Seventeen minutes until the State of the Union address, and I can hardly wait.  It's going to be insufferable.  It still amazes me that the American people are so stupid that they put George W. Bush back in power.

And we are going to pay for it- in spades, as they say in Missouri. He's going to scare the shit out of stupid old people about Social Security, just to get that money flowing in to Wall Street.  He's going to brag and smirk and tear up about the vote in Iraq, ignoring all the carnage that has taken place and will continue to take place. He's going to threaten the rest of the world, and then follow through on those threats. Goodbye Iraq, Hello Iran.

How can this be happening?  Is this the way it happened in Germany?  Do people just sit by helplessly, because I guess we are all helpless.  Those who control the government control the power.  All the dissenters can do is duck and run.  And wait to get beaten in a war some years down the line, when justice finally rears it's head in some distant land.

Chris Matthews is an insufferable front-running suckup phoney who should be tarred and feathered.  I can't believe he's from San Francisco.

Well, here comes Dick Cheney.  My God, it's downright frightening!

"I have seen the future-it is murder.."  Leonard Cohen