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Elderly woman, 98, indicted
for strangling her 100 year-old
nursing home roommate.

Money makes the world go ‘round. Tiger Woods has announced he is taking an indefinite leave from professional golf. I would bet a lot of money (if I had any) that indefinite in this case means until the next major championship in March. The PGA tour and the profession of golf cannot afford to let Tiger take any more time off than that. When you realize that their audience falls off by some 50% when Tiger is not playing you come to realize that for all intents and purposes Tiger Woods is golf. Besides, those who follow golf are going to be much more interested in whether Tiger can win the next major, or go on to beat Jack Nichols record of 18 majors, than in his extramarital affairs, no matter how juicy they may be. I suspect the only people who are concerned about Tiger’s affairs are his family. Many athletes have survived sex scandals. All they have to do to erase any stigma is win, win, win. It’s not that Tiger himself needs money, after all he’s the first athlete to earn a billion dollars (that ought to keep him for a time), he makes lots of money for others, and money is what it is all about here in the good ol’ US of A. I try not to get too interested in the extramarital affairs of Tiger Woods, but I must say I do find it curious. For example, what constitutes a “mistress.” It is inconceivable that all of those women Tiger slept with could all be considered a mistress. I should think that even trying to stretch some of the encounters into “affairs” is probably stretching it a bit. Anyway, there are more important reasons for questioning Tiger’s behavior than his sexual proclivities, his failure to denounce questionable business practices, for example, but enough of Tiger.

Speaking of money, and money making the world go, ‘round, consider our politicians and their rather futile attempts at reforming health care. Can you believe we have “leaders” who themselves have the finest health care available but do not want millions of their fellow citizens to have any health care? And can you believe this is happening in what is said to be the wealthiest country on earth, a country that is spending billions upon billions year after year murdering people around the world in futile, illegal, and unncecessary “wars,” but also contains many people who argue seriously that we cannot afford health care for our citizens? Why do these people oppose health care for their fellow citizens? For money, that’s why. They are being paid by the Insurance, Pharmaceutical, and other industries making gigantic profits under the existing scam that is called health care, and they are spending huge sums of money to make sure there is no significant change. We should change the way we describe our Congresspersons and Senators and introduce them as So-and-so money-grubber from wherever. This is shameful and those who have said we have the best Congresspersons money can buy are speaking the absolute truth.

Do you suppose even for a minute that it is not money that is going to bring Sarah Palin to speak to a Canadian socialized medicine group that also performs abortions? Silly Sarah has already proven she is in, whatever it is she is in, solely for the money. She has been milking her undeserved “fame” for all it’s worth, ever since the moronic McCain picked her as a running mate, surely one of the greatest mistakes of all time. Now she is presuming to argue with Al Gore about global warming, and with President Obama about Foreign Affairs. She refused to debate Gore because she says she will be “clobbered.” Of course she’ll be clobbered, she doesn’t have the slightest idea what the hell she’s talking about. The media is doing us a terrible disservice by even covering the activities of this genuinely ignorant and incompetent imposter. Hey, it makes the networks money, and money is what it’s all about here in the good ol’ U.S. of A.

I remain concerned with, perhaps even obsessed with, the fact that President Obama and Eric Holder are obviously not going to pursue war crimes charges against George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. I find this not only objectionable, but downright criminal. In fact, although I am not absolutely certain about this, I believe they are obliged by our laws and constitution to bring charges against war criminals. It is said that Obama has assured them he will not bring charges against them, I guess arguing that (1) there are more important matters, and (2) there is no precedent for an administration to press charges against the preceding one. Personally, I believe (1)this is an exceedingly important matter and should be given priority, and (2) we never before had a previous administration that admitted to war crimes, even boasted about them. I believe this behavior on the part of our President and Attorney General to be completely unacceptable.

LKBIQ:
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln

TILT:
We are importing tilapia from China.