Saturday, May 08, 2004
Can you believe it? Michael Eisner and the assholes at Disney are refusing to release Michael Moore's new documentary, "Fahrenheit 9/11." Of course, its because some political reasons, namely that Moore suggests many interesting relationships between Bush and the Saudi Royal family. But no problem. Even Eisner admits that Moore will have no trouble finding another distributor.
Otherwise, long time no see for my fellows at the SRC. SRC will be back in form within a week, once I'm done with finals. Then its on to the summer push for Bush removal. Email me at mosv0002@d.umn.edu or Clive at owen182@hotmail.com for more info.
Otherwise, long time no see for my fellows at the SRC. SRC will be back in form within a week, once I'm done with finals. Then its on to the summer push for Bush removal. Email me at mosv0002@d.umn.edu or Clive at owen182@hotmail.com for more info.
Friday, April 16, 2004
Hi. Long time no see fellow members. Krugman's piece today is great and I highly recommend it. Its the best piece I've seen yet comparing the situation in Iraq to Vietnam. Good stuff. Links to come a little later.
Tuesday, March 30, 2004
Hey. Long time since posting. Krugman has, of course, put out a nice article entitled "This isn't America." It details the character assassination that is standard operating procedure for the Bush Administration.
Otherwise, I would show my article from last week's statesman, but the bitch webmaster refuses to put it online, so I'm going to post it on here.
Links:
- Iraqis and anti-American sentiment
- Fact Checking Dr. Rice
- White House flip-flopping- what did you say?
- Is Condi Rice the problem?
- Poll shows Bush is slipping away
- Missed Opportunities surround 9/11
- Bush Team took troops from searching for Osama to Iraq, replacing them with Spanish-speaking troops
- GOP is scared of MoveOn.org
- Karen Hughes back to the rescue!
- Nader and Kerry to discuss how to beat Bush
- AIDS problems getting worse
- Opinion over fact in the news?
And for fun:
- Protesters surround Karl Rove's house
- Bush tells the 8.2 million unemployed to "Get a Job!"
- North Dakota's new strip mall streches across 1/6 of the state
Otherwise, I would show my article from last week's statesman, but the bitch webmaster refuses to put it online, so I'm going to post it on here.
Links:
- Iraqis and anti-American sentiment
- Fact Checking Dr. Rice
- White House flip-flopping- what did you say?
- Is Condi Rice the problem?
- Poll shows Bush is slipping away
- Missed Opportunities surround 9/11
- Bush Team took troops from searching for Osama to Iraq, replacing them with Spanish-speaking troops
- GOP is scared of MoveOn.org
- Karen Hughes back to the rescue!
- Nader and Kerry to discuss how to beat Bush
- AIDS problems getting worse
- Opinion over fact in the news?
And for fun:
- Protesters surround Karl Rove's house
- Bush tells the 8.2 million unemployed to "Get a Job!"
- North Dakota's new strip mall streches across 1/6 of the state
Wednesday, March 24, 2004
Hello all. Its been a week since my last post again. This time I'd like to actually put something concrete on my site. Of course, Krugman wrote another nice piece, this time on the "shoud" of secrecy in the Bush Administration being lifted. I am attempting to put something under similar lines out, but also examining Bush's fake populism.
As most of you likely know, Bush's recent ads portray him as our great couragous leader who supported those aids workers on 9/11. Exept thats the furthest from the truth. Every time Bush has had an oppurtunity to provide aid for aid workers, specifically firefighters who worked at 9/11, he has turn the money down. As the President of the International Firefighters Association warned, "Don't lionize our fallen brothers, then stab us in the back." Sadly, Bush did just that. He had promised the 9/11 workers a 90 million dollar aid package, specifically to deal with the effects of all the ash they breathed in by working at 9/11. They never got it and of those who were tested with the little money they had, 50 percent had long lasting or fatal lung/respitory damage.
Of course, this is nothing new. Bush has had a pattern of this. Call it what you want. Krugman has called it fake populism or photo-op populism, I am calling it deceptive populism. Whatever you call it, its a sick pattern. Basically, the idea is that Bush seeks out a photo-op. goes and mingles with the common worker, whatever that be, and then he returns to reality in Washington DC, where he vetoes whatever he promised the workers and fucks them over by sidding with the opposition.
My favorite example other than the lastest is that of the coal miners. Remember the nine miners trapped in Pennslyvania a few years ago? Bush took the perfect oppurtunity to go down, shake hands with the miners and take some pictures with them while promising aid to stop this from happening again. (Hey, kinda like with 9/11, he promised aid to first-alert workers to make sure it never happened again. And yep, he shot down every attempt to actually go through with the aid--most specifically a 5.1 million dollar aid package under homeland security, another idea he tries to champion.) And did he? Nope, he actually derugulated safety measures for mining, sidding with the mining companies. Its that funny pattern over the past decade of derugulation that has allowed scandals like Enron to happen. (Remember, they took advantage of all the derugulation of telecommunications and natural gas industries)
He even did it to our soldiers. Don't believe for a second that Republicans actually support our troops. We all recall Bush's little photo-op on the USS Abraham Lincoln. You know, the whole Mission Accomplished bullshit. (Dont forget, 583 soldiers have died and only 115 died when he declared that. Do the math. That means 468 have died since.) Same idea. Bush goes and sets up everything to make him appear to be this glorious leader. Color coded the soldiers, making sure their ideologies fit with Bush, and of course, placing the cameras such that you couldn't see the coastline. And of course, he mingled with the soldiers and spewed out a speech about "winning the war" and how much he loves the soldiers. Meanwhile, back in reality, Bush pushed to cut combat pay for soldiers and managed to force wounded soldiers to pay for their meals. Its odd that the Pentagon has a 400 billion dollar budget but no cash for our soldiers...
So whats the point? Bush is really just a fascade. I think we can split him into two people: The Real Bush and then the Guy he pretends to be---more like a McCain, a respectable conservative. The Real Bush, behind the courtain, pushes for ideas like opening public lands to private industry. Remind you of anyone? Warren G. (No not the rapper damnit, the president Harding)? Yep, Teapot Dome? Remember that big scandal with oil fields on public land in Wyoming? Yeah...just like with ANWR and Lewis and Clarke and such. And he compares himself to Teddy Roosevelt? Roosevelt was a conservationist, conservative, but he still liked a good hunt. Bush is anything but that. And what about Medicare? We can ignore the fake news reports (Bush produce fake reports to promote the bill using actors to play journalists and pharmisists who said the bill was great and all) and cut to the chase. McCain, a true conservative fiscally, was against this large expansion of medicare that Bush lied about when it came to costs. It already cost enough, but it was 150 billion more the projected, but hey, threaten the guy who knows it, and nobody will find out right?
In the end, I can go on and on. There are so many examples of how Bush has been two-sided. He is not a conservative. He is not a liberal. He just wants power, like Caesar before him. He wants to empower his patrons to a point--i.e. big business and the religious right--ignoring how his policies will crumble our state, as the did in Ancient Rome. Caesar, above else, wanted power and in the end, an falling empire crumbled with him. It did, of course, take 14 years after his death before the Civil War ended and his grand nephew Octavious was crowned Emperorer. And Caesar only further toppled a already downtrodden state. But lets not ignore the obvious comparisons. Caesar made himself a patron to the people and mainly his armies, like his uncle Gaius Marius before him. Marius had transformed the army through his reforms (allowing volunteers in the army) to make the army essentially one big client. The result was a polarized society, just like today under Bush. The point is that Bush is amoral, he has no real ideology, he just wants power. When Kevin Phillips, a former advisor to Nixon, and your own treasury securitary, Paul O'Neil (a very rich former CEO) are against you something is wrong. I mean, even O'Neill saw they absurbness of Bush's tax cuts. They aren't conservative. His policies are the kind that well eventually sink this country. Lets get rid of him, shall we?
Comments and feedback desired---mosv0002@d.umn.edu
As most of you likely know, Bush's recent ads portray him as our great couragous leader who supported those aids workers on 9/11. Exept thats the furthest from the truth. Every time Bush has had an oppurtunity to provide aid for aid workers, specifically firefighters who worked at 9/11, he has turn the money down. As the President of the International Firefighters Association warned, "Don't lionize our fallen brothers, then stab us in the back." Sadly, Bush did just that. He had promised the 9/11 workers a 90 million dollar aid package, specifically to deal with the effects of all the ash they breathed in by working at 9/11. They never got it and of those who were tested with the little money they had, 50 percent had long lasting or fatal lung/respitory damage.
Of course, this is nothing new. Bush has had a pattern of this. Call it what you want. Krugman has called it fake populism or photo-op populism, I am calling it deceptive populism. Whatever you call it, its a sick pattern. Basically, the idea is that Bush seeks out a photo-op. goes and mingles with the common worker, whatever that be, and then he returns to reality in Washington DC, where he vetoes whatever he promised the workers and fucks them over by sidding with the opposition.
My favorite example other than the lastest is that of the coal miners. Remember the nine miners trapped in Pennslyvania a few years ago? Bush took the perfect oppurtunity to go down, shake hands with the miners and take some pictures with them while promising aid to stop this from happening again. (Hey, kinda like with 9/11, he promised aid to first-alert workers to make sure it never happened again. And yep, he shot down every attempt to actually go through with the aid--most specifically a 5.1 million dollar aid package under homeland security, another idea he tries to champion.) And did he? Nope, he actually derugulated safety measures for mining, sidding with the mining companies. Its that funny pattern over the past decade of derugulation that has allowed scandals like Enron to happen. (Remember, they took advantage of all the derugulation of telecommunications and natural gas industries)
He even did it to our soldiers. Don't believe for a second that Republicans actually support our troops. We all recall Bush's little photo-op on the USS Abraham Lincoln. You know, the whole Mission Accomplished bullshit. (Dont forget, 583 soldiers have died and only 115 died when he declared that. Do the math. That means 468 have died since.) Same idea. Bush goes and sets up everything to make him appear to be this glorious leader. Color coded the soldiers, making sure their ideologies fit with Bush, and of course, placing the cameras such that you couldn't see the coastline. And of course, he mingled with the soldiers and spewed out a speech about "winning the war" and how much he loves the soldiers. Meanwhile, back in reality, Bush pushed to cut combat pay for soldiers and managed to force wounded soldiers to pay for their meals. Its odd that the Pentagon has a 400 billion dollar budget but no cash for our soldiers...
So whats the point? Bush is really just a fascade. I think we can split him into two people: The Real Bush and then the Guy he pretends to be---more like a McCain, a respectable conservative. The Real Bush, behind the courtain, pushes for ideas like opening public lands to private industry. Remind you of anyone? Warren G. (No not the rapper damnit, the president Harding)? Yep, Teapot Dome? Remember that big scandal with oil fields on public land in Wyoming? Yeah...just like with ANWR and Lewis and Clarke and such. And he compares himself to Teddy Roosevelt? Roosevelt was a conservationist, conservative, but he still liked a good hunt. Bush is anything but that. And what about Medicare? We can ignore the fake news reports (Bush produce fake reports to promote the bill using actors to play journalists and pharmisists who said the bill was great and all) and cut to the chase. McCain, a true conservative fiscally, was against this large expansion of medicare that Bush lied about when it came to costs. It already cost enough, but it was 150 billion more the projected, but hey, threaten the guy who knows it, and nobody will find out right?
In the end, I can go on and on. There are so many examples of how Bush has been two-sided. He is not a conservative. He is not a liberal. He just wants power, like Caesar before him. He wants to empower his patrons to a point--i.e. big business and the religious right--ignoring how his policies will crumble our state, as the did in Ancient Rome. Caesar, above else, wanted power and in the end, an falling empire crumbled with him. It did, of course, take 14 years after his death before the Civil War ended and his grand nephew Octavious was crowned Emperorer. And Caesar only further toppled a already downtrodden state. But lets not ignore the obvious comparisons. Caesar made himself a patron to the people and mainly his armies, like his uncle Gaius Marius before him. Marius had transformed the army through his reforms (allowing volunteers in the army) to make the army essentially one big client. The result was a polarized society, just like today under Bush. The point is that Bush is amoral, he has no real ideology, he just wants power. When Kevin Phillips, a former advisor to Nixon, and your own treasury securitary, Paul O'Neil (a very rich former CEO) are against you something is wrong. I mean, even O'Neill saw they absurbness of Bush's tax cuts. They aren't conservative. His policies are the kind that well eventually sink this country. Lets get rid of him, shall we?
Comments and feedback desired---mosv0002@d.umn.edu
Tuesday, March 16, 2004
Hey, time for more links! Krugman posted another excellent article as usually, but less new ideas and more insight this time. Herbert also had a article printed recently which was excellent, giving us insight into the soldiers in Iraq and their experiences.
Alright links:
Iraq news:
- More on the Pentagon and its bad information given to the Bush team
- Soldiers who have already been in Iraq one-year are being sent back
- Bush wants to hand over power, but keep military control
Republicans acting bad:
- Rumsfield has decided to keep a 9/11 souvenir
- Republicans want all Bush aids, but no anti-Bush ads---that would be "illegal" and "immoral"....dumbasses
- There is angst within the GOP due to the economy
- Bush calls for a return to the "Star Wars" program again. Don't they ever learn?
- EPA lied in 2002 about our water
- Bush team threatened aid who had information to the contrary of figures in the Medicare Bill of 2003 and now an inquiry is on.
The Race:
- Bush's new idea to get young voters--reinstitute the Draft
- Bush's ads are seen unfavorably by swing voters by a margin of 2-1
- An Ohio man was punished for holding a "traitor" sign as the Bush motorcade passed -
http://www.newsnet5.com/news/2917248/detail.html
- Bush's biggest concern--losing his job
General News:
- US confidence in "recovery" hits low
- Israeli Jews want a unilateral withdrawal from the Gaza territory
- Film bashing Bush
- Bush loves abstinence-only sex education, even though most reports show it fails miserably.
- Bush's solution to drugs--faith, just like with his drinking problem when he was 40....
- Bush takes a step back on "No Child Left Behind"
...And finally....:
- Bush refers to women as "men" at a women's rights rally
Alright links:
Iraq news:
- More on the Pentagon and its bad information given to the Bush team
- Soldiers who have already been in Iraq one-year are being sent back
- Bush wants to hand over power, but keep military control
Republicans acting bad:
- Rumsfield has decided to keep a 9/11 souvenir
- Republicans want all Bush aids, but no anti-Bush ads---that would be "illegal" and "immoral"....dumbasses
- There is angst within the GOP due to the economy
- Bush calls for a return to the "Star Wars" program again. Don't they ever learn?
- EPA lied in 2002 about our water
- Bush team threatened aid who had information to the contrary of figures in the Medicare Bill of 2003 and now an inquiry is on.
The Race:
- Bush's new idea to get young voters--reinstitute the Draft
- Bush's ads are seen unfavorably by swing voters by a margin of 2-1
- An Ohio man was punished for holding a "traitor" sign as the Bush motorcade passed -
http://www.newsnet5.com/news/2917248/detail.html
- Bush's biggest concern--losing his job
General News:
- US confidence in "recovery" hits low
- Israeli Jews want a unilateral withdrawal from the Gaza territory
- Film bashing Bush
- Bush loves abstinence-only sex education, even though most reports show it fails miserably.
- Bush's solution to drugs--faith, just like with his drinking problem when he was 40....
- Bush takes a step back on "No Child Left Behind"
...And finally....:
- Bush refers to women as "men" at a women's rights rally
Wednesday, March 10, 2004
Hey! Its been a bit since my last post, but now I have lots of links. I will be printed again tommorow in the Statesman. This article deals with the important issues in the race - jobs, health care, and foreign policy.
Where to begin?
Media Coverage:
- New reports and studies indicate the faulty news coverage over Iraq.
- Look here for more
More about Iraq:
- Our push for war involved spying on UN allies
- Bush has not attended one funeral for a dead soldiers and continues to hide photos of the dead
- The Pentagon is unleashing new, terrible weapons, even though the War was supposed to be over
- Pentagons spies gave faulty information to Bush without the CIA's consent
Problems with other foreign policy:
- Ignoring Pakistan and its black market of nuclear weapons
- Taliban continues to stick around
- There's a coup in Zimbabwe that was attempted to the dismay of 60 British nationals
Uranium - bad for Iraq, good for Iran
- Iran continues its program for nuclear weapons by attaining more Uranium
- The US can't account for the Uranium it gave to 43 countries
Bush's Ads:
- Bush now decides to exploit the 9/11 victims and firefighters. Only one problem: He's spent the last few years since 9/11 screwing the firefighters, especially the ones at 9/11
Campaign 2004:
- Women as a possible swing vote?
- Culture wars will be a problem, hopefully for Bush
- Bush: In trouble in Florida?
Republicans against Bush:
- Some GOP members say Bush is the problem
- Gay Republicans are going to run ads against Bush now. Way to go Bush, now you've alienated part of your supporters.
- McCain as Kerry's VP? Interesting
Jobs, the Economy, and Tax Cuts:
- Paul Krugman's great article- a picture is worth a thousand words in this case.
- Jobless recovery remains just that; a jobless recovery
- The Congressional Budget Office says Bush's tax cuts won't help the economy like he says they will
Evil Republicans:
- Karl Rove admits his part in the leaking of the CIA operative
- Bush's Harken company in comparison to Martha Stewarts: A lot worse
- Strom Thurmand: Great segregationist, father to a black woman
Other bad things going on:
- Environment: Getting raped by exess CO2
- The Problem with Oil
- The Salvation Army discriminates
- Taxing Email thanks to Microsoft
And one more funny thing:
- What happened with W in 1972
Where to begin?
Media Coverage:
- New reports and studies indicate the faulty news coverage over Iraq.
- Look here for more
More about Iraq:
- Our push for war involved spying on UN allies
- Bush has not attended one funeral for a dead soldiers and continues to hide photos of the dead
- The Pentagon is unleashing new, terrible weapons, even though the War was supposed to be over
- Pentagons spies gave faulty information to Bush without the CIA's consent
Problems with other foreign policy:
- Ignoring Pakistan and its black market of nuclear weapons
- Taliban continues to stick around
- There's a coup in Zimbabwe that was attempted to the dismay of 60 British nationals
Uranium - bad for Iraq, good for Iran
- Iran continues its program for nuclear weapons by attaining more Uranium
- The US can't account for the Uranium it gave to 43 countries
Bush's Ads:
- Bush now decides to exploit the 9/11 victims and firefighters. Only one problem: He's spent the last few years since 9/11 screwing the firefighters, especially the ones at 9/11
Campaign 2004:
- Women as a possible swing vote?
- Culture wars will be a problem, hopefully for Bush
- Bush: In trouble in Florida?
Republicans against Bush:
- Some GOP members say Bush is the problem
- Gay Republicans are going to run ads against Bush now. Way to go Bush, now you've alienated part of your supporters.
- McCain as Kerry's VP? Interesting
Jobs, the Economy, and Tax Cuts:
- Paul Krugman's great article- a picture is worth a thousand words in this case.
- Jobless recovery remains just that; a jobless recovery
- The Congressional Budget Office says Bush's tax cuts won't help the economy like he says they will
Evil Republicans:
- Karl Rove admits his part in the leaking of the CIA operative
- Bush's Harken company in comparison to Martha Stewarts: A lot worse
- Strom Thurmand: Great segregationist, father to a black woman
Other bad things going on:
- Environment: Getting raped by exess CO2
- The Problem with Oil
- The Salvation Army discriminates
- Taxing Email thanks to Microsoft
And one more funny thing:
- What happened with W in 1972
Thursday, March 04, 2004
Hey, got some more good links. First off, I've been printed in the Statesman again. This week was about the polarization of America via George Bush.
Here's the links:
- Support for Iraq is at a all-time low
- Link between Saddamm and Al-Qaida is getting weaker
- Tony Blair could go to prison
- David Kay, former Iraq weapons inspector, tells Bush to "come clean to the American People"
- Iraq hasn't had WMD's since 1994!
- Iraq has a bloody road to its constitution
- America spies on the UN!
- Electronic Voting is Bad!
- Aristide- Ousted for not being pro-American Business?
- Bush is nation buiding in Haiti-wait what happened to not wanted to do that...campaign promise my ass
- Is Bush helping gay rights?
- Gay conservatives angry with Bush, campaigning against him
- Scalia is asked to recuse himself from the case involving hunting pal Dick Cheney
- Happy Birthday Homeland Security!
- Culture of fear propelled the war
- Good job Bush! Al-Qaida leaders are reestablishing power
- Bush says lets make McDonald's workers manufacturing workers!
- Bush and Greespan's plan to bankrupt America
- US not tough on Pakistan's nuclear black market
Funny stuff:
- Venezuelan Leader calls Bush an "asshole"
- Library says "No wooden shoes, but you can have guns!"
- Bush wins Oscar, thanks "Axis of Evil"
- Bush plans to make up guard duty this weekend
Sick stuff:
- 100 hamsters used to make coat. Cruel shit.
Here's the links:
- Support for Iraq is at a all-time low
- Link between Saddamm and Al-Qaida is getting weaker
- Tony Blair could go to prison
- David Kay, former Iraq weapons inspector, tells Bush to "come clean to the American People"
- Iraq hasn't had WMD's since 1994!
- Iraq has a bloody road to its constitution
- America spies on the UN!
- Electronic Voting is Bad!
- Aristide- Ousted for not being pro-American Business?
- Bush is nation buiding in Haiti-wait what happened to not wanted to do that...campaign promise my ass
- Is Bush helping gay rights?
- Gay conservatives angry with Bush, campaigning against him
- Scalia is asked to recuse himself from the case involving hunting pal Dick Cheney
- Happy Birthday Homeland Security!
- Culture of fear propelled the war
- Good job Bush! Al-Qaida leaders are reestablishing power
- Bush says lets make McDonald's workers manufacturing workers!
- Bush and Greespan's plan to bankrupt America
- US not tough on Pakistan's nuclear black market
Funny stuff:
- Venezuelan Leader calls Bush an "asshole"
- Library says "No wooden shoes, but you can have guns!"
- Bush wins Oscar, thanks "Axis of Evil"
- Bush plans to make up guard duty this weekend
Sick stuff:
- 100 hamsters used to make coat. Cruel shit.
