"Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution -- these can lift at a colossal humbug -- push it a little -- weaken it a little over the course of a century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast.
Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand." -Mark Twain

"The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet." - Mark Twain

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Title:  "Coal For the Rest" Date:  11-30-2007
Notes/Comment From Sam:
	Defense spending has now reached the highest level in history. When adjusted for inflation, we are now spending more than we were at the height of the Cold War (when fighting in Korea and ratcheting up our arms cache in our race with the Soviet Union). Don't let the numbers published by Bush and Pentagon fool you--we are not spending $481 billion in defense, but rather more than $700 billion annually. It'd be one thing if the money were being used to fill the obvious lacunae in our military--namely, recruiting and equipping more soldiers, and caring for those already serving. It is not. Rather, we are dumping truly astronomical amounts on technology irrelevant to our current war, such as stealth fighters (they can't shoot down our non-stealth planes!) and missile defense (still doesn't work).
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