Here is an excellent way to help the suffering people of Haiti: http://www.hopeforhaiti.com

Hope for Haiti is a long-standing, excellent organization based in Naples, Florida. Its network of aid is headquartered outside Port-au-Prince and remains largely intact in spite of the earthquake's devastation.

So, here we are the actual birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Had he not been gunned down mercilessly on that hotel balcony in Memphis in 1968, he would have been 81 years old today.

What thoughts might he have about our world and our nation on this day?

"Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity," said Dr. King. "It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true."

Witness the absurd and mindless hate-filled expressions of outrage issuing forth from the likes of hate-mongers like Pat Robertson and Rush Limbaugh as they denigrate the horrible human tragedy unfolding right now in Haiti.

Robertson, that hate-spewing television denizen who purports to speak for God, said the earthquake in Haiti is the result of a pact made with the devil by the people of Haiti.

Limbaugh, never one to lose an opportunity spew hate in an attempt to divide Americans against each other, said President Obama pledged $100 million in immediate American relief for Haiti only to enhance his standing with the "light-skinned and dark-skinned black community in country."

"Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love," said Dr. King.

There are those in this nation who claim the mantle of superiority, claim it because they believe in a God who would make them superior. They take us, when in charge, to places of meanness, to aggression, to an injustice that would seek to enrich some at the expense of the great many.

They claim to speak for that God while spitting on the suffering of Americans and all brothers and sisters.

They are wrong.

God…Yahweh…Allah…is justice and love for all humankind.

"Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten....America owes a debt of justice which it has only begun to pay, said Dr. King. "If it loses the will to finish or slackens in its determination, history will recall its crimes and the country that would be great will lack the most indispensable element of greatness--justice."

In a move to provide viewers with more comic political porn, the Faux News Channel picked Sarah Palin, who quit as governor of Alaska after single-handily destroying the GOP's chance to defeat Barack Obama in 2008, to be a regular punditard on its cable extension.

This comes as great news to the thousands of sexually-frustrated war geeks who have grown tired of sitting around in their bathrobes, touching themselves to the likes of Sneer O'Really and Shame Humanity.

"Fair and balanced…and absolutely ridiculous," will no doubt become the new Faux News catchphrase. Oh, wait, it's already become that.

Be prepared, viewers, to hear a string of syllables issuing forth from your TeeVee Boxes which, when translated, turn out to mean absolutely nothing. This will be rich…also…too.

But all this is mere political theatre…knee-slapping funny, to be sure, but theatre nonetheless.

Try this quote and see if you can guess its author:

"We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace – business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering."

"They had begun to consider the government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob."

Nope, it's not Ben Bernake, nor even Barack Obama. It's Franklin Delano Roosevelt speaking in 1936. Maybe Sarah Palin can discuss this quote on her new Faux News TeeVee Box show. Ha-ha!

Seriously, BULKY BAILED-OUT BANKS BUMPING BIG BONUSES? Are you kidding me?

Wall Street shows its utter contempt for the U.S. government and the American people and says, "let them eat cake."

While the Obama Administration floats the idea for some kind of tax or penalty on the huge, bailed out banks who continue to give multi-million dollar bonuses to executives, Simon Johnson makes some suggestions.

Writing in The Daily Beast and again in the Baseline Scenario he suggests the time is right for the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, which meets today in its first public session, to put some meat and bones on the outrage.

"The point is to find for rather dull and difficult technical material to become names, dates, and numbers that catch the popular imagination – and provide a genuine warning," Johnson writes. "The most obvious and reasonable way to do this is by drilling down into the details of the Wall Street compensation system, then and now - the more you dig, the more you understand why we are heading for trouble."

Make that, "more" trouble.

One final…and quite serious note: Please send prayers, money, food, any kind of assistance to the people of Haiti. How much can a people suffer?

"You're a racist!"

"No, you're the racist!"

No, really, honest Injun, you're the racist!"

"Nope, I have a full collection of Motown records on my shelf. Otis, my man! You're the racist."

These folks are all nuts – AND insensitive to others - and racists.

Let's just face it and admit it: we're a nation just chuck full of prejudices. It's what makes us feel special about ourselves – denigrating someone else. Heck, if we didn't have that we'd just go about our lives trying to help each other.

Maybe Harry Reid would feel better about the President of the United States if he could, you know, sing a number or two…maybe a spiritual.

Maybe Michael Steele would feel better if he and his family were rounded up and forced to live on a Rez in The-Middle-of-Nowhere Oklahoma.

Maybe Trent Lott should just shut up and go away…oh wait, he did. Thanks.

Maybe we'd ALL feel better if elected leaders and officials in Washington would stop playing the blame-game and pointing fingers for purely partisan political gain and actually DO SOMETHING to help this troubled nation…you know, just a little something, like, maybe…pass meaningful and effective health care reform…a jobs program…financial industry re-regulation…immigration reform…extended civil rights. You know, little things.

Just sayin'.

Meanwhile, failed GOP veep candidate Sarah Palin reveals in interviews with 2008 campaign reporters she wasn't nervous at all about being selected for the Number Two spot with Sen. John McCain.

She recognized the move as part of God's plan…of desperation for the GOP in 2008.

Thanks, God…for giving us many hilarious moments.

Thank heavens, too, Rudy Giuliani filled up with enough blood to come back into the daylight for a while over the weekend and provide a little more comic relief from all the finger pointing and name calling.

Why is anyone still paying attention to this guy?

You remember Rudy, of course. As Mayor of New York City, Giuliani's most memorable contribution to the welfare of our nation's largest city was to relocate the police and fire communications center to the World Trade Towers.

So, Rudy goes on the TeeVee Box over the weekend to remind everyone no terrorist attacks ever occurred on U.S. soil while President George W. Bush was in office. Wha…???

He said this, of course, in an attempt to restore us to a properly intense state of fear because President Barack Obama is now in office. And because the whole "Socialist-Nazi-African-Zoroastrian-Buddhist-Baptist" thing just ain't workin'…except, of course, for Brit Hume when he's moralizing about Tiger Woods.

He later went back on the TeeVee Box to clarify. He MEANT to say no Islamic terrorist acts occurred on the U.S. soil while President George W. Bush was in office AFTER that little incident on September 11, 2001…while President George W. Bush was in office.

Oh…that's better.

It's becoming increasingly apparent that Sky People should just sit down and shut up. Leave us alone with our Unobtainium!

President Obama took the blame, Thursday, for failing to stop the Underpants Bomber on Christmas Day.

"I did feel a disturbance in the force," said the President, recalling his holiday in Hawaii. "But, you know, it was Christmas and I had temporarily misplaced my flip-flops and the kids were yelling to go to beach and, well, to be honest, I figured the intelligence people would take care of it."

"I was wrong."

"In retrospect, I realize now I should have gotten off the beach and flown immediately to intercept Mr. Weiner Bomber in mid-air."

Okay, he didn't say that, exactly. But in a Trumanesque moment he did say, "the buck stops with me,"…for failing to stop the buck with the bomb.

And, as president this is only right. We all remember how George W. Bush, after putting down his copy of My Pet Goat, took full responsibility for the national disaster of September 11, 2001.

What? He didn't? Oh, never mind.

So now, we're all going to get our bodies scanned before boarding airplanes. Make sure you wear clean underwear to the airport. Skid marks are appropriate only on the runways.

And for the sake of our dedicated TSA checkers, we should also adopt a policy – in conjunction with full body scans – of mandatory bikini waxes. Just sayin', that's all.

While some U.S. airports have already installed body-scanning equipment – and not just in the TSA locker rooms – implementation of such devices, should they become part of our security apparatus, will not be easy.

The U.S. House of Representatives is already on record opposing the implementation of body scanning equipment, saying such sensitive procedures should remain the exclusive domain of elected officials in Washington…and a handful of southern governors during hikes along the Appalachian Trail.

During a debate last fall, freshman Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-UT., said, "Nobody needs to see my wife and kids naked to secure an airplane."

This is undoubtedly true but, perhaps, in an effort to prevent future attempts to hide bombs in pants (a line that never works, by the way), the U.S. should take a clue from charter air carrier, Naked Air, which offers clothing-optional flights to exotic locations such as Cancun.

This would, of course, eliminate the need for buying expensive body scanning equipment. But in an effort to keep abreast of fellow flyers passengers might insist on reviewing body scans of each other before boarding flights.

Scanning packages takes on a whole new meaning.

Holy Crap! Only six days into 2010 and there's already enough lunacy out there to last a whole year!

First of all, would somebody PLEASE turn back up the heat! Good grief. Where's all this global warming when we really need it?

(Seriously, some flat-earthers claim cold in January is evidence climate change doesn't exist…Ha-ha-ha!)

The frosty temps in Florida prompted GOP senatorial candidate and darling of the wing-nuts Marco Rubio to post on Twitter this morning, "The cold front in Miami was fun for a few days but can we go back to tropical now?"

That's the kind of solid analysis and scientific understanding we like in politicians.

The big news out of Washington this morning is major retirements in the U.S. Senate. All of them are quitting…no, not really, just kidding.

Sens. Christopher Dodd, D-CT., and Byron Dorgan, D-ND, are both retiring. Sen. Dodd is expected to make his announcement today at the Connecticut hydro-electric plant named for his famous senatorial father, the Dodd Dam. (No, not really. Old joke, couldn't resist.)

Dorgan's seat may become a battle ground but Democrats in Connecticut have a very popular attorney general to run in Dodd's place, leaving Connecticut Democrats – and nearly everyone else – saying, "why couldn't it be Lieberman?"

CABS Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann may have a big ol', "oops," coming her way. She's been railing against the 2010 U.S. Census, saying it's some kind of plot to install socialism and all kinds of crazy stuff while encouraging fellow Minnesotans to boycott the decadinal national count.

Turns out, Minnesota may well lose a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives because of people fleeing the frozen north for the near-freezing temps of the Deep South. So, sure, Minnesotans follow Bachmann's lead and ignore the Census. Put her out of a job!

Meanwhile, knuckle-draggers in South Carolina are bitch-slapping Sen. Lindsey Graham again for not being knuckle-draggey enough. Seems they won't be satisfied until he drapes himself in the Confederate flag and runs naked across the Senate floor. His sin? Talking to Democrats, maybe even working with them, not doing enough to hide John Wilkes Booth and timidly suggesting the nation really should do something to curb carbon emissions.

Finally, some dweeb named Louis Gomez put a page on the Facebook yesterday entitled, "Chuck Norris Kill Obama." Seriously. And 36 people signed up almost immediately.

The page has since been taken down, apparently, because the good folks over the Facebook just don't allow mutinous, traitorous and violent expressions but the astute observers at www.thepoliticalcarnival.net captured it, if you really must see it.

So, okay, here's a prediction for 2010: the rich will get richer, the poor will get poorer, we won't get health care reform worth a ding-dang and Alabama will win the national collegiate football championship.

Hot Dang! It's 2010 and the biggest debate of the holiday weekend was a spirited discussion over whether 01-02-2010 represented the nexus of time or simply a numerical palindrome.

None of that matters now, of course, because computers worldwide did not crash and send the globe plummeting toward the abyss in a fiery ball of goo.

And there's no need to further bother with health care industry reform because radio bloviater Douche Limpbranch took the weekend to do a little undercover work, visiting a hospital where doctors were surprised to learn Limpbranch has a heart.

Vacationing with President Obama in Hawaii, Limpbranch suffered chest pains when he missed a putt on the 18th and cost himself a $5,000 skin. He was…ahem…rushed to Queen's Medical Center and released after a couple of days of tests.

Upon his release, Limpbranch held a press conference to say his experience at Queen's Medical Center indicates to him the health care system in America – even Hawaii – is just fine and dandy…if one is a wealthy celebrity who holds press conferences to say there was nothing wrong with him in the first place.

One might take note Queen's Medical Center played a pivotal role in the wing-nuts' campaign to prove the President of the United States is not really American when in 2008 the UPI reported no birth records for the President could be found at the hospital.

The once-venerable wire service, now owned by right-wing Korean evangelist Sun-Myung Moon, later retracted its story when Obama's birth certificate was found at nearby but far less ostentatious Kapi'olani Medical Center but what-the-heck the birthers were off and running down the lunacy track.

And speaking of the riding the lunacy rails, it is reported Republicans in Congress will launch in 2010 a campaign to repeal health care reform and thereby position themselves for mid-term elections.

This is a good strategy: push for repeal of something that hasn't even happened yet!

They also say they will push to delay the end of the world in 2012. Damn the Mayans, full speed ahead!

Bills have already been filed in a handful of states, including ‘Murka's hanging appendage of Florida, to exempt said states from whatever health care reform turns out to be…maybe…someday.

As long as newly rich Palm Beachites can get a good check-up in Hawaii when their putting stroke fails we don't really need reform.

And finally, Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., said Sen. Jim DeMint, R-SC., is just "nuts" for single-handily holding up the confirmation of Transportation Security Administration Secretary nominee Errol Southers. DeMint said he stopped the confirmation process because he doesn't want to see TSA employees become union members and fears Southers will let that happen.

It's the TSA, by the way, which is charged with making sure people don't stuff bombs into their union suits and board airplanes.