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Good morning robots, another fine day in paradise. You're probably wondering about the title; well, fact is The Commies have approved the Healthcare reform plan in both H.O.R and the senate. What does this mean for us? Bye bye America. In other news:

A Nigerian banker believes his son may have been the one carrying a bomb in a recent terrorist attack. Apparently the retard couldn't do the job correctly as not only was nobody hurt, he was found to only have "minor" injuries. The lesson is: If you're going to blow up an airplane, don't use a condom to do the job. However, not suprsing enough, the United States had placed him as being a possible terrorist. This is lesson 2: Apparently the United States Government can actually guess something right. I think they deserve cookies for that.

Below is an article I found on a news site:

Family Pleads for Return of Captured Soldier
by Jason Ditz, December 25, 2009
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The Taliban released a video today showing an apparently unharmed Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl, the Sun Valley, Idaho soldier captured in Afghanistan in late June.

In the video, the soldier sharply criticized the Afghan War, likening it to Vietnam and urging the American public to “stand up and stop all this nonsense.” The video is the first sign of Bergdahl since a mid-July video.

Bergdahl’s family issued a statement by way of the Idaho National Guard, calling for the release of their only son and urging him to “stay strong” while he remains the only US soldier currently in captivity in Afghanistan.

Bergdahl’s capture was something of a news story in early July, and the soldier was condemned as a traitor by some pundits, who accused him of deserting his post and aiding the enemy.

US officials condemned the release of the video as an outrage, declaring that it was an affront to Islam to do so. Still, while the release of the video was doubtless for the Taliban’s own benefit by way of propaganda, it at the very least gives Pfc. Bergdahl’s family a measure of assurance that he is apparently alive and unharmed.

Let's hope he gets out of there.

Alright robots, that's just some of the stuff going down recently. Until next time, this is the Raven signing off.

Good Evening robots, another fine day in Paradise. I been really busy with media stuff and college shit recently. So a lot of crap has gone down in the past week or so.

Well, your overlord has struck again. Obama has decided to spend even more of the tax payers money. This time, he's increasing the Pentagons' base budget. The original article is below

*B y Noah Shachtman
* December 4, 2009 |


For those of you who hoped — or worried — that the Obama administration would mean a big cut to defense spending, think again.

The Office of Management and Budget ” has approved a nearly $60 billion increase in the Pentagon’s base budget between fiscal years 2011 and 2015,” InsideDefense.com reports.

That includes an extra $15 billion for the next fiscal year — “a 2.7 percent increase after inflation. This boost “would bring non-war related military spending in FY-11 to $556.4 billion.”

The decision isn’t final - the President hasn’t approved of it, yet. But if the extra cash is okayed, it won’t be used to pay for more tanks or fighter jets, InsideDefense.com notes. “A sizable portion of the additional funds would pay for unforeseen DOD health care bills.”

UPDATE: The Defense Department claims personnel costs will run about $136 billion. The Progressive Policy Institute’s Jim Arkedis says that’s way, way off. “The real price tag is much bigger: $301.1 billion each year, 121 percent higher than the Pentagon’s figure. In other words, if you want major savings in defense spending, cutting weapons systems and the ever-elusive ‘waste, fraud and abuse’ won’t take you far enough.”

Oh joy, what better way to bring up the National debt and bring down the Economy all in one shot?  For those who didn't catch my joke, Obama is on a national spending spree. Billions of dollars have already gone out of the taxpayers pockets; how much more shall we lose to his inability to budget?

Remember that Prison Obama wanted to shut down? Well now he's out to stop a lawsuit against it. Apparently, if your tortured so badly you kill yourself, you're family isn't worthy of any money. Below is the article I found regarding this topic.

PETE YOST
AP News

Dec 05, 2009 14:52 EST

A 2008 Supreme Court ruling giving Guantanamo Bay prisoners the right to challenge their indefinite detention does not apply in the case of two detainees who committed suicide, the Obama administration says in newly filed court papers.

The Justice Department made the argument in a lawsuit brought by the families of two Saudi detainees who, according to the U.S. government, hanged themselves at the island prison on the same day in June 2006 after more than four years in captivity.

A year and a half ago, the Supreme Court overturned part of the Military Commissions Act of 2006 that had stripped federal courts from hearing challenges to the indefinite detention of hundreds of Guantanamo Bay prisoners.

The decision "had no effect" on another provision of that act that says no court has jurisdiction to hear a challenge "relating to any aspect" of a Guantanamo Bay prisoner's detention, the department said in court papers filed Friday.

The government says the two men whose deaths were ruled suicide, Yassar Talal al-Zahrani and Salah Ali Abdullah Ahmed al-Salami, were properly detained as enemy combatants and therefore their families' lawsuit is barred from the court system.

A Republican-controlled Congress passed the Military Commissions Act that was the focus of the 2008 Supreme Court ruling.

Al-Zahrani and Al-Salami were among dozens of prisoners who went on a hunger strike for months at a time and who were force-fed by the U.S. military through tubes put down their noses and throats, according to the suit filed last January.

The lawyers for the two men allege that torture and brutal conditions at the offshore prison led the men to their deaths.

Al-Zahrani was 17 years old when he was transferred to Guantanamo and 22 when he died, according to the suit by the men's families.

"It doesn't really matter if this was an intentional death or an accidental death or suicide. The point is that the U.S. government bears responsibility," Talal al-Zahrani, father of Yassar Talal al-Zahrani, said when the suit was filed.

There you have it, another anal rapage courtesy of Uncle Sam. Feel free to leave comments. This is The Raven signing out.