last night I saw (again) the Angelina movie "Wanted".
its pretty brainless but lots of fun and the soundtrack is by Danny Elfman (of Oingo Boingo) and this song has been stuck firmly in my head ever since.

President Obama often talks about all of the forces lining up against his health care plan. But there's one critic who has remained relatively mum in the debate.

Dr. David Scheiner was President Obama's personal physician for 22 years.

"This isn't that kind of health care program that I think is going to work," he said.

So what makes Scheiner so special? He was Obama's personal physician for 22 years, and voted for the former Illinois senator in the 2008 presidential election.

Scheiner thinks the president's plan doesn't go far enough.

"If I had to say the single one thing which is the worst part of it, is that private insurers continue to be a part of the health scheme," he said. "Everybody keeps saying we don't want the government getting involved in health care. [But] the government is involved in Medicare, and it works."

The House on Thursday bucked President Barack Obama's veto threats and overwhelmingly approved a $636 billion Pentagon spending bill for fiscal 2010.

The bill, passed on a 400-30 vote, does meet Obama's demand to cap the F-22 fighter jet program, something he personally lobbied for. But the measure still contains funding for two programs that have drawn veto threats from the administration.

In particular, the White House this week threatened to veto the bill over $560 million for an alternate engine for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter as well as $485 million for new helicopters to fly the president on short trips from the White House. The Obama administration did not request funding for either program.

I voted for Obama over Clinton in the primaries and voted for him over McCain, but his performance so far leaves me wishing I had voted for Clinton and that the Deomcrats had nominated her instead.

The beer bash being held today at the White House is nonsense. Obama has more impt issues to deal with than to indulge in this foolish PR stunt.

Apparently (according to Fox News) some of the "stimulus" money has gone to fund....well.....things that stimulate:

Talk about a stimulus package.

The National Endowment for the Arts may be spending some of the money it received from the Recovery and Reinvestment Act to fund nvde simulated-$ex dances, Saturday night "pervert" revues and the airing of pronographic horror films at art houses in San Francisco.

The NEA was given $80 million of the government's $787 billion economic stimulus bill to spread around to needy artists nationwide, and most of the money is being spent to help preserve jobs in museums, orchestras, theaters and dance troupes that have been hit hard by the recession.

But some of the NEA's grants are spicing up more than the economy. A few of their more risque choices have some taxpayer advocates hot under the collar, including a $50,000 infusion for the Frameline film house, which recently screened Thundercrack, "the world's only underground kinky art prono horror film, complete with four men, three women and a gorilla."

What is his definition of an illegal gun?

Can he put more definition to what his ideas of juvenile intervention need to be, what sort of juvenile programs is he going to champion?  What in particular is he going to do from his position of power?

That it changed from that to Crowely is a liar and Gates never called him a racist.

I don't see the second argument making any sense.  If Gates didn't call Crowely a racist, then that means (while yes race is always in it) Crowely brought race into it, and i've been operating under the assumption that Crowely knows enough about race that polarizing the incident racially would not be good for him.

And it also basically means Crowely arrested Gates for doing nothing at all.

And lastly, it seems to contradict the interviews i've seen with gates since the incident.

Even if crowely lied on other parts of the report, that does not mean he lied about gates's behavior.

A giant Mousetrap game

Killer Chipmunks

Timelapsed video of Disneyland construction

And finally,

Ted Kennedy, Stephen Hawking, Sandra Day O'Connor,  Jack Kemp, Desmond Tutu, Billie Jean King, Rev. Joseph Lowery, Harvey Milk,  Sidney Poitier, Chita Rivera, Nancy Goodman Brinker, Pedro José Greer, Jr., Joe Medicine Crow - High Bird, Mary Robinson, Janet Davison Rowley, Muhammad Yunus..  

A new report estimates that the number of illegal immigrants in the U.S. has dropped nearly 14 percent in two years, a trend that mirrors the deflation of the once-fiery immigration debate.

The Center for Immigration Studies, a nonpartisan think tank that favors reduced illegal immigration but does not advocate mass deportations, estimates that since summer 2007 the illegal-immigrant population has dropped from 12.5 million -- its peak -- to 10.8 million in the first quarter of 2009.

The CIS report also said there is evidence that the number of new illegal immigrants arriving has fallen by about one-third in the past two years compared to earlier this decade.

The drops have corresponded with a decrease in the number of illegal immigrants apprehended trying to cross into the U.S. and with a decline in the remittances sent back by immigrants to their home countries.

The figures also correspond with the deflation of the hot-button immigration issue, which reached a frenzy with the Sensenbrenner bill in 2005 and the mass immigration protests of 2006, faded into the background during the 2008 presidential campaign, and has taken a decided legislative back seat to issues such as healthcare and climate change in this Congress.

Fire gutted the Chain Bridge Road mansion and extensive art collection of longtime D.C. arts patron Peggy Cooper Cafritz late Wednesday, and officials said low water pressure slowed firefighters' efforts to contain the blaze.

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The blaze devoured what Cafritz's nephew called a "museum-quality art collection" by African and African American artists, and destroyed a home that had been the site of countless political fundraisers, book parties and receptions, as well as a refuge for the struggling artists and young people Cafritz routinely took under her wing.

Cafritz, a former president of the D.C. Board of Education, and her family were vacationing Wednesday on Martha's Vineyard, said her nephew, Casey Cooper. She had planned to return to the house Thursday night in time to host a fundraiser for Terri Sewell, who Cooper said is vying to become the first African American woman elected to Congress from Cafritz's home state of Alabama.