She is one of the few people that can make eating an apple seem sexy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1poXHbGedm8 [ignore annoying intro] -B.]
>From Mamie van Doren's blog:
L.A. Times headline today, Tuesday, February 5, 2008: "Bush's budget swells deficit"
The sub-head is even better: "Military outlays grow and Medicare spending is cut in a $3.1 trillion plan already taking fire in an election year."
Holy s**t, Batman! Three-f**king-trillion dollars! And it'll only just about double our deficit! There will be lots of toys for the imperialist forces (yeah, I said it!) to go forth and conquer the world on behalf of the multi-national corporations that own President Weener, The Evil Veep, Condoleeeeza, and all the rest of that sorry gaggle that has turned us into a police state.
A word of caution, though. World conquering can be a bit of a bother when the people whose real estate and resources you're stealing get their backs up. Remember Rome? Remember England?
Anyway, you can read all about it in your very own paper. Maybe you like the idea of trading senior citizens' medical benefits for bombs and war planes. Maybe you think you won't get old after all.
Lastly, I noticed on CNN a little while ago that the stock market has tanked again, down 370 points, this time on bad news from the services sector. Now, a little tumble like 370 is no big thing for the BIG INVESTORS. (Big investors are the ones that got the best deal ever in President Numbnuts' tax cuts.) Big investors look at a market "correction" like that as an opportunity to buy cheap. But just imagine that you retired, say, last Friday. You had the cake and the punch, and heard how much you'd be missed around the shop, cleaned out your desk, and walked across the parking lot for the last time. If you waited until today to cash in some of that 401K you've been nursing along, you might thing you've had too much Bush Prosperity and you'd be calling your boss to see if he's filled your position yet. Any fool can see that this is why privatizing Social Security is a bad deal. A few market "corrections," and you're f****d, bub, and you'll be sitting on a park bench wishing for a little socialism like England or France.
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