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President Bush Reacts to Osama Bin Laden's Death with Will Ferrell from Will Ferrell

Sign of the times II

This rooftop sign in Florida is a good representation of George Bush's current economic policy.




The delusional people who will be voting for the GOP this year, are the very same people waiting for free crab.

WTF is this stupid fucking woman saying?

Oh my God.

Is anybody awake out there?

This is a clueless woman, completely out of her depth, being fed talking points and blindly regurgitating them like a drunk spring break fraternity brother after an open bar and wet t-shirt contest.




This is "crisis moment"?

This woman has spent too much time on the back of a dog sled.

She is talking about the importance of tax breaks when asked about the current Wall Street bailout plan.

Would someone slap this daft women in the head and inform her that the proposed 700 Billion dollar bailout plan will, by itself, cost the average American tax payer $2000-$3000 to implement.

Jesus Christ ... Could everyone turn off Gossip Girl for a moment?

Does anyone read a fucking newspaper anymore?

Conspiracy Theory

There is an old saying, “As General Motors Goes, So Goes Wall Street”. General Motors has long been a market barometer for the general health of the US economy.

Yesterday, GM closed below $10 a share for the fist time since 1954.

Here is an eight-year chart, that shows the financial path of General Motors during the presidency of George W. Bush.



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Yesterday’s sharp one day drop was sparked by a Merrill Lynch analyst who said that "bankruptcy is not impossible" if the U.S. auto market further deteriorates and GM fails to raise substantial capital.

General Motors going bankrupt? WTF?




GM is not the only company suffering with rising oil prices. Almost all the domestic airlines have been taken out back and shot. Federal Express and the United Postal Service are left reeling under the high cost of fuel.





It is not just private companies that are suffering from high oil prices. For every single penny that oil prices go up, the United States Postal Service pays $8,000,000 a year extra to ship your mail. Oil prices have gone up $125.00 a barrel with George Bush in The White House. That means the USPS is paying 100 billion dollars more annually to get you your precious Victoria Secret catalog.




A lot of nudity in this post ... I know ... but a spoon full of sugar.

Now … who could possibly benefit from the rising price of oil?

The Bush family ties to the oil industry date all the way back to 1950 with the establishment of the Bush-Overbey Oil Development Co. Their strong ties to the oil industry still continue to this day.

Perhaps we should be blaming those damn arabs for the high price of oil.




One of the regular bullshit right wing e-mails that I get is a power point presentation reportedly showing the home of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the former president of the United Arab Emirates and ruler of Abu-Dhabi.

The e-mail asks us, "This is the type of thing being done with your petro dollars”

We are made to believe that the pictures show the Sheikh's palactal house, and his personal fleet of expensive cars.




One of the cars is a beautiful silver Audi A8. It is not merely painted silver. It is completely made out of solid silver.




It turns out that the pictures are a hoax, and in reality they show a fancy hotel in Abu Dhabi called the Emirates Palace.

However, there is unquestionably great wealth in the UAE due to their oil exports, and let’s for a moment take this story at face value. Who does this Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan think he is, taking all of our hard earned money?

Well … I was unable to find a picture of Hillary Clinton with the Sheikh.

I was also unable to find a picture of Barack Obama visiting the lavish residence.

However, strangely enough I was able to find this picture of George W. Bush and President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan of the United Arab Emirates sitting under a painting of the Sheikh's father, Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan in January of 2008.




Who else benefits from inflated oil prices?

Perhaps a small global investment banking, securities and investment management firm named Goldman Sachs.

Goldman better be careful. Making a call like that, and betting billions of dollars on a oil price super spike. That could be fairly risky after the recent 800% run up.

Add to that risk Ben Bernanke, the Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve. He has spent the last few weeks jawboning that he will be raising interest rates later this year in an effort to strengthen the US dollar. This move alone could be a major step towards slowing or reversing the recent meteoric rise in oil prices.

If Goldman Sachs only had a guarantee that oil would continue its climb.

Enter Henry Paulson stage right.




Henry Paulson is the United States Treasury Secretary and member of the International Monetary Fund Board of Governors.

While Ben Bernanke has been desperately talking up the possibility of future US Fed rate hikes, Henry Paulson has spent the same week in Europe downplaying the rate hike possibility and repeatedly talking up inflation and oil prices. Did someone not give Henry a script?

Why would Henry Paulson be doing this?

*Could it be that Henry joined Goldman Sachs in 1974?
*Could it be that he became a partner there in 1982?
*Could it be because he became a managing partner of Goldman in 1988?
*Could it be that he co-headed the investment-banking wing until 1994?
*Could it be that he served as Goldman’s COO from 1994-1998
*Could it be that he received compensation packages from Goldman Sachs to the tune of 37 million in 2005 and 16.4 million in 2006?

It is no wonder that Henry is worth over 700 million dollars.

What moron would have put a Christian Scientist in charge of one of the most important financial post in the US government?




This all has to be a coincidence ... right?

The next thing you are going to tell me is that the Vice President used to work for a United States-based multinational corporation that won a large number of no bid contracts to supply, clothe and feed all the US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The fall of Troy

Cassandra was the daughter of King Priam and Queen Hecuba of Troy. Apollo (the Greek god of the sun, truth and prophecy) fell in love with Cassandra. However, when she did not return his love, Apollo placed a curse on her so that no one would ever believe her predictions.




Cassandra foresees the destruction of Troy (she warns the Trojans about the Trojan Horse, the death of Agamemnon, and even her own demise). Despite this foresight, she is unable to do anything about these events.

In January of this year I predicted that there was a looming problem of rising oil prices. At that time, Nymex crude oil was at $100.00 a barrel.

This past week, it broke through the $140.00 mark.

I tried to point out that if the price of sweet crude oil continued higher, the cost of everyday consumer goods would rise alongside it. This would then, in turn, spark wide spread inflation in the United States.




In its infinite wisdom, Ben Shalom Bernanke and the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington DC has cut interest rates time and again over the past couple years to "stimulate" the stock market and “help” the nationwide real estate crisis.




These shortsighted actions have caused serious weakness in the US dollar. When the Canadian Loonie, for the first time in its history became more valuable than the US dollar, I made a point to mention it on this blog.

As you can see from this chart (pictured below), the Dow Jones Industrial Average is now well below the 11,722 mark it held in January of 2000.



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One might kindly say that we have simply made no economic progress in the eight years that George Bush has been in the White House.

However, if you adjust those market levels for even modest year-to-year inflation you really get a sense of what a complete cluster fuck this administration has been.

For the birds

A study performed by a scientist at Keio University, and one of his graduate students, has found that pigeons are smarter than 3-year-olds.





However, the scientist concluded that the three-year olds are still a lot smarter than this turkey.

Nothing says "I love you" like ...

President Bush declared today that "the successes we are seeing in Iraq are undeniable" as he gave a rousing defense of the war on its fifth anniversary before a receptive but not overwhelmingly enthusiastic Pentagon audience.




Has it been 5 years already?

Wow ... Time really flies when you are killing people.

It is traditional to give a thoughful gift on these major relationship milestones.

"Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home" by Emily Post, published in 1922, contains some suitable suggestions for anniversary gifts for 1, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 50 and 75 year marks.

In England and America, 5 Years = Wood

I think this would make a suitable gift for George.

"I Don't Like Mondays"

I’ll tell you why.

I woke up this morning, and turned on CNBC’s Squawk Box.




It wasn’t the Dow futures being down, despite Bush’s insistence that the United States is not heading into a recession.

In fact, I have a good portion of my stock portfolios in cash, and I look at these recent stock market drops as excellent buying opportunities.

What pissed me off was the commercial break. There was an infomercial for a Christian Rock compilation, and one of the songs got stuck in my head.

As a result of this, I have spent the last three damn hours openly humming “Open the Eyes of My Heart Lord”.




Fortunately, thanks to the Boomtown Rats, I am feeling much better now.




Who says that writing is not therapeutic?

Brain Trust

"I think I got a B in Econ 101. I got an A, however, in keeping taxes low."

-PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
(In a press conference Thursday morning)

I really hope everybody watched the Democratic debate on CNN tonight.

Start Praying to God

If one takes the time to read something, other than the Sunday comics or the OTB racing form, it is difficult not to stumble along a detailed account of the Bush family history with the oil business. The network of family friends, business contacts and political supporters who have a vested interest in the price of oil stretch out like the tentacles of an octopus.

Now. Take a look at the price of oil over the last eight years under the Presidency of George W. Bush.




Does this not strike you as suspicious?

The only thing that this graph leaves out, is the last 10% move that oil has recently made to $100 a barrel.

If the price of peanuts had gone up 600% during the Presidency of Jimmy Carter, do you think there would have been scathing accusations from the Republican Party?




Now, you might ask, "Why should I care about this"?

I know that for many of you the most important thing in life is who will be in the next batch of celebrities on Dancing with the Stars.

Rest assured, the price of oil will not have any effect on that.

What is does have an effect on is the price of EVERYTHING.

Almost everything you can think of is affected by the price of oil.

The gas you pump into your car ... your bloated heating bill … airline tickets ... clothes you buy ... groceries that you need to supply to your family ... the price of a Big Mac sandwich ... and the list goes on and on and on.

Everything in this country needs to be transported to its place of purchase. When the price of gas goes up like this, every single product must absorb that added cost into its retail price.

Have you not noticed the higher prices of almost everything?

My family runs a bakery in Michigan. In the past few years, the price for a bag of artisan baking flour has gone from under $10 a bag to close to $20. What do you think that does to profit margins? That cost must eventually be passed down to the consumer.

Who is the consumer?

You are.




So, let's follow the bouncing ball.

-Oil companies get the price of their oil to be inflated.
-They make money
-The prices of goods go up at a disproportionate level to your income.
-You lose money.

Now read between the lines.

The very rich don’t care if the price of everyday things goes up. They are making so much more money under Bush’s capital gain tax cuts, that they can easily afford it. Bush family members are not cutting Kroger coupons and tracking the price of a gallon of milk



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Now I will get to the title of this post.

I have a message to all the lower income Christian whites, Latinos and blacks that voted for George Bush in the last election. The very same voters who felt it was essential to have a President who would rid them of homosexuals and single parent families.



Start praying to your God and start cutting coupons.


I don't know if I am more amazed by the hypocrisy of the "moral" right wing stance, or the stupidity of the lower income Christians to buy into it time and again ... hook, line and sinker.



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Frankly, I really miss a president who was concerned about the price of a Big Mac.

Apple of my eye

I was going to write something interesting about the new book by the former White House press secretary Scott McClellan.

However, I am fairly sure that this piece of garbage and this 250 pound waste of human flesh are once again going to walk away from this new scandal scott free.

Pun certainly intended.

I also thought that since tomorrow is Thanksgiving, I should instead be writing about fun, family and food.

So here it goes.

Tonight, on the way home from the gym, I bought a ripe red apple.



As I cleaned it off with a small napkin, I looked at the stem and it reminded of that game that we all used to play when we were kids.

You twist the stem as you recite the alphabet. When the stem finally breaks, you have the first letter of the person you are going to marry.

Just then, it suddenly dawned on me how unfair this game was to the Yolandas of the world.

Two Schmucks ... for the price of one

I have blogged about Ann Coulter in the past on many occasions, but her ugly stupidity seems to have no bottom.

Here she does her best job to attract the Jewish swing vote to the Republican party.



However, I think it would be a mistake to assume Ann Coulter is representative of the Republican party.

All comparisons between the Republican and Nazi Parties are purely coincidental.



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No wonder New York has been a Democratic state since I was born.

Sickness redefined

As I am sure many of you already know, President Bush recently vetoed the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) because it was his opinion that it was “too expensive”.




The recent proposal, which passed with bipartisan support in the Congress, would have cost an additional $35 Billion over five years.

Democrats enlisted 12-year-old Graeme Frost, who along with a younger sister relied on the program for treatment of severe brain injuries suffered in a car crash, to give the response to Mr. Bush’s weekly radio address on Sept. 29.




Republican opponents quickly countered with vicious attacks

Right Wing critics have recently accused Graeme’s father, Halsey, a self-employed woodworker, of choosing not to provide health insurance for his family of six, even though he owned his own business. They pointed out that Graeme currently attends an expensive private school. They have also asserted that the family’s home had undergone extensive remodeling, and that its market value could exceed $400,000. They even alleged the counters in their kitchen to be granite — and declared that the Frosts did not seem needy enough for government benefits.


* As it turns out Graeme Frost attends the private school on scholarship.

** The business that the critics said Mr. Frost owned was dissolved in 1999.

*** The family’s home, in the modest Butchers Hill neighborhood of Baltimore, was bought for $55,000 in 1990 and is now worth about $260,000.

**** The kitchen counters in the Frost household are made of concrete.

One critic, in an e-mail message to Graeme’s mother, Bonnie, warned her: “Lie down with dogs, and expect to get fleas.”

To call the Republican hate machine “fleas” is an insult to fleas.

One of the bloggers attacking the Frost family is Michelle Malkin. She is a nasty little bitch that I have blogged about in the past.

Here is a fun example of Michelle Malkin "successfully" attacking John Kerry’s war record from the safety of her pantyhose.

Miss the Gipper

Quote:


"A moment I've been dreading. George [Bush] brought his ne're-do-well

son around this morning and asked me to find the kid a job. Not the

political one who lives in Florida. The one who hangs around here all

the time looking shiftless. This so-called kid is already almost 40 and

HAS NEVER HAD A REAL JOB. Maybe I'll call Kinsley over at The New

Republic and see if they'll hire him as a contributing editor or

something. That looks like easy work"


~ Ronald Reagan in his recently published diaries, May 17, 1986.

Equal Opportunity?

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis'. One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger-but recognize the opportunity.

John F. Kennedy

The Good, The SuperBad and the Ugly

So far, this has been a slow week of work for me, so I decided to see a couple movies in the theater.

Last weekend I went to see "SuperBad".



I thought the actors and filmmakers combined to make a very funny movie. I think they did a great job of showing the many facets of the true High School experience. I certainly felt homesick for homeroom. It is the perfect movie to see if you need some really good laughs.

Be warned that this film contains one of the best jokes involving Tiananmen Square in the history of cinema.

To balance out the excellent but sophomoric humor of "SuperBad", this afternoon I went to "No End in Sight".



This film was intelligent and powerful. I urge everyone to take the time to see this film on DVD or in the theater.

It contains interviews with many of the people closest to President Bush in the days leading up to, and throughout the Iraq War.

Some of the most credible interviewees: former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage; former Iraq ambassador Barbara Bodine; retired Gen. Jay Garner; Marine Lt. Seth Moulton; and Colin Powell's chief of staff, Col. Lawrence Wilkerson.

Left wingers will find themselves shaking their heads throughout the film. At other times you might find yourself in tears, like I did.

Right wingers MIGHT be impressed by the honest interviews with Richard Armitage, and several career soldiers (Army and Marines). Their insightful comments clearly demonstrate the stupidity of the high level decisions made throughout the invasion and occupation.

Frankly, I would hope at this point that you don't need your own catastrophic loss to see the writing on the wall.

In fact, if you can sit through this whole movie and still blindly support the Iraq War ... I strongly suggest you go fight and die for it.

Frankly I am sick to death of the uninformed morons who sit in the safety of this country, on their inactive fat asses, and stubbornly support this war. If it is that important to you, go fight and die for it. God knows it would raise the collective intelligence level of this country if you did.

Happy Ending

As more and more news comes in from the scene of the Interstate 35W bridge collapse, a 20-year old named Jeremy Hernandez has been thrust into the spotlight.




He was trapped in the tipping school bus (Pictured below) with 50 children. Using quick thinking, he kicked open the back door and began helping them one by one to safety.




Later, it came out that Mr. Hernandez had recently been forced to drop out of an automotive repair program because he could not afford the $15,000 tuition.

However, on Saturday, Mr. Hernandez learned that Dunwoody College of Technology had offered him a full scholarship toward a degree in applied science.

He has also received offers of help from dozens of strangers across the country.

When President Bush’s staff heard about this young man’s bravery, they contacted him to request a photo opportunity.

His answer: “Nope”.

He certainly is my hero.

This picture says more than fourteen words

Coming to a hospital near you

Take two valium and call me in the morning.

Presidential Dreams

THIS IS WHAT BILL CLINTON DREAMED OF LAST NIGHT.




THIS IS WHAT GEORGE W. BUSH DREAMED OF LAST NIGHT.





I'll take Bill ... any day of the week.