Thursday, November 15th, 2007...4:53 pm
I Got Mine, Screw The Grandkids
I ran across this animation of Ben Cohen at the Project for the Old American Century site. Cohen, of Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream, puts the USA military spending into perspective.
The animation is not long; but informative, showing to what a ridiculous extent USA military spending exceeds that of the rest of the world, combined. Such military spending is but one of the ways that rich folks farm the USA treasury, regardless of the debt imposed upon future generations.
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6 Comments
November 16th, 2007 at 5:06 pm
Wanna play a blogging game? Tag, you’re it. Go to http://www.baddog.com/blog/2007/11/theresa-what-do-i-do-all-day-is-woman.html if you want in. If you don’t, no problem.
November 16th, 2007 at 5:08 pm
Thanks for note 1st Mate.
I read Theresa’s post on the subject and have chosen to pass.
November 19th, 2007 at 7:44 am
Well, you’re screwed now. NYTimes has a big article on Xalapa.
November 19th, 2007 at 9:47 am
Hi Dan,
Thanks for the tip. I found a rather long article on Veracruz with a last paragraph mention of Xalapa. Is that the article to which you referred?
November 19th, 2007 at 2:26 pm
Nope, it is in 11/18 Travel Magazine (T): http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/11/18/travel/tmagazine/14talk-xalapa-t.html?ref=tmagazine
November 19th, 2007 at 2:57 pm
Thanks for the link Dan. I was happy to see the article includes a lot of bad mouthing of the city.
I found the article to be generally inaccurate and, in many instances, silly.
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