Where do Halliburton and its subsidiary, KBR, not go?
Suuuuurprise, suuuuuuurprise …
Bush is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me to write checks we cannot cash; he leads me to wars we cannot win.
Subsequent verses contributed by Jack:
verse 2
My soul He doth restore again,
And me to walk doth make
Within the paths of right-winged-ness,
E’en for His own and Lord Poppy’s name’s sake.
verse 3
Yea, though I walk in valley of the Shadow of Death, or even in Afghanistan or Iraq
I shall fear no evil, except for when I get the hell out of here and get ignored by the V.A..
For Thou art with me and Thy rod
And staff me discomfort me still.
verse 4
My table Thou hast furnished with lots of carbs but no school lunches
In presence of my foes, who we could give a damn less about
My head Thou dost with oil anoint, as well as your bank accounts.
And my cup over flows, for the time being, until Poppy takes the T-bird away.
verse 5
Goodness and mercy all my life
Shall surely follow me as long as I donate to the Party.
And In Bush’s house forever more
My dwelling place shall be, as long as I keep giving until it hurts.
The following is what I wrote Terry McAuliffe in my recently completed DNC Presidential Strategy Poll. And, no, I do not delude myself that Terry will actually read it. Dumb, but not stupid, remember?
“The Democrat party is on the verge of extinction due to the lack of a collective spine and direction. While the Dems could be picking the incumbent president apart, they have wasted precious time and resources kowtowing to the growing insecurity of a largely undereducated populace by blindly supporting current “anti-terrorism” measures. The two-party system is no longer valid/relevant in the reality of today’s America; progress cannot be achieved by catering to the center. While I most probably shall vote for you out of a sheer need to get the current administration ousted, please know that I am no longer proud of the Democrat party. Suggestion: Groom invigorating young leaders who are willing to take a risk!”
According to the latest news, “The US may need a new Secretary of State in 2005.”
Very good, reporting staff! Yes, if a second Bush term isn’t a foregone conclusion, we may very well need a new Secretary of State. And I’m sure the nation is going to shed tears over the departure of a man who hasn’t uttered an original word in over 3 years.
As Wiley suggested, all you need is blank paper and crayons to be a news reporter anymore.
Newsflash: “The new US Secretary of State may be resuscitated from the old Reagan pantheon.”
An excerpt from Our Enemy, The State by Albert J. Nock:
“Another strange notion pervading whole peoples is that the State has money of its own; and nowhere is this absurdity more firmly fixed than in America. The State has no money. It produces nothing. Its existence is purely parasitic, maintained by taxation; that is to say, by forced levies on the production of others. ‘Government money,’ of which one hears so much nowadays, does not exist; there is no such thing. One is especially amused at seeing how largely a naïve ignorance of this fact underlies the pernicious measures of ‘social security’ which have been foisted on the American people. In various schemes of pensioning, of insurance against sickness, accident, unemployment and what-not, one notices that the government is supposed to pay so-much into the fund, the employer so-much, and the workman so-much…. But the government pays nothing, for it has nothing to pay with. What such schemes actually come to is that the workman pays his own share outright; he pays the employer’s share in the enhanced price of commodities; and he pays the government’s share in taxation. He pays the whole bill; and when one counts in the unconscionably swollen costs of bureaucratic brokerage and paperasserie, one sees that what the workman-beneficiary gets out of the arrangement is about the most expensive form of insurance that could be devised consistent with keeping its promoters out of gaol.”
Our Enemy, the State – look for it in your favorite library.
This just popped up as news on Friday, 8 Aug 2003 08:11:18 -0500. Very interesting reading, in light of subsequent events:
Lack of hard evidence of Iraqi weapons worries top U.S. officials
by Jonathan S. Landay, Knight Ridder Newspapers
WASHINGTON – Senior U.S. officials with access to top-secret intelligence on Iraq say they have detected no alarming increase in the threat that Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein poses to American security and Middle East stability.
But some top officials, notably Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, argue that American
intelligence can’t be counted on to spot Iraqi nuclear, biological or chemical weapons breakthroughs in time to defend against them. Therefore, Cheney, Rumsfeld and other officials say, the United States has no choice but to remove Saddam before he can use such weapons or give them to terrorists …
