10 posts tagged “bush”
I just got out of the shower. The drain seemed to be clogged because it wouldn't drain at all. Then I heard gushing water in the basement. My septic tank decided it had enough. I know it's just full because I got a reminder card a few months ago. It was one of those things I was going to put off until I had some extra money. Hah... what extra money? Now it's $195 plus an $85 fee for being stupid (okay, after hours fee).
Live and learn I guess. At least the lesson wasn't more expensive. It is rather appropriate to think that the money Pres. Bush is sending me will go toward sucking out my septic system O.o
Honoring George W. Bush with a Sewage Plant!
You've got to be kidding me. Could this get any more blatantly obvious.
The Senate version of the energy bill that passed last week includes great things, like boosting vehicles’ average fuel efficiency to 35 miles per gallon (up from 25 mpg today), increasing the use of biofuels and updating efficiency standards for federal buildings. But the glaring gaps include the absence of renewable energy incentives. Specifically, a 15 percent renewable energy standard was cut (that would have required 15 percent of the nation’s electricity to come from renewable sources), as were extensions for the production tax credit (PTC) for wind power and credits for solar power and small wind. More...
(Beware... sarcasm ahead)
Why don't we start writing our checks out directly to big oil, Pres. Bush, and his sidekicks?
Wind and solar power are the way we should be going. Anyone with common sense knows that. What is better than free energy that does not harm the environment? Oh wait, I know, writing a $150 check to the power company every month and paying $50 to fill up my gas tank and $600 for heating oil. Oh yeah, that is much better!
And don't get me started on the rich bitches in Cape Cod who threw a fit because wind turbines would ruin the look of the landscape. There were also some environmentalists (I use the term loosely) who fought against wind turbines in Maine because it would harm the bird and bat populations. I'm sorry, but since when do birds or bats fly into moving objects? Someone's priorities are sure screwed up.
•I attacked and took over 2 countries.
•I spent the U.S. surplus and bankrupted the US Treasury.•I shattered the record for the biggest annual deficit in history (not easy!).
•I set an economic record for the most personal bankruptcies filed in any 12 month period.
•I set all-time record for the biggest drop in the history of the stock market.
•In my first year in office I set the all-time record for most days on vacation by any president in US history (tough to beat my dad's, but I did).
•After taking the entire month of August off for vacation, I presided over the worst security failure in US history.
•I set the record for most campaign fund raising trips by any president in US history.
•In my first two years in office over 2 million Americans lost their jobs.
•I cut unemployment benefits for more out-of-work Americans than any other president in US history.
•I set the all-time record for most real estate foreclosures in a 12-month period.
•I set the record for the fewest press conferences of any president, since the advent of TV.
•I presided over the biggest energy crises in US history and refused to intervene when corruption was revealed.
•I cut health care benefits for war veterans.
•I set the all-time record for most people worldwide to simultaneously take to the streets to protest me (15 million people), shattering the record for protest against any person in the history of mankind.
•I dissolved more international treaties than any president in US history.
•I've made my presidency the most secretive and unaccountable of any in US history.
•Members of my cabinet are the richest of any administration in US history. (The poorest multimillionaire, Condoleeza Rice, had a Chevron oil tanker named after her for a while.)
•I am the first president in US history to have all 50 states of the Union simultaneously struggle against bankruptcy.
•I presided over the biggest corporate stock market fraud in any market in any country in the history of the world.
•I am the first president in US history to order a US attack AND military occupation of a sovereign nation, and I did so against the will of the United Nations and the vast majority of the international community.
•I have created the largest government department bureaucracy in the
history of the United States, called the "Bureau of Homeland Security
•I set the all-time record for biggest annual budget spending increases, more than any other president in US history (Ronnie was tough to beat, but I did it!!).
•I am the first president in US history to compel the United Nations remove the US from the Human Rights Commission.
•I am the first president in US history to have the United Nations remove the US from the Elections Monitoring Board.
•I removed more checks and balances, and have the least amount of congressional oversight than any presidential administration in US history.
•I rendered the entire United Nations irrelevant. I withdrew from the World Court of Law.
•I refused to allow inspectors access to US prisoners of war and by default
no longer abide by the Geneva Conventions.
•I am the first president in US history to refuse United Nations election inspectors access during the 2002 US elections.
•I am the all-time US (and world) record holder for most corporate campaign donations.
•The biggest lifetime contributor to my campaign, who is also one of my best friends, presided over one of the largest corporate bankruptcy frauds in world history (Kenneth Lay, former CEO of Enron Corporation).
•I spent more money on polls and focus groups than any president in US history.
•I am the first US president to establish a secret shadow government.
•I took the world's sympathy for the US after 9/11, and in less than a year made the US the most resented country in the world (possibly the biggest diplomatic failure in US and world history).
•I am the first US president in history to have a majority of the people of Europe (71%) view my presidency as the biggest threat to world peace and stability.
•I changed US policy to allow convicted criminals to be awarded government contracts.
•I have removed more freedoms and civil liberties for Americans than any other president in US history.
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I have at least one conviction for drunk driving in Maine
(Texas driving record has been erased and
is not available).
•I was AWOL from the National Guard and deserted the military during time of war.
•I refuse to take a drug test or even answer any questions about drug use.
•All records of my tenure as governor of Texas have been spirited away to my fathers library, sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view.
•All records of any SEC investigations into my insider trading or bankrupt companies are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view.
•All minutes of meetings of any public corporation for which I served on the board are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view.
•Any records or minutes from meetings I (or my VP) attended regarding public energy policy are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public review.
Thanks to Get Bush Out of Office
There is always a breaking point, a time when change must happen. I've been thinking lately how this would apply to humanity and so many people living for themselves and not caring how their actions affect others. Redzilla got me thinking about this again with her post about the GOP and New Orleans.
Greed is so blatant now, from the president to people you meet on the street. How much longer can it go on? If you're religious, how much longer will it be allowed to go on? Something has to happen. We are going the way of Rome.
What can be done, and how can we do it? But the biggest question is this: Why have we let it go on for so long? I'm naive, I admit it. But why is it that the ones who rape, pillage, and plunder are the ones in power? "An empire remains powerful so long as its subjects rejoice in it." (Livy).
When my friends try to talk to me about politics, I joke that I stay in my little house in the woods and mind my own business. At least I try to do that. Mostly because I don't want to think about the evil running rampant in the world.
Back to my original point. I believe that a time will come when mankind will live for each other and not just for ourselves. I think and live this way, and that is why it is so difficult for me to understand greedy and dishonest people. It makes no logical sense to me.
Free speech is okay, as long as it isn't against Bush.
"Joshua Kinberg's internet-connected, sidewalk-printing graffiti bike got him a lot of attention ahead of the 2004 Republican National Convention; he was Boing Boinged, Slashdotted and featured on CNN and in Popular Science.
Though he didn't know it at the time, his gadget also landed him a spot in secret files being compiled by the New York Police Department's intelligence arm against protest groups across the country.
"The existence of these files show that there was a premeditated desire to prevent my project and arrest me to avoid having embarrassing messages on the streets during the convention," Kinberg said.
Kinberg's invention was a bicycle equipped with a line of spray cans pointed at the ground, and activated by individual computer-controlled solenoids. If all had gone according to plan, Kinberg would have ridden the bicycle around the streets of New York during the RNC, while users submitted messages through his Bikes Against Bush website. The messages would have been relayed to his laptop through a cell phone, then sprayed on the sidewalk behind him in a dot-matrix of water-soluble chalk.
But the New York Police Department had a different idea.
Though they'd never seen him use the bike, the police arrested Kinberg on criminal mischief charges prior to the convention start, during an interview on Broadway Avenue with MSNBC's Ron Reagan. The arrest took place on a spot where, two days earlier, Kinberg had printed out the water-soluble message, "America is a free speech zone" during an interview with MSNBC's Countdown With Keith Olbermann.
Kinberg shows off his invention, a chalk-writing bicycle.
During his 24 hours in lockup, his bike was inspected and praised by bomb-squad technicians, while detectives traded Polaroids of his creation and members of the Joint Terrorism Task Force questioned whether he knew violent protesters. Kinberg's charges were later dropped, on the condition he not get arrested again for six months.
It wasn't until December of last year that Kinberg learned his arrest was less spontaneous than it appeared.
He received a phone call from Gideon Oliver, an attorney enmeshed in a series of suits against the NYPD challenging the department's mass arrests, fingerprinting policies and detention conditions. Oliver revealed that Kinberg had been one of many targets of the NYPD's "RNC Intelligence Squad," which had been traveling around the country infiltrating progressive groups and building secret files on potential rabble-rousers ahead of the convention."
Causing trouble again. I think the new mustache suits him.
or as long as you run a country.
Just... wow.
I try to stay away from politics because, honestly, it sickens me to even think about it. But, really. Is our entire country stupid? It isn't just all the Halliburton scandals that piss me off, but anything to do with Bush/Cheney and our government.
How many of us could get away with shooting your best friend in the face and not even be questioned about it? No matter how covered up it is, we all know Bush and Cheney are pocketing huge amounts of cash from all the oil deals. Not just Halliburton, but from Iraq as well.
If our country is so serious about putting a halt to our dealings with foreign oil, why isn't the U.S. spending more on solar and wind power installations. These two sources of energy are made to seem "out there" and too expensive. Do a little research... they're not. And, get this, other than installation and maintenance, it's FREE energy. Why in the world do you think the U.S. isn't spending more for solar and wind power? Oh sure, they're researching hydrogen power... but who has an interest in that? Could it be our illustrious commander-in-chief? Or perhaps our vice president. Or maybe just a friend of theirs.
Consider this... why haven't vehicles been manufactured with better gas mileage yet? Over the years, a few people have patented designs to do exactly that. Do you really think, as fast-paced as science is now, that no one has made ANY improvements on a gas-powered engine? Recently scientists have surpassed the speed of light. Automobiles have been around for almost 100 years now, but we're still only getting maybe 20+ miles a gallon? Puh-lease.
The United States must be the laughing stock of the rest of the world. Can our government ever get over the childish "I won't play with you because you're (insert party affiliation here)." There are more serious things to think about than if someone is republican/democratic. If our government would stop name calling and slamming each other and start working together, the U.S. could become such a great country.
I'm proud to be American, but I'm ashamed of how it's being run.
I found this on Boing Boing today:
I was watching part of Pres. Bush's speech this morning. It reminded me of a comedian I saw a while back (don't remember who, or I'd link it). They were talking about how when President Bush is talking, he all of a sudden gets a smirk on his face like he hears the ice cream truck coming. Then, keep watching, his face looks like he's thinking about which ice cream he wants. Finally, he gets a big grin on his face like he finally got the ice cream and took a bite.
Seriously, the next time you see a speech by President Bush, keep this in mind. It is so true.
