I already have FOUR BIG DOGS (chow, Border Collie, Beagle, and Black Lab – all adopted from the SPCA) and FIVE CATS (one adopted, two former strays and 2 foster failures – meaning I fostered them and kept them rather then giving them up for adoption) – sure you have less then that and can hold on to your two kitties just a wee bit longer!!!

They are eating me out of house and home and on one income it isn’t easy to feet them little furballs – so please ADOPT ADOPT ADOPT –

(as I go down on my knees and beg the readership — and I don’t go down on my knees easily for any reason…hehehe)

The key word is defense. Our military is horribly overtasked and overfunded to the point where defense becomes so abstract a term that we spend trillion for what amounts to hunting for ants because we got bit once, then was distracted by another anthill and started exterminating.

To me national defense is defending the nation. By overexerting our military with a long term irrational and emotional response to a terrorist attack, and using that emotion to fund a personal vendetta for economic power is not national defense to me. Unprovoked war is not national defense.

I would prefer about 2/3rds of our overseas bases closed, and returned to their host countries, leaving strategic bases for skeletal outreach if the need arises with the host country’s permission, not payoff.

Missle defense system, if functional, would be a sound defense system. Maintaining a strong, tactical Navy and Air Force would be a priority, but a huge Army and Marine force would not be since the demand on the infrastructure would diminish with the realignment of our global priorities of not sticking our nose in everything the world does.

This would probably cut the needed defense budget in at least half, just with some common sense and common courtesy for other nations.

Scott on Jeopardy would be really cool — we’d have to find someplace with tv, beer and wifi for the live-blogging, I think.

I wish that WDEL would put up the Jason and LG radio program as a podcast. I missed it and would love to hear it.

I was really intrigued by the court decision outing an anonymous commenter (really not a blogger) for slander — it seems to me that the entire NJ comment section might be ripe for some legal action.