In Counterpunch, October 22 / 24, 2004 Killing for ChristThe Destructive Power of FaithBy WILLIAM A. COOK Worth a read. Here are a few snippets that lept out at me. We Americans pay the bill; they act in our name. How can we, who speak with the conviction of our conscience, hope to remove the hatred a Hagee or a Robertson breeds against God’s creatures? The pictures I saw today of dead and dying children in Iraq, pictures too horrific…
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Government Debt – Threat to National Security Once again the federal government has reached its “debt ceiling,” and once again Congress has to authorize an increase in government borrowing. We are borrowing between 1 and 2 billion dollars a day to keep our nation afloat. We’re at almost $7.5 trillion. The National Debt increases at an average of $1.67 billion per day. The estimated population of the United States is 294,667,496 so each citizen’s share of this debt is $25,266.01….
I wonder what was on the rest of this most recent tape – only 7 of 18 minutes was released, and only snippets of that has made US news channels. Bin Laden seems alive and well, strangely dignified and sounding reasonable – as our own barbarous butchers also sometimes sound dignified and reasonable. Still, it occurs to me that outside of any threat, isn’t it strange that we have not had any debate about the dictatorships we do actually support,…
My blogging has slowed down because there is a problem with my Blogger account. It isn’t updating to my site! I don’t know when this post will finally appear – So just let me say the RED SOX ROCK, I want to see an equal landslide victory for the revolution state’s future president, KERRY! Bush has had a lot of bad new this week – the Halliburton probe, the NAACP fiasco, the ammunitions we didn’t guard, and now today the…