Priorities. Also, Kilkenny Cats

[jhetley]

Okay, so we have a proposal for the largest Federal budget in history, with the largest Defense budget (in "adjusted" dollars) since WWII.  So how come the Maine National Guard has less than half its authorized equipment?  They took the stuff with them when they deployed (Iraq, Afghanistan, multiple times) and left it there.

These are the guys we count on to clean up after, like, tornadoes and floods...

Meanwhile, both parties continue to devour their own candidates.  The "neocons" (hate that title) would rather have Hill 'n Bill in the White House than McCain, while Ms. Clinton and Mr. Obama seek the precise best point to insert a MK II Gerber Survival Knife in the back of the other...

Hey, if the nation is lucky, they'll all succeed.  "...except for their nails and the tips of their tails, instead of two cats there weren't any."

Comments

[wcg.livejournal.com]

It hasn't changed all that much in the last 125 or so years. I was reading about James Garfield's election, and one of his advisers assured him, "Our cat has the longest tail."

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

And look where that got Garfield...

[wcg.livejournal.com]

True.

Interesting that even after the 2000 election his still holds the distinction of the closest margin of popular vote in a presidential election. Fat lot of good it did him.

Makes me wonder how things might have gone had Hancock won.

[starcat-jewel.livejournal.com]

Some of my friends have started using "neofeudalists" or "neobarbarians" instead, on the theory that "conservative" is the one thing those people are reliably NOT.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

>..."conservative" is the one thing those people are reliably NOT.

That's been my complaint, as well. Plus, "neocon" throws an insult at all decent hard-working con-men everywhere.