Just watched Captive City starring John Forsythe on Turner Classic Movies.

[JDPriestly]

It's about the fight against organized crime that was waged by Estes Kefauver -- the vice presidential candidate for the Democratic Party with Adlai Stevenson in 1956.

After watching the movie, I concluded -- we really lost the fight against organized crime. The Bush administration, the TARP, the War in Iraq -- Indian Gaming -- all typical mob scams. Sorry, guys, it's probably too late to save our country.

As for Obama, he should have come in indictments blazing. With TARP and the wiretapping motions to dismiss and the failure to indict Cheney for the torture he admitted to having authorized, our current president has already compromised himself.

I am very sorry for my country, for my children, for the world. We are the greatest military power in the world, and we are run by thugs or cowards at almost all levels.

God help us.

[Hannah Bell]

1. I remember growing up I regularly heard a lot about "organized crime" in the news, 50s & 60s -

after, that, not so much.

I always wondered why.

And I also noticed as the old mob rackets, e.g. dope, sex, protection & "the numbers" - infiltrated "polite society".

Now we fund schools with lotteries ("the numbers"), download porn & call girls off the internet, give 10% of kids amphetamine & advertise boner pills on tv, & spend small fortunes insuring every conceivable thing - with the "protection" becoming more & more worthless in the event of a claim.

[JDPriestly]

2. The crooks won! Let's face it. I am becoming less and less hopeful

every day. The one good thing is the garden at the White House -- the one good thing so far about the Obama administration. And I worked hard to get that man elected. What a disappointment.

[Hannah Bell]

3. the garden is nice - but i'd like it better if it had been undertaken in better economic times.

it's my knee jerking - i associate it with depression, war, & victory gardens.

since that was the last major presidential gardening initiative.

[SammyWinstonJack]

4. .

:-(