This is why America can't have nice things

TheBigotBasher

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Tue Aug-02-11 04:42 PM
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This is why America can't have nice things

(or even semi crappy underfunded things that at least provide a basic service)

LIEBERMAN: I want to indicate today to my colleagues that Senator Coburn and I are working again on a bipartisan proposal to secure Social Security over the long term, we hope to have that done in time. To also forward to the special committee for their consideration. So, bottom line, we can’t protect these entitlements and also have the national defense we need to protect us in a dangerous world while we’re at war with Islamist extremists who attacked us on 9/11 and will be for a long time to come.

Sorry grannies, we need 1000 of your pensions to buy another missile. Keep on working, the war machine needs your social security.

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KansDem

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Tue Aug-02-11 04:49 PM
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1. I believe the Department of Defense was once known as the War Department

The United States Department of War, also called the War Department (and occasionally War Office in the early years), was the United States Cabinet department originally responsible for the operation and maintenance of the United States Army. The War Department also bore responsibility for naval affairs until the establishment of the Navy Department in 1798 and for most land-based air forces until the creation of the Department of the Air Force in 1947. The Secretary of War headed the war department throughout its existence.

The War Department existed from 1789 until September 18, 1947, when it split into Department of the Army and Department of the Air Force and joined the Department of the Navy as part of the new joint National Military Establishment (NME), renamed the United States Department of Defense in 1949.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_War

Perhaps we should go back to calling it the War Department since there really isn't any reason to suspect it's defending anything...except war profits.

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DefenseLawyer

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Tue Aug-02-11 04:55 PM
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2. Duck and Cover!

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Lorien

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Tue Aug-02-11 05:00 PM
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3. We're under more of a threat from corporate whores like Lieberman than we

could ever be from "Islamic extremists".

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Octafish

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Tue Aug-02-11 05:16 PM
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4. The guy provided a lot of Jomentum during the invisible ENRON crimewave...

Edited on Tue Aug-02-11 05:16 PM by Octafish

...to help drive attention elsewhere. Is The Enron Scandal Over?--It's Up to Joe Lieberman

While there, no doubt, are countless other explanations: one either-or immediately comes to mind:

Either Rupert Murdoch must have miles of tape starring Joe and a medium-sized herd of underaged hooved animals or else the guy's a crook.

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Shagbark Hickory

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Tue Aug-02-11 05:24 PM
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5. Cute title. K+1=R

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