Mother Nature will remove the rest of the solid water this weekend, leaving only salt stains.  The brief warm spell will inspire the birds to start their territorial calls and I will tell them to "Shut up!  Spring isn't here yet!".

In an increasingly political media environment, how has journalism responded to the task of getting to the truth and informing the public? Bill Moyers sits down with NYU journalism professor and PressThink blogger Jay Rosen and political journalist and Salon.com blogger Glenn Greenwald.

Nixon- Attack
Ford- Back off
Carter- attack
Reagan- Back off
Bush I- Attack at the very end
Clinton- Attack
Bush II- basically allow to make sweet, sweet love to
Obama- Attack
They bought into Obama and Bill Clinton as Kennedy figures during their runs for office but now view them as usurpers of the righful republican throne.

Over the last six months, 11 of al Qaeda's top leaders living along the Afghan-Pakistani border have been killed by drone airstrikes. During that same time, security in southern and eastern Afghanistan deteriorated.

Form the NY Post of all places, blech!:

    In a nod to Main Street over Wall Street, sources familiar with the plan say Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner plans to allocate almost half of the remaining $350 billion in funds from the Trouble Asset Relief Program to the so-called "Mo Mod," or mortgage modification, platform.

    "Mo Mod" is an algorithmic mortgage processing program that can rewrite up to 500,000 loans a month, and will be a major part of Treasury's plan to help repair tattered bank balance sheets.

    The 21-day "Mo Mod" program works by structuring a new mortgage that more accurately reflects a home's worth so that a troubled borrower no longer owes more on their home than the property is worth.

    The process then enables a lender to pool these new mortgages together into securities that reflect more accurately a home's value, which makes them less risky for investors.

This, of course, allows the tab to run a poll on "Does Jersey Really Stink?"

Turns out, the source was a food additive processing plant across the Hudson in Jersey which was processing "fenugreek", an herb/plant.

Fenugreek is used, among other things, to make fake maple syrup taste and smell like real maple syrup.

I know that this happened on Bush's watch but to be fair can any of the collapse also be attributed to the democrats.

I've written to my Senators on numerous occasions that I believe if the credit reporting agencies are going to have so much control over how much we pay for insurance, our interest rates, etc., they should at least have an obligation to be accurate. I've fought for over a decade to get an inaccurate blight removed, paid more interest during that time, and nothing seems to work. I provided them with absolute proof they had a mistake on my report. They didn't care.

http://www.talkleft.com/story/2009/2/6/123640/0907

The former tax specialist who ran the high-priced prostitution service [Emperor's Club V.I,P.] that the authorities say was patronized by former Gov. Eliot Spitzer, was sentenced Friday to two and a half years in prison on prostitution and money-laundering conspiracy charges.

The man, Mark Brener, 63, apologized and both he and his lawyer asked for leniency, but the judge, Denny Chin of Federal District Court in Manhattan, said he was not moved by their pleas, particularly by the lawyer's suggestion that the crime had had no victims.