I have probably never mentioned this before (ha!), but my kid is an army grunt stationed in Tal Afar. Well, she is home on leave and I am happy as a dad with his kid home on leave.
Do the math.
She is here for two weeks. If I'm lucky, I may get to pry her away from her friends for about 37 minutes of quality daughter/dad time. When her leave time is up, she is off to Iraq again, but not to Tal Afar. Her unit is heading down the road to someplace else after being replaced by some Iraqi regulars. That's all I have to say about that.
This next bit is almost as good. Congress Passes $69 Bln Tax-Cut Measure; Bush Plans to Sign It. The legislation would extend until 2010 the 15 percent rate on dividends and most capital gains, preventing tax rates from increasing at the end of 2008. The measure also would stop a $31 billion tax increase from the alternative minimum tax on millions of households with incomes as low as $50,000.
YEEEHAAAW!
A big thumbs up to congress & the president. An added treat is how much the leftist utopians are gnawing their tongues over this one. Ha!
And to beat all, the price of gold has gone through the roof. Gold prices surged to a new 26-year high above $725 an ounce Thursday on inflationary worries expressed by the U.S. Federal Reserve. Ain't it sweet?
Hark! Doth the leviathan stir from slumber?
Pentagon Exploring Border Control Patrols.
The Pentagon is looking at ways the military can help provide more security along the U.S. southern border, defense officials said Thursday
Or maybe that's just hell freezing over.
(*AU-en = golden)
