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We're Back 2007-09-13 20:35:37
We woke the dog up. Now we can't believe how fat everybody is.
Misery Roundup 2007-09-29 12:18:53 Inept President, Greedy Corporations, and U.S. Debt
Bush's sham climate conference -- which the lapdog media in the U.S. dutifully reported the way the white house wanted them to -- is already generating criticism around the world for its failures to mandate any meaningful targets for countries, instead relying on "voluntary" targets by the countries themselves. Bush is still with the "it will hurt the economy" nonsense, and the Union of Concerned Scientists is saying enough is enough.
The U.S. was accused of killing women and children in its air strike on a neighborhood in Baghdad. By the way, the Spanish newspaper El Universal had an expose on a conversation between Bush and then-Spanish prime minister Aznar in the period before the Iraq war when we were ostensibly waiting for the UN inspectors to do their work that asserts that Bush told Aznar there would be war with Iraq regardless of what the UN finds (article is in Spanish).
Also on Iraq, the Read more:Misery
Childrens 2007-09-27 02:00:04 "Childrens
do learn." At this point, we know only one public figure could utter that one. Yes, it's your president's eloquence at work again. At an education event, no less. Of course, the extra 's' was removed from the official white house transcript.
Childrens also don't get health coverage. What with Bush readying to veto a bill that would expand health care to more children, the administration is trying to throw the lapdog media off track and counter with its push to get the "No Child Left Behind" act renewed, a program the administration believes is a good track record regarding children. Never mind that the president failed to fund $56 billion towards the program, or that the improvements in test scores they tout are selective and not across the board.
Fake Crybaby 2007-10-18 12:04:03 Ellen is Wrong
We have never talked about celebrity news. We rail against it as part of what is dumbing down this country. But we do care a thing or two about animal shelters so we are weighing in on this.
Talk about vengeful. Ellen DeGeneres has caused a small, not-for-profit, all-volunteer rescue organization unimaginable grief because of her non-stop harangues on her daily TV show "Ellen." The rescue's owner has received death threats and she had to pull her website because the mailbox has been inundated with hate mail. At minimum it is interfering in the care of the animals in the shelter, and at worse she may even have to close down because of all of this.
All because Ellen decided she didn't like a puppy, didn't give it a chance and refused to follow the adoption rules of the rescue organization.
Ellen is angry and having a public hissy fit because she didn't get her way after she didn't adhere to her end of the contr
People Getting Dumber; Then Will Split Into Two Species? 2007-10-25 12:25:06 American kids are now "dumber than dirt" with worrying implications on the intelligence of the next generation. We commented on this last year with our report on the wrong people having babies, leading to a future idiocracy.
Going one step further, scientists are speculating that the human race may split into two species, one smart and the other dumb.
What does Bush think about this? Well, possibly nothing, because one columnist suggests Bush might actually be psychotic. Read more:Dumber
Criticism Mounts of Poor Federal Efforts in California Wildfires 2007-10-25 11:17:58 Today's San Diego Union-Tribune continued its coverage of the poor federal response to the wildfires that have devastated much of the county. Customs delays to get a Canadian firefighting aircraft in, red tape in joining Marine corps forces with California
firefighters, and delays in sending equipment, some of which wasn't sent until the worst of the fires were past.
Of course, now that the worst has passed, Bush is visiting San Diego for a well-planned dog and pony show. The lapdog media will no doubt do its part to make the administration appear in its best possible light. Read more:Criticism
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Late Again 2007-10-24 20:06:46
Not surprisingly, federal help was late to support fighting the wildfires in Southern California. According to the San Diego Union-Tribune:Why weren't U.S. Air Force and Air National
Guard planes already at nearby airfields and ready to drop water or
retardant, by prearrangement of the Pentagon and Gov. Arnold
Schwarzenegger?
Instead, The Associated Press reported that the
Pentagon's OK of the governor's request for such planes to help in San
Diego County did not come until yesterday morning. The planes won't
join the fight until this morning – six days after experts first warned
of a possible Santa Ana-fueled conflagration and nearly three days
after the Witch Creek blaze began its rampage from Ramona west to
Rancho Santa Fe and south to Poway. This is inexplicable.
Surprising from this usually pro-military paper, but of course they've been directly affected. Don't expect much of this from the other lapdog media. Read more:Again
Latest on Federal Response to Fires 2007-10-26 12:20:09 President Bush's photo-op visit to fire-ravaged San Diego caused aggravation for homeowners and firefighters. The presidential motorcade blocked access to residents who had just been allowed to return to their homes and prevented firefighters from getting to showers and meals.
As for the Bush administration's spin machine overdrive, FEMA hit a new low. It hastily scheduled a last-minute news conference where it had its own employees pose as reporters to ask softball questions.
Fingerpointing is still going on about the grounded copters which were delayed for days. Some blame federal and state red tape and bureaucracy while a defensive Governor Schwarzenegger and federal officials blame the winds. But our earlier reports of federal red tape at customs to get Canadian equipment here, as well as federal officials ignoring early wind warnings and delaying approvals for firefighting assets, we are well aware of the federal shortcomings. Of course, Go Read more:Federal
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