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Thursday, May 19, 2005
Republican ravings cost Americans $150,000. Each. "[Comptroller General David M.] Walker put U.S. debt and obligations at $45 trillion in current dollars -- almost as much as the total net worth of all Americans, or
$150,000 per person."

"The only thing the United States is able to do a little after 2040 is pay interest on massive and growing federal debt," Walker said. "The model blows up in the mid-2040s. What does that mean? Argentina."

But aren't we Americans special? Didn't our fearless leader Dick Cheney tell us that deficits don't matter?

"No republic in the history of the world lasted more than 300 years," Walker said. "Eventually, the crunch comes."
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Told like it is. Here's the greatest hit of recent memory — "Pack of Lies" by George Galloway. Put his in-your-face mp3, which you'll find at
Crooks and Liars, on your iPod.

In times when bullshit is the norm, the truth is quite stunning.
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Tuesday, May 17, 2005
The Vendetta Era. Avedon Carol on the
net migration of military resources from the Northeast and Midwest to the South and Southwest:
Think about how little sense this makes in terms of national defense against potential foreign invaders.

But then, think about how much sense this would make if the principle focus of our military was not defense at all, but something else entirely.

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...given that the power elite have clearly been working hard to destabilize the United States, one is forced to wonder whether a break-up is actually part of the plan. And that they are getting ready to arm the Confederacy against the North.
Yup. That's the plan. We are now five years into the Vendetta Era, designed and produced by Rove & Co.

Karl Rove, the political and therefore de facto policy head of the US government under the Bush administration, is leading a bunch of disgruntled and thin-skinned plantation owners in Christian vestments. Everything they've done, from deposing the evil dictators Saddam Hussein and Dan Rather to elevating the Swift Boat liars and orchestrating these military base closings, is based on some long-standing private vendetta or another and not the public interest.

Who would have thought that a wealthy unskilled cokehead cheerleader would be capable of so much damage in such a short amount of time?

Karl Rove, that's who.
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Monday, May 16, 2005
"...a human being is endowed with free will. He can use this to choose between good and evil. If he can only perform good or only perform evil, then he is
a clockwork orange – meaning that he has the appearance of an organism lovely with colour and juice but is in fact only a clockwork toy to be wound up by God or the Devil or (since this is increasingly replacing both) the Almighty State." — Anthony Burgess
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"The time I flew on the Enron corporate jet to meet Jeff Skilling."
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