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excuse me. . . while i wax political. . . .

so the $87 billion dollars was approved. i overheard a bit on npr. . . in the senate only 5 members physically showed for the verbal vote. in total though, it passed about 300 to about 120.

According to documents sent to Capitol Hill by the Bush administration, $20 billion of its requested $87 billion is slated for reconstruction efforts in Iraq – only a portion of the $50 billion to $75 billion estimated as necessary for rebuilding over just the next four years, according to a report in the LA Times.

if you want to see the estimated break down for the rest of the money go here

$87 for what?

now. . . i wonder. . . what could we possibly do with the money here at home?

do you wonder?

check this out: $87 at home?

i had this one teacher. . . bless her heart. . . she rarely stayed on the subject at hand, but she did raise some good points about how in the 60's people would get out and protest these things. college students of the 60's wouldn't put up with tuition increases. . (for example) so why aren't we. . . .protesting that is? in some poll done somewhere, the majority of the population was not in favor of passing this bill. but of course. . . in the popular majority, bush wouldn't be president either. how is it that we live in two parallel universes? the popular majority and the people who get to make the decisions? i wonder what this country would be like if the senate and congress weren't so strongly lobbied by major meat industries, oil, and the nra. (to name a few)

speaking of the nra. . . what a perfect time for a transition to my next topic of anger (i'll have to save my theories on why we no longer protest till i have them formulated).

so, it seems the nra created a blacklist of all the celebrities that are for more strict gun control, in the hopes that people who supported the nra would perhaps not go to see a movie staring anyone on the list, or buy music created by anyone on the list. either way it backfired. celebrities who were left off the list or forgotten, wrote in, angered that they were left off. . and a new list has sprouted out of it which anyone can join. wanna sign up. . . i did.

if you wanna read about it, or sign up, go to this site and follow the corresponding links:

get on the NRA blacklist

enough political talk for today.