President Bush, who has had the easiest ride of any president in recent history, with a Senate, House, and Supreme Court backing his every move, will exercise his power to veto for the first time in his presidency when the DeGette bill reaches his desk. The bill expands federal funding of stem cell research.

It's really sad that Bush has had so much going his way, and he has still managed to mess this country up almost beyond repair. It's also sad to think that Democrats will soon come into power, fix most of Bush's mistakes, and American citizens will still get "bored" in about 10 years and vote someone like Jeb Bush or Bill Frist or Rick Santorum into the White House. We are a nation of masochists.

The stem cell research bill could be one of the most important steps forward for medical research in the past 50 years. Unfortunately, President Bush thinks that a single cell is a conscious human being, kind of like a really little midget. Instead of studying those cells, which research has already shown could help cure types of cancer, paralysis, and literally thousands of diseases, President Bush wants us to throw them away (it's more humane than studying them) and then go to church and pray for every person suffering from any disease.

I'm a member of the Methodist Church, the same flavor of Christianity as our president. The church I go to believes in doing everything reasonable to end suffering in other human beings. Apparently the church Mr. Bush goes to tells him that a single cell is more important than a developed human life. His church tells him that suffering is caused by gay people getting married - and not enough prayer. President Bush didn't just drink a cup of the Kool-Aid, he funneled the entire punch bowl.
DenverPost.com - Rove: Bush to veto DeGette bill

It has been a long time since TV had two real-life rivals as big as Keith Olbermann and Bill O'Reilly. While O'Reilly's show has been popular for years on Fox News, the top rated cable news channel, Olbermann's show started just a year ago on MSNBC, a cable news channel that's had terrible ratings for the past 5 years.

So how has Keith Olbermann's Countdown surpassed The O'Reilly Factor in the 25-54 age demographic that advertisers covet? Sure, Keith is funnier, smarter, and right more often than O'Reilly. Sure, Olbermann was never caught on tape sexually harassing a co-worker and talking about a weird fetish of his involving falafels and a loofa (belive it or not, O'Reilly was caught doing this).

The main reason may have more to do with O'Reilly's viewers. They turned against him when the realized he was the ultimate spinner. He could take a hard stance on a subject one week, then reverse it the next week without even acknowledging the flip-flop. O'Reilly also backed the wrong horse too many times in a row. He has defended every unpopular program in the president's arsenal, as one by one the public has turned against them. O'Reilly was on top when Bush was doing great. His presidency has never been a success, but people sure loved him after terrorists attacked our country. Now people are just sick of him, and they want him and O'Reilly to just go away.
Daily Kos: Olbermann's ratings pass his nemesis

Kenneth Lay has allegedly passed away, the result of a massive coronary. There is still a chance that he was picked up by a CIA helicopter late last night, transported to a rural Colorado airport, and flown away to a private island in some remote part of the world, but I sure hope not.

Ken Lay was a beast of a man and a rat of a friend. He could throw stones with the best of 'em, but when he was backed into a corner he would expend any resource, including friends, to get out of the jam. The only thing that delayed Ken Lay's inevitable prison sentence (which was due to be handed down on September 11 of this year) was his close connections to the Bush administration.

George W. and "Kenny Boy", as the president liked to call him, used to take in baseball games at Enron Field (now using a new sponsors name) during those steamy Texas summer months. George W. was president during those years, and willing to pull any favor to help Ken Lay and his company, Enron Inc., earn more energy contracts. Bush's connections with Lay would have likely landed him in prison had he not weaseled his way to a 2000 presidential election win in the state of Florida, the capital state of corruption. It's no coincidence that many former Enron executives have moved to Florida, one of the only states that will not seize property during bankruptcy procedures. It's an easy plan: liquify all assets, move to Florida, buy a huge mansion using all possible assets, declare bankruptcy. Of course, Florida was the other state run by a Bush during the year 2000.

Conspiracy theories aside, Ken Lay is now dead, and the world is a better place for it. He could make lowly, blue-collar workers proud to work for him while at the same time stealing money out of their back pocket. He was the greatest opportunist of the late 20th century, turning every crisis into a revenue-generating venture. It's a shame Enron didn't last long enough to be a viable company by September 11, 2001. They would have found a way to make billions off of it, and then Ken Lay would have found a way to take those billions for himself.

Ken Lay would have been sentenced to a very long prison term on September 11 of this year, the 5 year anniversary of the tragedy of 9/11. The sentencing date was an intentional attempt to draw attention away from the case, because any time the case came up, so did the Bush-Lay connection. That connection will no longer need to be made, but I'll keep doing it any way. Ken Lay will probably get some elaborate, 10-foot-tall tombstone that will be an insult to everyone else in the cemetary. If there's any justice in this world, that monument will include an engraving of Ken Lay and George W. Bush, embracing each other in a big bear hug.
Bloomberg.com: Worldwide

Kenneth Lay has allegedly passed away, the result of a massive coronary. There is still a chance that he was picked up by a CIA helicopter late last night, transported to a rural Colorado airport, and flown away to a private island in some remote part of the world, but I sure hope not.

Ken Lay was a beast of a man and a rat of a friend. He could throw stones with the best of 'em, but when he was backed into a corner he would expend any resource, including friends, to get out of the jam. The only thing that delayed Ken Lay's inevitable prison sentence (which was due to be handed down on September 11 of this year) was his close connections to the Bush administration.

George W. and "Kenny Boy", as the president liked to call him, used to take in baseball games at Enron Field (now using a new sponsors name) during those steamy Texas summer months. George W. was president during those years, and willing to pull any favor to help Ken Lay and his company, Enron Inc., earn more energy contracts. Bush's connections with Lay would have likely landed him in prison had he not weaseled his way to a 2000 presidential election win in the state of Florida, the capital state of corruption. It's no coincidence that many former Enron executives have moved to Florida, one of the only states that will not seize property during bankruptcy procedures. It's an easy plan: liquify all assets, move to Florida, buy a huge mansion using all possible assets, declare bankruptcy. Of course, Florida was the other state run by a Bush during the year 2000.

Conspiracy theories aside, Ken Lay is now dead, and the world is a better place for it. He could make lowly, blue-collar workers proud to work for him while at the same time stealing money out of their back pocket. He was the greatest opportunist of the late 20th century, turning every crisis into a revenue-generating venture. It's a shame Enron didn't last long enough to be a viable company by September 11, 2001. They would have found a way to make billions off of it, and then Ken Lay would have found a way to take those billions for himself.

Ken Lay would have been sentenced to a very long prison term on September 11 of this year, the 5 year anniversary of the tragedy of 9/11. The sentencing date was an intentional attempt to draw attention away from the case, because any time the case came up, so did the Bush-Lay connection. That connection will no longer need to be made, but I'll keep doing it any way. Ken Lay will probably get some elaborate, 10-foot-tall tombstone that will be an insult to everyone else in the cemetary. If there's any justice in this world, that monument will include an engraving of Ken Lay and George W. Bush, embracing each other in a big bear hug.
Bloomberg.com: Worldwide

North Korea has launched a missle into the Sea of Japan. Japanese officials are still trying to determine what type of missle was used in the test. If it was a long-range ballistic missle expect a swift response from Japan and the United Nations.

North Korea has recently threatened that it would test a Taepodong 2 missle, which could be strong enough to reach parts of the United States with a limited payload. Although communist North Korea prides itself on having a strong military program, the country has trouble feeding its own and is supported by world aid that can be used as a bargaining chip by its opponents.
BREITBART.COM - N. Korea Launches Missile Into Sea of Japan