Tuesday, July 29, 2003
Everyone grab the duct tape and plastic wrap again! Today there was a warning about a possible aircraft hijacking happening somewhere sometime in the future by someone for some reason. Boy, am I glad I maybe won't be someplace near there when it might happen.
On a similar note, the military was going to have some kind of terrorism market place?? What the hell?? Can you see the Wall Street Journal once that get started. Let's see, assassinations down 1/8, bombings up 2 1/4, hijackings holding steady at 14 3/8s. The price for C-4 is going at $1543 a bushel and AK-47s dropping in price down to $241 each.
What on earth is happening to us? After complaining to everyone who listened about foriegn news agencies showing pictures of dead Americans we show them how it should be done by showing pictures of dead Iraqis. We want to bring the benefits of a Constitution and personal freedoms to a country by locking folks up with no warrant, no trial, or even having to give a reason. And it takes the vaunted US leadership 200 GIs, 10 Hellfire missiles fired from god knows how many gunships, A-10s, Bradleys and Humvees to take a house with 4 guys in it -- and they still manage to get several of our guys shot!
OOOOh, don't forget about the huge tax refund coming up this month. In my case I'll see - oh, about $0. A family with two will get $800 back -- gee. That will just about cover the increase in heating projected this winter. Or maybe you can use it to cover the 10-20% tuition increase this year. Or maybe help pay your medical cover incidentals?? I have full medical benefits and it just cost me over $300 for a physical and I still owe $70 for a filling I just had. The free maintenance on my car a few months ago cost me $98 and I just paid my $400 house tax for this summer, my 4% state tax income tax, my 1.5% city income tax, and have watched trash pickup, police patrols, street repair, parks and recreation services among others drop off the face of the earth. Oh, yeah, and your kids will be looking at a debit that starts with a 450 billion dollar deficit this year -- that's $450,000,000,000 -- just think, you need a special calculator just to enter that many zeros.
2fers: http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/ and http://www.hackworth.com/
On a similar note, the military was going to have some kind of terrorism market place?? What the hell?? Can you see the Wall Street Journal once that get started. Let's see, assassinations down 1/8, bombings up 2 1/4, hijackings holding steady at 14 3/8s. The price for C-4 is going at $1543 a bushel and AK-47s dropping in price down to $241 each.
What on earth is happening to us? After complaining to everyone who listened about foriegn news agencies showing pictures of dead Americans we show them how it should be done by showing pictures of dead Iraqis. We want to bring the benefits of a Constitution and personal freedoms to a country by locking folks up with no warrant, no trial, or even having to give a reason. And it takes the vaunted US leadership 200 GIs, 10 Hellfire missiles fired from god knows how many gunships, A-10s, Bradleys and Humvees to take a house with 4 guys in it -- and they still manage to get several of our guys shot!
OOOOh, don't forget about the huge tax refund coming up this month. In my case I'll see - oh, about $0. A family with two will get $800 back -- gee. That will just about cover the increase in heating projected this winter. Or maybe you can use it to cover the 10-20% tuition increase this year. Or maybe help pay your medical cover incidentals?? I have full medical benefits and it just cost me over $300 for a physical and I still owe $70 for a filling I just had. The free maintenance on my car a few months ago cost me $98 and I just paid my $400 house tax for this summer, my 4% state tax income tax, my 1.5% city income tax, and have watched trash pickup, police patrols, street repair, parks and recreation services among others drop off the face of the earth. Oh, yeah, and your kids will be looking at a debit that starts with a 450 billion dollar deficit this year -- that's $450,000,000,000 -- just think, you need a special calculator just to enter that many zeros.
2fers: http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/ and http://www.hackworth.com/
