I asked politely yesterday for everyone to take a chill pill, but apparently my wise counsel has been ignored.

Saakashvili says the US “is starting a military-humanitarian operation in Georgia” (emphasis added.) A US administration official said, somewhat enigmatically and not reassuringly, “We won’t be protecting the airport or seaport, but we’ll certainly protect our assets if we need to.”

Meanwhile,

More horrible news. Arkansas Democrat Party chairman Bill Gwatney has died of the gunshot wounds.

That’s from Michelle Malkin. She’s already getting hate mail blaming her for the murder, even though there’s been no information whatsoever released about the politics and motives of the shooter.

Folks. Again. Let’s all take that chill pill now.

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The number of foreclosures in California is rising too. Last year at this time it was 1,000 a day. Now it’s 1,300 a day.

That’s way to many dispossessed people and disrupted lives. Then there’s the property tax revenue and all the other revenue that an economically healthy area generates that has suddenly disappeared from many cities and towns in California.

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The title to this post is a lyric from Wayne Kramer’s “Something Broken In The Promised Land.”

Moments after the shooting, he pointed a handgun at the building manager at the nearby the Arkansas Baptist headquarters. He told the manager “I lost my job,” said Dan Jordan, a Baptist convention official.

Great, another middle age white man goes on an inexplicable murderous rampage before his inevitable Death by Police.

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Georgian Villages in South Ossetia burnt, looted

Russian forces sink Georgian ships

US forces to be sent to Georgia

Talk about an escalation: Bush is sending in the navy and the airforce. You would have to be dead from the neck up to think that this is just about ‘delivering humanitarian aid’. You don’t need hawk airjets and naval vessels to deliver relief supplies. You do need them if you intend to fight somebody.

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The Kern County Water Agency bought water from the state of California in the winter then sold it back to them in the summer for six times more.

The bigger loser (besides most of California) is the fish, lots of them died because of this.

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The bank paid much of the closing costs too.

Realtor.com lists several more Detroit homes for $1. They currently show 17,580 homes in Detroit for sale with a startling 1,693 of them for less than $5,000.

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Earth Family Alpha wonders quite rightfully just how all those investment banks that screwed up big time with subprime mortgages with be able to do the right thing with carbon trading and not just use it to make a pile of money for themselves and leave a mess for the rest of us to clean up and pay for.

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