16 April 2011 early AM

I haven’t gone out running as yet; I’ll probably make myself run outside though it certainly means getting wet.

Yes, more “middle way” stuff though I hope that he forces their hands on the “taxes on the millionaires” issue. We’ll see.
Some are very cynical:

As I have said over and over again, the Democrats negotiating strategy is to betray the middle and working classes that support them and give the oligarchy as much as they can while acting as if they were forced into it or were outmaneuvered. Since even people like Krugman and other liberal commentators seem to have bought it, it means that they have succeeded.

The Democrats behavior is perfectly understandable if you bear this simple rule in mind: When it comes to any policy that the Democrats say they espouse but which hurts the interests of the oligarchy, the Democrats do not want a strategy that will win, they seek one that will lose.

I hope that Mano is wrong and still think that he is, in SOME cases.

But I could be wrong too.

Speaking of wrong:

This guy is right about one thing: this IS what the church teaches. Of course, the solution is to leave the church rather than to pretend to believe such nonsense or to pretend “oh, they don’t really mean it.”

But yes, the guy in the video could have been ME 30 years ago or so.