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Two hundred billion boxes of Kashi U!

It's that good!

Instead of sarcastic and misleading comparisons to billions of Big Macs, how about we compare the stimulus package to other government spending?

For one example, the US military. While the $700B+ stimulus package Obama just signed is a hell of a lot of money, it would be roughly enough to fund the US military (including the Department of Defense and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan) for twelve months (though, if you really add it up, even $700B wouldn't be enough).

One year. We'll spend that much on the military this year. We spent that much last year, too. And the year before, and before that, too. etc.. And even then, our spending on the military is currently low by historic standards.

But anyone who complains about that is a hysterical pacifist lefty, of course. Serious people know that military money is magic money: it comes from nowhere and costs nobody nothin.

Let's not talk about it any further.

(Unless you want to, then you should go read this)

A Boy And His Dog Bride

I was just going to quote this story's headline:

    Indian boy marries dog to ward off tigers

... cause that's great all by itself right? But then I read the first paragraph:

BHUBANESWAR, India - An infant boy was married off to his neighbors' dog in eastern India by villagers who said it will stop the groom from being killed by wild animals, officials and witnesses said Wednesday.

So I had to quote that, too!

And then I read the next one:

Around 150 tribespeople performed the ritual recently in a hamlet in the state of Orissa's Jajpur district after the boy, who is under two years old, grew a tooth on his upper gum.

Snaggletooth is a curse? Yay! And I was hooked.

So, here's some more of this story of an arranged, bestial, child marriage:

The Munda tribe see such a growth in young children as a bad omen and believe it makes them prone to attacks by tigers and another animals. The tribal god will bless the child and ward off evil spirits after the marriage.

"We performed the marriage because it will overcome any curse that might fall on the child as well on us," the boy's father, Sanarumala Munda, was quoted as saying by a local newspaper.
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The villagers then ate a feast with rich food and alcohol to celebrate.

Of course they did. Wouldn't be much of a wedding without that.

The dog belongs to the groom's neighbors and was set free to roam around the area after the ceremony. No dowry was exchanged, the witness said, and the boy will still be able to marry a human bride in the future without filing for divorce.

Booo! Not only did they marry a non-consenting child to a dog, they don't even make it binding. Marriage is forever! Why don't they respect the institution?