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bun bun Guest
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Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 7:05 am Post subject: |
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This has been pointed out, I am sure, many, many times.
I am not scared of Bush and Bush alone. Rather, he is the most public character in a gallery of horror, in my opinion. He almost...sums up the scary things contained in his squadron of attack dogs. Some of them have one trait, more so than others, and he seems to be, aptly, the man who covers it all, to some extent or another.
Anybody else noticed this/think so/want to tear off my head metaphorically and tell me why I'm wrong?
Dozo. Onegaishimasu. |
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mouse

Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 15441 Location: under the bed
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Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 7:06 pm Post subject: |
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| CopperTop wrote: | | mouse wrote: | | as i recall, bush ran on his tax cuts in texas in 2000....and his election was shortly followed by major budget deficits in said state. which should have told us _something_.....or have i got that wrong? |
No, you don't have it wrong. Bush cut all kinds of business taxes and property taxes in Texas, then ran on that for President in 2000. The next budget year, cuts were made in school funding, children's health care, mental health funding, arts and virtually every other state funded program. The result was that property taxes were then raised again for the next 5 years, until this year - when Rick Perry cut property taxes and raised business taxes and instituted new taxes on alcohol and cigarettes. |
that's what i thought - his big tax deal pretty much led to the collapse of the state, right after he moved into the white house. which was way i could never get why congress was so determined to vote in tax cuts, given that bush had just demonstrated what a horrible mess such a thing would
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guess they had to see deficits nationwide before they would believe they were real.  _________________ aka: neverscared! |
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E-boy

Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 1545 Location: Virginia (Much barfiness)
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Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 7:42 pm Post subject: |
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I seem to remember a large tax refund (money owed to the american people as they put it at the time), that inexplicably turned into a no interest loan, rather than a refund. WTF?! _________________ "Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid" ~ SGT John Stryker from "Sands of Iwo Jima". |
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mouse

Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 15441 Location: under the bed
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Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 8:11 pm Post subject: |
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nonono, it was always a loan. you just didn't read the fine print. _________________ aka: neverscared! |
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E-boy

Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 1545 Location: Virginia (Much barfiness)
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Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 8:12 pm Post subject: |
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well that was right around the time I went into glasses, as I recall. I probably couldn't see the fine print. _________________ "Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid" ~ SGT John Stryker from "Sands of Iwo Jima". |
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mouse

Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 15441 Location: under the bed
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Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 8:15 pm Post subject: |
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it was like 0.01 point. you had to _really_ be looking. _________________ aka: neverscared! |
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richardtock
Joined: 18 Jul 2006 Posts: 15
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Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 10:08 am Post subject: |
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I can't really have a go at Bush. I'm English, so it's not much to do with me, however the way the countries interact makes it something to do with me.
Firstly, I don't think George W is a bad guy. In fact he seems pretty funny, and fairly good, if a little...ermm...dumb.
But I think it's more creepy what goes on behind him. It does look like his dad, and most other companies and people, are manipulating him. I think the biggest problem is the oil industry.
When you've got the guy in charge for enviromental affairs, a few years ago, telling people that global warming doesn't exsist, something is up there. And when you look how many of his cabinet are ex oil company employees, and still have links to the industry, you can see what it is. I mean an oil company was going to call one of their barges the Condaleza Rice. There's a clear conflict of interest there.
But maybe it's one thats working. I just worked out how much petrol prices are here in US Gallons. It works out as 6.715733 U.S. dollars per gallon.
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dazedb42

Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 2348 Location: Margaret River, Australia
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Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 10:18 am Post subject: |
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the spelling.....the spelling....stop it... pleaze it will kill us all..
ps. better me than one of the real spelling/grammar nazis. |
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mouse

Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 15441 Location: under the bed
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Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 8:11 pm Post subject: |
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| richardtock wrote: | | It does look like his dad, and most other companies and people, are manipulating him. |
even though i don't believe in The Big Guy Upstairs, i refuse to believe that The Big Guy Upstairs is _really_ telling him to do the things he does.
....you _did_ realize that he's said right out that that's the only father he listens to, right? _________________ aka: neverscared! |
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Lasairfiona

Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 9607 Location: I have to be somewhere? ::runs around frantically::
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Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 8:56 pm Post subject: |
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He has more than one!?!?!
My dad was saying how the oil companies are only driven by the market and if hydrogen and other alternative fuels were that amazing (cheap, safe, etc) than they would have been out by now. Bush would have no reason to interfer with the market. ::sighs:: _________________ Before God created Las he pondered on all the aspects a woman might have, he considered which ones would look good super-inflated and which ones to leave alone.
After much deliberation he gave her a giant comfort zone. - Michael |
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Major Tom

Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 7562
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Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 9:04 pm Post subject: |
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| Lasairfiona wrote: | | He has more than one!?!?! |
yes
george has two daddies |
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mouse

Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 15441 Location: under the bed
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Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 9:17 pm Post subject: |
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the one he listens to, and the he doesn't (you know, the one who had more sense than to invade bagdad when he had the chance). _________________ aka: neverscared! |
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Lasairfiona

Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 9607 Location: I have to be somewhere? ::runs around frantically::
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Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 9:22 pm Post subject: |
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| Major Tom wrote: | | Lasairfiona wrote: | | He has more than one!?!?! |
yes
george has two daddies |
This just in: Shrub was raised by a gay couple. _________________ Before God created Las he pondered on all the aspects a woman might have, he considered which ones would look good super-inflated and which ones to leave alone.
After much deliberation he gave her a giant comfort zone. - Michael |
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Dusty

Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 650
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Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 9:32 pm Post subject: |
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| in other news bush issued his first veto ever the other day. i was shocked. shocked. |
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kame
Joined: 11 Jul 2006 Posts: 2563 Location: Alba Nuadh
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Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 2:58 pm Post subject: |
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If I was to sum up Bush's presidency up until this point, it would be...
"He defied logic"
... in just about every policy decision I've paid attention to.  _________________ bi-chromaticism is the extraordinary belief that there exists only two options
each polar opposite to each other
where one is completely superior to the other. |
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