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Johnny Lead Foot here, and I'm pissed...
But, I found a quick thing I felt compelled to share, because I'm all about educating you. If you look at my history at HAWTaction, I've been vocal about how the oil companies are playing the system like magicians. Price collusion at its finest.
- JLF: Bush Administration in Bed With Oil Companies. Literally.
- JLF: Bush Bankrupts Everything He Touches
- JLF: Big Oil's Sleeping With the U.S. Government, We're Paying
- JLF: Exxon is Taking The World's Money; Our Government is Helping Crank Open Wallets
- JLF: Exxon Does It Again
Johnny Lead Foot here, and I'm pissed...
Join me. There are pictures here you won't believe.
I haven't done a post on HAWT about separation of church and state, because I always thought it was understood by all Americanos that we just don't mix those. Why? Because everyone who settled in this country and kicked around the Native Americans had come from a mess of religious fanaticism and bigotry. When some of the Founding Fathers said, "Hey, let's make this a Christian country!" the others smacked them in the head and said, "No, dumb dumb. Let's do it right this time. Let's keep 'em separated. If not, we'd be no better than the sloppy mess that is Western Europe."
Enter George W. Bush, a born-again Christian (born again after a stretch of cocaine and alcohol abuse) who was handed the Presidency of these United States in 2000 on the hands of religious extremists... and the Supreme Court. Bush said, "Fuck separation of church and state. In fact, let those two fuck and get it over with."
Johnny Lead Foot here, and I'm spoon feeding you...
I've been vocal about my dislike for Bush's reign as president of these United States, but never have I felt inclined to justify my opinion... I mean you guys are lucky to get my opinions at all. Now I'm going to spoon-feed you justification. You, too, will see the flaws of Bush's 8 years.John, in his endorsement of Obama, pointed to Obama's capacity to think in ways that Bush and his team haven't used. I commend John's insight, because Bush's view of the world has been incredibly narrow, but there is still room for analysis here. There is still an important reason we're going to be affected for decades because of Bush's years.
In the history of man, there is a steady evolution of things, like how we see ourselves in the universe, how we treat each other and how we a government treats its people. For example, pillaging isn't condoned. One can't sacrifice a virgin to a god. Every adult citizen has the right to vote, not just whiteys. We don't debate that the world is flat. We don't question that the world spins around the sun. Everyone has accepted gravity and evolution (welllllllll... that's where things start getting fishy in Bush's world). We move forward with this progress. We know what pollution will do to a river. We know these things.
This progress has been spinning forward for millennia, rolling along like a snowball downhill... piling mass onto itself. George Bush, for eight years, stopped that progress. He brought a heater to this snow party.
Happy holidays, everyone! I'm hoping to line up a fun New Year's post, JLF style. Let's see if I can get it done!This post, though, I'm hoping to reach out, and like... say, like how Condoleezza Rice (what a great name - it took me like 10 minutes to make sure I like had it spelled correctly) said, that Bush has been a great president. Yay! Our fearless editor, John, forwarded me an article from CNN. He said I'd find it interesting, and I really did. (That last paragraph reads really awkward... oh, well. My posts aren't about writing good.)
So, Condoleezza was on CBS's Sunday Morning, which is a show I never watch. I don't know anyone who watches it. It's no Gossip Girl!!! Looooove Vanessa! Anyway, Rice decided to show up there and speak about Bush, who, it turns out, is like her boss? I agreed with everything she said, as I'm sure the beautiful Monica Crowley, Ann Coulter and almost-president Palin all agree, too. How can five hot ladies be wrong?
So, what did she say?
Johnny Lead Foot here, and I'm pissed...
I haven't been this mad in a long time. I mean, I've written about the melamine hypocrisy and I've been doing my State of the Union rebuttals, but I've been bottled up about President George Bush, and now that we're coming into an end of his era of the rape of human rights, I've bubbled over.... which means you readers get a treat. Put your seat belt on. It's going to be a bumpy ride as my head explodes with thoughts.You've all seen this, no?
In my opinion, the world doesn't have a big enough shoe to throw at this man.
John's Favorite Posts (Non-Series)
HAWT Anniversary rolls along! I kind of feel like I should be opening an envelope here, but... that doesn't work on the internet. So, just read my top 10-11-12-ish and see if you agree. Again, these are my favorite posts that don't hit into a series. I'll pull the series-champs tomorrow.
In all my years as an astute, insightful person, I've never seen something like the price of gas increase in the past two years. It screams of market manipulation and by speculator influence, and a few weeks ago, news came out that needs to be shoved into your brain, because I don't think it got in there the first time.
The government likes to monitor business in these United States. The problem is that the Bush government really pretended to. I mean, there's a reason he hired the head of a horse agency, "Brownie," to head up FEMA. There's a reason he wanted his lawyer-friend, Harriet Myers, on the Supreme Court. Why would he appoint Susan Orr to head the government's Family Planning Program when Orr doesn't believe in using contraception? Why would he appoint John Bolton to represent the U.S. in the U.N. when Bolton's stated, previously, that he didn't believe the U.N should have any power?
I mean, Bush could really give a frack. He's shown time and time again that his friendships and debt to big business win out over the good of the American People every time. So, one has to be suspicious when looking at the rise in oil prices.
Johnny Lead Foot here, and I've endorsed Obama/Biden...
Exxon has done it again, setting a record profit for a fiscal quarter. This time, they have posted $14.8 billion in profit. Again, that isn't their revenue (which was $138 billion), that's the amount of money they made after operating costs... in one quarter. $14.8 billion in 3 months. That's $4.9 billion a month. In profit. That's $161 million in profit for each of the 92 days in the quarter. $6.7 million an hour. Anyway you break it down, it's insulting, because our government has helped make them this profitable. (Our profits at HAWT are the same as our revenues. $0.)
Whose record did they break? Why, their own from the previous quarter. Which was a record they set by breaking their profit from the quarter before. Which was a record from their previous quarter... and on and on for years.
I've covered this government-Exxon relationship before, and you probably weren't listening back then, so I'm going to remind you now. There's nothing like an oil guy being in charge in the White House... oh, and an oil-supporting Congress.
Johnny Lead Foot here, and I'm taking on Bush's State of the Union...
John continues an 8-part series that explores President Bush's addresses to the U.S. population called State of The Union, from his first inaugural speech in 2001 to his State of the Union in 2008. John brilliantly pastes Bush's words. Just his words. He left it up to us to figure out what to make of them. I had to comment on our General's comments. Enjoy. The bold is necessary for my fury.
Click on State of The Union (there, or to the right) to see all posts.
State of the Union
2005
"Two weeks ago, I stood on the steps of this Capitol and renewed the
commitment of our nation to the guiding ideal of liberty for all. This
evening I will set forth policies to advance that ideal at home and
around the world." I thought last year, in 2004, you said you weren't into pushing our values onto anyone! Hmmmm... Are you listening to yourself?"Tonight, with a healthy, growing economy, with more Americans going back to work, with our nation an active force for good in the world -- the state of our union is confident and strong." Yeeeeeahhh.
Meet The Press is a TV platform all Americans should keep their eyes on. (Just like my posts on HAWTaction should have all eyes locked on them. I'm the best blogger, ever.) Whether Tim Russert or Tom Brokaw is steering the MTP ship, the show demonstrates incredible research, asks important questions and presses people for answers. ANSWERS! It's considered the most prestigious of political talk shows, so it's no wonder Colin Powell, a retired General of the Army, chose MTP as his platform to announce who he will be voting for in this presidential election.
Why is Powell's vote important? He served as NSA under Presidents Reagan and Bush (41), lead the first Gulf War for Bush (41) as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and was U.S. Secretary of State for our current President, GWB (43). He is part of the Republican party, even speaking at the 2000 Republican Convention to endorse Bush/Cheney. His address to the United Nations (explaining the CIA's flawed intelligence about Iraqi WMDs) will go down in infamy, like all of my posts will.
It is one of the worst kept secrets in D.C. that Powell has been feeling alienated by the current Republican party and its policies, and an endorsement of Obama wouldn't have been out of the question.
President Bush has been unable to shake the economic monkey off his back. The problem has mutated and developed over time, from a collection of foreclosures to the collapse of the global economy. "This threat is constantly changing, like a foreign military made up of goat herders, and it's going to take hard work, but we have to act now," Bush explained last week from his Crawford Ranch. "It's a matter of life or death, and it's complicated, but that's my job. To work on complicated things."Bush's first attempt to correct a slipping economy was freezing interest rates for a select set of homeowners in December, 2007. The policy was so complicated, very little money has been requested. (Call 1-888-995-HOPE to see if you qualify.) That failed to solve the crisis. "I called that number 10 times, but got no money," Bush joked on January, 2008.
His second attempt was providing $300-1,200 in the form of a tax rebate in 2008, costing the government $168 billion. Bush assumed this money would be spent on things like iPods, furniture and clothes, not gasoline or food like they did. That failed to ignite the economy. "I was sure that was a bulls-eye," Bush lamented the week of his daughter's wedding. "Consider the economic goat herders the winners in that round."
HAWT finds noteworthy. This is the series called Web_geM,
and it's gonna snuggle you into clapping, hitting refresh
and forwarding it on to everyone you know...
It's hard to escape the U.S. election here at HAWTaction, but this election is kind of important. Just kind of.
So, here's a break from all that as the Daily Show covers the disastrous state of the economy and the government's response. Now, these clips ran behind each other (without ads) in the original show's airing, which means you might be seeing the best "act" in TV ever.
First, take a look at a video that explores Bush's fascination with scaring the poopers out of us. First it was the terrorists, and now it's the economy. "It's a disaster of epic proportions. Let me manage it... despite my record."
The next vid? It talks about McCain's odd response to the $700 billion rescue plan.
Johnny Lead Foot here, and I'm taking on Bush's State of the Union...
John continues an 8-part series that explores President Bush's addresses to the U.S. population called State of The Union, from his first inaugural speech in 2001 to his State of the Union in 2008. John brilliantly pastes Bush's words. Just his words. He left it up to us to figure out what to make of them. I had to comment on our General's comments. Enjoy. The bold is necessary for my fury.
Click on State of The Union (there, or to the right) to see all posts.
President George W. Bush
State of the Union
2004
Johnny Lead Foot here, and I'm pissed...
We've had explosion after explosion during the Bush administration's run... including a fake war, outing a CIA agent, Katrina, walking away from Kyoto Protocol, ignoring the environment, a boom in energy company profits and prices, 9/11, two misled wars, approved torture, housing market collapse, looooooots of vacation time, government spying on its citizens... and on and on.Well, the past 7.67 years might seem like a dream compared to the next 0.33 years. Upcoming, we have the 11th hour manure dump.
Johnny Lead Foot here, and I'm pissed...
In July, President George W. Bush presented a record-setting budget deficit of $482 billion, and that doesn't include the tens of billions of dollars Iraq and Afghanistan will cost. In addition, the total could climb if the economy doesn't recover as the administration is predicting. Honestly, though, all of the administration's predictions seem to come true, so why bother? (We're screwed.)Bush has never been able to balance a budget. He took the largest surplus in U.S. history from Clinton and turned it around into the largest deficit ever. Despite the incredible knowledge Bush gained at Harvard Business School, he's managed to bankrupt almost everything he touches, including this country.
Johnny Lead Foot here, and I'm pissed...
The Olympics have been jam packed with highlights. I mean, the swimming has been fantastic, but I take that with a grain of salt because I have webbed toes and a 5,400 RPM tail. I can cruise at 30 knots from Staten Island to Hilton Head.One of the most outstanding thing I've seen this Olympics is Bob Costas interview of President Bush. It was just under ten minutes and it was the first live interview I've seen of Bush, and it was amazing. Fantastic. Given the short amount of time, Costas covered a healthy amount of topics. Now, a lot of people were criticizing that Costas shouldn't have brought politics into the Olympic celebrations, but Costas strapped on his balls and shot out questions that probably had Bush's handlers shivering in the corner. Don't believe me? Watch for yourself. Watch how Costas shows up all reporters covering the political scene.
Johnny Lead Foot here, and I'm pissed...
It's no secret that Bush is ignoring all environmental concerns to push regulation in favor of his friends who run big businesses. For example, his drive to open up Alaska's shores to oil drilling is just absurd when we are only drilling in 30% of the land already leased in the Gulf of Mexico. With everything going on in the country, he's most concerned about his petroleum buddies access to Alaska's coast. That's his most important issue. Insane. It's as if he thinks the petroleum industry can do more good for the U.S. people if they have more power. (Ripping us off = good + profit?) Additional reading: JLF: Exxon is Taking The World's Money; Our Goverment is Helping Crank Open WalletsAnyway, 5 days ago, Bush put a final exclamation point on his 8-years' environmental policy. He's an ass hole.
On Sunday, President
Bush announced a federal plan to qualify gay marriages as 3/5 a marriage, urging Congress to push a bill through as quickly as possible. "I think that the sancti-... sanctities-... um... see, marriage is a sacred thing. Now I have been trying to rattifies... rattif... see, I tried to change the constitution to state marriage should be between a man and a woman." Bush stated that it takes a man and a woman to make a marriage under God.Bush, who was addressing an almost-empty White House press room on Sunday, said he was fine with gays complaining that they can't get married, "but California and Massachusetts are ruining the fabric of America with their pro-same-sex-marriage laws." Bush emphasized that Congress must act to set a precedent before the states create a "patchwork" of ruined communities "across this great land." Bush suggests to make each gay marriage count 3/5 of a "normal" marriage.
Wow! Two posts in two days! I just feel really politically charged right now. Yay! I mean, everyone is beating up on President Bush, and I just can't stand it. Even McCain is, like, trying to get distance between him and Bush, and I feel so bad for Bush! :-( I think he is one of the best Presidents we've ever had. I know that's not popular, but, again, I look to one of my heroines, Ann Coulter, to confirm my decision.
Johnny Lead Foot here, and I'm pissed...
The Senate is responsible for crafting policy as well as to chair committees that look into things that are essential to the safety of the American public: things like steroid usage in baseball, insane oil industry profits, XM/Sirius merger... oh, and they also look into things that will actually matter and make a difference, like the Intelligence Committee that has been looking into President George Bush's use of intelligence to justify the invasion of Iraq. That is a big deal. I mean, there are serious rumblings, even on the Senate floor by Dennis Kucinich, that President Bush should be impeached based on the misuse of this very intelligence.
Well, the Intelligence Committee released the second phase of its report last week. What was the finding? They found that the Bush administration misused the intelligence. Apparently, though, as pointed out by the Daily Show with Jon Super Stewart, the media barely reported it. What were the findings? Why is no one listening?
Johnny Lead Foot here, and I'm pissed...
It took the BBC to do it, but they have identified $23 BILLION that has been lost in Iraq. $23 BILLION. I'm gonna blow through this one because I'm so FREAKING HAWT.Henry Waxman, the chair of the House committee on oversight and government reform for the U.K., said: "The money that's gone into waste, fraud and abuse under these contracts is just so outrageous, it's egregious... It may well turn out to be the largest war profiteering in history."
The reason this post is going to be so short? The U.S. Government, like they f'ing do with everything they mess up, has placed a gag order on these allegations.Johnny Lead Foot here, and I'm pissed...
Scott McClellan was the White House Press Secretary for President Bush from 2003-2006. He recently released a tell-all book about those years, called What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and the Washington's Culture of Deception. The book is not favorable towards the Bush administration, essentially saying they lied and deceived the world to start a war in Iraq. Of course, when McClellan was working as the voice of the White House, the tune was a verrrrrry different one. Now, on his press tour, he is proudly saying that he lied to us for three years while defending this country's actions and policies. He is promoting his book as a brilliant revelation about something we, the people of the world, already knew.
Clearly, there's interest into this topic, because the book is the #1 best seller in the nation. Despite all McClellan "spinning" while promoting this book, I can only think of him as the epitome of what's wrong with our government. The first stop on his press tour was Meet the Press on June 1st, 2008.I'm full HAWT. This post, for the first time ever, will have adult language in it. Such is my fire.
This is an actual quote from the White House about a tell-all book that exposes the Bush campaign:
"Why, all of the sudden, if he had all these grave concerns, did he not raise these sooner. This is one-and-a-half years after he left the administration, and now, all of a sudden, he's raising these, um, grave concerns that he claims he had. He's written a book and he certainly wants to go out there and promote that book."
That quote, though, isn't about McClellan's book. That quote is about Richard Clarke's book, Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror that was released in 2004. The person speaking those words? Scott McClellan himself.
Johnny Lead Foot here, and I'm not surprised...
Ahmadinejad, the president of Iran, is labeled a lunatic. I can't help but think, though, that he's just taking after George Bush. See, Ahmadinejad laughs in the face of the world, sitting on his nuclear weapons and oil money, daring people to provoke him. Isn't that what Bush has been doing for 7 years? Didn't he tell the world to shove off when he walked away from the Kyoto Protocol? Didn't he tell the world to shove off when they wanted justification to invade Iraq? Didn't he tell the world to shove off when he said he'd torture because he wanted to? Hasn't he been sitting on his own bombs and boundless deficit daring the world to screw with the U.S.? In fact, all the provocation Bush needed to invade Iraq and kill Saddam (with all its repercussions) was Saddam not behaving with UN Weapons Inspectors.
To the world, though, there isn't much difference between spreading the religion of God (Ahmadinejad) or spreading the religion of democracy (Bush). In fact, at least Ahmadinejad has been consistent in his tale. Allah is a Ahmadinejad's motivation, even if he has an odd interpretation of the Koran. Bush, meanwhile, has swung whichever way the wind blew: ties to Al Queda, weapons of mass destruction, removing Saddam, spreading democracy, Mission Accomplished.
Dear Georgie,
With El Presidento coming to an end, I’ve scoured websites from Fox
News Headquarters to find you potential jobs come Jan. Unfortunately, there isn’t much out there
that fits your experience and your penchant for vacation. Here are the best ones I’ve found.
K.R.
Long Live The
Revolution!
Rebel Norwegian Group (RNG) looking for someone to help
fight the revolution. (Long Live The
Revolution!) He or she must agree with
our founding principles to boost our economy and GNP:
- Norway is far too focused on education/environment and needs
to be friendlier to big business.
- Lowering the value of our currency, the Krone, would be most
beneficial because Europeans will be happy to spend their highly-valued Euros
here. It’s a business decision that
history will judge to be the most important ever made by mankind.
- We need to start a war somewhere. Anywhere.
Maybe two. That’s the most
effective way to flood the world with our currency and devalue it.
The right candidate should have short-term focus that is so
intense and divine it will lead to long-term payoff. Divine?
Yes, we'd prefer a candidate who has direct access to God, as we're
going to need all the help we can get; Indicate in cover letter if you've had
direct discussions with a deity (and please be specific is it Thor, Buddha,
Allah, or our Lord Jesus ... this will help us determine what kind of spiritual
aid you will bring to our cause).
Over-thinkers need not apply.
President Bush awarded the Medal of Honor to Michael A. Monsoor this week. Ar Ramadi, Iraq, defending a sniper lookout post. He was hit in the chest by an active fragmentation grenade that then landed on the floor. Though next to the room's exit, he did not leave because there were two other SEALs and 8 Iraqi soldiers in the room who could not. Instead, Monsoor dove on the grenade, absorbing its impact and saving his fellow soldiers. He died a half hour later. Bush awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously to Monsoor's parents in the East Room of the White House.This is only the third Medal of Honor Bush has awarded to an Iraq war soldier. Not that every soldier's family should get this award, but they should all get this respect.
Johnny Lead Foot here, and I'm pissed...
That's right.
The Justice Department, in your name, has pissed on everything sacred in this country. No one would be more upset at this than the Founding Father John Adams himself.
First? Conditions in Iraq. Second? Stats. Let's see how well the Invasion has gone.CONDITIONS IN IRAQ
Life in Iraq is honestly portrayed, at a micro level, in HBO's documentary Baghdad Hospital: Inside the Red Zone. Doctors in Baghdad are constantly under threat. See, rebels don't like that doctors promise to help anyone (Sunni, Shiites, American, whoever) who needs medical attention. Rebels frequently storm the ER and fire their guns to intimidate doctors. The doctor who filmed the series hid his identity because he, surely, would have been killed. He never shows his face in the documentary, and he disguises his voice. In fact, most of the hospital's staff refused to go on film for fear of their safety.
