Showing posts with label Guantanamo Bay. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Guantanamo Bay. Show all posts

Thursday, June 11, 2009

Obama sings the Beach Boys

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.

Friday, January 30, 2009

Getting what you voted for

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:



































































































































































































































































































































StateElectoral VotesGuantanamo Bay
prisoners
California5537
Colorado96
Connecticut75
Delaware32
D.C.32
Florida2718
Hawaii43
Illinois2114
Indiana117
Iowa75
Maine43
Maryland107
Massachusetts128
Michigan1711
Minnesota107
Nebraska10
Nevada53
New Hampshire43
New Jersey1510
New Mexico53
New York3121
North Carolina1510
Ohio2013
Oregon75
Pennsylvania2114
Rhode Island43
Vermont32
Virginia139
Washington117
Wisconsin107
365245


This could solve all kinds of problems.