...the New York Mets were the best team in baseball. As of today, the Mets have the best record in the majors. To celebrate this fact, I found this Mets video from 1986 on YouTube today and just had to post it. The "80's"-ness of it all, combined with the inherent cheesiness of sports-team-videos, makes it a little tough to take. Joe Piscopo being in it only makes it worse.
08/31/06 - Mets record: 82-49, with 31 games remaining.
I found this today on crooksandliars.com:
The National Priorities Project has a real eye-opening website that calculates the cost of the War in Iraq and them compares it to what we could do with that money.
As a resident of California, here’s what they say we could be doing:
Taxpayers in California will pay $40.3 billion for the cost of war in Iraq. For the same amount of money, the following could have been provided:
* 16,733,296 People with Health Care or
* 627,551 Elementary School Teachers or
* 4,767,634 Head Start Places for Children or
* 25,168,314 Children with Health Care or
* 235,246 Affordable Housing Units or
* 4,390 New Elementary Schools or
* 7,685,109 Scholarships for University Students or
* 616,017 Music and Arts Teachers or
* 741,482 Public Safety Officers or
* 117,140,845 Homes with Renewable Electricity or
* 601,790 Port Container Inspectors
Check out your state's trade-offs.
