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Friday, July 13, 2007
Editorial: An Enumeration of Seven Years of Republican Screw-ups
Posted by spatula on Jul. 09, 2007 16:54 UTC
Can you remember all the major examples of gross incompetence, questionable ethics, lies and outright scandal perpetuated under the watch of the White House and the formerly Republican-controlled congress?
I got to thinking today, as the Bush Administration elected to stonewall any further investigation by Congress of what role the White House played in firing US attorneys for political reasons, about the huge enumeration of gross incompetence, questionable ethics, lies and outright scandal brought to us by the White House and the Congress that for the majority of time was controlled by Republicans.
Here is an attempt to list the ones that come to mind.
* The completely contrived story of outgoing Clinton staff stealing W keys and otherwise vandalizing offices.
* Senate Republicans illegally accessed Democrats' computer files
* Bush gets memo, "Bin Laden Determined to Strike". Goes on vacation.
* Bush sits for seven minutes reading "The Pet Goat" while the nation is under attack.
* Nation's energy policy is shaped behind closed doors, apparently with the aid of nation's energy producers.
* Jack Abramoff / Indian Gaming scandal
* Valerie Plame's cover blown
* Unsubstantiated yellowcake claim used in State of the Union when it was already known to be false
* Millions of dollars budgeted for Iraq and Afghanistan disappear
* Tom DeLay violates Texas law banning corporate contributions to PACs.
* Tom DeLay launders money via TRMPAC
* Republicans jam phone lines for "get out the vote" efforts by Democrats
* "Journalists" are paid by the Bush administration to write articles favorable to administration goals, without revealing that they had been paid to publish their opinions.
* Speaking of "Journalists," James Gannon/Guckert, a male prostitute (8 inches, cut) for a right-wing shill web log gains unprecedented access to White House press briefings, and also seems to visit the White House frequently for reasons unknown.
* Dick Cheney and Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia go duck hunting together, even though Scalia will be presiding over a case involving Cheney. Scalia arrogantly refuses to recuse himself.
* Iraq
* Abu Ghraib
* Congressional pages and Mark Foley
* Guantánamo bay
* Illegal warrantless wiretapping
* Possibly-drunk Cheney shoots friend in the face
* Hurricane Katrina
* US Attorney firings for political reasons
* Terry Schiavo diagnosed over videotape by Senator Bill Frist
* Walter Reed medical hospital conditions demonstrate Republican commitment to the troops
* Osama bin Laden got away, still not caught
* Censoring of government scientists, especially if they offer an opinion about global warming or evolution
* Recession of 2001 followed by 5 years of sluggish economy
* Voting irregularities and failure to correct them
* Resistance to forming the 911 commission and failure to implement 911 commission recommendations
* Ignoring North Korea as hard as possible until they detonated a nuclear bomb
* Unconstitutional "signing statements"
* PATRIOT Act
* Dubai ports deal
* Pat Tillman death by friendly fire misreporting and attempted coverup
* Enron
* California Energy Crisis and refusing by FERC to intervene; slap on the wrist for those responsible for deliberately manipulating the market and creating those conditions
* Abuse of "National Security Letters"
* Abuse of General Services Administration to promote Republican politics
* Swiftboat liars
* Sinclair media
* Use of Republican National Committee servers to exchange emails for official US business; subsequently "losing" said emails in violation of Hatch act
Instrumental in helping to create this list were the Bush Scandals List and the Scandal Sheet.
Can you remember all the major examples of gross incompetence, questionable ethics, lies and outright scandal perpetuated under the watch of the White House and the formerly Republican-controlled congress?
I got to thinking today, as the Bush Administration elected to stonewall any further investigation by Congress of what role the White House played in firing US attorneys for political reasons, about the huge enumeration of gross incompetence, questionable ethics, lies and outright scandal brought to us by the White House and the Congress that for the majority of time was controlled by Republicans.
Here is an attempt to list the ones that come to mind.
* The completely contrived story of outgoing Clinton staff stealing W keys and otherwise vandalizing offices.
* Senate Republicans illegally accessed Democrats' computer files
* Bush gets memo, "Bin Laden Determined to Strike". Goes on vacation.
* Bush sits for seven minutes reading "The Pet Goat" while the nation is under attack.
* Nation's energy policy is shaped behind closed doors, apparently with the aid of nation's energy producers.
* Jack Abramoff / Indian Gaming scandal
* Valerie Plame's cover blown
* Unsubstantiated yellowcake claim used in State of the Union when it was already known to be false
* Millions of dollars budgeted for Iraq and Afghanistan disappear
* Tom DeLay violates Texas law banning corporate contributions to PACs.
* Tom DeLay launders money via TRMPAC
* Republicans jam phone lines for "get out the vote" efforts by Democrats
* "Journalists" are paid by the Bush administration to write articles favorable to administration goals, without revealing that they had been paid to publish their opinions.
* Speaking of "Journalists," James Gannon/Guckert, a male prostitute (8 inches, cut) for a right-wing shill web log gains unprecedented access to White House press briefings, and also seems to visit the White House frequently for reasons unknown.
* Dick Cheney and Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia go duck hunting together, even though Scalia will be presiding over a case involving Cheney. Scalia arrogantly refuses to recuse himself.
* Iraq
* Abu Ghraib
* Congressional pages and Mark Foley
* Guantánamo bay
* Illegal warrantless wiretapping
* Possibly-drunk Cheney shoots friend in the face
* Hurricane Katrina
* US Attorney firings for political reasons
* Terry Schiavo diagnosed over videotape by Senator Bill Frist
* Walter Reed medical hospital conditions demonstrate Republican commitment to the troops
* Osama bin Laden got away, still not caught
* Censoring of government scientists, especially if they offer an opinion about global warming or evolution
* Recession of 2001 followed by 5 years of sluggish economy
* Voting irregularities and failure to correct them
* Resistance to forming the 911 commission and failure to implement 911 commission recommendations
* Ignoring North Korea as hard as possible until they detonated a nuclear bomb
* Unconstitutional "signing statements"
* PATRIOT Act
* Dubai ports deal
* Pat Tillman death by friendly fire misreporting and attempted coverup
* Enron
* California Energy Crisis and refusing by FERC to intervene; slap on the wrist for those responsible for deliberately manipulating the market and creating those conditions
* Abuse of "National Security Letters"
* Abuse of General Services Administration to promote Republican politics
* Swiftboat liars
* Sinclair media
* Use of Republican National Committee servers to exchange emails for official US business; subsequently "losing" said emails in violation of Hatch act
Instrumental in helping to create this list were the Bush Scandals List and the Scandal Sheet.
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
I've got some good news and some bad news...
By Renita Crawford
Renita Crawford has details of an unusual way of extinguishing a fire. Rescue veterans say they've never heard of it until now.
In most cases, fires are put out with water or foam...but, WJBF News Channel 6's Renita Crawford tells us about some heroes who took a different approach in a last-ditch effort to save two lives in Statesboro.
It was a violent, fiery crash, and minutes after it happened, people immediately stopped to see how they could help the men trapped inside.
James Burdett, John Hagan Plumbing & electrical: "It was horrible. It was horrible."
It was too late for the driver.
It was too late for the driver. Jerry Littleton was killed when his pickup caught fire after overturning and hitting a tree. The passenger, his cousin, 18-year-old Mitchell Hendrix, was still alive, but fire was racing through the vehicle.
James Burdette, and two other workers, were heading in for the day after making a service call. The septic company workers saw the wreck and turned around to help.
Burdett: "We heard the man in there screaming, so we waited for the police to get there, and police showed up. We asked permission to put the fire out, with the pump truck, and they said 'Go ahead, and do that' so we backed the pump truck over there, and put the fire out."
As unconventional as it was, the men doused the fire with 1500 gallons of raw sewage for about ten minutes. It's illegal to release sewage on the ground, but the men say there was no other way to save him.
Firefighters had not yet arrived on the scene.
Jody Shuman, Bulloch County EMS: "I ain't never heard of nothing like this, before, but you got to do what you got to do."
Hendrix was pulled from the wreckage, and airlifted to a Savannah hospital. Currently, he is in critical, but stable, condition at the Joseph M. Still Burn Center in Augusta.
First responder Jody Shuman was there. He says the men were faced with a tough choice, but it ultimately saved a life.
Shuman: "When I pulled up, I could tell how it was extinguished, for that reason. We've got one patient still alive, had they not done that, we would have had a recovery instead of a rescue."
Shuman says the entire ordeal was trying.
Shuman: "The wreck itself was bad; the fire being extinguished with a septic truck, and after everything was over with, and persons on the scene cleaning up the wreck itself. Come to find out we were working on top of a 2 foot timber rattlesnake that was still alive."
Despite the odds, the men say if faced with the same situation, they would do it over again.
Hendrix is still in the Burn Center this morning, and will likely be there for several more weeks. The raw sewage poses a major infection risk to Hendrix, due to his burns. The rescuers on scene were checked out at the hospital for similar reasons.
Renita Crawford has details of an unusual way of extinguishing a fire. Rescue veterans say they've never heard of it until now.
In most cases, fires are put out with water or foam...but, WJBF News Channel 6's Renita Crawford tells us about some heroes who took a different approach in a last-ditch effort to save two lives in Statesboro.
It was a violent, fiery crash, and minutes after it happened, people immediately stopped to see how they could help the men trapped inside.
James Burdett, John Hagan Plumbing & electrical: "It was horrible. It was horrible."
It was too late for the driver.
It was too late for the driver. Jerry Littleton was killed when his pickup caught fire after overturning and hitting a tree. The passenger, his cousin, 18-year-old Mitchell Hendrix, was still alive, but fire was racing through the vehicle.
James Burdette, and two other workers, were heading in for the day after making a service call. The septic company workers saw the wreck and turned around to help.
Burdett: "We heard the man in there screaming, so we waited for the police to get there, and police showed up. We asked permission to put the fire out, with the pump truck, and they said 'Go ahead, and do that' so we backed the pump truck over there, and put the fire out."
As unconventional as it was, the men doused the fire with 1500 gallons of raw sewage for about ten minutes. It's illegal to release sewage on the ground, but the men say there was no other way to save him.
Firefighters had not yet arrived on the scene.
Jody Shuman, Bulloch County EMS: "I ain't never heard of nothing like this, before, but you got to do what you got to do."
Hendrix was pulled from the wreckage, and airlifted to a Savannah hospital. Currently, he is in critical, but stable, condition at the Joseph M. Still Burn Center in Augusta.
First responder Jody Shuman was there. He says the men were faced with a tough choice, but it ultimately saved a life.
Shuman: "When I pulled up, I could tell how it was extinguished, for that reason. We've got one patient still alive, had they not done that, we would have had a recovery instead of a rescue."
Shuman says the entire ordeal was trying.
Shuman: "The wreck itself was bad; the fire being extinguished with a septic truck, and after everything was over with, and persons on the scene cleaning up the wreck itself. Come to find out we were working on top of a 2 foot timber rattlesnake that was still alive."
Despite the odds, the men say if faced with the same situation, they would do it over again.
Hendrix is still in the Burn Center this morning, and will likely be there for several more weeks. The raw sewage poses a major infection risk to Hendrix, due to his burns. The rescuers on scene were checked out at the hospital for similar reasons.
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
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Thursday, July 05, 2007
Monday, July 02, 2007
Cocaine-addled driver destroys entire cornfield on run from police
Last updated at 09:29am on 26th June 2007
A driver who was high on cocaine destroyed an entire cornfield in an attempt to escape from the police.
Four police cars were destroyed before the 35-year-old crashed into a ditch and was arrested, near the village of Dussen in the south of the Netherlands.
A driver who was high on cocaine destroyed an entire cornfield in an attempt to escape from the police.
Four police cars were destroyed before the 35-year-old crashed into a ditch and was arrested, near the village of Dussen in the south of the Netherlands.
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