She lives!
Yes, I’m back from a much, much needed vacation to find that 5 mintues after I got home, everything was exactly the way it was when I left and the vacation had changed absolutely nothing. Joy. Ah well…at least I got a happy week to remember, and I should have some pictures to post soon.
Anyway…let’s see what’s happened since I’ve been gone!
In a recent interview where Bush was asked about technology, he confessed that he used “The Google” and “that program where you get the satellite, and you can-like, kind-a look at the ranch but I can’t remember the name.”
Yeah… because Google Earth is so damn hard to remember.
President Bush recess-appointed former coal industry executive Richard Stickler to head the Mine Safety and Health Administration. The Senate had twice refused to confirm him “because of his troubling mine safety record — the mines he managed from 1989 to 1996 incurred injury rates double the national average.”
Maybe his job title should read “Mine CEO Saftey” instead. I can just hear it now…”Heck of a Job, Richie!”
“Moving quickly to implement” the new Military Commissions Act, the Bush administration “has formally notified the U.S. District Court here that it no longer has jurisdiction to consider hundreds of habeas corpus petitions filed by inmates at the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba.”
They sure do move quick when it comes to covering their own asses…
“Several governments around the world have tried to rebut criticism of how they handle detainees by claiming they are only following the U.S. example in the war on terror,” U.N. anti-torture chief Manfred Nowak said yesterday.
”I learned it from you, okay?!?”
Bush officials have been reported as actually wanting North Korea to have nuclear weapons…because as any scum of the earth knows, war is good for business. Until now, no U.S. official in any administration has ever advocated the testing of nuclear weapons by another country, even by allies such as the United Kingdom and France.
Olbermann’s Special Comment on GOP Fearmongering
Olbermann: The Leading Terrorist Group In This Country Is The Republican Party
$6,300: Amount U.S. taxpayers will end up paying for every additional second spent in Iraq.
19 percent. Number of Americans who believe the United States is winning the war in Iraq, an all-time low. Fifty-four percent of Americans believe the U.S. economy is getting worse.
Bush Admits There Is No Evidence Iraqi Insurgents Are Trying To Influence U.S. Elections
Yeah…a week after every other thug of his administration claimed they were. 
Why does Supreme Court Judge Antonin Scalia hate freedom (specifically Freedom of Information)?
Sigh…more problems with electronic voting machines that won’t be fixed until after this election….demand a paper receipt for your vote if you can.
The natural world is being degraded “at a rate unprecedented in human history,” and if current consumption levels continue, “two planets would be needed to meet global demand by 2050.” The new report by the World Wildlife Fund also found that the world’s species have declined by 30 percent since 1970.
And on that happy note…
Your moment of Zen
