Category Archives: George W. Bush
Chat amongst ourselves
Associated Press – Friday 08 October 2004: The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights voted Friday to wait until after next month’s election to discuss a report critical of the Bush administration’s civil rights record. Republican members had objected to the … Continue reading
Are we paying attention?
Take a look at the two-panel bulletproof screen Bush relied on in Georgia and compare it to the 32-panel wall of bulletproof glass at his 2005 inauguration. Have a think about that. A ‘possible’ grenade gets All Teh Press, while … Continue reading
Do as we say…
Reuters – Rumsfeld Visits Baghdad, Warns Against Corruption: Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, on a surprise visit, warned Iraq’s new leaders on Tuesday against political purges and cronyism that could spark “lack of confidence or corruption in government.” Do tell… Boston … Continue reading
Corrupt, inept, and still in power
New York Times – Panel’s Report Assails C.I.A. for Failure on Iraq Weapons: The final report of a presidential commission studying American intelligence failures regarding illicit weapons includes a searing critique of how the C.I.A. and other agencies never properly … Continue reading
The myth of liberal bias… again
New York Times – Under Bush, a New Age of Prepackaged Television News: Under the Bush administration, the federal government has aggressively used a well-established tool of public relations: the prepackaged, ready-to-serve news report that major corporations have long distributed … Continue reading
Celver
Washington Post – Critic of U.N. Named Envoy: President Bush named Undersecretary of State John R. Bolton yesterday as the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, a surprise choice that would send an outspoken critic of the world body’s … Continue reading
Bush using real prostitutes to do his whoring?
I’ve been so busy with BB that haven’t really been keeping up with the whole Jeff Gannon thing, but how can I not take an interest when things are getting this interesting? (Some links in the latter report NSFW.)
Break out the Kool-Aid… Karl’s in charge
Washington Post – Rove Is Promoted To Deputy Staff Chief: During President Bush’s first term, outsiders often suspected that Karl Rove was really behind virtually everything. Now it’s official. Rove, the political mastermind behind two presidential elections, yesterday was named … Continue reading
The – now very real – prospect of house arrest at the order of Mr Rupert Murdoch
Seymour Hersh – “We’ve Been Taken Over by a Cult”: …the amazing thing is we are been taken over basically by a cult, eight or nine neo-conservatives have somehow grabbed the government. Just how and why and how they did … Continue reading
A great day for liberty and freedom
New York Times – Senate Panel Approves Gonzales on a Party-Line Vote: The Senate Judiciary Committee, divided along party lines over questions of torture and accountability, voted 10 to 8 on Wednesday in favor of Alberto R. Gonzales’s nomination as … Continue reading
