In a campaign year that seems more like a production of Comedy Central than a battle between two serious challengers, Campaign 2012 will go down in history as one which made us laugh, cringe, and cry…simultaneously. And you thought Campaign 2008, with Sarah Palin winking and gamboling about, was bizarre… Ah, Mitt Romney. Is there some sort of disconnect going on between your brain and your mouth? Romney’s gaffes often go way beyond the maladroit of President George W. Bush. It almost seems as if Mitt Romney is always thinking aloud, sans filter and self-editing. I’ve said this before, and […]
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House Republicans’ Fast & Furious Hail Mary
Break out the klaxons bells! House Republicans have uncovered an uber-top-secret cover-up by the Obama Administration’s Justice Department! You know, that failed attempt last year by federal investigators allowing guns to end up in the hands of gangs of criminals in order to disrupt large-scale arms trafficking by organized crime syndicates across the US-Mexico border? It had a fancy-schmancy name, ‘Operation Fast & Furious’…like the movie starring Vin Diesel? Just imagine Iran-Contra in the Eighties, only without the arms selling part…and the ‘overthrowing-a-government-we-don’t-like-part.’ Oh, right. You were more concerned with making your next mortgage payment and upset that your employer […]
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Blip from the Past: This is how we wag the dog, wag the dog, wag the dog…
Because this is an election year, it behooves me to remind all and sundry of the cray-zazee daze of George W. Bush’s tenure in the White House. This journal entry from January 2002 highlights what would be one in a long parade of ‘wag the dog’ antics offered up to the American Public by the Bush Administration. If Homeland Security’s silly Threat Level chart didn’t scare the be-Jeebus out of you, then by golly, John Walker Lindh surely would. Or at least, in theory, he should have. Maybe. So…anyway…John Walker Lindh is currently serving a 20 year sentence at the […]
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Blip from the Past: America sends its best, PB&J
Here’s a Blip from the Past, an old online journal entry from October 15, 2001. It just illustrates the Bush Admistration’s cluelessness towards non-American cultural differences. Someone emailed a response, “They (the Afghans) should be glad they’re getting anything at all to eat from us.” He wasn’t being sarcastic. I’d like to know why Right Away Foods (based in McAllen, Texas — who’d have thought? Dubya connection maybe? D’ya think?) thought that starving Afghans might like to nosh on peanut butter ‘n crackers and ‘spicy beans and rice’? Right Away Foods is the company contracted by the government to provide […]
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