Number Of Iraqi Civilians Slaughtered In America’s War? More Than 655,000
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article15266.htm
Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In Bush’s War 2882
http://icasualties.org/oif/
The War in Iraq Costs
$345,425,604,750
See the cost in your community
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Author: marga (Page 109 of 158)
I was reading The Fix in Salon (yes, from time to time I read it, I plead guilty and ashamed) and run across this comment from Nicole Kidman on having more children:
“I’d like to be a mum again. I always thought I’d live on a Fijian island. I love the idea of being in a sarong, with hair down to my bum and kids following me around.”
AFAIK, she has two or three kids already. But what puzzles me is her belief that she could go someplace, even in an island, and have her kids just follow her around. Huh? Are there kids who do that, just blindly follow their parents around? No tantrums as to where they are going, no hour to get them out the door as they change their outfit for the hundreds time, or they get distracted and start playing when they go retrieve their shoes?, no “I’m bored, mommy” if you are going someplace boring. Does she indeed have three perfectly content, quiet kids who would follow her around, or has she just not experienced enough of motherhood to know it doesn’t work that way?
I hope everybody will have a happy Thanksgiving, though the folly of that wish is painfully clear to me. We all know what a horrible place for so many millions of people this world is, so I won’t bother reminding you, specially when what we can do about it is of so limited use.
BUT, if you do want to do something this Thanksgiving, alleviate a little the guilt of having such a wonderful bounty (if you are reading this, you do) when others live in, well, subhuman conditions if at all, the Save Darfur coalition has an action for you. Just simply explain to your guests a little bit about the situation in Darfur (you can learn all about it on their website), and then asks your guests to sign a letter petitioning the UN Secretary General and President Bush to do some basic actions to stop/prevent the genocide from continuing. You can sign the letter online at http://action.savedarfur.org/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=5997
You can download a printable version of the petition here
POSTED: 1:18 p.m. EST, November 20, 2006
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SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — Tipped off by three plastic pipes mysteriously skimming the ocean’s surface, authorities seized a homemade submarine packed with 3 tons of cocaine off Costa Rica’s Pacific coast.
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