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* Mitch McConnell, Leader of the senate Republicans, announced today that he plans to hold the American economy hostage every time the debt ceiling comes up to vote to get everything they can out of it. Probably for the rest of his political life. Remember what I said last year about giving in to economic terrorists, and the democratic tendency to crumble under pressure? Yeah.

* Meanwhile, the market continues to free fall over the Republican economic policy.

* A speaker at Tea Party rally in Wisconsin is already bragging about their success in damaging the US credit rating, which was apparently one of their goals. Why deliberately damaging the US economy was one of their goals was not explained, but doing it certainly got a lot of cheers. Too bad if this does serious damage to the pensions and 401ks of ordinary Americans. The Tea party got its way, which is all that really matters.

* Pro-secessionist, pro-conversion therapy for gays, Rick Perry is expected to announce soon. This is the man endorsed by radical Evangelical preachers who believe the reason the Nikkei is soft is that the Japanese Emperor slept with a demon, that God sent Hitler to kill the Jews, and other crazy offensive things. May I add, eeeewww!

* Meanwhile Michelle Bachman has come out in favour of slavery and is claiming that the Civil War was a righteous battle by the christian south against the heathen north. I know this looks like straw man stuff, but I'm not making it up. She said it in an anti-gay church this weekend.

* The Death Toll in Somalia is horrifying. Folks in the US wanting to help might want to go here: http://usaid.gov/.

* Odds are wherever you live, blood banks and food banks are running low on supplies. For blood, the Red Cross is your best bet if you can legally donate. For food, best to google your local food bank to see what they need.

* "Czech Supreme Court - new hope for forcibly sterilized Romani women:" http://www.romea.cz/english/index.php?id=detail&detail=2007_2678

"There are many such cases in the Czech Republic. The problem of Romani women being sterilized without their informed consent began to be discussed in the Czech Republic in the autumn of 2004, when the European Roma Rights Centre published its suspicions that Romani women were being forcibly sterilized here. According to European Romani activists, forced sterilization has also occurred in Bulgaria, Hungary, and Slovakia, but the largest number of cases are said to have occurred in the Czech Republic and Slovakia."

* Ouch: http://psybelle.livejournal.com/652228.html