@DDay:

This is no bliss in Adlof’sville and I am all too aware of our situation. Advocating for for playing only to the least common denominator will be Democracy’s undoing. There can be no freedom or even the concept of freedom in Newspeak. Ride that pony if you choose . . . Only Hell awaits you on that path.

Even complete farging idiots are smarter than that.

Rising Military Expenditure: The Coming U.S. Budget Attack

By Shamus Cooke

URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=15964

Global Research, November 8, 2009

The United States is moving backwards... fast. State budget cuts are decimating essential health and social services; public education is being destroyed; the social safety net is in tatters. To make matters worse, all of this is occurring when the loss of jobs stands at a twenty-six year high with no end in sight.

But this is only phase one. The federal government intends to balance its books too, at the expense of society's neediest. Instead of governors presiding over painful cuts, the President will be doing the gutting. And although his proposed budget isn't due until February, the President's spokespeople are priming the media to play a major propaganda role in what will be a colossal blow against working and poor people.

Obama's Treasury Secretary, Timothy Geithner, has been particularly busy promoting the future cutbacks, repeating that “the country must live within its mean;” “deficits must be brought down dramatically” — something that will “require very hard choices.”

What are these hard choices? One possible option is no longer available. The biggest annual deficit producer is the U.S. military, which Obama will not radically reduce. Instead, he will increase it; Taxpayers will pay $660 billion (!) in 2010 toward the military. And maybe more — military commanders see more fighting in the future, not less; consequently, they want more money. The New York Times reports:

“...Admiral. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, did not say how much additional money would be needed, but one figure in circulation within the Pentagon and among outside defense budget analysts is $50 billion.” (November 4, 2009)....

@DDay:

I meant the metaphorical “YOU” and not the personal . . . Spiked by my own languaging . . . Damn.

I have heard that the Orlando shooter has now been confirmed to be on psychotropic drugs. I wonder if the Fort Hood psychiatrist was self medicating?

Brian Baird of Washington State (not Cal) was the other Dem voting against the House bill (...mentioned in last few minutes of today's show...)
http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/archives/184344.asp

gerald --- thinking to share your sense of humor. but then again, i get into enough trouble with my own comments on facebook! lol lucky i have not been censored. a fewfriendson facebook have been reported but just get a few days of posts not showing. not sure why or how considering some of the stuff I have read!

Is this the show "chatroom" Thom mentions on the show?

The issue about the recent Fort Hood shootings that, to my knowledge, no one is addressing, is the absence of MPs at Fort Hood who have been replaced by contractors. Our government buildings have metal detectors to check for guns; were there such precautions at the base?

Thanks, Louise! I'll check it out!

For my veteran friend with the back problem. I too am a disabled vet with a back problem. If I was in your condition, considering you have an actual emergency I would call 911 and explain that you cannot move. Maybe they can either give you something for the pain or transport you to the hospital where the VA could pick you up. Good luck com padre.