January
2007 Thoughts & Stuff
You Don't Have to Feel Helpless
There's a lot of easy things you can do now to help
- Supporting the troops for real
- The Hunger Site: http://www.thehungersite.com
- Live a little cheaper and a little greener
Not Fun. Not Pretty. Reality.
Fun Free Game: EuropeMap
Education can be fun: http://www.addictinggames.com/europemap.html
Surgin' General's Warning:
Smoke and Mirrors are Bad for your Health!
Soon George W Bush will announce a plan to "surge" troops in to Baghdad, as a
way to stave off disaster.
Only briefly reported is a key part of the plan: to require the Iraqi National Government to match Bush's surge, battalion-for-battalion. That is a good idea on its face, but it ignores one simple reality: the Iraqi National Government doesn't have the troops.
The plan is for Maliki to bring in two battalions of Kurdish troops, the Pesh
Merga (according to reports in the NYTimes). Any fool knows that just ain't gonna work ...
http://rewinn.com/9933.html
The Brewer's Prayer
The Horse and Mule live thirty years
Yet nothing know of wines nor beers.
The Goat and Sheep at twenty die,
And never taste of Scotch or Rye.
A Cow drinks water by the tonne;
At eighteen years, 'tis mostly done.
The Cat in milk and water soaks,
And in fifteen years or so - she croaks!
For thirteen years the loyal Dogge
Will never touch his master's Grog.
The modest, sober, bone-dry Hen
Lays Eggs for Nog, and dies at Ten.
All Animals are strictly Dry,
They Sinless live, and swiftly Die.
But sinful, Ginful, Rum-soaked Men
Are good for Three-score Years and Ten.
And Some of Us (though very Few)
Stay pickled 'til we're ninety-two.
Speaker Pelosi!
Congratulations to Speaker Pelosi. Let's give America's problem a thumpin':
- Day One: Put new rules in place to "break the link between lobbyists and legislation."
- Day Two: Enact all the recommendations made by the commission that investigated the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
- Time remaining until 100 hours: Raise the minimum wage to $7.25 an hour, maybe in one step. Cut the interest rate on student loans in half. Allow the government to negotiate directly with the pharmaceutical companies for lower drug prices for Medicare patients.
- Broaden the types of stem cell research allowed with federal funds.
- All the days after that: "Pay as you go," meaning no increasing the deficit, whether the issue is middle class tax relief, health care or some other priority.
We kept score and the Democrats did it! Six promises made and six promises kept:
Addict Swears in Addict
In
2001 and again in 2005, we saw one recovering drug addict swear in another
recovering drug addict as president. Each would hypocritically attack their
fellow drug addicts, seeking to jail them instead of providing the treatment
that they got. Only in America!
Memoirs of William Sampson
Now in Print!
After
being out of print for 190 years, William Sampson's Memoirs are now available at
http://cafepress.com/rewinn . Sampson
was an Irish Protestant lawyer, tortured and exiled for the crime of defending
Catholics. He came to America on July 4, 1806 and became a leader in promoting
human rights and religious under our Constitution.
You can read his exciting memoirs free on the web, or, better still: order the book!
