Notes:

The news is full of BP hate. It is more than just "their fault." The press wants blood. People are angry and looking for someone to hang. The U. S. government is all about blaming BP. The fingers are pointing in just about every direction. Good luck with avoiding it. Some people want to know if anything can just be an accident any more. The last time that BP did not have a dividend was WWII.

Get ready for $10 to $20 a month for a checking account if you do not have a credit card with your bank. Hey, they have to make up for all those lost fees somehow.

USA won. Sweet. On to round 2 or whatever they call it in that other football type sport. I sent the notice around the office to some random people and got yelled at because more than one of them was waiting to watch the game this evening on their DVR. oops.

From CNN "Gen. David Petraeus to replace Gen. Stanley McChrystal as commander of forces in Afghanistan, source tells CNN." It is a day for big news on the CNN emails. I've been reading about this all weekend. Apparently Stan shot his mouth off to Rolling Stone magazine about how fucked our leadership is. "Your fired for speaking the truth." Not the first time, won't be the last. This administration is threads to show strain at the seems. I hope he writes a book. That'll show'em

I cannot get Thunderbird 3 running on my system at work. It has something to do with the Firefox browser and the messed up install of Java on my system. It seems to work fine on other people's systems. I hate dealing with this junk. Why can't email just work. How many deckades have we had email? Still, it takes a frigging day to get someone set up in many cases. This is why I use Gmail at home.

The one child policy in China was scheduled to end or be scaled back right about now. Some estimate that 400,000,000 births have been prevented by this policy. Most think the current regime will keep the policy as is.