29th September, 2005
Toast
Tom DeLay, Bush cronie and (ex)House Majority Leader, was indicted yesterday for his role in the financial scandals surrounding the 2002 election in Texas. Due to the indictment, he was forced to step down from the House Majority Leader position. Despite overwhelming evidence, DeLay is still vehemently denying any wrongdoing. This guy is a slimeball and I hope he burns for it.
[edit] More charges have been brought against DeLay. Teehee.
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28th September, 2005
Read
Books and ideas are the most effective weapons against intolerance and ignorance.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
Yeah, I know, I’m a little late on this (and I work in a freakin’ library, what the hell is wrong with me?) but… September 24th - October 1st marks this year’s annual Banned Books Week as promoted by the American Library Association. Now get out there and stick it to The Man.
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22nd September, 2005
Black Sabbath
John Stewart expresses his feelings for the government’s response to Hurricane Katrina at this year’s Emmy Awards.
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19th September, 2005
Katrina: The Gathering
I suppose one could actually print out these satirical game cards and attempt to play a game with them, but maybe you should just take 15 minutes out of your day and read the quotes. If you aren’t horrified and ashamed, you aren’t paying attention to reality.
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19th September, 2005
Shocking News
Remember when you were a kid, running around the house wearing wool socks in the winter, then touching a metal object to see how big a spark you could generate? I wonder how big that spark would have been if you were wearing this guy’s clothes.
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7th September, 2005
Big Media, Spine on Speaking Terms Again
Dan Gillmor points out a couple of articles where the mainstream media is being sharply critical of the Bush (mis)Administration and their dismal failure to do anything (proactively or reactively) about the disaster in the Gulf: CNN, BBC.
Also, Kieth Olbermann delivers a pointed commentary on his daily news program.
It’s refreshing to finally see a change in mainstream media’s coverage of the current government, yet incredibly sad that it took a tragedy of this magnitude to unseal their lips. I wonder how long things will stay this way.
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6th September, 2005
Open Letter
Just in case you haven’t seen this yet… Michael Moore expresses my feelings much more eloquently than I ever could:
Friday, September 2nd, 2005
Dear Mr. Bush:
Any idea where all our helicopters are? It’s Day 5 of Hurricane Katrina and thousands remain stranded in New Orleans and need to be airlifted. Where on earth could you have misplaced all our military choppers? Do you need help finding them? I once lost my car in a Sears parking lot. Man, was that a drag.
Also, any idea where all our national guard soldiers are? We could really use them right now for the type of thing they signed up to do like helping with national disasters. How come they weren’t there to begin with?
Last Thursday I was in south Florida and sat outside while the eye of Hurricane Katrina passed over my head. It was only a Category 1 then but it was pretty nasty. Eleven people died and, as of today, there were still homes without power. That night the weatherman said this storm was on its way to New Orleans. That was Thursday! Did anybody tell you? I know you didn’t want to interrupt your vacation and I know how you don’t like to get bad news. Plus, you had fundraisers to go to and mothers of dead soldiers to ignore and smear. You sure showed her!
I especially like how, the day after the hurricane, instead of flying to Louisiana, you flew to San Diego to party with your business peeps. Don’t let people criticize you for this — after all, the hurricane was over and what the heck could you do, put your finger in the dike?
And don’t listen to those who, in the coming days, will reveal how you specifically reduced the Army Corps of Engineers’ budget for New Orleans this summer for the third year in a row. You just tell them that even if you hadn’t cut the money to fix those levees, there weren’t going to be any Army engineers to fix them anyway because you had a much more important construction job for them — BUILDING DEMOCRACY IN IRAQ!
On Day 3, when you finally left your vacation home, I have to say I was moved by how you had your Air Force One pilot descend from the clouds as you flew over New Orleans so you could catch a quick look of the disaster. Hey, I know you couldn’t stop and grab a bullhorn and stand on some rubble and act like a commander in chief. Been there done that.
There will be those who will try to politicize this tragedy and try to use it against you. Just have your people keep pointing that out. Respond to nothing. Even those pesky scientists who predicted this would happen because the water in the Gulf of Mexico is getting hotter and hotter making a storm like this inevitable. Ignore them and all their global warming Chicken Littles. There is nothing unusual about a hurricane that was so wide it would be like having one F-4 tornado that stretched from New York to Cleveland.
No, Mr. Bush, you just stay the course. It’s not your fault that 30 percent of New Orleans lives in poverty or that tens of thousands had no transportation to get out of town. C’mon, they’re black! I mean, it’s not like this happened to Kennebunkport. Can you imagine leaving white people on their roofs for five days? Don’t make me laugh! Race has nothing — NOTHING — to do with this!
You hang in there, Mr. Bush. Just try to find a few of our Army helicopters and send them there. Pretend the people of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast are near Tikrit.
Yours,
Michael Moore
MMFlint@aol.com
www.MichaelMoore.comP.S. That annoying mother, Cindy Sheehan, is no longer at your ranch. She and dozens of other relatives of the Iraqi War dead are now driving across the country, stopping in many cities along the way. Maybe you can catch up with them before they get to DC on September 21st.
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1st September, 2005
Hi!
Well, that was fun. As some of you had noticed, ye olde blog was down for a bit over a week now. Turns out one of my files was misconfigured and instead of my posts getting dumped into database #1, they were getting dumped into database #2. At the old webhost. Who finally decided to delete the old files. Icky.
I do have *some* backups, heh, but it’s looking like the stuff from the past 2 months is toast. If any of you happen to have any stuff from here from the last couple of months cached somewhere, I would love you long time if you would be so kind as to send the goods to: gogblog at -no spam plz- gmail dot com.
Anyway, I’m going to be really busy over the next week or so, so I probably won’t get around to restoring the old posts for a while. In brief, here’s some stuff that’s been on my mind lately:
- Hurricane Katrina completely devastated large portions of several Gulf states. Please think about donating to the Red Cross if you can.
- Almost two-thirds of surveyed Americans think that creationism should be “taught” in schools.
- Gasoline is now $3.09 a gallon.
- Bush would rather hang out in San Diego than deal with the post-Katrina disasters in the Gulf area.
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