Posts Tagged ‘Guantanamo Bay’

Obama sings the Beach Boys

Friday, June 12th, 2009

Aruba, Jamaica, I really hope they take ya,
Bermuda, Bahama, do it for Obama
Palau or Montego, please take ‘em now, Amigo
Jamaica

Off the Florida Keys
There’s this place Guantanamo
That’s where you used to go
When our troops captured you all.
Bodies in the sand,
Of your buddies would would raise a hand
Against our troops in the war
But you surrenedered and were taken then
To Guantanamo

[Chorus:]
Aruba, Jamaica, I really hope they take ya,
Bermuda, Bahama, do it for Obama
Palau or Montego, please take ‘em now, Amigo
Ooh we’ve got to move you from Guantanamo,
We’ll close it fast
Without a plan, don’t you know,
Because we said that we would close
It down, Guantanamo.

Martinique, please take this terror sheik…

We’ll do it soon, you’ll see,
No later than January
By and by we’ll defy
The situation’s gravity.
Terrorists’ delight,
We’ll make it easy for them to fight.
That dreamy look in my eye,
Makes people wonder if I might be high
To close Guantanamo

[Chorus]
Aruba, Jamaica, I really hope they take ya,
Bermuda, Bahama, do it for Obama
Palau or Montego, please take ‘em now, Amigo
From Guantanamo.
We’ll close it fast
Without a plan, don’t you know,
Because we’re going to close
It down, Guantanamo.

Port au Prince, don’t make me give more hints…

Everybody knows this little place Guantanamo
It’s where the worst of them go and kept away from us all
Down in Guantanamo

[Chorus]
Aruba, Jamaica, I really hope they take ya,
Bermuda, Bahama, do it for Obama
Palau or Montego, please take ‘em now, Amigo
From Guantanamo.
We’ll close it fast
Without a plan, don’t you know,
Because we’re going to close
It down, Guantanamo.

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Getting what you voted for

Friday, January 30th, 2009

With the President ordering the closing of Guantanamo Bay, the question arises: what to do with the prisoners there?

Of course, there are some on the left that think they need to be released. This, despite ongoing reports of former detainees returning to terrorism.

However, let’s assume that the administration recognizes that the bad guys are bad guys and need to be kept locked up somewhere.

Some states are saying they don’t want them. And I agree. I don’t want my state housing them.

But, then again, my state voted for McCain.

I have a solution that ought to make everybody happy: Spread the Guantanamo Bay prisoners around among the states that voted for Obama. I mean, after all, he campaigned on the promise to close Gitmo. So it’s not like they didn’t know he’d do it, right?

Well, it was okay with them if he did. So much so that they voted him into office.

I’m for having those responsible for putting Obama into office having to put up with the consequences.

Here’s the plan: There are, by one count, 245 prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. 28 states and the District of Columbia awarded 365 Electoral Votes to Obama.

Spread them out accordingly.

For each Electoral Vote for Obama, a state gets just over 2/3 (0.671) of a prisoner. Here’s the breakdown:

State Electoral Votes Guantanamo Bay
prisoners
California 55 36
Colorado 9 6
Connecticut 7 5
Delaware 3 2
D.C. 3 2
Florida 27 18
Hawaii 4 3
Illinois 21 14
Indiana 11 7
Iowa 7 5
Maine 4 3
Maryland 10 7
Massachusetts 12 8
Michigan 17 11
Minnesota 10 7
Nebraska 1 1
Nevada 5 3
New Hampshire 4 3
New Jersey 15 10
New Mexico 5 3
New York 31 21
North Carolina 15 10
Ohio 20 13
Oregon 7 5
Pennsylvania 21 14
Rhode Island 4 3
Vermont 3 2
Virginia 13 9
Washington 11 7
Wisconsin 10 7
365 245

This could solve all kinds of problems.

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