"Try Jesus Free for 30 Days.  If You're Not Satisfied, Satan Will Take You Back."

His agony over 'the story' tells me he was never suitable for anything but campaigning for an office sans record. Just a  story won't work while running for re-election when a record can be examined.

Smoke and Mirrors don't cut it.

He also made the mistake of buying the bi-partisan meme: " ... at this juncture, the country will feel better about itself ... if they see Democrats and Republicans agreeing on anything. ... "

Josh's teacher is using this system as a math grade lynchpin. Most of the kids ignored her IXL assignments too and some of us parents weren't up to date on the IXL assignments and what it was all about....me being one of them.  My child got a less than great IXL grade due completely to neglect.  You can work the assignment until you get a 100%.  Of couse to get to the 100% there is an excellent change you will have mastered the skill being taught.  This whole concept is amazing to me, I wish they'd had it when I was a kid.

My son is spoiled rotten too when it comes to video games.  When I discovered the IXL neglect and also the fact that every assignment has the unlimited possibility of eventually becoming a 100% grade I told Joshua all of his IXL assignments would be completed and completed to 100% before video games could be approached after school.  If he crosses me on this I will ground him from video games for a week.  The thought of that caused him to go really pale.  As long as my kid loves video games, I have pull.

Several parents are complaining though.  They say IXL takes too long to get to 100%.  They want their kid to be assigned 20 problems, I guess so they can check them all and literally do the work for their kids.  My son's school is horrible about having that problem.  But IXL takes too long and is cutting into baseball and dance class.

So, Geithner wouldn't like the agreed choice of action and he would slow walk it while having his staff work on a different plan more fleshed out.  Nobody else up there had that kind of access to such creative resources.

Geithner should be gone.  I know it has been proposed that the President worries about getting a new head of Treasury confirmed and that is why Geithner remains.  But he is getting the Republicans over a barrel lately and exposing them for their attempts to destroy what remains of our economy. I would think that refusing to confirm a new Treasury Secretary would also be along the lines of political terrorism.  This President is so fight averse though, if he even wanted Geithner gone would he do it?  He seems to genuinely like and dote on the guy so who knows what the President really wants or thinks where Tim Geithner is concerned.  I only know I'm damned close to hating the guy, he is clearly culpable over and over and over again in creating and empowering our failing economic infrastructure that is dragging the whole country down and sucking the vitality out of our remaining economy. The power and authority granted him causes me to have no faith in my President and my President's leadership.

Italy - in all its trademark aesthetically pleasant complexity is so absorbing it's easy to make you forget about the rest of the world. Well, the New York Times didn't have this excuse when it ignored Occupy Wall Street - happening in its hometown for days. But now the whole world is watching, as Occupy Wall Street is fast becoming a US-wide national movement.

And as much as those representing 99% of the American population - peaceful, harmless rejects of liquid modernity are mad as hell and don't feel inclined to take it anymore, predictably the solid elites still don't have a clue about what's goin' on.

But make no mistake; fear is starting to eat their souls. It's visible in the way politicians and their corporate media shills deride the protesters as a "stagnant movement", a bunch of "nuts" or worse, "criminals".

Do these faces strike you as "criminal"?

Against all odds, in all its gloriously decentralized way, Occupy Wall Street at the very least seems to be offering a global road map to Fight the Power. I'm sure the Buddha of Peshawar would approve it - because that also implies fighting the Power's wars. As Zizek put it, "we know we will often desire something but do not really want it. Don't really be afraid to really want what you desire." Self-appointed Masters of the Universe, be afraid. Be very afraid.

If you are an NFL fan, here is a graph of prices at each stadium.  Cleveland the low dog at $5, St Louis at the top for $9.

Click around, they have a graph for all major league sports.   LINK
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Does this factor at all into the common theme here that both parties are equally beneficial to Wall Street?

In my mind, cash from large companies are a requirement to be President, for better or worse.  But there is a distinction between the two parties that Wall Street itself sees clearly. That should matter.

"Rising Republican star Herman Cain is now more popular the President Obama, a new poll of likely voters found.

The front page might as well have been written by TL.

6 stories or so, all of which but one were TL headline stories.

The kids are called "the expendables".

McCraw said his investigators have evidence six Mexican drug gangs -- including the violent Zetas -- have "command and control centers" in Texas actively recruiting children for their operations, attracting them with what appears to be "easy money" for doing simple tasks.

"Cartels would pay kids $50 just for them to move a vehicle from one position to another position, which allows the cartel to keep it under surveillance to see if law enforcement has it under surveillance," he said.

"Of course, once you're hooked up with them, there's consequences."