The Hollywood Liberal

Saw this on Think Progress.
There is some new census data out that shows how the poverty level has risen, and the uninusred rate has gone down every year since 2000, Bush took over in January 2001, and things have been going into the tank ever since.

H.L.s Take:
The numbers speak for themselves. The reverse Midas touch in full effect. Everything he touches turns to S**t.

I was sitting here at my desk on August 28 2005, at 3:45 PM Pacific when I saw the weather chart, and realized this wasn’t going to be a regular type Hurricane. I posted a warning to any H.L.ers in New Orleans that may not have known.

08/28/05 If You Live In New Orleans….

RUN!

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President Bush and his trusted advisor closely monitored the situation (so he knew how bad it was) At a crucial juncture when Bush’s point man began to realize that Bush had no desire to do anything at all, Bush had this to say to the frustrated and confused assistant.

8/29/05 Big Easy Memories

posted by H.L. @ 6:24 PM Permalink

The Next day the pictures of the devastation began to come in

Go here to see all the pics

Meanwhile Bush decided to pull a Nero, and pulled out his gee-tar

On August 31, Bush decided that maybe it was time to end his vacation a couple of days early and like maybe try to like do something, or something.

08/31/05 He’s Baaack

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But before he got back he decided to buzz New Orleans in Air Force 1, for a close up look and some hands on help for the masses

       9/1/05 Presidential Response

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On Sept. 2, we got these before and after aerial photos in.

This is from Global Security.org

Click here to see all the photos

Then finally, 5 days after the strom hit. When Bush had let thousands of people die, it was time for something to be done. He got his daddy, and Bill Clinton to bail him out.

       09/02/05 The Sunshine Boys, Together Again.

posted by H.L. @ 2:11 PM Permalink

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Anyone who didn’t see this coming wasn’t paying attention.

Karr won’t be charged over JonBenet: TV

AP
Excerpt
BOULDER, Colo. (Reuters) - Colorado prosecutors won’t charge schoolteacher John Mark Karr with the murder of 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey after tests showed his DNA does not match DNA found in her underwear, two local TV stations reported on Monday.
Denver’s KUSA and KCBS both cited unnamed sources close to the investigation in the reports, which came just hours before Karr, 41, was due for his first Colorado court appearance.
Amid skepticism over Karr’s claims to have been with the former Little Miss Colorado when she died, legal experts said that it would be difficult to bring the case to trial without a DNA match.

H.L.s Take
This story broke the day after a judge ordered Bush to stop the illegal spying on U.S. Citizens without warrants. It should have been a big story in the mainstream media. Bush slapped down by the courts. The 4th Amendment is still in effect. But suddenly out of nowhere some kook is being charged with murder in the most sensationalistic murder case in the last 10 years. There is just one problem though, all the evidence points to the fact that he didn’t do it. His family said they have Christmas pictures of him in another city when the murders took place. But does the media bother to check any of this out, hell no. They just (once again) run with the story knowing it is wrong. The whole thing was a Karl Rove plot to get Bush out of the papers for a few days. Karr must have taken Roves offer to get out of having to do time in Thailand for whatever he did over there. He also got to be a celebrity for a couple of weeks, so what the hell. And what is it about Colorado? There must be some republican D.A.s over there who want so bad to curry favor with GOP bigwigs and have their names in the paper that they are willing to make themselves look bad to do it. Another instance where Bush conveniently got out of the papers at a bad time was when the whole Kobe Bryant “rape” case took place. Everyone knew that it would never go to trial but the press was all over that so hard there was no time to talk about anything else.
I never bothered to mention this case on the blog because I knew the whole thing was a sham. I’m just surprised they didn’t take him to trial anyway, just to have another 6 months of press headlines.

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Wish I would have thought of this…

Historians Demote Bush to “Dwarf President”

Satrical Political Report

Excerpt:

In a move heavily anticipated for the last five years, the National Academy of Historians has ratified what had been generally accepted knowledge, and officially demoted George W. Bush to status of “Dwarf President.”
Although Bush stands over six feet tall, both the microscopic size of his brain, and his total lack of any gravitas, immediately disqualified him from the definition of a full-fledged President.

H.L.s Take: Bush is Indeed The Pluto of Presidents. He is out there.

Get ready for some really trippy music with Pink Floyd. This is from Floyd’s movie “Live at Pompeii”, it was shot in 1971, right before they became huge. I saw these guys live on February 27, 1980 at Nassau Coliseum on Long Island. They performed “The Wall” in one of only 10 shows on the entire tour. 5 in NY, and 5 in L.A. (we will be featuring some footage from those shows on a later Saturday Night Concert.) OK twist one up, turn on the black lights, drop it if you got it, and get ready for some Pink Floyd.

Allen’s “Macaca” Mess Hurting Bid For Re-Election

Jabbs
Excerpt
Not surprisingly, Allen’s campaign manager, Dick Wadhams, is trying to rally the troops behind Allen, and against what Wadhams perceives as a mass effort to vilify Allen “in a desperate attempt to revive a campaign that was fast-sinking - the Webb campaign.”
(Note: Wadhams’ memo came two days before the SurveyUSA poll.)
As the folks at MyDD.com point out: Wadhams “blames the media, pundits, Democrats, liberal groups, and Moveon.org for Allen’s racist gaffe. He says that it’s the Democrats that are playing the race card. The only person who isn’t to blame, in fact, is saintly George Allen.”
Virginians apparently aren’t buying that script, no matter how hard Allen’s conservative friends scream it from the rafters

H.L.s Take
Republicans built their party on racism. Thats how they took the south away from Democrats many years ago. They usually speak in ways that deliver the subtext. “We hate niggers, we can’t say we hate niggers, but you know we do, and we know you do, so vote for us.” But every now and then one slips and shows his true feelings. Then of course the next step is to blame the “Librul Media” If you don’t think people still think this way, check the discussion forums on any Yahoo story that has anything to do with race, or black people. They say that racism is learned from your environment. I wonder of Allens father felt the same way about all the black football players he was the head coach of on The Washington Redskins.

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