The Workermonkey

Wednesday, September 21, 2005

Those are fightin words 

# posted by Brancibeer @ 9/21/2005 04:19:00 PM

Bill Maher's closing words the other night...

"Mr. President, this job can't be fun for you any more. There's no more money to spend--you used up all of that. You can't start another war because you used up the army. And now, darn the luck, the rest of your term has become the Bush family nightmare: helping poor people. Listen to your Mom. The cupboard's bare, the credit cards maxed out. No one's speaking to you. Mission accomplished.

"Now it's time to do what you've always done best: lose interest and walk away. Like you did with your military service and the oil company and the baseball team. It's time. Time to move on and try the next fantasy job. How about cowboy or space man? Now I know what you're saying: there's so many other things that you as President
could involve yourself in. Please don't. I know, I know. There's a lot left to do. There's a war with Venezuela. Eliminating the sales tax on yachts. Turning the space program over to the church. And Social Security to Fannie Mae. Giving embryos the vote.

"But, Sir, none of that is going to happen now. Why? Because you govern like Billy Joel drives. You've performed so poorly I'm surprised that you haven't given yourself a medal. You're a catastrophe that walks like a man. Herbert Hoover was a shitty president, but even he never conceded an entire city to rising water and snakes.

"On your watch, we've lost almost all of our allies, the surplus, four airliners, two trade centers, a piece of the Pentagon and the City of New Orleans. Maybe you're just not lucky. I'm not saying you don't love this country. I'm just wondering how much worse it could be if you were on the other side.

"So, yes, God does speak to you. What he is saying is: 'Take a hint.' "

7 comments

i saw that too. i love real time. bill maher is the man.

By  josh, at Wednesday, September 21, 2005 6:35:00 PM  

Before 9/11 the organization of US intelligence contributed to the tradegy, but Bush's ideals help to cause terrorism so combined with his lack of concern regarding CIA warnings, 9/11 can be seen as partly his fault. However, there are probably very many wrong CIA warnings so taking all of them as 100% true would be a mess, and although I hate him, I have argued against foreigners who think 9/11 would not have happened had Gore been elected. Little of the quote relates to this and its weak.

Hurricanes are of course, not the fault of the president of the US, however, his status quo opinion on climate change and support for fossil fuels increases the CO2 concentration in the atomosphere (US is of course, largest contributor) This causes a documentable warming (which yes for data known so far you could explain as statistical anomoly or whatever), and as the waters in the South Atlantic warm, the likehood of more and stronger hurricanes is increased. It is a fact that over the past decade average temperatures are higher, and storm numbers are up. Most people correlate this to CO2 concentration, a few crackpot scientist do not think so, even the Bush Administration no longer says they are unrelated. Anyway, with Katrina, the issue is the lack of proper response, not the storm. Why did Bush continue meetings with businesspeople after the storm hit? Why were there no aircraft and national guard available? Oh yeah that one is easy. How come the government could not access the city to help, yet news crews could?

By  Damon, at Friday, September 23, 2005 9:13:00 AM  

come on holmes, you know better. he isnt responsible, but he is responsible for cleaning up the aftermath of both, and has done a poor job there.

By  josh, at Friday, September 23, 2005 10:25:00 AM  

Atleast Gore read. That might of helped with 9/11. I believe there was a memo entitled something like, "Osama Bin Ladin to attack WTC with airplane", of which was probaby pushed aside for sunday fishin with pa.

And Global warming is plain common sense. The vastness of the Earth proves difficult for measurements of stats, but the one that we do have offer a settling trend developing. Thats why the theory is such a surfacing topic these days. Again, common sense- artificially upsetting the CO2 system will throw off all other systems connected to it. Warmer oceans will feed stronger storms. Thats how things work.

By  Brancibeer, at Friday, September 23, 2005 11:35:00 AM  

i don't know you holmes, but i don't even know where to start with telling you how wrong yuor train of thought is.

no, bush didn't go downstairs and push some buttons on his fancy old huricane machine to create katrina. what he did do was increase the amunt of CO2 pumped into the atmosphere that IS causing global warming. i don't know how old you are, but i know i've paid enough attention to realize that there are more hurricanes in the last few years and they have been much worse then normal.

the federal governement is only whipping everyones butt now because they are the ones who smeared shit all over it. when you royally fuck up a major disaster like this, yeah, people are going to hold them accountable. The governor and the mayor in LA both called for the federal government to take control of the emergency BEFORE the huricane hit. Bush was too busy on vacation so he ignored it. bush co. didn't invoke anything becasue hey didn't want to be in control. plus, thier national guard was busy in other parts of the world, you know, iraq.

Bush also appointed an unqualified cronie to head up FEMA, which he also de-nutted by removing the position from his cabinate and making part fo the all-knowing Homeland security agency.

to pay for his little pet project (the war in Iraq), bush took money from projects like the one where they've been working on the levees in NO for 40 years. because you know, no one ever expected a city that's below sea level to flood. who could have seen that one comming.

so what has bush done thats good? well he handed out 5000$ to people who lost everything in the flood because when i'm looking for food and water, there's nothing like a fat 5 G's to quench my thirst. instead of spending a few million in maintenece, we've decided its better to spend billions in clean up.

its a little hard to swallow probelms they tell us the government is just finding out about when they've been on CNN for 3 days.

FEMA didn't take 19 days to respond to hurricane andrew, plus, i think you might remember a certain guy named George HW Bush running the country at that time. I think they might be related. you can't blame andrew on clinton because he wasn't in office when it happened. i know the republican war/media machine has been pumping the loyals with that nonsense for days now.

how long did it take to respond to the tsunami? oh we got there quicker then we were able to respond to something in our own country? huh.plus those countries that we gave money too are now giving that same money back to us in our own disaster relief.

it's hard to take you seriously when you fight against global warming. the proof you speak of does exist and it been put togeather by many people much smarter then all of us. if you think pumping millions of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere every year is natural, then i'm just lost for words. no amount of beating you senseless can fix that.

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Friday, September 23, 2005 1:28:00 PM  

ow... my... head....... bleeding...

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Friday, September 23, 2005 4:23:00 PM  

ok i leave work in 15 minutes, then no more responses.

looking at weather in a bubble is a necessety becasue we haven't gone back and developed historical weather patterens yet. we've only been keeping track of the weather for the last hundred years or so. no CO2 does not equal hurricanes. yes, a rise in CO2 has caused the temperature to increase all over the globe. icebergs the size of rhoad island are breaking off of antartica at an alareming rate. the oceans ARE rising and the temp is higher and there is more water, so yes the ocean temp is higher, higher water temp is a key factor in the creatation of hurricanes.(Damon) when we fuck with one system the others that rely on them get messed up to. (Brian)

yes the levees were poorly built 30 years ago, thats why we needed to spend so much money every year to fix them and keep them working, when you gut the budget for that, they aren't going to work any more. that is bush's fault, he needed he tax cuts for the rich so badly. oh and his war.


"I agree that as soon as Bush realized he was dealing with total incompetents, he should have used the Insurrection Act to wrest control from the Governor and declare Federal Martial Law, a step not taken since Reconstruction."

"I know it's a wonderful fantasy to think that the Executive of the nation actually runs every detail of every organization like the enlightened platonian monarch we wish him to be. , but that's just not reality."

so which way is it going to be? the president can't deligate every piece of work he has and then not be held at fault when his irresponsible delegees fail. its nice to be able to totally avoid resposibility when problems arise.

FEMA has nothing to do with the govenor of any state. the govenor is responsible for asking the federal government for help when an emergency arises and then FEMA takes over. at that point hte govenor is out of hte picture.

I'm sorry, i actually read the 9/11 commision report (it was one of hte longest most difficult things i've ever read). What the 9/11 commision wanted was a federal agency that was independant and had begetary discreassion so that they could workaround the president. bush changed all that and gave the commitee nothing. the only thing they have in common is the name.

i have to leave now or i'd go on for ever, and i'm sick of being at work.

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Friday, September 23, 2005 4:52:00 PM  

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