Sign over an outdoor fireplace at Loon Mountain Ski Resort in NH:
If the B MT, put :
If the B full, stop putting :
Don’t put : over a -der
You be an * it.
If the grate be empty, put coal on.
If the grate be full, stop putting coal on.
Don’t put coal on over a high fender.
You’d be an ass to risk it.
Just put them on the list, the ground is frozen, can’t dig any holes till spring.
It’s twice the budget of some entire federal government departments. NASA for instance, is just over half that amount.
$25 billion? Drop in the bucket. Bush wants $245 billion for Iraq and Afganistan over the next two years, on top of the $70 billion already appropriated for 2007.
Meanwhile, a Republican whines about the cost of the 9/11 Commission recommendations (from here):
Compare and contrast.