From the typical type of garbage headline I have come to expect from the Politico: PRESIDENT OBAMA TIES GEORGE W. BUSH ON GOLF President Barack Obama has only been in office for just over nine months, but he’s already hit the links as much as President Bush did in over two years. Needless to say […]
The next couple of days will be nothing but festivities for most, but for some it will be work. I’m not talking about right wingers who fear the end of days by the swearing in of Barack Obama as our 44th President, but I am talking about actual members of Obama’s new administration: {[}]lt;blockquote> Vans […]
It looks like what happened in Iraq is starting to spread: Afghanistan’s president has sent a list of demands to the United States government about troop conduct ahead of the arrival of more U.S. forces next year. President Hamid Karzai said in a speech in the capital Thursday that he sent the missive last month […]
Now that we have a Democrat taking over 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. and Democrats controlling Congress, can we look at a serious budget cut? I’m of course talking about the bullshit “war on drugs”. So far this year our governments (federal and state) have spent close to $44 billion on this never ending war. It’s like […]
A great report this morning on MSNBC talking about a world wide euphoria about our new President. America has become a punchline under George Bush, it’s great to see our image being restored.
I turned on Morning Joe and heard him going off about Gwen Ifill moderating the debate tomorrow night. His complaint is that she has authored a book; The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama . I hadn’t heard about this book, so I started Googleing it. One of the first links I […]
Looks like a picture from decades past, but instead it is from yesterday: Russia showcased its military might and youthful new president to the world Friday, as heavy tanks and missile launchers rumbled across Red Square in a Victory Day parade for the first time since the Soviet era. In a nationally broadcast speech two […]
Environmentalists have feared that Bush would try to use his last year in office to push for opening up areas for drilling, and that is exactly his plan: The Bush administration has proposed allowing oil and gas drilling in an area of the Bering Sea considered important for the recovery of the world’s most endangered […]
Not that I am excited or anything. Steve Benen has some thoughts on this last year also. UPDATE What a headline from the Independent: Just one more year! Good riddance to George W Bush Yup – he is loved around the world.
And not in a good way Wall Street resumed its downward trek Friday as skittish investors, unable to hold on to much optimism about the economy, drew little comfort from President Bush’s stimulus plan. Investors had already pulled back from a big early gain, with the major indexes trading mixed as Bush began to speak. […]