We’re on the Highway to Hell, says GAO

Army on road to ruin 

A new congressional report is alleging that the <US Armed Forces>  Future Combat Systems program is poised for major delays and a financial train wreck. Worst of all, the report claims, the Army knew this was going to happen all along.

It took the army of Imperial Rome hundreds of years to bankrupt that nation. When Clinton left office, we had a surplus. Now we have a deficit of hundreds of billions and it’s getting worse.

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Fall mountains, just don’t fall on me

Imagining a $7-a-gallon future

I’d rather not - thanks so much (even if I do drive a 45 mpg Prius.)

However, if we  are at the top of that oil Bell Curve…

.. then it’s look out below as supply dwindles.

Or, as Jeremy Rifkin puts it,

The Perfect Storm that’s about to hit.
Rising oil prices and a weak dollar could shatter the global economy

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Enough with the doom and gloom, already…

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Back to the doom and gloom

To say Iraq is getting more complicated by the minute would be an understatement. In a span of five days, we’ve lost effective control of Sadr City and Falluja. Each by a different enemy.

Several months, the “resistance” was throwing rocks. Now they have troops, weapons, and probably the tacit support of most of the populace. Our solution? You got it, we’re gonna be gittin’ tough. Right, that’s proven to be SO successful in the past, let’s do it again.

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