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
Monthly Archives: June 2004
Cheney says: Go Fuck Yourself, America!
The 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?
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)
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.”
Amen, Jon
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
”Tracking the Bush Administration’s assault on the environment, our health, and our children’s quality of life.”
Land of the Free
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