Video: Angry Biden Tells Teamsters They Better Not Vote Republican

I can't say if this is true or not, so here it is. The unions were said to have organized crime connections. Accordingly, I am reminded of the Godfather scene in which the movie big shot wakes up with a horse head in his bed. So, Biden is angry. If you vote Republican, do you get a horse head in your bed?

ecat news

Looks like a good source of news.

As for this blog, I just don't have the training to evaluate it.   The author of that site seems to do a good job, as far as I can tell.

Senator Rand Paul (R-KY), Founder, Senate Tea Party Caucus

He is threatening a filibuster in order to ensure debate on the debt ceiling. Go for it.

A study in contrasts

Iran claims America is no longer free.

But there are those who would take issue with that.  Iran's rulers should take heart in the so called leaders we have now.  For if we did have real leaders, they would be in very, very big trouble right now.  Actually, our so called leaders are their salvation.  If enough people here saw it that way, things would change here very fast, and change very fast elsewhere, especially for that bullshit regime.

We don't need anything from them, including their oil.  They need it more, because without it, they are nothing.

US Constitution

There has been some discussion about the 14th amendment as justification for ignoring the debt limit.  I have looked this over and I can't see anywhere in the Constitution where the President has the right and the power to ignore the law, or any law.  I can't see anywhere where the President can issue debt or any such power that would resemble it.  My opinion over the section in question, Section 4 of the amendment, is related to Civil War debts and has no bearing on current conditions.  In other words, it is a flimsy pretext for ignoring the law.

How to remote-control a robot on another planet

by Amara D. Angelica, Kurzweil Blog

This needs to be controlled from a place nearby.  Let's say, from the Earth to the Moon, or from Phobos to the surface of Mars.  It would be hard to control it in this fashion from Earth to Mars.  The time delay would make it impractical.

Morning Summary, July 4, 2011

Happy July 4th, America! Only, it doesn't seem as happy as it should. I didn't report on it, but there were some nasty looking articles out there recently. There seems to be a failure to grasp the significance of events and this failure seems to span the entire country.

Things have changed, and you have to adjust to the changes. Yet it seems as though the people want to keep on doing things the same old way as always. There's going to have to be some acceptance of the new order of things, and that means a reordering of priorities for this country.

Military spending will have to be cut- a lot. Entitlement spending will have to be cut- a lot. Taxes will have to go up- a lot. That's because the deficit is freaking huge. We don't have the money and we can't just can't borrow and borrow until we wreck the financial structure of the country.

It probably means that we can't defend the rest of the world anymore. They have economies that can rival ours. Why do we have to defend them? They can defend themselves. Of course, this could open up a can of worms because you don't know how these changes will play out. But the fact is, we don't have the capacity to shape events as we please. We have to take our chances with things the way they are, not as we would wish for them to be.

But, I don't know if the politicians see it this way. It kinda looks like they are going to play this the same way as always. And that worries me.