Plastic Farm AnimalsToday, two things happened that really gave me hope. The temperature rose to 70 degrees and I read Ralph Nader’s open letter to President Bush regarding hurricane Katrina, in which he said: Recall your dramatic, nationally-televised choreographed assurance, standing near the French Quarter, that the federal government would take the lead in rebuilding New Orleans […]
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 […]
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 […]
Da Bidze (BEE dzuh) is one term the Chinese use to refer to Westerners. It means Big Nose. Not only do the Chinese have smaller noses but they have bigger faces. As a society, they are very careful not to embarrass each other. Maintaining and giving Big Face is an important part of how they […]