bushisms

From the White House...

[the important bit...]
"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people and neither do we."

Do you think the person who has to type Bush's speeches into the whitehouse website is ever afraid of losing his job?

Then again, they can't possibly be as worried as the guy who decided to make the Bush/Cheney '04 campaign logo available on their website as the "sloganator"... that was bright...

Appalling news

Suit Accuses Halliburton of Fraud in Accounting
By GRETCHEN MORGENSON
Published: August 6, 2004
our former finance employees at the Halliburton Company contend that a high-level and systemic accounting fraud occurred at the company from 1998 to 2001, according to a new filing in a class-action lawsuit on behalf of investors who bought the company's shares.

Shocking.

Group Plans Illegal Protests on 2nd Day of Convention
By DIANE CARDWELL
Members of a group opposed to the Republican National Convention have threatened to illegally protest the convention during its second day.

Have we gone so far that the term "Illegal Protests" doesn't even raise the hair on the backs of our collective necks?

Job Picture Looks Good Now, but Recession Left Fears That Endure
By FLOYD NORRIS
Despite rapid job growth this year, many Americans continue to believe there is a job crisis.

Ooh, that'll pick up the spirits of my UNEMPLOYED FRIENDS!!!

This is just a good reference article from the Public Editor at the NYT...
Other Voices: The Liberal Question and the Privacy Question
By DANIEL OKRENT
Few Public Editor columns have attracted reader mail as intense as the comments provoked by my last two.