Cost of War

My sister sent me a great website where you can see a real time financial ticker on the cost of bush's war to the American economy and right down to individual cities. Right now, New Mexico's share of this burden is $630,000,000. Think what we could have done with that money in our educational institutions. Visit this great site here.



I was out in Sile and Pena Blanca, New Mexico this morning on a field trip with a Council of Governments staffer who is doing some work for us there. On the way back in we stopped at the renowned Range Cafe in Bernalillo. That is a great place to eat whenever you are in the area. My friend Nick and I sat at the counter because the place was so busy and we didn't want to wait to order our three pound sandwiches. I ordered the meatloaf sandwich and ate about one third of it. Nick was only able to get down one half of his Fiesta Burger, but hey, with styrofoam it is two meals for the price of one!

Our waitress apparently was in charge of the soda jerking as well. Her name is Terra and she was a wonder to watch as she started constructing the bananna split from Hell. She had to get a new container of ice cream from the main freezer. Of course, it was as solid as granite, and she worked like a hard rock miner to get it out, just little slivers at a time and the she rolled them up into a ball. Talk about dedication! That bananna split if eaten by one person at one sitting will however cause a fatality, but what a way to go.

Yesterday's blog caused a few comments to come in. As a followup on what the right wingers are doing to discredit our gold star mother read this.

This is an article that Cindy Sheehan wrote today.