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Between $700 billion+
The bailouts of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
AIG
Bear Sterns
Enron. While being told by the adminstration that most of those financial structures were sound. Until they weren’t.
Cheney’s private energy meetings. Gas prices are prohibitively high. Energy company profits too.
Private contractors (cooking, cleaning, some transport no longer handled by the military) are costing us billions.
The use of a private mercenary force in Iraq at $300,000 per head.
The Iraq War. Had nothing to do with the attacks that occured on September 11th. Costs about 10 Billion a month. Not to mention the lives lost. Our soldiers lives lost.
Further jeopardizing national security by borrowing money from China and Saudi Arabia to pay for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
Not to mention the loss of some of our traditional allies, world prestige, moral authority.
You and I are trillions of dollars in debt.
And did you know the Bush Adminstration had the balls to ask for no oversight of the 700 billion economic bailout? In the original three paged document.
And no guarentee that any of this will work.
Bush probably thinks we can get out of this by asking 700 of his father’s friends for a billion dollars each. You know, the way he solved most of his problems in his life. By pushing the responsibility onto someone else. Like us.
If you still believe Bush was a good president. Or that his successes outweight his failures. You sir or ma’am, are the biggest fucking idiot that has ever lived. Your opinion is on this matter is worthless. You, sir or ma’am, honestly, are dumber than Bush.
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We are already dealing with the fallout from leadership like hers. I shudder at the thought we could allow it again.
Signed, a very smart person who states the obvious for the oblivious. One of the 155,000 comments against the idea of the Dummy in Vice Chief. They started the fricken thing 3 weeks ago.
First and Third Friday of each month, 6:30 pm. Where? Little Kings Shuffle Club, 223 W. Hancock St. Athens, Ga.
Like Athenians need an excuse to drink. If you do need please come and visit. Another exciting episode of conversation, drinking, light political discussion and commiserating with very nice people. I mean, that’s what I hope to do anyway. Civil and informal. It’s exactly the kind of thing I appreciate about this town. And the drinking.
Depending how much you hate yourself, you might can attend the 24th Annual North Georgia Folk Festival on Saturday. I don’t hate myself that much, but Hope For Agoldensummer is performing. Claire Campbell’s voice is beautiful, enough to melt the sun. Plus they’ll be other singing and crafts and stuff. Plus it’s cheap and not far from home. I can always go back should the catawallin’ get to be too much. It’s likely to.
Sunday is for roller derby. The cute woman of the Classic City Rollergirls knocking down other cute woman for sport, fun and charity is somehow really honest good clean fun. Part of the proceeds go to Canine Companions for Independance. It seems that whenever there’s Claire in town there’s roller derby. Can you think of something better to do on a Sunday? Well you can’t do that at church. Even if you could, should you? There is a time and place for that. From 7 pm to 9 pm at the Skank-A-Round.
If there were roller derby at church you wouldn’t have this problem of no one showing up, would you? I’m just saying.
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Are you a fan of Governor Sarah Palin? Do you like her so much that you too wish you were born of her womb? Do you wish your name oozed class like Claptrap, Catbox or Trapper Keeper? Me too! This link will make your dreams come true.
http://politsk.blogspot.com/2008/09/sarah_13.html
My Palin name is Drill Swollen. I really wanted Trapper Keeper. Trapper Keeper translates to Rot Pipeline. The site is good for unnamed children too.
A good vice president doesn’t have to have a lot of experience or be under an ethics investigation, but they should have good baby naming skills. She makes Micheal Jackson’s kid naming skills look almost normal. Paris Michael Katherine Jackson, Prince Michael I Junior (real name Micheal Joseph Jackson, Jr) and Prince Michael II aka Blanket. Almost.
Jermajesty is Jermaine’s.
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I generally avoid shows of patriotism, remembrance etc on days like this. I’ve seen too many over done, poorly done, overwrought to the point of dishonoring it’s importance. I don’t need a flag pin to prove anything. Like anything else that matters, actions demonstrate ardor, not commercialism passed as patriotism. I can and will be crass on my own without any of that shit (for example).
This blogger’s post about her experience from that day is neither. Hers is not the only story from that day, but there are qualities there that should be understood. Some of that salt of the earth quality that has run out the traditional places, but we refuse to look for otherwise. We make that error like commercialism mistaken for patriotism. Or President as partisan savior quarterback for Jesus.
She is America, too.
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Wait. Governor “Ellie Mae” Palin compares women to a vicious animal and that’s OK?
For those of you who understand English like a second language how about this?
“You can’t make a Silk Purse out of a Sow’s Ear.”
- Jonathan Swift (1667 – 1745)
Same thing.
Why haven’t we held President “Jethro W Bodine” Bush to every misstatement? Probably because we can’t make out just what the f— that idiot is trying to say. Fortunately it’s all documented for us here. With video in context.
“The true strength of America happens when a neighbor loves a neighbor just like they’d like to be loved themselves.”—Elizabeth, N.J., June 16, 2003
“Let me start off by saying that in 2000 I said, ‘Vote for me. I’m an agent of change.’ In 2004, I said, ‘I’m not interested in change—I want to continue as president.’ Every candidate has got to say ‘change.’ That’s what the American people expect.” —Washington, D.C., March 5, 2008
Didn’t we just have 8 years of a Jethro in charge? Now you want to pass it on to a critter hatin’ Ellie Mae? You Republicans / PUMAs sure do love you some ignorant hillbillies in the Oval Office.
John “Mr Drisdale“ McCain speaking not that long ago.
Or in other words you and Ellie Mae and the clan have been proven, once again, to be bullshit filled hypocrites.
So shut up.
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See previous editions here and here.
Palin: Iraq war ‘a task that is from God’
A more complete version of the video here. It doesn’t improve in full context.
Fuck. Who else was on the short list? Christian parenting train wreck expert Lynne Spears? Known felon, drug addict and truly batshit crazy Larry Sinclair? Maxwell Q Klinger? The crossdressing army corporal from the hit TV series M*A*S*H? No. Klinger only pretended to be crazy and is overqualified. Matlock? The part detective part lawyer who always solved the case? High up on McCain’s list, no doubt. If McCain had hired Matlock to actually vet Palin he wouldn’t be having these problems in the first place.
Yup. Anita Bryant meets Dan Quayle. Palin is the white male conservatives idea of the feminist dream. Smarter than Bush but twice as crazy batshit. Honoring God’s will is to build gas lines in Alaska and start wars. Bush has managed to do it, she and McCain will continue the tradition. We see how well that’s worked out with gas over $3 a gallon, thousands of our men and woman killed in Iraq for no good reason and any moral authority we had diminished. The lesson learned? It’s the Great American God Complex! There’s no learning lessons!
If you must. How’s this?
She was elected governor largely because the incumbent was unpopular, and she’s won over Alaskans mostly by using unprecedented oil wealth to give a $1,200 rebate to every resident. Now she is being praised by McCain’s campaign as a tax cutter, despite the fact that Alaska has no state income or sales tax. Perhaps McCain has opposed affirmative action for so long that he doesn’t know it’s about inviting more people to meet standards, not lowering them. Or perhaps McCain is following the Bush administration habit, as in the Justice Department, of putting a job candidate’s views on “God, guns and gays” ahead of competence. The difference is that McCain is filling a job one 72-year-old heartbeat away from the presidency.
Palin’s value to those patriarchs is clear: She opposes just about every issue that women support by a majority or plurality. She believes that creationism should be taught in public schools but disbelieves global warming; she opposes gun control but supports government control of women’s wombs; she opposes stem cell research but approves “abstinence-only” programs, which increase unwanted births, sexually transmitted diseases and abortions; she tried to use taxpayers’ millions for a state program to shoot wolves from the air but didn’t spend enough money to fix a state school system with the lowest high-school graduation rate in the nation; she runs with a candidate who opposes the Fair Pay Act but supports $500 million in subsidies for a natural gas pipeline across Alaska; she supports drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve, though even McCain has opted for the lesser evil of offshore drilling. She is Phyllis Schlafly, only younger.
Thank you, Ms. Steinem. You set us straight again. It is possible things can get worse. Back to my crassness.
If the J. Howard Marshall and Anna Nicole of American politics get elected, prepare to be knocked up in the following months. If they win, it’s the election that will be an abortion.
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Vice Presidential and future Tina Fey parody Sarah Palin.
Sarah Plain and Dumb
This just in…
Palin says 17-year-old daughter is pregnant
The governess is not the only one who is woefully inexperienced now. I hate it when presidential elections resemble “The Jerry Springer Show”.
Miss Half Baked Alaska, for God and Glory, is going to run for office with her underage, unmarried, pregnant daughter in the spotlight. Tell me conservatives: How morally f’ed up is that?
So. This is the best argument against the Old /Young tag team of Obama /Biden ticket? A 20 month governor, gun toting, redneck former beauty queen with less experience than Obama who is alleged to have walked around for 12 hours after her water broke during a speech?
Will she make her daughter run around for hours campaigning when her water breaks, like the governess did with her last child? Someone get children services on the phone. I wish this situation wasn’t so bizarre that it was almost funny.
At first blush I thought Governor Palin was a smart move. And on the surface it is. Female and much younger. You may think this is a horrible thing to say, but McCain isn’t likely to make it through 8 years in office. Then I thought anyone he’d choose is going to be a bit younger.
How did McCain manage to choose a figurative polar opposite? People complained when Obama went on vacation, to visit his grandmother in Hawaii. Sassy Bojangles is from Alaska. Where would you prefer to vacation?
She was the mayor of a town called Wasilla, Alaska before being elected to the governorship. 5500 people. Before that she was a Miss Alaska. Based on those qualifications we could replace her with Suzanne Sommers of “She’s the Sheriff” and no one would know the difference.
If you are a ”Democrat for McCain” AKA a Hillary Cougar, I mean a Hillary PUMA, or simply put, a Republican, and you believe her addition is a match for the Obama/Biden ticket, your delusions are confirmed. Everyone believes Hillary was an excellent choice for president, even conservatives. Governor Palin’s appointment should be an insult to Geraldine Ferraro and her historic run for the office in the 1980s. If she was offended by Obama’s win, she should be doubly so now. I wish it weren’t so.
Of course Colbert and Stewart got to all the good jokes before I could. They can afford to write jokes all day long. I can take comfort in the fact that, with no proof, I thought of them first. Let’s see what they have to say tonight.
Spin conservative bullshit machine, spin. Your hypocrisy is showing.
UPDATE: The babys father’s name has just been revealed. He’s got a blog and the rude comments have already begun. He seems nice enough. I’m afraid the media circus will be a bit too much for the him and his baby’s mother during a challenging time.
