In The News: Thanks this morning to ChrisM, my MP3Angel, for supplying the news and commentary audio files.
Due to time constraints just the shortest of synopses this morning... Listen in.
»Congress HAS PASSED A ONE WEEK "Continuing Resolution" on the US budget. There will be $38 billion dollars in cuts to domestic spending. But the real battle has just begun...
All the talk in Washington IS NOT about America's three imperial, economy breaking wars... It's on on the debt ceiling, which our government's borrowing is about to burst through. To put it simply the U.S. government is about to borrow more than it’s legally allowed to and Congress is going to have to lift the debt ceiling so that we can, umn... you know... continue to borrow more money.
Along with the need to hash out a 2012 budget which is coming up on the congressional agenda shortly AND a long-term debt plan for the nation, the retired, poor, and grossly underpaid grunt workers of the nation are not yet safe from the 'cutting edge' of America's descent into economic ruin. Candy Crowley @ CNN's State of the Union has more.
If you think that last was a crassly overstated comment...
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Wis.) talked up the budget proposed by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.). “We're going to protect today’s seniors and those nearing retirement, but for people under 54” like himself, he said, “those programs are not going to be there for me when I retire. They can’t.” [More @ the Washington Post]
»In our Libyan war the African Union has intervened with a "Roadmap to Peace" which the al-Gadaffi regime has accepted in intent. The AU is now discussing the matter with the rebels. Meanwhile NATO is back in action supporting the rebels with airstrikes on government armor and artillery.
»Last week our Secretary of Defense said essentially "we'd be glad to stay in Iraq as long as the Iraqi government wants after the 2011 pullout deadline. There have been sit-ins at Iraq's US military bases and more disturbances in the wake of that announcement ... Now Muqtada al-Sadr has said IF the Iraqi government decides to extend our welcome there HE WILL see to the overthrow of the Iraqi government... and don't doubt for a second he could do that... easily.
»Maybe it because they AREN'T... Bob Dylan's is in the news after being criticized for not playing Masters of War in a performance in China. Last night played in Vietnam. What a long strange trip it's been... Eh Bob?
»The French are about to engage in a public experiment in social policing. Today is the day a woman in France will be fined $200 dollars for wearing a Burqua in public... More in the commentary.
This is Razer Raygun saying 'Happy Motoring America...' Enjoy it while you can. (...and try not to let your government kill too many 'dusky natives' in the process OK?)
Hi! I'm Razer Raygun. Welcome to Razed By Wolves, Just another BloggerBlog consisting of news and other media about local, national, and global events, and the people who, by their actions and words, create those events, making the world around us a more dangerous, nastier place to live.
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