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White House Briefed On "Potential For Life" On Mars
Veeoh writes "FTA: It would appear that the US President has been briefed by Phoenix scientists about the discovery of something more 'provocative' than the discovery of water existing on the Martian surface. This news comes just as the Thermal and Evolved Gas Analyzer (TEGA) confirmed experimental evidence for the existence of water in the Mars regolith on Thursday."
That's what Bush asked because between 5pm and 7pm he listens to the cries of tortured Muslims at Gitmo while languidly masturbating his ivory scepter. The cries of "La! La!" grow tiresome and sound alike after a while. Martian Muslims would be a whole new form of erotic ecstasy for him.
Too bad Mars doesn't have oil.
Or 18 year old girls in compromising positions.
What they found is Illudium Q-36, a key component of the "Explosive Space Modulator". The president needed to be briefed so he could begin an invasion - it's an election year, after all, and Republican chances depend on a quest for fictional weapons of mass destruction.
Too bad Slashdot didn't post the submission I made for this news item:
"Rep. Barney Frank -- shown here at a July 30 press conference with MPP's Rob Kampia -- has introduced a bill to remove federal criminal penalties for small marijuana violations. Take a minute to urge your member of Congress to support this commonsense bill now."
Now that's something worth passing! A lot of geeks smoke cannabis, I'm sure this news item would be interesting to a lot of geeks, but Slashdot passed on the news:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zo78L3ZFGKk
https://secure2.convio.net/mpp/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=177
Other items of interest:
http://tv.mpp.org/shorts/profiles-in-marijuana-reform-milton-friedman-part-1/
http://tv.mpp.org/shorts/profiles-in-marijuana-reform-milton-friedman-part-2/
http://tv.mpp.org/shorts/profiles-in-marijuana-reform-rick-steves/
http://tv.mpp.org/shorts/profiles-in-marijuana-reform-john-newmeyer/
http://tv.mpp.org/shorts/the-human-cost-of-marijuana-prohibition-part-2/
http://tv.mpp.org/shorts/the-human-cost-of-marijuana-prohibition-part-1/
http://tv.mpp.org/shorts/profiles-in-marijuana-reform-jim-hightower/
Moreover, those thuggish minions with which he stacked the supreme court will be there fore DECADES. And the damage they will continue to do, during that time, will most probably take GENERATIONS to undo.
So yeah, I think it will be quite appropriate to loath bush and company for the damage they did and are doing to the contry for many MANY years to come.
cya,
john
Imagine all the people...
Given your characterization, they do an astonishing job of getting reelected. Maybe they use magic.
Also, it wasn't really that the crude bothered me, it was being disappointed in the wrapping of an insult in a joke that wasn't very funny.
Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
You're right, of course. Plus, there are so many more of us Bush haters than there ever were Americans who hated Clinton, the overall concentration of hate is much greater.
This is one reason that as we near the election in November Americans are becoming more excited about the prospect of finally putting the nightmare behind us, and by electing Barack Obama, we may actually have someone who appears capable in the White House.
I was just reading today about the Ethics Bill that Obama sponsored that nobody else wanted to touch because they believed it could never be passed. Here, a freshman senator comes along and gets everyone on board for some of the most serious ethics reforms in 50 years. It really looks more and more like Obama is the real deal, despite the desperate screechings of sinking Republican vessel.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Do you have a few million dollars to 'donate' to get what you want? No? Well, neither does a vast majority of the US population. Money is all the US government listens to, the lobbyists are just mouthpieces.
This is one reason that as we near the election in November Americans are becoming more excited about the prospect of finally putting the nightmare behind us [...]
The rest of the world has watched y'all fuck it up twice in recent memory, and we remain unconvinced you won't do so again :).
Look up the Carlisle Group some time and ask that again.
http://twitter.com/OLDTELEGRAM
Well, that kind of thing runs in the family. After all, we all know that his grandpappy was a war profiteer who traded with the Nazis.
More seriously: W may or may not have made money out of the war. Cheney certainly did - he failed to disclose several hundred thousand stock options and shares in companies with a financial interest in the war until 2003 - companies like his old stomping grounds of Haliburton. Heck, Haliburton paid him a salary in 2001 & 2002 - "deferred compensation", apparently.
And even if no elected official made a single cent out of Iraq, there's no disputing the fact that several of Bush's key supporters and fundraisers did make a heck of a lot of money out of Iraq over the last 5 years. The real proof will come after January next year, when we see where Dubya's devils go; that's when they will get their "deferred compensation".
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