Archive for May 2005

The monthlies.

• Bush Searches for Word’s Meaning

  It has been made well aware that Bush is not the most articulate of a speaker. Okay, let us all admit it (one more time), he slaughters the english language every time he speaks. I have also mentioned previously (see the recently archived list below) how often Bush says, “I appreciate that,” from Russian killing [...]

• reyonthehill vs. Daily Kos

  Markos, of Daily Kos, recently posted a frustratingly pompous blog-entry regarding Josh Marshall’s latest attempt at fame, TPM Cafe, a play on his current blog, Talking Points Memo. Kos went on to state that now all top progressive bloggers run community blogs. First of all, what about reyonthehill, does it make the list of “top [...]

• So Much To Say, Too Little Time

  Wow. What a day!! What a week!! I go away for one week on business, and go camping one long weekend, and then have one additional day away from my office, and what happens?!? Everything. Nevermind the goings-on of last week. The thoughts I had on last week’s happenings are now a distant memory. And [...]

• Not A Bushism

  Having been displaced from the internet, and alright, the “blogosphere,” for almost a week, my only source for endless information from the world was, ugh, cable news. I was unable to get my daily fix of Dan Froomkin’s White House Briefing, Salon.com’s War Room, and even Wonkette. In looking back at what I had missed [...]

• Homer on Bush (Video)

  This snippet is from the incredibly hilarious one-hour season finale of the Simpsons. (Actually, it was two half-hour episodes.) The Simpson family is at the dinner table discussing Bart’s most recent activities; Homer threatens Bart that he will be sent to the military and thus be sent fighting in an ill-guided war since we have [...]

• Automated Out-of-Office Reply

  I have been out of town on business the last four days and I will be gone on a camping trip this long holiday weekend. I will post again shortly… that is, if anyone has noticed.

• Syracuse Pride: Kroft

  A new series delving into the wide range of alumni of Syracuse University. Second, CBS News correspondent and 60 Minutes co-editor, Steve Kroft. Kroft graduated from Syracuse University in 1967 with a Bachelor of Science degree. He was honored by his alma mater in 1992 with the George Arents Medal, the highest honor the university [...]

• Re: And the whereabouts of Karen Hughes is still unknown…

  Every now and then I email my favorite columnist at the Washington Post. Here is the lastest give-and-take discussing the outbreak of the Newsweek controversy. First, Dan’s response… Thanks for writing. Hughes doesn’t start till the end of summer, I believe! Dan And the original email I sent… Dan, Where is Karen Hughes? Has she [...]

• Howard Kurtz, Right-Wing Shill

  Howard Kurtz, whose “Media Notes” column in the Washington Post and television program “Reliable Sources” on CNN has earned him much regard in political analysis, has made his way, albeit slowly, to the level of a right-wing shill. It has been a slow transformation, but it surely has taken place. He has hidden it well [...]

• The NY Times Is Right To Charge Us

  There have been recent attempts by those in the blogosphere, whatever that is (Am I apart of it? I don’t know.), to criticize the New York Times, the official newspaper of record, for charging an annual fee for some of its online content. I will not be one of the many parrots, including the very [...]

• Bolton Uncensored (Video)

  John Bolton, Bush’s appointee as Ambassador to the United Nations has made some, how-to-call-it, anti-UN statements in his past. In fact, as luck would have it, the statements were recorded on video. Viewing requires Quicktime. Source: Citizens for Global Solutions

• Paging Ms. Karen Hughes

  Harry Shearer, voice of countless Simpsons characters and fellow blogger (see the Huffington Post), has an idea of how to remedy this sticky muslim-christian thing. For now. For a little while, at least. Flush all of the world’s holy books down the toilet. And take photos. And post them on-line. That way the world will [...]

• Bush’s Troubled Domestic Agenda

  If you read the Washington Post, physically or digitally, you may have come across this informative piece this morning. President Bush, fresh from a European trip and a White House summit with Central American leaders, returned to his troubled domestic agenda yesterday and tried to ratchet up pressure on a balky Congress to pass his [...]

• The Many Faces of Sean Faggity

  When time is still, the face shows all of human’s emotions. Here are the emotions of Sean Faggity as he spun the Terri Schiavo case on Fox News. These are in order, as he stated, “I want this,” albeit angrily, to the production crew. No wonder the (crazy right-wing wicked) women love him. Images: The [...]

• The OB/GYN Love Bushism

  I am proud to present the infamous “OB/GYN Love” bushism by way of video. Source: unknown Recently archived: Bush Appreciation Day; Bush…; He Said, He Said; Bushism No. ten-thousand two-hundred forty-six; We Won’t Get Fooled Again; Bushism of Bushisms; Dummy In Charge; Mr. President? About your future memoirs…

• Bush On Airplane Scare: "Don’t Bother Me."

  In light of yesterday’s potential terrorist scare, it has become known that the Secret Service did not bother the president, as he continued bike-riding a safe distance away from the Capitol, since he was not in grave danger. Dan Froomkin, of the Washington Post, whom I consider a genius, stated today on his blog… His [...]

• Bush Polls Obsolete Polls

  The Bush administration must be extremely worried about their image if they actually pay someone to write articles in outdoors magazines plugging how their policies enhance wildlife habitat. (How could they possibly fix their image on environmental issues?) An Agriculture Department agency paid a freelance writer at least $7,500 to write articles touting federal conservation [...]

• The 1992 Clinton Lead Paint Law

  The Associated Press published an article today regarding Bush-led EPA plans to make reduce reguglations of lead-paint clean-up. Within the article, however, was this paragraph, as seen at MSNBC.com: Image: MSNBC.com As we all know, or as we all should know, including staff writers at the Associated Press, although Bill Clinton won the 1992 election [...]

• Raised Threat Levels A Bush Political Ploy

  Former Homeland Security Secretary and former Pennsylvania Governor (Remember: Don’t quit your day job.) Tom Ridge confessed today that the Bush administration pressured the Department of Homeland Security to raise the threat level (from yellow/elevated to orange/high) at several times over the past three years for political purposes. “More often than not, we were the [...]

• Bush Justice, Sort Of

  Many supporters of Bush acknowledge that he may not be too intelligent, but they do enforce the “pleasant” fact that Bush is blunt, to the point, and on message. Take, for example, this response Bush made, while in Europe, when asked about increased terrorist activity. “And so when you engage the enemy, when you try [...]

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