Well spring is almost here!   A waterfall near my home with house sized ice chunks ready to crash is about to sound the call, very loudly!!  (hope to post some video of it here soon)

And what other ice jam has had a jolt lately?  Congress!

Surprising.  The Dubai ports deal was the limit.  People all over America, informed by media figures like Jon Stewart,Lou Dobbs, and Kieth Olberman, wrote and called until the corporate shills in congress finally stood up on their hind legs and barked.

It was a showdown between the corpoRATs in the Bush administration and the corpoRATs in congress.  The congressional rats are running this year so they threatened to over ride the president.

 President Bush, the big oil lobbyist/commander in cheif, that serves his constituents in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates before he considers the security of we the people, has finally been turned down on one of his crony contracting deals with his middle east oil business partners.

Now how about focusing that same anger to get, say 95% of containers coming into US ports inspected, instead of 5% inspected, the dangerous state of port security under Chertoff (incompetent Bush crony appointee, former whitewater assistant prosecuter) and Bush homeland security.

Or how about an energy plan that takes that 15 billion in corporate welfare from the US oil companies that feed 100s of billions of consumer dollars to terror supporting countries in the middle east like Saudi Arabia and the UAE.

And gives that  money, normally wasted through corporate welfare, directly to homeowners and small businesses to install solar panels, wind generators, and drive plugin vehicles.

That would seem to be another issue, just like the ports deal, that could cause a thaw in bribery and corruption on behalf of corporate thieves and their shills in government.