Knicks have 18 players on their roster today. Allowing for a couple of give-aways, you still have 16 players left, who cannot be just cut and who would be totally wasted on the Taxi Squad. Rookies need to play to get better. I know which one; do you?

Tabacco: Yes, People won today; BUT The Selfish & the Greedy never give up! Politicians, Rich, Lawyers, Sophists, Demagogues & Fools always presenting Same Old Tricks, wrapped in New Clothes. We have not heard the end of Amnesty for Illegals!

Conservative Republican senators and a handful of Democrats are trying to put a final knife in President Bush's plan for legalizing millions of unlawful immigrants. Amnesty survived a series of unfriendly amendments Wednesday.

For years Equatorial Guinea on PARADE Magazine's list of ten worst governments/dictators in world. So we got 'em off that list - all the way down to number 11. No dispute that we improved an absolutely awful, corrupt, thuggish government's image.

Mitt Romney skewered for Flip-Flopping! - Tabacco "FLIP-FLOPPING" from WRONG to RIGHT is a GOOD THING! Doing it for POLITICAL EXPEDIENCE & STRONG-WILLED "STAYING THE WRONG COURSE" are BAD THINGS! Don't be deceived by GWB Sophistic "Talking Points".

Featured in Michael Moore's new documentary "SiCKO", Dr. Linda Peeno, as medical reviewer for giant HMO Humana, says she denied man life-saving medical care to boost company profits, one of country's best-known whistleblowers re healthcare industry.

On July 5, 1827, thousands celebrated abolition of slavery in NYS with parade in downtown Manhattan. Although lawmakers actually outlawed slavery previous day, celebrations were held off until next day not to conflict with Independence Day.

This Post isn't about Bush-Kennedy-McCain Bill, which will drive down wages in USA until parity with Mexico achieved. It's about how Sophists use specious argument to promote Capitalist Plot, but deny same Rationale to Blacks & Homosexuals.

Lou Dobbs speaks Truth on many issues. But Lou is NOT Independent any more than Joe Lieberman is. Taking Populist positions on many issues gains credibility with public. When he lies, a trusting public cannot distinguish between Truth and Sophistry.

Selected Stats: -- 978 Turkey 925 India 895 Brazil 761 Netherlands 726 Sweden 701 Spain 647 Chile 627 Poland 611 Korea 568 Russian Federation -- 307 Israel 304 South Africa

Interesting Facts: Geo W. Bush has compassion for Osama's family after 9/11 & Mexican Illegals, drug dealers, murderers & gang members, but indifferent toward border agents, Compean & Ramos, & Ground Zero 1st Responders!

4 years ago Josh Rushing helped sell Iraq war to American public as a Marine spokesperson when the U.S. invaded Iraq. He's since retired from the Marines & has started working at an unlikely outlet - the Arabic news channel Al Jazeera International.

Gen. David Petraeus is warning it could take years, not months, to defeat insurgency. The evaluation that was supposed to be so definitive in September is now being managed downward. - Lowering expectations: an old Karl Rove trick!

If you're fortunate enough to have parents pay good chunk of your college education, you start first job & don't have to pay off Student Loan. You have more discretionary capital for investing. That's where the "Race Tax" comes in.

ELEPHANT-DONKEY COALITION in collaboration with the MSM has reiterated the Insignificant ad nauseam while reducing Murder, Mayhem & Illegal Hispanic Street Gang Violence to a NON-STORY! Is it because BAD PUBLICITY undermines BAD BILL!

George W. Bush is a POMPOUS PRETENDER. He prances & preens on decks of battleships after defeating militarily-weak oil-producing countries like Iraq. But a Serious Threat like China that PREENING COWARD will NEVER attack, except verbally - & gently.

"I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly. - Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things."

SWAIN: Bush thinks the American people are fools. KAUS: ..if the whole purpose is to convince Latinos that he's their champion, then he has to go down fighting. TABACCO: With Bush it's never just votes; it's always "SHOW ME THE MONEY!"

Lyrics: Rulers of the nations as you fuss and fight Over who owns the soil than who has the right To design, build, sell and store and fire All the bombs and guns to defend your holy empire - Lyrics & Singing by Sara Thomsen

Religious conservatives generally view the friendship of David and Jonathan as totally non-sexual. They find it inconceivable that God would allow a famous king of Israel to be a homosexual. - Maybe they should read The Bible!

The problem is not with capitalism, but with capitalists; not with socialism, but with socialists; not with Christianity, but with Christians; not with Islam, but with Islamists. No system can protect the people from self-serving leaders.

Noam Chomsky, "TOTALITARIANISM: doesn't matter what people think - you've got bludgeon; DEMOCRACY: State can't control people by force. People so curious, so arrogant they don't have humility to submit and you have to control what people think.

"GODFATHER" - MIKE: My father is no different than any powerful man, any man with power, like a president or senator. KAY: Do you know how naive you sound, Michael? Presidents and senators don't have men killed. MIKE: Oh. Now who's being naive, Kay?

US actions: Gutierrez sold out. Cuba's Castro/Bolivia's Morales marginalized. Haiti's Aristide/Chile's Allende ousted. Panama's Noriega/Saddam Hussein jailed. Ecuador's Jaime Roldos/Panama's Omar Torrijos assassinated in plane crashes.

Pros who cheat countries of $-trillions via World Bank into coffers of huge corps/wealthy families controlling planet's natural resources. Deep in debt, when US wants UN votes, troops in Iraq, oil, their canal, we say you can't pay your debt