Well, well, there is a new gropinator. Yes, bush’s performances at the G-8 were pretty disgusting and we still have to restrain our gag reflex for over two more years.
There is, though, some temporary relief available. Steven Taylor says:
I’m sorry, there’s something extremely creepy about a 54 year-old man driving up to a group of girls and saying “jump in my car, I want to take you home.”
He is understating the reality!
Go watch this really bad video.
bush:
…which leads to the fact there’s a whole industry that has sprung up around moving laborers to jobs that Americans won’t do.
Here is one German immigrant fulfilling his dreams…love’m or hate’m this is funny!
Via The Tree.
Sure, I know that she’s using it as a metaphor but surely most members of the military would vomit or have some similar reaction, maybe like PZ’s, to the idea of sucking on w’s nips.
Noonan, in the same column, seems pretty reasonable in her take on the posturing around the recent congressional time wasting with the flag desecration amendment.
On the other hand she bashes the NY Times for reporting about the bushies privacy abuses which were also covered in her own paper when she really should be bashing the SWIFT folks for apparently providing this information to the administration without proper warrants.
Performed by w.
Yea, just go watch and listen!
Via The Tree.
Billmon makes an argument that bin ladin was key to w’s election success:
Considering the narrowness of Bush’s margin in the electoral college — a 60,000 vote swing in Ohio, and we’re talking about President Kerry’s failed Iraq War policies right now — it doesn’t seem unreasonable to argue that Osama bin Ladin did more to perpetuate Shrub’s reign of error than Karl Rove and the RNC propaganda machine from hell put together. And he didn’t even demand a cut of the Bush-Cheney ad budget in return.
Now that’s a consultant worth keeping around.
He seems to understate the case.
First, bin ladin and others received US support at least as far back as the Afghan – Russian conflict. Second, without 9/11 w would likely have been outed after one term as the most ineffectual, least popular president ever. Third, and a bit on the ragged edge: bin ladin is still loose; is there any good reason not to think this is intentional or that perhaps he is still getting plenty of funding from the ad budget. If not directly, more subtley via laundering through Saudia Arabia and others via high oil prices?