Eminently bogus

It may seem far removed, but a Supreme Court case resolving an eminent domain issue in New London, Conn., should have everyone a bit worried.
Apparently owning property doesn't amount to much anymore, and if the government wants to take what's not theirs, they will find a way.
"Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness..." unless it stands in the way of government progress. Ben Franklin would be so mad.
Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Justices Sandra Day O'Connor, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas dissented, but you don't have to be conservative to see the problems here.
Just in case you don't read the entire story, the company New London officials want to make more room for is the Pfizer Inc. drug company with production operations right here in Portage.
Perhaps the Kalamazoo City Commission will decide my block is a great place for Pfizer to expand next.

Elsewhere in the world of shady politicians, Pres. Bush and his minions are still pushing the Social Security issue.
Republicans and a few conservative Democrats are trying to convince all of us that private retirement accounts are the way to save Social Security.
What we're not being told is private accounts are really the only way to keep the government from spending any Social Security surplus and digging an even deeper hole for future retirees and the benefits program they thought they would be able to count on.
There's a lot of crap in cyber space about the Social Security debate, but I found a pretty good article by Carolyn Lochhead at the San Francisco Chronicle. If you're up for some pretty deep analyses, check out this report on FactCheck.org.

Well, that's enough garbage for now. I might jump on Tony Blair and the EU later, but it's my day off. I may just take a nap.