Tag: Bush

and now a word from your pResident

Filed in Uncategorized by on March 24, 2008 0 Comments

I apologize if I have gotten away from this…. I like to tell people when the final history is written on Iraq, it will look like just a comma because there is — my point is, there’s a strong will for democracy.” ,  “The problem is the government cannot be trusted to enrich uranium because […]

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This is Like Nixon’s Erased Tapes

Filed in Uncategorized by on March 23, 2008 5 Comments

Looks like the White House is now claiming that computer hard drives that may have contained the missing emails from 2003 to 2005 have been destroyed. If nothing else, these guys need to be brought up on charges of violating the executive records act. What sort of shrill response would there have been if suddenly […]

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Maybe if they got better jobs they wouldn’t be poor

Filed in Uncategorized by on March 21, 2008 1 Comment

An analysis of government data by The Washington Post found that prices have risen 9.2 percent since 2006 for the groceries, gasoline, health care and other basics that a middle-income American family has little choice but to consume. That would cost such a family, which made $45,000 on average in 2006, an extra $972 per […]

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A donviti thought for the day

Filed in National by on March 18, 2008 0 Comments

I am rethinking just how valuable a harvard MBA is and if it current economic conditions have devalued it at all….thoughts. ‘The problem is not at all insurmountable in the long run,’ Herbert Hoover, Oct. 6, 1930

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Ready….one, 2 and a three give me a big WAAAAAAHHHH

Filed in Uncategorized by on March 18, 2008 7 Comments

h/t suburban guerrilla….. For James E. Cayne, the firm’s chairman and former chief executive, holding on to his Bear stock was a point of pride, and he rarely, if ever, sold. A billionaire just over a year ago when Bear’s stock soared past $160, his 5.8 million shares are now worth about $28 million at […]

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Mike Castle Supports Giving lawbreaking Phone Companies immunity and Torture…

Filed in Uncategorized by on March 14, 2008 12 Comments

But thank god there are less of him in our country and more people with spines. Barely though… The House Dem leadership’s surveillance bill just cleared the House by a vote of 213-197 with 1 vote of present. 12 Dems crossed the aisle to vote against it. The bill has stricter privacy safeguards than the […]

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More of the same…

Filed in Uncategorized by on February 26, 2008 24 Comments

President Bush called on the House of Representatives today to renew a surveillance law that expired this month and to protect telecommunications companies from lawsuits, saying it was “not fair” to allow the firms to be sued for cooperating with the federal government’s efforts to monitor terrorist suspects. OHHHHHH, so I see, it’s not fair […]

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Carper = Spineless Fu@@ers!

Filed in Uncategorized by on February 12, 2008 15 Comments

Well it’s nice to know how Tom Carper feel about immunity. I can’t think of a better word to describe him other than spineless. The government asks the Phone Companies to break the law and spy on us, they do, subsequently they are breaking the law. Well I guess the way Carper sees it, that’s […]

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We won’t extend unemployment benefits but we will

Filed in Uncategorized by on February 12, 2008 4 Comments

Extend mortgage lifelines for a few of our closest buddies in the bizz baby.  The plan, called Project Lifeline, will be announced Tuesday by the Treasury Department and the Department of Housing and Urban Development, The participants are Bank of America Corp., Citigroup Inc., Countrywide Financial Corp., JPMorgan Chase & Co., Washington Mutual Inc. and Wells […]

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Signing Statement Shows Ulterior Motives

Filed in Uncategorized by on January 29, 2008 21 Comments

I have always thought that part of the reason for Iraq was the desire to put military bases there to secure access to the oil resources there.  Bush issued a signing statement today that lends credence to this possibility.  This falls in line with The Project for the New American Century (or NAMBLA) goals of […]

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Liveblogging SOTU

Filed in Uncategorized by on January 28, 2008 80 Comments

Because it can keep us awake while he talks…

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Bush Presidency in a nutshell

Filed in Uncategorized by on January 28, 2008 4 Comments

Tonight’s State of the Union address by President Bush had its origins in a conversation between the president and his small crew of speechwriters in late spring or early summer last year  Planning for this year’s speech began in earnest in December, and by Christmas the speechwriting shop had an outline ready for Bush. While […]

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You Just can’t make this shit up…THE definition of Irony!

Filed in Uncategorized by on January 26, 2008 5 Comments

But as governor, Bush wasn’t excited about his carpet; he was excited about a painting: “A Charge to Keep.” In 1995 he issued a memo to his Texas staff, describing the painting, by W.H.D. Koerner in 1916, which he kept on his office wall. Bush told his aides: The reason I bring this up is […]

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