Okay, an arsonist has set your house on fire. You drive up to see it burning and call 911. They say that the fire department is coming but it may take 20 minutes. You become so frustrated about how long it’s taking for them to arrive that you call to [...]

My latest post was a review of Markos Moulitsas new book American Taliban. Although the point I was trying to make was society’s inability to hold ourselves to the same standards we require from others, I believe in Latin its called hypocrisy, the diary itself sparked a discussion about religion [...]

And why isn’t there more of it? SueinCa’s post about being a fraud investigator inspired me to write this post, and a bit of nagging from a very, very persistent friend. This is part 1. Trust me, part 2 is a real humdinger. About 100 million years ago, I was [...]

      Okay, I suppose it’s possible that the reason I am not as happy, rich, famous and world renowned as I could be is that I didn’t read “The Secret”, the blockbuster bestseller that proved the effectiveness of “The Law of Attraction” for one Rhonda Byne, the author [...]

I am writing this post to fulfill a promise I made to Kes awhile ago, but I think it will be interesting to a few.  Sometime back in the early 1980′s I was sitting in my office chatting with an employee when I got a Code 10 call.  A code 10 [...]

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Image by Getty Images via @daylife The Planet has had an outstanding week of posts, visits and all around good work by all. Let’s first congratulate the magnificent job from our fearless leader,AdLib, for his post: EXCLUSIVE: Republican Tea Party Pledge – Secret Draft! And for his leadership and guidance. [...]

Multi National Corporations may be trying to buy elections in America via the Chamber of Commerce, but let’s not let that stop us from enjoying music from all over the world. Old and new, modern or traditional, Share you favorites   ~ World Music Ofra Haza Brazil 66 Mas Que Nada [...]

At great risk to their personal safety and careers, GOP insiders smuggled out an early draft of the Republican Tea Party’s Pledge to America and have provided it exclusively to PlanetPOV. As you’ll see, this draft is quite startling in how frankly it presents the Tea Party driven sensibilities of [...]

Have you run across videos or images that cut through the corporate news media BS?
Well dust them off and lets put together a collection for all to enjoy.

I recently read the new book by DailyKos founder Markos Moulitsas and I found it more than slightly disturbing. Not because the content was shocking, but because his analysis was spot on. In the book, American Taliban, Markos confirms my belief that religious fanaticism is universal regardless of which religion [...]

AdLib : Night Bito and thanks! bitohistory : Night, peace and thanks to everyone for their tthoughts. AdLib : And Bito, I’ll leave you with this: Pelosi says tax cut vote possible before election (AP) «link» bitohistory : Well let me leave you with this last one:O’Donnell On Creationism: ‘Too [...]

Good ol’ roadhouse rock and roll is the them of this week’s music thread so grab a long neck and shake that mullet like ya just don’t care! Sharp Dressed Man – ZZ Top Good Lovin’ Gone Bad – Bad Company Texas Flood – Stevie Ray Vaughan Refugee – Tom [...]

During the day, do you read a story and you feel it is worth sharing?  Where to place it? I don’t like to disrupt someone’s thread or thoughtful post and it is not worthy of posting a lengthy article, do you?  Let’s try to leave this up in speakers corner [...]