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Tuesday, January 29, 2008
News Extra Boomer: You'd have thought anyone still took him seriously
Posted By John Grooms on Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 4:07 PM
• In George W. Bush's State of the Union speech Monday night, the president performed a decent impersonation of a man who commanded the respect of the people he was talking to. It was more than a little surreal.
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Here was the sanctimonious incompetent who lied our nation into a completely unnecessary war that is costing us thousands of American lives and trillions of dollars; who presided over the "privatization," i.e. looting, of essential services such as many of those once performed by FEMA; and who has seriously, even dangerously, weakened America's moral and economic standing in the world — here was that same guy, mustering the gall to tell Congress that its pet projects were undermining "the people's trust in their government." This isn't a case of the pot calling the kettle black; it's more like the entire stove getting into the act.
• Also, this just in from Satan. The Evil One announced today that a special place in hell is being reserved for one Kaye McGarry, a Charlotte-Mecklenburg School Board member. Beelzebub noted that McGarry had earned her new honor when, at the recent school board retreat, she opposed a new CMS policy which aims to protect students from being bullied. The policy, said McGarry, could lead to an "aggressive, pro-homosexual agenda in classrooms."
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