The cost of freedom is always high.

Most of the republican candidates in the race today are in favor of maintaining the war in Iraq. One of them even said that he’d keep it going for 100 years if necessary!

Now, I once heard that The War is costing us about $100,000,000,000 ($100 billion) per year. In sheer morbid curiosity, I was wondering how much that would end up costing us after 100 years. So I fired up Numbers and ran a quick, very simple calculation. Using an inflation rate of 3%, 100 years of war with Iraq would cost us…

$60,728,773,269,521

That’s 60 trillion dollars.

Please correct my math. I was wondering, maybe you can explain this to me… how would we come up with $60 trillion and still lower taxes?

I just got Memed by Robert Evans, and this will actually be my first meme ever. So, without further ado, I bring you:

5 things that most people don’t know about you (me)

1. Our home and office are 100% powered by the wind, so I can feel good about leaving the computers on all the time.
2. I grew up on a farm in Haiti.
3. I really miss the mountains. Texas has no mountains.
4. I’ve only held a real job (where I worked for someone else) for a total of about 2 out of the past 12 years. The rest of the time I’ve either been in school or working for myself.
5. I shaved my head two weeks after we found out my wife is pregnant. Not out of protest or anything – but I usually buzz it, and I thought I’d try shaving it to see if I liked it. It honestly never occurred to me that I should pass the idea by her. Yes, I am that stupid.

Now therefore, insomuch as the aforementioned Meme herby concludith, heretofore letitbeknown that the passage of said Meme shall go to the belowmentioned Individual, provided that that Individual hath not already received said Meme, nor hath that Individual completed said Meme on his or her own regard, and also provided that the Individual doth keep, maintain, host, and provision a suitable Website Log (“Blog”) upon which to post said Meme:

• Matt Heerema