WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Bush administration plans to announce as early as Tuesday that it will seek about $80 billion in new funding for military operations this year in Iraq and Afghanistan, administration and congressional sources said on Monday. The new supplemental budget request would come on top of the $25 billion in emergency spending already approved for the current … Read More
Buyer’s Remorse?
I’m sure everyone has seen how Bush’s approval rating continues to drop, as does support for his little Iraqi thing. But this has gotta sting. A Zogby poll relased today finds a higher percentage of Americans saying that they are ashamed that Mr. Bush is their president; three-in-ten (31%) Americans now hold that view, as compared to one-in-four (26%) a … Read More
“What the . . . (trailing off)?!?”
Plugged In is a magazine and website that reviews movies, television and music from a Christian perspective. It’s a James Dobson venture, and has been popularized recently when it reviewed the Spongebob Squarepants movie and suggested that Spongebob was gay. On a curious lark, I wondered what Plugged In thought about the movie "Kinsey". Now, I haven’t seen this movie, … Read More
This Seems Unnecessarily Complicated
Outsourcing McDonald’s Drive-Thru? At the McDonald’s drive-thru in Hermiston, Oregon (a small farming town in Eastern Oregon, we’re told), your order is taken by someone 1,300 miles away in Grand Forks, North Dakota. The order is then conveyed back to a computer screen in the McDonald’s kitchen in Hermiston, Oregon, who make your McMeal as only they can. Coming to … Read More
Queer President for the Straight Country
Now that we know what to look for, Salon notes that clues to Lincoln’s gayness can be found in other biographies as well. Example: "He was always … writing poetry." (Lincoln, by David Herbert Donald, Page 33) "[T]hey noted … how affectionate he was to kittens and other pets." (Lincoln, Page 55) "To settle a dispute over which company should … Read More
Changes In Foreign Policy?
Arab world: Bush’s speech was a bunch of empty long-winded words, meaning nothing. Bush White House: Bush’s speech was a bunch of empty long-winded words, meaning nothing. George Bush 41: My son’s speech was a bunch of empty long-winded words, meaning nothing.
American Foreign Policy
Matt Yglesius is right. Can anyone look at the countries as categorized below (reflecting the statements of the Bush Administration), and come up with a coherent foreign policy or doctrine? "Outposts of Tyranny" Cuba Burma North Korea Iran Zimbabwe Belarus Allies In the War On Terror Tunisia Saudi Arabia Uzbekistan Egypt Jordan Kuwait Ambiguous Third Category Russia China Vietnam Syria … Read More
Bush By The Numbers
Poverty Rate 2000: 11.3% or 31.6 million Americans 2003: 12.5% or 35.9 million Americans Stock market Dow Jones Industrial Average 1/19/01: 10,587.59 1/19/05: 10,539.97 NASDAQ 1/19/01: 2,770.38 1/19/05: 2,073.59 S&P 500 1/19/01: 1,342.54 1/19/05: 1,184.63 Value of the Dollar 1/19/01: 1 Dollar = 1.06 Euros 1/19/05: 1 Dollar = 0.77 Euros Budget 2000 budget surplus: $236.4 billion 2004 budget deficit: … Read More
18 Years Down The Drain
Imagine spending eighteen years on a work project . . . all for nothing. I think I would have to kill someone. But this guy seems to be taking it well, considering . . .
Right Blogosphere vs. Left Blogosphere
Chris Bowers at MyDD has an excellant post comparing the right wing political blogosphere with the left wing political blogosphere. It is worth a study, not just a mere read, so do it. The basic thrust is this: The left wing blogosphere gets more traffic The left wing blogosphere has been more influential in affecting actual political change (raising money … Read More
Bush’s Daughters Are Whores
So says the stick-up-the-butt Christian group known as the Coalition for Passing Judgment on Others Traditional Values in this open letter to George Bush, which I will publish here below the fold. (The reason I refer to Jenna and NotJenna as "whores" is because according to Ezekial 23:5, Oholah was a prostitute — although this largely depends on the version … Read More
Stupid Product
You be the judge. Yes, friends — that unbiased rag known as World Net Daily rises to new heights in fear-marketing to the paranoid, as it shills that latest in technology.* Yes, it’s the . . . NUKALERT! In this day of nuclear-terror vulnerability, KI4U Inc., markets several products to help families survive any type of nuke incident, including a … Read More
Conservatives Have A New Enemy
Spongebob. You know, sometimes reality is so stupid that it is satire-immune. This is one of those times.
A Man With Integrity
So rare are people in the Bush Administration with integrity, that I delight when I see one acting in a very straightforward and honest manner. And I must pass it on. The man is Dick Armitage, the Deputy Secretary of State under Colin Powell. Actually, he’s now the former Deputy Secretary of State. Maybe that was why he was so … Read More
Progress in Iraq?
The security situation in Iraq is so critical now, NBC News has learned, that the Iraqi interior ministry has recalled two full battalions — about 2,000 men — from Saddam Hussein’s army, the same army the United States dissolved. All of them are retrained as special police to battle terrorism expected at polling stations on Jan. 30. Source. Meet the … Read More