Amy Whitehouse can't make her gig this Saturday, 1/25, in France, where a rouge trader for the French bank Societe Generale blew an American equivalent of 7.2 billion on Thursday in fraud trading no one caught. Amy's going into rehab, and so am I, since her story tops the news while the 7.2 billion lays buried in the back pages of every major media outlet.

Amy's sure as heck not going to feed any hungry poor people while she blithers through this, but imagine what 7.2 billion could feed. Imagine a world where news was rooted in its effect on all people, not the effect on some people.

If I ran the Democratic party, my first dictum would be they discuss ALL congressional bills in Iraqi War Dollar percentages. They have done this at times, I'd make it mandatory money speak.

The current bill moving through Congress to fuel spending against an impending recession and provide checks to the middle and lower class? I'd have all Democrats speak in terms of "One Half Day in Iraq", "One trip to the latrine by an American Soldier", "One Medical Transport to Germany of an American who lost his brains from a roadside bomb" speak. Exchange every penny Americans pay in taxes into what we are outlaying in Iraq. Dollar for Dollar. Penny for penny.

If implemented, you would be joining me and Amy in rehab, I said, "No, No, No."

Barney Moran

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