Where In The World Is Bush?

Freedom and Philanthropy

admin — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:02:42 +0000

Freedom.
When this is expressed and understood by the knowledgeable and benevolent American citizen, within reason, the opportunities are endless. With motivation and sustained tenacity, one can command a figurative “parting of the red sea” by flashing cash. For the masses in this country, that has become the ideal, and the penultimate expression of capitalism.
Philanthropy.
According to tradition, 10% of each unit of wealth (or single paycheck) should go towards helping the less fortunate. If every wealthy person in this country were to actually allocate the money to give to the poor, it would be a less painful life for many who are suffering today.
I urge all those who are wealthy to give as much funds as possible to reputable charity organizations, or create your own charitable organization. It seems that Ronald Reagan’s “trickle down” economics are alive and well. That principle is, in essence, if the rich are given more of a tax break than the less fortunate, that extra money would “trickle down” to the poor. Now, there are exceptions such as Bill Gates, who is most likely the most generous philanthropist in the world, believe it or not, but, in most cases, the rich are selfish tightwads, unfortunately.

Equating The United States with North Korea, Iraq and

admin — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:01:08 +0000

Equating The United States with North Korea, Iraq and any other oppressive regime may seem illogical, but, it’s the people existing together in a delineated territory that comprises this planet. There’s bound to be some ideological overlap. Basically, without solid statistics, but with a pretty good hunch, the United States of America has the highest number of wealthy citizens in the world. The same amount of money that is spread amongst the sheer number of rich Americans, if re-calculated to the value of a country which has a huge number of poor people and a small group of rich, it is the same amount of money, it is just divided among a smaller number of people. What this means is if more and more wealthy people in this country get favored with tax breaks and the like, even though they could be hit with a far steeper tax request from Uncle Sam and still maintain the riches, the middle class in this country, the small businessman, and the nominal-salaried family man will disappear, and as the honest cliche goes, “the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.” Hopefully, the next CEO of this country will see the disturbing trend and passionately crusade for relief of the middle-class and poverty level’s burden. I can promise though, that WITWIB will keep a close eye on The President of the United States’s notable conduct, from now, until far in the future.

Bush’s language gaffes go beyond nitpicking

admin — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:59:59 +0000

For the past day-and-a-half, I have been browsing text and audio samples of Dubya. I think I have figured out exactly what’s wrong with his command of the English language. Sure, one can photocopy a Bush photo and add a tied tongue, paraphrase such sentences as: “I think the American people -I hope the American-I don’t think, let me-I hope the American people trust me-,” and reveal him conjuring up new names for noble gases such as Carbon Benoxide (with or without the [sic]), but here’s what I think the case is. He improvises. Now, I’m a bit obsessive compulsive when it comes to proper diction, like there is a certain way my mother talks which makes the accent on a particular word move slightly to the middle of it, and I can’t help but correct her. OJ becomes OJ, etc…
Bush’s language gaffes go beyond nitpicking. He has obviously not bothered to pay attention in school. Why would he have to? This is a man with an MBA who went to Harvard and Yale improvising the English language like a child pushing the big oh-five babbling to Bill Cosby on Kids Say the Dardest Things! .

Well, with the Bush’s riches and connections to the biggest ivory tower elite in the world, Bush, I guess, remained as educated as a child not much past 10.
Michael Moore digs in to Bush’s intelligence in more detail in his reactionary volume Stupid White Men. Moore contends that Dubya is a functional illiterate and jokes that Vice President Dick Cheney is “co-president” who reads Bush to sleep each night.

This is precisely why the system of checks and balances is an important part of the Constitution, and why, if Dubya is illiterate, it is good that he can’t read the instructions on how to release the nuclear launch codes.

Bush getting ‘blue collar’ and doing physical labor for the camera

admin — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:10:39 +0000

This link http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101040112/bushranch/ was posted yesterday and shows Bush getting ‘blue collar’ and doing physical labor for the camera. This isn’t anything new, of course, heck, George Washington fought in the Revolutionary War, Ulysses Grant in the Civil War and Harry Truman in World War I were elected, using their ‘war hero’ status. Andrew Jackson was a war hero and celebrated his election with a 500 pound block of cheese that his constituents devoured during the drunken White-House Party.
Bush, prep school and ivy league veteran probably spent his time in the Air Force on a folding chair in the hangar with legs propped up on a desk reading Playboy with a smirk on his face.

I’m wondering. Is quasi-aristocracy or the working class in Bush’s genetics? Literally, what kind of man is Dubya made of?

From the site: http://www.allroutes.to/bush/ The furthest back with the most information is through his mother, Barbara Bush’s side: Thomas Pierce was born in 1583. He settled in 1634 in Charlestown, MA. He died in 1666. Came from England to America in 1633 - 1634. So before the Nazi profiteering and ill-gotten riches, the Bush family was ‘of the earth’ and struggled to survive through hardship, ‘injuns’, the American Revolution, and every other landmark in American history .

But back to the farthest recorded genealogy of this truly American family …

His background is from Pilgrim times in Massachusetts. So, theoretically, Bush’s ancestors could have been involved in the Salem Witch Trials, Salem being about 17 miles from Charlestown. Even though 17 miles is much more of a trek back then, a horse would take about 1 hour and a man walking would take a day but hysteria is hysteria. This site http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/salem/witchcraft/Intro.html reveals the growing madness in the 1690’s. One particular sentence stands out, as it links the fledging ancestral Bush clan to the hunt for the brides of Satan: “What at first seemed only a localized witchcraft outbreak soon would spread rapidly and by the end of May 1692 [it included] people from communities as distant and diverse as Salem, Billerica, Andover, Charlestown(emphasis added), Marblehead, Lynn, Reading, Topsfield, Gloucester, Malden, and Beverly.” Thomas Pierce may have been dead, but his children and grandchildren could have bore witness. Their level of participation, or even if they had moved out of the area before this happened is unknown.

Either way, we go from one witch hunt to the another, it seems. The War Against Terror and the Patriot Act brings us back to Puritan-style punishment. No trial, Constitutional Amendments dealing with search, seizure and detainment are ignored. The hysteria has lit a fire under the hindquarters of those with paranoia that causes them to go along with the freedom-blighters, and those who demand an end to the gaping maw of totalitarianism.

51% of those polled felt Bush would be worthy of four more years

admin — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:05:53 +0000

To synthesize two of today’s newslinks, 51% of those polled felt Bush would be worthy of four more years. That would mean that if Gallup’s gallumping polling paradigm reflected true reality (that is, if everything was described as it really existed [yeah, I'm crosseyed too]) the amount of people booing and hissing and shouting reactionary slogans at the hated Bush at Martin Luther King’s gravesite should have been drowned out just slightly by his cheering and ‘attaboying’ devout.
Instead, in Atlanta, he wasn’t even invited to the ceremony, and the crowd of 700-800 resonated with all forms anti-Dubya declarations. This link shows MLK’s widow Coretta Scott King in a lighthearted moment with Dubya in 2002. In January 2003, the last MLK day, she spoke out against the pending Iraq war:

“We commemorate Martin Luther King as a great champion of peace, who warned us that war is a poor chisel for carving out peaceful tomorrows,” Coretta Scott King said during a memorial service at King’s Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta.

It is apparent even back then that Mrs. King was against Bush & Co.’s blatant saber rattling. 2003’s military maneuvers must have only compounded her pacifist assertions. The chairman of the Black Congressional Caucus said not one policy decision made by the Bush administration has mirrored King’s dream, referring to King’s August 1963 speech in at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. He quoted the constitution in expressing his wish of equality. Such beautiful rhetoric simply cannot be paraphrased. I have transcribed the crucial moment in the speech from the lips of the man himself:

“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.’ I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”

Martin Luther King 1929-1968, R.I.P.

The day we leave Iraq

admin — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:02:00 +0000

There’s official announcements shooting across the world’s media outlets about the day. The day we leave Iraq, June 30th 2004. For most, this will be the real end of the war. Not the day Dubya wanted it to be. The ending of wars are quite different events (or non-events). From VJ day in 1945, ending WWII to The Fall of Saigon in 1975, ending the Vietnam conflict. We just got the hell out of Dodge with that one.
Are we to change the power structure in Iraq to one that is satisfactory to United States interests? Of course! Is that what the majority of Iraqis want? I don’t know the percentages. The thing is this: There’s an ideological free-for-all going on right now, due to the lack of a single way of life deeply etched in stone, that Saddam provided, for better or worse. There will be a democratic government installed, with their ideals. There is now, and there will be, even when the only Americans in Iraq will be tourists and diplomats, the Orthodox Muslim laws, and broad interpretations of the Koran.
There have been rumblings that the order established by Saddam, those who did not get swept up in the power-mongering or were people Saddam just happened to not like, especially women, were treated fairly. Men did not want the local authorities to get medieval on him for committing any form of crimes on the townsfolk.
From the point when everything went to hell, from Shock and Awe to today (Jan. 17) to June 30th, normal, non-despotic Iraqis have been trying to conduct their secular ad spiritual lives with ammo, rockets and bombs flying every which way. Can we blame them for acting rash? Can we blame them for panicking?
In this human drama, it becomes fight or flee. Iraq is these people’s home. For those not caught up in Saddam’s sick games and conflicts, for which we are warranted in taking him and his regime out, we haven’t been conscious enough of the fact that people call this very foreign place to us, home. They love their country for better or worse. But some of them panic, some of them make the wrong move, not even with the intent of malice, and a United States soldier, paid, housed, armed and fed by our tax dollars that we earn working in the town, state and country that we love, machine-guns and kills them. There will always be bad people with bad intentions. Even when we leave Iraq. For the next six months until our go date, we will be trying to incarcerate or incapacitate every enemy or suspected enemy of the United State’s occupation of Iraq, who will most likely not be a supporter of Saddam Hussein. He/She just wants their home back. I agree with the concept of self-defense,for both sides, but for any Iraqi or any other Middle Easterner who cannot read the blog, I can sum up how the majority of peace-loving, benevolent Americans feel with a simple salutation: متر كاليكمو س-سال

The basic problem

admin — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 04:30:28 +0000

The basic problem between the federal government and the archetypal American citizen is financial allocation. We have to pay taxes, that is the cost of living in this form of society. This country is set up like a corporation, with the POTUS as the CEO (Chief Executive Officer) and his cabinet is the board of directors. Basically, America’s financial entity is without borders. The overarching conglomerate, encompassing the entire world, is one that I dub “Corporatia.” Many commentators have commented on how business interests of elected government officials take precedence over capital that could be used to fund education and other social programs that are woefully underfunded. Not giving students a free ride, but sending them to schools that have the funding to surround the highly impressionable youth with a positive and intelligent structure from Kindergarten to 12th grade. These men and women who are elected into state senates and any national office in nearly every case are those who have existing power and influence. Campaigning costs millions of dollars even on a state level. To be seen is to be known. Policy takes second place to potshots at competitors. Howard Dean, the front-runner to be elected prime Democratic candidate for the 2004 presidential election, seems less like a Ralph Nader- type dream president for liberals and stoners and the like, because 1: Any person who supported Nader to attempt to legitimize third-party candidates like the Green Party or Libertarians will
most likely NOT vote for the “legalize-it” party because 2: They most likely REALLY REALLY don’t want Dubya for four more years. But this begs the question, just who exactly are we getting when Howard Dean becomes POTUS besides -not-George W. Bush? Will he be the “cool substitute teacher” that Bill Clinton was, between the Bushes? Projected partisan (and non-partisan) policies are one thing, but results are another. Will he actually, generously, fund education? Will he end or attend to the open-endedness of the War Against Terror. Even though I agree that Howard Dean is an excellent stopgap to lessen Corporatia’s stranglehold on the gentles of honest, Joe and Josephine Average, but, is he anything more than that?