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Check this LA Time poll report
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Amazingly, almost half the country still doesn't understand that the re-election of the W will probably result in the end of the world. This, friends, is why we must register, register, register.

Every time I start feeling overwhelmed by outrage fatigue I run across something like this. Somehow, the Pentagon lost 1.2 billion dollars of the money it spent in Iraq. Lost it. 1.2 billion. That's "b", billion. The article contains this telling tidbit:

"Another Pentagon agency mistakenly sold chemical warfare suits on the Internet for $3 each while a separate office was struggling to fill shortages with new suits it bought for $200 each."

They also spent 34 million dollars hiring people to fix their accounting. Which is to say, they had to spend an amount of money I can barely comprehend just to keep track of how much money they lost.

Isn't this the military that can't afford to buy body armor for its soldiers? I also suspect that somehow, somewhere, a Halliburton employee is smirking like a chimp about this report. I mean, the 1.2 BILLION DOLLARS had to go somewhere, right? Really shakes off your outrage fatigue thinking about stuff like that.