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Saturday, June 11, 2005

FIVE WTF's, TWO GREAT NEWSPAPERS...!

sometimes, you're reading along and just can't believe your eyes... here's a little laundry list of my saturday WTF's, hand in glove with my saturday snarks... (and the day's only started...!)
Senate Democrats have prepared a list of approximately three dozen "names of concern" and are asking the Bush administration for assurances that John R. Bolton did not misuse his access to highly classified intelligence to seek information about them.

oh, and i suppose bush is going to give anything other than "assurances...?" i am touched by my fellow dems simple faith...
The first Democrat to be elected governor in the Republican-dominated state in more than a decade, Gov. Mark Warner of Virginia, 50, is viewed as a popular centrist whose personal wealth - in the hundreds of millions of dollars - could make him an attractive presidential candidate.

i guess we already knew that having "hundreds of millions of dollars" can make you "an attractive presidential candidate" but it's still somewhat shocking to see it right there in black and white...
In an overdue burst of candor, the superintendent of the Air Force Academy has acknowledged that his campus is so permeated with evangelical proselytizing that it will take years to rid the institution of religious intolerance.

so, where, ferchrissake, was this "candor" when cpt. melinda morton, the former lutheran chaplain, who complained of cadets being abused by "systemic and pervasive" proselytizing, was transferred to asia...?

now here's the nyt's john tierney, consummate jerk, commenting on the smackdown of the new stadium in nyc and the loss of the 2012 olympics while also revealing his true feelings about ordinary people...

The victims of this urban-planning syndrome believe, like some Roman emperors, that a leader's prime civic responsibility is to build entertainment palaces for the masses.

as one of the unwashed masses, i'm sorry to see that the nyt still provides safe haven for asses...
"I've always said it's a serious long-term issue," said President Bush on Tuesday, when asked about his climate change policy. "And my administration isn't waiting around to deal with the issue. We're acting."

speaking of asses, one piece of "dealing with the issue" that bush might consider is pulling his head out of his...

have a good weekend, everybody...!

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