Yea, I know that those red and blue maps paint a two tone picture of a complex world, that red states have lots of blues living in them, that the demographics are infinitely more complex than two colors can represent.
However, often a simple explanation is the best one so perhaps this is what bush’s partiality to progressive indexing is all about.
It’s pretty easy to claim you never made a particular point if you fill your public discourse with this stuff.
This guy has published 16 ways to destroy the earth. He is also planning to publish instructions on how to move the earth. Does this make him a terrorist? Hey, this material is published and specific which seems a higher standard than the oft heard “credible but not specific.”
Maybe the earth security department should make an announcement to help boost you know who’s popularity rating.
Prophet or Madman has verified that the material appears to be unstained by theocratic or political leanings.
For those of you who have not already found it here is the fiscal year 2006 potus budget request (missing minor items like the Iraq occupation).
Via beSpacific.
No surprise, it is the bushter himself moving the shells around. While he pretends that younger workers will benefit from his proposals the truth is, well, different. Read this from the Minnesota Star Tribune for pointers to just a few misdirections.
There are a lot of changes I’d like to see made to Social Security starting with separating its accounting entirely from the general fund and ending with, yes, privatization some time in the future.
Based on their current presentations I have zero confidence that the bush administration can or even wants to implement a viable process to accomplish this. But, then, these are the folks that brought us that fine prescription drug plan a while back.
Via Talkleft.