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[TJENZ]

616 days left until a new President of the United States is sworn in.

[Finn McCool]

616 days left until a new President of the United States is sworn in.

I remember reading during this dolt's first term that he gave fewer addresses, took far more vacation days & got "less done" than any other President in American history (see also the Congress that managed to do less than the infamous "Do Nothing Congress"). I swear to God, for the past 2 years or so it seems like he's not around at all. He's pretty much hidden from view for damage control. Every few weeks an aide will wheel him out of the cedar closet and he'll blink into the camera, stammering like a hillbilly about being a "decider" or troops or evil or some shit then he's folded up & put away again. I imagine him cowering in the dark somewhere, occassionally shitting on the floor out of white hot fear, while Rove & Cheney whip him like an underachieving sled dog.

[The Gooch]

616 days left until a new President of the United States is sworn in.

It can't come a moment too soon. What a disasterous 8 years.

[Finn McCool]

616 days left until a new President of the United States is sworn in.

It can't come a moment too soon. What a disasterous 8 years.

Its a bit too early but what say we look back fondly at some of the highlights from this stellar administration? A few of my personal favorites:

- John Ashcroft having the classical statue of the Lady of Justice draped in thousands of dollars of curtains because the statues breasts were exposed. The breasts. On a statue. This was a grown man, folks. The Attorney General of the United States of America had a classical statue's breasts covered with curtains.

- Give it up, everybody, for Dick Cheney shooting his friend in the face with a shotgun!

- It's baaa-aaack: "Mission Accomplished"! White House spokespeople now claim that they had nothing to do with that banner. I didn't know battleships had printing presses on them...

- From what I understand, despite being fired from his job, Donnie Rumsfeld is still collecting a check & still has his office. That's the kind of job you hope for, y'know? Fuck up every single responsibility you're given, lie about it and make it worse only to get fired but still collect a paycheck. Ace!

- "The Axis of Evil" speech...sounds like one of Rove's University of Honky Christhumper intern speechwriters got ahold of some Roosevelt tapes & got inspired to throw this one out there. Instead of sounding like a sober & serious politician, our rube sounded like he was playing a video game.

Care to share?

[TJENZ]

Osama Bin Laden, still at large

[undo]

Care to share?

-"Heckuvajob Brownie"

[Seamus]

Care to share?

That "...yer tryin' real hard to put food on your family" sound bite was kind of fun, from early on. That's the first thing that came to mind.

Man, I still remeber racing over to that park district building ober by Damen and Diversey to vote back in 2000. I wasn't even going to vote--I was soon leaving the city (state, even) and had figured I wasn't even allowed to vote 'cause I had briefly moved back out to the 'burbs. I should have known, this being Chicago, that I could always find somewhere to cast a ballot. ANYWAY, yeah, my guy did not win (well, not officially). Soon it will have been eight years of this bullshit...unreal.

[Finn McCool]

Yeah, "Brownie"! Who could forget him!? What was his job before he was appointed the head of FEMA? Operational Director for Boston Market Chicken Dinners of Eastern Arkansas? Chief Bigwig of Mystical Consulting? Another Bush friend & crony, appointed to an important job he was wholly unqualified for, and a result a city took a bath.

[Seamus]

Another Bush friend & crony, appointed to an important job he was wholly unqualified for...

Totally. I can't wait until we have time to reflect and see all of the wonderful, progressive steps that were taken--the legislation that was drafted/ignored comepletely--by the Brownies of this administration. There seem to be scores and scores of them.

[no magnets]

Yeah, "Brownie"! Who could forget him!? What was his job before he was appointed the head of FEMA? Operational Director for Boston Market Chicken Dinners of Eastern Arkansas? Chief Bigwig of Mystical Consulting? Another Bush friend & crony, appointed to an important job he was wholly unqualified for, and a result a city took a bath.

those people are traditionally appointed as ambassadors, right? and bush took it to the next level.

[without_opinion]

I recall reading, on the dawn of the latest iraqi invasion to oust Saddam and uncover WMDs, that the "absolute best case scenario would have our troops controlling baghdad within 19 hours." I'll admit at least that military operation brought us frequent updates from Comical Ali. That guy was amusing.

[Finn McCool]

I'll admit at least that military operation brought us frequent updates from Comical Ali. That guy was amusing.

He was sorta charming, wasn't he? "The imperialist dogs are at the city's walls, surrounded and weeping! They will choke on their skull dust and be dri-...what's that? Oh, they're here? Already?!"

I woke up hatin' politics more than usual over the weekend...I heard, during a Republican debate, a number of GOP hopefuls went on the record saying they don't believe in evolution. What the fuck!? When did people start applauding & supporting stuff like this?!

[Seamus]

...I heard, during a Republican debate, a number of GOP hopefuls went on the record saying they don't believe in evolution. What the fuck!? When did people start applauding & supporting stuff like this?!

It's bad enough when it's some far off fuck in a suit esposuing crap like this. But when your own brother is raising his kids to believe (or not believe) such a thing it's even worse.

[biggie mcsmalls]

I heard, during a Republican debate, a number of GOP hopefuls went on the record saying they don't believe in evolution. What the fuck!? When did people start applauding & supporting stuff like this?!

The political implications of this film are what scared me and my wife the most. It's bad enough that these people believe the shit that they do and use psychological torture on their children, but they've turned it into a political movement.

[Finn McCool]

I heard, during a Republican debate, a number of GOP hopefuls went on the record saying they don't believe in evolution. What the fuck!? When did people start applauding & supporting stuff like this?!

The political implications of this film are what scared me and my wife the most. It's bad enough that these people believe the shit that they do and use psychological torture on their children, but they've turned it into a political movement.

There's no link there, man. I read recently that the current White House staffs some ungodly (HAW! HAW!) number of graduates from non-learning institutions like Oral Roberts and Genuflect U. The closer these zombies get to power the more they're able to erode the secularism that makes this country what it is. They'll chip away & chip away, putting the 10 Commandments here and tearing a page or three out of an elementary school science boook there, until something awful has happened and there's no way to turn it around. Then the new pilgrims will have to escape religious persecution here and head to faraway shores...innit ironic?

[no magnets]

Ahmed Chalabi-He's going to be Prime Minister or President of Iraq. We have a leader! Why did the CPA raid his office two years later?

didn't chalabi bash the US's intelligence in an interview with "60 minutes"? was that before or after the raid of his office?

[biggie mcsmalls]

There's no link there, man.

Should have been the Jesus Camp cover.

[Finn McCool]

Ahmed Chalabi-He's going to be Prime Minister or President of Iraq. We have a leader! Why did the CPA raid his office two years later?

didn't chalabi bash the US's intelligence in an interview with "60 minutes"? was that before or after the raid of his office?

This is the dude we were paying a fortune to for information about Iraq's deadly weapons collection, right? The expert voice on their weapons development & deployment programs who lived in the US and sang like a canary for dough? Then it turned out everything he'd said was simply made up?