Countdown: <I>Bushed!</i>- Budgets, Black Boxes and Big Fat Liars
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Ah...the growing list of scandals that is the Bush Administration. Wednesday's edition of Bushed! adds a level of absurdity as well with the news that the Pentagon submitted a budget for 2008 acknowledging that their preliminary numbers for the cost of the two war fronts in the Middle East are likely wrong, but Congress should just approve it anyway. Then because there just can't be enough Orwellian overtones to the Bush Administration is the news that the federal government, under the guise of protecting from cyber attacks, wants to implement "black box sensors" on private computer networks. I'm sure that won't be abused at all, right? And finally, the pathetically lame attempt on the part of National Security Advisor Mike McConnell to backpedal from his statement on the excruciating pain of getting water up his nose as a lifeguard in his early years could perhaps lead one to believe that waterboarding might be...you know, torture.
Good God, as Keith Olbermann says, if you're going to send out a minion to continue the lie of waterboarding is not torture, you gotta get someone smarter than this.
McConnell is smarter than Bush and that was enough for W.
Their incompetency worries me.
The madadministration has been getting away with this crap from 7 years, why do they all of a sudden need someone smart? There is no one, I repeat NO ONE, to stand up and oppose them. All their lies have been put before the country and they are still in power and whatever they tell Congress they want, they get.
We need a leader who can make us feel good about having been righteously shafted and continuing to allow them to righteously shaft us.
The best part of that video is Keith quoting Bill Hicks. Just plain awesome.
Actually this is very efficient lying. You see, it works. It makes no sense to pay for a more expensive liar than you need. Since Congress lets the Administration get away with this shit, it's saving the taxpayers money to just put someone out there who will flap his lips until Reid and Pelosi finish inking up the rubber stamp.
Hackers will love those 'sensors'. Once they break one box, they should be able to monitor and administrate any network that has one of these on it.
Imagine random hackers and corporations playing around in all of the nation's corporate networks. Browsing personnel records, credit card information, emails, proprietary documents.
Once these boxes are hacked, private information will turn up on websites all over the world.
There would be no more secrets at all in America.
Albatross @ 6:
The pubs must have administered Electro Shock to Pelosi when she took over.
She seems so Republican, so Pro Bush these days. Glazed over eyes. White Teeth. Heavy Makeup. Lacquered Hair Doo.
The Neocons are running scared, 80% of American public believe elections have been compromised. The elite will have to make the next move. Prepare yourselves folks, Billary is probably going to cry or possibly turn into a dragon.
I really miss Hicks ;( Such a tragedy he died so young.
So our share of all outstanding debt not including interest OWED, each man, woman, child, (to who the hell knows who) is $740,000. That doesn't include your mortgage, rent, groceries, credit cards, whatever.
And Bush Co pays not one cent. And rides off into the sunset for a pampered retirement with all the perks.
Whats wrong with this picture?
L.A. Confidential @ 11:
It is no wonder that George Bush told reporter Sarah McClendon that "if the American people really knew what we had done, we would be chased down the streets and lynched."
I'd like to have a side of fries and a diet Sprite with my McMoron.
>>> Whats wrong with this picture?
The lack of trees, ropes, nooses and folding chairs.
Just because you can break into a network doesn't mean you can break into a system. Try messing up a website for a major IT company. You have access to the site but the security won't let you mess with it.
Did I just hear Olberman quote Bill Hicks!!!!????
Bill Hicks!
I'm speechless.
This is the kind of lying you expect out of your pre-teen son who you just caught masturbating. Not out of the NSA advisor.
Good job Keith, on keeping us up-to-date!
krisken @ 5:
--kristen
You've got my whole hearted agreement on that!
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