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So Blago’s guilty of lying, but after six and half years of Justice Department investigations, many millions spent, federal prosecutors couldn’t convince 12 of his peers that he was guilty of any of the other 23 charges. Blago will likely be re-tried.

Our hemisphere is having the hottest summer ever recorded – wildfires in Russia, an iceberg four times the size of Manhattan has broken off Greenland, and Pakistan has more than 20 million affected by flooding with 8+ million in desperate need of food and clean water – yet, the Climate and Energy Bill is being held hostage by Senate Republicans who continue to deny global climate change has been caused by their hot air.

Caffeinated by the tea party, a one-word “no” platform, 309 Senate bills on Republican hold, gay marriage and immigration laws in the courts, a Muslim community center in Manhattan, and the Bush economy/legacy of failure abandoned on Obama’s doorstep, the Republicans are so poorly managed they only have $10.9 million for fall campaigns – now they get a $1 million partial bailout from News Corp., the owner of the Wall Street Journal and Fox Not-Really-News.

With a “real” unemployment rate of 16.5%, a net loss of 131,000 jobs last month, wage growth a misnomer, the current rate of bankruptcies near a 5-year high, record numbers without health insurance, record numbers of foreclosures, exports tanking, trade deficits exploding, bank earnings weakening, 80% of the exiting stimulus allocated to the states, but only 47% spent, and a second stimulus bill dead in the Senate waters –  the $10 billion subsidy just passed to pay states to keep or hire teachers has many school districts saying they aren’t going to rehire teachers, they’ll try to save it to help next year which is sure to be worse.

Haiti is still in ruins, 1.5 million people are still displaced, only about 10% of the money pledged (including the US contribution) has actually been given, Bill Clinton is out doing collections while Hillary is leading by example: she’s contributed $10 via text to relief efforts, but there’s still hope – Fugees’ rapper Wyclef Jean is running for President.

Gone in August:  Oscar-winning actress, Patricia Neal (84, lung cancer); Bobby Hebb, ‘Sunny’ singer-songwriter (72, lung cancer); “Shot Heard ‘Round the World” baseball player Bobby Thomson (86, long illness); jazz singer, civil rights activist, Abbey Lincoln (80, long illness); actor Paul Rudd (70, pancreatic cancer); film and TV producer, David Wolper (82, heart failure); former Alaska Senator Ted Stevens (87, plane crash in the bad weather that they didn’t check for before taking off); celebrity plastic surgeon, Frank Ryan (50, texting while driving); writer, pundit, segregationist, James Kilpatrick (89, heart failure); Gap Band musician, Robert Wilson (53, heart attack); singer for the Diamonds, Ted Kowalski (79, heart disease); Pardon by Bill Clinton for accepting kickbacks, 18 term Congressman and former Chairman of the House Ways & Means Committe, Dan Rostenkowski (82, unspecified); bluegrass bassist, Mitch Jayne (82, cancer); guitarist, Catfish Collins (66, cancer); writer, philosopher, Mary Anne Warren (88, unknown); Georgia goobernatorial candidate, Karen Handel (48, failed to convince 1,244 more voters she was less evil than Nathan Deal); HP CEO, Mark Hurd (53, complications from greed and sex-related hubris); hate radio host, Dr. Laura Schlessinger (63, fatal hemmoraging of the N word on air); the last US combat troops in Iraq (7, campaign promise); unimaginable numbers of aquatic creatures and birds, plus 80% of the oil that leaked into the Gulf from BP’s Macondo well (3 months, greed, negligence, inadequate regulation and political bribery).

Update, August 21, 2010:

• Blago: Jurors report that there was only one holdout juror unconvinced of Blago’s guilt on most of the other charges.
• Hottest Summer: Now heavy rains have devastated China and North Korea leaving 4,000 dead or missing, more than 50,000 displaced and ‘extremely dangerous” cracks have been found in the Three Gorges dam threatening hundreds of thousands.
• Republican Fundraising: Politico reports the RNC now has only $5.5 million on hand for the midterm elections and $2.2 million in debt.
• Jobs: For the week ending Aug. 14, new unemployment filings exceeded 500,000 – the worst job report since Nov. 2009.
• Hope in Haiti: The Haiti electoral commission ruled yesterday that Wyclef Jean is ineligible to run for president .

Lee Leslie

I’m just a plateaued-out plain person with too much time on his hands fighting the never ending lingual battle with windmills for truth, justice and the American way or something like that. Here are some reader comments on my writing: “Enough with the cynicism. One doesn’t have to be Pollyanna to reject the sky is falling fatalism of Lee Leslie’s posts.” “You moron.” “Again, another example of your simple-minded, scare-mongering, label-baiting method of argumentation that supports the angry left’s position.” “Ah, Lee, you traffic in the most predictable, hackneyed leftist rhetoric that brought us to the current state of political leadership.” “You negative SOB! You destroyed all my hope, aspiration, desperation, even.” “Don’t you LIBERALS realize what this COMMIE is talking about is SOCIALISM?!?!?!” “Thank you for wonderful nasty artful toxic antidote to this stupidity in the name of individual rights.” “I trust you meant “bastard” in the truest father-less sense of the word.” “That’s the first time I ran out of breath just from reading!” “You helped me hold my head a little higher today.” “Makes me cry every time I read it.” “Thanks for the article. I needed something to make me laugh this mourning.” “If it weren’t so sad I would laugh.” "... the man who for fun and personal growth (not to mention rage assuagion) can skin a whale of bullshit and rack all the meat (and rot) in the larder replete with charts and graphs and a kindness..."“Amen, brother.”

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