Archive for January 2005

The monthlies.

• Mackris v. O’Reilly, p. 40

  Keith Olberman (Countdown, MSNBC) has a continually-updated segment unofficially titled, “the self-destruction of Bill O’Reilly.” Well, let me assist in the self-destruction… Image: The Smoking Gun

• Paint It Black

  At the always solemn anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz in southern Poland, Vice President Dick Cheney opted to stand out and make a statement by not conforming to the respectful dress code. Image: Washington Post What – Only the parka was dry-cleaned this week? You couldn’t borrow Dubya’s black overcoat?

• Bushism No. ten-thousand two-hundred forty-six

  From Bush’s recent interview with the NY Times: On the risk that his Inaugural Address, with its theme of ending tyranny, created a risk that people in totalitarian societies would rise up unrealistically expecting the backing of the United States: I do appreciate the fact that people listen to my words. I also appreciate the [...]

• Mackris v. O’Reilly, p. 37

  Keith Olberman (Countdown, MSNBC) has a continually-updated segment unofficially titled, “the self-destruction of Bill O’Reilly.” Well, let me assist in the self-destruction… Image: The Smoking Gun

• We Won’t Get Fooled Again

  I am proud to present the greatest Bushism of all by way of video.Source: unknown

• Mackris v. O’Reilly, p. 36

  Keith Olberman (Countdown, MSNBC) has a continually-updated segment unofficially titled, “the self-destruction of Bill O’Reilly.” Well, let me assist in the self-destruction… Image: The Smoking Gun

• The Sign of Ignorance

  Or is it incompetence; or maybe dereliction of duty. Well we do know it is something and whatever it is… it ain’t good. Image: Yahoo!

• Mackris v. O’Reilly, p. 35

  Keith Olberman (Countdown, MSNBC) has a continually-updated segment unofficially titled, “the self-destruction of Bill O’Reilly.” Well, let me assist in the self-destruction… Image: The Smoking Gun

• Peters Map

  As seen on an episode of the “West Wing,” the Peters Map projection uses accurate areas therefore displaying a country’s, or a continent’s, true size. The projection also allows you to compare the size of nations, where the Mercator projection (the one in which we are accustomed to) does not. I’m certainly sold on Peters [...]

• Building Nations by way of Nation-Building

  Bush on nation-building during 2000 debates: “[Somalia] started off as a humanitarian mission and it changed into a nation-building mission, and that’s where the mission went wrong. The mission was changed. And as a result, our nation paid a price. And so I don’t think our troops ought to be used for what’s called nation-building. [...]

• Mackris v. O’Reilly, p. 34

  Keith Olberman (Countdown, MSNBC) has a continually-updated segment unofficially titled, “the self-destruction of Bill O’Reilly.” Well, let me assist in the self-destruction… Image: The Smoking Gun

• Are you tired of the letter "W"?

• Warning: Explicit Content

  Over the next few weeks I will be posting the details of the Mackris v. O’Reilly sexual harassment lawsuit. Some, nay, most, of the material is graphic and explicit. Please be cautious when reading; it may make you want to vomit. (I know I did.) I thank The Smoking Gun for making the materials available. [...]

• Aborting Abortion

  The most recent New York Times/CBS News poll found the following intriguing data. Images: New York Times If you were one of the many millions of Americans that never thought abortion would be illegal and that there would never be an amendment to the constitution outlawing same-sex marriage, the apocalypse is upon you.

• Defrauding the President (For No Good Reason)

  A friend of mine sent me this image: The photo was accompanied with the caption, “With the new year His greatness is back on the job!” And I thought to myself, “this is quite possibly the funniest picture I have ever seen.” But then I googled, actually I yahooed, “bush phone” for images, and discovered [...]

• Dearest Geobears

  Keeping tabs with the class, updating the folks on the mundane ins and outs of daily life of engineering. Anybody down for a little bit of in and a whole lot of out? Maybe some In & Out? Dearest Geobears, I would like to wish everyone a prosperous new year. I hope everyone is enjoying [...]

• June 10th is Jesus Day

  Although this is very hard to believe, it is true. While Governor of Texas, George W. Bush signed into state law that the tenth of June will be “Jesus Day.” PBS has made available a copy of the bill signed by George W. Bush. Image: PBS It should be noted that Bush’s Jesus Day proclamation [...]

• The Greatest Man Alive, George W. Bush

  Fox News is going to air a special on the president. Surprise, surprise. But the promos for the special use the following quotes by un-named people, which hints towards a degree of partiality, or shall we say, bias… “That’s when I stood at the door, and I contemplated what I would tell the President.” “That [...]

• The President Learns A Lesson

  President Bush finally, and I mean finally, has admitted mistakes or errors in judgment in hist first term. “Sometimes, words have consequences you don’t intend them to mean. ‘Bring ‘em on’ is the classic example, when I was really trying to rally the troops and make it clear to them that I fully understood, you [...]

• The End of WMD

  The hunt for weapons of mass destruction – nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons – in Iraq has come to an end. (It actually ended before Christmas.) The result the search proved that the Bush administration successfully duped the American people into sending the US military into Iraq for no reason whatsoever. More than 1,300 American [...]

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