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Article by John on August 19th, 2008 at 9:55 am A letter to the editor in The Columbian today: Can we afford change? President Bush has been in office for approximately 7½ years. During the first six years of his presidency the economy was fine. Consumer confidence stood at a 2½-year high; regular gasoline sold for approximately $2.19 a gallon; the unemployment rate was 4.5 percent; the Dow Jones hit a record high at 14,000 plus; Americans [...]
Article by missy on July 16th, 2008 at 12:02 pm There is so much lying, bullying and bad grace in Bush’s presser from yesterday that I can hardly repudiate him any better than to just let the moron whiner speak for himself. Bush is the drunk who drives his car through a pedestrian crosswalk, up onto a sidewalk and into a street fair, killing or maiming all in his path, and then sues the bartender for [...]
Article by missy on October 12th, 2007 at 1:12 pm The boss is going in for some minor, but unplanned, surgery on Monday, so my desk runneth over. In the meantime: • The ACLU wants us to tell our Senators and Congresspersons to RESTORE pre-Bush FISA, but with teeth: Please, call your representative right now. Tell him or her to only pass a FISA modernization bill that has individualized warrants for people in the United States [...]
Article by Rich on April 12th, 2007 at 6:19 pm I remember first hearing about ethanol as a possible way of buying more time for our SUV, drive-through lifestyle and had my own doubts. Sounds like more people are, too: Exposing the Corn-Based Ethanol Hoax as a Solution to Peak Oil Corn lobby’s tall tale of a gas substitute America is swooning over ethanol, the renewable fuel which, in the US, is derived from corn. President Bush [...]
Article by Rich on November 11th, 2006 at 1:08 pm Sorry I’ve been so distracted…. …I’m a little overjoyed at this point. Y’know what I mean? I can’t believe things turned out the way they did. It seems like the last six years have one depressing revelation after another. The last two were especially f**king bleak. We saw the dissolution of nearly everything that made America great. The death of Habeas Corpus and the utter indifference towards [...] | |
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