Gun-totin', Chronic-smokin' Hearse Initiator (ludickid) wrote,
Gun-totin', Chronic-smokin' Hearse Initiator
ludickid

Jots and tittles

1. Hey, this is good news: having now pared all funding for Iraq reconstruction down to security and police (in other words, protecting the contractors who are over there looting what's left to loot), the Bush administration is going to drop ALL funding for reconstruction in the next fiscal year. We broke it, but we ain't gonna buy it! Surely this is good news for Iraq, and won't at all plunge the country into a nightmare of poverty and ruin that will simply set the stage for more terrorism and/or another brutal dictator. Way to plan, Mr. President!

2. Totally unrelated, here's today's QUOTE OF THE DAY, from Milton Mayer's excellent study They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-1935.

"What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so complicated that the government had to act on information which the people could not understand, or so dangerous that, even if the people could understand it, it could not be released because of national security. And their sense of identification with Hitler, their trust in him, made it easier to widen this gap and reassured those who would otherwise have worried about it."

3. The Word Network vs. the Playboy Channel DEATHMATCH!

Enjoying Everyday Life with Joyce Meyer vs. Sex Court
Bob Jones Presents vs. Naughty Amateur Home Videos: Out In Public
Gospel Grooves vs. Sexy Urban Legends
Wisdom Keys with Dr. Mike Murdock vs. Adult Stars Flying Solo VII
Dr. Shine & Dee Dee vs. Playboy Exposed: Girls of Motocross
Bishop Durone Hepburn vs. Best of Sexcetera
Rudolph McKissick Ministries vs. Women of WalMart
Leroy Emmanuel vs. Heaven Scent 2
Love a Child vs. Night Calls UK
The Good Steward XV vs. British Babe Rebekah Teesdale
The Flying House vs. Jenna's American Sex Star
Fellowship of Christians & Jews vs. Adult Asians
Kirk Franklin Listening Party vs. Buckwild
Rizen vs. Vivid Valley
One on One with Lexi vs. Hooked On Garters
Jazzspel vs. Winning the Tri-Sexta
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