ELO at work !!!! Rachel mixing a few...

You guys got any jobs around there ??

Hi Rachel! I just want to say I think you are the BEST journalist/ anchorwoman on tv today! You are refreshing, honest, candid, and most personable reporters I have ever heard or watched.Imust say I bragg on you and your show to all my family and friends and I post your pieces on my facebook wall all the time. Quad Kudos to you, my Lady! YOU are loved and enjoyed in our home and always will!..... that is until you start sounding like Rush Limbaugh! lol

On 5/10 Chris Matthews mentioned, two new and pending regulations; requiring all hotels in the U.S. with swimming pools install permanent chair lifts for the pool for disabled and having all businesses in the U.S. remodel their bathrooms for people afraid to pee in public. The Obama administration needs to work harder at rolling the regulations back, like the rubber gasket at the gas station.

I love otters. They remind me of seals. I guess they look like cats too. They're like hydrodynamic cats.

On the subject of Otters:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epUk3T2Kfno

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSDnp57LZ3o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1fl4oh3Ocg

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

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

However, for the record, since I am The Mouzer I must say I am also partial to the mouse lemur:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IchJX129kmQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJcAmIEY-C4&feature=BFa&list=PLE6B0ECB6C6646A95

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYizymYeJEU (although this is not a mouse lemur, but still cute as hell)

I love you, Rachel. Otterly.

Ode to the Otters:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RweLhWFFMM4

It is too bad that Michael Moore did not buy the Silverdome. He could have had petition drives there nightly, with the correct font of course.

Rachel has the greatest news show.

Rachel's comment about the reaction to financial crisis in Michigan's cities being to short-circuit the democratic process and appoint a czar (read: dictator) to govern cities and towns in crisis made me think about what I had read in Jonathan Alter's book about FDR's "Hundred Days": that at the time of Franklin Roosevelt's election, some were urging him to impose martial law and assume dictatorial powers to save the economy. (This was at a time when much of the West greatly admired what Mussolini had done for Italy.)

There is a similar current running through the public discourse today touting the advantages of hereditary leadership, and defending the trend of the last several decades toward increasing inequality as a more efficiant model than an egalitarian democracy. It is human nature, I suppose, to look for an all-powerful savior in times of severe crisis. We are fortunate today that FDR resisted the cries for him to become the American Mussolini, and it is disturbing in the extreme that the political leadership in Michigan has not shown the same moral courage.

Considering your story about Politifact. Many people will look at their stupid little 'truth-o-meter' as a crystal ball , or something, and not even bother reading the 'facts' of the story. Therefore, because their 'truth-o-meter' interprets insinuation; it is their 'truth-o-meter' that deserves incineration.