Grant's Eye on the World
Bush, Father in Tow, Raises Cash for Republicans; Reuters; Aug 3, 2002Not only is the lazy bum on vacation, he's raising money. How bloody awful!
Traveling by speedboat, President Bush took a few hours out of his seaside long weekend on Saturday to raise about $300,000 for U.S. Sen. Susan Collins and other Maine Republicans.Not so offensive but read on, it gets there.
"This probably is the first political event I've ever traveled to by boat and I want to thank the boat's captain -- number 41," Bush said, prompting laughter and applause from the audience of well-heeled, casually-dressed Republicans.Look at the audacity of those 'well-healed' Republican critters. No class at all for such wealthy pigs.
While praising Collins as "a great United States senator" Bush ruefully acknowledged her independent streak, often an asset with Maine voters who tend to like politicians who do not toe the party line.Oh yes, W does not like anything moderate or left leaning and must apologize for this Collins person.
Collins has broken with Bush at times, notably by rejecting his plan to drill for oil in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Reserve. Bush leaned over at one point during his speech and appeared to ask Collins if she voted to repeal the estate tax.You have to hand it to W, can you image what Billie-bob would ask if he leaned over a female?
After visiting Pennsylvania on Monday and spending a night at the White House, Bush flies to his Crawford, Texas ranch for a 25-day vacation that will include an economic forum, meetings with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and trips to 15 cities across the nation, many with political fund-raising events.So by this time next week, 2 year olds will be told he's on a 25-day vacation. Looks like a working vacation to me. No way! Eye! You always cover for him! Maybe not, guess Rumsfeld wants to learn what it's like to be a cowboy. Yeeeeeehaaaaaaaw. Ronald Reagan, the greatest cowboy will be proud of you.
Clinton flies in with a peace plan; Toronto Star; 7/30/02Last week we were treated to Republicans blocking his business ethics agenda that a fellow Democrat from CT sponsored, passed and he signed. This week we got a real winner. Hang on, this is a real hoot.
The best solution to the Middle East conflict is an interim settlement "to establish a Palestinian state now," former U.S. president Bill Clinton says.Do we accept advice from a man who made Yassar Arafat wait in the White House Rose Garden while he was getting a Lewinsky in the little room off the oval office?
Clinton - under the watch of more than 20 male and female security officers -- chatted with guests and signed autographs before launching into his speech. He tried but failed to make resolution of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict the legacy of his two-term presidency. He disagreed with President George Bush's belief that this can only be achieved when Palestinian chairman Yasser Arafat is gone from power.This guy is a real mental giant. Over the past 40 years, the heads of state in America and Israel changed dozens of times. So what are the only 2 things that stayed constant over those 40 years? Arafat and terrorism. And yet, Billie-and-his-willie thinks it's a bad idea. Does he think Arafat is going to make peace this time? Ahh Billie-bob, what happened during your pathetic tenure? Nobody even asks him.
Clinton drew applause for his own commitment to Israel when he stated that should the Iraqis ever cross over the Israeli border for aggression, "I would personally get in a ditch, grab a rifle, and fight and die."Ok, now all you guys rolling on the floor laughing, get a grip. The draft-dodger Billie-bob will go into a trench to save Israel from Iraq? Note he did not say against the people who are committed to ridding the world of Israelis and are fighting on a daily basis in order to do so. No, he chose a country who'd never cross the Jordan River. Sort of like saying he'll give up his life to protect Hillary from Vince Foster (psst, he's dead now).
An unnamed benefactor of the charity covered Clinton's speaking fees yesterday, which were undisclosed. Last year, it was reported he was asking $125,000 (U.S,) plus expenses for speaking engagements, provided money raised by host charities would be donated to children's causes.A fundraiser? Yeah I guess so, fundraiser for Billie-bob. Why anyone would pay to hear this liar I'll never know.
Scientist blames failure of monsoon on US warplanes; Anatova (Orange Co.); Aug 3, 2002I want to take you back to 1999 when the Kosovo war was raging and there were 48 days of non-stop bombing. The liberals put out a special report that the bombing did not cause any environmental damage. Blowing up the Chinese Embassy is not environmental damage.
A scientist claims the war in Afghanistan is partly to blame for the failure of the monsoon in parts of India.Why is it that there is such a devastating environmental disaster in India, which is a thousand miles plus removed from Afghanistan and nothing in Europe on the non-stop bombing raids? Must be the Bush bombs.
The chief scientific officer at the Centre for Atmospheric Sciences in New Delhi says large volumes of greenhouse gases have been released by US warplanes.Anyone actually believe this? If so, I've got some great property for sale in the Florida Everglades. It's a lot more believable.
Murari Lal believes the war has contributed significantly to the global warming factors he says are behind the low rainfall.
He told the Press Trust of India: "The injection of large amount of greenhouse gases and aerosols over Afghanistan, Pakistan and Arabian Sea by US fighter planes during the Afghanistan war in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere contributed to significantly deficient rainfall over north-west and central India."
Passive smoking can kill your cat; By Alan Hamilton and Laura Peek; Times (London)Fifi has got a big problem and it ain't Fido trying to rip her guts out either.
American researchers claim to have discovered that passive smoking affects felines as much as it does human beings, and have expressed the hope that endangering the family pet might shame some addicts, immune to the effect they are having on their immediate family, into kicking the habit.Hmmm, looks like the US researchers have another opinion from the WHO. Note the serious addiction here, yet they never once call for tobacco to be banned and made illegal for being a killer.
The writer Beryl Bainbridge, who smokes 30 a day, said: "I used to own two cats, Pudding and Gerald, but I don't think they suffered any ill-effects from my smoking. They both lived until 20. If I had cats now I would have no qualms about smoking in front of them although I might mention to them that I was a smoker."Anyone who'd name their cat Pudding has more than a smoking problem. He probably eats dog meat too.
The Senate Ethics Committee on Tuesday "severely admonished" Democratic Sen. Robert Torricelli of New Jersey for accepting gifts from a campaign contributor and businessman that the lawmaker aided.Well if you're going to scold him, I'm glad you did it severely. Maybe next time we can say 'extremely severely admonished'. That would probably stop it and anyone else who might think of taking bribes.
Torricelli quickly accepted the committee's findings and, in a contrite statement on the Senate floor, apologized for "lapses of judgment."I've been writing about Torch here for over a year and it took that much time to grow a pair of nads to scold the man?
The admonishment ends a long-running probe of Torricelli's relationship with David Chang, a businessman who at one time was one of the nation's most generous political donors. Chang is now in prison for making illegal donations to Torricelli's 1996 campaign.You see that? The donor is in jail and the Torch walks. What is it with Democrats and Chinese donors? Algore got a pass at a Buddhist temple, Charlie Trie one of Billie-bob's palm greasers skipped town. You have to wonder whether a discrimination suit by the Chinese won't eventually be filed. Seems to me the Chinese involved all go to jail.
In his speech in a near-empty Senate chamber, Torricelli said, "During recent weeks I have spent long nights tormented by the question of how I could have allowed such lapses of judgment to compromise all that I have fought to build. It might take a lifetime to answer that question to my own satisfaction."Ahh, Torch? Any chance you had a lapse in memory with one of those 14 envelopes of cash you accepted? I'm a little short this month.