Rep. Michele Bachmann R-MN
Do you remember when Minnesota's newly-elected Republican congresswoman, Michele Bachmann, embarrassed herself with her fawning all over Bush after this year's SOTU address?
Reported on Think Progess, Bachmann in a recent interview [audio here] made up an entirely new Iranian/Iraqi scenario, complete with a name,"Iraq State of Islam", that she evidently made up, too.
Minnesotans must be awfully proud of their, 'first Republican female to serve in Congress', representative in her first month in office.
Congratulations Representative Bachmann! Way to go Gophers...!
(The 'Limbaugh Award' is a new award here on 'done that' that will be presented each week to the person or persons, who can show a total disregard for the truth, by either writing or saying something totally fabricated, without any basis of fact, and still pretend as if there's no problem with their character)
All in the Family
While Mitt Romney condemns polygamy and its prior practice by his Mormon church, the Republican presidential candidate's great-grandfather, Miles Park Romney, married his fifth wife in 1897. That was more than six years after Mormon leaders banned polygamy and more than three decades after a federal law barred the practice. One of Romney's great-great grandfathers, Parley Pratt, an apostle in the church, had 12 wives.[Sure, let's elect a Mormon moron!]
You can do that in America?
"That weirdness, aides reported, stemmed from Rudy Giuliani's 14-year marriage to his second cousin, a union that he got annulled by claiming to have never received proper dispensation from the Catholic Church for the unorthodox nuptials." [The Smoking Gun]
We can't handle the truth
The Army is deliberately shortchanging troops on their disability retirement ratings to hold down costs, according to veterans’ advocates, lawyers and services members, and the Inspector General has identified 87 problems in the system that need fixing. Read about the IG report
They're gaining on usResearchers have witnessed a chimpanzee skewering a lemur-like creature for supper, but it's unclear whether the spectacle was a bit of luck or an indication that chimps have a more advanced ability to hunt than was thought.
A team led by Iowa State University anthropology professor Jill Pruetz witnessed the spearing of a bushbaby in Fongoli, Senegal, during an observation of chimpanzees from March 2005 to July 2006. In a study being released Thursday in the online version of the journal Current Biology, Pruetz documents 22 cases of chimps using spear-like tools to hunt bushbabies - a small primate that lives in hollow branches or tree trunks. - [only on Newsmax]
Knocked that emboldeness right out
Iran has not suspended uranium enrichment activity, despite a U.N. security council ultimatum, the director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency said Wednesday. Mohamed ElBaradei has said in recent weeks that the IAEA has found no evidence that Iran is trying to build nuclear weapons, but he criticizes Iran for concealing nuclear activities and evading questions about its program. Mohamed ElBaradei
Slick Willy living the high life!
Former President Bill Clinton struck it rich stringing words together on the lecture circuit to the tune of $40 million over the past six years.
According to The Washington Post, last year alone Clinton earned a staggering $9 or $10 million for an incredible 352 speeches — nearly one a day. The Post however, reports that only 20 percent of the fees went into the Clinton's pockets. The rest either went to charitable causes, such as the fight against AIDS, or the speeches were made for no fee.
Yeah, ol' Bill is living it up, ain't he?..... And he's giving a hell of a lot back too! Stand up and take bow if any of you give 80% of your income to 'charitable causes'..... - Sit down!
What they're thinking
American voters disapprove 60 – 34 percent of the job George W. Bush is doing. Voters disapprove 64 – 30 percent of Bush’s handling of the war in Iraq and oppose 62 – 33 percent Bush's plan to send 22,000 more troops to Iraq.
From February 13 – 19 Quinnipiac University surveyed 1,536 American voters with a margin of error of +/- 2.5 percent, including 578 Republicans with a margin of error of +/- 4.1 percent, and 684 Democrats with a margin of error of +/- 3.8 percent.
Tastes like chicken
The parent company of KFC and Taco Bell _ still smarting from last year's E. coli scare _ has been forced back into damage-control mode after television cameras caught rats scampering around a restaurant floor.
As health inspectors descended on a KFC and Taco Bell eatery in Manhattan's Greenwich Village on Friday, Yum Brands Inc. hastened to show that it also was taking the rodents seriously.
Today, this establishment had serious unsanitary conditions," said Carol Feracho, a senior health inspector. "There were issues with vermin throughout."
Dubya's half-billion tower of Babel
In what is being called "their final campaign," Bush's "truest believers" are aiming to raise a half-billion dollars for the mother of all presidential libraries. The library and an attached think tank -- which will pay for conservative research ['conservative research'? is that like jumbo shrimp?] -- is being earmarked for the Dallas, Texas campus of Southern Methodist University, where First Lady Laura Bush is an alumna and a trustee.
In late-November, the New York Daily News reported that "Bush sources with direct knowledge of library plans" said that "Bush fund-raisers hope to get half of the half billion from what they call 'megadonations' of $10 million to $20 million a pop." According to the Daily News, "Bush loyalists have already identified wealthy heiresses, Arab nations and captains of industry as potential 'mega' donors and are pressing for a formal site announcement - now expected early in the new year ... . The rest of the cash will come from donors willing to pony up $25,000 to $5 million."
Time for a re-write"We gave the president that power to destroy Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and, if necessary, to depose Saddam Hussein. The WMD was not there. Saddam Hussein is no longer there. The 2002 authorization is no longer relevant to the situation in Iraq." - Joe Biden, stating the obvious.
Today a long time agoOn February 25, 1793, George Washington held his first Cabinet meeting as President of the United States.
George Washington's Cabinet consisted of, Thomas Jefferson as Secretary of State, Alexander Hamilton as Secretary of Treasury and Henry Knox as Secretary of War. And of course, Washington's Vice President was John Adams.
Compare that Cabinet to the 'current' George's Cabinet of, Condi Rice, Henry Paulson, Donald Rumsfeld, and of course his VP, Dick Cheney. That explains a lot.
Damn Public Schools“Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.” - Adolf Hitler
"As I said in the book, [Somebody's Gotta Say It] the teacher's unions present a greater long-term threat to this country than do Islamic fascists". - Neal Boortz
A man of principleI ran across an old post the other day and it reminded me of another reason why I think George Bush is an asshole.Do you remember back in 2005 when Bush decided to "waive any financial sanctions on Saudi Arabia, for failing to do enough to stop the modern-day slave trade in prostitutes, child sex workers and forced laborers"?
What a guy.
There's a Nobel Piece Prize?
"So it's true. I have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize...Well, there you have it, ladies and gentlemen, I, your host, your Doctor of Democracy, your guiding light, have been nominated for the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize by the Landmark Legal Foundation".
"Wow, I'm impressed- Rush Limbaugh 'nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by the 'Landmark Legal Foundation'!!??. Uh....and, who is the Landmark Legal Foundation, again?
.....Aww Man, that's just that phony foundation run by Rush's little Dominican Republic-weekend, Viagra-popping, little girl and little boy-cruising, deranged and perverted, good-buddy and partner, Mark Levin!
That doesn't really count does it? And it's... it's 'peace' not 'piece'....(I'm pretty sure that's the same Mark Levin.... lawyer buddy, right?...)
....And speaking of Rush
Announcing this week's winner of the new Limbaugh Award
Rep. Michele Bachmann R-MN
Do you remember when Minnesota's newly-elected Republican congresswoman, Michele Bachmann, embarrassed herself with her fawning all over Bush after this year's SOTU address?Reported on Think Progess, Bachmann in a recent interview [audio here] made up an entirely new Iranian/Iraqi scenario, complete with a name,"Iraq State of Islam", that she evidently made up, too.
Minnesotans must be awfully proud of their, 'first Republican female to serve in Congress', representative in her first month in office.
Congratulations Representative Bachmann! Way to go Gophers...!
(The 'Limbaugh Award' is a new award here on 'done that' that will be presented each week to the person or persons, who can show a total disregard for the truth, by either writing or saying something totally fabricated, without any basis of fact, and still pretend as if there's no problem with their character)
See you next week!
