Archive for April, 2006

An Interesting Quote …

Monday, April 24th, 2006

I ran across this interesting quotation from Gustave Gilbert’s Nuremburg Diary. In this particular portion, he was interviewing Hermann Goering not long before his suicide. We got around to the subject of war again and I said that, contrary to his attitude, I did not think that the common people are very thankful for leaders [...]

Taxes, Interest, and the M1A2 Abrams Battle Tank

Friday, April 7th, 2006

Tax time is upon the people of America, and I have been thinking much on the topic as of late. The American Congress just elected to raise America’s debt limit to $9 Trillion. That is a substantial amount of cash, people. That equates to $1,500 US for every person alive today. At today’s rate ($590.70 [...]