Tag: Bush’s Fubar Economy

Iraq is fine…duh, why else would planes be shot at?

Filed in Uncategorized by on August 31, 2007 6 Comments

[youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=L50SrvhfeH0&mode=related&search=] A military cargo plane carrying three senators and a House member was forced to take evasive maneuvers and dispatch flares to avoid ground fire after taking off from Baghdad on Thursday night.

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wrap your brain around this number

Filed in Uncategorized by on August 30, 2007 2 Comments

CEO pay can look like chump change next to private equity and hedge fund managers’ pay. Those managers made an average of $657.5 million in 2006 – more than 16,000 times what the average full-time worker makes, and roughly 61 times that of the average CEO.

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How sad is this?

Filed in Uncategorized by on August 30, 2007 1 Comment

This is the White House’s response to not being able to meet 15 of the 18 benchmarks for the surge… A bar was set so high, that it was almost not to be able to be met,” White House deputy press secretary Dana Perino said. “On the other hand, one of the things it does […]

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Who doesn’t support the troops?

Filed in Uncategorized by on August 30, 2007 2 Comments

this is such a tired, partisan attack, that I can’t believe gets any space these days And it’s terribly unjust that the sacrifices of our support troops go ignored by the big-star media. For just one example, a single military-police battalion lost 37 soldiers killed in the course of their tour. But what do we […]

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I never knew NYC had so many farmers

Filed in Uncategorized by on August 30, 2007 18 Comments
I never knew NYC had so many farmers

Have a look at the map of Manhattan below (used recently by Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns in a speech). The red dots indicate people who live in Manhattan (and so clearly are neither hurting for money nor tilling the soil on the family farm) but receive agricultural subsidies from the federal government The larger red […]

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Meanwhile back at the ranch

Filed in Uncategorized by on August 27, 2007 31 Comments

While we are all basking in this little victory….don’t forget you are still being fucked in the ass… American men and women dying by the thousands, so that Karl Marx and Adam Smith can blow each other in a Middle Eastern glory hole. if this article doesn’t make you angry, then well, you aren’t paying […]

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Even more sobering…

Filed in Uncategorized by on August 23, 2007 7 Comments

This to me is better than that NYTimes article I posted a comment that the NYTimes article seemed a bit over the top as far as the level of writing I would expect from enlisted folks. This guy brings it down to the level I think is a little more realistic. NOTICE:  Don’t forget to […]

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The realities of war

Filed in Uncategorized by on August 23, 2007 0 Comments

I imagine this might be sobering to some

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MINE, MINE, MINE

Filed in Uncategorized by on August 22, 2007 1 Comment

More proof that this economy ROCKS!!! You see in the splendid New Economy as production goes up salaries go down. It really is a great thing. I know that a few Economists would think this is swell and how things should work. The only problem is that as our salaries stay flat, somebody else’s seem […]

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