I'd love some recommendations.
I've yet to read Mayflower, though I've been meaning to.
Also, anyone see this op-ed? $2 trillion is now the estimated cost of the war.
$2,000,000,000,000
That's two million millions!
By how many votes did Gore lose Florida in 2000?
I remember watching George Bush debate in 2000 and wondering to myself, "How is he gonna trick the middle class and poor white voters?"
It's funny how historically conservative economic policy is much more rooted in Social Darwinism than that of liberals. And yet I'd bet a testicle that a vast majority of those who don't believe in evolution also consider themselves Conservative.
and remember these heros? Here's a press release from the Federal Election Committee website discussing the $630,000 in fines paid by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth for accepting contributions in violation of federal limits (among other things.)
Wow, that's a shocker!! "So those guys were heavily financed under the table by Republican donors? Geez... Who would have guessed that???"
Was it me who once advocated that Dick Cheney be tried for Treason? I think his conduct falls under the "adheres to their enemies" or "giving them comfort... elsewhere" language. I'm sure Bin Laden felt pretty comfortable when the U.S. military decided to stop looking for him and started focusing their efforts on Saddam Husein.
I can just picture someone trying to sell the idea of 9/11 to Bin Laden by saying, "And after you attack their innocent civilians, not only are they not going to come after you with all of their resources, but I believe that the U.S. government will actually invest a huge chunk of their retirement money into searching for a man who actually thinks of you as a threat to him and his regime!"
(See the bottom of this page, one of the least discussed and most interesting 60 Minutes stories I've seen. (interview with Saddam Hussein's Interrogator))
$2,000,000,000,000. And we're using it to KILL PEOPLE.
and the funny thing is, I'm just a moderate.
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this doesn't have anything to do with the blog....I guess maybe the bad economy and all of the housing foreclosures, but why the fuck would anyone apply for a mortgage loan here....
http://ricflairfinance.com/
thoughts?
darayus
You know, if you brown people would just get civilized, we wouldn't have to keep bombing you back into the stone age. You had the torch back when us white-folk dropped the ball in the dark ages. But you dropped the ball and got yourselves all colonized. If you hadn't let European powers take you over the first time around, we wouldn't still be using you as doormats.
Plus, it isn't our money that we are spending over there. It is the Asians' cash. We borrowed all of that money from Japan and China. If you want to blame somebody, blame the credit card issuers not the credit card users. Plus it is money well spent; we need our military well practiced and experienced so that when we default and give China the finger, we can rest comfortably knowing that they can't do anything about it.
Plus, Iraq is a great excuse from having to enter that cesspool called Africa. If we weren't otherwise committed, we'd have to go in there and stop things like genocide, slavery, and systematic rape. Nobody wants that.
In summary: the Yellows loan us money so we can bomb the Browns so that we can ignore the Blacks.
Staying at the top of the food-chain ain't easy, son.
Whitey (a.k.a. The Man)
If you're feeling particularly nerdy, I'd read "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
Barold
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