Lafayette CA War Dead Memorial

 

View of the memorial from the Lafayette BART parking lot.

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
 

A portion of the John McCrae WWI poem

FOUR THOUSAND DEAD

 

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U.S. .

U.S. Death Toll in Iraq War Hits 4,000 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/25/us/25dead.web.html?ref=us

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We have reached a grim and gruesome milestone in Iraq. 4000 of our soldiers are dead, and untold numbers of Iraqi civilians are casualties of this iniquitous war.

 

If there could be a just ending to this evil undertaking, it would go something like this.

 

Bush and Cheney would be sent to Hell, each with the dog tags of 4000 fallen soldiers around their necks.

A TERRIBLE AND DISGRACEFUL TRAGEDY

Hidden Danger: Soldiers Dying From Electrocution

A Dozen Soldiers Have Died From Accidental Electrocution in Iraq, Says Congressman

http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=4489783&page=1

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Here we have the heartbreaking story of soldiers that are serving their country, and the greatest danger they face may be from some of Dick Cheney's big money buddies that are making HUGE profits from the Iraq war.

 

Have we EVER had worse people in the highest offices of the land than the BushCheney and cohorts? Not in my memory.

 

The good people die. The evil people get rich.

 

Our country has been plundered and dishonored by the BushCheney. How many years to recover our honor?

Black or White?

First I must say that the Obama speech about race was certainly one of the best speeches I have ever heard, and I've been a political junkie for many years. To give an idea of how long, I remember the Roosevelt/Willkie presidential campaign of 1940. Not really well, but I can still see in my mind the buttons and signs.

 

Now the question. Why is Obama referred to as the 'black" candidate? His mother was caucasian and his father was African. That makes him just as much a "white man" as a "black man".

 

We don't need a "black man", or a "white man". we need a smart man or woman, something we haven't had for 7 years and counting.

 

I believe Barack Obama is a very smart man.

Idiot-in Chief

Commentary
Fire Sale At Bear Stearns And Panic At The Fed
Peter Morici 03.17.08, 10:00 AM ET

quote from article:

"President Bush adopts the posture of Herbert Hoover telling us everything will work out soon. He looks more like a man whistling through the graveyard. Bernanke and Paulson look worse than that. The threat of contagion and wholesale breakdown on a scale of 1929 is real."

 http://www.forbes.com/opinions/2008/03/17/fed-bear-stearns-oped-cx_0317morici.html

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In my previous entry, I referred to 1929.

DOOFUS FIDDLES WHILE ECONOMY BURNS

US STOCKS-Market falls as Bear Stearns revives credit fears

http://www.reuters.com/article/fundsFundsNews/idUSN1440847620080314

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Thoughts on the Bear Stearns bailout.

 

When banks begin to struggle and need to be bailed out, it is a sign that's reminiscent of the bad times beginning with the crash of 1929. We can swim against the tide, but when the tide becomes too strong, we drown.

 

If the Democrats take control of the White House  and try to restore fiscal sanity, how long will it take?

 

Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected President of the United States in 1932 after years of Republican mis-management, and worked very hard to turn things around. There were still hard times right up to the beginning of World War II. What a shame that it took a major war to start the turnaround.

 

Of this we can be certain. World War II wasn't financed by selling government paper to foreign countries. The loyal citizens of this country worked hard, paid taxes, bought war bonds, and did it the patriots way, not the way of the political coward who tries to hide the cost in longterm debt.

 

All of you that think war is a grand and necessary undertaking, unless you are willing to pay higher taxes and make sacrifices, you are a freeloader, not a patriot.

THE DOOFUS SPEAKS

 

Imagine President Bush speaking about the virtues of his economic policies. This is as bad as Eliot Spitzer preaching about the value of sexual abstinence.

Bush and his crew of economic idiots have sent the country's economy on a downward spiral that may take years to recover from. Add to that the Democratic presidential candidates savaging each other and possibly giving John (100yearwar) McCain a free pass into the White House, the start of the USA soon slipping into third world status is almost assured.

Better save your money folks. Hard times are coming.