call it "neon" is an improved "green" A320.  With new engines and aerodynamic and weight changes, it uses 15% less fuel than the 737, and has other environmental attributes.  Boeing keeps delaying changing or replacing the 737.  They gambled that airlines would not be interested in giving up the old workhorse, they instead are spending resources  fighting the EU's new fuel pollution tax based on how much you burn in EU airspace.  Boeing is not out of step with US industry's current trend, spend less on research and development, spend more lobbying against regulations and unions and taxes.
How's that working for  us?  We can say these jobs for the A320neo are green jobs (OK greenish), certainly not like a windmill, but compared to the 737, industry bought green (OK greenish).

Dead zone, from the Gulf all the way to our back door.

The dead zone they call it, an area along the mouth of the Mississippi in the Gulf, hundreds of square miles of open sea and coastal waters, where chemicals are so heavy as to kill almost all fish, shrimp, shell fish.  Farm and yard fertilizers and pesticides kill directly as well as through starving the water of oxygen.  The only thing that normally lives through this, and often flourishes into a chocking mat, is algae, it thrives to the excess that helps kill other fauna in the water.

Today I noticed under the bridge over a man-made lake connecting to a near by creek in my neighborhood, the water chocking in algae, turtles and fish dead in the water.  These dead zone extend for thousands of twisting miles of water ways from the Gulf, to Kansas, and for sure all the way to the Canada border.  This water is not poisoned by farm run off, this is right off the yards surrounding me, me, I went organic on my yard this year.   We need to rethink our lifestyle, we are killing the fish that can feed us.

Lightning, showered the back yard with lumber

Yesterday afternoon a thunderstorm moved in, I was looking out the window when we got a few million volts through a 100ft. cottonwood about 75 ft. from the house.  Bang, lumber flying all over.  The energy boils the sap into steam in a microsecond.  Pieces like 2 x4's, 2 x 12's all around, it was an amazing thing to see.  After the storm the wood was white, this morning some of it is red.  Why has some of it turned red?

Wood turned red the day after the strike

Wood was white after lightning strike

Same wood was red the next morning

Oklahoma adds heat record to it's divorce capital of the nation claim

The numbers on the county indicate the June 2011 month long average above normal temperature.  The red is +12°F.  Oklahoma had 30 consecutive days over 90, a record, 11 days over 100, a record, 34 consecutive days above normal.  Exceptional drought more severe than the dust bowl days, fires throughout the state, crop and livestock losses will not be known for many months.

Senator Inhoff the denier in chief did not show at a Washington Science deniers convention bought and paid for by Koch Industry and Exxon.  Inhoff was to be the key note speaker.  The list of speakers, of the thousands of scientist who the global warming deniers claim as on their side, well only a couple of PhD's showed up, most speakers are TV weathermen, economist and bloggers, their experts are bloggers!  Inhoff says he's "under the weather", thats a good one, maybe he is out looking at the red sand where hay meadows once bloomed, Oooooooooh-kla-hoooomma!

What Congress is doing is unconstitutional.

14th Amendment, Section 4. The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. 


Congress already voted in law after law to buy and spend and give money for this that and the other.  What they have done is set spending at one level, and set taxing at a lower level. (untenable) The current debate over debt limit is a false event, it is routinely done every year or so and has never before been an issue, as it should not, done to cover what has been spent.  It is as if they are saying we can enjoy all this stuff, but we are not going to pay for it.  Belief if our spending as good or evil has nothing to do with it, it must be paid for so says the constitution, and the President should declare that what the Congress is doing is unconstitutional.  


Power, influence, respect within the world arena is hard to define all the events that build it, but the appearance projected these last couple of years to the world that we have a congress and senate that can no longer work to solve the richest nation on earths problems clearly does erode our position.  

The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, ...... shall not be questioned.