Since this 9/11 anniversary lands on a Tuesday, as had the original events of September 11, 2001, I offer this emotional post from September 16, 2001. A decade has come and gone and we’re still fighting on in Afghanistan (and to some extent, in Pakistan), but Osama bin Laden became fish food on May 2, 2011, four months short of the ten year anniversary of the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. We’ve also just ended combat operations in Iraq — a very expensive spin-off war courtesy of the Bush Administration with its ever-changing ‘objectives’: 1) Iraq […]
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Blip from the Past: GOP desperate for midterm victory, retool Contract With America
It’s been two years since the American people had collective temporary insantity and allowed the Republican Party to take over the House of Representatives, I submit this post from April of 2010 (as it appeared on Alan Colmes’s Liberaland). In the two years since John Boehner has presided as Speaker of the House, he and his Republican minions have been quite busy — just not in the way the American people had hoped. We thought these mooks would focus on creating jobs (with ideas other than giving more tax breaks to rich people)? Seriously? Apparently House Republicans never got the […]
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Blip from the Past: Tax cut deja vú, or Smirk can kiss MY ass
Eleven years ago, President George W. Bush decided it would be charitable to throw some scraps to his serfs…erm…middle class Americans by way of Treasury-issued checks. Of course, if you were lucky enough to be in that golden upper 1%, yours would not be scraps, but a lavish and never-ending buffet. Did this help the middle class? Nah. Did this help clean out the last of the Clinton surplus? Yep! Did this help to increase the deficit, forcing the Times Square Deficit Clock to be restarted? You betcha! This post from July 23, 2001 serves as a reminder: beware of […]
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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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