Archive for July, 2008
San Fran to name sewage plant after president
Author: Administrator
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Author: Mark Tahiliani
According to a report from the ACLU the government has admitted to having more than 1 million individuals on the terrorism watch list.
George Bush’s idiotic joke shocks G-8 world leaders
Author: Mark Tahiliani
President Bush has said some stupid things before but so far this is the dumbest statement he’s made so far. In July.
“Goodbye from the world’s biggest polluter.” –George W. Bush, in parting words to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy at his final G8 Summit, punching the air and grinning widely as the two leaders looked on in shock, Rusutsu, Japan, July 10, 2008
That wasn’t all.
Mr Bush also faced criticism at the summit after Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian Prime Minister, was described in the White House press pack given to journalists as one of the “most controversial leaders in the history of a country known for government corruption and vice”.
The White House apologised for what it called “sloppy work” and said an official had simply lifted the characterisation from the internet without reading it.
From Google News.
Cost of Iraq War
Author: Mark Tahiliani
As of 7/9/2008 the cost of the Iraq War has exceeded $535 trillion. According to <a href=”http://www.nationalpriorities.org”>Nationalpriorities.org that comes down to more than $5,800 per household, $2,147 per person. This amounts to more than $300 million per day.
To put that in perspective, taxpayers in the city of Chicago, having spent $6.9 billion on the war so far, could have paid the salaries for more than 100,000 elementary school teachers for a year. They could have provided scholarships for more than 650,000 university students for one year. Or they could have provided every person in the city health care for one year.