Mike's Blog Roundup
By Mike Finnigan Friday Sep 11, 2009 4:00amtttthink: On 9/10, 2001 Donald Rumsfeld admitted the Pentagon couldn't account 2.3 trillion dollars. Then 9/11 happened and everyone forgot
AlterNet: 14 things you need to know about Joe Wilson
Lean Left: "Mr. Gorbachev, Build Up This Wall" - Jackass Rightwinger's cynical hypocrisy hits historic high
Welcome Back to Pottersville: The Big Casino
attytood: College president honors "diversity" by naming center for Dick Cheney
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2.3 trillion dollars go missing and everyone forgets about it after 9/11.
They can't account for 25% of the milion dollars a minute they spend.
of imagining things again.
He might be right.
are kicking ass over there in Afghanistan today with renewed fervor.
all the 'hush' money offered to the families of victims and victims who survived 9/11...THAT VERY WEEK....so 'no one would ask any questions'
time to crack open the pentagon piggy bank.
there's over a billion dollars in loose change under the sofa cushions alone.
And that's why they can forever kiss my black ass.
Washington Journal just had a guy on from FreedomWorks and besides being the most boring human on earth, he refused to say where their money comes from. The only thing he would say about that was that they took no money from Pharma or insurance companies. Curious why he would want to hide his donars.
tttthink: On 9/10, 2001 Donald Rumsfeld admitted the Pentagon couldn't account 2.3 trillion dollars. Then 9/11 happened and everyone forgot
AND it just so happened that the attack on the Pentagon occured in exactly the right spot to destroy the records concerning the "accounting problem" HA!
Dave's sensitive about these things.
Hopefully no one is looking back today. The president said we must look forward.
The 911 commission would like us to look back again, but what they say is irrelevant.
When I allow myself to get pissed at some of the idiotic and childish comments here I can get some relief and recharge to address them by perusing there. Very interesting approach. I already read Alternet and CommonDreams, and give them money occasionally too!
That reminder of the 2.3 trillion was a real recharger!
See also
Counterpunch
Thruthdig
TomDispatch
Chris Floyd
Information Clearing House
Global Research
Rebel Reports (Jeremy Scahill)
Socialist Worker
Mother Jones
AND
TUC Radio with Maria Gilardin
By all means check out these two clips from TUC from the work of the late (d 1988) Australian sociologist Alex Carey
The first and so far only scientifically drawn study of the history of the corporate war on democracy.
CORPORATIONS AND PROPAGANDA
The Attack on Democracy
Part 1 - history through WWII
Part 2 - history after WWII
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/10/fran...
Well, I think she is a liberal person. Was it her comment about "A lot of my friends watch FOXnews."? Because C&L does too. We got our feed of the president's address live from FOX, of the many choices out there.
The station seems to have developed an omnipresence where everybody is turning to it for news. Instead of people turning it off, more are turning it on.
That part is sad.
is what kind of talk show...
I think she should go to faux noiz, maybe she could change a few minds.
Two Headed Monster (As far as celebs, money doesn't just talk in Washington.)
http://images.huffingtonpost.com/gen/103957/t...
we got our freaking ass kicked thanks to Bush Co taking vacation.
Two captions:
"A failure of imagination." or
"Put another candle on the birthday cake,
the birthday cake,
the birthday cake,
Put another candle on the birthday cake
Your another year older today."
Don't let the Mushroom Cloud be Next
And these planners at the Pentagon, watch their imaginations fail as they arrange a commercial jet inside the pentagon in a drill designed to simulate a commercial jetliner crashing into the pentagon.
a jet crashing into the tower and the pilots passport flying out totally unscathed and landing on the street 2 blocks a way where authorities could pick it up and identified Atta as the pilot?
that there is even one thing I actually "need" to know about Joe Wilson beyond what I learned during the president's speech and that is that he possesses all the natural charm and utility of a suppurating hemorrhoid.
what are the odds that none of the black boxes could be found intact? i find it somewhat odd.
Pilots generally minimize airspeed when they get into trouble consistent with what is required to keep the aircraft in the air. Maxing airspeed with a full fuel load virtually guaranteed the destruction of the black boxes. Kinetic energy is a function of the square of velocity. Those planes hit with between six and nine times the destructive energy of a typical CFIT.
A military veteran whose health-care coverage is set for life, even after he retires from Congress, Wilson has "voted 11 times against health care for veterans in eight years, even as he voted 'aye' for the Iraq War..., " according to Adam Weinstein, an uninsured Iraq-war veteran, writing at Newsweek's The Gaggle. "He voted to cut veterans' benefits─not his own─to make room for President George W. Bush's tax cuts," Weinstein says. "He repeatedly voted for budgets that slashed funding to the Veterans Administration and TRICARE. And perhaps most bizarrely, he refused -- repeatedly -- to approve Democratic-led initiatives that would have extended TRICARE coverage to all reservists and National Guard members, even though a disproportionate number of them have served multiple tours in Iraq and Afghanistan -- and many lost access to their civilian work benefits when they did so."
http://www.alternet.org/story/142563/14_thing...
If the Pentagon stayed on budget, there would be no issue about the "cost" of health care or almost any other program.
Gary Wills is always worth a read, and that Cheney diversity center story is crazy.
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