And if you do manage to fund it all somehow, again not on the taxpayer dollar, both the air strikes and the follow-on involvement must be via unmanned weapons – NO use of American blood for the effort.

Or better yet, if you want to fight, load up one really nice large aircraft, find a pilot in Congress, and take the whole bunch with you to do the fighting.  That I would be willing to pay for.

Earl and  Leroy saw an ad in the Daily News newspaper, and bought a mule for $100.  The  farmer agreed to deliver the mule the next day.
   
The next morning the farmer drove up and said, “Sorry, fellows, I have some bad news, the mule died last  night.”
   
Earl and Leroy replied, “Well, then just give us our money back.”
   
The farmer said, “Cain’t do that. I went and spent it already.”
   
They said, “OK then, just bring us the dead mule.”
   
The farmer asked, “What in the world ya’ll gonna do with a dead mule?”
   
Leroy said, “We gonna raffle him off.”
   
The farmer said, “You can’t raffle off a dead mule!”
   
Earl said, “We shor can! Heck, we don’t hafta tell nobody he’s dead!”
   
A couple of weeks later, the farmer ran into Earl and Leroy at the Piggly Wiggly grocery store and asked “What’d you fellers ever do with that dead mule?”
   
They said, “We raffled him off like we said we wuz gonna do.”
   
Leroy said,”Shucks, we sold 500 tickets fer two dollars apiece and made a profit of $998.”
   
The farmer said, “Gol dern, didn’t anyone complain?”
   
Earl said, ”Well, the feller who won got upset, so we gave him his two dollars back.”
   
Earl and Leroy now work for the gub’ment.
They’re overseein’ the Stimulus Program.
  
There  should be a new rule: Limit politicians to two  terms:
  One  in  office
  One  in  prison.
  Illinois  already does  this.

Thanks, Art.

http://washingtonexaminer.com/politics/2011/07/wisconsin-schools-buck-union-cut-health-costs/115972

The short of it:

Wisconsin teachers’ union owns THE insurance company.  No competition due to collective bargaining.

Their insurance company is free to, and does, raise rates every year.

But they don’t pay it, the taxpayers do.

Insurance company, fat cat, donates big bucks to their favorite political party (guess which one).

Rates continue to go up, taxpayer continues to pay.  Collective bargaining is a wonderful thing.  If you’re a Wisconsin teacher.

Governor puts an end to it.

Some school districts go from tremendous shortfalls to tremendous surplus by paying an insurance company that won by competitive bidding.  “Insurance costs that had been about $2.5 million a year will now be around $1.8 million.”

No surprise here.

And that is why I am totally against unionizing of government employees.  Among other additionall reasons; I’ve seen it, supervised it, and been hamstrung by it.

Excellent.

Well, except for the company part.  I like watching some of those players — lots of talent there.

But when Kraft, Belichick, and Brady have a chance to lose I love it when it comes true.

And congratulations to the Giants.