As America’s roads come to a standstill over the next few hours, Thanksgiving has proven itself recession proof as families do whatever is necessary to get together for this special occassion.

Let’s spare a moments thought for those in uniform who will not be spending Thanksgiving with their loved ones. They must find other ways of being with the family for Thanksgiving.  Like Skype! This picture says it all. Courtesy of Boston.Com

Rep Alan Grayson of Florida - refreshingly honest

Watching the evening news tonight, it has become clear to me that no-one, not me, not the political pundits, nor the senators themselves, knows what if any, health care legislation gets to be passed by the Senate.

Will it include a public option or won’t it? Will it produce cost savings? Will it curb insurance company abuses? Will it extend insurance to millions of the uninsured? Will there be a state opt out?

Well, since four Democratic Senators, ( Blanche Lincoln, (D-AR) Max Baucus,(D-MN) Ben Nelson (D-NE), and Mary Landrieu (D-LA)) have gone on record as stating that they will not support the public option in its current form, aswell as one former Democrat, (Joe Leiberman I-CT) stating that he would not support a public option in any form; political lines in the sand have been firmly staked out on both sides of the debate. Continue Reading…

All rational and compassionate Americans need to give Bernie Goldberg, a “Conservative pundit” on Fox News’s payroll a kick up the ass for having said what must be the most disgusting generalisation of the year – the headline of this post.

Or perhaps a fxxx you, as Jon Stewart so politely stated behind the shuffling of his papers on The Daily Show. The whole video is”must watch”, but for the delusional Bernie Goldberg statement, fast forward to 6.19  minutes into the video

I am no fan of Sarah Palin. I don’t believe that she has any right to be a torchbearer for anything political since giving up the governership of Alaska.

Her naked ambitions to run for President are all too apparent, no matter how poorly she attempts to disguise it. Her well timed book publication and its inevitable top ten placement in the New York Times Best Sellers List will probably end up funding her presidential campaign in 2012….which she will lose and probably lose badly.

She is her own best friend as well as own worst enemy. The conservatives think the former, what remains of the Republican Party believe the latter. Continue Reading…

I must admit only a passing interest to the Carrie Prejean story that has developed over the last year or so. My interest however was peeked when I heard about some (manual labour) sex tapes that Carrie had claimed she had put together when she was seventeen, and almost surfaced on the net; a rather unusual thing for a lady of such high moral values to do.

So the fact that she is now hawking her 15 minutes of fame book on TV is regrettably not surprising at all these days, but she managed to take her own hypocrisy and petulance to new levels in an interview with Larry King on Thursday evening.