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The O'bama administration keeps saying that the Bush administration hid the cost of the Iraq war by not including it in the budget.

For one, if this was such a big deal, Congress could have / should have not voted for the bill.

For two, I think it is hiding the cost by including it in the budget.  By leaving it out of the budget, Congress had to vote for the war effort as a separate measure, which made it a news story on its own.

Remember John Kerry saying, "I actual did vote for the $87 billion, before I voted against it."  Do you think anyone would have known/cared that we were spending $87 billion if it were just another line item on the total federal budget?  Nope.

This is just like when FCC merged all housing costs into one lump sum.  This let them wiggle around on the actual cost of the constituent elements (like electric and cable bills), but leave the price the same.  If the price of energy went down, it didn't cause the price of housing to go down, because you just paid a "housing fee".  Now, Obama can quietly lower the budget for the war, and nobody will notice, because it is part of a larger bill.

The news keeps saying that Obama will cut spending by increasing taxes on the "wealthiest Americans".

You don't cut spending by increasing taxes... you increase revenue by increasing taxes.

This is like saying that I will cut spending by working extra hours at work, the sentence just doesn't make sense.

It is just a marketing tactic so that Obama doesn't have to say he is raising taxes: "I am not raising taxes, I am just cutting spending."  He isn't cutting spending by 1 trillion (as he claims), he is increasing taxes by 1 trillion.

Because, for liberals, letting you keep more of your money is them
spending less ☺

It drives me nuts when people draw conclusions about what we should think/do during the "breaking of bread" by analyzing the word "communion".

Things like:
1) Communion and community share the same root, therefore we are demonstrating that we are a community by taking communion together.

2) We are communing with Christ, or some other mystic nonsense.

The greek word that refers to "the Lord's supper" is eucharistia (εύχαριστία), and means "thankgiving".  If we are going to be analyzing any words, this is the word we should be analyzing.

I also see no evidence that the Lord's supper and "agape feasts" are one and the same.  In fact, if I read 1 Corithians 11:19ff correctly, it seems that the εύχαριστία was not supposed to be a meal!

I lost my website and email for a few days because I let my domain expire.  Oops.  I knew the time was coming, but I forgot to do it on Friday.

Luckily, gone are the days where, if you let your domain expire, it was bought by a squatter the next day.  Now registrars do a "temporary hold" for about a week, and then there is a Internic imposed 45 day hold.

Still, it takes a while for all the DNS servers to refresh their caches, especially on an active site.