Monday, January 23, 2006
During George Bush’s State of the Union address on January 31st, hundreds of communities across the country are holding “Watch Parties” — a
simple event to bring people together to get the facts and take action.
To search for an event in your area, click here: http://www.democrats.org/page/event/search_simple
To host your own event, click here: http://www.democrats.org/page/event/create
Thursday, January 19, 2006
Here’s an interesting graph of yearly US budget deficit or surplus from 1961 to 2004. Many argue that the war on terrorism is expensive and has required more government spending in areas such as Homeland Security and that GW Bush has had to deal with events during his administration that cannot be compared with previous administrations. Well take a look at the chart during 1960 to say, 1975. Can you think of any siginificant event that might have also potentially caused a major drain on the US budget… maybe some kind of war? Like maybe Vietnam? It didn’t though. It’s all about how smart the guy at the helm is. Clearly GW has no idea how to run an economy.
There’s not much more to say… the picture says it all.
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Sunday, January 15, 2006
Wednesday, January 11, 2006
Tuesday, January 10, 2006
I just ran across an interesting tidbit of information at Wikipedia.org. Wikipedia is one of those sites where you can just get lost for hours. Each page links to a bunch of new pages and you can follow link to link to link through an entire history of definitions and explanations.
One such link I ended up on today was about the Pledge of Allegiance. I was surprised to learn that the original pledge, written by Francis Bellamy in 1892, also included a salute with it. Today we commonly place our right hand over our heart but this is the modified version of the original salute, which required the reciter to fully extend the arm toward the flag much like the Nazi salute. After World War II the outstretched hand salute was changed to the current version.
Guess you learn something new everyday!
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Sunday, January 8, 2006
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Monday, January 2, 2006
These days we are surrounded with reports of government eavesdropping, spys being outed and secret intelligence documents being falsified. Sometimes it seems like our modern day government is filled with escalating corruption but in fact the government (or members of it) have been breaking the rules since the beginning. Today in 1811, Massachusetts Senator Timothy Pickering becomes the first US senator to be censured after being accused of revealing secret documents between the president and senate.
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