Deal Coming

The Web is alive with speculation about the effects of debt default. You heard it here. The job will get done at the final minute and the resolution will be better than expected. Why? Because we cannot afford not to do more than a mini deal and pass muster with the credit ratings folk. And the GOP cannot afford to give the baton to the utter wingnuts who want to drive us over a cliff. Ultimately wiser heads will prevail and the solution will emerge from the White House with a calm and cool Obama announcing that an historic compromise has occurred. If I am wrong my advice is to sell everything and hang on to your Bible.

Romney Boost

Daily Kos: Economic situation bends Floridians away from Obama and toward Romney: "Floridians are leaning toward Mitt Romney over Barack Obama, according to a new poll. A lack of jobs seems to be the key reason that the president's approval ratings are now at 38 percent in Florida." I assume the President will either 1. create some jobs somehow or 2. benefit from a housing recovery by Nov. 2012 or 3. lose the election. Unless of course the GOP cannot read polls like this and consign's Romney to ex-wannabe-hell.

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Japan Dirty Work

Fukushima Cleanup Recruits 'Nuclear Gypsies' From Across Japan | Common Dreams: "'I've never thought working at the plant was dangerous,' Rune tells the Guardian after a day's work, for which he receives 12,000 yen (£95). 'And I think my wage is fair for the kind of work I do. It's more than I used to get driving a truck.'" We are well past the time when we should plan on a nuclear future. Green energy is where it is at. Sustainable economy. Car free world.

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Obama "Enough"

Was it a blow up? Obama, GOP get tense in talks - Political Hotsheet - CBS News: "Instead, Obama reportedly gave an impassioned statement to the congressional leaders at the end of the meeting, saying 'enough's enough' with respect to delay and refusal to compromise." This is accurate, The President has been in this box since day one with the racially motivated, Wall Street-subservient GOP.

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Chinese Uber-Corruption

The Chinese art of elegant bribery | openDemocracy: "The history of elegant bribery can be traced back to ancient Chinese dynasties, and arguably, it has been an intractable problem since the Ming dynasty (1368-1644)." A new word for a very old practice. Might as well get to know it.

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Blessed Peacemakers

Frans de Waal on Political Apes, Science Communication, and Building a Cooperative Society | The Primate Diaries, Scientific American Blog Network: "“It’s the animal in us,” we often hear when we’ve been bad. But why not when we’re good? This is the question that has driven Frans de Waal for the past 30 years." This is something I have known for 75 years.

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Wall Street GOP

GOP Hoodwink - Associated Content from Yahoo! - associatedcontent.com: "The GOP hoodwinked our majority
They have not changed they bring no change they lie" This was true a while ago. But now it seems that Wall Street is trying to separate itself from the GOP. In point of fact Wall Street is exactly the same as the GOP but it wants to have its cake and eat it too. It tells the GOP to behave but is unwilling to say, Therefore compromise as the President has said 100 times.

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