The Bannon Clan: April 2005

Big Shocker!

In case anyone was wondering, I was officially accepted into the Bachelor of Architecture program today. That's pretty much all.

Nana and her crew! Get well soon Nana!!!!!

Dad and I.

I couldn't remember whether i gave the photos of Benjie's wedding to you guys so i thought i'd post them. Its me and Mom!

THE VAST LEFT WING CONSPIRACY!

So the Memo about the republicans politicizing Terri Schiavo's condition has come out to be true. The existence of this memo was first reported on ABC news and almost immediately the Conservatives attempted to discredit the memo by accusing the Democrats of writing it and trying to use it against the conservatives. However it is now being reported by the Washington Post that Brian H. Darling, one of Mel Martinez's aides

(R-FL),
was actually the author of the memo. (by reporting I mean that Martinez has admitted that Darling is the author in an interview) So the story is that; not only was there a clear indication that some conservatives in the Senate were using the Schiavo situation for political gain but also attempted to frame the Democrats for a memo the Conservatives wrote!
I know that Conservatives are touchy about documents after the National Guard conflagaration but not everything is a plot by the Democrats. I wonder if the party's have completely switched places and now conservatives are concerned about the "Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy"! So the moral of the story is: "Don't throw stones when you're the ones that author a damning Memo". Just take your lumps and admit your own Jerkishness!

Tom Delay is going down!!!

Where there is smoke there has to be fire. Tom Delay is going down despite conservatives closing ranks. the snowball is getting bigger and it is going to bury him.

how can this guy be trusted?

Mere got me this sweet hat, a Dvd and the awesome balloons! (The balloons are indeed tied to the chair!) Thanks for all the lovely cards and gifts!!!!!!!

Bush Reforming SS AKA Welcome to trillions more in debt and reduced benefits!

President Bush's

plan regarding SS includes adding private accounts for people as opposed to the current state of SS which is pooling all the SS taxes into the general fund and then passing out every retired persons share every month. I've heard various estimates of what it would cost the govt. to create these private accounts and it seems to be in the neighborhood of $2,000,000,000,000 (thats 2 trillion) over the next decade. When the shift is all done we end up with retired people getting the same share every month as they do now. I just don't see what the difference is between the old plan and the new. Retirees won't be able to just cash out all their dough as soon as they retire it is just "theirs" and they can control it to a certain extent. I know republicans have always been salivating for private accounts but I just don't see why we should spend so much money to essentially get right back where we started but with a small increase in each person's control over the money. It just doesn't seem to make any sense!