humor - make tax check directly payable to lockheed-martin

[mxmendo]

<!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.counterpunch.com/bryce05032006.html">www.counterpunch.com/bryce05032006.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>On April 10, at Langley Air Force Base, an F-22 pilot, Capt. Brad Spears, was locked inside the cockpit of his aircraft for five hours. No one in the U.S. Air Force or from Lockheed Martin could figure out how to open the aircraft's canopy. At about 1:15 pm, chainsaw-wielding firefighters from the 1st Fighter Wing finally extracted Spears after they cut through the F-22's three-quarter inch-thick polycarbonate canopy.</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>Total damage to the airplane, according to sources inside the Pentagon: $1.28 million. Not only did the firefighters ruin the canopy, which cost $286,000, they also scuffed the coating on the airplane's skin which will cost about $1 million to replace.</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> <p></p><i></i>

[Gouda]

Help is on the way!<br><br><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060504/ap_on_go_co/congress_spending">Senate Backs $109B for War, Hurricane Aid</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br><br>Who's helping? <br><br><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=2&vote=00112">www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=2&vote=00112</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 109th Congress - 2nd Session...<br><br>Question: On Passage of the Bill (H.R. 4939, As Amended )<br><br>Vote Number:         112        <br><br>Vote Date:         May 4, 2006, 12:04 PM<br><br>Vote Result:         Bill Passed<br><br>Measure Number: H.R. 4939 <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>(Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense, the Global War on Terror, and Hurricane Recovery, 2006 )</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Measure Title:         A bill making emergency supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2006, and for other purposes.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br>Vote Counts:        <br>YEAs        78<br>NAYs        20<br>Not Voting        2<br><br><!--EZCODE UNDERLINE START--><span style="text-decoration:underline"><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>Grouped By Vote Position</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--></span><!--EZCODE UNDERLINE END--><br><br><!--EZCODE UNDERLINE START--><span style="text-decoration:underline">YEAs ---78</span><!--EZCODE UNDERLINE END--><br>Akaka (D-HI)<br>Allen (R-VA)<br>Baucus (D-MT)<br>Bayh (D-IN)<br>Bennett (R-UT)<br>Biden (D-DE)<br>Bingaman (D-NM)<br>Bond (R-MO)<br>Boxer (D-CA)<br>Brownback (R-KS)<br>Burns (R-MT)<br>Byrd (D-WV)<br>Cantwell (D-WA)<br>Carper (D-DE)<br>Chafee (R-RI)<br>Clinton (D-NY)<br>Cochran (R-MS)<br>Coleman (R-MN)<br>Collins (R-ME)<br>Conrad (D-ND)<br>Cornyn (R-TX)<br>Dayton (D-MN)<br>DeWine (R-OH)<br>Dodd (D-CT)<br>Dole (R-NC)<br>Domenici (R-NM)<br>Dorgan (D-ND)<br>Durbin (D-IL)<br>Feingold (D-WI)<br>Feinstein (D-CA)<br>Grassley (R-IA)<br>Harkin (D-IA)<br>Hutchison (R-TX)<br>Inhofe (R-OK)<br>Inouye (D-HI)<br>Jeffords (I-VT)<br>Johnson (D-SD)<br>Kennedy (D-MA)<br>Kerry (D-MA)<br>Kohl (D-WI)<br>Kyl (R-AZ)<br>Landrieu (D-LA)<br>Lautenberg (D-NJ)<br>Leahy (D-VT)<br>Levin (D-MI)<br>Lieberman (D-CT)<br>Lincoln (D-AR)<br>Lott (R-MS)<br>Lugar (R-IN)<br>Martinez (R-FL)<br>McConnell (R-KY)<br>Menendez (D-NJ)<br>Mikulski (D-MD)<br>Murkowski (R-AK)<br>Murray (D-WA)<br>Nelson (D-FL)<br>Nelson (D-NE)<br>Obama (D-IL)<br>Pryor (D-AR)<br>Reed (D-RI)<br>Reid (D-NV)<br>Roberts (R-KS)<br>Salazar (D-CO)<br>Santorum (R-PA)<br>Sarbanes (D-MD)<br>Schumer (D-NY)<br>Shelby (R-AL)<br>Smith (R-OR)<br>Snowe (R-ME)<br>Specter (R-PA)<br>Stabenow (D-MI)<br>Stevens (R-AK)<br>Talent (R-MO)<br>Thune (R-SD)<br>Vitter (R-LA)<br>Voinovich (R-OH)<br>Warner (R-VA)<br>Wyden (D-OR)<br><br><!--EZCODE UNDERLINE START--><span style="text-decoration:underline">NAYs ---20</span><!--EZCODE UNDERLINE END--><br>Alexander (R-TN)<br>Allard (R-CO)<br>Bunning (R-KY)<br>Burr (R-NC)<br>Chambliss (R-GA)<br>Coburn (R-OK)<br>Craig (R-ID)<br>Crapo (R-ID)<br>DeMint (R-SC)<br>Ensign (R-NV)<br>Enzi (R-WY)<br>Frist (R-TN)<br>Graham (R-SC)<br>Gregg (R-NH)<br>Hagel (R-NE)<br>Isakson (R-GA)<br>McCain (R-AZ)<br>Sessions (R-AL)<br>Sununu (R-NH)<br>Thomas (R-WY)<br><!--EZCODE UNDERLINE START--><span style="text-decoration:underline"><br>Not Voting - 2</span><!--EZCODE UNDERLINE END--><br>Hatch (R-UT)<br>Rockefeller (D-WV)<br>        <hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> <p></p><i></i>