It might have been the fever talking but the State of the Union address Tuesday night seemed to me to be just a little bit the other side of the looking glass. The first 20 minutes on democracy in Iraq? I’m gonna be so pissed of Iraq is admitted to the union before DC. And they say we have no tax base.
It is said that a picture is worth 1,000 words. To test that theory I provide to you a photograph of the Tuesday, January 24 dead-tree edition of The Washington Post.
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The juxtiposition of the smug, “Who? Me?” look on Bush’s face combined with the story about Ford’s layoffs pretty much says it all for me. Oh, and let’s not talk about the $22B USD the Republicans “saved” the healthcare industry as a result of closed door negotiations. Those payments are going to come from somewhere and you can bet it’s not going to be out of the Pentagon’s budget.
Dang, Woodstock, that is one *fine* juxtaposition. You also missed the below-the-fold item on baseball.
And on page 3, And a plea for increases in H1 visas because Tech Companies Just Can’t Find Enough Workers ((((who are willing to take $20,000 a year as they pay off their multiple masters degrees)))).
http://www.newkerala.com/news2.php?action=fullnews&id=2211
(and a better example in the last paragraph: http://www.bayoubuzz.com/articles.aspx?aid=6159)
The hits just keep on coming.
And yet Americans seem to continue to slumber.
I don’t understand. I don’t.
STB