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What Bush is not directly saying there is that Trent Lott's new house will take up the entirety of the space that New Orleans used to occupy. I mean, you gotta admit, that would be a fantastic house.

― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Friday, 2 September 2005 16:15 (twenty years ago)

He'd get his own episode of Cribs and everything.

― O'so Krispie (Ex Leon), Friday, 2 September 2005 16:17 (twenty years ago)

jeez Bushco is practically handing over the rope and grunting and pointing to their own necks and gesturing maniacally in the direction of a gallows.

― gear (gear), Friday, 2 September 2005 16:17 (twenty years ago)

A gigantic house the size of New Orleans would be pretty fucking sweet.

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Friday, 2 September 2005 16:23 (twenty years ago)

W. meeting with noble negros on CNN now!

― Jimmy Mod Loves Alan Canseco (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Friday, 2 September 2005 16:24 (twenty years ago)

I frequently like to imagine Bush as a president around the time just after the industrial revolution and thinking of Americans as coal miners and steel workers working for low wages and no benefits... Thinking about how history will represent the things he says in 100 years..

Trent Lott will have a fantastic house, indeed.

― Draw Tipsy, ya hack. (dave225.3), Friday, 2 September 2005 16:25 (twenty years ago)

holy shit. buddy tells me that even (some?)(a few?) of the rightwing radio wackos have broken ranks and are going off on El Doofus. Fuck Rush & hannity, they'll never voluntarily change their tune, but can somebody tell me what folks like G Gordon Liddy, Olliver North & Dr Laura are saying today? Ned?

you guys, something is happening.

xpost: Is he shaking the negro's hands and smiling? or he looking "somber"?

― kingfish 'doublescoop' moose tracks (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 2 September 2005 16:25 (twenty years ago)

Is he re-enacting "Tom Cruise meets Oprah"?

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Friday, 2 September 2005 16:27 (twenty years ago)

Seriously, though, is this our actual government? Or is this some kind of Wag The Dog made up scenario being shown on tv that didn't actually happen? Because, like, this can't actually BE our government. Right?

Now if you don't mind I have to go meet Condi for martinis and a trip to Kate Spade.

xpost Bush is going to be remembered exactly like I just said. WHAT THE FUCK WAS ANYONE THINKING, WAS IT A PRACTICAL JOKE?

― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Friday, 2 September 2005 16:27 (twenty years ago)

On the peak oil front, more good news! (got this from a friend on another board, don't know the source, but I tend to believe it)

"As a result of Katrina, Saudi Arabia has finally admitted that it cannot increase (oil) production. Many of us knew they’ve been lying for at least two years. The Energy Information Administration has just admitted that global demand has been outstripping supply for several months before Katrina. Nice time to start telling the truth. Nature is finally calling everybody’s bluff.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 2 September 2005 16:27 (twenty years ago)

FOR FUCK'S SAKE THE GUY JUST SAID "I CAN'T WAIT TO HANG OUT AT TRENT LOTT'S SURE-TO-BE-AWESOME NEW PAD'! HE SINGLED OUT TRENT LOTT, THE GUY'S NOT EVEN SMART ENOUGH TO FIND OUT THE NAME OF (INSERT TOKEN NEW ORLEANS CITIZEN-HERO) AND USE THEM AS AN EXAMPLE

― gear (gear), Friday, 2 September 2005 16:30 (twenty years ago)

Bush is going to be remembered exactly like I just said. WHAT THE FUCK WAS ANYONE THINKING, WAS IT A PRACTICAL JOKE?

OTM. Somewhere in the afterlife, Harding is dancing a jig with a big cake-eating grin on his face while singing "Finally" by CeCe Peniston.

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Friday, 2 September 2005 16:31 (twenty years ago)

Well don't you wanna hang out at Trent's???? I mean it's gonna be fantastic!!! I know I wanna go.

The source for this is my mom but she doesn't DO anything besides watch news all day so I believe her, Bush is trying to be all nice to some young girls in Biloxi, asked why don't they go to the Salvation Army Shelter, it's right down the street. To which some dude stepped in and was like, "It ain't THERE. It's GONE."

She reports Bush as looking "annoyed".

― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Friday, 2 September 2005 16:33 (twenty years ago)

That news item that keeps coming up about the report ages ago, before 9/11, about the three most catastrophic things that could happen on US soil is making me worried for San Fran, because I mean apparently god is on a mission to show BushCo up or something, 2 outta 3 during one administration is kind of odd.

― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Friday, 2 September 2005 16:35 (twenty years ago)

Haha I was thinking that too! I've got friends who just bought a house near SF and I want to send them an email that says "FLEE GOD'S WRATH AT THE RAMPANT BUSHUBRIS".

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Friday, 2 September 2005 16:38 (twenty years ago)

making me worried for San Fran

Don't worry. That won't happen until late summer in the first year of Bush's third term.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Friday, 2 September 2005 16:40 (twenty years ago)

I read this three times as:
"mission to show BushCoup"

― Draw Tipsy, ya hack. (dave225.3), Friday, 2 September 2005 16:40 (twenty years ago)

"To the San Andreas Fault I say, 'Bring it on.'"

*applause*

― gear (gear), Friday, 2 September 2005 16:40 (twenty years ago)

She reports Bush as looking "annoyed".

HE DOES! It's like he's not even trying!

"I know, I know..."

--G. W. Bush, President, in response to a distrought creole woman.

― Jimmy Mod Loves Alan Canseco (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Friday, 2 September 2005 16:41 (twenty years ago)

NEW ORLEANS -- A bored-looking President Bush toured flood ravaged New Orleans Friday, etc

― gear (gear), Friday, 2 September 2005 16:43 (twenty years ago)

You'd be annoyed too if you had to cut your vacation short to look at poor people who can't swim.

― Draw Tipsy, ya hack. (dave225.3), Friday, 2 September 2005 16:44 (twenty years ago)

They can't swim or they simply choose not to?

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Friday, 2 September 2005 16:45 (twenty years ago)

can't / won't .. we've already spent too much time talking about poor people.

― Draw Tipsy, ya hack. (dave225.3), Friday, 2 September 2005 16:45 (twenty years ago)

They're black, they can't swim!

― Jimmy Mod Loves Alan Canseco (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Friday, 2 September 2005 16:46 (twenty years ago)

mission to show BushCoup

I am pronouncing that as "boosh-coo" and it's really making me laugh, I think I'm cracking like Anderson Cooper.

I think the answer here is that A) Bush never got off cocaine B) he's been giving it to the rest of the administration. I mean seriously.

― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Friday, 2 September 2005 16:47 (twenty years ago)

Bush to survivor: "Why couldn't y'all fly out? I would have!"

― gear (gear), Friday, 2 September 2005 16:47 (twenty years ago)

http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2005/US/09/02/katrina.impact/top.katfri23.jpg

― Jimmy Mod Loves Alan Canseco (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Friday, 2 September 2005 16:47 (twenty years ago)

Bush to survivor: "Somethin' tells me the Redskins are goin' to be a mite better'n th'Saints this year! Did you see that Monday Night preseason game, by the way? Oh right, haha."

― gear (gear), Friday, 2 September 2005 16:49 (twenty years ago)

I want the transcript of his press conference right now, seriously. Reporters are asking about Irock and N.O.

― Jimmy Mod Loves Alan Canseco (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Friday, 2 September 2005 16:49 (twenty years ago)

Bush is trying to be all nice to some young girls in Biloxi, asked why don't they go to the Salvation Army Shelter, it's right down the street.

God, what a jackass.

― O'so Krispie (Ex Leon), Friday, 2 September 2005 16:50 (twenty years ago)

He sounds like Dana Carvey doing an impression of his dad.

― Jimmy Mod Loves Alan Canseco (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Friday, 2 September 2005 16:50 (twenty years ago)

Sorry, I missed only a hundred new messages since last night, so sorry for the huge xpost but...

For myself, I've realized that the function of a lot of political commentary that I do agree with is to reassure me -- to say, "There there -- whether we're angry or just simply calling it 'like it is,' this way you can be reassured you are not alone, and we can all be comfortable at least in being right." This applies across the political spectrum. Well, I don't want to be reassured -- rather, I want to be annoyed, on guard, wary, suspicious. NRO's blog may be neocon fast food but it gives off a stench of the darker rot within.

Ned is completely OTM. it's PARAMOUNT, in such situations, to see what the "enemy" has to say.. even on a regular basis.. if you care to be passionate about political discourse as such. You're not a lesser person if you ignore your enemies (because 90% of what anyone says is usually crap anyway), but you're definitely more aware and objective when you don't ignore your enemies.. especially if they're a click away... this is not the same as agreeing or even giving a fuck about what your "enemies" have to say most of the time, but I stress "most of the time."

― donut Get Behind Me Carbon Dioxide (donut), Friday, 2 September 2005 16:51 (twenty years ago)

Isn't there some way to work it so that one night, while everyone's there at a coke party, it could be rigged that the White House would do that thing that happens at the end of Poltergeist, where the whole thing just gets sucked into an alternate dimension and destroyed? I mean that seems like it'd be good for everyone, so who do I contact?

― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Friday, 2 September 2005 16:51 (twenty years ago)

WHERE'S THE TRANSCRIPT??

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Friday, 2 September 2005 16:51 (twenty years ago)

http://www.eriu.com/journal/apr0900L.jpg

SATAN

― Jimmy Mod Loves Alan Canseco (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Friday, 2 September 2005 16:52 (twenty years ago)

OH MY GOD HE'S CRACKING

― Jimmy Mod Loves Alan Canseco (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Friday, 2 September 2005 16:53 (twenty years ago)

Is that Dawn French?

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Friday, 2 September 2005 16:53 (twenty years ago)

I can't wait to get home and watch him lose his mind on tv.

― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Friday, 2 September 2005 16:54 (twenty years ago)

yeah i want a transcript, too

Ally OTM, i would like to see that poltergeist scenario happen

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Friday, 2 September 2005 16:54 (twenty years ago)

"I'm not calling it the worst, I'm calling it ONE of the worst storms in our nation's history." -W

Did I just hear that right?

― disco violence (disco violence), Friday, 2 September 2005 16:55 (twenty years ago)

Well it certainly doesn't measure up to that downpour that happened like 2 weeks ago in DC, I mean he was there for it so he would know, I mean some of the streets were kind of...you know...too wet.

― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Friday, 2 September 2005 16:55 (twenty years ago)

Georgie caught a sniffle, even

― gear (gear), Friday, 2 September 2005 16:56 (twenty years ago)

Why would you actually say that unless you had a vested interest in absolving yourself from responsibility?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 2 September 2005 16:56 (twenty years ago)

(I actually find it very interesting that NROworld, which normally reports every last little thing Bush sez in speeches within minutes of him saying it, has fallen completely silent on the matter today aside from a half-assed "That's nice that's he said that" response from Lopez, who herself said earlier -- in an attempt to pull a joke but there was a hint of desperation about it -- that she seems to be in 'defensive hack' mode.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 2 September 2005 16:56 (twenty years ago)

I am without words, this whole thing is so stunningly horrible. Worse than 9/11. Easily.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 2 September 2005 16:57 (twenty years ago)

Paraphrased: "Let's not forget it's not just about New Orleans, it's about rural Mississippi, too!" (translation: VOTER BASE)

― disco violence (disco violence), Friday, 2 September 2005 16:57 (twenty years ago)

BUSH SAID WE NEED TO GET THE POWER PLANTS RUNNING SO WE CAN GET THE POWER TO THE PEOPLE OMG

― Jimmy Mod Loves Alan Canseco (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Friday, 2 September 2005 16:57 (twenty years ago)

(xp) I mean, it's not like Bush is one for the nuanced historical perspective.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 2 September 2005 16:57 (twenty years ago)

"The first thing I'm a-gonna do, see, is get back to, you know, the White House, take a good shower, and count my blessins."

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Friday, 2 September 2005 16:58 (twenty years ago)

POWER! TO THE PEOPLE!

― Jimmy Mod Loves Alan Canseco (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Friday, 2 September 2005 16:59 (twenty years ago)

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