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Midnight Snack
So I’m procrastinating a paper revision when I stumble across this page of “Bush by the Numbers”. It breaks down the Bush presidency by looking at several key (and several esoteric) indicators. The research was done by ProPublica, “an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.” It looks like a pretty cool website, and I’ll check it out when I have some more free time.
Most of the statistics are pretty depressing; unemployment, the uninsured, and the national debt all increased. Some of the more obscure numbers are indicative of all the minor ways in which Bush has handicapped our institutions.
Posted in Blog, Economy, George W. Bush, International, Jobs, Progress, Social Justice
Tagged bush, failure, numbers, Sam Marvin, SamMarvin, statistics
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There Goes the Neighboorhood
- Not the future Ex-President’s house.
After hibernating for the past two days, venturing out only for Spinach Artichoke dip, I made a blog round and stumbled across this interesting tidbit. Once vacating the White House (before fumigation) the Bushes plan to move to a swanky Dallas neighborhood, home to other wealthy and super-wealthy Texans. While some residents are eagerly awaiting the soon-to-be-ex-presidential family’s arrival, others fear the president’s low approval ratings, poor press coverage, and overall dickhead manner will bring an unsavory and potentially dangerous element to the neighborhood.
The neighborhood, Preston Hollow, has some interesting history as well. Well into the second millennium the neighborhood ‘covenant’ had the following language: (more…)
Posted in Blog, George W. Bush, Social Justice
Tagged bush, neighborhoods, racism, Sam Marvin, SamMarvin, Texas
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Breaking News: Assclowns
So I’m sitting the fishbowl trying to write this paper when all of a sudden there is a banging on the glass wall. I look over and see a group of eight guys with huge grins pounding furiously on the panes. Without notice they all turn around, drop their pants, and proceed to rub their bare asses all over the windows. This proceeds for about ten seconds, during which the entire fishbowl is as quite as a crypt. As soon as the mischief makers scampered off into the night a communal chortle moved across the room, and I proceed to open up this page as fast as you can say Windex.
Update: There is now smoke coming from a corner of the fishbowl. But it’s cool, douchebags are investigating.
Update Two: The smell wafted over, it’s totally popcorn. Amateurs.
3 A.M. Snack
So I was doing some late nite bruising (blog cruising) and I stumbled across this video. I won’t read too much into this, but it seems that McCain might be reconciling himself to the fact that he’s about to receive an electoral beat down. Check out the ridiculous comments made by some of his scummy (spelling?) crowd members. The only thing better than how nuts they are is the look on the Maverick’s face when he snatches the microphone back from Gramma McRacist.
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Posted in Blog, John McCain
Tagged mccain, Sam Marvin, SamMarvin, you can't stop me from tagging myself
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Early Edition Coverage
Sean Astin, circa a while ago.
So the Daily’s finest Julie Rowe wrote an excellent article covering the recent developments between College Dems and University Housing.
She basically rehashes the events of the past weeks, focusing on our final push efforts in the residence halls on the eve before the registration deadline.
Interestingly, the Daily also ran an editorial saying the University was far too late in allowing us to finally have unfettered access to the residence halls. While the writing isn’t nearly as good as the Rowe piece their heart is in the right place.
*Additionally, Sean Astin spoke to a large gathering of ResHall Vote Captains in the Kuenzel room prior to our last big walk-thru. He was really well spoken and a great motivator, love me some Samwise. After the meeting Josh LeVasseur and I walked around with Sean and registered voters. You really get the sense that if he wasn’t an actor and volunteering for the campaign he’d be out here anyway. All around awesome guy.
I'm Obviously Bored on the Internet
Found this from The Onion, it’s pretty funny.
Meta-Blog Alert: Lindsay Lohan
I was crusing Huffington Post when I stumbled across a post from Lindsay Lohan’s myspace co-written by girlfriend Sam Ronson. Here’s the link. It’s basically a strangely composed diatribe against everyone’s favorite lipstick wearing pitbull Sarah Palin. I suspect Samantha composed most of the piece, but Lohan definitely shines through in the quoting of Pamela Anderson’s “she can suck it.” Brilliant.
Did They Use a Blue Pen?
I just stumbled across this article in the Washington Post about how the New York Times rejected an op-ed submitted by John McCain. McCain’s piece was a response to Obama’s article detailing the latter’s plan for withdrawal from Iraq. In an email to McCain staffers a New York Times editor conveyed this thought as summarized by The Washington Post:Â
“it would be terrific to have an article from McCain but that the one sent in was not acceptable as currently written and that a new draft should articulate how McCain defines victory in Iraq.”
That’s gotta hurt the old ego. Not only does someone need to edit what McCain says (see his latest geographical gaffe) but now the presidential candidate can’t even get his views in the leading US paper. I wonder what it was? Were his prose old and unimaginative? Did he suffer from a lack of novel ideas in the face of a changing geo-political landscape? Did he forget to double space? The answer isn’t yet clear, but we’ll certainly keep an eye out for his second draft. As long as it’s submitted by midnight and the margins aren’t more than an inch.
In related news I just noticed that Obama’s slogan is dangling a preposition. Looks like “change we can believe in” should be “change in which we can believe.” I won’t mark him off though, he got the jist of the assignment.
Miss Teen South Carolina for VP?
A recent CNN blurb seems to have caught another one of John McCain’s senior moments.
“And I regret some of the recent behavior Russia that has exhibited, and I’ll be glad to talk about that later on including reduction in oil supplies to Czechoslovakia after they agreed with us on a missile defense system, etcetera,â€
Not surprisingly this quote comes from yet another speech by McCain in which he attempts to convince hapless townsfolk he’s the better candidate on foreign policy. To demonstrate his acumen the 71 year-old refers to Czechoslovakia, the name of a country that ceased to exist in 1993. Not only once, but twice did McCain confuse Czechoslovakia with the current states of the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The first incident took place on Monday, and was followed by a corrective statement from the campaign, only to be repeated Tuesday at a town hall meeting (excerpt above). Sunni and Shia, Iran and al Qaeda, and now this. If the Senator doesn’t even know these basics how can he be expected to handle the infinitely more complex challenges he would encounter as commander-and-chief?
Warning: Satire
Originally, McCain had wanted to call it Greater Bohemia with Moravia and Czech Silesia, Dominions of her Excellency Empress Maria Theresa of the Hapsburgs, Holy Roman Empress, Queen of Hungary, Bohemia, Croatia and Slavonia, Archduchess of Austria, Duchess of Parma and Piacenza, Grand Duchess of Tuscany. After ranting about the danger posed by the Romanov Muscovites McCain switched to the dangers of encouraging Ottoman forays into the Crimea, the ominous return of this “Napoleon character,” and the potential benefits of encouraging the Dole corporation’s adventure in the Sandwich Islands.