Category: Politics

WASHINGTON (AP) – The FBI is warning police nationwide to be alert for people carrying almanacs, cautioning that the popular reference books covering everything from abbreviations to weather trends could be used for terrorist planning.
In a bulletin sent Christmas Eve to about 18,000 police organizations, the FBI said terrorists may use almanacs “to assist with target selection and pre-operational planning.”

Look at the size of that chicken! If only the Iraqi citizens would simply learn to sneak around the Iraq without being seen, then there would be no problem. I propose therefore that we spend the $9,000,000,000 monthly on stealth suits for all Iraqi citizens (but only for the Good Iraqi citizens.)
Update: From Harper’s weekly review, “President Bush showed up in Iraq for Thanksgiving wearing an Army tracksuit; Bush stayed in the country for two and a half hours, the same amount of time spent by President Lyndon B. Johnson in Vietnam, in 1966.”

Join now: The Presidential Prayer Team! Make sure you don’t forget the “additional leaders to pray for this week.”

No, I don’t know that [a]theists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under [g]od. George Bush the First

Question of the day:

If Iran was a democracy, would there be an uproar over its nuclear program?

For ages I have searched the net for charts of party affiliation versus education level (highest degree attained.) Well, thanks to Berkeley’s SDA I was able to produce this chart myself! Click below to see tha table
Continue reading “Party Affiliation Versus Education Level”

In today’s LA Times there is a strange write in candidate, Gerald Busch.

REPORT FROM THE FRONT:
OSAMA SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT
WHAT HE WILL DO:
HE WILL CALL FOR A STAND-DOWN IN ALL JIHAD. (NO GUARANTEE OF SUCCESS) ON OR BEFORE 10/05/03 OSMA (sic) WILL TRAVEL W/PLANS TO NEW YORK ON 10/07 FOR TRIAL (UNDER USA LAWS) FOR ACCACK ON 9/11.
WHAT HE WANTS
1. ALL USA TROOPS OUT OF AFGHANISTAN AND TALIBAN BACK, IF THAT IS WHAT THE AFGHAN PEOPLE WANT.
2. ALL USA TROOPS OUT OF IRAQ AND SADDAM BACK, IF THAT IS WHAT THE IRAQI PEOPLE WANT.
3. USA ASSISTANCE TO ANY ISLAMIC COUNTRIES BE ONLY WATER AND SEWER PROJECTS FUNDED INTO ISLAMIC BANKS (NO MILITARY OR WEAPONS).
4. SHARIA BANKS BE RECOGNIZED AND ACCEPTED AND SUPPORTED BY BANKING SYSTEM IN THE USA.
(LOANS THROUGH ISLAMIC BANKS=NO INTEREST)
DURING MY MEETING WITH THE OTHER SIDE I DISCOVERED THE SUBLIMINAL SURVIVAL NEED OF THE VAST MAJORITY OF ALL CLASSES OF PEOPLE LIVING IN ISLAMIC 3RD WORLD WANT THE GOD DIRECTED AND DECISIVE DISCIPLINE OF SHARIA LAW, AS AMENDED W/ IMPROVING ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES OF LIVE IN/BY COUNTRY. FREEDOM AS DEFINED IN THE WEST IS NOT WANTED BY THE MAJORITY OF ISLAM AT THIS TIME.
WHAT SAY – GRAY? ARNOLD? GEORGE?
CAN WE END THIS WAR?
CALIFORNIA ELECTION PROMISE:
IF YOU ELECT GERALD BUSCH FOR GOVERNOR I WILL SHARE POWER AND RESPONSIBILITY W/GREAT STATESMAN GRAY DAVIS AND THE EXCEPTIONAL HUMAN BEING ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER…EQUALLY

My favorite part is where he has to clarify that Arnold is indeed a human being.

Clipped from a New Yorker article on Mr. Schwarzenegger (thanks to a tip from Patrick Hayden)

In the “Pumping Iron” series, which chronicles events leading up to and including the Mr. Olympia contest of 1975, there are intimations that Schwarzenegger’s ultimate goal, absurd as it would have seemed at the time, was power. “I was always dreaming about very powerful people—dictators and things like that,” he soliloquizes at one point in the original film. “I was just always impressed by people who could be remembered for hundreds of years or even, like Jesus, being for thousands of years remembered.” In “Raw Iron,” he recounts another dream: “Me being a king and standing on top of a mountain—and there was no room left for anybody else up there, O.K.? Just for me.” Later, a fellow-bodybuilder teases, “Arnold, when are you running for President?” He shoots back, “When Nixon gets impeached.” And in “A Portrait” Butler recounts a conversation he had in a taxi with the actress Candice Bergen a few months after the Whitney show. Bergen is insisting that bodybuilding, and Arnold, has peaked. “I disagree,” Butler replies. “It’s here to stay, and Arnold is going to be the Governor of California one day.” (Bergen, hooting with laughter, retorts, “And one day Ronald Reagan will be President.”)

All Hail King Schwarzenegger!

The voting pamphlet for the California recall has a few choice entries. My favorite is definitely:

Trek Thunder Kelley Dear Voters, Please vote for me, thus breaking the Seventh Seal and incurring Armageddon. I will legalize drugs, gambling, and prostitution…

Then there is the guy who has the following astounding qualification:

Ralph A. Hernandez …adopted puppy and kitten into our family;…

Finally here is an unusual platform:

Rich Gosse Single adults are the Rodney Dangerfields of our society. They “can’t get no respect.” I am the first candidate in California history to campaign on a Fairness for Singles Platform.