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Sacrificing plowshares for swords

28 May, 2010 Justin justice, links One comment

When times are tough, when you’ve got to tighten your belt, that’s when you know what your priorities really are. This week, Congress showed where its priorities lie: the Senate passed a war funding measure worth nearly $60 billion, while the House cut billions of dollars in aid to states and health insurance subsidies for unemployed and laid-off workers.

War over people. Swords over plowshares.

Oh, for that day …

He shall judge between the nations, and shall arbitrate for many peoples; they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. (Isaiah 2:4)

Links of the Day, October 21

21 October, 2009 Justin links No comments

Go buy this t-shirt:
Or just follow the advice found thereupon.

News

A nuclear fuel agreement is reached in Iran.
Human Rights Watch says dozens of ethnic Uighurs have disappeared since being detained after riots in China.
The really, really smart people at Apple release a brand new iMac, complete with the really, really pretty Magic Mouse (below). They really know how to make attractive products over there.

Health care

According to CBO estimates, the House’s desired bill–which includes a public option, hurray!–will cost $871 billion, and will cut the deficit.

Green

Conservative values to achieve liberal goals?

Miscellaneous

Freakonomics authors Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt get climate change wrong.
Marginal Revolution points out some successful government bureacracies.
Illustrator Marc Johns’ “If Paper Towels Could Talk.” Hilarious.
If you don’t like reading about giant spiders, don’t click on this link.

Links of the Day, October 8

8 October, 2009 Justin links No comments

News

A bomb hits the Indian Embassy in Afghanistan.
The Nobel Prize in literature goes to Herta Mueller.
Pew reports that one in four is Muslim.
US legal pot growers cut into Mexican traffickers’ profits.

Health care

The President finds support from outside the party and outside the Beltway: Schwarzenegger, Thompson, Gephardt, Bloomberg, Dole.
Nick Kristof: "If health care reform doesn’t get passed, how about we let Congress go without insurance?"
According to the CBO, the Baucus bill will reduce the deficit.

Miscellaneous

"Lowly females pick mediocre males" … at least in the bird world.
Shep Smith on bacon cheese doughnut burgers being "signs of the Apocalypse." I’m wiling to go with him here and allow a little hyperbole, because those things look like death in a burger. Seriously …