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Random, occasionally rambling thoughts with links to interesting, scandalous, or partisan news of the day. Fair and Balanced 
We owe the liberty and freedom we take for granted to the enlisted men and women in the armed forces. They sacrifice family, ease, and even life laboring in service to all of us. The least we can do for them is honor their devotion with dignified pay scales, decent education for themselves and their children, and reasonable compensation for service away from their families and death on the battlefield. Flag waving politicians who praise the troops on one hand and cut their pay and benefits with the other should be deeply ashamed of themselves.
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Saturday, May 31, 2003
Late Deals Got Tax Cut Done (washingtonpost.com) After a while, it just makes you sick. posted by Dave on 12:11 AM | 0 comments link
Cook me up some of them tasty Iraqi WMD grits, says George to his CIA chef. posted by Dave on 12:04 AM | 0 comments link -------------------- Friday, May 30, 2003
IN spite of Bono, Bush starves Africans posted by Dave on 1:13 AM | 0 comments link -------------------- Thursday, May 29, 2003
FT.com / World Deficits? What deficits? posted by Dave on 12:50 PM | 0 comments link
Whiskey Bar: What a Tangled Web We Weave . . . If somebody from the Bush team denies their original WMD focus for invading Iraq, just send them to this page. posted by Dave on 12:49 PM | 0 comments link
Economist.com | The latest Bush tax cut I haven't found one serious economist who thinks Bush knows what he is doing... posted by Dave on 12:42 PM | 0 comments link -------------------- Wednesday, May 28, 2003
Tax Law Omits Child Credit in Low-Income Brackets I shouldn't profess to be astonished, but I am. This is your classic "compassionate conservatism". posted by Dave on 10:33 PM | 0 comments link -------------------- Monday, May 26, 2003
Stating the Obvious posted by Dave on 10:31 PM | 0 comments link -------------------- Wednesday, May 21, 2003
Greenspan says deficits do matter. nyah, nyah, nyah... posted by Dave on 10:17 PM | 0 comments link -------------------- Sunday, May 18, 2003
Bucking the Texas Lockstep (washingtonpost.com) I still insist that the best export Texas has going for it are the women. Ann Richards and Molly Ivins have to be two of the funniest, sharpest tongued Democrats in the land and they're both Lone Star products. In this piece, Molly rails against the Shiite Republicans running the government in Texas. Funny and scary. posted by Dave on 10:09 PM | 0 comments link -------------------- Saturday, May 17, 2003
Blasts Kill Dozens in Casablanca (washingtonpost.com) It's been clear for some time that al-Qaeda is on the run. Their sanctuaries are gone, their funds are impounded wherever they are found, and most means of modern communiation are being monitored. Their friends and allies have gone underground or been killed and their leadership is being picked off one by one. The latest attacks, in both Saudi Arabia and Morocco have one common element. The number of attackers killed relative to innocent victims is extraordinarily unfavorable against the terrorists. On 9/11 they managed to kill people at a 150 to 1 ratio. In the bombings in Africa and it was at least 50 to 1. Since then they have been progressively less effective and it appears they are now lucky to even get a one to one ratio. No group can long survive as an effective force if they are unable to get a multiplier effect on their violence. It's a gruesome way to look at the tragedy inflicted on the victims and their communities, and I offer them my full sympathy and compassion, but it shows progress. posted by Dave on 9:09 AM | 0 comments link -------------------- Saturday, May 10, 2003
My apologies to anyone who randomly expected interesting comments to appear here. I've been family blogging, working, watching the war's aftermath, and pondering the folly of chest pounding politics. This will be an intermittent blog for the forseeable future....just as it has been for the visible past. Thanks for visiting. posted by Dave on 10:24 AM | 0 comments link -------------------- Friday, May 02, 2003
The Secrets of September 11 I was mad enough to fax Condi Rice a scathing letter when she said nobody could have expected Al Qaeda to hijack planes to attack buildings. This report has the names and details that will tell you why I was so mad. They knew in general and in detail that airplanes were a vulnerability and hadn't done anything to prepare. No CAP flights, no extra security, and in particular, no effort to link watch lists with airplane reservations. Scandalously incompetent. I want the report public. Now. posted by Dave on 12:17 AM | 0 comments link -------------------- |