Curiouser and Curiouser! on shrub

All the President's Enrons

Sun, 07 Jul 2002 21:58:05 +0100

13. "great column" (4.2 points). All the President's Enrons ... lambastes [( blogdex : recent )]

» But Bush will keep smiling and somehow it's all alright...

More from the shrub

Wed, 10 Jul 2002 19:09:36 +0100

Lou Dobbs downgrades President Bush. And so do I. [Salon.com]

» President George. W. Shrub makes me feel better every day about our own lousy stinking government (which I voted for - won't make that mistake again!)

Whose asleep at the wheel?

Sun, 14 Jul 2002 21:25:04 +0100

7. Bush Took Oil Firm's Loans as Director (washingtonpost.com) (13.0 points). Bush Took Oil Firm's Loans as Director ... Washington Post [( blogdex : recent )]

» How long is a presidential campaign?

This guy is so dirty and only now do you find out? I wonder if, in 3 years time, this will even make it to first reel of best of shrub?

Yep somebody was asleep at the wheel and for once it doesn't look like da'Man himself.

Perhaps all the journalists who wrote anything before, during or after the presidential race would like to check their own personal accounts and figure out whether they declared all their losses.

This just in, Shrub and friends dirtier than expected

Tue, 06 Aug 2002 20:51:50 +0100

19. The Consortium (7.4 points). Do you remember 1968? [( blogdex : recent )]

» Dear god you elected this guy president?

Well actually, no, you probably didn't. But enough of you did that he slimed his way in anyhow.

Is this national news in the US? Or even page 4? I'd really like to know...

Will Durst - good comedy

Tue, 20 Aug 2002 22:00:24 +0100

Just been watching comedian Will Durst on TV. Very funny guy.

My favourite line? On ol Shrub

"He's like a stripper with hairy legs. He's got some smooth moves, but, even from the bar you can tell that something is horribly wrong."

There was a lot more and I'd definitely like to see him live.

When he knows where he put his hat he'll be twice as clever

Mon, 09 Sep 2002 22:55:16 +0100

This Modern World. What the president has learned since 9/11. [Salon.com]

» And I was going to say "nothing at all." Shame on me!

Shrub declares war on suitcases

Fri, 13 Sep 2002 11:04:45 +0100

Now, Snuffy (by way of Dick), seems to think that Saddam the Weasel has some kind of weapon that can get to the United States. We know he doesn't have ICBMs, so Snuffy tells us he has something far worse: suitcases. [Pesky the Rat]

» rotflmao

Don't think, it's not worth it...

Wed, 25 Sep 2002 00:08:12 +0100

Bush to Arab world: Drop dead. Driven by right-wing ideologues and his own zeal, President Bush has taken Ariel Sharon's side in the Middle East even while plotting a war with Iraq. Foreign policy experts say that's a dangerous combination. [Salon.com]

» Shrub: n. a small bush. But who knew how small. (interestingly the German derivation is schrubben meaning "coarse, uneven" How eerily accurate!)

This administration makes plankton look smart. But you can't blame Bush. He's just the zealous little sock puppet that his lords & masters have been dreaming of having in the White House since Reagan used to nod off in meetings.

You guys should, however, be fucking ransacking the offices of your news organizations for letting you vote for this idiot. Oh and all the unelected, unaccountable and plain dodgy stooges he's brought with him.

By contrast my voting for Blair seems almost rational (well the first time does anyway, I'm not sure how you can excuse me the second time around).

Ah, I feel my bile duct draining. Thank you & goodnight.

Damn this pervasive liberal hegemony

Tue, 08 Oct 2002 08:05:28 +0100

This Modern World. Conservatives with an attitude! [Salon.com]

With the kind permission of Tom Tomorrow.

I don't trust your president either

Thu, 10 Oct 2002 22:49:56 +0100

"The bottom line is I don't trust this president and his advisors". Not every Democrat has caved to Bush's martial fervor. Rep. Pete Stark makes it stunningly clear why he's voting against the Iraq war resolution. [Salon.com]

» Man, he nailed it.

How do you mice feel?

Thu, 28 Nov 2002 10:18:59 +0000

Kiss it goodbye. With industry henchmen in complete control of Washington, the Clean Air Act, wilderness preserves and environmental enforcement are all endangered species. [Salon.com]

America is turning into a gigantic socio-economic laboratory. Has there ever before been a country so close to rule by corporation? If Bush manages to get another term it will really give him and his buddies a chance to insinuate themselves, it will also give them a mandate to disassemble more and more of the American state. Who knows where this will lead? Fascinating.

[Note: It required a real effort of will to unindent my comment and format it like this, without the little chevron]

sssipping cocktails on your government-subsidized yachts

Thu, 23 Jan 2003 09:47:18 +0000

The Snake is Back

Disclaimer: I, Pesky the Rat, hereby register my absolute disgust at my agent Susan the Human's insistance that I allow Janet the Snake space on my weblog for "balance". This ungrateful, slithering future fashion accessory has dirtied my page far too much in the past, and I am horrified she is to be allowed back for another go. I simply ask that you think no less of me for this transgression.

Janet the Snake,
SuperSexy Reptile Pundit,
defends tax cuts for the rich

Hello there my dear little readersss, Janet the Snake here, at your ssservice, ready to dish it out faster than that puny little rat can take it. Ssso today's topic is: why are those little rodents so upset about tax cuts for the rich? What on earth isss their problem?

I've got two words for all you whiny little lemmings out there: Food Chain.

Rich people, of which I am one, thanks to my bessstselling book, "Slander: Rodent Lies about Animals that Eat Rodents", are rich because we deserve to be. Because we have worked hard for what we have, unlike the unwashed minor mammilian massssssses who sspend their days thinking about poetry and eating granola barss. We are at the top of the food chain because we have big, shiny fangs and we aren't afraid to use them.

I mean, let's look at my dear friend, Georgie, out there in the White Houssse. Georgie's family has basically gotten themselves where they are today through a long series of deliciously sneaky business deals, not all of them entirely legal. That's the sort of initiative that gets you ahead in thisss world, let me tell you. If the rest of you weren't smart enough to track down the right loopholes, why should I have to pay for it? After all, I'm going to eat you in the end, anyway, ssso why does it really matter?

96% of the taxesss in this country are paid by the richest half of Americans. The ressst of you, clearly, no longer have any incentive to work. You prefer to lounge about in the lap of luxury, taking home hundreds of dollarsss--hundreds! a month in unemployment or welfare, sssipping cocktails on your government-subsidized yachts while the rest of us toil away, counting our dividend checks, dutifully sorting through our trust-fund money, looking for ways to enrich thisss great country of ourss.

You have forgotten your place, rodentsss. You have forgotten that asss ssoon as you are born into this world, your purpossse is to feed usss. If you are allowed a week on this glorious planet, it is a gift from ussss. We give more generously to some than others, but make no missstake, the clock belongs to usss.

[Pesky the Rat]

Money well spent I say

Wed, 05 Feb 2003 16:40:20 +0000

Not to be outdone by Daddy. A graph shows GW's record budget deficit [megnut]

I guess you might be asking yourselves:

Did we get value for money out of that $500 billion?

Shit on a stick

Wed, 12 Mar 2003 21:23:29 +0000

A fantastic article by Matt Taibbi about how the White House press core and the mainstream media no longer serve a useful function. (My spin in italics).

Here are my highlights, but read the whole thing:

After watching George W. Bush's press conference last Thursday night, I'm more convinced than ever: The entire White House press corps should be herded into a cargo plane, flown to an altitude of 30,000 feet, and pushed out, kicking and screaming, over the North Atlantic.
Particularly revolting was the spectacle of the cream of the national press corps submitting politely to the indignity of obviously pre-approved questions, with Bush not even bothering to conceal that the affair was scripted.
Abandoning the time-honored pretense of spontaneity, Bush chose the order of questioners not by scanning the room and picking out raised hands, but by looking down and reading from a predetermined list.
In other words, not only were reporters going out of their way to make sure their softballs were pre-approved, but they even went so far as to act on Bush's behalf, raising their hands and jockeying in their seats in order to better give the appearance of a spontaneous news conference.
In his best moments Bush was deranged and uncommunicative, and in his worst moments, which were most of the press conference, he was swaying side to side like a punch-drunk fighter, at times slurring his words and seemingly clinging for dear life to the verbal oases of phrases like "total disarmament," "regime change," and "mass destruction."
Moments later, the camera angle of the conference shifted to a side shot, revealing a ring of potted plants around the presidential podium.
It would be hard to imagine an image that more perfectly describes American political journalism today: George Bush, surrounded by a row of potted plants, in turn surrounded by the White House press corps.
This was just Bush's eighth press conference since taking office, and each one of them has been a travesty.
But the White House press corps' idea of "taking a shot" is David Sanger asking Bush what he thinks of British foreign minister Jack Straw saying that regime change was not necessarily a war goal.
And then meekly sitting his ass back down when Bush ignores the question.
They can't write what they think, and can't ask real questions.
What the hell are they doing there?

What indeed?

You are about to go to war. A war which the secretary general of the UN has stated publicly could be an illegal act. And the best your ace reporter can do is ask Shrub "How is your faith holding together?" Shit!

Have any of you guys looked at Afghanistan lately?

It's not Iraq you should be torching.

Bush feels Serene? How nice for him

Tue, 18 Mar 2003 14:59:00 +0000

High stakes for President Bush. BBC Washington correspondent Rob Watson considers what is at stake for President Bush's standing at home and abroad. [BBC News | World | UK Edition]

Okay I find the following (quoted from this article) chilling:

As war approaches, President Bush himself is said to be serene - a serenity aides say comes from his conviction that what he is doing is right, despite the worldwide chorus of doubt and disapproval.

I may be wrong, but my understanding of the state of mind of previous US presidents (including Nixon) when contemplating war is that they were not serene. They were battling to find another solution, to avoid war. Serenity when contemplating war strikes me as the pose of the religious zealot or ideologue.

My disgust for our leaders intensifies

Wed, 31 May 2006 08:50:00 +0100

GWB: America will fight the terrorists on every battlefront, and we will not rest until this threat to our country has been removed. (Applause.)

Washington Post: It was the home of 76-year-old Abdul Hamid Hassan Ali. . . . [He] had used a wheelchair since diabetes forced a leg amputation years ago. . . . In the house with Ali and his 66-year-old wife, Khamisa Tuma Ali, were three of the middle-aged male members of their family, at least one daughter-in-law and four children – 4-year-old Abdullah, 8-year-old Iman, 5-year-old Abdul Rahman and 2-month-old Asia. Marines entered shooting, witnesses recalled. Most of the shots – in Ali's house and two others – were fired at such close range that they went through the bodies of the family members and plowed into walls or the floor, physicians at Haditha's hospital said. A daughter-in-law, identified as Hibbah, escaped with Asia, survivors and neighbors said. Iman and Abdul Rahman were shot but survived. Four-year-old Abdullah, Ali and the rest died. Ali took nine rounds in the chest and abdomen, leaving his intestines spilling out of the exit wounds in his back, according to his death certificate.

GWB: [O]ur enemies are dismissive of free peoples, claiming the men and women who live in liberty are weak and lack the resolve to defend our way of life. . . . [O]ur enemies believe that the innocent can be murdered to serve a political vision.

Washington Post: In Haditha, families of those killed keep an ear cocked to a foreign station, Radio Monte Carlo, waiting for any news of a trial of the Marines. "They are waiting for the sentence – although they are convinced that the sentence will be like one for someone who killed a dog in the United States," said Waleed Mohammed, a lawyer preparing a file for Iraqi courts and the United Nations, if the U.S. trial disappoints. "Because Iraqis have become like dogs in the eyes of Americans."

Via Robert Higgs

The rhetoric of US and UK politicians in relation to this phony war they have created just disgusts me now. I feel tainted by my association with them.