1. 30 August 2006

    737 days ago

    Fuckwit

    I don’t know where the word seeped into my vocabulary, but it’s become my favorite derogatory. I was ecstatic to see put to use by someone other than myself, for much the same reason I would have done so.

    via Kjell Olsen737 days ago

  2. 13 December 2005

    997 days ago

    Without a Doubt

    This is why George W. Bush is so clear-eyed about Al Qaeda and the Islamic fundamentalist enemy. He believes you have to kill them all. They can’t be persuaded, that they’re extremists, driven by a dark vision. He understands them, because he’s just like them… This is why he dispenses with people who confront him with inconvenient facts. He truly believes he’s on a mission from God. Absolute faith like that overwhelms a need for analysis. The whole thing about faith is to believe things for which there is no empirical evidence. But you can’t run the world on faith. Buce Bartlett, a domestic policy adviser to Ronald Reagan and a treasury official for the first President Bush

    You can’t run the world on faith.

    This is one key feature of the faith-based presidency: open dialogue, based on facts, is not seen as something of inherent value. It may, in fact, create doubt, which undercuts faith. It could result in a loss of confidence in the decision-maker and, just as important, by the decision-maker.

    [Bush] had the confidence to ask questions that revealed he didn’t know very much. Richard Perle

    No, Mr. President. We need your leadership on this question, and all of us will then commit to support you. Unless we drain the swamp of injustice in which the mosquitoes of terrorism breed, we’ll never defeat the threat of terrorism. Jim Wallis

    We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality – judiciously, as you will – we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors… and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do. A white house aide, to the author, on how the Bush administration works

    Read this.

    via Kjell Olsen997 days ago

  3. 05 December 2005

    1005 days ago

    The Bush Administration: Worse Than You Imagine Possible...

    You can’t imagine how completely and utterly despicable. $8.1 Trillion $8,118,319,301,298.54 (!!!).

    via Kjell Olsen1005 days ago

  4. 05 October 2005

    1066 days ago

    Can This Nomination Be Justified?

    Fucking shit no.

    In addition, the president has forfeited his right to be trusted as a custodian of the Constitution.

    I’d go as far as to say his right to be trusted at absolutely anything. An utterly complete failure.

    via Kjell Olsen1066 days ago

  5. 29 September 2005

    1072 days ago

    Our Parks in Peril (By Jim Motavalli)

    The legislation supported by the bush administration is absolutely absurd.

    Section 6306 requires NPS to sell for private use any park that receives less than 10,000 visitors per day. Most of the 15 parks that meet that designation are in Alaska, and all are national treasures.

    via Kjell Olsen1072 days ago

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