Archive for May 2005

The monthlies.

• Inner Circle, Retro-style

  When one innocently stumbles upon photos that explicitly prove a massive conspiracy at the White House, one must publish them. First, Bush Sr. with then-President Gerald Ford. Bush was head of the CIA. Second, then-Chief of Staff Donald Rumsfeld and then-Deputy Chief of Staff Dick Cheney meeting with the president. Third, a second photo of [...]

• Magical Mystery Tour Hits a Snag

  Wow; these Bush-Putin moments are absolutely priceless. Putin: “Don’t worry about it, George. We will pull over and get yourself a clean pair of pants.” Image: Yahoo! Recently archived: The Bush and Putin Magical Mystery Tour; Rice on the Side; Bush Gets Special Award; SOTU Take Your Pick; Defrauding the President (For No Good Reason)

• The Bush and Putin Magical Mystery Tour

  Once again, caption time. The fool and the tyrant start their journey, leaving palace grounds, waving to their mindless followers. The prince and the pauper commenced their magical mystery tour today in Russia. They plan to travel in-style by sedan. A colorful bus was not available. Image: Yahoo! Recently archived: Rice on the Side; Bush [...]

• The Newsweek 500

  Yes, my former high school made the grade, according to Newsweek’s new high school rankings. It was 496; not too bad. I mean, it is not as if the list includes private schools and charter schools (it does). No, I’m not upset. Yes, 496 does seem a little low. I mean, how does one measure [...]

• The Huffington Post

  I don’t usually shill for blogs within this so-called blogosphere, but Arianna Huffington has just started (today) The Huffington Post and it is certainly worth noting.

• Bush Social Security Analogy-of-the-Day

  The president’s non-existent plan for Social Security is as if one states… My house is yellow.I would like it to be red.Let’s buy blue paint. As George W. Bush has travelled this country and “explained” to the country that there is a problem (or, “the house is yellow”) and has said that Social Security must [...]

• Miranda’s Judicial Rights

  I am an avid reader of Salon.com’s War Room blog. The Salon.com staff does an excellent job of researching today’s political issues, much better than I (and with many more resources), and instead of regurgitating this ditty, I captured the screen. If you have a moment, I hope you will read this; it concretely displays [...]

• Bush Shitlist Grows By One

  Republican Representative Dan Lungren (of California) recently defended his position on controversial exploratory oil-drilling in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge by giving up the fact that the Iraq war was over oil. The GOP has done everything in their power to avoid stating the obvious fact, but now, in a Freudian slip, it has been [...]

• reyonthehill, you’ve got mail!

  I have recently posted my opinions on a right-wing leaning blog about media bias, and I received an email from a friendly reader as a result. Below is the un-edited email and my reply. Hi I found your blog after reading your comment about media bias onhttp://pbswatch.blogspot.com/. I just wanted to say that I reallyappreciated [...]

• Bush (Does Not) Call For Low-Income Tax Cuts

  While Bush continued his travelling rant on his idea-less Social Security reform (non-existent) plan, Bush, well, put his foot in his mouth. Again. “Seems like a noble calling for the United States of America, to recognize a lot of people work really hard and don’t make a lot of money, but when it comes time [...]

• Are you a neo-con?

  The Christian Science Monitor has a quiz posted on their web-site to determine if you are a neo-con or not. I took the quiz, which is long and actually quite difficult, and the answer was, “You are most likely a liberal.” Okay… Well, what is a liberal, and better yet, what is a neo-con? And [...]

• Critical Condition

  There is something critically wrong with society when the cops arrest more marijuana smokers than coke dealers. The Washington Post reported today that the number of marijuana-related drug arrests have consistently outnumbered the number of heroin- and cocaine-related drug arrests over the last ten years. Image: Washington Post Of course, this statistic (and graphic) certainly [...]

• Bush the Narrator

  One of my all-time favorite Homer Simpson lines is, “What are you, the narrator?” Homer said this to Lisa as the Simpson family battled robots at Itchy and Scratchy Land and Lisa had stated the obvious. George W. Bush has openly abandoned his duties as chief executive of this nation and has opted for chief [...]

• Pat Robertson Says the Darndest Things

  On this weekend’s edition of This Week with George Stephanopolous… “I really believe that [the threat posed by federal judges was more dire than the Civil War, World War II, and the terrorists who struck on Sept. 11]. [...] I think that the gradual erosion of the consensus that’s held our country together is probably [...]

• The Many Faces of Dubya

  Image: Yahoo!

• Bush’s Iraq War Rationale, An Unfinished Essay

  Is it an issue if the president is repeatably asked by the press corps the reasons the U.S. went to war with the nation of Iraq two years after the war began? (Imagine this question asked of you on a written exam. What would you say? How would you defend your opinion?) The reason Bush [...]

• Pat Robertson, Devil Incarnate

  I admit it. In fact, I am proud of it. I hate Pat Robertson. I despise the man. He is not human. Here’s the latest reason this troglodyte deserves to die (a horrible painful death). Then… After Orlando, Florida, city officials voted in 1998 to fly rainbow flags from city lampposts during the annual Gay [...]

• The Pentagon Insults National Security (Archive)

  The Bush administration controls bad news like cats control mice. They kill it/them. Unfortunately for the cats, and the Bush administration, there is always residual evidence of such killings. Take for example the case of the Pentagon refusing to release photos of the thousands of American soldiers returning home in caskets. Finally, after numerous lawsuits, [...]

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