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I detested everything I knew about Senator Barbara Boxer from California, starting of course with her unflinching support for abortion; but now I can seriously tell that, to use English parliamentary language, she is the Member for airheads. After all, California has a few of those, and one supposes they deserve representation. Certainly Senator Boxer is doing her best: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/damianthompson/100018688/senator-barbara-boxers-new-name-for-climategate/. God Almigthy in Heaven, is it even conceivable that after getting on for three weeks of collapse, investigations in two universities, threats of criminal proceedings in Britain, this late in the day, this woman should try and resurrect a canard that even the BBC has abandoned? This is not partisanship; it is sheer, brute, howling stupidity. It is absence of any political sense, of any sense of tactics and strategy, of when to talk and when to shut up and what to talk about and what not to bring up - something that every normal human being exercises every day of the week at work and at home, with friends, colleagues, competitors, strangers, enemies. How has this woman got to where she is, if she is not even aware that the time when even the establishment media are brought kicking and screaming into recognizing climategate - yesterday both the BBC and Channel 4 featured it prominently - is emphatically not the time for smug and self-important denial? Personally, I would rather my opponents were intelligent (that is one reason why I rate President Obama); it may make life harder, but it does not insult our own intelligence.
Or at least the state is turning out all its pockets to see if it has anything worth selling that will help stop the most immediate holes in its budget: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/05/schwarzenegger-san-quentin-colisseum.html . Next step, bankruptcy.
Meanwhile, the Italian banks, which are bulging at the seams with liquidity, are backing Sergio Marchionne's attempt to take over Chrysler and the whole overseas GM operation, including Latin America and South Africa. It appears that while most British and American banks are afraid to move for fear of bankruptcy, the financial institutions of Italy, Spain and, believe it or not, Turkey, having kept faith with the original vocation of banks, have so much investment capital they do not know what to do with it. Watch out for San Quentin being turned into a Turkish prison. Then Alan Parker can do Midnight Express II next door to Hollywood.
Meanwhile, the Italian banks, which are bulging at the seams with liquidity, are backing Sergio Marchionne's attempt to take over Chrysler and the whole overseas GM operation, including Latin America and South Africa. It appears that while most British and American banks are afraid to move for fear of bankruptcy, the financial institutions of Italy, Spain and, believe it or not, Turkey, having kept faith with the original vocation of banks, have so much investment capital they do not know what to do with it. Watch out for San Quentin being turned into a Turkish prison. Then Alan Parker can do Midnight Express II next door to Hollywood.
From yesterday's Catholic News Agency release:
Gov. Schwarzenegger commits to 20 daily rosaries to help pass health care plan
San Diego, June 27 (CNA).-Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger spoke to a meeting of the Catholic Healthcare Association (CHA) in San Diego on Monday on the topic of healthcare reform, pledging to pray "twenty rosaries every day" if that is what is necessary to have the California legislature pass his health care plan.
Governor Schwarzenegger, who was introduced by former San Francisco mayor Willie Brown, addressed the CHA audience to congratulate Lloyd Dean's assumption of the association's chairmanship, the California Catholic Daily reports.
The governor said he was excited that Dean had become CHA chairman, praising his "tremendous work" in California as leader of Catholic Healthcare West (CHW).
"And, man, he's an action hero, I can tell you that," said Schwarzenegger, a former action movie star, who said Dean had balanced the deeply troubled finances of CHW after only two years.
Lloyd Dean, the governor said, had helped assemble "an unprecedented and historic coalition of hospitals, doctors, insurers, patients' groups, business groups, and labor groups" to support Schwarzenegger's health care plan, which he said is based upon shared responsibility among employers, healthcare providers, insurers, individuals, and government.
Schwarzenegger said that California's uninsured population is a "moral crisis," saying 6.7 Californians are uninsured, including one million children.
The governor said he can implement his health care program with the help of CHA members.
"And I know that, with your help, we can do it," he said. "And even if it takes praying 20 rosaries every day, I will be on my knees praying the 20 rosaries – but we are going to get the job done!"
Gov. Schwarzenegger commits to 20 daily rosaries to help pass health care plan
San Diego, June 27 (CNA).-Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger spoke to a meeting of the Catholic Healthcare Association (CHA) in San Diego on Monday on the topic of healthcare reform, pledging to pray "twenty rosaries every day" if that is what is necessary to have the California legislature pass his health care plan.
Governor Schwarzenegger, who was introduced by former San Francisco mayor Willie Brown, addressed the CHA audience to congratulate Lloyd Dean's assumption of the association's chairmanship, the California Catholic Daily reports.
The governor said he was excited that Dean had become CHA chairman, praising his "tremendous work" in California as leader of Catholic Healthcare West (CHW).
"And, man, he's an action hero, I can tell you that," said Schwarzenegger, a former action movie star, who said Dean had balanced the deeply troubled finances of CHW after only two years.
Lloyd Dean, the governor said, had helped assemble "an unprecedented and historic coalition of hospitals, doctors, insurers, patients' groups, business groups, and labor groups" to support Schwarzenegger's health care plan, which he said is based upon shared responsibility among employers, healthcare providers, insurers, individuals, and government.
Schwarzenegger said that California's uninsured population is a "moral crisis," saying 6.7 Californians are uninsured, including one million children.
The governor said he can implement his health care program with the help of CHA members.
"And I know that, with your help, we can do it," he said. "And even if it takes praying 20 rosaries every day, I will be on my knees praying the 20 rosaries – but we are going to get the job done!"
