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Subject: The Shrub's a board-room Sugar Daddy Posted by: biliruben - Sustainer [5310281417] Tue, Nov 26, 2002, 18:46 I would like to begin to document the beginning of Bush and his party's 2 year firesale of America. This is in addition to our lives, livelihoods, basic rights and civil liberties being taken away, which are addressed in other threads. I'll start off by his gift to the insurers and re-insurers by assigning us, the US tax-payers, the job of re-re-insurers by taking insurer's risk away. Isn't this what people and companies buy insurance for? I can't believe I'm agreeing with Phil Gramm. Next, his gift to the timber industry. He wipes out rules about logging oversite, surveys and appeals, and sets a goal of tripling the number of trees logged, including old growth and in sensitive areas near rivers and streams. | |||||||
| 63 | Tree Donor ID: 599393013 Tue, Jan 06, 2004, 12:35 |
and more still, of the joy of giving head to GW and his cronies... Army OKs Halliburton Waiver for Oil Deal | ||||||
| 64 | James K Polk ID: 51010719 Tue, Jan 06, 2004, 13:29 | Tree, that story has a misleading headline. The story is fleshing out old news, talking about a waiver that was signed on Dec. 19. The Army Corps essentially gave Halliburton approval to use the Kuwaiti contractor that ended up overcharging the company. | ||||||
| 65 | steve houpt ID: 32428300 Tue, Jan 06, 2004, 13:54 | thanks JKP - and tree, read the whole story before you celebrate. | ||||||
| 66 | Pancho Villa Sustainer ID: 533817 Sat, Jan 24, 2004, 10:06 |
It might not be as easy to dismiss these current developments. Interesting that Halliburton is attemting to sway public opinion by running ads on CNN with the catch phrase, "Halliburton. Proud to serve our troops." Possibly the money spent on this PR campaign would be better spent in their human resources department, finding employees in charge of billions of US taxpayer dollars who refrain from taking a few million for themselves. Perhaps a more fitting catch phrase at the end of their TV spot would be, "Halliburton. Doing what we get paid to do..and and patting ourselves on the back for doing a piss poor job of it." | ||||||
| 67 | Pancho Villa Sustainer ID: 533817 Sun, Jan 25, 2004, 22:04 |
Anybody notice a pattern about how Halliburton does business? We are supposed to buy the fact that in Nigeria, the company isn't aware that it's paying off officials to the tune of 2.4 mil, and that in Iraq its employees are taking 6 mil in kickbacks? These are only the incidents we know about, leading one to wonder if this is standard for Halliburton, not isolated incidents. I certainly feel confident that they've been entrusted with billions of US tax dollars. As far as Equatorial Guinea, nice that we pick and choose which ruthless dictators to support. So much for the idea that it's not about oil, and that the effort in Iraq is humanitarian. "Obiang was cut loose by the Clinton administration because of the country's appalling human rights record, but President Bush has reengaged him as part of the war on terror. No doubt the oil reserves have also focused his mind." We berate the Russians and the French for doing business with Saddam, when our oil multinationals are putting $500 mil in a dictator's pocket who, among other things, is making sure that slavery is alive and well in Africa. | ||||||
| 68 | Tree Donor ID: 599393013 Fri, Jan 30, 2004, 14:56 | Dishonest Dubya... | ||||||
| 69 | Tree Donor ID: 599393013 Wed, Mar 24, 2004, 14:03 | Bush's Bagmen: Meet the Pioneers and Rangers, the president's A-team for campaign cash | ||||||
| 70 | Pancho Villa Sustainer ID: 533817 Wed, Apr 07, 2004, 09:42 |
Although this case predates Bush's administration, the level of cooperation from Norton's Interior Department has reached new lows with the resignation of Alan Balaran. The systematic screwing of Native Americans is alive and well, and there is no way the energy multinationals will be called to task with their buddies Bush and Cheney at the helm. This is part of what the government calls "Mr. Balaran's theory based on innuendo, supposition and baseless speculation." The Assistant Secretary of the Interior resigns under a cloud of perjury and obstruction of justice and the the government calls this baseless speculation? It would seem that the speculation has a hell of a lot of basis. | ||||||
| 71 | Tree Donor ID: 599393013 Fri, Apr 09, 2004, 17:16 |
French-translation wash-care label  | ||||||
| 72 | Pancho Villa Sustainer ID: 533817 Fri, Apr 09, 2004, 17:35 | Nice, Tree. | ||||||
| 73 | Tree Donor ID: 599393013 Mon, Apr 12, 2004, 14:44 | and now you can buy the t-shirt.... | ||||||
| 74 | biliruben ID: 41046317 Tue, Jan 04, 2005, 18:41 |
Nice Post by Matthew Yglesias. ...The point is not especially that Bush has been a uniquely bad president on trade issues (though perhaps he has, I haven't studied the issue) but rather than in many of these cases -- especially my beloved softwood lumber one -- it's more than obvious that policy has simply been put up for sale to the highest bidder. There is no misguided economic theory at work in this White House. Vote for the "free marketeer" and if you pay him enough he will promise you a monopoly! | ||||||
| 75 | sarge33rd ID: 711271021 Tue, Jan 04, 2005, 22:25 | and Kerry said GWB did away with pay-go. Not true, he simply redefined it! PAY me, GO do what you want. | ||||||
| 76 | sarge33rd ID: 45229215 Wed, Mar 16, 2005, 15:11 |
Alaska cleared for drilling... SCOREBOARD: Corp Oil: 1 Environment: 0 | ||||||
| 77 | Boldwin ID: 241292815 Wed, Mar 16, 2005, 16:37 |
Scoreboard: USA 1 OPEC 0 | ||||||
| 78 | sarge33rd ID: 562251410 Wed, Mar 16, 2005, 17:16 | are you trurly naive enough to think for one second, that this will bring the price ofoil down? or do you think it more likely, that the oil bigwigs will lay forth claims of "cost of development" and partake of windfall profits? | ||||||
| 79 | Boldwin ID: 241292815 Wed, Mar 16, 2005, 17:32 | So go drill some oil if it's such easy money. | ||||||
| 80 | biliruben ID: 500432513 Wed, Mar 16, 2005, 17:43 | Prostitution is easy money too. It doesn't mean I have the, um, assets or ethics to do it. | ||||||
| 81 | Boldwin ID: 241292815 Wed, Mar 16, 2005, 18:05 | So are you telling me you have a problem with the derrick or you have turned fundie? ;> | ||||||
| 82 | biliruben ID: 531202411 Wed, Sep 21, 2005, 11:14 |
Even Malkin the Hack is pissed about Bush's latest Crony appointment. I have a conservative friend in the field in immigration and he's livid. We should probably start another thread on the long list of cronies who are either unqalified or actively hostile to the department they are appointed to. Unfortunately, it would be easier to go the other direction and see if there are any appointments, any at all, that are defensible. | ||||||
| 83 | biliruben ID: 531202411 Wed, Sep 21, 2005, 11:17 | Her uncle is Air Force Gen. Richard B. Myers, the departing chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. She married Chertoff's current chief of staff, John F. Wood, on Saturday. | ||||||
| 84 | Razor ID: 36241218 Wed, Sep 21, 2005, 11:27 | This is the part where a board conservative points out that wayward department needs a good kick in the ass and an outsider to come in and restructure that department from the ground up. | ||||||
| 85 | biliruben ID: 531202411 Wed, Sep 21, 2005, 11:34 | The apologistas seem to be running for Alabama. I haven't seen a bracing attempt to defend the trimming of the shrub around here in awhile. | ||||||
| 86 | sarge33rd ID: 27563010 Wed, Sep 21, 2005, 11:41 | Thats because even shrubs defenders, are growing weary of the constant need to defend him. | ||||||
| 87 | soxzeitgeist ID: 478242110 Wed, Sep 21, 2005, 11:44 |
Except for the fact that she's attached to our "security" concerns, Myers isn't even the choice for "best cronyism hack appointment" of the week. I think that one has to go to Dr. Norris Alderson, who was nominated to head the FDA's office of Womens Health. Dr. Alderson has a distinguished 20+ year unblemished medical career - as an animal husbandry specialist. | ||||||
| 88 | sarge33rd ID: 27563010 Wed, Sep 21, 2005, 11:57 | goes hand-in-hand with the Arabian Horse Associations "fired" Event Co-ord as head of FEMA. Dont you think? | ||||||
| 89 | biliruben Leader ID: 589301110 Thu, Nov 10, 2005, 19:24 | Senator Stevens is a real prick. | ||||||
| 90 | biliruben ID: 531202411 Mon, Dec 12, 2005, 11:15 |
This explains everything. While journalists and presidential historians had long noted Bush's deep faith and Cheney's powerful influence in the White House, few had drawn a direct correlation between the two until Tuesday, when transcripts of meetings that took place in March and April of 2002 became available. | ||||||
| 91 | Tree ID: 59022218 Sun, Jan 22, 2006, 19:04 |
Halliburton Cited in Iraq Contamination cronyism unchecked...like this is anything new, but hey, HOORAY FOR GW BUSH! WASHINGTON - Troops and civilians at a U.S. military base in Iraq were exposed to contaminated water last year and employees for the responsible contractor, Halliburton, couldn't get their company to inform camp residents, according to interviews and internal company documents. | ||||||
| 92 | Tree ID: 1411442914 Fri, Feb 03, 2006, 16:52 |
U.S. Expels Venezuelan Diplomat Donald Rumsfeld with one of history's all-time unintentionally funniest statements... On Thursday, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld drew a parallel between Chavez and Adolf Hitler. "He's a person who was elected legally — just as Adolf Hitler was elected legally — and then consolidated power," Rumsfeld said in a National Press Club appearance. hmmm....are we sure Chavez is the president he's talking about? | ||||||
| 93 | Seattle Zen ID: 3415339 Fri, Feb 03, 2006, 17:14 | Elected and Re-elected. Both times with majorities MUCH higher than GW. | ||||||
| 94 | biliruben Leader ID: 589301110 Fri, Feb 03, 2006, 17:32 | He's just pissed because Chavez has so far been good at dodging our assassin's bullets. | ||||||
| 95 | sarge33rd ID: 480323118 Fri, Feb 03, 2006, 18:16 |
sooooooo shrub wanats to spread democracy, have fair and free legal elections, but only if his candidate wins? <-----Raising hands for yet another recount in Fl/Oh. | ||||||
| 96 | Tree ID: 41137318 Fri, Feb 03, 2006, 19:42 | i just like how someone on Bush's staff is talking about someone else consolidating power...exactly what Bush has attempted to do, by proclaiming he, as president, is above the law. | ||||||
| 97 | Boldwin ID: 49626249 Fri, Feb 03, 2006, 20:14 |
Elected and Re-elected. Both times with majorities MUCH higher than GW - SZ A feat so much easier when you shoot at the opposing voters. | ||||||
| 98 | sarge33rd ID: 480323118 Fri, Feb 03, 2006, 20:22 | or have a bunch of dupes voting for you. | ||||||
| 99 | Pancho Villa ID: 519522811 Fri, Feb 03, 2006, 20:51 |
A feat so much easier when you shoot at the opposing voters. Once again, many Americans can't stand the fact that a foreign leader who we despise is a national hero in their homeland. In Vietnam we can thank the French for helping make Ho Chi Minh a national hero, and in Venezuela we can thank Bush Bush for making Chavez the same. He has incredible popular support. | ||||||
| 100 | Perm Dude Dude ID: 030792616 Fri, Feb 03, 2006, 20:58 | It's an interested set of cases with there and Palestine. Legal elections bringing leaders the Administration can't stand. | ||||||
| 101 | Boldwin ID: 49626249 Sat, Feb 04, 2006, 13:39 |
He has incredible popular support. And incredibly hard negative numbers as well. | ||||||
| 102 | sarge33rd ID: 2511422414 Sun, Feb 05, 2006, 14:57 |
Interesting article reference judicial response to the new BK law in todays Austin Statesman. (copied w/o permission) .....Judge Frank Monroe of Austin rejected the case...-with a bang. In his ruling, Monroe said the new federal bankruptcy law is full of traps for consumers, calling some of its provisions "inanw", "absurd" and incomprehensible to "any rational human being". He stopped just short of accusing Congress of being bought and paid for, dryly noting, "Apparently, it is not the individual consumers of this country that make the donations to the members of Congress that allow them to be elected, and re-elected and re-elected and re-elected." | ||||||
| 103 | Stuck in the 60s Dude ID: 274132811 Mon, Feb 06, 2006, 07:28 |
This new BK law is about as anti-consumer as it gets. More than half the bankruptcies during the past 10 years have come from folks who couldn't pay medical bills -- usually because their jobs provided no insurance and they couldn't afford private coverage. All it takes to get buried in that trap is for an individual HMO to decide that a particular (and expensive) medical treatment is either unnecessary or uncovered. The new BK law is just one more nail in the coffin of the American middle class, which is now unable to escape from catastrophic medical emergencies. The rich, of course, don't have to worry. Not only are they covered by medical insurance, they typically share in the ownership of the credit-card companies who are the only beneficiaries of the new law. | ||||||
| 104 | sarge33rd ID: 2511422414 Mon, Feb 06, 2006, 08:41 | Interesting thing Don, is that you are right. Leading cause of BK in this country, is lost income due to ilness/injury and thus lost work time. I had long thought it to be excessive CC debt, but facts dont bear that out. | ||||||
| 105 | Boxman ID: 24125215 Mon, Feb 06, 2006, 08:51 |
Think the BKs are bad now? Just wait. I have no idea how young adults do it now with the following hanging over their heads: 20k in student loan debt (if they're lucky) that is paid over a 10 year period. Record energy prices. Credit card debt. Housing prices. New townhouses in my area start at 400k. Townhouses. I'm not knocking them, just saying that the pricing is ludicrous. I would be amazed to hear about a college grad, getting married, buying a house and surviving based on the cost of living relative to new graduate wages. | ||||||
| 106 | sarge33rd ID: 2511422414 Mon, Feb 06, 2006, 09:18 |
Apts in the Austin area, are almost exclusively set up for multi tenant dwelling. 3 BR, a full bath off each. This way, the rent gets split 3 ways and its affordable. I dont see how today a family can get launched, unless they 1) are well to do to start with or 2) live with mom and dad for 10 years while they pay down student loans, accumulate time on the job and raises and bank some cash. | ||||||
| 107 | Boxman ID: 24125215 Mon, Feb 06, 2006, 09:27 |
Another thing for young couples to contend with. My property taxes went up in November by $70 per month. $840 per year. There was no referendum, no vote, and there was no re-valuation of the property that I am aware of. The ONLY notice we received was from our bank just stating that the escrow amount went up due to a property tax hike. We received nothing from the county. I'm just curious when did it happen that people weren't allowed to vote anymore in this country. I wonder how many of those multi-tenant dwellings are setup such that one name is on the lease and then that tenant can use that apartment as part of his supply chain to get illegals into this country. | ||||||
| 108 | Perm Dude Dude ID: 030792616 Mon, Feb 06, 2006, 10:40 | Happens here as well. School boards and local government politicos are elected, however. Find out who raised the taxes and raise a stink. | ||||||
| 109 | Seattle Zen ID: 3415339 Tue, Feb 21, 2006, 10:54 |
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| 110 | Boldwin ID: 49626249 Tue, Feb 21, 2006, 11:49 | Not only is that cartoon dead on but it neglects the issue that war expenses largely aren't included I believe. | ||||||
| 111 | Perm Dude Dude ID: 030792616 Tue, Feb 21, 2006, 11:52 | nice, Zen. | ||||||
| 112 | Pancho Villa ID: 47161721 Thu, Oct 25, 2007, 01:56 |
Kuwaiti Baghdad Embassy Contractor Gets More Lucrative Contracts WASHINGTON — The Kuwaiti contractor that's building the new U.S. Embassy in Baghdad — behind schedule and plagued by allegations of shoddy construction and safety flaws— is still winning lucrative new contracts to build U.S. diplomatic installations overseas. Late last month, First Kuwaiti General Trading & Contracting Co. was part of a team that won a $122 million State Department contract to build a U.S. consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia , according to contract documents. $122 million for a consulate, a few offices that OK visas, awarded to a company with a track record of incompetence, budget overruns and illegal workers? Madness. | ||||||
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