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Douse me with water for an inhuman amount of time, and do it over and over again, and yeah, I'll spill my guts and the contents of my stomach, then cough out the goop in my lungs. I'll repeat whatever is being demanded and accused of me. Yes. I'll tell you everything. Everything you want to know. Anything to just get a breath of clean, fresh, unwatered air.

*gasp*

So Sir His-High-Almighty President and Guardian of the O-So-Free-and-Mighty-Fine First World has given yet-another-okay to torture. He sez, no, not torture, just, you know, what we need to do to make sure the bad guyz don't go and get us, and the presumptive Republican nominee for president, a former POW, is playing along.

I am f*cking disgusted. And even more disgusted that they're sneaking in this crap on a Saturday, you know, when most folks are mowing their lawns or shoveling their walks or otherwise preoccupied with mundane weekend tasks.

Our war - and yes, it is OUR WAR - has been waged for five years now. Bob Herbert, one of my favorite columnists, recently reported the cost to our country, and our country's economy, and most importantly, the deficit we've incurred as a result. Two Trillion Dollars is the current cost. Here, look at it:

2,000,000,000,000.

Or maybe this makes a bigger impact (by millions):

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Or something like that. I'm a poet, not a mathematician, and my rinkadink calculator - used only to balance my checkbook - doesn't have enough spaces to quantify TRILLIONS.

In other news, the US economy lost 63K jobs last month. I don't count in that; I left Mississippi and thus my job in January. I'm old news, when it comes to the unemployment sector, but I'm wise enough to recognize that this doesn't mean that there are more openings. Yeah. Sh*t. Tough(er) times ahead.

The only good news I've read lately is that the Dems might have a chance this fall to take a majority in the Senate, thereby blocking a filibuster and then, maybe, actually turning things around and making progress - that is, being PROGRESSIVE. Yeah, first, they'll have to unf*ck the last seven-plus years, but I'll take this last bit as a hopeful wish and pray for good dreams tonight. 'Cause, lordy, with the tumult in my personal life, and the back-biting bullsh*t in the presidential campaign, I need some happy thoughts.