Good News!

There's some good news this week, for a change. The Supreme Court ruled against both junior's administration and electric utility companies this past week in two decisions that favored Clean Air over the policy of the president. With their 9-0 vote, the Court ruled that Duke Energy and all other polluting power plants can no longer avoid the enforcement of the Clean Air Act, much to the dismay of bush and his oil buddies. The other decision that has so many environmentalists sending out giddy mass emails was the 5-4 decision making CO2, and other heat trapping gases, official pollutants to be enforced by EPA. This ruling goes directly against bush's do nothing policy on global warming or as he likes to call it, global climate change.

And there's more good news. The 15 British soldiers were released from Iran. The freed soldiers were pictured in suits, and not the hooded orange ones that US prisoners, released to be tortured in other nations, usually don. In a grand propaganda stunt, Iranian president mahmoud ahmadinjad announced the prisoners were pardoned and free. To add to what he called "an Easter gift" to England he dressed all the male prisoners in tie-less suits, like the ones he wears. What's so sad about all this is that Iran can talk about the moral high ground. These prisoners were not water boarded. They were not chained for hours in crazy positions, covered with human excrement, or scared they were to be eaten by dogs. The image of 15 smiling suited soldiers is in obvious contrast to that of a hooded prisoner connected to electric wires. It is a sin what this administration and it's war has done to Our National image.

In "its way too early to even talk about" campaign news, the first quarter fund raising reports came in with Senators Clinton and Obama neck and neck with about $26,000,000.00, which puts them both well ahead of flip flop mit, who leads the reds for president's fundraising so far. The interesting thing about Barak Obama is his money came from 100,000 different donors, 50,000 of which came through the internet machine. ABC News is reporting that 90 percent of Obama's donors contributed $100 or less. That's pretty damn grass roots right there. Speaking of Democratic Candidates and grass, Governor and 2008 Presidential candidate, Bill Richardson, signed into state law a bill legalizing medical marijuana. He may have just stolen the hippy vote from Congressman Kucinich.

It's so nice to type about good news that I'll refrain from discussing the overly secure trip to a baghdad market taken by senator "americans can safely walk in some neighborhoods" mccain, or the hypocrisy of bush condemning House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's trip to Syria, and not saying a word about the GOP representatives on the same diplomatic mission. No, there will be no talk of al qaeda's resurgence in Pakistan, today. We'll save that talk for next week.

Have a Happy Spring Break!