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To: Alighieri who wrote (482942)	5/23/2009 12:04:39 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1576591

"Obama should follow the example of his predecessor and spend the money on some unnecessary war in some forsaken corner of the globe instead." He is he's going into Pakistan

To: Alighieri who wrote (482942)	5/23/2009 12:08:50 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1576591

A Harvey Milk Holiday? by Daniel J. Flynn Inspired in part by the Academy Award-winning Milk, California’s senate has passed a bill making slain San Francisco city supervisor Harvey Milk’s May 22 birthday a Golden State holiday. But the celluloid hero portrayed by Sean Penn bears little resemblance to the genuine article, who lashed out at political opponents as “Nazis,” purportedly staged a hate crime to engender support for a lagging campaign, and promoted Jim Jones to President Carter “as a man of the highest character” just a few months before the Peoples Temple leader orchestrated more than 900 murder-suicides. My City Journal article shows how Sean Penn’s Harvey Milk is as real as Toby Maguire’s Spider-Man. Only people so ignorant as to get their history from Hollywood would place the formerly obscure San Francisco city supervisor alongside the likes of Jesus Christ, George Washington, Christopher Columbus, and Martin Luther King in celebrating a holiday in his honor.

To: Alighieri who wrote (482942)	5/23/2009 12:13:51 PM
From: i-node	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576591

>> Terrible waste of money to put funds on infrastructure and health care in his own country It is like a guy who can scarcely pay his rent buying a new Lamborghini on credit. It just makes no sense. Spending on health care is consumption. Not investment. Infrastructure projects that are make work are the same thing. We might WANT to do these things, but we don't have the money. It is incompetent in every respect. I understand. You're an extremist liberal who wants government to take care of you and everyone else. A nanny-statist. Most people can take care of themselves if only they have a reason to do so. OTOH, anyone will spend his last nickel to keep his family safe.