Archive for June 2005

The monthlies.

• Bush: Fighting Terrorists Is Exciting

  To state that Bush tends to speak incoherently, and in some cases with disastrous outcomes, is putting it lightly. Take, for example, Bush’s remarks at Penn State University yesterday. We’re living in historic times. These are amazing times. And I hope you’re as excited about them as I am. I wish I could tell you [...]

• The Worst Doctor In America

  Amidst the heavily-publicized Terri Schiavo legal battle, House Majority Leader (and religious right do-anything) Bill Frist made arguments against the doctors who had analyzed and assessed Ms. Schiavo’s condition on the floor of the U.S. Senate. Frist disputed Schiavo’s doctors’ diagnosis of persistent vegetative state. “I question it based on a review of the video [...]

• Connecting the Dots

  Let’s see if we can connect the dots here between these happenings over the last two weeks… Before coming to the White House, [Philip] Cooney worked as lobbyist at the American Petroleum Institute, which is the chief representative of the oil and gas industry. (MarketWatch) A newspaper claimed to have seen official papers showing that [...]

• Pretty Much A White Christian Party

  How much flack was Howard Dean put through after saying that the GOP was “pretty much a white christian party?” He was chastised publically by Vice President Dick Cheney; the right-wing media had a field day; he had a sit-down with the Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid. Well, it turns out, Dean was right (as [...]

• Huffington Posted

  I posted a comment to Newsweek’s Jonathan Alter’s blog-entry at the Huffington Post today regarding Fox News. (Click image for full text.) Image: Huffington Post Recently archived: A Short Fox News Rant

• KQED Forum On Schwarzenegger’s Special Election

  The following email I sent to the KQED forum on Schwarzenegger’s call for a special election, unfortunately, never made it to air. To: forum@kqed.orgDate: Tue, June 14, 2005 12:36 pmSubject: Schwarzenegger’s Special Election As a son and brother in a family of teachers, I find it highly disturbingthat Governor Schwarzenegger has decided to stage a [...]

• Ike Eisenhower: Bush is Stupid

  The following quote, posted at Crooks and Liars, by President Dwight “Ike” Eisenhower is a great find. Hopefully, Keith Olbermann of MSNBC’s Countdown picks this one up. Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our [...]

• Cheney Admits He Is Closeminded

  The recent calls for the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to be closed has been met with some expected reluctance, but a lot more approval in Washington. Even from the White House itself. Until this weekend, when Dick Cheney made sure that the prison camp is not going to be shutdown. On Monday, Cheney [...]

• Jacko Digressed

  I am afraid that if Scott Petersen were a black man, he would not have been convicted. Except in Texas. Of course, I garner this thought from only two high-profile cases, OJ Simpson and Michael Jackson, and I should also certainly consider the hundreds, nay, thousands, of cases where a black man or woman had [...]

• A Short Fox News Rant

  Fox News has become the White House’s de facto press secretary, never straying from the administration line or investigating the obvious lies and distortions made by the Bush administration. Roger Ailes, president of Fox News, has scrapped any journalistic integrity Fox had (if it had any at all) and has instead successfully installed an administration [...]

• President Brush

  A few weeks ago, Bush was riding his bicycle in a protected Maryland wilderness while D.C. went amok with the threat of a possible attack by a nearby plane. According to the White House, Bush’s midday bikeride was not interrupted because that is what the post-911 protocals called for. And just last week, Bush was [...]

• Free Ice With Bait or Liquor

  One of my favorite sights on my short commute home through Vallejo. (Click for full image.)

• Huffington Posted

  I posted a comment to Harry Shearer’s blog, Eat the Press at the Huffington Post, today regarding the new format being administered at CNN. CNN has decided to report the news. I am not kidding. (Click image for full text.) Image: Huffington Post

• Successfully Lowering Expectations

  When asked by Neil Cavuto during his interview on Fox his thoughts on the apparent revelation that his 2004 election opponent, John Kerry, had relatively similar poor grades in college, Bush responded… You know, I’ve always tried to lower expectations, and I feel like if people say, well, you know, maybe, you know, I don’t [...]

• Polls Show Bush Sucks

  The most recent polls show that the majority of Americans disagree with Bush’s handling of, um, everything. Besides terrorism and nominating judges, that is. On the issue of fighting terrorism, the public is split. The poll makes it painfully apparent that most of the country has no idea of the long-term implications of radically-conservative judicial [...]

• Bush For Sale

  One of the very few original Beatles’ albums I do not own yet (okay, I admit it, I own the CDs and not vinyl, Help!, Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt. Pepper, Magical Mystery Tour, White Album, Yellow Submarine, Abbey Road, Let it Be, Past Masters Vol. 2, Anthologies 1 through 3, and the recent re-release of [...]

• Knocking Down The GOP

  Howard Dean has been hit hard recently by the right for correctly assessing the GOP – they are “brain dead” and “corrupt” – but his most recent controversial words in San Francisco cement his importance to the democrats and liberals here in the U.S. They [Republicans] all look the same. It’s pretty much a white [...]

• Up In Smoke

  After reading the horrific news that the Supreme Court erroneously sided with big U.S. government policies over the issue of medical marijuana today, I was relieved that one person in the media cared enough to mention the following: Under the Constitution, Congress may pass laws regulating a state’s economic activity so long as it involves [...]

• Mr. Rumsfeld, Meet Mr. Hussein (Video)

  Here is the infamous video of Donald Rumsfeld, current U.S. Secretary of Defense, meeting with Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in Baghdad on December 20, 1983. Rumsfeld was acting as special envoy to President Ronald Reagan. Source: unknown

• Bush Has No Opinion

  President Bush met with members of the Radio-Television News Directors Association for nearly an hour this past Wednesday discussing, of all things, the outing of W. Mark Felt as “Deep Throat,” the secret source (aka, “My Friend”) for the Washington Post’s Bob Woodward during the Watergate scandal. Bush’s response to whether or not Felt is [...]

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