President Bush vetoed a children?s health measure on Wednesday afternoon, effectively killing Democrats? hopes of expanding a popular government program aimed at providing insurance to children in lower-income and middle-income families.
Bushspeak:
?I continue to stand ready to work with the leaders of the Congress, on a bipartisan basis, to reauthorize the S-Chip program in a way that puts poor children first, moves adults out of a program meant for children, and does not abandon the bipartisan tradition that marked the original enactment of the S-Chip program,? Mr. Bush said.
Bush’s comment reveals his native unfamiliarity with the meaning of simple words. He has no fucking clue what the word “bipartisan” means. He thinks it means “do it exactly my way,” just as he thinks “disassemble” means “not tell the truth.”
The law Bush just vetoed passed by a 64-30 margin in the Senate, and by a 265 to 142 margin in the house, with significant support from Republican lawmakers. That would be “bipartisan,” in any language other than the Bush lexicon.
A grocery store in Manhattan made a food faux pas, advertising hams as “Delicious for Chanukah.”
Chanukah ? an alternate spelling for Hanukkah ? is the eight-day Jewish holiday that began Tuesday evening, and hams ? as well as pork and other products from pigs ? can’t be eaten under Jewish dietary laws.
A woman who saw the mistake over the weekend at the Balducci’s store on 14th Street took pictures of the signs and posted them on her blog.
Jennifer Barton, director of marketing, told The Associated Press on Thursday that the signs were changed as soon as the error was noted.
She issued an apology on the company Web site, saying the company would be reviewing its employee training.
An Alabama church group got the shock of their lives when they found marijuana in their pizza. It happened at a youth outing in Florence the day before Thanksgiving, and police still aren’t sure where the pot came from. The pizza came from a Papa John’s restaurant in Florence.
The district office for Papa John’s sent WVVA this press release:
“We have been notified by the Florence police of a possible incident of product tampering with a pizza order on November 21st, where a customer claims to have discovered marijuana on his pizza. We have investigated internally and have no reason to believe that the product tampering occurred at our restaurant or by any of our employees. We take great pride in serving a high-quality product to our customers and in our 12 years of serving the Florence community have never had an incident like this. We are cooperating with the police in their processes to get to the bottom of this claim.”
Authorities did say an off duty Florence Police Officer ordered the pizza.
“I don’t believe at this time they knew it was a police officer who ordered it,” said Sgt. Rolando Bogran, of the Florence Police Department.
According to the FPD, it was not until the pizza was already eaten that someone realized there was something in it.*
Forensic testing has been ordered to get official certified results. “Whatever the outcome of the investigation, it will be bad, we are talking about a local restaurant, it hurts the community, hurts everyone, but most of all some people could have been hurt in the incident,” said Sgt. Brogan. (Sounds like someone’s watched “Reefer Madness” lately.)
Several of the youth who ate the pizza were taken to the hospital to be checked out. None were found to have ill effects of eating the pizza.
*The classic excuse! At least they had their munchies cured ahead of time.
Can’t say I was a fan of . I’ve listened to my share of metal, but I never really dug QR’s bland contribution to the genre.
But I worked in a record store in of all places when “Cum on Feel the Noize” hit the charts and I probably sold about a million copies of Metal Health to head-bangin’ Simi Kids who couldn’t tell the difference between Riot and, say, . They weren’t popular long and whatever popularity they had was as much due to the fact that they made a couple of appealing videos right at the time when MTV was becoming and important player in the music biz.
Despite all that, I’m sad to note that , Quiet Riot’s leather-lunged lead singer has died at the age of 52.
DuBrow died at his home in Las Vegas, Nevada, according to TMZ.com. The Clark County coroner’s office was examining the body to determine the cause of death, according to TMZ.
“I’m at a loss for words. I’ve just lost my best friend,” Quiet Riot drummer Frankie Banali told CNN. “Out of respect for both Kevin and his family, I won’t comment further. There’s going to be a lot of speculation out there, and I won’t add to that. I love him too much.”
Quiet Riot hit the top of the charts with its 1983 album, “Metal Health,” considered by some sources as the first heavy metal album to hit No. 1. The album was driven by the group’s cover of Slade’s “Cum on Feel the Noize,” which hit the Top 40.
How many times will these dolts fall for the same old story. . .
Instadipshit for about the time.
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BLATHER, RINSE, REPEAT. The Perfesser is in his fifth year of declaring victory in Iraq. . .
The cost of the war is heading toward a trillion or higher, and has made Iraq a basket-case state similar to the other new and violently achieved “democracies” of our age which are showing very few of the sort of resources that got America up on its feet after its own revolution. Except, of course, Iraq’s political realignment was not at all internally generated. Somebody suffered a “cruel blow,” alright.
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Look, it’s simple. Anyone who’s been saying “We’re winning!” since the invasion and for 6 years has been wrong about everything does not have the credibility lecture anyone on taking a realistic, unvarnished view of events in Iraq. Period.
Instapundit: still trying to recapture the magick!
He’s now apparently going by the name, “Anne Tyrrell” and employed as a spokesperson for Blackwater International. We can tell it’s Bob by the dissonance between .
The New York Times cited unidentified civilian and military officials in reporting for Wednesday’s editions that the killings of at least 14 of the 17 Iraqi civilians shot by Blackwater personnel guarding a U.S. Embassy convoy were found to have been unjustified and violated standards in place governing the use of deadly force.
Responding to the Times report, Anne Tyrrell, a Blackwater spokeswoman, said the company “supports the stringent accountability of the industry. . . .”
In an industry where mercs are exempt from the USCMJ and Iraqi law, have been granted immunity by the State Department, and there is no accountability.
Although the report disclosed that:
No evidence supports assertions by Blackwater employees that they were fired upon by Iraqi civilians. . . .
Bob/Anne was unfazed:
“Without a doubt, the teams were faced with deadly force that day,” the Blackwater spokeswoman said.
“Without a doubt, the teams were faced with deadly force that day”
“Aqua Dots, a highly popular holiday toy sold by Australia-based Moose Enterprises, are beads that can be arranged into designs and fused when sprayed with water. The toy was pulled from shelves in North American and Australia after scientists found they contain a chemical that converts into a dangerous drug when eaten. Two children in the U.S. and three in Australia were hospitalized after swallowing the beads.
Scientists say a chemical coating on the beads, when ingested, metabolizes into the so-called date rape drug gamma hydroxy butyrate. When eaten, the compound _ made from common and easily available ingredients _ can induce unconsciousness, seizures, drowsiness, coma and death.”
In a man-bites-dog story, the Chinese government is investigating the import of dangerous, chemical laden toys into Hong Kong:
Meanwhile, versions of the toy seized in Hong Kong were being tested Thursday, a customs official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because of policy. If the tests come back positive for the chemical, suppliers of the toy in Hong Kong could face a year in jail and fines of $12,877, she said.
Even though China, once again, is the source of the contamination:
A company spokeswoman for Moose Enterprises’ Hong Kong office said the production of the toy was outsourced to a mainland Chinese factory. She refused to elaborate and referred all further requests for comment to the company’s head office in Australia.
No, we’re not talking about unilateral disarmament.
Writing on , Robert Farley of Lawyers, Guns & Money argues the case that the Air Force is institutionally ill-suited for its primary missions, and that those missions might be better served by other branches utilizing the Air Force’s current assets. The argument in a nutshell:
. . .it’s time to revisit the 1947 decision to separate the Air Force from the Army. While everyone agrees that the United States military requires air capability, it’s less obvious that we need a bureaucratic entity called the United States Air Force. The independent Air Force privileges airpower to a degree unsupported by the historical record. This bureaucratic structure has proven to be a continual problem in war fighting, in procurement, and in estimates of the costs of armed conflict. Indeed, it would be wrong to say that the USAF is an idea whose time has passed. Rather, it’s a mistake that never should have been made.
The point being that the Air Force’s institutional imperatives push it towards air supremacy and strategic bombing, strategic roles which have substantially diminished in an era of low-intensity conflicts, while diminishing its effectiveness in what is now its primary mission, supporting the other branches during such conflicts. Interesting article, followed by a here. Robert notes that an Air Force General has published an Op Ed calling for the “creative” use of air power in political/counterinsurgency, and proposed bombing Iranian oil facilities — which one , “exactly the kind of bone-headed chest-thumping that has made the Air Force a liability to U.S. diplomacy.”
Hard to argue with that point. There always has been a tinge of Jack T. Ripper in the Air Force. . .
In his new sleep aid , El Raj wonders how many supermodels he would have fucked, but for his courageous pantswetting and 6 years of politically fellating George Bush and his neocon pals while standing up against the Islamofascist threat in the Hollywood Hills.
No, wait. He wonders how many Academy awards he would have received for his movie writing.
