Comments on: Glossies Turn on Bush http://firedoglake.com/2006/04/23/glossies-turn-on-bush/ Firedoglake weblog Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:17:52 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Mui http://firedoglake.com/2006/04/23/glossies-turn-on-bush/#comment-77265 Mui Mon, 24 Apr 2006 17:16:22 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/04/23/glossies-turn-on-bush/#comment-77265 <p>As a friend of mine who was in the army and no longer living due to a poorly treated injury he got in the army would have said, “yeah we’re bullet fodder.”</p> As a friend of mine who was in the army and no longer living due to a poorly treated injury he got in the army would have said, “yeah we’re bullet fodder.”

]]> By: Mui http://firedoglake.com/2006/04/23/glossies-turn-on-bush/#comment-77259 Mui Mon, 24 Apr 2006 17:05:50 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/04/23/glossies-turn-on-bush/#comment-77259 <p>Susan in Iowa, the soldiers are definietly being treated as less than valuable in my view. Is anyone else getting stories from a friend of a neighbor or whatever about marines having to pay a few thousand out of pocket for the uniform they may ultimately die in? Then there are the Halliburton meal stories. The suicides. The out of pocket hospital meal and transportation stories.Stories about kids who were shot a million times and the army takes three months to notify the family. Umm, what else?</p> Susan in Iowa, the soldiers are definietly being treated as less than valuable in my view. Is anyone else getting stories from a friend of a neighbor or whatever about marines having to pay a few thousand out of pocket for the uniform they may ultimately die in? Then there are the Halliburton meal stories. The suicides. The out of pocket hospital meal and transportation stories.Stories about kids who were shot a million times and the army takes three months to notify the family. Umm, what else?

]]> By: Robert Rogers http://firedoglake.com/2006/04/23/glossies-turn-on-bush/#comment-77096 Robert Rogers Mon, 24 Apr 2006 14:09:59 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/04/23/glossies-turn-on-bush/#comment-77096 <p>If you had a rifle, you could have dispatched that wounded coyote. But it’s the same dilemma as the Democrats - no leadership, just waitin’ for county animal control to rectify the situation.</p> If you had a rifle, you could have dispatched that wounded coyote. But it’s the same dilemma as the Democrats – no leadership, just waitin’ for county animal control to rectify the situation.

]]> By: roxtar http://firedoglake.com/2006/04/23/glossies-turn-on-bush/#comment-76992 roxtar Mon, 24 Apr 2006 10:31:47 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/04/23/glossies-turn-on-bush/#comment-76992 <p>Re: Bilbray’s plan @ 114</p> <p>“<i>Limiting birthright citizenship to the children of U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents.</i>“</p> <p>Gonna have to amend the Constitution to pull that one off…..</p> <p>Amendment 14, Sec. 1: “Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”</p> Re: Bilbray’s plan @ 114

“Limiting birthright citizenship to the children of U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents.“

Gonna have to amend the Constitution to pull that one off…..

Amendment 14, Sec. 1: “Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”

]]> By: RickD http://firedoglake.com/2006/04/23/glossies-turn-on-bush/#comment-76990 RickD Mon, 24 Apr 2006 10:29:16 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/04/23/glossies-turn-on-bush/#comment-76990 <p>Re: Bush in London</p> <p>One of the insurance companies is using his likeness along with a caption alluding to the inability to express oneself. I think it’s trying to make a joke on his incoherence. That’s the poster that’s all over the place in London.</p> <p>Bush has managed to drag Blair down with him. But Blair’s problem is worse, because he allegedly leads the Left, and his own party is pretty much disgusted with him by now. He doesn’t have a core of wingnuts to fall back on the way Bush does.</p> Re: Bush in London

One of the insurance companies is using his likeness along with a caption alluding to the inability to express oneself. I think it’s trying to make a joke on his incoherence. That’s the poster that’s all over the place in London.

Bush has managed to drag Blair down with him. But Blair’s problem is worse, because he allegedly leads the Left, and his own party is pretty much disgusted with him by now. He doesn’t have a core of wingnuts to fall back on the way Bush does.

]]> By: Rafar http://firedoglake.com/2006/04/23/glossies-turn-on-bush/#comment-76986 Rafar Mon, 24 Apr 2006 09:41:05 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/04/23/glossies-turn-on-bush/#comment-76986 <p>““…when you re-elected him…â€</p> <p>Excuse me? “</p> <p>My apologies. I used the “You” in the collective sense of “Americans”. And you have to admit, thieved percentage points or not, he did gain somewhere upwards of 48% of the votes fairly (for a given value of ‘fair’).</p> <p>I’m not blaming you for him, just expressing the general surprise. We were all almost certain that he would be out, and decicively so.</p> <p>Still, it just goes to show. Democracy is the worst system of governemnt except all the others.</p> ““…when you re-elected him…â€

Excuse me? “

My apologies. I used the “You” in the collective sense of “Americans”. And you have to admit, thieved percentage points or not, he did gain somewhere upwards of 48% of the votes fairly (for a given value of ‘fair’).

I’m not blaming you for him, just expressing the general surprise. We were all almost certain that he would be out, and decicively so.

Still, it just goes to show. Democracy is the worst system of governemnt except all the others.

]]> By: professor rat http://firedoglake.com/2006/04/23/glossies-turn-on-bush/#comment-76663 professor rat Mon, 24 Apr 2006 03:10:14 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/04/23/glossies-turn-on-bush/#comment-76663 <p>Funny photo Jane - reminds me of a thread over at Sirotablog about the Kitty Kelly book on the Bush crime family. Discussing Barbara Bush it said summat about how, ‘ it look’s like the chimp didn’t fall far from the tree’</p> Funny photo Jane – reminds me of a thread over at Sirotablog about the Kitty Kelly book on the Bush crime family. Discussing Barbara Bush it said summat about how, ‘ it look’s like the chimp didn’t fall far from the tree’

]]> By: professor rat http://firedoglake.com/2006/04/23/glossies-turn-on-bush/#comment-76555 professor rat Mon, 24 Apr 2006 01:24:04 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/04/23/glossies-turn-on-bush/#comment-76555 <p>For my 2c ‘ incompetence’ allows them a ratline. I much prefer ‘ criminal negligence’ and not just for the supreme crime either but any number of other matters where there is a screaming prima facie case of criminal negligence.<br /> I can see a ‘ Homer Simpson’ defence getting the perp off lightly - criminal negligence charges would mean a longer stay at Club Fed and more chances for us to arrange to have him shanked there.<br /> I’m also thinking more about RICO as the next obviuous followup to Chimpeachment - its cool chimpeachment is a go. ‘ All chimpeachment all the time’ is my motto. So RICO the cabal and damn their criminality more than their stupidity and fit it in a pattern of behavior or nexus of crime that includes Watergate and Iran/contra. Some of the characters are familiar to this nexus all the way through.<br /> This is my narrative - its not everyones but it makes sense to me. The GOP as criminal conspiracy.</p> For my 2c ‘ incompetence’ allows them a ratline. I much prefer ‘ criminal negligence’ and not just for the supreme crime either but any number of other matters where there is a screaming prima facie case of criminal negligence.
I can see a ‘ Homer Simpson’ defence getting the perp off lightly – criminal negligence charges would mean a longer stay at Club Fed and more chances for us to arrange to have him shanked there.
I’m also thinking more about RICO as the next obviuous followup to Chimpeachment – its cool chimpeachment is a go. ‘ All chimpeachment all the time’ is my motto. So RICO the cabal and damn their criminality more than their stupidity and fit it in a pattern of behavior or nexus of crime that includes Watergate and Iran/contra. Some of the characters are familiar to this nexus all the way through.
This is my narrative – its not everyones but it makes sense to me. The GOP as criminal conspiracy.

]]> By: John Casper http://firedoglake.com/2006/04/23/glossies-turn-on-bush/#comment-76553 John Casper Mon, 24 Apr 2006 01:21:49 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/04/23/glossies-turn-on-bush/#comment-76553 <p>debt<br /> <a href=""><br /> debt</a></p> debt

debt

]]> By: nancy http://firedoglake.com/2006/04/23/glossies-turn-on-bush/#comment-76550 nancy Mon, 24 Apr 2006 01:18:38 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/04/23/glossies-turn-on-bush/#comment-76550 <p>Shooter 163 Has the GDP dropped that<br /> much in these 5 years of fiscal conservatives *cough*choke*? </p> <p>I was a Republican - cured by Reagan- and you are stuck in an “ism” and making excuses for behavior that is ignorant and shameful on the part of the GOP. Where do you draw the line and finally say, “That’s it, that’s too much. No more”?</p> Shooter 163 Has the GDP dropped that
much in these 5 years of fiscal conservatives *cough*choke*?

I was a Republican – cured by Reagan- and you are stuck in an “ism” and making excuses for behavior that is ignorant and shameful on the part of the GOP. Where do you draw the line and finally say, “That’s it, that’s too much. No more”?

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