Brewmonkey

Has anybody ever told the president that rockets don't use petroleum?

The words "under god" was not a part of the original Pledge of Allegiance.

It was added in 1954 after lobbying of by the Knight s of Columbus.

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A man on a mission for peace has been detained by the border patrol. Reza K. Baluchi has been circumnavigating the globe with the hope that his actions would make a unifying statement for world peace. He has survived robbers in the Congo, malaria in South Africa, diarrhea in the Amazon, a hit-and-run in Mexico, and even the inability to use chopsticks in China. He couldn't get passed the border patrol.

Yes, he has broken the law, and deserves to be retained, and maybe even deported before he reaches his final destiny, Ground Zero. But, in these troubled times, is that the best idea? I suggest that a high powered politician, maybe even the President, come forward and sponsor his release, and facilitate the travel to his final destination. It would be a powerful symbol for peace.

With this President, such a highly unlikely that he would be in favor of such a notion. After all, this is the war mongering President that has this nation moving back in time to an era of racial, religious, and gender inequalities.

Read the original article from The NY Times.

Is this what pissed Kim Jong Il off? Found this while surfing the web.

"Today's diplomatic impasse began with U.S. Assistant Secretary of State James Kelly's visit to Pyongyang in October, when he confronted his hosts with evidence of a secret North Korean program for producing weapons-grade uranium. That meeting hardly proceeded according to North Korea's plan. North Korean Foreign Ministry officials were reportedly left all but speechless, having cheerfully assumed that Kelly was coming to town with an offer of renewed aid. Reports further suggest that Pyongyang had even readied the U.S.S. Pueblo, the spy ship North Korea captured in 1968, for return to Washington as a gesture of thanks." - TIME Asia Magazine

Does all this objection against nuclear armament seem rather hollow? Aren't we the nation that still has the largest stock pile? Aren't we the only nation that had unleashed the full power of nuclear weapons against human targets? Even if they do succeed in developing the bomb, do they have a capable delivery system to carry the payload to our soil? If South Korea is not that concerned, why should we be? Who is more evil, Kim Jong Il or George Bush Jr.?