cutting through the fat of this world
This morning’s paper featured this photograph of a one-of-a-kind Christmas tree ornament designed for the White House Christmas tree:
Unfortunately the ornament was the only one out of 370 specially commissioned ornaments that was rejected by the White House Christmas tree decorator.
From the article:
A spokeswoman for first lady Laura Bush said Tuesday that the White House [...]
On Wednesday, November 12, 2008, George Bush and the entire Arizona State University Track & Field Team flashed the international sign of The Shocker (screenshot) during a photo op at the White House.
The caption reads:
President George W. Bush poses with members of the Arizona State University Men’s and Women’s Track Team Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2008, [...]
Washington is a blue state, so we don’t get anywhere near the number of presidential campaign ads as those who live in the tightly contested states like Missouri, Iowa, and Pennsylvania. We do, however, have a tightly contested gubernatorial race, and Biden did visit our state on Sunday to campaign for Obama and our incumbent Democratic governor, Christine [...]
Have you ever had discussions with people who support the Bush warrantless wiretapping program and heard the “if you haven’t done anything wrong you have nothing to worry about” argument? Well you might want to share this article with those people, because it proves that their trust in government not abusing its power is delusory [...]
George H.W. Bush warned us about “voodoo economics” in 1980, but the ideologues clamped a gag on him and put him on the Gipper’s ticket. For much of the time since then, the madmen of the right have carried the day. They were freed of their remaining few restraints with the ascendance of George W. [...]
Oliver Stone’s latest movie “W” will be released to theaters on October 17th 2008, mere weeks before the Presidential Election in Novemeber.
Oliver Stone says:
“We don’t really know much about Mr. Bush beyond the controlled images we’ve been allowed to see on TV. This movie’s taking a bold stab at looking behind that curtain.”
Here is the [...]
From the Houston Chronicle:
Unaware he was being recorded, President Bush at a Houston fundraiser last week compared Wall Street to a drunk with a hangover and cracked jokes about the ailing housing market.
“There’s no question about it. Wall Street got drunk — that’s one of the reasons I asked you to turn off the [...]
Why is it that a petite librarian has the conviction to stand up for your rights than gigantic telecom corporations with armies of lawyers?
Read:
Children’s librarian Judith Flint was getting ready for the monthly book discussion group for 8- and 9-year-olds on “Love That Dog” when police showed up.
They weren’t kidding around: Five state police detectives [...]
President Bush signed the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 that was passed by the Senate on Wednesday with the help of, as Paul Krugman put it, the “coalition of the craven” Democrats.
Bush gave a short speech before signing the bill that basically went like this: “FEAR! FEAR! FEAR! I WILL PROTECT YOU!” But because his [...]
More than two and a half years after the disclosure of President’s Bush’s domestic eavesdropping program set off a furious national debate, the Senate gave final approval on Wednesday afternoon to broadening the government’s spy powers and providing legal immunity for the phone companies that took part in the wiretapping program.
Barack Obama voted FOR the [...]
