““The trouble with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money”—Margaret Thatcher.”

From TMZ via Blonde Sagacity's blog:


Pap: "You're a wrestler ... so, do you think you have better abs than Barack Obama?"
Chris Jericho: "As of right now I have better abs ... but pretty soon he's gonna take 65% of my abs away from me and give 'em to somebody else."

Another great shot from the soon to be gone Hubble Space Telescope: a Transit of Saturn by its four largest moons. From left to right Enceladus and her shadow, Dione and her shadow, Titan,by far the largest moon in the Solar system. It is even large than Luna, and over just at the edge of the planet Mimas. We can see these because of the angle of the rings. Taken from APOD.

From Egotastic's blog:
Jennifer Love Hewitt with new bf-JAMIE KENNEDY. Bad taste Ms. Hewitt; bad taste.

Oh frabjous day, caloo callay-a senate group equivalent to the Blue Dog Democrats in the House:


Joining Bayh as co-leaders are Sens. Tom Carper of Delaware and Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas. Sen. Joe Lieberman, an independent from Connecticut who caucuses with the Democrats, also joined the group. The other Senate Democrats signing on were Mark Udall and Michael Bennet of Colorado, Mark Begich of Alaska, Kay Hagan of North Carolina, Herb Kohl of Wisconsin, Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, Claire McCaskill of Missouri, Ben Nelson of Nebraska, Bill Nelson of Florida, Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, and Mark Warner of Virginia.

From The Sunday Telegraph London on the joys of national health care:


Baby 'OT' dies after court rules his life-saving ventilator must be switched off
A nine-month-old boy known as OT has died after his parents lost a legal bid to overturn a ruling giving hospital staff the power to stop medical treatment keeping him alive, the parents' solicitor said.

Hospital scandal: missed warnings
The shocking extent of the failures at an NHS hospital where hundreds of patients died unnecessarily can be disclosed today.

Senior managers at Stafford Hospital were told repeatedly that the standard of care they were delivering was not good enough but each time the warnings were ignored.
The disclosures follow the publication last week of a damning report by the NHS regulator, the Healthcare Commission, that found that hundreds of patients died at the hospital because of the “appalling” treatment they received.
 

Today, The Sunday Telegraph can disclose that executives at Stafford Hospital were warned as early as 2002 by the commission’s predecessor that it had problems with the standard of its emergency care services and that it was not adequately staffed. However, they failed to act on the warnings.
In 2006, a former government adviser warned the hospital about the standards of hygiene in A&E. Again, the warning was ignored.

From Patriot Post:

Ron Silver, R.I.P
Ron Silver, a rare Hollywood liberal-turned-conservative, died Sunday of cancer. He was 62. Silver was perhaps best known for his role as a political consultant on the television series "The West Wing," but he also won a Tony Award in 1988 for his role in "Speed-the-Plow," written by another former liberal, David Mamet. Like Mamet, 9/11 changed Silver's opinions about politics -- he called himself a "9/11 Republican." After his change of views, he spoke at the Republican convention in 2004, saying, "This is a war we did not seek. This is a war waged against us. This is a war to which we had to respond." Silver's career suffered for his "traitorous" patriotism. After his RNC speech, he said, "It's affected me very badly. I can't point to a person or a job I've lost, but this community is not very pluralistic. I haven't worked for 10 months." One job he did find was narrating "Fahrenhype 9/11," which deconstructed Michael Moore's Bush-bashing "Fahrenheit 9/11." The Wall Street Journal wrote, "His brother, Mitchell Silver, [said] that Silver's politics 'were not shared by anyone he knew.' His politics, in other words, were born of conviction, not convenience, which is one way to describe an honest patriot."

BTW "The Unit" on CBS Sundays is Mamet's series about a US Army anti-terroism, well, unit. It really rocks. Denis Haysbert stars with Scot Foley and Regina Taylor as Molly Blaine, Haysbert's wife.

I just learned through Ann Coulter's column in Human Events that Ron Silver died. Please pray for him and his family.

An old picture of me.

Thor's Helmet-appropriate for an Asgard even has a WR star at its center.