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Outrage of the Week Send me your pet outrage... editor@stopdubya.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Outrage of the century... the "bailout" plan... stop it, stop it NOW. Find out how to contact your elected representatives and CALL THEM BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE. They are going to try to ram this down your throat TODAY, September 29. House - LINK Senate - LINK Week of 12/30/07 1. This is more like disappointment of the decade. So-called "progressive" website Alternet runs three anti-Obama hit pieces in 2 days trying to turn the Iowa Caucus. What is it? An experiment in social engineering? Temporary madness? Sellout to John Edwards' campaign? How utterly disappointing to have shameless, Faux News shilling tactics and character assassination from a "progressive" news source. An attempt to contact their editorial staff for an explanation netted me a boilerplate email asking for a donation. Come get your donation, jerks. Oh, and BTW, Obama creamed your guy in Iowa, although it's doubtful you'll report that story. 2. Oil prices finally went over $100 a barrel. I have information that gasoline prices will be approaching or even over $4.00 a gallon sometime in February. What are you going to do about it? We're thinking about cutting out eating food and heating our house by burning newspaper in the bathtub so we can drive to work. 3. Health insurance... all the candidates talk about it, what's being done about it? Well, prices are going up. We got a letter from BCBS notifying us that our plan will now cost us an extra $160 a month, up to $860. That's for 2 adults. How are we paying for it? We're going to get extra refills of our perscriptions and sell them for half of retail price to people without insurance. 4. When do you know an investigation is doomed to fail before it even starts? When Bush appoints an agency to investigate itself. That's exactly what's going on with the coverup of the destruction of the CIA torture videotapes. Does anybody care any more? What about HR333... where are you, House Judiciary Committee? Week of 12/9/07 1. Why we can't get any progress on waterboarding.... Nancy Pelosi approved waterboarding in 2002. Thanks, Nanc... have you ever thought of changing careers? 2. Huckabee, besides being a professional superstition-monger, also suggested in the 90s that HIV-AIDS infected people be isolated from the general population "for their own good". Well, what would you expect from a guy who thinks Chuck Norris can help his campaign? Followup... he says he stands by those remarks, so at least he's a consistant idiot. 3. Ann Coulter has gotten away with voter fraud. The case was dismissed due to statute of limitations. I guess if you stall long enough it makes it OK. 4. The CIA was under court order to preserve the videotapes of waterboarding that they destroyed that Dubya can't remember ever hearing about. 5. The US government is now intervening to "save" bad mortgage deals, thanks to "Mr. Small Government" Bush. How? By taking your tax dollars and forking them over to obscenely wealthy banks and hedge fund operators so they don't have to foreclose on mortgages. Wow. Hedge funds are now a federally guaranteed investment. Week of 12/2/07 1. N-I-E-I-E-I-O The truth finally occurs to the mainstream press that Cheney and Bush have been suppressing the NIE for over a year and lying about the nature of Iran's nuclear program for at least as long. But now there is a timeline of facts that correlate with Bush's statements. So what are YOU going to do about it, dear reader? How about for starters you call Nancy Pelosi and tell her that impeachment is actually ON the table and she has no right to take it off the table. 2. Hillary Clinton's campaign caught circulating the rumor that Barack Obama is a Muslim and he intends to turn the US over to the Caliphate, whatever that means. At the same time she whines and accuses Edwards and Obama of slinging mud. How goofy is this going to get? 3. Mitt Romney gives his "JFK" speech about religion. Except this version of the speech says that everyone HAS to be a Christian for America to survive. Holy Mother of Gawd, Batman. 4. Mike Huckabee teams up with Chuck Norris (WTF??) to make a TV commercial that baffles this political observer. I have no idea whatsoever what they are getting at. However, something the Huckster is doing is working in Iowa since he is now leading Romney by a factor of two. 5. Speaking of Romney, he fired his yard crew this week after he "discovered" that there were illegal aliens on it. Tom Tancredo is probably going to need a hernia operation from busting a gut laughing. Week of 11/11/07 1. Australian newspaper reports that US vets are dying at 120 per week and nobody reports it.... by suicide. 2. Guiliani now immersed in Bernie Kerik- Judith Regan- Faux News scandal. Am I surprised? Not really. When you go to the bottom of the barrel, you ought to expect sludge. 3. Taking a cue from FEMA, Hillary plants a question. At least she didn't plant the whole event, but still, Hillary... what are you thinking??? 4. Another "debate", another batch of sound bites. Ho hum. Did Hillary gain back the ground she's lost over the last 14 days? At least Wolf didn't ask "debaters" to show their hands if they favor an abortion litmus test for a possible supreme court nominee. CNN breaks for a commercial in the middle of a debate??? Here's a FREE CLUE from stopdubya.com... if you want to "debate", choose an issue and debate the issue for 2 hours. 5. House passes Iraq funding bill tied to withdrawal, but the GOP blocked it in the Senate. OK, here's what you do, folks. ALL BUSINESS IN THE SENATE STOPS DEAD IN ITS TRACKS, LIKE RIGHT F*CKING NOW. No more debate on anything until the bill passes. Capisce? Week of 9/30/07 1. Larry Craig is still in the news. Why? 2. Rush Limbaugh says his usual crazy crap only this time it's an attack on troops calling any of them who disagree with the war in Iraq "phony". When called on his BS, he edits the tape and goes on the counteroffensive. This guy is no stranger to offensive. 3. Wesley Clark started a national petition to have Limbaugh removed from Armed Forces Radio. Sounds good to me. Check it out at http://ga4.org/campaign/dumprush 4. Hillarycare turns out to be a boondoggle for the health insurance companies. Health insurance companies are the primary PROBLEM, not the solution. 5. New information reveals that in 2004, as the Bush Administration was telling us they repudiated torture, behind the scenes they were coming up with new rationales to approve the most brutal torture the CIA could think of. 6. Blackwater. Week of 8/5/07 1. Your tax dollars at work... the Pentagon has engaged the services of evangelical Christians to help them make the case that it's OK to kill the ragheads. Operation Straight Up will being its "Military Crusade in Iraq" tour soon, with the goal of brainwashing US soldiers into believing that there is a religious component to this war and they are acting in God's army. Among their tools... distribution of a free video game (normally $29.95) called Eternal Forces which provides all kinds of evil to be snuffed by the righteous (assumed to be the player, of course). You think I'm kidding? http://www.eternalforces.com/ Thanks & a tip 'o the hat to John for the link. Week of 8/5/07 1. Bush snookers us again... NSA can now wiretap at will with no oversight. Welcome to 1984. 2. Another GOP angel falls from grace... Chair of the Young Republicans Glenn Murphy attempts to commit fellatio on... a guy asleep on the floor. He ought to see if he can hook up with Ted Haggard and Florida Rep. Bob Allen
Week of 7/1/07 1. The pardon of Scooter Libby from his conviction of obstructing justice by impeding an investigation into treason by the Executive Branch. That, friends, would be the Outrage of the F*CKING CENTURY. Except... it has SUB-outrages to go with it. a. Bush did it on a holiday weekend when Congress was adjourned so there could be no organized reaction. b. Bush did it by sending out a press release rather than holding a press conference so he wouldn't have to face questions c. Bush insulted our intelligence by claiming that Libby's reputation had been damaged (so when has that ever stopped slimeballs from working their way into cushy, high-paid GOP insider jobs?) and that he has to pay a stiff fine (LMAO! Don't be stupid. A quarter of a milion? That's chump change for people who steal billions of taxpayer money on a continuing basis.)
Week of 6/24/07 1. Cheney's office found to be in major non-compliance with the Presidential Records Act of 1978. Where is the media on this? <zzzzzzz> 2. Bush is reportedly trying to find a way to "compromise" with the Congress over Iraq because he has realized that he can't keep "winning and winning". Here's your compromise, Dub... get us the f*ck out of Iraq. 3. Gonzo is STILL Attorney General? 4. One general says this, another general says that, another general says the other. Is it disinformation or chaos? Bottom line, they are ALL trying to push back a September review of the "surge", which is doing nothing but getting more people killed. 5. Report says the the number of Americans who believe Saddam was involved with 9/11 has risen to 41%. No wonder we have the worst government in the history of the US... the electorate have chosen ignorance over involvement.
Week of 6/17/07 1. GOPER Tom Davis of Virgina threatens to subpeona Valerie Plame. Be careful what you wish for... if Plame testifies you won't need a subpeona and what she says will rock the GOP's world. 2. Again, the Bushies are scurrying around in a Chinese Fire Drill trying to cover up. This time it's those damned emails again. They tried to circumvent the Presidential Records Act by using RNC email accounts and have been busted red handed. 3. Seymour Hersh says the White House knew about Abu Ghraib months before they said they did. "Nuh-uh" is the official response. 4. Is it propaganda or is it real? Al-Qaeda claims to have "graduated" a class of hundreds of suicide bombers to be sent to the US, UK, etc. 5. Prince Bandar, a "good" Arab (translate: willing to play ball with the west) has taken billions of dollars in bribes and kickbacks from the UK for purchases of military equipment dating back to at least 1985. Once again we have armed Osama with the basic facts he needs to support his claim that the West is a purveyor of death and corruption. 6. Bush to veto another stem cell research bill. Why? It's not what you'd think... he wants to keep it private so his "constituency" can make boatloads of money off of it. Week of 6/10/07 1. Harry Reid says that stopping the Iraq war is too big of a goal. I translate that as "Never send a boy to do a man's job". (Those of you who wish to remain PC may replace "boy" and "man" with "child" and "adult".) Why is there no push to introduce a bill to rescind the Iraq War Resolution? Why is this not headline news every day? Why is there not a daily filibuster where the discussion is centered on the public outrage over Bush's war? Oh, that's right.... taking any REAL political action would require a spine. 2. Harry Reid. 3. The Gonzo censure failed, ho hum, we did what we could, blah blah, time to get back to picking your pockets. 4. Why does the GOP own the issue of border security? The Bushies have had power to secure the US-Mexico border for 6 years and have DONE NEXT TO NOTHING. Why are the Dems quivering in their boots over this issue? They ought to be screaming about it. Week of 6/3/07 1. Dem and Repub debates: total waste of time, horribly moderated, stupid questions, stupid "sound bite" answers, posturing, yada yada yada. Raise your hand if you think Wolf Blitzer needs to find a new job. ALL the candidates from BOTH parties looked bad... except for one. Representative Ron Paul, Republican from Texas, is the ONLY candidate who doesn't spew generalities and platitudes when answering a question. I don't agree with everything he says, but Ron Paul is a political figure you can trust. I put him in that rarified air reserved for people such as Ralph Nader. 2. Head of the Arkansas GOP Dennis Milligan says that we need more attacks on US soil to make the naysayers appreciate what Bush has done for homeland security. Obviously this statement makes no sense whatsoever. This man is a couple of tunes short of a hit CD. He ought to stick with animal husbandry, with which I'm sure he's more familiar. 3. Iraqi Parliment passes binding resolution that will force a vote to end US occupation of their country in December. 80% of Iraqis want the US out. The percentage of Americans who want us out isn't there but it's getting there. So why are all of our politicians (except Ron Paul, Dennis Kucinich, John Edwards, and a few others) pussyfooting around this and allowing the Bush Regime to continue its unilateral punishment and theft of Iraqi oil? 4. Paris Hilton complains about prison food (balony sandwich) and gets sent to her room where she is expected to throw a party tonight. In 2003, some guy in California got 50 years to life for stealing $150 worth of children's videotapes from a K-Mart. What's up with that? 5. The Law of Media Irrelevency explained: The media is making itself irrelevent by covering news that is irrelevent and ignoring news that ought to be in the face of every American. What did we miss because of Paris Hilton? Mitt Romney gets away with rewriting Iraq War history, Turkey is invading Iraq, crisis in Iraq over "Oil Law", hundreds of Iraqis killed and wounded, and many more. That's infotainment. 6. The Immigration "Reform" bill fiasco... what a major clusterf#ck. Why do these people not "get" it about this "reform" crap? Reform? If we need to "reform" something we ought to be marching on the friggin' White House. Back to immigration. There are a number of SEPARATE but related issues in that bill that need to be addressed SEPARATELY. It is a national scandal that we cannot secure the border with Mexico. Where are all you dumbshit righties on this issue? What makes you think that tapping our telephones makes us "safe" when terrorists can just walk right across the border? IDIOTS. Week of 5/28/07 1. Boston Globe reports that GOP candidates are all spouting the same crap Bush spouted before attacking Iraq. They must think that we're a nation of f*cktard amnesiacs. What did the 9/11 Commission say about Iraq and 9/11? Let me spell it out for you, RNC... N-O C-O-N-N-E-C-T-I-O-N. 2. Cindy Sheehan quits the peace movement in disgust. She could tolerate 2 years of threats, slurs, slights, and ridicule from the right wing for standing up and saying what the left couldn't find the spine to say. That's what you'd expect from the right wing. But being sold out by the DEMS, well, that's just another indication of how the DONKEPHANT UNIPARTY has placed itself before the wishes of Americans. 3. The White House says the "Korean model" (50 years of occupation) may be what's ahead for Iraq. WHAT? Tell me more about the $400 haircut, Faux. 4. Way back when I told you that unilateral abrogation of the ABM treaty would lead to trouble down the road. Guess what? Dubya shit-canned the ABM treaty and now Putin's testing new missiles that will "defeat any defense system". He's probably right about that, there are more holes in "Star Wars" than you can shake a stick at. Maybe we can talk the Russians into putting radio transmitters on their MRVs so we have a sporting chance of finding them before they detonate. 5. Military plans to spend $25 billion on MRAPs (Mine Resistant Ambush Protected... don't you LOVE the acronyms?) by 2009. But WAIT! These high-dollar vehicles can't even stop the IEDs that are being used TODAY. It's the American way... create the impression of giving a shit by throwing a pile of money at it. Truly an outrage. 6. How propaganda works: Thursday... the #2 military commander in Iraq, Lt. General Ray Odiemo, says that September may be too soon to assess the results of the "surge". But WAIT! On Friday, a mind-numbingly simplistic story about how the tide is turning in Iraq because the Sunni residents of Amariyah took exception to al-Qaeda rebels began shooting into the air and started shooting back at them. Oh, yes, things are going JUST GREAT in Iraq. If only we can get the "cut and run" lefties to abandon their "surrender" strategy. 7. Retro-outrage: while the world was looking the other way, Bush annointed himself Imperial Leader of the US in case of national emergency. The "directive", signed May 9, is the most grabbastic overreach of a US president in our history. Read about it HERE. 8. Bill O'Reilly, the GOP Poster Child for electrically-enhanced anal self-pleasure, actually said to John McCain on his Wednesday, May 30th show: "Do you understand what the New York Times wants, and the far left want? They want to break down the white Christian male power structure of which you are part, and so am I." Seig Heil, Bill. White Power. PS... don't forget to recharge your vibrator. Week of 5/21/07 1. Gonzo is STILL here and Bush is STILL saying he thinks Gonzo did a good job at the hearings? Maybe on Planet Crawford at the Shit Creek Ranch, but not in the reality the rest of of live. 2. Why do they hate us? Because they can't trust us. In 2004, the US government arranged a "peace negotiation" with Moqtada al Sadr, the radical semi-Iranian cleric who has more or less handed the southern 1/3 of Iraq over to Iran. Peace negotiation? Not really. Our government was planning to kill him and botched the job. So where does that leave us? With another influential, rabidly anti-American Muslim on the loose. We get it from the Sunni side (bin Laden) and the Shiite side (al Sadr). Why do they hate us? 3. Democrats cave on accountability in war funding bill. Is this spineless or is it good politics? They have established on record that they tried to withdraw troops and could not override a veto. Come September, Bush and the GOP will have hell to pay. Until September, the Iraqis and American troops are paying hell with their blood. 4. Another former Gonzo aide sings like a bird... this time it's Monica Goodling, who says McNulty wasn't up front about the political nature of the firings and the involvement of the White House. And guess what... Gonzo is STILL here!!?!?!??!! 5. Bush calls new Iraq funding bill a "consensus". But WAIT... isn't a CONSENSUS when the minority agree to put aside their objections and go along with the majority opinion? Always has, always will be. So IF this bill was a "consensus" bill, it would have included timetables for withdrawal and benchmarks for performance. What we have instead is a "MY WAY OR THE HIGHWAY" bill demanded by a president who had no Constitutional authority to start this war and has no Constitutional authority to fund it. A majority of both the House and Senate oppose it, and a clear majority of the American people oppose it. So what the F*CK is wrong with this picture???? 6. John McCain says that Barack Obama "wouldn't know the difference between a RPG and a bong". Barack shouldn't take this personally, though. It comes from an addled idiot who can't tell the world of fantasy from the real world. In John McCain's world, if we don't fight the terrorists in Iraq we'll have to fight them here. (See my comments on this harebrained notion HERE). Week of 5/14/07 1. GOP frontrunner Rudy Guilianni wasted no time cashing in on 9/11. As reported in the Washington Post, a mere 4 months later, in December, 2001, Guilianni left office to start up a consulting business designed to capitalize on his carefully crafted PR campaign as "America's Mayor". This has made him a millionaire 10 times over... but wait! Didn't 9/11 show how utterly unprepared NYC was for this attack and weren't the real heroes the police and firefighters who risked and gave their lives trying to overcome this lack of readiness? 2. Justice Department #2 James McNulty resigns. Why is Gonzo still there??? 3. It wasn't "moral" and it sure as hell wasn't a majority. Falwell buys the farm at age 73. He is probably most famous for his 9/11 observation in a conversation with fellow crackpot Pat Robertson...
WHAT WE DESERVE? And why did Falwell think that God thinks that we "deserved" 9/11? Because Falwell hated gays and the separation of church and state, that's why. So what's the outrage here? The outrage is that the righty bastards have lined up like a conga line of suckholes tripping over themselves to compliment this dead religious right wingnut who did nothing but erode the US Constitution, worked his whole life to stir up hatred and intolerance, and contributed to the notion that his particular brand of intolerant, jingo, pseudo-religious shit-talking was the kind of "patriotism" that Gawdy Almighty wanted Americans to practice. Rot in hell, Jerry. 4. Gonzo at it again... this time it was as White House counsel in 2004. He busted into John Ashcroft's hospital room with Andy Card demanding that he sign Justice Department approval documents for illegal domestic spying. Ashcroft wasn't even AG at the time, the job had been passed to a deputy. The truth keeps coming out, and it keeps getting uglier by the minute. Again.... why is Gonzo still here???? 5. GOP "debaters" vie for the public's Number One rating on who would preside over the most brutal, torturing, detaining, civil-rights-trashing government while Faux News eggs them on with loaded "ticking time bomb" questions. Are people so f*cking stupid they can't tell the difference between a TV show and real life? Apparently the GOP and Faux thinks so, judging by the many references to "24" in the candidates' answers. Did you get that? They think you're STUPID. 6. What's the "BIG DEAL" about immigration? Why are our politicians "dealing" on this issue? Isn't the solution OBVIOUS? If Homeland Security ever had a mission, it was SECURING OUR BORDERS. If you have entered the country illegally, YOU SHOULD BE CHARGED WITH A CRIME. If you KNOWINGLY HIRE and illegal alien, the penalties should include MANDATORY JAIL TIME. Our gutless, spineless congress-critters are AFRAID to do the right thing on an issue that is crucial to our nation's survival. That's not only an Outrage of the Week, it's a NATIONAL DISGRACE of the decades. 7. Immigration "deal" followup... McCain tells Conyer's to "Fuck off". Nice, John-Boy... according to you, discussing this piece-of-shit legislation that has something for everyone to hate in it is off the table because you "know more about it than anyone in this room". I think America would be better served if YOU would fuck off and stop being a pretender to the presidency. BUT- McCain/Guiliani IS, after all, the Democrat's Dream Team... 8. Historical revisionists are fawning all over John Ashcroft for his new-found "resistance" to Bush's over-reaching on US civil rights. Ah, give us the good old days when we just had a reactionary religious bigot as AG instead of an incompetent, lying, partisan, torture-advocating, truth-deficient, fuckhead named Gonzo. Week of 5/7/07 1. Efforts to aid the twister-flattened town of Greenburg, KS severely hampered by missing equipment that has been deployed to Iraq 2. Gonzo is still around? Duck and cover, run away, run away, Speedy! Maybe if you hide out and lay low for a few weeks it will all blow over. 3. Bush says the word "September" and all of a sudden it's some kind of magic turning point. REALLY, people, if the GOP SAYS they are going to want a policy change if the "surge" hasn't "worked" by September, what is the difference between that and an "artificial deadline"? The answer is obvious... the GOP is planning to cut loose from the Iraq war before the 2008 elections and they have calculated that it will take 14 months to get 'er done. They just don't want to use the language... not yet. 4. Gonzo says he will stay. Wolfie says he will stay (at least until June 1, when he can collect $400,000 and Pass Go). Rush says "Barack the Magic Negro" is "historical". There you have it... torture, corruption, and racism, the 3 pillars of the GOP. BTW... Rush Limbaugh, the bloviating drug addict, deserves his own section on this website and I plan to accomodate him. 5. Billions of $ of Iraqi oil "missing", reports the NYT. Estimates of 100,000 to 300,000 barrels per day for the last FOUR years. 6. Saudis do not support US in Iraq efforts, nor do they support the Iraqi government. Where's the US press establishment? <zzzz zzzz zzzz ....> 7. Bush now says that "success" in Iraq will be a "reduction of car bombs" and that there will never be peace. WTF? Where were the car bombs BEFORE Bush invaded? 8. Here's the latest GOPERNAZI installment of their continuing saga, "Git the Nigra". Supposedly Barack Obama is a "hypocrite" because Michelle Obama serves on the board of a food manufacturing company that sells 16.1% of its pickles to Wal Mart. Can ya feel the SHEER DESPERATION???? LINK Week of 4/30/07 1. Bush vetoes Iraq emergency spending bill that includes withdrawal timelines. He says it's a "prescription for chaos"... but isn't that what he has created there already? So what's his real reason? Can ya say "He wants a military foothold in the Middle East"? But that's not what 2/3 of Americans want... we want our troops out. Oh, and BTW, we want our gas cheap and we want to drive huge gas guzzlers and we want to drive them as fast as they will go. 2. Imus is gone for a racist slip of the tongue... But Rush Limbaugh can get away with airing racist trash like "Barack The Magic Negro". WHY? IF you care to examine the difference between Clear Channel and news organizations such as CBS and MSNBC you will find your answer. 3. Four years since Bush's "Mission Accomplished" moment... 3363 dead Americans, 25 thousand maimed, and 100 thousand dead Iraqis later we have an all-out sectarian war with al-Qaeda more of an influence than ever in Iraq. Oh, did I forget to mention the half a TRILLION we spent for these results? 4. GOP sheep-o-dates "debate" in Reagan library. Not ONE of them sees anything wrong with Bush's Iraq war policy other than to blame others for mismanaging it. No surprises, but still outrageous. GOPERs... does this mean that in order to be a "conservative" you have to support the worst disaster in American history? 5. Bush chose a speech to the Associated General Contractors of America (???) as a platform to explain his veto of the latest Emergency Appropriation bill for his Iraq war. In that speech, he actually referred to himself saying "I'm the Commander Guy". 6. al-Qaeda commander al-Zawahri mocks Bush's "surge" by inviting Bush to the Iraqi Parliment cafeteria for a glass of juice. 7. Senior military officers appropved the coverup of the Haditha massacre (24 Iraqi civilians murdered in cold blood) out of fear of a propaganda backlash that would infuriate Iraqis. They thought it would create a "public relations problem". D'ya THINK???? Week of 1/2/06 1. While everyone enjoyed their holiday, Bush took the opportunity to claim he is above the law when it comes to the anti-torture legislation he was in the act of signing. In his signing document, paragraph 6, he issues the following chilling statement: The executive branch shall construe Title X in Division A of the Act, relating to detainees, in a manner consistent with the constitutional authority of the President to supervise the unitary executive branch and as Commander in Chief and consistent with the constitutional limitations on the judicial power, which will assist in achieving the shared objective of the Congress and the President, evidenced in Title X, of protecting the American people from further terrorist attacks. Further, in light of the principles enunciated by the Supreme Court of the United States in 2001 in Alexander v. Sandoval, and noting that the text and structure of Title X do not create a private right of action to enforce Title X, the executive branch shall construe Title X not to create a private right of action. Finally, given the decision of the Congress reflected in subsections 1005(e) and 1005(h) that the amendments made to section 2241 of title 28, United States Code, shall apply to past, present, and future actions, including applications for writs of habeas corpus, described in that section, and noting that section 1005 does not confer any constitutional right upon an alien detained abroad as an enemy combatant, the executive branch shall construe section 1005 to preclude the Federal courts from exercising subject matter jurisdiction over any existing or future action, including applications for writs of habeas corpus, described in section 1005. Week of 2/7/05 1. Bush proposes a new record $2.7 trillion budget that severely cuts programs that help real people. His budget cuts programs like public transportation, environmental improvement, and even educational programs like vocational training at the high school level (actually, that would be eliminated as a budget item). But it makes the tax cuts for the top 1% permanent and it increases spending for domestic spying. And despite the fact that it creates a new record high annual budget deficit and contributes another half a $trillion to the record $7.3 trillion national debt, it DOESN'T EVEN INCLUDE THE ESTIMATED $100 BILLION HE'S GOING TO DEMAND FOR IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN. 2. Condi is out there with a carrot and a stick trying to make a name for herself. She's sucking up to the Europeans and threatening Syria and Iran. So what's the big difference, Condi? American foreign policy has always been out of whack with reality. 3. Bush is trying to rally the world to unite with him in his new crusade against Iran. Based on what we found out about the disconnect between reality and what Dubya told the world about Saddam's WMDs, there is likely to be a credibility problem on this. But meanwhile... 4. If Dubya is still looking for nukes, he might be interested to note that North Korea, a nation with which we went to war and have been trying to contain for 55 years, says it has them. 1.6 million people were killed and a million more missing in that war... and now they have nukes. Gee, Dubya. I thought you were trying to contain nukuler weapons of mass destruction. Week of 1/24/05 1. Alberto Gonzales asserted that international treaties do not prevent the US from using "cruel, inhuman, or degrading" methods of torture on prisoners. 2. Another record budget deficit looms as the White House is begging for another $80 billion for Iraq and Afghanistan. Projected deficit for 2005 is $427 billion... and we all know what happens to "projections". 3. The "No Child Left Behind" act requires that high schools give the names, addresses, and telephone numbers of juniors and seniors to military recruiters. Isn't that a form of child molesting? Week of 1/17/05 1. Dick Cheney says that Bush has restored the power of the President after it was eroded by Viet Nam and Watergate. How did he do this? By choosing to fight an unnecessary war (just like Viet Nam) and lying to the American people about everything (just like Nixon). 2. Bush claims that no one in his administration needs to be held accountable for anything because the 2004 election was his "accountable moment". 3. American support for the Iraq War has dwindled to a new low of 39%. I suppose that means our attention span has reached its end. Week of 1/10/05 1. "No Child Left Behind"... no journalism to leave behind. CNN contributor Armstrong Williams was paid $240,000 to write his investigative "stories" about Bush's harebrained plan. Guess who paid him? (Do I really have to say it?) 2. Charles Graner's (remember the thumbs-up Abu Ghraib pictures?) attorney Guy Womack says that piling nude Iraqi men on top of each other is equivalent to "cheerleaders forming pyramids all over America eight times a year." Of course, he says that leading nude prisoners around on a leash is acceptable, too. I wonder what he'll say when the topic turns to beating a prisoner to death and then packing them on ice so the body won't rot before they can sneak it out of the place and dump it. 3. With no fanfare whatsoever, the search for Dubya's postulated Iraqi WMDs ended last month. The formerly interim Duelfer Report will stand as the last word. Oh, and by the way, they didn't find any. 4. Bush told Barbara Walters that "Bring it on" was a "little blunt". Gee, Dub, d'ya think???? 5. Prince Willie shows up at a party sporting a nice brown shirt with a big black swastika on it. Are these people really that stupid or do they think we'll love them if the do dumbass things? Week of 1/3/05 1. Brigadier General James Cullen (ret.) is one of 12 generals who says that Alberto Gonzoles endangered our troops by supporting torture (who else has been saying that? If you said Stopdubya, go to the head of the class. 2. Lt. Gen. James R. "Ron" Helmly, head of the National Guard, says that Bush's "dysfunctional" policies have turned the Guard into a "broken force". 3. Egyptian-born Mamdouh Habib, who was detained in Pakistan in October 2001 as a suspected al Qaeda trainer, alleges that while under Egyptian detention he was hung by his arms from hooks, repeatedly shocked, nearly drowned and brutally beaten. How did he get into Egyptian hands? The US sent him there to be tortured. 4. Bush Administration plans to build concentration camp facilities to permanently house "detainees" who have never been charged with a crime. Illegal, immoral, and sends what kind of message to the rest of the world about US "democracy"? Week of 12/27/04 1. Under intense public pressure, Bush raises his miserly $35 million for tsunami relief to $350 million. That's GREAT, dub, now your IrakAttack is only 1,000 times more expensive than your relief effort. 2. Americans are too busy with Christmas to notice that 1/3 of the "volunteer" army has now served at least 2 combat hitches, writes Ronald Brownstein in the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette. 3. The Pentagon has redefined "torture" but the ChickenHawk in Charge (that's Dubya) can still throw the rule book out the window at his own discretion. One thing you could never accuse the DubMeister of doing is "playing by the rules". Week of 12/20/04 1. Email suggests that there was an executive order (meaning an order from BUSH PERSONALLY) to use torture on prisoners in Iraq and Gitmo 2. Don Rumsfeld used a machine to "sign" his condolence letters to families of dead GIs 3. Another National Guard unit comes forward with claims that they were sent to Iraq with incomplete training (like never firing some of the weapons they had), broken guns and equipment, and chronic illness 4. BUT... be assured that Rummy and his entire staff are not "doing anything other than working urgently to see that the lives of the fighting men and women are protected and are cared for in every way humanly possible". If you think anything else than what Rummy said, you might make him sad.
Week of 12/13/04 1. HIPAA exposed as a fraud and lie. They tell you when you sign it that it protects your right to privacy of your medical records. That's not exactly true... if you read the act, the government can do a sneaky peek and never tell you. 2. Dubya's inaguration celebration will reportedly cost $40 million, which would pay for 168 brand new armored Humvees. 3. The Dems have taken no part in calls for recounts in Ohio, where widespread vote supression and electronic voting machine tampering have been reported and suspected. If we can't hold fair elections in the US, how are we to believe that we can hold them in countries like Iraq and Afghanistan? 4. Time Magazine names Bush "Person of the Year". We have another name for him: War Criminal of the Century.
Week of 12/6/04 1. Soldier loses arm in Iraq, US Army tries to give him a bill instead of a paycheck at discharge. 2. Rummy says that vehicles are being armored as fast as physically possible. Humvee firm says the reason there aren't more armored Humvees is because the government isn't ordering them. 3. Want to see the law that requires you to present an ID before getting on an airplane? Tough. The law is secret and you can't read it. Week of 11/29/04 1. They don't really hate us for our freedom, they hate us for our policies. So says a report by the Defense Science Board, a Pentagon agency. 2. November ties April for the most US deaths in Iraq. 3. Worse and worser. Ashcroft resigns, is replaced by Alberto Gonzoles, long-time legal beagle for Dubya and author of the opinion that the White House can detain anyone and torture anyone it wants... without fear of legal retribution. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Week of 5/31 1. What kind of sovereignty do you want? Full or partial? The better question might be "How oxymoronic can dubya get?" Week of 3/31 1. US troops fail to warn vanload of civilians, end up killing 10 including women and children Week of 3/24 1. Iraqi civilian casualties begin to become publicized 2. Dubya demands "humane treatment" for American POWs despite the fact that American forces regularly torture, humiliate, and even sometimes kill their prisoners. 3. US forces stalled as they try to defend flanks that run 300 miles through hostile territory. US general in the field openly criticizes Rumsfeld's strategy, which is based on ideology, not military training. Week of 3/17 Only 1 nominee here: dubya defies international law, domestic and world opinion, and common sense and begins a genocidal attack on Iraq. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Week of 1/20/03 1. Dub proposes a $75,000 tax break for purchase of SUVS. 2. Scott Ritter (weapons inspector who is calling for Dubya's impeachment) charged with sex crimes. 3. Dub releases bogus report supposedly chock-full of evidence about Saddam's evil. Please make sure you have a laughing towel ready when you read this! NOTE: this link appeared to be dead this morning, but I will try it again later. Maybe they realized how stupid this was and withdrew it already. http://www.whitehouse.gov/ogc/apparatus/apparatus-of-lies.pdf ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This week's nominees.... (1/27/03) 1. Dubya suggests that it is OK to use tactical nukes as "bunker busters" in the IrakAttak. Also, he says nukes may be used to retaliate for an attack on the US that uses chemical or biological weapons. 2. Dub says that the only reason why Iraq would need WMDs is to "dominate, threaten, and attack". Um, isn't that exactly what the US is doing? 3. Dubya says that Iraq has nothing but contempt for the UN and world opinion. Later in the same speech, he says the UN and other countries do not make US foreign policy and that the US will attack Iraq no matter what anybody else says. |
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