15 Replies to “Friday On Turtle Island”

  1. Fatocide in Gaza? A couple of times in the last couple years I suggested to the Israeli government that they push food into Gaza in quantities that Hamas couldn’t commandeer. This was to counteract claims of starvation. My last words were, “Make them fat.” The buggers listened.

    1. Aren’t flour and oil the primary middle eastern food staples?

      And sayyyyyy … what WAS in that yellow water being frantically poured into the shiny new pans held by the “starving” Gazan crisis actors? I guess it was liquid fat?

      1. I suggested they give Gazans like a million 50 pound bags of rice, beans, and flour. The UN would provide it and it would be worth so little that Hamas couldn’t be bothered stealing it.

      2. I like Jennings’ last dig, “I want Trump to put her in charge of the Social Security Administration. We could all retire in six months if we let this lady manage our portfolios.”

        1. That was a real two-fer … a dig at Pelosi … and a suggestion that at least part of Social Security be privatized.

          Ironically … EVERY government worker Pension Fund is heavily invested in the Stock and Bond Markets. Only Social Security money is in a lock box or something.

    1. Veterans’ Affairs got a little carried away giving benefits to veterans who were nowhere near a war. I knew a Cold Warrior who spent 3 healthy years on an all expense paid vacation to Germany. He was offered all kinds of benefits. At the time I didn’t believe him. The Veterans’ Affairs bureaucracy couldn’t cut itself back to nothing as real war veterans reduced from 1.5 million to nothing. Instead they offered all kinds of benefits to people who had no ill effects from short-term service so the budget wouldn’t be cut.

  7. As a veteran, am inclined to start calling myself an ostrich. The government wasn’t satisfied until the birds were dead – and we heard testimony this week in the Veterans Affairs committee that MAID offers were still being pushed to Veterans who were suffering mental and physical illness. Trudeau earlier said that the government couldn’t afford to provide for injured Veterans. I wonder how much of the VAC 4 billion in savings relies on Veterans being bullied or talked into accepting MAID?

  8. Scar, that may have been true in the 90s, but if you think back to the number killed and severely injured in Afghanistan and since, there is a large cadre of Veterans who are owed a debt by this country

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