remember the republican promises of 2002 and 2003 deputy secretary of defense paul wolfowitz testified before congress that the american people would not lose any money on the proposed invasion of iraq. the war would pay for itself he said because iraq would be so grateful for its liberation that it would give the united states its oil revenues which would more than compensate for any expense. re...
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gordon smith is now airing an ad attacking jeff merkley and the oregon state legislature for the cost of renovating the capitol building here in salem oregon. thats right folks gordon smith the man who voted for the iraq war and cheneys energy boondoggle of 2003 is attacking jeff merkley claiming hes fiscally irresponsible. full disclosure i am the netroots director for orsen candidate jeff merkle...
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the u.. environmental protection agency thinks youre worth on average 7.22 million. in the words of david a. fahrenthold of the washington post thats about as much as a megamansion or a middle infielder. the value of a statistical life is down from 8.04 million four years ago. the story doesnt explain why beyond quoting some bureaucrat as saying the environmental agency revised its 2004 figure u...
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jag hade helt fel i mitt farra inlagg nar jag trodde att johan norberg var fartjust i usas politik. det ar han inte alls visar det sig nu nar delar av den amerikanska ekonomin barjar kollapsa. i ett inlagg pa aftonbladet kultur sager han att bush ar en usel president darfar att han agerat moralens vaktar och samtidigt mutades lakemedelsbolagen och pensionarerna genom en kopias expansion av la...
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over at the oil drum a blog that has been gaining a muchdeserved increase in attention heading out writes asking one of the less comfortable questions about our energy future the evidence seems to be pointing to an overall increase in the global decline rate for existing wells. what this means is that if world production is around 86 million barrels a day then to replace existing declines next yea...
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you might have been wondering readers how does sen. mccain propose to reduce the size of the federal deficit well the mccain campaign has answered the question for us all we gotta do is win the wars the mccain administration would reserve all savings from victory in the iraq and afghanistan operations in the fight against islamic extremists for reducing the deficit. since all their costs were f...
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over the last six years more than more than 4000 us soldiers have lost their lives in the iraq war. we have spent over over 500 billion dollars. nearly every excuse used to justify the invasion has been proven false. but apparently these last six years mean little to john mccain. on monday the republican presidential nominee told reporters that even with all thats happened he still thinks we were ...
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not too close to the end of his term but no doubt later than the oil men who helped put him in office would have liked george bush has paid back his familys industry friends by trying to give them their own country.the equation could not be more clear we spend 4100 lives the health of another 30000 soldiers and over 500 billion much of it funneled to companies tied to the bush family and their fri...
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bush republican rep. shelley moore capito has not issued an official statement regarding the most important issue of the day since nov. 14 2007.we cant fix the economy when were spending this kind of money on iraq. click here to learn more......
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i know a lot of republicans and most of them have a pretty decent sense of humor so im tempted to believe that the whole mccain thing was a joke gone bad. it had to be. either they were kidding or they actually picked the guy to run for president of the united states of america. so now theyre stuck with him and the more they try to spin the deeper they dig. it doesnt matter if you listen to pa...
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mccains making an economic speech as i write this a speech that does nothing but perpetuate the perception that he will be bushs third term and hes citing the neocons newest fairhairedboy ireland.ireland has its corporate tax rate down to 12.5 and fiscally irresponsible conservatives think we should drop ours to match.the faulty logic here is that they act as if ireland has the same costs as the...
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...ns to always vote against military spending 100 of the time. even if we had a military half the size it would still be to big. just a waste. as a side note estimated cost of war as of today httpwww.nationalpriorities.orgcostofwar home......
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at 526.052 billion at 1904 days at an average population of 297 million the daily cost of the iraq war to every american no matter their age who was alive during the war has been 0.93 or just under 1. on february 5th 2009 the iraq war will have cost every american 2000.00 regardless of the age of that american.if the next president does not reduce spending on the iraq war by the end of his term th...
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the dfl put out a great release showing how norm streached the truth in his nomination acceptance speech yesterday.a read it in full after the jump norm colemans gop convention acceptance speech fact check may 30 2008 as he accepted the republican endorsement for the u.s. senate today norm coleman made several statements about his vision for the future of our country including ending our addi...
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i made a chart this is the kind of thing you do when you return from a long trip and are jetlagged. these are the 2008 research budgets for physical sciences in billions of dollars for the main funding agencies in the u.s. the department of energy nasa and the national science foundation. for helpful comparison purposes ive also plotted the 14.9 billion that has been misplaced over the course...
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filed under home alternative energyon one hand when i read a news story about an entire village in south korea drawing 100 of its power from the sun i get excited and optimistic but on the other hand it only makes me sad to think we dont have something like this going in the united states.sure there are plenty of solarpowered homes in the us and there are plenty of entire cities that are extendin...
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with apologies in advance to david letterman from the home office in paw paw west virginia heres the top 10 reasons on why you should support anne barth.no. 10 annes been getting the job done for west virginia for the past 21 years working for senator byrd unlike shelley moore capito who after 8 years in congress cant list a single accomplishment.no. 9 nick rahall and alan mollohan endorsed anne...
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...f links that he is finding useful in preparing this bi and i thought i might as well share it here httplcweb2.loc.govfrdcsiqtoc.html httpwww.utm.eduvlibraryiraq.shtml httpgovinfo.ucsd.eduiraq httpwww.nationalpriorities.orgcostofwar home httpwww.timesonline.co.uktolnewsukarticle535913.ece httpwww.comw.orgwarreport httpwww.amacad.orgpublicationsmonographswar with iraq.pdf httpwww.ecu.educslibgovdocwaro...
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my wife and i have been hunting for a larger house here in san diego for several months as weve outgrown our little townhouse long ago. we must have looked inside at least 60 houses by now because we have a long list of criteria and we need to get an excellent deal in a down market. weve made some offers and even walked away from a deal because our house inspector found too many problems. our agen...
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i was listening to john mccain talk on npr this evening and i have to admit that he knows what to say to get my attention. however the chasm between his talk and action is huge. robert siegel failed to ask obvious followup questions perhaps out of fear of being too confrontational. if elected president in november mccain says hell approve an additional 3 billion in taxes over 10 years. he also vow...
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according to the cost of war counter we are currently spending 3951 per second to uh wait what are we doing in iraq this week oh yeah. jack shit thats what. check my math if you like. the site lists a figure of 341.4 million per day. there are 24 hrsday 60 minshr 60 secsmin 86400 seconds in a day. 341400000day divided by 86400 secsday 3951.39second. amusingly the javascript required to di...
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okay i think this thing is ready...welcome to daves blogroll ver.3.0. its been over two years since the last blogroll so im way past due. this time im cloaking my blogroll in the cloth of the blogroll amnesty idea presented by skippy the bush kangaroo and john swift. the idea was to create links to the little guys a kind of grassroots blogging interconnectivity movement.and damn straight im all i...
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rep. john cater rexxon mobil will do anything to keep from mentioning oil corporation profits when talking about high gas prices. blaming high gas prices on just supply and demand without any context is misleading to say the least. of course this war that has now cost us more that half a trillion dollars is having an effect on our economy. how could it not only an apologist for the war wouldnt...
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