Top Ten George W. Bush Complaints About ”Fahrenheit 9/11”

Wed 06/30/04 at 11:16 am

CBS | Late Show Top Ten Archive: June 29, 2004

10. That actor who played the President was totally unconvincing
9. It oversimplified the way I stole the election
8. Too many of them fancy college-boy words
7. If Michael Moore had waited a few months, he could have included the part where I get him deported
6. Didn’t have one of them hilarious monkeys who smoke cigarettes and gives people the finger
5. Of all Michael Moore’s accusations, only 97% are true
4. Not sure - - I passed out after a piece of popcorn lodged in my windpipe
3. Where the hell was Spider-man?
2. Couldn’t hear most of the movie over Cheney’s foul mouth
1. I thought this was supposed to be about Dodgeball

(via NewMexiKen)


Clever Heather?

Wed 06/30/04 at 10:54 am

New Mexico Politics with Joe Monahan

[S]ources in Washington report Wilson has cast [three] votes this month that are clearly aimed at positioning herself as an ”independent” voice for the ABQ district and not the ”rubber stamp” for the Prez her Democratic opponent Richard Romero accuses her of being.

”Heather was one of only three Republicans out of 220 to vote for the CIA cuts. It was a clear break with the leadership and came on the heels of her strong words condemning the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by our military. With Romero hammering her for being a tool of (House Majority Leader) Delay and the hard-core conservatives, she is clearly positioning herself so when she calls herself an independent she will have the ammo to back up the claim,” analyzed a Washington politico close to the action. …

Washington insiders say Heather may not run into trouble with her GOP bosses over her votes because, as one of them put it, ”they may very well be providing her cover. Her vote was not needed on any of these measures. They know what she needs to put Romero away and it would not be surprising if they are giving these votes their blessing. I also don’t think these votes will damage her any with rank and file Republicans”

Whatever the case, Wilson knows that the Iraq war and the President are not awash in popularity among swing voters in ABQ.She hopes her June declaration of independence will echo on the campaign trail come October forcing Romero to dig deeper in explaining his rubber stamp argument. Should we call her ”Clever Heather?”

Three votes do not an independent make. mjh

WilsonWatch.org | Heather Wilson (R-NM-1)


Effing Great!

Wed 06/30/04 at 9:11 am

As of this writing, my blog entry is number 5 out of 14,300 for queries to Google for dick cheney says go fuck yourself. Curiously, that entry is only 85 out of 65,100 for ‘cheney go f yourself’. And my DumpBushBlog entry on this doesn’t get listed at all, as far as I can see. mjh

mjh’s Blog: Cheney says: Go Fuck Yourself, America!

mjh’s Dump Bush weBlog: Same Old Campaign Slogan


www.RedefeatBush.com

Tue 06/29/04 at 9:00 pm

ReDefeat Bush - His Own Right: George W. Bush and the Collapse of the Conservative Consensus

[W]hat is increasingly troubling to many of them is that Bush is undermining the very foundations of conservatism, preparing the structure for its imminent collapse. …

At its best, conservatism has three pillars that anchor it to the bedrock of American politics: that conservatives are realists who see the world as it is rather than through an idealistic prism, that they are fiscally responsible and disciplined, and that they are people who are free of bombast and pretense, who speak clearly and honestly. Happily for the American left, George W. Bush is thoroughly undermining each of those pillars. Not only is Bush increasingly likely to lose to his Democratic opponent in the fall, but he’s fracturing the conservative coalition and causing at least one crucial member – the commercial news media, which loves a winner above all else – to start to defect….

Finally, conservatives say they hate pretense and doublespeak and love clarity and honestly above all else. Despite his calls for humility during his campaign, arrogance and unreason have become the cornerstones of the Bush presidency. …

Bush is going to have to face his failures and answer serious questions by serious people. Few Americans can answer yes to the famous question posed by Ronald Reagan in 1980, are you better off now than you were four years ago? For the rest of us, the evidence in the news, our bank accounts and our daily lives points instead to the obvious conclusion that the nation has tried conservatism and that it is now time, after just a short four year reign, for something completely different.


Ridiculously Short Fiction

Mon 06/28/04 at 10:44 am

Results of The Alibi’s Ridiculously Short Fiction Contest have been published. See the following link for all the entries. The next three links are to my entries (the first of which got one of the Honorable Mentions — cool! Thanks, Alibi.) It is interesting to note the tone common to most of these short pieces. mjh

alibi . june 24 - 30, 2004

The Alibi’s Ridiculously Short Fiction Contest

mjh’s Blog: Thinking Today about Tomorrow’s Museum of Yesterday

mjh’s Blog: August Two Moons

mjh’s Blog: No Contest


Bush in NM (a battleground state)

Fri 06/25/04 at 5:00 pm

New Mexico Politics with Joe Monahan

For the first time in three surveys, soon-to-be Dem Prez nominee John Kerry cracks the magic 50% mark in the interactive New Mexico Zogby poll. My insiders are tracking the numbers and report in that Kerry gets 50%, Bush garners 43% and Ralph Nader just 1% in the poll conducted June 14-20 and that sports a margin of error of plus or minus 4.4%.

”The bad news in this poll is how Bush is running with Democrats. He gets only 12%. He must bring that number up, or he is going to lose this state,” predicted one analyst who is studying the numbers.

Bush does get a solid 93% among NM Republican voters but this is a Democratic state and there simply are not enough R’s here for him to carry the day. ”Bush needs to get a quarter or more of the Democrats if he is gong to win in November. Another concern for him is his weakening support in this poll in smaller cities and rural areas. That’s the first time we have seen that,” commented my deep insider.


Reagan Legacy

Fri 06/25/04 at 1:48 pm

alibi . june 24 - 30, 2004

At his father’s burial service, Ronald Reagan Jr., said: ”Dad was … a deeply, unabashedly religious man. But he never made the fatal mistake of so many politicians wearing his faith on his sleeve to gain political advantage.” The statement clearly rebuked the current Bush administration’s faith-based governmental policies, and days later Salon scored an exclusive interview with the famous dog show host that has since made it difficult for Bush to wrap himself in the Reagan legacy.

”My father was a man — that’s the difference between him and Bush,” Reagan told Salon. ”To paraphrase Jack Palance, my father crapped bigger ones than George Bush.”

”The Bush people have no right to speak for my father, particularly because of the position he’s in now,” Reagan continued. ”Yes, some of the current policies are an extension of the ’80s. But the overall thrust of this administration is not my father’s — these people are overly reaching, overly aggressive, overly secretive and just plain corrupt. I don’t trust these people.”

It wasn’t the first time Ron Jr. skewered Dubya in the press. During the 2000 GOP convention he told the Washington Post: ”The big elephant sitting in the corner is that George W. Bush is simply unqualified for the job. What’s his accomplishment? That he’s no longer an obnoxious drunk?”


Same Old Campaign Slogan

Fri 06/25/04 at 11:07 am

angry Dick

Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally reveal the campaign slogan for Bush / Cheney (re)election: Go Fuck Yourself! Everyone noted this does not constitute any change in policy or tenor. mjh

mjh’s Blog: Cheney says: Go Fuck Yourself, America!


Cheney says: Go Fuck Yourself, America!

Fri 06/25/04 at 9:18 am

angry DickThe Australian: Cheney curses on Senate floor [June 25, 2004]

After the photo shoot, Mr Cheney approached Leahy and protested the senator’s recent criticism of Halliburton, the huge Defence Department contractor accused of profiteering in Iraq.

Senator Leahy had reminded Mr Cheney that he had once called Senator Leahy a bad Catholic, to which Mr Cheney responded either “fuck you” or “fuck yourself.”

Foremost, let me say I have no problem with the word ”fuck.” I use it often and like the sound of it. I do have a problem with fucking hypocrits, like the Radical Right which is so high and mighty.

Notice the incident began with Cheney approaching Leahy to bully him about Halliburton. When Leahy brought up that Cheney had called him a ”bad Catholic,” Cheney said one of these (how can there be uncertainty on this?):

fuck you
fuck off
go fuck yourself

(see what happens when we have American Ayatollahs?).

This has been the Bush/Cheney message all along. mjh

FCC Fines Dick Cheney $250,000 For Using The “F” Word In The Senate Floor (TheDailyFarce.com)

In a press conference this morning, Michael Powell, FCC Chairman, announced that Vice President Dick Cheney would be fined $250,000 for using the ‘f’ word in the Senate Floor.

The exchange occurred last Tuesday in the Senate, when Senator Patrick Leahy said hello to Vice President Dick Cheney. They began discussing politics, religion and money, when Dick Cheney told Senator Leahy to “fuck off” or “go fuck yourself”.

“This is a new low.” Stated Michael Powell, FCC Chairman, “Our kids can’t watch the Super Bowl any more, and now, they can’t watch C-Span any longer either! What is this country turning into? I just don’t fucking get it. God I have to fine myself now! Shit! Oh that’s another fine for me! Damn!”


How Much Poison Is Too Much Poison?

Wed 06/23/04 at 2:45 pm

Toxic pollution rose 5 percent in 2002, reversing trend By JOHN HEILPRIN
Associated Press Writer

Toxic chemical releases into the environment rose 5 percent in 2002, marking only the second such increase reported by the Environmental Protection Agency in nearly two decades, and the first since 1997. …

The increase reversed a recent trend, and was a big turnaround from last year’s report by EPA that chemical releases in 2001 had declined 13 percent from a year earlier. …

Note that the EPA figures showing this huge increase do NOT include ”releases from metal mining … because of a recent court decision in an industry challenge.” So, it is actually worse than it seems. mjh

Even so, a study by two environmental groups said EPA was underreporting the air pollution portion of releases of chemicals and emissions by 330 million pounds a year. They cast the inventory as particularly soft on refineries and chemical plants, keeping as much as 16 percent of the nation’s air pollution ”off the books.” …

”Ironically, if environmentalists intend to push for an even greater regulatory burden on refineries, they may complicate the smooth introduction of newer, cleaner fuels,” [The National Petrochemical and Refiners Association] trade group said [mjh: ‘threatened,’ may be a better word]. …

Sen. Jim Jeffords, I-Vt., a senior member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, said the 2002 increase ”proves that the policies of the Bush administration have moved us backward, not forward, on the environment.”


The Writer’s Almanac (again)

Wed 06/23/04 at 2:44 pm

I keep forgetting the Writer’s Almanac, which surprises me because every time NewMexiKen reminds me to visit it, I find much to enjoy and too many things I’d like to quote. Go see for yourself, but here are few from this week.mjh

”I wanted safety in blue distance, illimitable, uninhabited. I wanted … the grandeur of free solitude.” and ”Beauty is excrescence, superabundance, random ebullience, and sheer delightful waste to be enjoyed in its own right.” — naturalist and writer Donald Culross Peattie

My book is an open life / …
Until something transcendent turns up
I plash in my poetry puddle
and try to keep God amused
– Having Come This Far by James Broughton

It is marvellous to wake up together
At the same minute; marvellous to hear
The rain begin suddenly all over the roof
– It is Marvellous by Elizabeth Bishop

It rained all of some hundredths of an inch yesterday (12 drops at my house), a technicality ‘ending‘ our 5th longest stretch without measurable rain. Better than nothing — truly so, no matter how close to nothing it seems. mjh

See the poem, “The Vacuum,” by Howard Nemerov.

And let us all remember and celebrate George Orwell (born Eric Blair) on his birthday, Friday, 6/25 (1903). mjh

”Every line of serious work that I have written [since the Spanish Civil War] has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism.”

”The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns … instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.”

”If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”

MPR’s The Writer’s Almanac


Amen, Jon

Tue 06/22/04 at 11:47 am

ABQjournal: Letters to the Editor

Our culture seems to be slowly moving toward a civil thuggery supported by increasingly brutish legal and governmental bodies.

The Department of Homeland Security and the Patriot Act are part and parcel to the militarization of our society. …

I am saddened to see our local governments being allowed to criminalize accidental incidents to the extent that they are. Compassion, understanding and forgiveness are being replaced with blame, punishment and criminalization. What a shame.

JON DAVIS
Albuquerque


Recommended Blog

Mon 06/21/04 at 4:02 pm

Howling At A Waning Moon

”Tracking the Bush Administration’s assault on the environment, our health, and our children’s quality of life.”


Land of the Free

Mon 06/21/04 at 11:30 am

Feds haul passenger off cruise ship in cuffs for marshmallow incident BY CATHERINE WILSON

A teacher’s aide who forgot to put away her marshmallows and hot chocolate at Yellowstone National Park last year was taken from her cruise ship cabin in handcuffs and hauled before a judge Friday, wrongfully accused of failing to pay the fine.

Hope Clarke, 32, crying and in leg shackles, told the judge she was rousted at 6:30 a.m. by federal agents after the ship returned to Miami from Mexico. [She spent nearly nine hours in detention.] She insisted that she had been required to pay the $50 fine before she could leave Yellowstone, which has strict rules about food storage to prevent wildlife from eating human food.

Customs agents meet all cruise ships arriving from foreign ports and run random checks of passenger lists, and a warrant claiming Clarke had not paid the fine was found in the federal database.

This seems like an overreaction, to terrorize someone over such an offense. I hope she sues John AssKraft. mjh


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