This is a nice editor but with tinymce that we originally had, you could set whether you wanted to use it in your profile (I think?)... When I upgraded, didn't it change to a tiny box for typing comments/diaries etc?

Heh, I might need to switch it to the original! Ugh.

It may be too late .

The Republican National Committee, growing nervous over the prospect of Democrats’ winning a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate, is considering tapping into a $5 million line of credit this week to aid an increasing number of vulnerable incumbents, top Republicans say.

Smart money is on salvaging the Senate for the men in red.  The Democrats are close enough to get 60 seats that I'd be more worried about that than a surge for McCain. 

People are counting Lieberman among the 60.  However, I think Lieberman is going to caucus with the Republicans in the next Congress, but not by choice.  Reid would be crazy to give him another chairmanship after his recent behavior.

Wouldn't that be ironic if Lieberman controlled the balance of power yet again by being that 60th Senator?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aww8vhws1y4

So cute, yet so evil.

PREPARE for a new America: That's the message that the Rev. Jesse Jackson conveyed to participants in the first World Policy Forum, held at this French lakeside resort last week.

He promised "fundamental changes" in US foreign policy - saying America must "heal wounds" it has caused to other nations, revive its alliances and apologize for the "arrogance of the Bush administration."

The most important change would occur in the Middle East, where "decades of putting Israel's interests first" would end.

Jackson believes that, although "Zionists who have controlled American policy for decades" remain strong, they'll lose a great deal of their clout when Barack Obama enters the White House.

"Obama is about change," Jackson told me in a wide-ranging conversation. "And the change that Obama promises is not limited to what we do in America itself. It is a change of the way America looks at the world and its place in it."

SCARY!

Look what happens, I go away for a bit and everything changes!

I still have to figure out what these icon's are.

 I think that what the McCain/Palin supporters is doing is quite vile.  They really <b>did</b> cross the line...big time, when some people in the crowds  began shouting things such as "Kill him!" and "Off with his head!", in reference to Obama.  I see the potential for riots erupting in white workingclass ethnic neighborhoods throughout the country, and maybe even Boston, if Obama wins, resulting in the harassments, beatings, and even killing of non-whites who venture into white workingclass ethnic neighborhoods for whatever reason, by workingclass whites in their midst who are prone to rioting making Boston's school busing debacle back in the mid to late 1970's look like a picnic.    Unlike Ross Perot who at  least had the temerity and decency to say  "If you hate people, I don't want your vote", McCain didn't have the temerity, much less the decency to tell people in his crowds  that they'd crossed the line into unacceptable behaviour.  Given the United States' history of assassinations and attempted assassinations on both blacks and whites alike, the possibility of something happening to Obama is real, especially because he's out there and exposed.  I was not happy with Obama's posturing at last week's debate, but, as I said before, the McCain/Palin supporters went over the line, bigtime.  The fact that I'm not happy with either candidate offers no excuse for this kind of behaviour.  There are still plenty of nutjobs walking around out there, and,  while they may not necessarily be in the majority, they do not have to be in t he majority to present a problem, if one gets the drift.

If, on the other hand, Obama <b>loses<b> election or has it stolen out from under him,  I see the potential for  people in ghettoes across the country who are prone to acting out, rioting to the point where t he riots over MLK's assassination back in the late 1960's,  and, later,  the riots in South Central L. A. that erupted over the Rodney King beating and the acquittal of the white LAPD cops who beat  him excessively afterwards,  the shooting death of  Latasha Harlins, a 15 y/o African-American high school student,  at the hands of a Korean shopkeeper, look like a total picnic also.