it's just money . . .

ye gads

Crunching the inflation adjusted numbers, we find the bailout has cost more than all of these big budget government expenditures – combined:

• Marshall Plan: Cost: $12.7 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $115.3 billion
• Louisiana Purchase: Cost: $15 million, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $217 billion
• Race to the Moon: Cost: $36.4 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $237 billion
• S&L Crisis: Cost: $153 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $256 billion
• Korean War: Cost: $54 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $454 billion
• The New Deal: Cost: $32 billion (Est), Inflation Adjusted Cost: $500 billion (Est)
• Invasion of Iraq: Cost: $551b, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $597 billion
• Vietnam War: Cost: $111 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $698 billion
• NASA: Cost: $416.7 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $851.2 billion

TOTAL: $3.92 trillion

obamamania finis

unfortunately there is a "strict" limit of 2 per customer, and the website seems to allow you to order only one. which means i have to pare my gifting opportunities to one---the obvious choice is my brother who gave me the hillary nutcrackers last year---

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second thoughts

"there have been many times i've regretted it," stone told me over pizza at grand central station. "when i look at those double-page spreads of all the individual pictures of people who have been killed [in iraq], i got to think, 'maybe there wouldn't have been a war if i hadn't gone to miami-dade. maybe there hadn't have been, in my view, an unjustified war if bush hadn't become president.' it's very disturbing to me"...

2000 seems like a very long time ago

a view

palinoia

why detroit sux

ATSUGI, Japan -- While Detroit executives beg for bailouts, Japanese automakers speed through turns in a race whose winner could dominate the next generation of car sales.

12th and midtown

end the fed?

a noisy group of protesters on the corner in front of the federal reserve while ago, calling for repeal of the federal reserve act---signs reading "the fed caused this crisis" and "liberate america: say not to socialism" and "no more banker bailouts" and "end the fed" and a lot more----i'm not sure what they think would happen then, except that we would all have to rush out and buy us some gold-- and i just discovered that they have a web site and that they are part of a national day of protest "to restore sound money"----seems to be a ron paul kinda thing

islamaphobio

another bigoted campaign tactic that doesn't work anymore:

But despite the extent and volume of anti-Muslim rhetoric, candidates who embraced these methods this year universally failed to get elected. From the earliest days of the primary, campaigns seemed to falter in direct proportion to the extend politicians tried to make anti-Muslim feelings the foundation of their campaigns. Giuliani and Romney, by far the more strident of the Republican candidates, found no traction with the anti-Muslim arguments and dropped out early. In contrast, John McCain - who rejected Pastor Rod Parsley's endorsement solely due to his anti-Muslim comments and publicly stated that Muslim-Americans were qualified to hold any office in the land - rose to the top of his party.

copernicus

WARSAW, Poland — Researchers said Thursday they have identified the remains of Nicolaus Copernicus by comparing DNA from a skeleton and hair retrieved from one of the 16th-century astronomer's books. The findings could put an end to centuries of speculation about the exact resting spot of Copernicus, a priest and astronomer whose theories identified the Sun, not the Earth, as the center of the universe

obamamania

and he hasn't even taken office yet

Obama's election has taken the wind out of al Qaeda's sails in much of the Islamic world because it demonstrates America's renewed commitment to multiculturalism, human rights, and international law. It also proves to many that democracy can work and overcome ethnic, sectarian, or racial barriers.

"Obama's commitment to withdraw from Iraq also takes away an al Qaeda propaganda tenet: that the U.S. seeks to occupy oil rich Arab lands. His commitment to defeat al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan also challenges their plans. Most of all, by returning to American values the world admires, Obama sets al Qaeda back enormously in the battle of ideas, the ideological struggle which determines whether al Qaeda will continue to have significant support in the Islamic world.

monty python

they have their own youtube channel:

sad

poor george---they won't even shake his hand



but, you know, george w. bush is no longer the face of america

historic images

the first photograph of the earth from the moon, 1966

update: as mr. smarty pants coffey pointed out, this is the first image from moon orbit, not actually from the moon itself----whatever

justice?

cheney and gonzalez indicted in mcallen, texas---for real

which of your civil rights do we get to vote on?

the naacp has joined the fray----rock on

Meanwhile, five civil rights groups asked California's highest court Friday to annul the ban on the grounds that Proposition 8 threatens the legal standing of all minority groups, not just gays.

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the Mexican-American Legal Defense Fund, the Asian Pacific American Legal Center and two other groups petitioned the state Supreme Court to prevent the change from taking effect.

The petition is the fourth seeking to have the measure invalidated. But it's the first to argue that the court should step in because the gay marriage ban, which overturned the Supreme Court ruling that legalized gay unions, sets a precedent that could be used to undermine the rights of racial minorities.

Eva Paterson, president of the San Francisco-based Equal Justice Society, said the election raises the specter of voters deciding to bar illegal immigrants from public schools, disenfranchising black voters or otherwise using the ballot box to promote segregation.

"The court ruled that to discriminate in the area of same-sex marriage was unconstitutional and violated our guaranteed equality," Paterson said. "Why should a slim majority of Californians be able to put discrimination back into the California Constitution?"

palimpsests

the black dots represent units of cotton production in 1860---the blue are counties that voted for obama in 2008----

the body politic

although obama won virtually every other demographic, including white men nationwide, he got only 20% of the native-born whites in the deep south----them's my people doncha know, while the rest of the world celebrates, they huddle together, all ascared of the marxist negro president or whatever

Atlanta - In rural Georgia, a group of high-schoolers gets a visit from the Secret Service after posting "inappropriate" comments about President-elect Barack Obama on the Web. In Raleigh, N.C., four college students admit to spraying race-tinged graffiti in a pedestrian tunnel after the election. On Nov. 6, a cross burns on the lawn of a biracial couple in Apolacon Township, Pa.

the big war

via andrewsullivan

new critters

nothing but plastic tubing and lemonade bottles? unbelievable

thanks cousin cathi