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BUSH THINKS!!

You gotta love it when you come into work, sit down at the computer, get into yahoo and one headline reads: "Bush Admits Misgivings About Famed Phrases". Is this the new Bush? The one who actually will admit he's made a mistake (or two, or forty...)? He apparently had a "round table discussion" with 14 reporters (did they have to sign a loyalty oath?) and admitted that "sometimes words have consquences you don't intend them to mean..." he mainly was referring to when he declared the war "over" and said "Bring 'em on". And I quote from the article "It kind of, some interpreted it to be defiance in the face of danger. That certainly wasn't the case." REALLY?? I wonder how that could have been misinterpreted-"bring 'em on" as a defiant statement...at a time of war. And you gotta love how Laura scolded him for making that comment about wanting Osama Bin Laden "Dead or Alive". See the rest at:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=703&e=1&u=/ap/20050114/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_regrets

gotta love how the link ends with "bush regrets"...I'm sure he regrets the CNN.com headline which is a from the above quote "Sometimes, words have consequences..." (now turning page in new children's book entitled "George Said...but I didn't mean it.")

And speaking of things that Bush may be regretting...

The FBI has had enough trouble and now it may have to scrap a computer overhaul it deperately needs cause the overhaul has had serious "technical and planning problems". Yep, this is our government at work...has Homeland Security been alerted to this?

And speaking of our government at work... George is reminding us that he hates the poor. Okay, maybe that's a little strong...it's just that the poor couldn't contribute to his campaign and will look messy on Inauration day. And the federal programs to help them are completely getting in the way of making more tax cuts, so let's get rid of those programs shall we? The one being "consolidated" today is the community and rural housing branch of HUD. Take a look at:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7862-2005Jan13.html?referrer=email

Send a thank you to Rep. Barney Frank of MA for speaking out against this plan which he finds "just apalling".

Speaking of apalling things... The people who went to Bush rallies were invited. The people in his cabinet are all yes-people. He does not like to be disagreed with, and apparently this influence has spread to a NH insurance company that has decided to cut off an 80-year-old retired doctor's insurance because of her political views. Yes, it actually says she was cut off because of "the political positions the insured holds." See the rest at:

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0113-12.htm

IN THE MEANTIME...

In the "things Bush doesn't wanna hear" category, a US Panel has announced that Iraq, thanks to the war, is now growing into a breeding ground for terrorists...See the whole story at:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/14/politics/14intel.html?th

Um...didn't we go in there to STOP this kind of thing? Oh wait, there was nothing going on before we went in so how could we stop...it...wait...

And to stay in this category and add "things Bush doesn't want YOU to hear" Paul Krugman of the NYTimes has a great Op-Ed piece about how if you STILL aren't sure that Bush's plan for Social Security is a horrible idea, just look at Great Britain's retirement issues:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/14/opinion/14krugman.html?th

Staying in Great Britain, in the "Thank God that's not MY kid" category, Margaret Thatcher's son has plead guilty to charges that he and others were planning a coup to take over Equitorial Guinea. *I can just hear Margaret moaning "Oh why couldn't he have just done drugs or listened to that heavy metal music?"* Yep, he couldn't just get loaded and pee on some Duke's shrubbery, nor get caught in a Nazi outfit at a party (yeah, you thought Prince Harry was an idiot)...nope, he had to plot a coup...then again, who's his mother?

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/14/international/africa/14thatcher.html?th

And now, just cause we could all use a chuckle (particularly if you have been dealing with mudslides on the west coast, flooding in the midwest or just the dank, gray, foggy, cold/hot/cold/hot/cold hell of the east coast) CNN.com provides us another prize as they give us the story of a Romanian couple, who, as a thank you to the company that brought them together, they have named their new son "Yahoo":

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/01/14/yahoo.baby.reut/index.html

Once again, we witness parents who obviously were not teased as children cause of their names...and, like Bush, don't think of the consequences of their words...

So we all know what they did before little Yahoo came along, they KEPT E_MAILING!!! E-mail, call, write, fax your friends and family, the press and your Congressfolk. Let them know that you are PAYING ATTENTION and have something to say! And, as always, pass it on, pass it on, pass it on :)

Peace --Alex

posted by funkweee @ 7:17 AM