18 posts tagged “bush”
First my favorite news story quote:
In an article about Stem Cell Research finally going ahead, I read these words which made me smile:
"President Obama is expected to loosen the restrictions,
which many researchers and advocates have complained severely set back
work toward curing disease such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and
diabetes.
Okarma said Geron did not use any federal funding for its research, and that the Bush restrictions had "devastated the field."
"People didn't think this would happen for another five years," Okarma said. "But it will happen soon, and it would have happened sooner if it weren't for the ridiculous Bush policies."
Well, the last three made me smile...the rest made me mad...just think of all the people who could have been helped over the years if for the last eight years we didn't have an anti-intellectual dunderhead in the white house...
And second, my favorite quote from a song...I have not been an Eliza Carthy fan for a long time (maybe three or four years) but she write some fantastic lyrics...In a song called "Company of Men" from the CD "Angels and Cigarettes":
"I don't want to be one of the beautiful people, because beautiful people are boring..." :-) fabulous (so's the rest of the song--heck the rest of the CD...gop listen to it!)
Finally! Some honesty from a journalist.
This really expresses the opinion of most of the population of the world. Utter disdain for a complete failure.
Is there a fund set up to donate to the journalist's defense fund? I'm in!
The lamest of lame ducks tries to do a little bit more damage before they ride him out of town on a rail...and he gets what he deserves. (Well, that would be life in jail spent working for the families he has destroyed...but we'll have to take what we can get...Iraqi shoes nearly in the face).
Rejected subtitles include:
"Hey! At Least He Didn't Get Us All Killed!"
"He Made Millard Filmore Look Good!"
"He Proved the Majority DOESN'T Rule"
"Sending Healthcare and Edication back to the 1950's"
"Could Be Worse, Could Be Raining Bombs!"
"Serving the Rich, One Billionaire at a Time"
"Failing Where Reagan Failed, All Over Again"
"Proof Big Oil Can Run the Country...Into the Ground"
"Only 3/4 of the World Hates us Now"
And the #1 Rejected subtitle for this important tome:
"Like YOU Could Do Any Better!"
Well, I know you never thought this day would come, but I have to give props to the Shrub. He has found a way to decrease the illegal immigrant population. Yep, the number of illegals crossing the border has decreased by 18%!
Because...the economy sucks so much, they're staying home! Yeah Bush!
Gas prices and lack of jobs in America are closing the gaps in our border! Wow...a the man is a genius!
Yes, it takes a village to elect an idiot, and America's own babbling fool has returned to Dayton. He's speaking (or just has) at Wright Patterson Air Force Base...touting the successes of his war on terror and comunity building in Iraq--a comedy routine, I agree. At least he's speaking in public which means he's helping to fill a third (or is it fourth?) volume of "Bushisms."
However, I am not sad he's in town. I know he has a fundraiser in Bellbrook later, so he'll be out and about in Dayton. And I like to think his little motorcade will pass by my Jeep for a good old eye-full of my new bumper sticker which reads (as you know...):
WORST PRESIDENT EVER!
Yeah!
Slight movement on Lulu's part on my book, but they still haven't fixed it. I will Blog (and those of you on my e-maillist will get an e-mail) when they have corrected their error.
As if you needed to read all of the resources linked in to this blog to come to the conclusion it's name puts forth. We all knew it...my favorite is the Washington Post article that compares Bush to Polk...and finds Bush wanting.
Oh! And the conservative historian who grudgingly agrees that, Dubya is indeed the worst we've had & that he will likely live to see his name at the bottom of the list.
Does make my widdle heart glow with happiness.
Bush administration discovers that coke-fiends and base-heads only voters with few enough brain cells to STILL vote Republican. George W returns to roots & reunites with old snortin' buddies.
OK, so I made up the summary! The headline is true. See I'm learning from the media. Who needs facts!
Read a great graphic novel last night:
I have been a fan of "Jason" since I read "Why Are You Doing This?" Booklist calls him "Norwegian French master of the noir graphic novel" The stories are short and odd. Sometimes they are mysteries, often they are touching. This one is a time travel, love story about a contract killer. It's well worth your time.
Also saw a fabulous!! movie over the weekend: "Orphanage" by Guillermo del Toro (Producer this time). It was the scariest movie I have seen in recent years. It was head and shoulders better than "Pan's Labyrinth" (which I liked quite a bit). So if you like to be scared...creeped out...and don't mind reading a movie, go see it! Puts silly American slasher movies to shame.
What happened to scary movies made in America? Who was the first dork to get the idea that rivers of red kayro syrup and floppy rubber "body" parts was in any way frightening?
Escape Primary-overload & pick up a good graphic novel! Or go see a good movie!
Bush to Israelis: You must end your occupation of Arab Lands.
Israelis: You first.
But really I'm only paying attention:
On March 20th I wrote this Blog entry:
http://disturbingfurniture.vox.com/library/post/heres-something-that-should-be-illegal.html
The something that should be illegal was private armies like Blackwater USA as well as their use by the American Government in war zones. Now, hmm. What has occured? (The following is from CNN)
"Iraq's Interior Ministry has revoked the license of Blackwater USA, an American security firm whose contractors are blamed for a Sunday gunbattle in Baghdad that left eight civilians dead. The U.S. State Department said it plans to investigate what it calls a "terrible incident." In addition to the fatalities, 14 people were wounded, most of them civilians, an Iraqi official said.
An Interior Ministry spokesman, Brig. Gen. Abdul Kareem Khalaf, said, "We have revoked Blackwater's license to operate in Iraq. As of now they are not allowed to operate anywhere in the Republic of Iraq. The investigation is ongoing, and all those responsible for Sunday's killing will be referred to Iraqi justice.”
Rice called al-Maliki to offer "her personal and the U.S. administration's regrets" for the shootings. They agreed to conduct "a fair and transparent investigation into this incident" and punish those responsible, the prime minister's office said.
The Diplomatic Security Service has launched an official investigation, a review that will be supported by the Multi-National Forces-Iraq, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said.
"The secretary wants to make sure we do everything we possibly can to avoid innocent loss of life," he said."
Read the full article & now you can pay attention too:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/09/17/iraq.main/index.html
I don't own a lot of poetry. I have a Blake collection, and a Whitman, and a Poe, and one by Steven Bauer (not the actor) who was my prof in undergrad...but I do have four poetry collections by Sharon Olds "Satan Says" "The Gold Cell" "The Dead and the Living" and "The Father." I fell in love with her poems "The Death of Marilyn Monroe" and "The Pope's Penis" and several others...Anyhoo, she and Steve are the only modern poets in the vast library that Trent and I have in our "salon."
And now I love her even more!
In 2005 Olds was invited by Laura Bush to the National Book Festival in DC. And she wrote this letter in response:
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20051010/olds
The whole letter is great, but here:
"But I could not face the idea of breaking bread with you. I knew that if I sat down to eat with you, it would feel to me as if I were condoning what I see to be the wild, highhanded actions of the Bush Administration.
"What kept coming to the fore of my mind was that I would be taking food from the hand of the First Lady who represents the Administration that unleashed this war and that wills its continuation, even to the extent of permitting "extraordinary rendition": flying people to other countries where they will be tortured for us.
"So many Americans who had felt pride in our country now feel anguish and shame, for the current regime of blood, wounds and fire. I thought of the clean linens at your table, the shining knives and the flames of the candles, and I could not stomach it."
I worship her anew!
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