Countdown's <I>Bushed!</i>: Not Thinking It Through Edition
By Nicole Belle Wednesday Apr 30, 2008 7:22pm
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Actually, I don't know that the Bush administration ever thinks things through, come to that...
First up in our ongoing scandal rotation is the shameful way that soldiers and returning vets have not had their medical needs met by the Bush administration. The RAND group recently testified before Congress of yet another reason that may pique the interests of the Corporatists in office: providing medical treatment earlier significantly cuts the long term costs, not to mention the collateral costs of drug use, marital problems, unemployment and suicide.
So now will you take care of the wounded? There’s profit in it.
And then there is the ultimate card of the fear-mongering set: the Global War on Terror™. Unfortunately, for all their talk of wanting to combat terrorism, studies released this week have found that incidents of terrorism have remained unchanged from last year, although anti-American sentiment amongst terrorist safe havens in Somalia, Algeria, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Chad, Mali, and Yemen increases, as does al Qaeda's ability to plan another attack on us, thanks to their undisturbed presence in Pakistan. Heckuva job, Bushie.
And finally, the pathetic No Fly List. It turns out that even the blatantly partisan Washington Times finds the No Fly List worthy of ridicule, not just because of the 9,000 false positives that occur daily, but especially with the news that several flights have gone out without the promised Federal Air Marshalls because these same FAMs have found their names (along with everyone who goes by Mohammed or Ali) on the list and have been refused entry onto the planes they've been charged to protect.
You heard me. Because of this always-growing, all-consuming terrorist no-fly list, some of the people that are supposed to be on the plane to stop the terrorists on the plane are getting mistaken for suspected terrorists and being kept from getting on the plane.
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it will eventually come to pass that the bush administration
will be remembered and for this reason:
they excel at not doing anything legal.
Speaking of THE WORST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD:
U.S. lawmakers seek more foreign drug plant checks
This is the SAME administration that has attempted to make it ILLEGAL for American CITIZENS to buy pharmaceuticals produced in other nations (like Canada, for instance) on the grounds the that quality cannot be assured .. but on the OTHER HAND allows the pharmaceutical CORPORATIONS to buy EIGHTY PER CENT of their ingredients from foreign suppliers WITHOUT INSPECTIONS.
Someone in the Administration should recieve some kind of award for this for being THE WORST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD ..
Crosspoint software intended for voter fraud identification, no doubt.
"Will you take care of them now? There's profit in it."
That sums up the shrub co. crime syndicate in a nutshell doesn't it?
The reslug motto "What's In It For Me?"
Sorry, Keith, your heart's in the right place and that's why you got this one wrong.
"long term costs" = "long term profits" for someone.
.. that's the way THEY think ..
I wonder how many of those "terrorists" around the world hate us for our authoritarian Fascism and not for our freedums
The mention of the fact that their "undisturbed presence in Pakistan" is a problem for us is getting annoying. The militants who have been attacking the Pakistani government have only been doing so since Musharraf under US orders began to launch strikes at villages(KILLING INNOCENTS- again, if you bomb someone's house and kill his family, he will not let you go).
The solution isn't to unlawfully throw troops into Pakistan- that will only create more hate and will end up being more of the same. The solution is a COMPLETE REVERAL of US foreign policy for the past few decades. End military and financial support to ALL countries(especially since most of the ones that get it are oppressive regimes)- and for once focus on American citizens instead. Al-Qaeda would have absolutely no support if it weren't for our continued actions of aggression and sanctions which cause harm to both to innocents in foreign countries and American citizens.
re: MountainMan23 @ 2:
The FDA is too busy hurting the whole world, pressuring South Africa reps at international standards setting CODEX ALIMENTARIUS meetings to withdraw objections to GMO franken-foods, to be bothered with it's own job. BTW, the referenced Natural Solutions Foundation is a known controlled-opposition group not to be trusted, either.
nicole, i apologize for going o.t. here, but...
how is it that our director of intelligence (a retired navy admiral, our director of the c.i.a. (a retired air force general), our director of the f.b.i. (a vietnam veteran) and the entire justice department took their oath to the u.s. constitution less seriously as well as have less courage combined than a dead hooker?
keep those eyes wide shut, gents, keep those eyes wide shut...
MAYDAY! MAYDAY!
I've been on the planet for only 46 years.
But in my brief tenure, I've seen a lot of incompetence and a lot of arrogance.
But as a disastrous combination of incompetence and arrogance, the Bush Administration takes the cake.
Can someone help with a good "award" name for that?
Widespread @ 11:
and that award would be called for the bush administration
"THE MISSION ASSOMPLISHED" award with accompanying required lapel pin.
Widespread @ 11:
How about the fucktard award?
Widespread @ 11:
With apologies to somebody at dKos: SNAFUBAR, which elides two military acronyms to read: Situation Normal All F*cked Up Beyond All Recognition
Works for me
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Shoaib Qadri @ 7:
American troops have been active in Pakistan since 2000 2001 !!, there was a news story from a few years ago and a quick mention of US troops helping some raid or something.
suntan @ 15:
(under) bridge or teenygopper basement dweller ?
I used to be a big fan of Keith, but he is always putting Hillary down and not on policy just personal things. Jon Stewart is not slanted towards one candidate or the other and makes fun of Hillary and Barack equally.
Widespread @ 11:
The waxed and polished turd award on a cut crystal base that of course has been shattered?
I love K.O. but the way he says "mBusssshhhed" during this segment -and every time- gives me the creeps.
USA TODAY
U.S. has former President of South Africa, Nelson Mandela, on terrorist list
http://www.usatoday.com/news/w.....list_N.htm
suntan @ 15:
And those "significant accomplishments" are doing what exactly? Hosting a tabloid tee vee show? Or is it figments of Billo's imagination like the peabodys?
Does anyone really think that there is something called treatment
for depression, anxiety, violent outbursts, noises in the head of returning veterans or anyone else?
"Modern Medicine" is not prepared to treat any of this stuff outside of a small minority who
respond to antidepressants, anxiety, and schizophrenia. The 10% who do respond usually need another
drug to treat side effects and thats not counting the Viagra which more or less comes as a package
with antidepressants, anxiety drugs, and anti psychs. "Not to be taken with alcohol" is usually ignored and guess what?
Some people respond to antidepressants by feeling the need to drink more than usual. Others think about suicide and the
fortunate few find themselves getting smarter experience something called neurogenesis...with the sexual side effects.
And no, Scientology doesn't have the answer either. See a Certified Clinical Nutritionist and not the old school practitioners
who memorize calories out of the textbook and think they are really scientific.
Treating yourself with vitamins and herbs is also a waste of time.
O Lielly DID accomplish cleaning out his bank account with the hush money he paid to make sexual harassment suit go away. That aside, i cant come up with anything else noteworthy.
Putting air marshalls on the no-fly list is a lot like if they were to put that pilot on the list who misfired his gun in the cockpit while in flight a few weeks ago, which no one on board at the time really knew about and was unaffected. Such hubris by making up a no-fly list without a warrent!
suntan @ 15:
Suntan- you are sunburnt. Next time try an SPF with a little more zinc.
Why keep just the profit when you can neglect the GI's, blame it on low-level bureaucrats, and keep the whole ball of wax!
You heard me. Because of this always-growing, all-consuming terrorist no-fly list, some of the people that are supposed to be on the plane to stop the terrorists on the plane are getting mistaken for suspected terrorists and being kept from getting on the plane.
A perfect and expected example of the logic that comes out of Bush$Co. Not surprising.
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