Sunday Oregonian's "Your Short Takes"

July 30

Radical right-wingers scream that Mideast conflict heralds the End Times and coming of a prophet. Bush-Cheney spells in "profit."


Randy Webster
Southeast Portland

'Specially Challenged' George loves children

Bush and Cheney and work

Another day on the job for Bush

More loss of US prestige

Bush’s decision to forbid U.S. funded research on stem cells is causing ripple effects in our position as a leader in science.

Lord Sainsbury, Britain’s science minister, hailed the decision reached by a majority of EU countries as an opportunity for Europe to forge ahead. “Symbolically it is very significant,” he said. “In Europe we are moving forward on this front, whereas America has taken, as far as the federal government is concerned, a very negative position.”

Lord Sainsbury added that Monday’s agreement could lead to disillusioned US scientists moving to European countries.

(By Sarah Laitner in Brussels and Clive Cookson in London, Financial Times of London)

Some make fun of the Muslims for living in the sixth century. We’re rapidly heading in that direction because of Bush’s pandering to the far-right religious zealots and drug companies.

Preemptive Weather

It never ceases to amaze anyone with the power of critical thinking: How can Bush be so quick to send our soldiers to death in preemptive wars, but be so blind to the possible global disaster that climate change could cause.

You would think that if there was even the slightest possibility of human caused global warming, a responsible government would do everything in its power to try to eliminate the cause.

But Bush has been told by his controllers, the very industries that contribute the most to our climate problems, what to do. They get richer, Bush and Cheney get richer, and the planet heads toward calamity.

Photo: Environmental pollution from a factory in Estonia. Courtesy World Bank/Curt Carnemark.

Bush and the S word

So, when will the FCC fine our leader for saying shit? And talking with his mouth full?

He was going to restore 'class' to the presidency, remember?

Be careful what you ask for

Rep. Lincoln Davis (D. Tennessee) now says he isn’t serious about wanting to make adultery and divorce felonies.

Turns out his congressional buddies (current and former) clued him in as to the number of reps and senators who would have to be removed from office should his wish come true. The disgraced (and national embarrasment) Newt Gingrich probably lead the team

Stem cell hypocrisy. The astrologer made me say it.

First we heard Nancy Reagan. She bawled about how poor Ronnie might have been saved had medical research been allowed to do its thing – research.

Then our own Gordie Smith finds out his wife is sick. All of a sudden he’s for research, forgetting about god and dead babies and all that icky stuff.

Maybe the Bush twins will come down with some horrible disease. Yeah, it’s a nasty wish, but in the long run, a lot more people will be better off.

This just in...U.S. Airways to sell ads on sickness bags

Imagine, now a proper place for Republicans to show off their felons to the public.

Better than a trash bag, airsickness bags are perfect for the neocons and religious fruitcakes.

Bush fingers medical research

This is not surprising to those who understand how Bush is controlled by corporations. But maybe now that he has bowed to both the pharmaceuticals and his far-right base, the masses might just take notice.

His first veto stops a bill that would help find cures for diseases. It would certainly have hurt the drug companies. By scuttling it, he also panders to the religious nuts led by multi-millionaire crooks like Pat Robertson. These people are not a majority, but Bush needs to give them a treat of some kind to get them to the polls.

This administration needs to be removed, and fast.

Fun with Dick and George

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