Associated Press --"With a startling report some researchers call more spin than science, the government said Wednesday the mess made by the BP oil spill in the Gulf is mostly gone already. Out of sight, though, doesn't mean out of danger." See the video.

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So it looks like Fox "News" and their celebrity wine opener Greta Van Susteren are up to something fishy again. I'ts not enough to terrify the elderly on a daily basis but now they have the gall to be openly racist on the air? How hard is it to tell two completely different looking, news worthy, older African American women apart? Granted the "news" over on Fox is not journalism at its best but have somebody take a minute away from the propaganda machine to discern who is who! It is not like it was a late night mugging and you picked the wrong guy because they "all look the same" ... or is it?

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BP's Doug SuttlesIn the some people will say anything department to make their point, this item from the Associated Press --"BP's chief operating officer says he would eat fish from the Gulf of Mexico and would let his family eat it, too. Doug Suttles took reporters on a boat tour of beaches and marshes Sunday about 25 miles south of Venice, La."

BP is about to get new management? Sounds like the same old BP to me, trying to mislead the public by talking down the serious problem. He is saying to America: Don't worry about the hundreds of millions of gallons of oil and the tons and tons of toxic chemicals BP spilled and poured into the Gulf, no harm done. The waters of the Gulf are safe to swim and play in. The fish of the Gulf are safe to eat.

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The "smells test" smells.

What has happened to common sense? I know it's been a hot summer. Heat wave after heat wave. Maybe brains are swelling from the heat? Huh? We have been having some bad weather. Storms knocking out power, causing floods, tearing down old trees, shaking and up-rooting things. By george, we had an earthquake last month in Washington! The heat and the shaking -- maybe, brains got scrambled from all the shake and bake? But that is no excuse for the introduction of the smell test!

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Earlier this week, I experienced a rare moment of epiphany—which has left me with some problems to solve. Though certainly grateful for the amazing realization (which should have seemed obvious to me—don’t we all look at our epiphanies and think, “Why didn’t I already know this?” Maybe we did but we just couldn’t admit it to ourselves…), I now feel like I need some help in acting on it. Maybe you have the answer I need.

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This is a message for everyone in Washington- it’s not quite a Manifesto, but it is a laundry list of what I think are opportunities that should become imperatives in the near future. The gulf between Washington’s operations and the way they use Technology is criminal. Look at the ideals we had as a nation when we were founded, of Democracy and Freedom of Speech and connecting people across cultural, racial, ethnic and ethical divides, and you will see that we have a huge opportunity to fight, learn, agree, disagree, and be heard on social media. And listen, of course, which is the biggest thing that Congress and the rest of Washington needs to do.

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As we come to the end of July, I wanted to look at the recent events around the BP Oil Leak fiasco. It has been an incredible 3 months dealing with this disaster, and there have been a bevy of events correlated to it that have changed the way the country looks at and thinks about oil forever. Here are what I see as the big issues that have changed the oil landscape:

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When I first heard of the charges against Al Gore I found them hard to believe. Now the DA and the police have cleared Mr. Gore of the charges. Multnomah County District Attorney Michael Schrunk said today, Friday, there was no basis for prosecution.

Senior Deputy District Attorney Don Rees, in a memo to the D.A., Michael D. Schrunk released by the DA office and the Portland Police report have cleared Al Gore of criminal wrongdoing in the sex assault case filed by masseuse Molly Hagerty..

The DA official statement said Hagerty story did not add up, and that she failed a polygraph test, that no DNA evidence on the pants she claimed she wore during the alleged incident, and the DA suggested that the accuser may have made up the charges against Mr. Gore for money, noting that she was paid for her story by the National Inquirer.

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As the BP oil saga continues—cap or no cap, payouts or no payouts, ridiculous apologies or “take-backs”—animals continue to die every day in the Gulf of Mexico. Recently I overheard a news anchor talking about how the oil was thinning out—which does not mean that the situation is getting better. On the contrary, we already know that the matter cannot simply disappear, and if thinning, it will only spread even further on the surface—harming more animals of a wider area in its course.

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Have you ever noticed the preponderance of dead naked ladies in fiction?  I'm talking television, movies, books, graphic novels, the whole shebang.  If it's aimed at adults, it probably has a dead naked lady in it.  This goes extra for any work of mystery or suspense.

Just as a random example, where would CSI and all its clones be without dead naked ladies?  I wonder what CSI: Miami would look like, if its producers decided to challenge the writing staff by banning dead naked ladies from the scripts.

I began pondering this recently as I was reading Stieg Larsson's runaway global bestseller The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.  What started out as a fairly intriguing mystery at one point (not to give anything away) suddenly devolves into a collection of dead naked ladies.  How disappointing.


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