The Animal White House of George W. Bush

[UPDATE to Supremes Slap Jr. Over Habeus Violations] Now we know where our Frat Brat in Chief got the inspiration for his assertion that the US Constitution gives him unlimited power to pursue his grandiose fantasy as the uber unitary executive. Twenty three seconds into the video clip below, we learn that the secret is out: “There’s a little known …

Another Darth Cheney Lie Exposed

McClatchy News Services reports: Cheney on Wednesday told the U.S. Chamber of Commerce that “oil is being drilled right now 60 miles off the coast of Florida.” “We’re not doing it. The Chinese are in cooperation with the Cuban government.” ”Even the communists have figured out that a good answer to high prices is more supply,” he added. “Yet Congress …

Supremes Slap Jr. Over Habeus Violations

Photo credit to newsgroups.derkeiler.com How dare the highest court in the land hold our resident White House psychopath accountable for anything, let alone violating the US Constitution, which Bush is said to have called “just a goddamn piece of paper.” Same goes for Dem senators like Carl Levin who supported The Military Commissions Act— Bush’s complicit enablers. Glenzilla does the …

Is McCain a PC or a Mac Guy?

“Neither. I am, I am a, ah, illiterate that has to rely on my wife for all the assistance I can get.” However, that conflicts with another statement of his the other day, about how his search for a vice president was going: “You know, basically it’s a Google. What you can find out now on the Internet — it’s …

The Obama Zeitgeist: UPDATE

In my post, The Obama Zeitgeist, I wrote: Barack’s message of Hope and Change found greater resonance in the Democratic electorate than Hillary’s message of Experience and Leadership. I suggested that this turn to hope and idealism found resonance in the teachings The Urantia Book re its depiction of The Seraphic Planetary Government, and in its distinction between ideas and …

Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny

While the Obama campaign depicts the ontogeny of Organism McCain as the phylogenetic recapitulation of Species Bush, aka “running for Bush’s third term,” one has to wonder how McSame will respond. Perhaps he will take a page out of the old (and not so old) Kremlin playbook, as mentioned in Monday’s NY Times editorial titled Airbrushed by the Kremlin, Again, …

RFK’s Obama Prophecy

From yesterday’s Meet the Press: He gave a speech to the Voice of America all around the world 40 years ago. And despite what was going on in the country, particularly in Alabama, Bobby Kennedy said this: Things are “moving so fast in race relations a Negro could be president in 40 years.” This is in 1968, we’re now in …