Sunday, December 21, 2008

The Freudian Slip Of Politico.com: What Most Of Us REALLY Feel


It's not just wishful thinking anymore!

I did the same thing in my last post, but this one was unintentional:
(Politico.com - Breaking News)
Saturday - 2:38 PM

President Obama has now upped his goal to creating nearly 3 million jobs over the next two years, up from 2.5 million just a month ago, Democratic officials said Saturday.
(Politico.com - Breaking News)
Saturday - 2:47 PM

CORRECTED: President-elect Obama has now upped his goal to creating nearly 3 million jobs over the next two years, from 2.5 million just a month ago, Democratic officials said Saturday.
This shows how people are chomping at the bit for January 20. How will we ever survive the next 30 days? Will B**h up the number of deregulations up to 300? This is stupid and vengeful! It would have been easier if he'd staged a coup d'etat and declared himself either king or Dictator for Life!

How George Pictured Himself.
By the Grace of God, of Course

Friday, December 19, 2008

One Presidency: $200 million, A Shoe Thrown At The President: $34, Discribing Bush in One Word: Priceless

"The Good Old Days"


NOW We Can Talk Approval Ratings?

Pew Research is always pretty accurate. We have a daily feed to our home page that gives us the latest on Politics and Religion. We've used them before, and the numbers have been real eye-openers!

But when it comes to the last eight years and George W. B**h, the numbers vindicate our resentment, while - frankly- making us laugh at the same time! I wish there were a way for Pew Research representatives to follow around Rove and B**h in his "Legacy Tour" with placards of ratings.

When I saw the below stastics, it made me howl! From "Christian" to "Idiot" (sort of redundant) see what the country REALLY thinks of our diplomatic dimwit. The numbers are NOT percentages, but how many people out of 1000 responded with these words when asked for a one-word description both in 2004 and 1008

Describing Bush in One Word:



'04
'08

Change

Incompetent 21 56 35
Idiot 12 27 15
Ignorant 2 14 12
Honorable 5 16 11
Selfish 5 13 8
Stupid 12 16 4
Ass 6 9 3
Dedicated 7 8 1
OK 5 5 0
Patriot/Patriotic 6 5 -1
Sincere 5 4 -1
Arrogant 25 23 -2
Determined 10 7 -3
Great 7 3 -4
Confident 7 3 -4
Honest 35 31 -4
Good 26 20 -6
IntegrityBold 16 9 -7
Dishonest 9 1 -8
Excellent 11 0 -14
Fair 18 5 -13
Christian 14 0 -14
Liar 18 4 -14
Strong 18 4 -14
Leader 30 8 -22


Now Let's Talk LEGACIES!!: (This one in %)


NOW Let's See Percentage Comparisons: Clinton, Jan. 01 Bush, Dec. 08
Accomplishments 60% 24% Failures 27% 64%
These figures are almost completely reversed!

In other words, The feelings about Clinton's failures in 2001 were the same as Bush's accomplishments in 2008! And Republicans castigated Clinton while everyone thought of him as a successful President and backed Bush when everyone thought of him as incompetent!

So it's in black and white: people think Bush is an ass who has ruined the country and the Republican Party.

Just a thought!


Thursday, December 18, 2008

"And We Bessech Thee, Oh Lord, To Give This President The Courage to Kill Muslims And Gays For They Are Evildoers. Amen!"


Oh, But Lord, I Personally Am
NOT
A Hater Of Muslims Or Gays!
(No one could EVER pin those stupid phobia names on ME!)

I realize that Obama is trying desperately to reach out to everyone in the country. Unfortunately, that includes Christofascists. And the emerging Christofascist of the day is none other than Rick Warren.

(From Box Turtle Bulletin)

The New York Times’ Katharine Seelye is reporting that Rick Warren, the pastor at Saddleback Church, has been chosen by President-elect Barack Obama to deliver the invocation at the inaugural ceremony.

This is the same Rick Warren who recently said that the relationships of his “many gay friends” are no different from child rape, incest or polygamy. He also jumped on the paranoia bandwagon surrounding same-sex marriage by falsely claiming that Prop 8’s failure somehow would have overturned the Constitution’s First Amendment guarantees of freedom of speech and religion. (It can’t. No law or state constitution can.).

Warren on gays:

… Most people, you know… I have many gay friends, I’ve eaten dinner in gay homes, no church has probably done more for people with AIDS than Saddleback Church. Kay and I have given millions of dollars out of “A Purpose-Driven Life” helping people who got AIDS through gay relationships. So they can’t accuse me of homophobia. I just don’t believe in the re-definition of marriage.

Hmmm. I think he's lying.

"Shock! Shock! Shock! You just called the country's most influential 'Man of God' a Liar!"

Yeah, so?

Let's look at the statements a little bit closer: "I have many gay friends." After he compares you to a child rapist would YOU be friends with Rick Warren? "...no church has probably done more for people with AIDS than Saddleback Church." It's a pity all the people who can attest to that live in Africa. "...people who got AIDS through gay relationships." Meaning: "gay relationships cause AIDS."

Like the true Christofascist he is, Warren lies like a pro.

Just a thought.


From 4,000 Sqaure Feet of Horse Manure to 12,000 Sqaure Feet of Opulence!

From Luxury and Opulence to Texas Cowboy Down-home AND BACK AGAIN!


$3 Million My Ass!

The exclusive Preston Hollow neighborhood is where former President George W. Bush (sorry, but I can't wait!) will supposedly be residing after his disastrous tenure in office (couldn't wait to say that, either!). I say "supposedly" because I have serious doubts about what functions this "estate" will perform. Will it truly be a home for the Bushes or is it really a rouse?

The first "pictures" of the estate, if they were true, showed a one-level suburban home not quite worth the first estimate of $2 million. The estate shown here looks the opposite: huge to the point of being a steal for the last estimate, $3 million. The main house looks to be at least 10-12,000 square feet. There is a forecourt with a reflecting pool, stables, separate pool area with cabana and what looks like an older (but still very large) house, presumably guest or staff quarters. It sits on 4 acres of prime Dallas real estate and its neighbors are T. Boone Pickens and Ross Perot.


Dallas' Preston Hollow is also newsworthy for a bit of racial discrimination

Wikipedia:

In 2006, Preston Hollow Elementary School achieved notoriety after a lawsuit claiming the school's class-assignment policies violated the 1952 Supreme Court Brown v. Board of Education decision. Judge Sam Lindsay ruled in November that the school's practices were not legal because they attempted to keep white students together even if minority students had to be placed in inappropriate courses.


A close look at Preston Hollow real estate makes you wonder how the Bushes could have gotten their 4-acre, 8 bedroom, 12,000 sf. estate for less than $10 million. The top price for a home in Preston Hollow? A mere $45 million.

And remember: it's where the Bushes lived BEFORE he tried to channel Will Rogers! And before he got snubbed by the NAACP!

Something's afoot! And it's not just arrogant stupidity!

Just a thought.

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Gays and Christofascists In The Battle Of Newsweek!


Lisa Miller Has A Lot Of Courage
And Now, A Lot Of Enemies

The Christofascists came out of the woodwork last week and are not going to let Lisa Miller, Newsweek's religion editor, keep her job, her integrity, nor her sanity.

SBC's Stith also denounced Hollywood's attempt to make biblical arguments. "Anyone who cares to spend thirty minutes of serious study would see the many flaws in Black’s argument," he said.
Unfortunately, 30 minutes is still 29 minutes too many for most American Christians. And Stith doesn't sound as if he's exactly a biblical textual critical or scholar either:

"On several occasions, sometimes with tears in my own eyes, I’ve said to people about actions in which they were involved, 'You know, this isn’t God’s best for you. He has something better if you’re willing to walk in obedience.' Does this make me a 'hater' or does it mean that I care about that person and genuinely believe that God knows what He’s talking about?" Stith posed.

It may not make him a hater, but it does make him an arrogant, insulting idiot. How dare he insinuate that what I am is sinful? Stith has the mind of a bullhorn-toting street preacher. "...with tears in my own eyes."? Gimme a break! Remember: Stith is part of the glorious Southern Baptist Convention, the same organization that believed AIDS was a disease sent to purge our society of demonspawn.

And it has never apologized for kicking people out of their homes while they were sick and dying. If the Convention's view of homosexuality is anything like its view of slavery, we'll get an apology 150 years from now.

If we're lucky.

Just a thought.

And just for fun, here's another clip from Prop 8 - The Musical




How Bush Killed Off The Fish


And The Wildlife And, Well, The Rest Of The Country

We've seen what George W. B**h has been doing to the environment in his "midnight" rulings, but few people know that he's been raping the environment for years. The stories below show that B**h, Republicans, big business all benefited from deregulation of everything concerning flora and fauna in the U.S.

(AP) WASHINGTON –

A high-ranking Interior Department official tainted nearly every decision made on the protection of endangered species over five years, a new inspector general report finds, concluding she exerted improper political interference on many more rulings than previously thought.

Julie MacDonald, a former deputy assistant secretary overseeing the Fish and Wildlife Service, did pervasive harm to the department's morale and integrity and may have risked the well-being of species with her agenda, Interior Inspector General Earl Devaney said in his report out Monday.

Just what did MacDonald have to gain by harming fish and wildlife? Just what every loyal B**hite wanted: to advance the conservative agenda and to make money at it.

From Wikipedia:

MacDonald resigned on 1 May, 2007, one week before a House congressional oversight committee was to hold a hearing on the Inspector General's findings.

In November 2007, a followup report by the Inspector General found that MacDonald could have benefited financially from a decision to remove the Sacramento splittail fish from the federal endangered species list.

Detroit Free Press:
Although rarely front-page news, George Bush's eight years have been an ongoing exercise in gutting environmental protections.
And who benefits from all this gutting?

Raping the environment = B**h + Oil + Big Corporations

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Grinch Bush's Lumps Of Coal: 200 Deregulations


And He Won't Stop Giving Out Those Lumps Of Coal Until January 19, 2009!


Think Progress has compiled the latest list of deregulations pushed through by George B**h. Check out Bush's Backward Sprint To The Finish It's a list more appropriate for Halloween because it is guaranteed to scare the pants off anyone. Maybe Bush thinks of himself as more like a Grinch who steals from the stockings of the poor and middle class and gives all the holiday gifts to his cronies and the rich corporations.

It's passed the time to get impeachment gifts. So many people want him out of office that they are rushing to inhale the fresh air of a changed Washington and forgetting that they are not the only ones who have been affected by the B**h Doctrine and its policies: other countries want a crack at him after Barack Obama's inauguration.