Besides trying to do work around our place doing landscape and garden type things that need to be done before it gets too hot, I am trying to keep up with what is going on around the world.

I can't believe how Quaddafi was rambling today. He sounded crazier than usual. I guess he drove his people crazy to the point where they are taking up arms against him. I mean, the reports that he has hired mercenaries from other countries to defend him is just about unbelievable. But, then again, the dude seems wacko. It wasn't that long ago that the Talk of the Town section of the New Yorker magazine reported that he always travelled with a good looking blonde nurse. Not that i care, just found it interesting.

The one thing that can't be ignored is the oil prices. If you think you can barely afford gas now, just wait until there are uprisings in Saudi Arabia. Gas might go to $150/barrell and gas might cost us $5 or more a gallon. Ouch. Any hopes of an economic "recovery" will be swallowed up by such fuel price increases. And why should we be supporting oppression just to have cheaper oil? It is a total contradiction in what we supposedly stand for. And, it might force us to actually find better energy sources.

The standoffs with the republicans' push to eliminate public employee unions continues, now in multiple states. The unions and their supporters are putting up a good fight, but the republicans hold the power and don't seem to be backing down. I worry about what might happen if these legislatures actually get these laws passed doing away with the unions.

The unions big mistake, in my opinion, was when all the unions nationally didn't turn out for a nation wide strike when Ronald Reagan was breaking the air traffic controllers union. Organized labor has never recovered from that. I want organized labor to succeed, but they have a steep hill to climb. They are climbing very diligently as we speak.

I just have to comment about the situation with the so-called Pakistan diplomat that shot a couple Pakistani's and the US is trying to play it's get out of jail free card on his behalf.

I had written about a week or more ago that according to the original news report that the state department was saying that the guy was only a contractor and not a diplomat. Then, all of a sudden, he is a diplomat and Obama himself is speaking up on his behalf. But yesterday and today, all of a sudden, he is a contractor again. Wow, what goes around comes around these days. I don't think he is going to be getting out of jail anytime soon, and we need to know more about where our taxpayer money is going when it gets appropriated to agencies like the CIA.