The acting director of the White House Travel Office was attacked and robbed by three men. Greg Pitts was accompanying the president on the return from Asia. While Bush was at the Air Force base, the staff and pool reporters were kicking up their heels in Waikiki…well until the mugging.
Perhaps the Travel Office should know [...]
11.22.06 | Uncategorized | pinkdome
Granted, this is an old picture, but Bush is once again issuing the Presidential pardon to two turkeys today. I’m not sure if the pics that will follow will be as good as this one, so let’s just roll with the old stuff.
11.22.06 | Uncategorized | admin
What in the hell is this firestorm over Shelly Sekula-Gibbs? We don’t get it. The staff of Tom DeLay walked out en masse on her. Good riddance to bad rubbish. Shouldn’t they be the ones everyone calls names instead of this woman that’s getting her fifteen minutes in what’s got to be the slimy former [...]
11.22.06 | Uncategorized | pinkdome
When asked how the new crop of freshman will fit in with the legislature, Austin consultant Bill Miller said, “It’s an environment where smart and hardworking pay off.”
Thanks for the laugh, Bill. Those of that have ever set foot in the Capitol know that smarts and hard work rarely pay off and quite frankly [...]
11.21.06 | Uncategorized | pinkdome
The Bush Administration spying on Americans isn’t new in our country…or hell, even our city. A Texas Observer story details how the UT Campus Police were spying on their students in the 1960’s. In retrospect, it almost has a naive sweetness to it when you read the UT cops were worried about Janis Joplin. [...]
11.21.06 | Uncategorized | pinkdome
Dallas reports they cannot keep up with the demand for rehab beds for children as young as 11 addicted to heroin. Uhm, 11? When we were 11 we were high on too much sugar in the red Kool-Aid.
Times have changed, though. Kids grow up so fast these days. If only we’d gotten the addict and [...]
11.21.06 | Uncategorized | pinkdome
Always a favorite at the end of Vanity Fair. This month it’s Rep. John Murtha.
What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Incompetence.
Now it’s your turn….Answer these in the comments. PD answers the full Proust Questionnaire in the permalink.
What is the trait you most deplore in others?
What is your motto?
11.21.06 | Uncategorized | pinkdome
From today’s Washington Post:
… That combination plan, which one defense official called “Go Big but Short While Transitioning to Go Long,” could backfire if Iraqis suspect it is really a way for the United States to moonwalk out of Iraq — that is, to imitate singer Michael Jackson’s trademark move of appearing to move forward [...]
11.20.06 | Uncategorized | admin
Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., says he’ll introduce legislation to reinstate the draft. Ah, this will go over like a turd in a punchbowl. We predict a strong sense of ‘isolationism’ in America’s future. The all volunteer military is stretched to its limits, sure, but don’t we think it’s failed foreign policy that’s caused [...]
11.20.06 | Uncategorized | pinkdome