Monthly Archives: November 2007
Dear America
Dear America, I miss you. You are the land of my birth, the place I spent my formative years, and I have many fond memories of you. Even though I now live across an ocean, in a very different sort of place, I long for you, America. I long for what I have left behind. For me, nurtured in your mountains and on your plains, you were a land of never-ending highways, of hidden mountain valleys, of desert vistas so wide and awesome as to take my breath away. You were a place of close-knit neighborhoods and stalwart rural towns, of all-night diners and riding bicycles in the streets. I knew a place where black folks would defend the right of the Ku Klux Klan to march and assemble, secure in their belief that in a great democracy of ideas, truth and right could win the day without censorship and repression, even of the those who hated them. A place where white folks would stand shoulder to shoulder with those same black folks, to bear witness that the majority was united against hate… Read more
If you’ve ever wondered why your taxes go up and there’s never enough money for roads and schools, you should look no further than you local Fortune 500 company. If they pay <5% and I pay 25%, who does the government work… Read more
Taxpayers in United States will pay $137.6 billion for the cost of the Iraq War in FY 2007. For the same amount of money, 142,451,458 Homes could have been provided with Renewable Electricity, assuming 8 cents per kWh for wind energy. As of the 2000 census, there were 119,044,000 houses (housing units in the inventory) for the entire United… Read more
Hang around the fringes (like a Ron Paul rally) long enough, and someone will make an idiotic legal argument. Fortunately there is A Casebook for Dealing with Extremist Legal… Read more
Planning on going outside (maybe to shop at Wal-Mart) and nervous you might be mistaken for a terrorist? Then learn the proper way to wear your American flag… Read more
Presidential Library Burns
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A tragic fire on Thursday destroyed the personal library of President George W. Bush. Both of his books have been lost. Presidential spokesman Ari Fleischer said the president was devastated, as he had not finished coloring the second… Read more
Atlanta based “Archbishop” Earl Paulk of the Chapel Hill Harvester Church has got himself a third sex scandal to go with the first and second ones. It seems that while this piece of human trash wasn’t molesting little girls in his congregation he was fathering children with his brothers wife. Of course, no jail time for this subhuman (yet). This is Georgia folks, only one state away from… Read more
US Commander In Chief tells Musharraf ‘You can’t be the president and the head of the military at the same… Read more