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Wednesday, April 19, 2006



Looks like the honeymoon is over at the White House. While the Generals are chanting "Rumsfield Must Go", everyone else is. The Chief of Staff has cut and run, the Press Secretary is splitting and Carl Rove is changing titles from Chief Policy Wonk to Strategic Plotter and Organizer of the Dark Side.

One has to presume that the smart people have concluded they are on the Titanic and they've already struck the iceberg so it's every man for himself. The rest need the paycheck and will be going down with the ship.

As for the Captain and the first mate, they're getting their checks, the food's not bad, they get free airplane rides and their oil stocks are up again, so why worry. After all, isn't that what the rest of us were put on this earth to do?


Posted by donburnshomepage at 1:26 PM EDT
Updated: Thursday, April 20, 2006 12:14 AM EDT
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Sunday, April 16, 2006



The generals have spoken. "Rumsfield must Go", which of course means he will stay. The logic is simple.

When the generals start saying "Bush must Go", Rumsfield will be gone.


Posted by donburnshomepage at 10:23 PM EDT
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Thursday, April 13, 2006



With "Peace in Afghanistan and Iraq" fully secured and democracy flourishing in both, the Bush Administration is in search of a new conflict to distract the public and a new "bad boy" to correct.

The latest addition to the "shape up or face invasion" list is Iran. And why not, it's conveniently next door to pacified Iraq. Our soldiers are just down the road and in need of something to do. Besides, Iran might be developing weapons of mass destruction which takes care of the justification issue.

Opponents argue that it is a bad idea and we will be dragged into a quagmire, that there is no strategic danger to the US and we have more important things to deal with at home like record deficits, illegal immigration and White House scandals.

So with offsetting arguments this decision will probably go.......?

Oh, and did I mention they have oil.



Posted by donburnshomepage at 11:28 PM EDT
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Monday, April 10, 2006



"I thought it was important for people to get a better sense of what I was saying in my speeches," was the President's explanation for his admission of leaking classified information to the press.

This is after he had publicly gone on the record as wanting to know who had leaked that classified information to them.

So now at least we do have a sense of what he was saying in his speeches. He is saying he lies for political purposes. Unfortunately now we don't know if he is lying about that too.




Posted by donburnshomepage at 11:26 PM EDT
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Sunday, April 9, 2006

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The latest reports are coming out about education in America and it isn't pretty. Depending on who you talk to, between 25 and 35 percent of kids aren't graduating high school. Among minorities the numbers are even higher and it seems to be passed from generation to generation. In other words, if your parents didn't graduate, chances are you won't either.

The President's "No Child Left Behind" solution, which is based upon giving more tests, works for the 65% that are left, or at least for that portion that can pass the tests. Those that can't are also failures.

Considering that the Education President made it his top priority in 2001 to reform the education system that produced the best economy and most efficient and productive workforce in the world in the 1990's it would appear that his solution to a success is to create a problem that didn't exist before his solution didn't solve it.


Posted by donburnshomepage at 10:50 PM EDT
Updated: Monday, April 10, 2006 11:04 PM EDT
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Saturday, April 8, 2006



Lincoln studied war and finished the Civil War in three and a half years.

Roosevelt studied war and finished World War Two in three and a half years.

Bush says the war was over three years ago and should be finished in the near future, when it is over, which is indefinite, because it will last beyond his presidency and had no end in sight to begin with ...........which in itself sort of explains the problem.

The President can't read, can't add and doesn't know where he is going, when he'll arrive or how to get there.



Posted by donburnshomepage at 8:49 AM EDT
Updated: Sunday, April 9, 2006 8:39 AM EDT
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The Iraqi Civil War seems to be under way. At least if you are a Shiite you've got to believe it is based upon the body count of fellow Shiites.

The government which we thought was elected in December after three elections......... still isn't.

Our government which won't let you see the draped coffins of dead Americans coming home says things are improving.

And our President who started this whole debacle despite strong advice to the contrary, believes the "Victory" he declared on an aircraft carrier three years ago....... is just around the corner.

But then again he's the same guy who wanted to know who was leaking confidential information from the White House to the news media. This week he found out......... it was him.

Is it possible the Emperor has no clothes?




Posted by donburnshomepage at 8:32 AM EDT
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Thursday, April 6, 2006



The big debate in Congress these days is over illegal aliens and the difference between the words "amnesty" and "earned citizenship".

Essentially amnesty relieves you of any penalties for coming here illegally and allows you to become an American citizen. "Earned citizenship" does the same thing but makes you pay money to do it. It's sort of like coming here on the "American Plan".

As the big money people already know, 'if you can't steal it, buy it".
After all, that's the American way".


Posted by donburnshomepage at 7:14 AM EDT
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Wednesday, April 5, 2006




Apparently some 55 year old press secretary at Homeland Security named Doyle has been trying to strike up erotic conversations and romantic interludes with 14 year olds over the Internet. His most recent encounter with a 14 year old girl happened to be a sheriff wearing a badge and he's now in jail.

Add this to the ongoing debacle in New Orleans, the unchecked illegal alien invasion from Mexico on our southern border and the "deer in the headlights" look from the director of the agency and you have to ask the question.......what kind of a fruitcake agency is this?


Appears the Secure Homeland isn't secure from Homeland Security.




Posted by donburnshomepage at 1:22 PM EDT
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Monday, April 3, 2006



According to rumblings at the White House the shakeup of the staff is continueing. Supposedly it's to improve the way things are working and to respond to some criticisms of how the Bush Administration handles things and make "the President" look better.

I'd sooner think it's because the mice have figured out that the ship is sinking, the Captain is lost in a fog and his second in command is armed and dangerous and can't tell the difference between a man, a quail and a mouse, and so it's time to "bug out".

All of which does not bode well for the future. The new replacement novices are going to be led by the old "Know Nothings" who think they know everything while they take the rest of us to Never-Never Land. Not a reassuring picture.



Posted by donburnshomepage at 1:50 PM EDT
Updated: Tuesday, April 4, 2006 4:27 PM EDT
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