This latest seeming Voice from the Universe telling us to move away from Dinosaur Crap as our main source of energy comes in the form of a $1.85 Million fine.

Al Gore has asked for our help.  I am responding to his request.  I hope you will do the same in kind.

Well, by now you've heard that Michigan's economy is like a giant black hole that nothing in any other part of the country can escape from it's gravitational pull, not even light.  And I am the first one out there to take a punch in the eye for my gal, the Honorable Jennifer Granholm, Governor.  She was handed a pile of John Engler poop and told to clean it up and sell it as compost.  But not even Jen could have forseen what George W. Bush's NAFTA abuses would do to our country.  

Let me disclose right off the bat that I never knew the names of the people at the head of the Washington bureau of the Associated Press until I read this article from Politico today.  I don't know where some of you people find time to research this stuff, and know as much as some of you know, I honestly don't.  But I can tell you that when I broke into the broadcast industry some 28 years ago, there were two acronyms that were the stalwarts of journalism.  They were AP and UPI (United Press International).  Those days may be coming to an end.

Flint, Michigan.  A quiet, dusty, all-but-abandoned auto town that once was the darling zip code for the mass production era may soon be making the front pages again.  Only this time, instead of bumpers it's butt cracks.

If you're enough of a nitwit to stumble into the parts of the deep south that hate gays, blacks, women in power positions and fish with feet -- and film two hairy guys kissing just to see their reaction -- then you deserve to get some attention, I suppose.

"We maintained full authority of the aircraft" air officials said of the plane with Senator and presidential candidate Barack Obama aboard.  What the hell does that even mean?

His name is Jason Burnett.  You may have never heard of him, but if you had chances are it would have been because of his passion for the environment.  But according to some sentiments here at Daily Kos, his passion might make him a single issue democrat.  And that's a bad thing?

Patriotism over these past 8 years seemed so inappropriate.  Well, first there was the loss of a balanced budget - I mean like that!  He no sooner had picked up the hammer and the little glass piggy was in shards all over the place.

It's something we're not about to do today, or likely tomorrow, or perhaps ever under these circumstances.  It might have been easier to have agreed upon some ubiquity of certain core values in the progressive movement if we'd been asked to do it the day after we invaded Iraq.  But not now.

This will be a shorty.  It will garner few to zero recommends.  And the point I will be making will be as passing as I suppose those views of the people about which I am making it.

What a kooky statement this is about a state that staked its entire future on the Auto Industry.  Following the biggest plummet in GM's stock prices in 3 decades, at the moment the Pleasant Penninsula's future may seem even bleaker!

Ok, now if you're going to take issue with that statement per se, then fine.  You probably have a point.  

As would, Black concedes with startling candor after we raise the issue, another terrorist attack on U.S. soil. "Certainly it would be a big advantage to him," says Black.

But there's a narrative that's being peddled here right under your noses.

Regnery Publishing gave us the most unfounded, baseless ball of lies the country every bought lock stock and barrel.  It was the "Swift Boating" of John Kerry.  Now they're back.  It's Swift Boat:  The Obama Version coming to a bookstore and website near you.

This appears in this morning's CBS News roundup.  I don't see a discussion on it here.

Ever wonder what happened to the dottering, old kook from the Weather Channel that was the world's foremost Global Warming Denier?  His name is ... was ... John Coleman.  And yes, he was instrumental in getting the Weather Channel on the map.  But then one day Coleman whipped out his political affiliation and the rest was his undoing.

The future of our civilization lies in the balance.  

That’s the battle cry of the High Priest of Global Warming Al Gore and his fellow, agenda driven disciples as they predict a calamitous outcome from anthropogenic global warming.  According to Mr. Gore the polar ice caps will collapse and melt and sea levels will rise 20 feet inundating the coastal cities making 100 million of us refugees.  Vice President Gore tells us numerous Pacific islands will be totally submerged and uninhabitable.  He tells us global warming will disrupt the circulation of the ocean waters, dramatically changing climates, throwing the world food supply into chaos.

The party as we knew it is already destroyed.  And I got news for you.  From my perspective, it began with folks like you here at Daily Kos.

First it was the venomous hate toward one of our own candidates.

Then it spread to would-be icons like Keith Olbermann and Ed Shultz who, hoping to stay in the good graces of the percieved best shot, followed suit and pandered to your hateful rattlings.

You people weren't here when I got here.  It was a different little spot on the internets.

Then you came ... and it became exactly what I was looking for sanctuary from, except with a (D) in front of your name.