Rant 01

Be gone o'pesky welfare Queens ...

Announcing my new political blogsite "Stop Me Before I Rant Again"

What the heck ... Happy Holidays.

My wife found this great site, for putting it all in perspective.

I gave $2300 to the military last year for a war that I was never able to vote against, and was in the streets to try and stop. That's way more than we spent on ourselves. Kathy and I bought a canoe on Craigslist for $200 that's about it.

I put the cost of the IRAQ debacle, the "mess o' potamia" as they call it on the "Daily Show" on my blog and home page.
233 Billion Dollars!! and counting

, absolutely ridiculous waste of my money.

Looking at it I realized if they would just stop the war for 40 seconds, they could payoff my mortgage ;-) Now that's what I call freedom ...

If you are a conservative and/or a christian , please compare the result of this neo-con agenda to your core beliefs.
This is a pdf file, but an interesting, if frightening read.

Predicting an ascendency of their position only after "a Pearl Harbor scale event" is very spooky when postulated in 1998.

Next time do us all a favor vote for a real conservative, a Goldwater conservative, if such a thing exists. Looking at Trent Lott, Tom Delay, Newt, etc. I am beginning to have my doubts.

I only support troops that are defending our freedoms, not insuring our energy resources into the future, not in the name of chicken-hawk slognaeering.
( Chickenhawk n. A person enthusiastic about war, provided someone else fights it; particularly when that enthusiasm is undimmed by personal experience with war; most emphatically when that lack of experience came in spite of ample opportunity in that person’s youth.)
Bush's military record if you look objectively at it, is very suspect.
Chenney used political connections to defer his draft commitment 5 times etc.

In which America is it that we are okay to consider torturing anyone? Why is there even a question about this? Is there some psycholinguistic inversion of christian values that focuses on Christ's death before the resurrection and not his message, not the very meaning of the resurrection itself?

Hussein was responsible for a horrible tragedy, gassing 5000 Kurds in Halabja (with munitions supplied by then under secretary Donald Rumsfield, by the way)



The current conservative civilian death total in Iraq since the recent invasion is 27,383. That is confirmed civilian deaths.
Not to mention 2152 US causalities, 8567 seriously wounded (poor duped suckers)

Stalin, Mao Tse Tung, Pol Pot, Kim Jung Eil, Tito, the descendants of Sheikh Muhammad ibn ‘Abd al-Wahhab, maybe even Putin, now there are some real tyrants.

Saddam Hussein was a poser by comparison, but had control of very real oil-fields, no doubt.

I agree with the minority leader of the House Intelligence committee, someone who know the inside scoop:
REP. JOHN MURTHA, (D-PA): "Our military has done everything that has been asked of them. The U.S. cannot accomplish anything further in Iraq militarily. It's time to bring the troops home."

Don't be fooled by Bush's new round of back pedaling.

Do you even know what has happened in Haiti in the last year and half? ... oh never mind. I'll save that for another rant ;-)

Our freedom, our legacy of liberty, and truth is at stake.

Please write your congressman and senators today.

Peace on Earth ... Good Will to All