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The whole day, though in truth I've been mourning since the coup in 1999.
by mojo on Thu Jan 20, 05 10:23am
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Or maybe I'll go to the nearest window, open it wide, and scream: 'I'M MAD AS HELL AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!'
by mojo on Thu Jan 20, 05 10:27am
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And us Republicans will just laugh at you.
Nothing.This is MY America,& like crap,truth floats to the top.The scales will balance & they will get their due.We all do.
In silence? No. I'll continue to try and shine the light, wherever I see roaches congregate.
RR: Still waiting for that breakthrough cure for immaturity, eh?
"It's important to show that when Bush's second inauguration goes into the record books, there was healthy dissent," said Jared Maslin, 19 of Hanover, N.H.
Aidan Delgado, 23, of Sarasota, Fla., returned to the United States last April after his military service. He said he was a mechanic at Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad, which gained notoriety as a place of torture during Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s rule and was the scene of alleged prisoner abuse by U.S. troops.
"What I experienced in Iraq fills me with remorse," Delgado told the crowd of protesters. "If we are going to preserve our nation at all, we need to criticize what we did wrong and we have to criticize ourselves."
look at this week's festivities by the numbers:
$40 million: Cost of Bush inaugural ball festivities, not counting security costs.
$2,000: Amount FDR spent on the inaugural in 1945 - about $20,000 in today's dollars.
$20,000: Cost of yellow roses purchased for inaugural festivities by D.C.'s Ritz Carlton.
200: Number of Humvees outfitted with top-of-the-line armor for troops in Iraq that could have been purchased with the amount of money blown on the inauguration.
$10,000: Price of an inaugural package at the Fairmont Hotel, which includes a Beluga caviar and Dom Perignon reception, a chauffeured Rolls Royce and two actors posing as "faux" Secret Service agents, complete with black sunglasses and cufflink walkie-talkies.
400: Pounds of lobster provided for "inaugural feeding frenzy" at the exclusive Mandarin Oriental hotel.
3,000: Number of "Laura Bush Cowboy cookies" provided for "inaugural feeding frenzy" at the Mandarin hotel.
$1: Amount per guest President Carter spent on snacks for guests at his inaugural parties. To stick to a tight budget, he served pretzels, peanuts, crackers and cheese and had cash bars.
22 million: Number of children in regions devastated by the tsunami who could have received vaccinations and preventive health care with the amount of money spent on the inauguration.
1,160,000: Number of girls who could be sent to school for a year in Afghanistan with the amount of money lavished on the inauguration.
$15,000: The down payment to rent a fur coat paid by one gala attendee who didn't want the hassle of schlepping her own through the airport.
$200,500: Price of a room package at D.C.'s Mandarin Oriental, including presidential suite, chauffeured Mercedes limo and outfits from Neiman Marcus.
2,500: Number of U.S. troops used to stand guard as President Bush takes his oath of office
26,000: Number of Kevlar vests for U.S. soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan that could be purchased for $40 million.
$290: Bonus that could go to each American solider serving in Iraq, if inauguration funds were used for that purpose.
$6.3 million: Amount contributed by the finance and investment industry, which works out to be 25 percent of all the money collected.
$17 million: Amount of money the White House is forcing the cash-strapped city of Washington, D.C., to pony up for inauguration security.
9: Percentage of D.C. residents who voted for Bush in 2004.
66: Percentage of Americans who think this over-the-top inauguration should have been scaled back.
9% of the vote in D.C. for Mister Bush, hence the District had to put up twelve million for its "share" of inauguration costs. The punishment has begun?
Gleeful Republicans drank champagne and danced the night away while 70 percent of Baghdad went without water because our overtaxed, poorly equipped and undermanned forces were unable to protect the city’s water supply. As the bands played on in Washington, American troops hunkered down and Iraqis bled and died in an explosion of insurgent car bomb attacks across Iraq that rivaled the fireworks display in the nation's capital.
Powerful corporations and their lobbyists threw around dollars like so much confetti at decadent parties entertaining Republicans who now control all three branches of government and the fate of our nation while 36 million Americans live in poverty, their numbers growing as the families of National Guard and Reserve units trapped in Iraq for more than a year struggle to make ends meet at home and fear for the lives and safety of their loved ones at war.
Republican movers and shakers like Bill Frist, Dennis Hastert, Tom DeLay, as well as chairs and members of powerful committees that will determine the legislative agenda for this Congress bellied up to the troughs of the pharmaceutical and health care industries, and HMO’s while 45 million Americans, including many families of our National Guard and Reserves, lack basic health care coverage.
Many people are born each day, Many people party each day, and many people die each day, that's LIFE Qui! DUH. Now when the Republicans party, it becomes the topic of concern and the statistics are measured by the Whiny Liberals. How many died the days the Democrats had their stupid convention, huh? Many. Would Hanoi Kerry have done the same thing, let me think, still thinking, still thinking Qui, NO. He would have spent triple of the money on the inaguration party and we would be open to another terrorist attack that could kill thousands to millions of civilians. Like you liberals really care about those people, it could be you!
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