Mouthing off:

There is still so much happening and I have come to the conclusion that I am delusional - I think I know what I am talking about but in reality I do not! It is all so confusing!
Well, here goes. I will insert one little thing - Sarah Palin is on her way to Israel - why in God's name - I do not know - they stay it's the lst step in her declaring her candidacy for prez. God help us!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now - Wisconsin - "Scott Walter Under Fire" - headlines. A judge halts his "collective bargaining" bill because it was kind of a shady way to get a bill passed. Especially since he gave them a 2 hr notice! It is just stopped temporarily until they vote on it again and since that time there are a ton of people (I hope!) who don't like that bill and hopefully some of these Republican Senators are going to be intimadated by their constituants and change their votes. I hope again! V.P. Biden gave a beautful speech, I think it was a town hall meeting w/the AFL/CIO and it was really a good speech about how we need "collective bargaining" etc.
Now - Japan. They are still trying to connect the power lines at the reactors which is very disappointing as I guess everyone thought they would have been re-connected yesterday. It is now official - California has some radiation - very minute - nothing to "write home about" and they are telling everyone not to go out to buy iodine potassium, not to buy gas masks, not to buy geiger counters, etc. Hopefully no one here is panicking. We're not! I have a friend that e-mailed (from out of town) to not go out this weekend. What then? Our windows are open - and what happens after the weekend. If God forbid it was very bad, I don't know what we would do. We do have a ceiling fan in the bedroom but we are not really sealed in here even w/the windows closed. I will not worry about it. BTW, I have been misspelling the name of the plant - it is Fukushima and they are both Fukushima - the one that is in trouble is Daichi.
Now - Libya! I watch and watch and I am very confused. lst of all - Obama said today that there will be no U.S. military on the ground of Libya. Yay! But, that is today. Who knows what will happen tomorrow. In the meantime, there is a pro-democracy uprising in Yemen! But that's another story.
Back to Libya - there is a No Fly Zone order out from the U.N.
What that means exactly is - I DO NOT KNOW! I know that if we put out a no fly zone, that means we are technically at war because then we have to send planes to bomb Libya. Now, Cong. Kucinich (D-OH) says that "war from the air is still war".
Which means we and other countries are sending planes to bomb, but what I can't understand is we are trying to protect the civilians and have warned Ghadaffi that he cannot harm the civilians and so how can the planes bomb and be sure they are not harming civilians? Beats me! Libyan official says that
"rebels have committed crimes against humanity". I can believe that - very easily! But Ghadaffi has been doing that for years and years! He's always been bad! Also heard that Libyan military has violated U.N. resolution. Now that's not surprising, is it? Per Sec'y Gates, "it's not a question of what we or our allies can do - the question is should we do it". We could get sucked (their word, not mine!) into something and we don't know who to support - evidently there are more than one rebel group. Who knows! Whatever - it is not good out there and maybe I will know more over the weekend. It really is confusing!
And, whatever happens, WE DO NOT NEED ANOTHER WAR!
BTW, did I put in yesterday that Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) he is the senate minority leader (and hopefully the Republicans will always be the minority in the senate) he says if we don't cut social security, they are closing the government!
Well, I don't believe they will as the last time it was done was during the Clinton Adm. ((I believe) and it was done by Gingrich and it didn't help him one bit!
Again, BTW, my own opinion, I don't believe for one minute Newt thinks he can get nominated let alone elected. He goes on speaking tours that he charges big $$$ for (probably not as much as Palin) but when he is running for prez he can charge more $$$$ and also, when the donations come in, he can eat better, also! He and his wife (whicheve this one is). I know - it's his 3rd wife, her name is Calista (like Harrison Ford's wife, Calista Flockhart) and who cares about Newt, anyhow!