It's federal budget day in Canada. I'll put up a separate post later before the speech begins for those who want to hang out and evaluate the details. (~4 pm ET)- According to UNICEF, 146 million children in the world are "dangerously underfed". "Bangladesh, India and Pakistan account for half of all the world's underweight children." Maybe Pakistan and India should scrap their nuclear weapons programs and feed their kids instead.
In some countries,– including Iraq, Yemen and parts of Africa, the number is actually increasing due to conflict, food shortages and the prevalence of HIV/AIDS, the report says.
Yes, that's Iraq - where freedom is on the march, but food for children is not.
- some Iraqi soldiers decided to strip as a form of protest when, upon their graduation, they found out they wouldn't be sent to their home regions to serve.
- outed CIA agent Valerie Plame had been working on Iranian weapons proliferation issues when her cover was blown by journalist Robert Novak.
- Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher of California on how to deal with undocumented immigrants:
ROHRABACHER: But no. 2, that we quit giving benefits. Why do people who come here illegally get the same education, health care, food subsidies and I might add their kids get free meals at schools, housing subsidies. These kids -- these people who come from other countries here illegally, have a treasure house of benefits. As long as we give it to them and they get jobs here, they will actually not stay.
KING: So you would cut all of this out and then what?
ROHRABACHER: If you focus on that, through attrition, after a number of years, they will go home because now, we aren't giving them a benefit for staying here.
Stupidity abounds in Washington.
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