DISQUS

jr · 1 year ago

"good boy! Not in public"-Wal Mart CEO Lee Scott to 43

Bush_Bites · 1 year ago

Ah, the Rich Little Punk is trying to assuage his Bible-Addled Guilt by throwing a few crumbs to the Poor Wretches before he goes off to live it up with their Oppressors.

Bush_Bites · 1 year ago

OT:

Afghanistan's Ambassador to the United States trumpeted major portions of Barack Obama's approach towards his country on Tuesday, marking the second time in as many weeks that an official at the center of U.S.-Mideast policy has echoed the Illinois Senator's agenda.

Said Jawad, who has been at the ambassador's post since 2003, avoided specific references to Obama and his rival Sen. John McCain. But on a broad range of issues that divide the two candidates -- defining the main battleground in the war on terror, U.S. military commitments to Afghanistan, and combating terrorist activity in Pakistan -- he agreed with the prescriptions of the presumptive Democratic nominee.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/30/afghan...

1970cs · 1 year ago

Seems the CIA is interested in something similar


http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/30/world/asia/30...

foolme1ns · 1 year ago

this is nothing more than the speech he gave in New Orleans after Katrina. Where they trucked in the lights on the cranes with their generators, assuring the country that he would take care of everything. That we would rebuild New Orleans. That it would be better than it was.

He made his speech, some poor souls believed him, and then he took his lights and generators and went back to Washington to promptly forget all about New Orleans. But then that was like the speech he gave after 911 as he stood literally on the bodies of the dead and dying, again making promises he had no intention of keeping.

This is Bush.

donotmakemecomedownthere · 1 year ago

No one in the Administration has the heart to tell Lil Georgie that he can't keep any of the shiny medals.

OlderAndWiser · 1 year ago

Perhaps W should relax restrictions on human rights in the US before he goes off half-cocked to demand anything of the Chinese. But, then, from one dictator to another...there might be a little finagling.

OlderAndWiser · 1 year ago

News of the Stevens indictment is trumping the DOJ IG report this am. Boy, the MSM is really suffering from ADD.

I caught part of a town hall meeting on CSPAN2 hosted by Jim Moran with David Walker, late of the GAO. Very interesting--lots of grass roots types there, ordinary citizens who had the right questions. David Walker stated that the financial condition of the US govtis poised to make the housing bubble look like a walk in the park...he should know.

Additionally, in talking about Part D Medicare, it's been estimated that at least one half of all prescriptions are driven by advertising by Big Pharma. You are paying for that, I am paying for that advertising and the cost of govt that pays those Rxs, which is incorporated into the price of drugs in this country. Only the US and New Zealand now allow such advertising (in 1998 in the US, the ban on such was lifted) and NZ is crafting legislation to ban it.

One sad note about Moran, though--in response to one question, he advised the audience to keep engaging in "grass roots" organizing, that nothing will be done until this happens. I was wondering, well, what the hell reason do you suppose people elect you for? Another questioner brought up the same point. These are our "representatives" people--don't let them get away with anything. They work for us--not Big Pharma, not the president, not the capitalist pigs that run this country's economy. Walker did express the power of the Internet as an organizing tool to bring reform to govt but stated that not only the young should have this access, but participation should be transgenerational.

Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas · 1 year ago

I know this is very cynical but this surely is a desperate attempt at some warm and fuzzy PR at the end of the very worst Presidency in the history of the US. Bush has nothing for a legacy except fucking up the nation for eight years. It's like every other stunt. Only the really sharp monsters like Rove are gone now and the creeps that are left are clueless as to how to bail him out anymore.

I hear Oliver Stone's new film "W" is awful but sure will be fun seeing him drunk and in jail in New Haven.

OlderAndWiser · 1 year ago

Yes, rack it up with the worst Secy of State--Rice's announced latest venture to the ME to craft an Israeli/Palestinian "peace" before she's kicked to the curb. Where in hell has she been in the last 8 years anyway? Oh right...acting as Secy of Shoes.

Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas · 1 year ago

I like Kindasleezy Rice....especially in her dominatrix stilettos!

Indigo · 1 year ago

So what you're saying here, Chris, is that the Chinese have dissidents. I don't belive it.

RepubAnon · 1 year ago

Although a journey of 1,000 miles begins with a single step, it doesn't end with that single step. Bush thinks that this one step both starts and ends the journey.

It isn't surprising: importing China's human rights records was Bush's dream - replace Communist Party with Republican Party, state-owned media with Fox "News" - and all you've got to do is mainstream torture, just like Bush has done.

woodroad34 · 1 year ago

And after 7 years of trade talks (let's see, we've had Bush for 8 years....), they collapse. China, India, and THE U.S. reach an impasse! Hoo Boy, Monkey Boy helps both China and India become powerful entities in world trade and it's come back to bite the sucker in his a**. I guess he couldn't see into their souls like he could Putin. Confidence in the WTO and the "global economy" are in a downward spiral. One more thing the Midas of Death has touched and has gone sour.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/30/business/worl...