saying thank u deep breaths! :-)

saying thank u deep breaths! :-)

Evita, I really appreciate your heartfelt and brilliant commentary. Your writing has really been incisive, so thanks for sharing.

Let me also say that Melissa Etheridge's patriotic medly was so spiritual for me last night. It was like being in church when the music permeates your body on a cellular level and gives you the shivers. I hope I can get a tape of it. It was all that to me.

Gross domestic product rose at a 3.3 percent clip in the second quarter, the Commerce Department said, a significant jump over the original estimate of 1.9 percent growth. G.D.P., the broadest measure of the nation’s economic activity, is considered a good barometer of America’s economic health.

On Wall Street, the markets surged on the strength of the report. The Dow Jones industrial average was up more than 190 points, or 1.65 percent in afternoon trading, and the broader Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index was up 1.16 percent.

The revised G.D.P. figure suggests resilience in the economy, especially compared with the anemic 0.9 percent growth rate from January to March, and a contraction in the final three months of 2007. Still, spending by American consumers stayed relatively soft, despite the infusion of the government’s tax stimulus program. Corporate profits remained weak.

Rezko’s original sentencing was recently pushed back, and he is now spending lots of time at the “federal courthouse,” and reporters are wondering why. He is also facing two more charges, both of which would probably add even more time in prison than he is already facing.

Rezko has 3 choices – 1) Commit suicide. 2) Spend the rest of his life in prison. 3) Start telling the truth…real soon!

(and, I cannot STAND Martha Stewart)