25 days ago
deusx : Be Patient This Gets Amazing - EPA E-Mail | The Daily Show | Comedy Central - "The Bush administration gets the EPA to rewrite their policy on greenhouse gases by not opening the e-mail."
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1 month ago
deusx : President Bush regrets his legacy as man who wanted war - Times Online - "President Bush has admitted to The Times that his gun-slinging rhetoric made the world believe that he was a “guy really anxious for war” in Iraq. He said that his aim now was to leave his successor a legacy of international diplomacy for tackli
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4 month ago
deusx : There's No Such Thing as the Homeland | Threat Level from Wired.com - "There is no such thing as a Homeland. The United States is not Franco's Spain, the National Socialist Party's Germany, or Mussolini's Italy. We do not face imminent destruction of our country or way of life."
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5 month ago
nelson : McCain for torture, too - Ridiculous hair splitting on a core human rights issue
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5 month ago
nelson : Bush endorses torture - Refuses to sign a bill outlawing torture
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6 month ago
nelson : Bush's favourite painting - Not an allegory of spreading the Methodist word, but rather an escaping horse thief
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Khoi Vinh : Harper’s Magazine: The Illustrated President - The origins of George W. Bush’s favorite painting, which was the work of the illustrator W.H.D. Koerner. Via Capn Design. [via]
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6 month ago
nelson : 473 days rectified - White House destroyed over a year's worth of email
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6 month ago
nelson : The ol' Memory Hole - Bush Administration "loses" millions of emails. Again.
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8 month ago
deusx : reddit.com: AP Photo of the President and some fucking asshole that bankrupted our country and killed 1,000,000+ people. - "This gets my vote for best reddit headline of the year."
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9 month ago
nelson : Torture 2.0 - A web how-to for waterboarding. Maybe Mukasey would like to read up?
deusx : waterboarding.org | “Torture is abhorrent, both to American law and values, and to international norms.” —US DOJ 1/27/05 - "Using unclassified sources, news reports, and historical records we are attempting to put together as clear a picture as possible of this technique, its history, its legality, and the scope of its use."
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deusx : The Raw Story | CNN's Cafferty: Bush putting the poor out in the cold to fund war - "No money for kids' health insurance, no money to help poor families pay their heating bills but President Bush wants $190 billion additional for 2008 for his wars in Iraq and Afghanistan"
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9 month ago
nelson : George W. Bush is Jesus - About once a month PhilG posts something really awesome to his blog. Like this.
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10 month ago
Linkorama : The ‘Good Germans’ Among Us - “BUSH lies” doesn’t cut it anymore. It’s time to confront the darker reality that we are lying to ourselves.
Ethan Marcotte : The ‘Good Germans’ Among Us - If anyone needs me, I'll be in my bed with the covers pulled over my head. ∞
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10 month ago
deusx : A troubling turn in American history - The Boston Globe - "These developments would be disturbing enough, but what they point to is an interruption in this nation's most important public tradition - the movement from recognition of a problem to its attempted resolution."
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10 month ago
deusx : I survived Blackwater - Los Angeles Times - "As we do the work of bridge building and improving our host citizens' lives, if the people providing our transportation and security are antagonizing, angering and even killing the people we are putatively trying to help, our entire mission is under
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10 month ago
Ethan Marcotte : 9/11 Is Over - “Our government has been exporting fear, not hope: ‘Give me your tired, your poor and your fingerprints.’” ∞
deusx : 9/11 is Over - "We can’t afford to keep being this stupid! We have got to get our groove back. We need a president who will unite us around a common purpose, not a common enemy."
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11 month ago
nelson : W: "like, totally" - Bush's colloquialism is actually age appropriate
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nelson : Constitutional crisis - Good Harper's essay explaining the danger of the extension of executive privilege
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13 month ago
deusx : OpinionJournal - Peggy Noonan - American Grit - We can't fire the president right now, so we're waiting it out. - "President Bush was hired to know more than the people, to be told all the deep inside intelligence, all the facts Americans are not told, and do the right and smart thing in response."
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13 month ago
nelson : Bad Bush photo day - The article is digusting, and the photos were chosen to illustrate
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13 month ago
deusx : Lonely and lame, Bush agonises over legacy | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited - "it is likely that Bush will be seen as a bottom feeder."
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deusx : Olbermann: Bush, Cheney should resign - Countdown with Keith Olbermann - MSNBC.com - "And this is too important a time, Sir, to have a commander-in-chief who puts party over nation."
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13 month ago
deusx : Hullabaloo - Impeachment - "Has there ever been a president who deserved it more?"
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13 month ago
deusx : A President Besieged and Isolated, Yet at Ease - washingtonpost.com - It really seems like this article wants me to cry for poor lil confused and misunderstood Bush. You know, it pisses me off how "serene and calm" the bastard is. I have no sympathy for him.
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13 month ago
deusx : Bush Commutes Libby’s Prison Sentence - New York Times - "Libby’s conviction was the one faint glimmer of accountability for White House efforts to manipulate intelligence and silence critics of the Iraq war. Now, even that small bit of justice has been undone."
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