Archive for April 2005

The monthlies.

• Whudda Thunkit

  Terry Moran of ABC News gets the gold medal last night for the questions he posed to the sitting president of the United States. THE PRESIDENT: Terry. Q Mr. President, your State Department has reported that terrorist attacks around the world are at an all-time high. If we’re winning the war on terrorism, as you [...]

• Bush’s Downward Trend That Is His Presidency

  Bush’s presidency has been defined by peaks and steady declines in his poll numbers. Bush began his presidency with declining poll numbers until the horrific events of nine-eleven (his approval numbers rose from 55 to 90 percent immediately following the attacks), then declined and rose sharply at the beginning of Bush’s Iraqi war, then declined [...]

• The Other Ones

  It is always important to remember that there have been others before you. Some that people overlook too easily. When magazines became the new medium (circa 1850) three excellent publications went into print. They are still in print today and have a presence on the web as well. I try to emulate these great journalistic [...]

• Black Smoke and Mirrors (Toles)

  Tom Toles is a national treasure. Originally a staple of the Buffalo News, Toles has moved on to the Washington Post. (Nicer digs, eh?) He still creates the best political cartoons I know of. This cartoon is from April 20, 2005, a day unofficially celebrated for unofficial reasons. Image: Washington Post Recently archived: The Big-Business [...]

• Bush + Prince 4EVR

  Well, I am convinced. Bush (at the behest of the religious right (What am I saying – Bush is the religious right!)) has made concerted efforts with the House GOP to ban gay marriage so he will not be able to marry the Saudi Prince, with whom he has fallen head over heals for. That [...]

• Privatizing Foster Security

  The state of Texas (it’s a whole other country) has recently passed legislation making it illegal to be a gay foster parent. Invasion of privacy? Read below. Image: MSNBC

• George W. Bush’s Rorschach Test

  Image: Harpers.org

• Bolton (Election 2000) Redux

  It’s official. If you helped, in any way, steal the election of 2000 for Bush, you have been promoted. The most recent kicker – John Bolton, the anti-UN appointee as ambassador to the UN. (You read that right.) The evidence: a photo of the recount operations (promplty halted by the United States Supreme Court) in [...]

• The Big-Business Payoff that is the House Energy Bill

  The House of Representatives recently passed a twelve billion dollar energy bill. Within the bill: – Limits product liability for makers of methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE), a fuel additive and suspected carcinogen that has fouled groundwater in cities across the nation; – Bans MTBE use by 2014 and gives more than $1.7 billion in [...]

• Jon Stewart Helps Out Jacko

  Jon Stewart, arguably one of the funniest smart-men on television today (and in generations), delivered a great one recently. Jon Stewart, emceeing a celebration for Time’s 100 Most Influential People, on Michael Jackson’s back troubles: “Would maybe his back not hurt as much if he fondled taller people?“ Source: Salon.com That’s what I’ve been saying, [...]

• Bush Appreciation Day

  Every now and then, we must reflect: Does this man appreciate everything? First, Bush stated his appreciation of the killing of totalitarian-state protestors (Bushism No. 10,246) and now terrorism (as he mentioned in a surprisingly revealing interview with Ron Insana of CNBC). Insana: Mr. President, today is the 10th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing [...]

• The Most Ignorant Man In America

  While speaking to the Newspaper Association of American convention in San Francisco on Tuesday, the guv-enator attempted to establish federal immigration policy. “Close the borders. Close the borders in California, and all across Mexico and the United States.“ Source: SF Gate Retroactive to 1968? Image: SF Gate

• Rice on the Side

  My favorite… caption time. Putin: “Man, that is a large gap between her teeth. She should really stop smiling.” Image: Yahoo!

• What do you have in your wallet?

  Anybody out there still wondering what the Bush tax cuts are all about? This past year, due to the enacted Bush tax cuts, the multi-, muilt-millionaire Bush’s saved $28,846 last year. The incredibly-wealthy Cheneys saved $81,336 because of the Bush tax cuts. How much did you save?Source: Washington Post

• The "I" Stands for Incredible

  Tom DeLay, embattled House majority leader from Texas, has been trying to tone down his threats-against-judges rhetoric recently. On Tuesday, he stepped back and looked at the big picture. “And not only that, but he [Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy] said in session that he does his own research on the Internet? That is just [...]

• Halliburton Pays Dick

  Dick Cheney, vice president of the United States, filed his income taxes on time this year. Included in his earnings were $194,852 from Halliburton.Source: Washington Post

• Looking for No Trouble

  What do you do when you’re the Bush administration and you find bad news? Stop looking. Image: Knight-Ridder

• Filibustered Blog-Entry

  Isn’t the filibuster, and its perennial use in the Senate, a pillar of democracy? The republican’s endless attempts to virtually eliminate the filibuster (reduce the necessary number of votes from sixty to fifty-one) is an imminent threat against our democracy. And doesn’t this clearly demonstrate the sheer contempt the GOP has for the majority of [...]

• O’Reilly: "I wanna marry the goat."

  O’Reilly’s smooth. From the April 13 broadcast of Westwood One’s The Radio Factor with Bill O’Reilly: “So this is just the beginning, ladies and gentlemen, of this crazy gay marriage insanity — is gonna lead to all kinds of things like this. Courts are gonna be clogged. Every nut in the world is gonna — [...]

• DeLay: "Unset the Courts"

  While apologizing for his reprehensible comments immediately following the timely death of Terri Schiavo, Tom DeLay, House representative from Texas, declared that he plans on starting a new government. Ironically, or is it just plain coincidental, Aaron Burr was once found guilty of treason for attempting to start a new goverment. In Texas. “We set [...]

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