$ for war, $ for health . . . high dollars

WAR.
We broke the 4-minute million. As in dollars. I clocked it twice.
About every 3:56 minutes we waste $1,000,000 on war.
At 4pm CDT today we'd squandered
$908,653,700,000 in 8 years of war
Stop the killing, start the healing!

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HEALTH.
$484,000,000,000 in estimated benefit payments for 2009 Medicare
. (from the July-Aug 2009 issue, AARP bulletin, pg 9)

Can't afford both now.
Shall we keep on killing people 8 time zones away?
Or shall we take care of the elders who took care of us, right here?

Dick and Lynne play nice with scissors

In naming its new center for international students after former Vice President Dick Cheney, the University of Wyoming made a mockery of itself.

Yesterday the Cheneys went to Laramie to dedicate the Cheney International Center at UW, an educational monument whose namesake embodies rapacious wanton evil.

Ex-Veep Dick and cohorts Bush and Rumsfeld are war criminals whose legacy includes heinous acts of torture, gross violations of international law and the widespread suppression of civil rights that defined the Bush era.

Will UW be naming its new business school Bernie Madoff Hall?
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At least there were protests.

Naming center after Cheney draws protest

By Becky Orr
borr@wyomingnews.com

LARAMIE -- The Cheney International Center became part of the University of Wyoming campus Thursday over the objections of protesters who carried signs in opposition. . . .

(Really I feel their pain, the folks who protested this travesty at the U of Wyoming. I live 30 miles away from W's new home town.)

The photo came from the UW coverage. Click it to read their take.