All the news unfit to print for Tuesday, November 25, 2008
INTRIGUE OVER BUSH PHOTO: PRESIDENT DOWNING A PISCO SOUR COCKTAIL
Bush back on the sauce? One of the rules of someone that gives up liquor is that one drink can send you back on the road to perdition..
A Pisco Sour is a cocktail containing Pisco (a Peruvian brandy), lemon juice, egg whites, simple syrup, and regional bitters, and according to Andina online's coverage of the 2008 APEC summit, Bush was drinking the Peruvian cocktail during a meeting on Saturday...
No sip goes unnoticed: The HUFFINGTON POST gave national attention to the overseas cocktail on its website today..
For years since Iraq and Katrina, the NATIONAL ENQUIRER has reported to supermarket shoppers (and other interested parties that decline to admit they read it weekly) that Bush was drinking on a regular basis ..
The photograph of Bush's senior years will raise already curious eyebrows around the globe.. The cameras are always on..
This go around, it's not Mark Rich, but instead: 14 individuals and two others commuted .. misdeeds ranging from drug offenses to tax evasion, from wildlife violations to bank embezzlement..
Two words: Mission Accomplished. He regrets it. I think we all do..
"Bush told CNN's Heidi Collins when asked to reflect on his regrets over his two terms as president. "Like 'dead or alive' and 'bring 'em on.' My wife reminded me that, hey, as president of the United States, be careful what you say""
Bush went on,
"I am proud to be the commander in chief of people who are so selfless and so courageous that they would volunteer to serve our country in a time of war. I'm proud when I see people feed the hungry. I'm proud when I'm in Africa and see volunteers helping those citizens dying of HIV/AIDS"
I think history is the best judge of a president---LONG after it's all over and done with. We don't know what secrets lurk until years later, we don't know what secret classified documents will one day be revealed. After all, we're still learning about some presidents that served long ago even today..
While I don't believe there will be historians that forgive Bush for mismanagement of the Iraq war or Katrina, I believe they will be kind in their view of 9/11, especially in the sense that terrorism in America didn't occur again. However, equally, he may be maligned in history textbooks for civil liberties issues (*unless of course the Obama Administration continues down the same path, which it appears he may*)
Barney angry: Wonders why Sasha and Malia can't just keep him
Obama told his daughters they can get their puppy now..
Looks like Barney the Bush White House dog is angry he has to leave.. Barney broke a reporter's skin today at the White House..
Sasha, Malia: Take notes. Go with a kind and lazy golden retriever..
All the news unfit to print for Saturday, November 1, 2008
The November surprise: Show Aunt Zeituni the way to go home
Obama's aunt has been living in the United States illegally .. in 2004 she was denied asylum. Barack Obama today said he didn't know it.
This may have absolutely positively no effect on the campaign, but it's interesting how these little tiny events pop up to get in a candidates way on the road to the coronation White House.
The Associated Press reporting that Obama said he didn't know Aunt Zeituni was living in the United States illegally. Onyango has not been publicly spoken about by Obama in events like other members of his family were..
Reminiscent a little of that Bush DUI charge that came out only hours before the election in 2000? Yea. The October surprise came late.. And it's probably--like the Bush DUI issue--insignificant.
"Faulk says he and others in his section of the NSA facility at Fort Gordon routinely shared salacious or tantalizing phone calls that had been intercepted, alerting office mates to certain time codes of "cuts" that were available on each operator's computer.
"Hey, check this out," Faulk says he would be told, "there's good phone sex or there's some pillow talk, pull up this call, it's really funny, go check it out. It would be some colonel making pillow talk and we would say, 'Wow, this was crazy'," Faulk told ABC News.
Faulk said he joined in to listen, and talk about it during breaks in Back Hall's "smoke pit," but ended up feeling badly about his actions.
"I feel that it was something that the people should not have done. Including me," he said. "
President Bush said that this was not happening nor would it. If the ABC report is to believed, it did.
All the news unfit to print for Monday, September 29, 2008
And tonight, as America goes to sleep....
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TONIGHT: A LONELY PRESIDENT.. IN A QUIET WHITE HOUSE.. IN THE AUTUMN.. WATCHES THE ECONOMY FLOUNDER.. AND WONDERS HOW HE LOST THE FAITH
Paulson walked into the room where Democrats were caucusing after today's meeting at the White House and pleaded with them, "Please don't blow this up."
Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., chair of the House Financial Services Committee was livid saying, "Don't say that to us after all we've been through!"
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said, "We're not the ones trying to blow this up; it's the House Republicans."
All the news unfit to print for Monday, September 1, 2008
WE'RE THE WIVES FROM THE GOVERNMENT, AND WE'RE HERE TO HELP
Move over Jerry Lewis!
The would-be Republican convention has turned into a telethon.. Laura Bush and Cindy McCain lead the appeal for donations after Hurricane Gustav.. They appeared Monday night at an abridged version of opening night of the Republican Convention for the fundraising effort.. Delegates are also putting together comfort packages filled with supplies for hurricane victims..
George W. Bush and Dick Cheney are not going to address the Republican convention *if they have one!* And privately many Republicans are breathing a sigh of relief.. the Politico reporting that Bush's decision to pay attention to Gustav is saying the GOP an 'awkward moment'..
McCain has been rumored to be thinking of speaking to the convention via satellite.. Perhaps the week will be shortened due to the potential deadly impact of Gustav..
All the news unfit to print for Thursday, August 28, 2008
GUSTAV'S FIRST STRIKE: BUSH MAY NOT SPEAK AT GOP CONVENTION!
The irony of ironies.. Gustav is poised to strike the Gulf Coast, somewhere, maybe even New Orleans, early next week..
Conversations are underway tonight behind closed doors.. FEMA director already down in the South, and the President may not speak at the GOP convention..
Katrina hit New Orleans three years ago this week.. Gustav poised to take a strikingly similar pattern and path.. It's also expected to intensify to a Cat 3, if not stronger, storm by next Monday or Tuesday when it hits land..
Developing..
While the major media makes a fool of the Commander and Chief in error, it's an easy one to forgive: Of all the Bush mistakes, this is the one most commonly made by all Americans .. instead of giving a 1-888, he read it 1-800.
Either way, he erred. But forgiveable. At least it wasn't a 900 number..
"Army medical examiners were suspicious about the close proximity of the three bullet holes in Pat Tillman's forehead and tried without success to get authorities to investigate whether the former NFL player's death amounted to a crime"
"The medical evidence did not match up with the, with the scenario as described," a doctor who examined Tillman's body after he was killed on the battlefield in Afghanistan in 2004 told investigators.
The doctors - whose names were blacked out - said that the bullet holes were so close together that it appeared the Army Ranger was cut down by an M-16 fired from a mere 10 yards or so away.
Ultimately, the Pentagon did conduct a criminal investigation, and asked Tillman's comrades whether he was disliked by his men and whether they had any reason to believe he was deliberately killed. The Pentagon eventually ruled that Tillman's death at the hands of his comrades was a friendly-fire accident."
..Vice President Cheney.. the man who read all... ALL .. intelligence reports. The man who, in a new book, admits a mistake: The U.S. should have let Iraqis govern themselves from the outset.. The new book, "CHENEY," is going to be released this week..
You won't find a psychological explanation in Hayes's new book. A writer for the conservative Weekly Standard, Hayes is largely uncritical and essentially buys into the picture of Cheney-as-Stoic, a throwback to an ancient Greek warrior who can see the Fates gathering but grimly and bravely soldiers on. Hayes recounts a scene told to him by David Bohrer, the vice president's official photographer, about Cheney at a Secret Service test-driving track in Beltsville, Md. The Secret Service was teaching Cheney how to drive to evade terrorists by executing a "J-turn." Cheney, who had not driven a car in about two years, jammed the Chevy Camaro into reverse, hit the accelerator until he was going about 40 miles an hour, then slammed on the brakes in order to spin the car a full 180 degrees. Bohrer had mounted a camera on the windshield to record Cheney's face. The veep was expressionless throughout. "It was as if he was taking a Sunday drive," Bohrer told Hayes.
schmuck -shmuhk- a noun Slang. an obnoxious or contemptible person.
Origin:
1890-95; Yiddish shmok (vulgar) lit., penis of uncert. orig.
MUCKRAKER: A muckraker seeks to expose corruption of businesses or government to the public
Origin:
Theodore Roosevelt used the term muckrake in a 1906 speech in which he agreed with the
accusations of muckrakers, but questioned their methods
Schmuckraker: A website dedicated to expanding knowledge of readers by muckraking and
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TONIGHT: A LONELY PRESIDENT..
Now what? 
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