I want to thank Dennis Kucinich today. Yesterday he announced that he will be voting for the healthcare reform bill even with his objections. I've been a harsh critic of him regarding this issue, so I was happy he changed his mind, even though I also saw the anguish it caused him. Yesterday he stated:

"One of the things that has bothered me is the attempt to try to delegitimize his presidency. That hurts the nation when that happens," the Cleveland congressman said, sounding genuinely anguished. "We have to be very careful" that "President Obama's presidency not be destroyed by this debate ... Even though I have many differences with him on policy, there's something much bigger at stake here for America."
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49 comments (Latest Comment: 03/19/2010 01:02:08 by livingonli)

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)

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)

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)

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)