Suggestiveness

A young girl crossing an Israeli military checkpoint in the West Bank.

Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness."

-Nathanial Hawthorne

The numbers below can't really be verified. I'm guessing they are low. They still suggest ...

The total cost to America of its wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, plus the related military operations in Pakistan, is set to exceed $4 trillion – more than three times the sum so far authorized by Congress in the decade since the 9/11 attacks

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Would anyone dare suggest that Rick Perry is a traitor and a puppet for Israel? "Yes we can!"

“Wow! Not even a whiff of a notion of the Presidency, and his lips are already lotioned to kiss ass.”

Puppet talk ...

“As an American citizen and governor of one of its largest states, I write to applaud your recent efforts to warn and discourage those who have supported or plan to support a flotilla intended to interfere with Israel's maritime blockade of the Gaza Strip,” Perry wrote in a June 28 letter.

“More importantly, I write to encourage you to aggressively pursue all available legal remedies to enjoin and prevent these illegal actions, and to prosecute any who may elect to engage in them in spite of your preemptive efforts,”

Rick Perry or Michele Bachmann?  Decisions, decisions ...  

Do the Jews not realize that the Gaza flotilla is a publicity action, and all their threats, hoaxes, sabotage, etc, are just increasing the publicity?  Their problem would go away if they just politely allowed the boats to dock and efficiently and quietly aided the unloading of the cargo.

  Greek suggestions ...

Fort Calhoun Nuclear Station

Now who was it suggested nuclear plants in flood plains? Is it getting a little late for regrettables?

 The Faces of Humanity

One has the face of a chicken and is sweating,
And one the face of a dancing queen
Alone at midnight;
Nourish her
If you can.
One has the face of
A middle aged professor terrified
Of losing his job
If he says the wrong thing
And who has lately
Begun to realize he has something alien
Living in his soul.

The smiling, perspiring face of the
Apache helicopter pilot just after pressing
A button that sent
A missile
Into a crowded market—
The same Apache helicopter pilot who heard about
God at a base revival meeting
From a general who stood in a
Yellow spotlight
And told them that
God
Hated Muslims.  (more - Richard Edmondson}