Wisconsin School Employee Makes Threatening Phone Call to Business for Selling Gas to GOPer  —  Maybe the caller was only trying to make sure the pumps were clear in case any Wisconsin Senate fleebaggers needed to top off the tank for another escape to Illinois.  —  From WBAY-TV:

Shameful U.S. inaction on Syria's massacres  —  FOR THE PAST five weeks, growing numbers of Syrians have been gathering in cities and towns across the country to demand political freedom — and the security forces of dictator Bashar al-Assad have been responding by opening fire on them.

Statements on Syria  —  Obama, in what Crowley describes as a “bind” on today's violence, says:  —  The United States condemns in the strongest possible terms the use of force by the Syrian government against demonstrators.  This outrageous use of violence to quell protests must come to an end now.