Is Nothing Sacred Any More?

Heard about the latest flap with benzene in soft drinks? Yep. Unfortunately for the people behind this latest panic, all I managed to put together was that fruit juice drinks were the real culprits and not Root Beers, Sodas and other sugary carbonated drinks as they would have us believe. The panic mongering from certain quarters just seems to continually increase. These people won't be satisfied till they have sucked all the joy out of life and flushed it down the toilet.

I need a Root Beer!

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Animal Farm Inside The Beltway

Looks like the pigs really do run things in DC and they've had a record year of feeding at the trough according to the latest report issued by Citizens Against Government Waste. The muck makers inside the Beltway managed to set new records in spending and pork last year, to the tune of $29 Billion in pork alone. Amazingly enough the House Appropriations Committee thinks that just isn't so.

....the amount of money devoted to earmarks in appropriations bills fell over the past year, from $19.8 billion in the 2005 budget year to $17 billion in the current year.

Hmmm...now let me think. Whom should I believe? Some Congresscritters or some citizens?

If there ever was a time when Republicans or Democrats were fiscally conservative, (which I seriously doubt) this just goes to show that the Pigs in DC are all members of the same party. The Boot On Your Neck Party and they are only interested in how much we can pump into their troughs. How's it feel to be a government asset? Who said vassalage was dead?

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A House Divided?

And where will this end? Perhaps where Lincoln the Tyrants speech ended, in smoke, fire, bloodshed and death. Or, given the attitudes of Americans these days it may just end in more Liberty taken from us as the populace sit down for the latest episode of "Desperate Housewives" or "24". Regardless, the "immigration" flap currently underway is adding more stress to an otherwise frayed national fabric.

El Presidente' Bush wants a quick resolution from the Congress on the matter, preferably one which supports his position. The Senate wants to support the President, by and large but are split on the matter and the House is being hawkish enough to scare many people, legal or illegal.

Now add in the Evangelical Christians and the various political arms of other religions and we are looking at something that just gets worse by the day. So, now we have folks taking sides as a religious matter, too. So, not only do we have racism, corporate slavery, government insecurity and only the gods know how many other sub group/issues in the mix now we have folks drawing lines along religious boundaries. Can it get worse? Yeah...it can. Just wait and see.

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So Just How Bad Is It?

How bad are things when you have to start using US Navy personnel as ground troops to support a war? It FUBAR, that's how bad it is and that's exactly what the Bush administration is doing, according to Star's and Stripes, (via Cryptogon). While I was aware that they were using US Navy Seabees in some rear echelon posts and their usual construction capacity, this is the first time I have heard of the Pentagon using US Navy ratings in ground combat situations.

If the Bush regime is reaching this deep and far for bodies then things are not going well, folks. At this rate a reinstatement of the draft will become inevitable. Squids are not grunts and shouldn't be used as such unless you're looking for cannon fodder. Seabees fight when they must and train with the US Marine Corps to attain a modicum of combat ability but they are constructors, not combat troops. A swabby is trained to participate in the day to day operations and support of sea going vessels or support for Naval Air assets, the USMC is the ground combat unit of the US Navy. Using the Navy in this manner, and admitting to it points up some serious problems in Bush's wars, especially where manpower is concerned.

As someone who grew up in a USN family, (Seabees, to be more specific) I cannot fathom the thinking going into this. Pulling sailors from sea duty and placing them in ground operations is ludicrous. If the almost inevitable conflict with Iran takes off one has to wonder where the Bush administration will get their warm bodies for the grinder? Off the streets and out of our schools, no doubt. The time is growing short for Libertarians, Republican, Democrats and others to draw the line in the sand and put an end to this.

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