pc313 Posted January 17, 2009 Posted January 17, 2009 (edited) One of the definitions of insanity is persisting in the same behavior even after it has been proven to not accomplish anything productive. You mean like The Surge of forces and accompanying strategy changes in Iraq that you and your fellow Dems said would never work? As far as the Surge working they still have 141,000 troops in Iraq the most troops since the war began and now say they need to keep that level til 2010,the fact is they could use even more,the truth is the war was missmanaged and under maned from the start and still is,and when we leave it will be just as fucked up as it is today,a corrupt goverment ran by tribal war lords with ethic cleansing as their goal and us paying them to do it while are troops watch it happen! We should have left 3 yrs age and saved 4,000+ U.S. lifes and 500 Billion dollars!!! Edited January 20, 2009 by pc313 Quote
kevbone Posted January 17, 2009 Posted January 17, 2009 One of the definitions of insanity is persisting in the same behavior even after it has been proven to not accomplish anything productive. You mean like The Surge of forces and accompanying strategy changes in Iraq that you and your fellow Dems said would never work? What is it you think has "worked" over there? Except the deaths of thousands of innocent lives caught up in the greed of the powerful. Quote
kevbone Posted January 17, 2009 Posted January 17, 2009 We should have left 3 yrs age and saved 4,000+ U.S. lifes and 500 Billion dollars!!! Uh.....we should have NEVER gone to Iraq in the first place. It was an occupation of choice. Quote
mtn_mouse Posted January 17, 2009 Posted January 17, 2009 G.W.Bushrat in the early days, present days, just the same. By the way, my grade for him is an F, FWs grade is a B, so I will agree we can combine the grade and give Bushrat a BF! Quote
joblo7 Posted January 17, 2009 Posted January 17, 2009 You did what you said you were going to do, and when the American people got cold feet, you stayed resolute. Your biggest mistakes were: Thinking you could placate those who hated you by working together with people like Ted Kennedy on No Child Left Behind type legislation; Alberto Gonzales; honoring George Tenet; your second tax cut/rebate; not standing up to the 110th congress regarding Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae; and trying to hold Jose Pedilla--a US citizen--without due process. All of your perceived transgressions have historical precedent--almost always ignored by your detractors. Your response to 9/11 was spot-on. That you could stay on the path with all of the raw hatred and hysterical nonsense directed at you says a lot. Indications so far are that your successor will be a pragmatist, so it's exciting to see this new chapter in American history beginning. Your history is still in play, so it's too soon to say 'well done' but my bet on 50 years hindsight says you'll have a solid "B". and THAT my friends is the problem with america...fuckin moron!!!! Quote
joblo7 Posted January 17, 2009 Posted January 17, 2009 there is no letter to rate that motherfucker....Z minus seems charitable...go fry in hell..!! Quote
Crux Posted January 18, 2009 Posted January 18, 2009 With the legal protection of his presidency soon expired, a final rating given to Bush may be simply one or the other, guilty or not guilty: The Prosecution Quote
pc313 Posted January 18, 2009 Posted January 18, 2009 (edited) Well Bush is leaving now that he raped us for 8 year's(Thank's you Fucker's that voted for that criminal and i hope you lost every thing,job,401K and your house!! )and we lost 3 million jobs last year with more leaving soon,but i watched Charlie Rose last night with Rahm Emanuel and he was firing on all 8 cylinders about the Bailout and job's!! We can only hope that Bush and Gang,Business,and Banking CEO's are delt with in the courts for Treason and Terrorist Act's against the American People and the rest of the world for nobody is above the law,so spend 1 Billion on Prosecution and make it happen!!!! BAILOUT NEWS! Edited January 19, 2009 by pc313 Quote
j_b Posted January 19, 2009 Posted January 19, 2009 One of the definitions of insanity is persisting in the same behavior even after it has been proven to not accomplish anything productive. You mean like The Surge of forces and accompanying strategy changes in Iraq that you and your fellow Dems said would never work? What is it you think has "worked" over there? Except the deaths of thousands of innocent lives caught up in the greed of the powerful. Small (well, large) correction. At minimum 100,000's of additional death due to war occurred in Iraq since 2003. In fact, studies published in the Lancet, using the latest sampling/statistical methodologies put the number over a million. A number to be added to the hundreds of thousand of iraqi dead imparted to depleted uranium ammunition used during the 1st gulf war, the embargo that caused incredible hardship especially on young children, and the semi-secret war on Iraq during the 90's under Clinton. Quote
kevbone Posted January 19, 2009 Posted January 19, 2009 Well Bush is leaving now that he raped us for 8 year's(Thank's you Fucker's that voted for that criminal and i hope you lost every thing,job,401K and your house!! )and we lost 3 million jobs last year with more leaving soon,but i watched Charlie Rose last night with Rahm Emanuel and he was firing on all 8 cylinders about the Bailout and job's!! We can only hope that Bush and Gang,Business,and Banking CEO's are delt with in the courts for Treason and Terrorist Act's against the American People and the rest of the world for nobody is above the law,so spend 1 Billion on Prosecution and make it happen!!!! BAILOUT NEWS! Best post ever. Quote
Joe_Poulton Posted January 20, 2009 Posted January 20, 2009 Only a few more moments left as the world changes....Hooray. Quote
KaskadskyjKozak Posted January 20, 2009 Posted January 20, 2009 Only a few more moments left as the world changes....Hooray. :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: Quote
olyclimber Posted January 20, 2009 Posted January 20, 2009 well, it has changed...there is no doubt about that. unless you don't view the US as the world's leading country... Quote
KaskadskyjKozak Posted January 20, 2009 Posted January 20, 2009 well, it has changed...there is no doubt about that. unless you don't view the US as the world's leading country... we are certainly leading the world in obesity Quote
olyclimber Posted January 20, 2009 Posted January 20, 2009 i myself am championing that movement Quote
G-spotter Posted January 20, 2009 Posted January 20, 2009 did you rate that movement on the bristol stool scale? Quote
olyclimber Posted January 20, 2009 Posted January 20, 2009 no, but posted pics of it on ur facebook so that you can Quote
olyclimber Posted January 20, 2009 Posted January 20, 2009 http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/info-presapp0605-31.html?r Quote
lI1|1! Posted January 20, 2009 Posted January 20, 2009 did you rate that movement on the bristol stool scale? funny you should mention that but i took a huge one this morning. it was like in my top 5 of all time. i shall always remeber it as the inauguration day dump of 09. i feel so much lighter. Quote
KaskadskyjKozak Posted January 20, 2009 Posted January 20, 2009 I passed a stool sort of between type 4 and type 5 today. It was quite a large quantity, probably a good pound and a half or so. Quote
Skeezix Posted January 20, 2009 Posted January 20, 2009 Bush looked glum during the inauguration. I wonder if that was because he heard the boos from the crowd when he and Laura appeared on the platform? Quote
kevbone Posted January 20, 2009 Posted January 20, 2009 I wonder if that was because he heard the boos from the crowd when he and Laura appeared on the platform? I think it is because he knows he will be going to jail. Quote
prole Posted January 20, 2009 Posted January 20, 2009 Harper's Index of Bush Presidency Number of news stories from 1998 to Election Day 2000 containing “George W. Bush” and “aura of inevitability”: 206 Amount for which Bush successfully sued Enterprise Rent-A-Car in 1999: $2,500 Year in which a political candidate first sued Palm Beach County over problems with hanging chads: 1984 Total amount the Bush campaign paid Enron and Halliburton for use of corporate jets during the 2000 recount: $15,400 Percentage of Bush’s first 189 appointees who also served in his father’s administration: 42 Minimum number of Bush appointees who have regulated industries they used to represent as lobbyists: 98 Years before becoming energy secretary that Spencer Abraham cosponsored a bill to abolish the Department of Energy: 2 Number of Chevron oil tankers named after Condoleezza Rice, at the time she became foreign policy adviser: 1 Date on which the GAO sued Dick Cheney to force the release of documents related to current U.S. energy policy: 2/22/02 Number of other officials the GAO has sued over access to federal records: 0 Months before September 11, 2001, that Cheney’s Energy Task Force investigated Iraq’s oil resources: 6 Hours after the 9/11 attacks that an Alaska congressman speculated they may have been committed by “eco-terrorists”: 9 Date on which the first contract for a book about September 11 was signed: 9/13/01 Number of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and North African men detained in the U.S. in the eight weeks after 9/11: 1,182 Number of them ever charged with a terrorism-related crime: 0 Number charged with an immigration violation: 762 Days since the federal government first placed the nation under an “elevated terror alert” that the level has been relaxed: 0 Minimum number of calls the FBI received in fall 2001 from Utah residents claiming to have seen Osama bin Laden: 20 Number of box cutters taken from U.S. airline passengers since January 2002: 105,075 Percentage of Americans in 2006 who believed that U.S. Muslims should have to carry special I.D.: 39 Chances an American in 2002 believed the government should regulate comedy routines that make light of terrorism: 2 in 5 Rank of Mom, Dad, and Rudolph Giuliani among those whom 2002 college graduates said they most wished to emulate: 1, 2, 3 Number of members of the rock band Anthrax who said they hoarded Cipro so as to avoid an “ironic death”: 1 Estimated total calories members of Congress burned giving Bush’s 2002 State of the Union standing ovations: 22,000 Percentage of the amendments in the Bill of Rights that are violated by the USA PATRIOT Act, according to the ACLU: 50 Minimum number of laws that Bush signing statements have exempted his administration from following: 1,069 Estimated number of U.S. intelligence reports on Iraq that were based on information from a single defector: 100 Number of times the defector had ever been interviewed by U.S. intelligence agents: 0 Date on which Bush said of Osama bin Laden, “I truly am not that concerned about him”: 3/13/02 Days after the U.S. invaded Iraq that Sony trademarked “Shock & Awe” for video games: 1 Days later that the company gave up the trademark, citing “regrettable bad judgment”: 25 Number of books by Henry Kissinger found in Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz’s mansion: 2 Number by then–New York Times reporter Judith Miller: 1 Factor by which an Iraqi in 2006 was more likely to die than in the last year of the Saddam regime: 3.6 Factor by which the cause of death was more likely to be violence: 120 Chance that an Iraqi has fled his or her home since the beginning of the war: 1 in 6 Portion of Baghdad residents in 2007 who had a family member or friend wounded or killed since 2003: 3/4 Percentage of U.S. veterans from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan who have filed for disability with the VA: 35 Chance that an Iraq war veteran who has served two or more tours now has post-traumatic stress disorder: 1 in 4 Number of all U.S. war veterans who have been denied Veterans Administration health care since 2003: 452,677 Number of eligibility restrictions for admission into the Army that have been loosened since 2003: 9 Percentage change from 2004 to 2007 in the number of Army recruits admitted despite having been charged with a felony: +295 Date on which the White House announced it had stopped looking for WMDs in Iraq: 1/12/05 Years since his acquittal that O. J. Simpson has said he is still looking for his wife’s “real killers”: 13 Minimum number of close-up photographs of Bush’s hands owned by his current chief of staff, Josh Bolten: 4 Number of vehicles in the motorcade that transports Bush to his regular bike ride in Maryland: 6 Estimated total miles he has ridden his bike as president: 5,400 Portion of his presidency he has spent at or en route to vacation spots: 1/3 Minimum number of times that Frederick Douglass was beaten in what is now Donald Rumsfeld’s vacation home: 25 Estimated number of juveniles whom the United States has detained as enemy combatants since 2002: 2,500 Minimum number of detainees who were tortured to death in U.S. custody: 8 Minimum number of extraordinary renditions that the United States has made since 2006: 200 Date on which USA Today added Guantánamo to its weather map: 1/3/05 Number of incidents of torture on prime-time network TV shows from 2002 to 2007: 897 Number on shows during the previous seven years: 110 Percentage change since 2000 in U.S. emigration to Canada: +79 Number of the thirty-eight Iraq war veterans who have run for Congress who were Democrats: 21 Percentage of Republicans in 2005 who said they would vote for Bush over George Washington: 62 Seconds it took a Maryland consultant in 2004 to pick a Diebold voting machine’s lock and remove its memory card: 10 Number of states John Kerry would have won in 2004 if votes by poor Americans were the only ones counted: 40 Number if votes by rich Americans were the only ones counted: 4 Portion of all U.S. income gains during the Bush Administration that have gone to the top 1 percent of earners: 3/4 Increase since 2000 in the number of Americans living at less than half the federal poverty level: 3,500,000 Percentage change since 2001 in the average amount U.S. workers spend on out-of-pocket medical expenses: +172 Estimated percentage by which Social Security benefits would have declined if Bush’s privatization plan had passed: –15 Percentage change since 2002 in the number of U.S. teens using illegal drugs: –9 Percentage change in the number of adults in their fifties doing so: +121 Number of times FDA officials met with consumer and patient groups as they revised drug-review policy in 2006: 5 Number of times they met with industry representatives: 113 Amount the Justice Department spent in 2001 installing curtains to cover two seminude statues of Justice: $8,650 Number of Republican officials who have been investigated by the Justice Department since 2001: 196 Number of Democratic officials who have been: 890 Number of White House officials in 2006 and 2007 authorized to discuss pending criminal cases with the DOJ: 711 Number of Clinton officials ever authorized to do so: 4 Years since a White House official as senior as I. Lewis Libby had been indicted while in office: 130 Number of U.S. cities and towns that have passed resolutions calling for the impeachment of President Bush: 92 Percentage change since 2001 in U.S. government spending on paper shredding: +466 Percentage of EPA scientists who say they have experienced political interference with their work since 2002: 60 Change since 2001 in the percentage of Americans who believe humans are causing climate change: –4 Number of total additions made to the U.S. endangered-species list under Bush: 61 Average number made yearly under Clinton: 65 Minimum number of pheasant hunts Dick Cheney has gone on since he shot a hunting companion in 2006: 5 Days after Hurricane Katrina hit that Cheney’s office ordered an electric company to restore power to two oil pipelines: 1 Days after the hurricane that the White House authorized sending federal troops into New Orleans: 4 Portion of the $3.3 billion in federal Hurricane Katrina relief spent by Mississippi that has benefited poor residents: 1/4 Percentage change in the number of Louisiana and Mississippi newborns named Katrina in the year after the storm: +153 Rank of Nevaeh, “heaven” spelled backward, among the fastest growing names given to American newborns since 2000: 1 Months, beginning in 2001, that the federal government’s online condom fact sheet disappeared from its website : 17 Minimum amount that religious groups received in congressional earmarks from 2003 to 2006: $209,000,000 Amount such groups received during the previous fourteen years: $107,000,000 Percentage change from 2003 to 2007 in the amount of money invested in U.S. faith-based mutual funds: +88 Average annualized percentage return during that time in the Christian and Muslim funds, respectively: +11, +15 Number of feet the Ground Zero pit has been built up since the site was fully cleared in 2002: 30 Number of 980-foot-plus “Super Tall” towers built in the Arab world in the seven years since 9/11: 4 Year by which the third and final phase of the 2003 “road map” to a Palestinian state was to have been reached: 2005 Estimated number of the twenty-five provisions of the first phase that have yet to be completed: 12 Number of times in 2007 that U.S. media called General David Petraeus “King David”: 14 Percentage change during the first ten months of the Iraq war “surge” in the number of Iraqis detained in U.S.-run prisons: +63 Percentage change in the number of Iraqis aged nine to seventeen detained: +285 Ratio of the entire U.S. federal budget in 1957, adjusted for inflation, to the amount spent so far on the Iraq war: 1:1 Estimated amount Bush-era policies will cost the U.S. in new debt and accrued obligations: $10,350,000,000,000 (see page 31) Percentage change in U.S. discretionary spending during Bush’s presidency: +31 Percentage change during Reagan’s and Clinton’s, respectively: +16, +0.3 Ratio in 1999 of the number of U.S. federal employees to the number of private employees on government contracts: 15:6 Ratio in 2006: 14:15 Total value of U.S. government contracts in 2000 that were awarded without competitive bidding: $73,000,000,000 Total in 2007: $146,000,000,000 Number of the five directors of the No Child Left Behind reading program with financial ties to a curriculum they developed: 4 Amount by which the federal government has underfunded its estimated cost to implement NCLB: $71,000,000,000 Minimum number of copies sold, since it was released in 2006, of Flipping Houses for Dummies: 45,000 Chance that the buyer of a U.S. home in 2006 now has “negative equity,” i.e., the debt on the home exceeds its value: 1 in 5 Estimated value of Henry Paulson’s Goldman Sachs stock when he became Treasury Secretary and sold it: $575,000,000 Estimated value of that stock today: $238,000,000 Salary in 2006 of the White House’s newly created Director for Lessons Learned: $106,641 Minimum number of Bush-related books published since 2001: 606 Number of words in the first sentence of Bill Clinton’s memoir and in that of George W. Bush’s, respectively: 49, 5 Minimum number of nicknames Bush has given to associates during his presidency: 75 Number of associates with the last name Jackson he has dubbed “Action Jackson”: 2 Number of press conferences at which Bush has referred to a question as a “trick”: 14 Number of times he has declared an event or outcome not to be “acceptable”: 149 Rank of Bush among U.S. presidents with the highest disapproval rating: 1 Average percentage of Americans who approved of the job Bush was doing during his second term: 37 Percentage of Russians today who approve of the direction their country took under Stalin: 37 Quote
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