donald writes, it s not fair nor is it going to solve the problem to only take food from the mouths of the poor. but until new nonregressive tax revenues are raised, the skies aren t going to clear. two campaign pledges the president nailed on, removing us from iraq and raising taxes on those making more than $250,000. both would go a long way towards perking up the economy. and bud writes from washington, i bet a lot of working folk this the depression is already here, jack. i have friends who have been out of work for two years. i m fortunate. i work for an i.t. federal contractor. our company is doing well. but the washington metropolitan area is not the real world. people don t call it disneyland east for nothing. you want to read more on the subject, go to my blog at cnn.com/caffertyfile. did you know you were in disneyland east? no, i didn t know that. thank you. an alleged spy ring is now busted. they re accused of stealing the
deep to blow up the well and cover the leak with piles and piles and piles of rock and debris which may become necessary you don t have to use a nuclear weapon, by the way, i ve seen all that stuff, just blow it up. unless we re going to do all that, we re dependent on the technical expertise of these people at bp. they had 11 of their folks killed on that explosion. the people that are working on this, whatever the managers did wrong or didn t, they re good people. they re trying to do the right thing. so i think we ought to just row in the same boat for a while until we plug the leak, keep the stuff away from the shore, minimize the damage of what s on the shore. there are 25,000 vietnamese immigrants who came to this country who are making a living off the shrimping business, all of who are thinking about their families facing bankruptcy now. let s just fix the problem and then we can hold everybody accountable and emote or not e o
automatic sort of wing that comes off the ship and scrapes up oil that we don t have. i think we need to get them up here and help solve the problem. he s going to be plenty empathetic, and if we have 20,000 immigrants whose families go down, we ll have to empathize with them as well as the scottish red necks who need to make a living down there. let s plug the leak and stop the damage. along the gulf coast, they re bracing for a new threat for a tropical storm that could soon become a hurricane. and the perils of working as a window washer caught on tape. t as the space race a generation ago. and vital to global security. to reach this destination, our engineers are exploring every possibility.
not with the intensity and duration from which i think real legal understanding occurs. ms. kagan has never tried a case against a jury. she argued her first appellate case nine months ago. the first punch was delivered. she ll have a chance to answer all those questions tomorrow, but how much is actually a problem for her? i don t think the actual resume is a problem as far as experience is concerned. i think the largest problem, as signalled by most of the republicans, is the political bent to that resume. they re not so much saying she doesn t have experience as a judge, they re saying she s got political experience, so is she about the law or is she about politics? i think it s not about the years spent on the bench or the years arguing before a bench but about what was her other experience and is that going to be what informs her decisions? the days of supreme court nominees being confirmed with more than 90 votes, like scalea,
before the starm. guys like yitzhak rabin worry about stuff like that. it will pale compared to what the world will think then, if they try to hold on and basically disenfranchise huge numbers of people and they claim the land. tt second problem that no one ever talks about is the missiles. do you remember when the missiles went from gaza into israel? there was a lot of sympathy. keep in mind, there were a lot of missiles that killed a few people. one thing is that never changes is the trajectory of technology. it s only a matter of time when those missiles have gps missiles