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Tag Archives: Bush
An open letter to President Obama
Dear Mr. President, Holy freaking crap. No, really. I come home from a beautiful sunny walk this morning to this headline: Memo: Two al Qaeda leaders waterboarded 266 times. I don’t care what your excuse is, President Obama – I … Continue reading
Posted in Musings
Tagged Bush, Cheney, doing the right thing, Obama, torture, waterboarding
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A Final Goodbye…
On the eve of the final day of the Bush administration, I just wanted to send a final message to George W. Bush – something that I remember my father saying to me many, many times as a teenager. And … Continue reading
Colbert on the so-called “Protect America Act”
Hilarious. Also excellent use of things I hate about text-messaging, and fun with robo-calls!
It only gets worse…
First, please have a look at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6931776.stm. Apparently, we don’t even have the secret FISA courts to protect us now. And let us not forget that the FISA court itself was considered a draconian breach of civil liberties. Even if … Continue reading
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Tagged Administration, Alberto Gonzales, Bush, Congress, Democrats, Justice Department, Politics, scary stuff
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President Cheney???
Um… this scares the crap out of me. Wonder what damage you can do in 150 minutes or so?
Justice Department attorney op-ed on the Bush Justice Department
There’s a great op-ed in last week’s Denver Post from long-time Justice Department attorney John Koppel about the disgraces of the Bush Justice Department. The guy is risking his job to express his dismay, so do him the favor of … Continue reading
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Tagged Administration, Alberto Gonzales, Bush, Gonzalesgate, Justice Department
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Misdirection and Crack-Smoking Fiends
All right, I’ve had it. *turns on megaphone* People of the American Empire: Bush’s pardon commutation of Scooter Libby’s sentence has nothing to do with Bill Clinton. Bill Clinton isn’t even the issue here. Bill Clinton has nothing to do … Continue reading
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Tagged Administration, Bill Clinton, Bush, idiots, Scooter Libby
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Oh, FANTASTIC…
Yes, our friendly neighborhood fascist dictator president has decided to pardon Scooter Libby. (Call it a commutation if you like, Mr. Shrub, sir, but a pardon it is.) Heckuva job, Bushie. Let’s not even pretend not to be hypocritical and … Continue reading
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Tagged Administration, Bush, idiots, Politics, Scooter Libby
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Wow, they really ARE stupid.
So I think it’s no surprise that the U.S. administration, in their current Iran warmongering, would consider fabricating evidence so that they’d have an excuse to do the same horrible things they did in bringing war to Iraq. But this, … Continue reading
Did someone give the press their gonads back?
I’m watching the Bush press conference this morning, and found 3 things interesting… 1) Bush looked like someone had pissed in his Cheerios as he walked to the podium. I’ll own up – it was me. 2) Bush’s alternating backpedalling … Continue reading
