What I love about the post-State of the Union news, Doug, was the
announcement
of increased interest on student loans and decreased funding. Way to
go, Education
President! Hail, Congressional toadies!
Hal
On Feb 3, 2006, at 11:21 AM, Douglas Barbour wrote:
> I would tend to agree with everything you say, Ken, but:
> On 2-Feb-06, at 2:56 PM, Ken Wolman wrote:
>
>> I'm a bit amazed that two presumably intelligent people would go on
>> Charlie Rose's show and broadcast their pathetic level of trust in
>> men
>> who either are serpentine or profoundly stupid. Unless Bush is only
>> playing stupid, in which case he's another of the serpents even more
>> grotesque and morally misshapen than Cheney.
>
> That NYT columnist who's proud of his Conservative bias was also on
> Charlie Rose the other day & he said that Bush _is_ intelligent but
> has gotten lost in his good old boy persona. If true, & I don't
> know, then he would be all you say here. Either way, well, it's
> pretty bad.
>
> On another note, CBC news today had a story of a US (Homeland
> Security, I presume) multi-million dollar fly-over scheme at the
> Saskatchewan border, mostly armed helicopters, to keep an eye out
> for possible terrorists or other bad guys. That's a lot of prairie,
> more or less empty but for cattle, very few people present anyway,
> but you can relax because your government is watching out for You....
>
> Doug
>
> Douglas Barbour
> 11655 - 72 Avenue NW
> Edmonton Ab T6G 0B9
> (780) 436 3320
>
> No farther out
> than in –
> no nearer here
> than there.
>
> Robert Creeley
Art & Plastic Surgery
Halvard Johnson
================
[log in to unmask]
http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard
http://entropyandme.blogspot.com
http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com
http://www.hamiltonstone.org
|