"I wish it was Sunday
That's my fun day
My I-don't-have-to-run day"

--The Bangles' 'Manic Monday'
(lyrics by Prince)

Back in 2007 I wrote a Talkleft diary about how Speicher was shamefully used by the Bush administration for propaganda purposes to drum up support for the invasion of Iraq.  

Speicher was shot down and classified as killed in action during the first Gulf War.  However, by 2001, the Bush administration needed to drum up support for their invasion of Iraq and, as a result, they made the claim that Speicher was actually alive and being held prisoner by Saddam Hussein's government, changing his classification from killed in action/body not recovered to missing in action.  This was based on the flimsiest evidence from a defector supplied by Ahmed Chalabi's Iraqi National Congress.

The tragedy of Speicher was that as a result of the false hope propagated by the Bush administration, Scott Speicher's family and friends never experienced closure with his death.  They unwittingly became propaganda tools of the Bush administration by spreading the false claims of the Iraqi national Congress that he was alive.  In defense of them, they didn't know better.  The same cannot be said of the Pentagon and the Bush administration.  They didn't honor this fallen soldier but instead for political purposes.  Another lie to invade Iraq.

Here's a site with 4 videos of Weiner's Big Day.

Reminder: Pelosi has agreed to a vote on the House floor for Medicare for All, HR 676, the single payer bill. The WH and Dem leadership probably think it's a good way to put a stake through the heart of Medicare for All, but, with FSM's help and lots of call, emails, letters, LTE's, picketing reps' offices with legible signs, well, we might just shake up DC and the Versailles courtiers of corporatism!

A diary at DKos covers Ed Schultz's "Come to Medicare for All" moment on Friday in Oregon.

He went to Portland, OR, to talk up the amorphous public plan and the crowd kept calling out for Single Payer, Medicare for All!

Fascinating account-- after many speakers about problems with coverage, lack of coverage, the problems with the various permutations of the public plan, a Dr. Frankel, Portland pediatrician since 1965, spoke:

...he told Ed that just hours before, Speaker Pelosi guaranteed that a single payer amendment to the health care bill, HR 676, would get a full debate and vote in the house after the August recess. Dr. Frankel got a standing ovation from the overheated packed house.

This was the final turning point for Ed Schultz. He had heard enough. Ed promised everyone in that room that he would start pushing for single payer on the radio, on TV and at his appearances. He swore he would become the voice for this movement to single payer. Over 600 people heard his oath, and we will all hold him to it.

"Lucky that my breasts
Are small and humble
So you don't confuse
Them with mountains"

More often professional positions like the one in current controversy of advancement in the police and fire departments or for that matter even in basic management positions or technical situations need a certification process or test. Interesting, even with all the schooling a lawyer goes through one needs to pass a bar exam to be considered lawfully a lawyer?

Yet many go through very loopy debates in congress about decisions or considerations in legal cases delivered in court whether prosecutor defender or judge. Even if tested ok sometimes especially with lopsided bias in the background many individuals are deemed incompetent or irresponsible for public work. Sheesh, a very contradiction to the ascension we wish to have.

The funny thing is to be in this fluid of flux-stration after years of education and college to be characterized as a dysfunctional person in society really shows how the endlessness in controversy that is woven by our toxic media, please hate Journalism is highlighted by corrosive news twisting as a war of word between Olberman, O'Reilly, Limbaugh, or Mathews. That is not the tip of the ice burg that is but a chunk that has yet to be created.  

Yes given loans by our toxic and zombie banks, worse the secret loaning free tax dollars by Treasury and Federal Reserve for almost a Century to perpetuate massive corruption, likely keeping the status quo, domestic and foreign hand in with our favorite enemies, comfortable with fat bonuses that drive to ruin while unemployment lines transform to tent cities and all we can afford is junk food but that destroys our mind.  We realize the aged men of our elite leadership brought us here now find them-selves arguing the point of who is the best of what they do in the media but are actually the worst persons in the world.      

What puzzles me is the idea that is not always true in the sense of politicians as symbolized by Al Franken to get elected to the Senate and win in Minnesota. Here glaringly a man who has no penetrating training in the legal ease and language is given the opportunity to be critical of legislation and the system.

Please understand my perspective is to encourage this notion of Joe Six pack to enter because the majority of Americans are not privy to legal language and the judicial derivative, heck they, the business community, already have Americans confused with the financial derivative which is nothing more than a secret trillion dollar gamble that when lost is payed off by the electorate as in free tax money. In fact many of the professional position in legal, science, engineering, medical health care,  manufacturing, or finance should also have intern ships galore with fresh eyes to look at the contrasting oxy moronic piles of entanglement America is in now.

How quickly Joe Six pack gets caught up this vortex of corruption helps to stop it.

Didn't Leonard Nimoy have one? And Glen Campbell? Among others....

"And I'm never gonna dance again
Guilty feet have got no rhythm."

And the always reliable AC/DC:

"Shoot to thrill, play to kill
Too many women, too many pills."

Northern NJ here--here there were reports of tornedos in southern NJ.

Too Close lyrics
I wonder if she could tell I'm hard right now, hmmm
Yeah, come on, dance for me baby, ha ha, yeah
Ut oh, you feel that? Alright
Come on, don't stop now
You done did it, come on, uh, yeah, alright, hold on

[1] - Baby when we're grinding
I get so excited
Ooh, how I like it
I try but I can't fight it
Oh, you're dancing real close
Cuz it's real, real slow
(You know what you're doing, don't you)
You're making it hard for me