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"Quickies - Vol. 115"

           So?....................

When told that two-thirds of Americans believe that the war in Iraq was not worth fighting, VP Dick Cheney said, "So?" [:-[

           Abraham Lincoln.............

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."

           Dwight D. Eisenhower...............

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who are hungry and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."

           Writer Wm. J. Broad, NYTimes..............

"The classified budget [Black Budget] of the Defense Department, concealed from the public in all but outline, has nearly doubled in the Bush years, to $32 billion.

Writer Jonathan Steele...............

"Defeat was inevitable once the USA decided to stay in Iraq - democracy, stability, security - may be reached one day. But those goals can only be achieved by Iraqis. They cannot be imposed through the barrel of a foreign gun."

Editor's note : We have the same headache in Afghanistan. We are spending $12 billion a month on war. Time to come home.

Today.......................

The US spends the same amount on defense as the rest of the world combined.

Editor's note : Re-read what Ike said.

Writer Matt Welch................

"But if there is anything McCain doesn't know, or at least stubbornly refuses to recognize, it's the limitations on the exercise of US power abroad. After a presidency made infamous by preemptive war and military overstretch, the third - generation Navy man is ordering up double helpings of the same. After all, if we've learned anything about Vietnam, it's that a superpower can't lose. It just can't." From the book, "McCain The Myth of a Maverick."

Editor's note : No Civil War in Iraq & Charlton Heston & Wm. F. Buckley are buried in Grant's tomb. [:-[

The surge is working & we are not sending more troops to Afghanistan. [:-[

Jimmy Carter.............

"I think that it's very important that at least someone meet with the Hamas leaders to express their views, to ascertain what flexibility they have, to try to induce them to stop all attacks against innocent civilians in Israel."

Editor's note : Without the hope of diplomacy, we are doomed to soldier on, & on, & on, & on. {:-[

Plutarch...................

"An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics."

St. Augustine............

"In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?"

"Superclass" by David Rothkopf.............

"Or will progress finally offer lasting proof that true stability lies in balance : between freedom and justice, between market and state, and between the few who would lead and the rest of us from whom the legitimacy of leaders must flow?"

Writer Marie Cocco................

"It is no longer enough to blame lax regulation and a political system that has nurtured it. It is no longer enough to blame "globalization," as if that were some force that we are powerless to tame. We've chosen to do nothing to tame it."

Editor's note : How sad is that? [:-[

Alan Greenspan.............

"The country is in the throes of recession."

Editor's note : The International Monetary Fund tells us ;

"The USA is in a recession."

This just in...............

The tax audit rates of the largest companies are less than half what they were 20 years ago. [:-0

This just in...........

The president of the World Bank urged immediate action to deal with mounting food prices that have caused hunger and deadly violence in several countries. Also, the head of the IMF said the current high price of food is hurting people around the world. [:-[

Darfur..................

The five - year conflict is getting worse. Thousands of ADDITIONAL people are being uprooted from their homes and food rations are being cut in half. [:-[

Editor's note : I'm told China can help persuade the

leaders of Darfur to stop the killing, but China has refused to do the right thing. [:-[

This just in.............

Mercury pollution means contaminated fish. Power plants and cement plants are the nation's biggest polluters. Cleaning up where the mercury comes from is the surest way of cleaning up the fish we eat. Mercury is a dangerous neurotoxin, and exposure is not good for our health.

California's Red-legged frogs...............

Are an endangered species.

Sprawl : To kill our wildlife & rape our wilderness. [:-o)

NYTimes.................

"This president has no intention of addressing climate change. The next president will have no choice but to do better."

March, 2008 was the warmest March on record over land surfaces of the world. [:-0

Editor's note : Hello?

This just in..................

National Geographic Report : 90% of important commercial fish are gone.

Editor's note : When will we figure out that greed is not good? When?

This just in.............

American History 101...............

President Theodore Roosevelt : "The settler and the pioneer have at bottom had justice on their side ; this great continent could not have been kept as nothing but a game preserve for squalid savages." [:-{

New book................

"Defeat Why America And Britain Lost Iraq," by Jonathan Steele.

Editor's note : Read this book!!

Once upon a time..........

An old man told a young boy not to grow up too fast. Twenty years later the man visited the old man on his death bed and said ; "I'm sorry I grew up so quickly."

The old man smiled, then shut his eyes, forevermore.