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It really gets my goat that we the people have to bail out the corrupt and unethical mortgage giants that lack with all their over educated ivy league minds the foresight to see their facade would crumble.

Obama recently made a speech in Berlin while he was overseas, which he opened this way:

Whenever we have the opportunity to be together (generally around a fire of some sort and with a moderate level of libation), we tend to focus our discussions on solutions. Each of us brings his own brand of problem solving to the table and the discussion usually rolls into the wee hours of the morning. This Porch is built around this simple rubric of solution oriented debate.

After returning from United States, for more than 20 years, the sudden encounter with life without electricity almost jeopardised me. The frequent load shedding in Uganda almost startled me out of my senses. I always questioned myself as to how so many people were surviving this holocaust. I would have easily scurried off from the place, without even repenting for a second.

John Brown exposes a North Carolina man who maintains a blog which is openly pro-Al Qaeda:

By Cheryl Arvidson

Special to The Commercial Appeal
Tuesday, May 13, 2008

American barbecue has French ambassador

By Cheryl Arvidson
Special to The Commercial Appeal
Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Are more taxes on the way? Yes, it’s looking that way. Believe me, you’re not safe until these folks wrap up session.  Governor Bredesen’s Revenue Hounds are always looking for new ways to separate you from your hard-earned dollar and here’s the latest effort.

My son told a pretty funny joke on the way home, something about God striking down a cursing golfer (you had to be there).

If the Archbishop of Canterbury gets his way, it could happen:

The Archbishop of Canterbury says the adoption of certain aspects of Sharia law in the UK “seems unavoidable”.

Dr Rowan Williams told Radio 4’s World at One that the UK has to “face up to the fact” that some of its citizens do not relate to the British legal system.

Dr Williams argues that