Sweet Charity -- It returns more than a bad penny!

Sweet Charity is again open for signups for interested Hos.

In case you've been under a rock, here's the deal - you can sign up to be a ho and sell your services in making fanfic, fanart, etc (or original works if you so desire), your beta services for any of the above, original crafts, your astrology services, pretty much anything that you can send by snail mail or electronically to whoever wins your bid.

And, all proceeds from the bidders go to benefit RAINN, the Rape, Abuse, and Incest National Network. Yes, this is the same as we raised for last for. The previously selected charity did not get back to us in time with things that Paypal required of them and so we went with the default of RAINN and they are ever so happy to have us again since we raised <td class="ftd"></td><td>$11296.81</td> last time. And you know we want to beat that this time!

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The American Cancer Society is going to dedicate it's entire advertising budget to educating the American people about the breakdown of the US healthcare system. This could be very very interesting. I will also be interested to see if the normal "censorship advertising" networks like CBS etc will actually run any of the said ads created.

Don't hold your breath that General Patraeus will buck the White House when he testifies to congress. He "told the Australian that there had been a 75% reduction in religious and ethnic killing since last year." Hey, General, I'd really like to live in your parallel reality. I bet the dogs talk and politicians are logical there too.

Deserving of it's own post...

Naval LSO says all signs still point to battle with Iran

"I know this will sound crazy coming from a Naval officer", she said. "But we’re all just waiting for this administration to end. Things that happen at the senior officer level seem more and more to happen outside of the purview of XOs and other officers who typically have a say-so in daily combat and flight operations. Today, orders just come down from the mountaintop and there’s no questioning. In fact, there is no discussing it. I have seen more than one senior commander disappear and then three weeks later we find out that he has been replaced. That’s really weird. It’s also really weird because everyone who has disappeared has questioned whether or not we should be staging a massive attack on Iran."

I asked her about the attack, how limited and so forth.

"I don’t think it’s limited at all. We are shipping in and assigning every damn Tomahawk we have in inventory. I think this is going to be massive and sudden, like thousands of targets. I believe that no American will know when it happens until after it happens. And whatever the consequences, whatever the consequences, they will have to be lived with. I am sure if my father knew I was telling someone in a news organization that we were about to launch a supposedly secret attack that it would be treason. But something inside me tells me to tell it anyway."

"Last night in the galley, an ensign asked what right do we have to tell a sovereign nation that they can’t build a nuke. I mean the table got EF Hutton quiet. Not so much because the man was asking a question that was off culture. But that he was asking a good question. In fact, the discussion actually followed afterwards topside where someone in our group had to smoke a cigarette. The discussion was intelligent but also in lowered voices. It’s like we aren’t allowed to ask the questions that we always ask before combat. It’s almost as if the average seaman or soldier is doing all the policy work."

Like never before, I really hope this isn't so.

Something just occured to me. Maybe the reason that Pelosi and Reid have been so ferverent in stating that "impeachment is not on the table" is that they somehow believed that saying so would allow them to reason on issues like this with the White House. Because all sane people truly want to believe that anyone with power would be rational and logical before launching our country into war with, not only another sovereign nation, but an entire culture.

Naive, some might call it. But the alternative, admitting there's nothing we can do and that even if we start proceedings, it's not like we have any more control over what might be done in world affairs with our military, well.....One's naive. The other lays to question whether our democracy is going to survive until the next inaugaration.

I really hope that someone is speaking truth to those with the ability to influence and make decisions. I hope -- I know. But being an optimistic cynic has always been my curse. Otherwise, it's all to easy to see a replay of the start of the second world war. Except this time, we won't be the isolationists sitting on the sideline for most of it. No, we'll be the ones who started it.

Oh, and toddalcott has an insightful post on Senator Craig and Ben Stein and what it shows about the Republican power party.

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