Dec - 1st
Fallibility
Posted at 5:00 pm | Filed Under Uncategorized
Culpability of the horrific events of nine-eleven squarely land at the feet of Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda terrorist network. However, fallibility in the U.S. government to prevent the events, according to Richard Clarke, is as follows:
- Condoleeza Rice, then National Security Advisor, for failing to understand the urgency to deal with the [...]
Nov - 21st
Currently Reading
Posted at 10:24 am | Filed Under Reading
Now do not get me wrong. I believe the vice-president when he said Richard Clarke "wasn't in the loop" on terrorism issues. I mean, Dick Cheney is a pretty reliable source. But still, I'd like to hear what Clarke has to say in his destined-for-textbook-status Against All Enemies...
Image: Amazon.com
And so far -- through three chapters [...]
Nov - 13th
Free Markets In Question
Posted at 9:32 am | Filed Under Uncategorized
So this is what it has come to for President George W. Bush. In the waning days of his two-term administration, following a resounding defeat of his policies at the ballot box, the following headline on MSNBC... "Bush to defend 'free market' system." Well done, sir.
How bad do you have to be as president -- [...]
Oct - 31st
One Positive From Bush’s Legacy
Posted at 12:53 pm | Filed Under Uncategorized
Al Gore lost in 2000 and John Kerry lost in 2004 partly because the youth did not get out to vote. "Youth" is typically prescribed to those between 18 and 24 years of age. If you do not fall in that range, I'm sorry, but you are old.
Obama's current "lead" and his ability to raise [...]
Oct - 23rd
Election Ramblings
Posted at 12:51 pm | Filed Under Uncategorized
With my work schedule ramping up, and all of the other bullshit* that life entails, I haven't been able to blog as much about the election as I have wanted to. So here goes...
- Two issues that should have been discussed at the debates, or at least mentioned once somewhere, anywhere during this election cycle: [...]
Sep - 30th
Iraq 2.0 (or 3.0, if you include the 1991 dust-up)
Posted at 9:13 am | Filed Under Uncategorized
After spending nearly a decade creating the problem, the president has now found it convenient to come out of his hole and demand changes, demand fast action from Congress (including unprecedented power handed to the Executive branch), and to continue to lay out the potential threat that the financial crisis poses on the American people. [...]
Sep - 5th
Investment(s)
Posted at 9:34 am | Filed Under Uncategorized
Markos picked up on another good one from last night... John McCain's sympathy for those who lost money in real estate investments, and not those struggling to stay in their home, as a result of the Bush economy.
From McCain's speech... "I fight for Americans. I fight for you. I fight for Bill and Sue Nebe [...]
Sep - 4th
Straight Talk
Posted at 5:10 pm | Filed Under Uncategorized
I'll make these comments before McCain accepts his party's nomination this evening...
John McCain deserved his party's nomination in 2000. He was the better man; and he would have been the better leader. In all likelihood, if McCain would have defeated Al Gore (which was likely as well, maybe even without a recount), the horrific events [...]
Aug - 25th
Biden Redux
Posted at 8:17 pm | Filed Under Uncategorized
Now that I've got some time for myself, this is what I think of the Biden selection for VP. The choice for Joe Biden as Barack Obama's running mate nets almost every possible positive except one: easy electoral votes. And if Biden's Scranton roots puts Pennsylvania in Obama's corner, that trumps that angle as well. [...]
Aug - 19th
John W. Bush McCain III
Posted at 11:24 am | Filed Under Uncategorized
"[George W. Bush] will leave office with the country $10 trillion in debt, fighting two wars, our international reputation in shambles, our government cloaked in secrecy and suspicion that his entire presidency has been a litany of broken laws and promises, our citizens' faith in our own country ripped to shreds. Yet Bush goes bumbling [...]
Aug - 5th
Colbert on McCain (circa 2006)
Posted at 3:42 pm | Filed Under Uncategorized
Stephen Colbert took on McCain's "maverick" status during his roast of Bush at the now-infamous White House Correspondent's Dinner two years ago...
John McCain is here. John McCain, John McCain, what a maverick! Somebody find out what fork he used on his salad, because I guarantee you it wasn't a salad fork. This guy could have [...]
Jul - 31st
McCain’s Iraq Problem
Posted at 12:59 pm | Filed Under Uncategorized
John McCain is in a tough spot politically in the war on terror. With Bush announcing improvements in the security conditions in Iraq, this plays directly into Barack Obama's hands. If conditions have improved, let's bring the troops home.
Counter to that, McCain has stated unequivocally that the U.S. should remain in Iraq for generations to [...]
Jul - 30th
9/11 and 4.11
Posted at 12:29 pm | Filed Under Uncategorized
"After 9/11, Mr. Bush had the chance to summon the country to a great nation-building project focused on breaking our addiction to oil. Instead, he told us to go shopping. After gasoline prices hit $4.11 last week, he had the chance to summon the country to a great nation-building project focused on clean energy. Instead, [...]
Jul - 28th
W.
Posted at 7:22 pm | Filed Under Uncategorized
The Oliver Stone biopic on our current embattled president looks promising... I just hope that Laura's pot-dealing days at SMU are included... (via HuffPo)
Jul - 21st
Folsom Nights
Posted at 11:10 pm | Filed Under Travels
I am at a two-day conference for the purpose of improving myself in regards to dialogue. A two-drink ticket was provided, but I was able to turn that into six, or was it seven (or eight). Anyway, conversations on nights like this between colleagues are priceless...
- I talked to a veteran from the hey-day of [...]
Jul - 14th
Little Impact
Posted at 12:52 pm | Filed Under Uncategorized
I think this news-story sums up the Bush administration... "By itself, the move [the lifting of a presidential moratorium on drilling for oil and natural gas on the Outer Continental Shelf] will have little impact, because Congress enacted a moratorium in 1982 that remains in place."
One might say that the Bush presidency has had, in [...]
Jul - 3rd
Bush Tours America To Survey Damage…
Posted at 8:19 am | Filed Under Uncategorized
... Caused By His Disastrous Presidency...
"The sheer destructive force of Bush." (via Marco)
Jun - 25th
Bush’s EPA
Posted at 2:15 pm | Filed Under Uncategorized
This is an impeachable offense in my book... that is, when the EPA becomes an accessory to the oil cartel instead of working to protect the environment.
Over the past five days, [senior E.P.A.] officials said, the White House successfully put pressure on the E.P.A. to eliminate large sections of the original analysis that supported regulation, [...]
Jun - 24th
A Fitting Memorial
Posted at 9:29 am | Filed Under Uncategorized
Coming soon to San Francisco... "the George W. Bush Sewage Plant."
Jun - 19th
Former General: Bush A War Criminal
Posted at 11:34 am | Filed Under Uncategorized
Will Bush face trial at the Hague after his term ends?
"After years of disclosures by government investigations, media accounts and reports from human rights organizations, there is no longer any doubt as to whether the current administration has committed war crimes," [Maj. Gen. Antonio] Taguba [the Army general who led the investigation into prisoner abuse [...]