Plastic Farm AnimalsCamille lives with her soul mate Bob in the back woods of central North Carolina where she hikes, gardens, cooks, and writes.
What better day to find out about this in the New York Times today: New projections, buried in the Interior Department’s just-published budget plan, anticipate that the government will let companies pump about $65 billion worth of oil and natural gas from federal territory over the next five years without paying any royalties to the […]
The obvious cost of the US’s oil addiction is Operation Iraq Liberation (OIL) or, um Operation Iraq Freedom. For that we have 150,000 dead human beings, one country in ruins, and the other politically divided and financially stressed. The worst cost is, of course, what burning all this oil is doing to our atmosphere. Global […]
So, what is all this nationalistic rhetoric going to cost the US taxpayers? Bush has requested $439.3 billion for this year’s Defense Budget. That’s 18% of the proposed 2006 budget of $8,133 billion according to this story: WASHINGTON (AP) – President Bush’s 2007 budget seeks a nearly 5 percent increase in Defense Department spending, to […]
My mother taught me that 2 wrongs don’t make a right. No wonder it doesn’t sit well with me that the Saudi’s suicide bombed the world trade towers with American passenger jets and the American response was to bomb Afghanistan (again) and then invade Iraq (using, by the way, Weapons of Mass Destruction.) Since then the current […]
Last night we watched a NFL Playoff game on TV between the Denver Broncos and the New England Patriots. Denver beat the Patriots 27 to 13 and we left our good friend in a state of euphoria. Just for fun, I kept track of the commercials during the last 90 minutes of the game to […]