If there is a loving god ,why does he permit-much less create- earthquakes, floods, droughts, tornadoes and other natural disasters that kill thousands of men, women and children ever year?The people in the gulf are now praying to the sky-daddy for help. I suggest taking an eyedropper and filling a thimble up with oil. That a least would help.

The human race will not be extinct in 100 yrs. Keith Riichards and the cockroaches will live on.

Human race 'will be extinct within 100 years', claims leading scientist

By NIALL FIRTH
Last updated at 1:59 AM on 19th June 2010

• Comments (539)
• Add to My Stories

Professor Frank Fenner has warned that the human race can not survive

As the scientist who helped eradicate smallpox he certainly know a thing or two about extinction.

And now Professor Frank Fenner, emeritus professor of microbiology at the Australian National University, has predicted that the human race will be extinct within the next 100 years.

He has claimed that the human race will be unable to survive a population explosion and 'unbridled consumption.’

Fenner told The Australian newspaper that 'homo sapiens will become extinct, perhaps within 100 years.'

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1287643/Human-race-extinct-100-years-population-explosion.html#ixzz0rVrEaTo7

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/06/19/perry-textbooks/

Texas Can’t Afford To Buy New Far-Right Textbooks, But Rick Perry Still Resists Federal Aid

For the past year, far-right members of the Texas Board of Education have been overhauling the state’s textbook standards. The changes include “pushing for inclusion of more…Confederate glorification,” re-naming the Atlantic slave trade the “Atlantic Triangle Trade,” prioritizing “a suggestion that the anti-communist witch-hunt by Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s may have been justified,” and raising doubtabout climate change.

However, the Texas Observer now reports that the state can’t afford to buy the new books:

The state normally replaces textbooks on a rotating basis every 10 years. With Texas facing a budget shortfall of at least $11 billion in 2011, the money isn’t going to be there. Textbooks covering the new science standards would have cost $400 million, and the Legislature is already expecting a bill of $888 million for textbooks already ordered.

To ensure that students can still be exposed to “proof, supposedly, of evolution’s fallibility,” the Board is trying to secure funding for special “supplements for science classes from fifth grade through high school.” Social studies textbooks aren’t up for replacement until 2013 — by then, Texas might have enough money to teach their students about Phyllis Schlafly and the Moral Majority.

The lack of textbook funding underscores Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s (R) constant compulsion to oppose federal funding that could help his state. At the beginning of June, he refused to let Texas compete for Race to the Top funding for education reform because he falsely claimed the program would weaken the state’s school standards. That allegation was even refuted by a fellow Republican governor, Sonny Perdue of Georgia. A Houston Chronicle editorial from earlier this week lamented Perry’s stubborn “grandstanding” while noting why Texas needs additional, federal education funding: “Of the 50 states, we’re No. 49 in the percentage of adults who’ve completed high school; and it’s estimated that a third of our Texas high school freshmen don’t make it to graduation.”

Texas faces a daunting $18 billion shortfall for the next two-year budget cycle, amounting to 20 percent of the total budget, but Perry misguidedly insists he can find enough spending cuts to create balance, and he is even blustering about rejecting supplementary Medicaid funding from Congress that would greatly help address the state’s fiscal woes. Last year, he tried to reject the stimulus money that proved key to balancing Texas’ budget, insisting, “We can take care of ourselves,” before the legislature intervened and secured the relief.

Perry’s serial rejections, both actual and attempted, evoke his flirtation with secession; of course, with more federal aid, he might be able to afford teaching Texan youth about “the ‘significant contributions‘ of pro-slavery Confederate leaders during the civil war.” (HT:@DahliaLithwick)

- William Tomasko

Prosecute Massey Sign Petition

http://www.prosecutemassey.org/

This is not a canned petition. This is a petition that will go directly to the prosecutor looking for support. Bobby Kennedy Jr. Interviewed Russel Malcharver (spelling) on Ring of Fire Radio.com this weekend. Malcharver says the prosecutor told him that if there is enough of a political climate in the country as evidenced by signatures on the petition and calls etc, the prosecuter may feel supported enough to take Blankenship on. Malchiver has put together The CorporateCrimeReporter.com for about 20 years.

Give a signature and please share this information.

The GSE Lie

Hey Tom and Louise. I'm a Canadian trading (among other things) US mortgage debt. The Fannie & Freddie cause subprime lie is proof of how stupid the banksters and Republicans think the American people are.

As you said subprime began as a business with non-bank companies. Even if Fannie and Freddie wanted to get into the business, they couldn't because Congress slapped a moratorium on them after the accounting scandals of the early 2000s. They did it so the banks could own the mortgage business and GSE share of mortgage origination fell dramatically. The GSEs were ultimately felled by their own shareholders' desire for higher margins when they began buying subprime mortgages originated by someone else. In the end, less than $700 billion in subprime paper of the nearly $6 billion in total mortgage debt the GSEs owned and guaranteed are what did the GSEs in.

Thom. Please. Encourage your citizenry to read more. None of these facts are hard to find!

Those Anthony Borowitz comments crack me up

re: 22: yeah, when they are seven...

Rahm Must Go There is blood in the water folks. Let's get on the horn to the Whitehouse, now is our chance. Get rid of that bastard.

Peter Ferrara screams like a banshee. Or maybe like a 2 year old. That's what kid's do--keep talking and screaming and can't understand any other point of view except their own.

If, as Mike Papantonio so aptly noted, Rush Limbaugh and Glen Beck are bottom feeders, maybe they'll both lose some weight, since BP has effectively killed off their food supply!

“Democrats have not stood behind the president in the way Republicans did for George W Bush, and that was meant to be Rahm’s job.” Alex Spillius,London Telegraph

President Obama has not stood behind Democrats.