Showing posts with label Iraq. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Iraq. Show all posts
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Tuesday, April 01, 2008
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Politics - No child left behind... unless they need health coverage, then screw 'em
Email your congress critters and point this out to the little weasels:
How many days of the Iraq war would pay for children's health care?
1 Day = $300 Million = 246,000 Kids
1 Week = $2.1 Billion = 1.7 Million Kids
1 Month = $9.1 Billion = 7.4 Million Kids
41 Days = $12.2 Billion = 10 Million Kids
Tell them to stand up to Bush and his, claim that the SCHIP bill contains “excessive spending,” even as he’s requested $200 billion more for the war in Iraq.
How many days of the Iraq war would pay for children's health care?
1 Day = $300 Million = 246,000 Kids
1 Week = $2.1 Billion = 1.7 Million Kids
1 Month = $9.1 Billion = 7.4 Million Kids
41 Days = $12.2 Billion = 10 Million Kids
Tell them to stand up to Bush and his, claim that the SCHIP bill contains “excessive spending,” even as he’s requested $200 billion more for the war in Iraq.
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Politics - Kucinich '08
I have officially decided no matter who is on the ticket in '08, I will be voting for Dennis Kucinich. Even if I have to write his name in.
Rep. Kucinich’s courage to stand up for the truth, despite the odds, is inspiring.
Rep. Kucinich’s courage to stand up for the truth, despite the odds, is inspiring.
Thursday, July 19, 2007
Thursday, July 12, 2007
Thursday, July 05, 2007
Current events - A fitting tribute
My camera phone doesn't do it justice, but 3,586 small flags along the 9600 block of State Line Road in Kansas City are a moving sight.
Monday, June 25, 2007
Monday, May 21, 2007
Personal - Monday data dump
Sometimes I wish I had tourettes syndrome so I could just spew a string of obscenities and get away with it.
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I have an idea for an animated short.
It's an analogy of the Iraq war. It starts with a young boy named Georgie discovering that a bunch of cockroaches have gotten into his kitchen and knocked over two boxes of his favorite sugar cereal. He gets all pissed off and starts killing cockroaches and rips open the walls to get at their hiding places. He's almost gotten every cockroach, but unfortunately, before he finishes the job, he remembers a story his daddy told him about some flies that he tried to kill once in another room of the house. Little Georgie drops what he's doing and runs into the other room with a box of fruit and starts flinging the fruit at the flies. He kills a few, but more flies lay eggs in the fruit and produce more flies. Pretty soon, the flies are everywhere and the cockroaches have rebuilt the wall in the kitchen.
Then his best friend shoots someone in the face.
Now I just have to learn how to animate stuff and come up with a better ending.
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I have an idea for an animated short.
It's an analogy of the Iraq war. It starts with a young boy named Georgie discovering that a bunch of cockroaches have gotten into his kitchen and knocked over two boxes of his favorite sugar cereal. He gets all pissed off and starts killing cockroaches and rips open the walls to get at their hiding places. He's almost gotten every cockroach, but unfortunately, before he finishes the job, he remembers a story his daddy told him about some flies that he tried to kill once in another room of the house. Little Georgie drops what he's doing and runs into the other room with a box of fruit and starts flinging the fruit at the flies. He kills a few, but more flies lay eggs in the fruit and produce more flies. Pretty soon, the flies are everywhere and the cockroaches have rebuilt the wall in the kitchen.
Then his best friend shoots someone in the face.
Now I just have to learn how to animate stuff and come up with a better ending.
Monday, May 14, 2007
Media - Left hand, meet right hand...
The US military has taken the war in Iraq into cyberspace, with the launch of its own channel on the video-sharing website YouTube.
But wait...
The Defense Department will begin blocking access "worldwide" to YouTube, MySpace and 11 other popular Web sites on its computers and networks, according to a memo sent Friday by Gen. B.B. Bell, the U.S. Forces Korea commander.
But wait...
The Defense Department will begin blocking access "worldwide" to YouTube, MySpace and 11 other popular Web sites on its computers and networks, according to a memo sent Friday by Gen. B.B. Bell, the U.S. Forces Korea commander.
Friday, January 26, 2007
Humor - If I don't laugh, I'll cry
Q: What's the difference between Iraq and Vietnam?
A: George Bush had a plan for getting out of Vietnam.
A: George Bush had a plan for getting out of Vietnam.
Monday, August 21, 2006
Friday, August 11, 2006
Thursday, August 10, 2006
Current events - Cheney
Via Think Progress
From a teleconfrence interview with the biggest Dick (Cheney) on the planet.
Sweet jumpin Jeebus on a pogo-stick…
al Qaeda knows we won’t “complete the task” because we showed them we wouldn’t when Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld let their collective ADD kick in and they stopped focusing on Afghanistan and bin Laden.
This just shows that the American people, at least those who are in touch with reality, have realized we let the wrong people get a hold of our country.
From a teleconfrence interview with the biggest Dick (Cheney) on the planet.
The thing that’s partly disturbing about it is the fact that, the standpoint of our adversaries, if you will, in this conflict, and the al Qaeda types, they clearly are betting on the proposition that ultimately they can break the will of the American people in terms of our ability to stay in the fight and complete the task.
Sweet jumpin Jeebus on a pogo-stick…
al Qaeda knows we won’t “complete the task” because we showed them we wouldn’t when Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld let their collective ADD kick in and they stopped focusing on Afghanistan and bin Laden.
This just shows that the American people, at least those who are in touch with reality, have realized we let the wrong people get a hold of our country.
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Like illegal and immoral wars, over priced oil, corruption, scandals, cronyism, ineffective policies? Hate science? Prefer to keep "those people" out of your neighborhood? Like seeing America's name dragged through the mud? Thank a republican for the last 7 1/2 years.
Relax, you say, the markets will take care of it.So, you believe Giant Global Corporation, Inc. would take care of you if you needed time to spend with a sick child? They wouldn't fire you and replace you with someone cheaper?
You think they would make sure your retirement is comfortable? *cough Enron cough*
You think AT&T would have put in phone lines to north central Kansas if they didn't have to? Screw 'em. Make 'em move to the city?
Do you think farmers would be able to plant crops you and yours eat if they had a bad harvest last year because of a drought or a hail storm?
What about your grandmother who scrimped and saved for decades and ends up spending all her life savings on a nursing home? Should she have to wait to go to the ER if she's sick? Serves her right for living so long?
How about your kids? Should they have to rely on your paying for college? Can you put them through four years without federal input?
What about people who are not as lucky to be as wise with their money as you? Maybe they didn't get born into oil money, should they be forced to stay in the lower class? Should we build walls around your house to keep them from stealing your stuff or worse? Maybe we can use them as an alternative fuel source, perhaps?
I hate that there's government waste. I hate that there are moochers off the government teat. I hate that we have decided to turn our backs on our citizens so we can line Halliburton and Blackwater and BP's pockets. But what I hate more are the people who have a smug attitude that anyone who needs a hand up, no matter what their circumstances may be, is a lesser quality person. $10 Billion a month can go along way to rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure. $10 Billion a month can go a long way to putting people to work on that infrastructure. $10 Billion dollars a month can go a long way to helping sick kids get well so they can contribute to our greater good. $10 Billion a month can go a long way to educating our kids and getting us back on top of the planet as the smartest, best prepared people here.
We have wasted the last 7 1/2 years ignoring problems here at home, while we invade and rebuild somewhere else. It's not right.
This fear of Democrats tax and spending us into a paupers grave seems to be misdirected. Do the research yourself.
The Democrats way just works better.