Bailout Wrapped in Chocolate

How do you get a quarrelsome, spoiled child to swallow a large, nasty pill? Wrap it in something delicious, like chocolate, and the screaming kid will wolf it, tasting only sweetness. Down will go the medicine and everyone will be happy. That’s what the Senate did with the financial bailout package today. They wrapped it [...]

The Bush Follies- by Greg Strid

President Bush declared on Tuesday, “I understand there’s a debate…”
and went on to explain that it is the other side, roughly categorized
as “people in Washington” who are saying “STOP” to the “surge”, his
latest gamble to stabilize Baghdad and the tumultuous Anbar province.
Thirty thousand odd American troops, the backbone of this effort,
apparently arrived in full-force just [...]

Democrats Tarred As Spinach Lovers-by Greg Strid

Democrats Tarred As Spinach Lovers
After months of finessing the English language and
posing somberly in front of news cameras, the
Democratic leadership on Capitol Hill was allowed
a brief moment in which to savor the sweet taste
of victory. A ‘triumph’ for the American people was
announced yesterday by the legislative majority
after the Senate squeaked through a $124 billion
war spending [...]

Free of Sanity

In a stroke of monumental idiocy, Congressional mis-appropriators and Pentagon brass-holes have decided to cut funding for the Defense and Veteran’s Brain Injury Center in half as they attempt to push forward a defense spending bill.
We have all heard of the thousands of US soldiers that have suffered traumatic brain injuries due to improvised-explosive devices [...]

Joe won’t let go