In yet another case of actions speaking louder than words, jobs were recently cut at a renewable energy research facility at just about the same time Bush is calling for increased research…the department of energy is trying to cover his ass by restoring the jobs before he visits the lab… Typical of the Bush administration…….
Category: Politics
'Millions more starving' by 2015
Incredible that this can still be the case while we spend how much in Iraq?? The world will have 100 million extra hungry people by 2015, scientists say. They were speaking at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Despite great improvements in food availability in the 1960s and…
Bush talks about more troops in Darfur, but why isn't anything being done about the genocide?
Below is what Bush had to say about Darfur in the Sudan where more than two million are homeless and tens of thousands of civilians have been murdered by two rebel factions in conflict with the Sudanese government since 2003. The US has not taken part in any peacekeeping in Africa since it left Somalia…
Cheney's Got a Gun
Mink Hippie just sent me this and I can’t stop laughing…not even long enough to wonder why she didn’t post it. Is she scared of Dick? cd cheneysgotagun.mp3 From the Bob Rivers Show lead vocals by Spike O’Neil
Vonnegut writes of 'contempt' for Bush
B*** actually did something good… I’m excited to read this. Vonnegut might not be razor sharp anymore – when he appeared on the Daily Show some months back, it appeared that Jon Stewart cut it short, seemingly afraid of what Vonnegut might say – but he still runs rings around most of the rest of…
First there were Freedom Fries
Now there are “Roses of the Prophet Muhammad…” Iranians wishing to buy Danish pastries will now have to ask for “Roses of the Prophet Muhammad”. Bakeries across the capital, Tehran, are covering up signs advertising the pastries and replacing them with ones bearing the dessert’s new name. The confectioners’ union ordered the name change in…
Terrible epidemic of Gonorrhea Lectim
Don’t know where to attribute this, since it had been forwarded multiple times. Thanks to whoever created it… The Center for Disease Control has issued a warning about a new virulent strain of Sexually Transmitted Disease. The disease is contracted through dangerous and high-risk behavior. The disease is called Gonorrhea Lectim, pronounced “gonna re-elect him.”…
U.S. Has Royalty Plan to Give Windfall to Oil Companies – New York Times
What???? This is completely unbelievable and completely true….What the Fuck? cd WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 — The federal government is on the verge of one of the biggest giveaways of oil and gas in American history, worth an estimated $7 billion over five years. New projections, buried in the Interior Department’s just-published budget plan, anticipate that…
The US dollar and Iranian oil
Link to the full article One of the unspoken reasons why the United States had to invade Iraq was to liberate the U.S. dollar in Iraq so that Iraqi oil could once again be purchased with the petrodollar. …When the Federal Reserve has money printed, when it is in uncut sheets of paper, it is…
Cheney accidentally shoots hunting companion
Oh my God!!!! This is fukn great! This is a real story!!!! It’s not the Onion, it’s not a joke! This really happened!!!!Jesus Christ, I am rolling on the fukn floor!!! cd WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally wounded a companion with shotgun pellets on a weekend quail hunt in Texas, his office…