Archive for the ‘Politics’ Category

And another thing on Bush’s speech from this morning…

Wednesday, November 30th, 2005

Why doesn’t he try giving that same speech in front of a randomly selected group of average Americans instead of a captive military audience? I doubt the applause would be so forthcoming. With a tanking approval rating based mostly on the missionless, pointless war in Iraq, his monotonous “Stay the ...

What a great quote

Tuesday, November 29th, 2005

Former Sec. of State Colin Powell’s ex cheif of staff had a wonderful quote in an interview about how Pres. Bush was “aloof” during post-war planning. Wilkerson blamed Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and like-minded aides. Wilkerson said that Cheney must have sincerely believed that Iraq ...

God forbid students learn about birth control

Sunday, November 27th, 2005

A student newspaper in Tenn. was seized by administrators because it discussed success rates of various birth control methods. The administrators said that the article had to be edited because “We’ve got 14-year-olds that read the newspaper.” My answer to that is… yeah, so, we have 14 year olds having sex ...