Archive for the 'The Bush Disaster' Category

HONEYMOON ENDS BEFORE IT BEGINS??

Sunday, November 30th, 2008

THE OBSERVER ON OBAMA’S “THE MORE THINGS CHANGE THE MORE THEY STAY THE SAME….
Obama criticised for economic team’s link to failed bank chief
Presidential advisers are protégés of director of Citigroup, the bank accused of reckless sub-prime investments that led to its near-collapse
Edward Helmore in New York
guardian.co.uk, Sunday November 30 2008 00.01 GMT
As Barack Obama prepares […]

DRUGS, DRUGS, DRUGS, AND KIDS AND SPORT

Thursday, November 27th, 2008

DID YOU KNOW THAT THE UNITED STATES IS THE LARGEST MARKET IN THE WORLD FOR DRUGS, BOTH LEGAL AND ILLEGAL. UNCLE SAM IS ABSOLUTELY HOOKED ON DRUGS…..AND SHOULD WE BE SURPRISED ABOUT THEIR USE BY TEEN ATHLETES? NOT AT ALL?
FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES…..
November 28, 2008
High Schools Take On Doping With […]

A DRUG MUSEUM THAT SHOULD BE SEEN…

Thursday, November 27th, 2008

FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES, AND ALL YOU HEALTH 239 STUDENTS WHO ARE STILL OUT THERE, TAKE HEED……
November 27, 2008
MEXICO CITY JOURNAL
Mexico’s Unsuccessful Drug War, Painfully Preserved and Hidden
By MARC LACEY
MEXICO CITY — At their best, museums are glorious cultural repositories, reflecting the highest flowering of human creativity, ingenuity and art. But not everything in […]

BARTER?

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

DO YOU EVER GET THE FEELING THAT MONEY AS WE KNOW IT MAY HAVE NUMBERED DAYS, AND THAT BARTER MAY BE THE WAVE OF THE NEAR FUTURE? HERE, LET ME SHOW YOU HOW TO SPELL……

MERCI, MONSIEUR PRESIDENT!

Monday, November 24th, 2008

FROM LE MONDE, VIA TRUTHOUT, VIA PROF CARY FRASER….
Thank You, George!
Saturday 08 November 2008
by: Frédéric Lemaître, Le Monde
Mister President,
Dear George
At the moment when it’s good form to criticize you - unfortunately, even within these columns - allow me, instead, to inform you of my admiration. And to deplore your situation. How, […]

OBAMA SPEAKS IN COMPLETE SENTENCES; PALIN BAFFLED AND VERY UPSET

Sunday, November 23rd, 2008

FROM THE HUFFINGTON POST, COURTESY OF PROFS RUSS MAULITZ AND JACKIE DUFFIN……
Andy Borowitz: Obama’s Use of Complete Sentences Stirs Controversy
Huffington Post, November 18, 2008
In the first two weeks since the election, President-elect Barack Obama has broken with a tradition established over the past eight years through his controversial use of complete sentences, political observers say.
Millions […]

The worst president and the worst treasury secretary

Sunday, November 23rd, 2008

CNN blogathon
November 23, 2008
Forbes: Paulson is ‘worst’ treasury secretary in modern times
From CNN’s Peter Lanier
Steve Forbes says he doesn’t have confidence in Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson.
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Forbes magazine President and CEO Steve Forbes called Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson “the worst treasury secretary we’ve had in modern times”, citing, among other things, the government’s […]