Archive for August 2005
The monthlies.
Bush: Enjoying The Moment
In the wake of the worst natural disaster to hit the United States since the great 1906 earthquake in San Francisco, Bush decided to fiddle with an acoustic guitar. “Please, people… relax. Let me sing for you. I wrote this one last week, while sitting on my ranch doing nothing.” Image: Yahoo! News
The Foreseeable Tragedy
Anyone with half-a-brain (okay, maybe that was too harsh) envisioned the city of New Orleans being flooded at some time. And that time may have been tomorrow. Engineers, with no doubt, proposed time-after-time to increase the capacity of the levees; the cost was too expensive, the city could not afford it, the federal government cut [...]
Looting, Finding… Same Difference
Please don’t tell me the difference between finding and looting is race. (Wonkette led me to these photos, and she is right: the Associated Press needs to apologize.) Images: Yahoo! News
Sunday Starts A New Week
Bush has, as I have long stated, spoken out of both sides of his mouth (to be true, I have said that Bush speaks out of one side of his mouth, and spits out the other). But Bush has not so-concretely contradicted himself as he did this weekend speaking on the subject of the Iraqi [...]
Classic Rove On Democrats
In the February 2001 issue of the New Yorker, Karl Rove stated… “As people do better, they start voting like Republicans — unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.” Source: Washington Post Democrats, for the educated.
Blogging Live from the Apple Store (Emeryville)
I have battled the demons before; and I have lost. I own a Dell; it runs Windows XP. To fight from the inside, I run Firefox and Thunderbird; I use iTunes and Picassa. Apple needs to reinvent the workplace computer. Where I am gainfully employed (fulltime, mind you), we, of course, use inferior Microsoft products. [...]
When Failure Is Better Than Saying Your Sorry
The Bush administration has hidden behind the mantra, “If we leave Iraq, the results will be disastrous.” And it has worked. The press hasn’t pressed further, and, in fact, democrats are being attacked for not having a plan. (You know the analogy: the neighbor is responsible for the man who dug a hole for a [...]
November 5, 2008, Headline: Western Strategy Ascends Democrat to Oval Office
Lore tells us the presidency cannot be won without winning at least one southern state. This has rung dramatically true in the last two elections as both Al Gore and John Kerry lost in close electoral battles, and spent a lot of time, effort, and money in the state of Florida. Ohio, due to it’s [...]
Toles on High Gas Prices
Image: CBSNews.com
Toles on Intelligent Design
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Bush Light Bulb Joke (Take 2)
Previously, and by previously, I mean June 2004, I blogged a joke about it needing seven Bush administration officials to screw in a light bulb. Well, the joke has evolved, the nation has grown, and the Bush administration now needs ten people to do it. How many members of the Bush administration does it take [...]
The Halliburton Gift That Keeps On Giving
Will there be much debate on the evening yak-fests about this one. By the way, he plead guilty! (And you know your guilty when you plead guilty, or “no contest.”) A former worker for a Halliburton Co. subsidiary faces up to 20 years in prison and a fine of as much as $1.25 million after [...]
Veterans Know Better
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When Being An Expert Means Nothing
Yahoo! News reported today on the Bush administration’s delinquency to fund the No Child Left Behind Act, the act that subsequently left children behind. The Associated Press report cited experts (highlighted portion below). Some expert?!? Experts expect that states could vote to join the lawsuit or file their own. Source: Yahoo! News “Could?” I might [...]
The Bush Administration’s Sorry Excuse For Fuel Efficiency Standards
Ten percent in five years. That is what the Bush administration is asking the auto industry to achieve for it’s larger vehicles. That equates to two percent per year. Isn’t two percent what the auto industry should be achieving (alright, well at least striving for) on their own? First it was Whitman, then O’Neill, and [...]
Seinfeldian (er, Davidian) Observations
Why are there no first class seats on planes these days? They are now “business class.” And why the need to call “coach” “economy class?” I can understand a little bit why “business class” is maybe better than naming tthe good seats “first class;” (You know, the obvious class-distinction-inferiority-complex thing.) but not so much do [...]
Bush Lies: December 4, 2001, Edition (Audio)
Bush lied to the American people during a December 4, 2001, town hall forum, stating that he saw the first plane crash into the World Trade Center on television before stepping into a Florida grade school classroom on the morning of September 11, 2001. The first plane was never shown on live television. One must [...]
Survey Says… Not Down With Bush (But Up For Ugly Graphics)
(How to put this lightly?) President Bush’s approval ratings here at home are waning (just a bit). Bush’s poll numbers are so bad (how bad are they?), only nine states in the Union register a majority in favor of the lame-duck president. And those nine include such populous and heavy-hitting powerful states as Idaho and [...]
Why Pork Is Good (Especially On Rye)
Should the U.S. foot the bill for a fifty million dollar bridge in Alaska to a small island of fifty people? If an EIR (Environmental Impact Review) was completed and the result of the EIR was the conclusion that the bridge should be built, then yes, god damn it, build the bridge. The construction of [...]
Bush: "I’m Bubble Boy"
Seinfeld fans (and more so, Larry David fans) can finally rest: the long search for the never-seen “bubble boy” is over; it was G.W. Bush, Jr., all along. (We should have known; the thing that threw us was that “bubble boy” knew it was the “Moors” and not the “Moops.” It was scripted television, though, [...]
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