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Author: TriSec    Date: 03/16/2010 10:33:20

Good Morning.

Today is our 2,554th day in Iraq and our 3,082nd day in Afghanistan.

We'll start this morning as we always do, with the latest casualty figures from America's ongoing wars...

American Deaths
Since war began (3/19/03): 4384
Since "Mission Accomplished" (5/1/03): 4245
Since Capture of Saddam (12/13/03): 3921
Since Handover (6/29/04): 3525
Since Obama Inauguration (1/20/09): 156

Other Coalition Troops - Iraq: 318
US Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 1,020
Other Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 665
Contractor Employee Deaths - Iraq: 1,457
Journalists - Iraq: 338
Academics Killed - Iraq: 437


We find this morning's cost of war passing through:
$ 971, 825, 000, 000 .00



We'll start this morning with WWII. A few days back, Raine posted a blog about International Women's Day. It made for a opportunity for Congress to recognize a little-known group of WWII aviators, the WASPs, or "Women's Auxiliary Service Pilots".

During the war, these women undertook flight training, and were handed the controls of America's top weapons of war. They flew these aircraft around the United States from the factories to the bases, and ferried them overseas to war where our male pilots would then take them into combat.

After the war, they all went back to civilian life, and their role in the war was virtually forgotten and unrecognized.

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25 comments (Latest Comment: 03/17/2010 00:09:04 by livingonli)

Pass the damn bill now.
Author: Raine    Date: 03/15/2010 12:59:05

Most likely this is going to be a big week for health care reform. I know you are tired not just of hearing about it everywhere, but from reading about it here. I'm tired too.

Here is an updated whip count from The Hill. Please keep making calls. Even if your representative is on that list, they still need to hear from you. Tell them you stand with fellow progressives like:
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34 comments (Latest Comment: 03/16/2010 03:29:11 by clintster)

The New American History
Author: velveeta jones    Date: 03/14/2010 14:24:05

Oh those big-haired, big church, big bugs, football-lovin', boisterous Texans are at it again. Now they want to make a few changes to our American history. Lets take a look at some of the tweeks:

On Slavery:

".... Africans were brought over for a short period of America's early history in order to help us become the great nation that we are. African men, women and children joyfully toiled in the fields picking cotton, tobacco and other crops; helped in the homes with cleaning, cooking and other daily chores and Americans graced them with the knowledge to know the Gospels and Jesus to relieve them of the sin of the devil which they seemed to have in them. In return, the blacks taught us a few songs which they would sing while they tirelessly worked long hard days with a bouncy joy in their steps and a politeness with which we, sadly, no longer see. The songs they sang later became "Jazz" music".
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12 comments (Latest Comment: 03/15/2010 03:57:02 by livingonli)

A sorry little blog.
Author: TriSec    Date: 03/13/2010 11:42:09

Good Morning!

An early start on a Saturday, but I'm off for some necessary auto maintenence in an oil change and a tire rotation. Trying to be the first one in the shop so I can get out right quick.

So.....just a weekend stublet. I might come back and expand upon it later, but I wanted something open in the interim.

TTFN!

 
7 comments (Latest Comment: 03/14/2010 03:25:44 by livingonli)

The Long and Winding Road
Author: BobR    Date: 03/12/2010 11:47:47

With Harry Reid's announcement yesterday that the Senate will use reconciliation to tweak out the changes between the Senate bill and the changes the House wishes to make, it looks like Health Care reform may actually become a reality. It's been a long time getting here, with many strange twists and turns along the way.
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14 comments (Latest Comment: 03/12/2010 23:12:23 by livingonli)

Health Care Reform: It's go time.
Author: Raine    Date: 03/11/2010 13:29:43

Dennis Kucinich is a good guy and he DOES look out for people. He's a fighter. I will never take that away from him.

But here is my personal bottom line: he is voting against HCR, and when history is written, his *no* vote will not come with a disclaimer. A nay is a nay vote. This goes for any Democrat who votes against this bill, but for Mr Kucinich in particular.

Bill Clinton said the following, and I think it applies to far more than the primaries:

"Folks, go ahead and fall in love, be for somebody, but when the primaries are over, let's fall in line."

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24 comments (Latest Comment: 03/12/2010 00:40:18 by Mondobubba)

Hypocrisy Awards
Author: BobR    Date: 03/10/2010 13:03:22

With the Oscars over, we are entering a period of award show withdrawal. The Golden Globes are done... The Tonys aren't until June... The Emmys are in August. What's an award show junkie to do? We invent one out of thin air! So here we have the Hypocrisy Awards (Hypos for short) for the political set.
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58 comments (Latest Comment: 03/14/2010 01:06:34 by velveeta jones)

Ask a Vet
Author: TriSec    Date: 03/09/2010 11:20:21

Good Morning.

Today is our 2,547th day in Iraq and our 3,075th day in Afghanistan.

We'll start this morning as we always do, with the latest casualty figures from Iraq and Afghanistan, courtesy of Antiwar.com:

Since war began (3/19/03): 4380
Since "Mission Accomplished" (5/1/03): 4241
Since Capture of Saddam (12/13/03): 3917
Since Handover (6/29/04): 3521
Since Obama Inauguration (1/20/09): 152

Other Coalition Troops - Iraq: 318
US Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 1,014
Other Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 664
Contractor Employee Deaths - Iraq: 1,457
Journalists - Iraq: 338
Academics Killed - Iraq: 437

We find this morning's cost of war passing through:

$969, 215, 350, 000 .00


So, did you all watch the Oscars?

I've been hearing about the Hurt Locker since it came out; it's been a huge story throughout the veteran's community and online, and it rightly won for Best Picture and Best Director....(and you had to love James Cameron's ex snatching the award right from under his nose.)

Of course...it is only 'just a movie'. How does it jibe with real life?

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46 comments (Latest Comment: 03/10/2010 02:51:22 by livingonli)

Hear me Rawr!
Author: Raine    Date: 03/08/2010 13:50:56

Take a look around you. They are everywhere. They've brought you coffee, cooked for you, cared for you. They've worked along side you. They love you. They make you laugh and they bring life into the world. They are sexy, smart and intriguing - even mysterious. Men have gone to war over them. In turn, they have stopped a few.
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46 comments (Latest Comment: 03/09/2010 01:18:25 by Mondobubba)

The Plopsters! (tm)
Author: velveeta jones    Date: 03/07/2010 15:16:41

As you know, it's Oscar's night, but the day belongs to the (first and last) annual Plopsters Awards™ (pending). The award that goes to the dumbest and/or most deceiving of our Politicians and Pundits.

Here is the nominee's for Best Direction of Deceit:

Nominee - Sarah Palin and her use of "Death Panels" on, of all things, her Facebook:

The Democrats promise that a government health care system will reduce the cost of health care, but as the economist Thomas Sowell has pointed out, government health care will not reduce the cost; it will simply refuse to pay the cost. And who will suffer the most when they ration care? The sick, the elderly, and the disabled, of course. The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama's ‘death panel' so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their ‘level of productivity in society,' whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil.


A brilliant scam that made use of the casual social networking site - so "it must be true", right?
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14 comments (Latest Comment: 03/08/2010 02:17:50 by livingonli)

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