Archive for September 2004

The monthlies.

• Bush Needs Nine-Eleven

  Bush needs nine-eleven like a three-year-old needs candy. They both like it. And if they do have it, they show it off to their friends. The Bush team is playing keep-away and applying scare tactics when it comes to the tragedy of nine-eleven. It is Bush’s trump card. When his poll numbers are in the [...]

• Speaking Clearly Now

  Mr. Bush, you may better know him as the buffoon who stole the Oval Office in 2000, has finally taken steps to remediate his illiteracy problem. Let’s take a gander: “And I think it’s very important for the American President to mean what he says. That’s why I understand that the enemy could misread what [...]

• Stoned Slackers

  On Friday, Bill O’Reilly attempted to grill Jon Stewart, and failed miserably. The host of the Daily Show outwitted the grumpy old man. O’REILLY: Thanks for staying with us. I’m Bill O’Reilly. In the “Personal Story” segment tonight, he is the darling of the television critics, the host of “The Daily Show” on Comedy Central, [...]

• Debating Bush Wins

  George W. Bush and his handlers, this time James Baker, former Secretary of State, successfully lobbied changes to the debate setup that will clinch his victory. The first debate, which is the most highly watched and discussed debate, will consist solely of national security and foreign policy, rather than domestic policy. (Domestic policy is the [...]

• Bush, Dick and Fox

  The three of them stole the election in 2000. The three of them will try to do the same this year, although they have started a little earlier than election day (whcih they had not done in 2000, and nearly cost them). I guess they learned their lesson. They have tried to trash and tarnish [...]

• Watching As Always

  CBS is not the only news organization I get my news from. I watch CBS News daily, but I also watch CNN and MSNBC (and even Fox News when I am in the mood for a few laughs). I read the Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the New York Times. I also get [...]

• You Can’t Handle The Truth

  Bush did cocaine. A lot of it. We knew of this as early as 1994 when the former president’s “crazy wild-boy son” was trying to run for governor of Texas. Six years later, however, that coke-fiend became president. Of course he found god or god found him, and all that bullshit, and he hasn’t had [...]

• What is the KGB?

  The Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (or KGB) was the name of the main Soviet Security Agency and intelligence agency, as well as the main secret police agency from March 13, 1954 to November 6, 1991. The KGB’s domain was roughly comparable to that of the American Central Intelligence Agency combined with the counterintelligence and internal security [...]

• Back In The USSR

  Vladimir Putin, President of Russia, has taken a turn in running his democratic nation lately. Although Bush has “seen his soul,” Putin is no pillar of democracy in any sense of the word. Putin, who spent most of his career as a KGB officer (from 1975 to 1991) and head of the FSB (the KGB’s [...]

• Bounty Hunters

  President Bush shirking on his National Guard duty is of great discussion recently. Bush has sternly refuted the facts that he left the Guard and did not return to fulfill his commitment while he was a young coked-up drunk more than 30 years ago. However, without providing evidence of his presence at the base, which [...]

• Cheney: Russian School Massacre Due To Lack Of Support

  A touch of class by the vice president. Cheney declared today that the school massacre in Russia could have been averted if Russia had only supported Bush’s predetermined choice to attack Iraq. “I think some have hoped that if they kept their heads down and stayed out of the line of fire, they wouldn’t get [...]

• Bush’s Rapid Response

  NBC News reported on the expiration of the assault weapons ban last night. Included in the piece was footage of Bush, while campaigning (as always) in Michigan, being asked, “Mr. President, why allow the assault weapons ban to expire without a fight?” Of course, the president will respond to such a pressing and serious issue [...]

• Gun Statistics Don’t Lie, Guns Do

  In 1994, President Clinton signed historic legislation banning certain types of assault weapons. The bill wasn’t perfect but statistics do not lie. The Department of Justice released the following statistics (located at http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/homicide/weapons.htm). The number of criminal offenders (25 years of age or older) that committed homicide using a gun… in 1994 – 7,147 in [...]

• Debating Bush

  There are three presidential debates scheduled, as proposed by the Commission on Presidential Debates (there is nearly a commission for everything). But the Bush team is trying to get out of one of the debates, a town-hall forum of undecided voters in Missouri. The Bush team feels there is a good chance that partisans will [...]

• Elliot Abrams

  Elliot Abrams is a member of the administration of President George W. Bush, holding the post of Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director on the National Security Council for Near East and North African Affairs. Abrams was indicted by the Iran-Contra special prosecutor for giving false testimony about his role in the illicit [...]

• Flip-Flop Jambalaya

  Dick Cheney has put on his golden flip-flops this week as he displays customary republican behavior. On Tuesday, campaigning in Iowa: “It’s absolutely essential that eight weeks from today, on November 2, we make the right choice, because if we make the wrong choice then the danger is that we’ll get hit again and we’ll [...]

• Bush: I Would Have Won Vietnam

  NBC News has uncovered footage from 1988 of Bush declaring that had he been called to duty and sent to Vietnam, the United States would have likely won the war. “[The government] probably should have called the National Guard up in those days – maybe we’d have done better in Vietnam.” Shouldn’t Bush mention this [...]

• Bush Loses Republican Vote

  Stirring up controversy, the Log Cabin Republicans, the surprisingly moderate faction of gay Republicans, has voted not to endorse incumbent Republican presidential nominee, George W. Bush. Earlier this year, Bush failed to garner the support of Nancy Reagan, the widow of conservative-idol former president Ronald Reagan. Bush has fallen out of favor with these prominent [...]

• Bush Milestone

  George W. Bush has yet another milestone to put under his belt: 1,000 American fatalities in Iraq. When Bush claimed the mission was accomplished on May 1, 2003, U.S. fatalities numbered 138. Source: Washington Post

• William Rehnquist

  William Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States since September 1986, was nominated to the Supreme Court by Richard Nixon in 1972. Previously, he had served as Assistant Attorney General under President Nixon from 1969 to 1971. While working as a clerk under a Supreme Court Justice from 1951 to 1952, he wrote a brief [...]

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