January 28th, 2008
Posted by Drew at 5:54 pm
…on charges of war crimes, perjury, and obstruction of justice. Vermont is the only state President Bush hasn’t visited since he was first elected in 2001.
Brattleboro residents will vote at town meeting on whether President George Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney should be indicted and arrested for war crimes, perjury or obstruction of justice if they ever step foot in Vermont.
The Brattleboro Select Board voted 3-2 Friday to put the controversial item on the Town Meeting Day warning.
According to Town Clerk Annette Cappy, organizers of the Bush-Cheney issue gathered enough signatures, and it was up to the Select Board whether Brattleboro voters would consider the issue in March.
Cappy said residents will get to vote on the matter by paper balloting March 4.
Kurt Daims, 54, of Brattleboro, the organizer of the petition drive, said Friday the debate to get the issue on the ballot was a good one. Opposition to the vote focused on whether the town had any power to endorse the matter.
“It is an advisory thing,” said Daims, a retired prototype machinist and stay-at-home dad of three daughters.
So far, Vermont is the only state Bush hasn’t visited since he became president in 2001.
Daims said the most grievous crime committed by Bush and Cheney was perjury — lying to Congress and U.S. citizens about the basis of a war in Iraq.
He said the latest count showed a total of 600,000 people have died in the war.
Daims also said he believed Bush and Cheney were also guilty of espionage for spying on American people and obstruction of justice, for the politically generated firings of U.S. attorneys.
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September 19th, 2007
Posted by Drew at 12:01 am
Too funny for words:
The defendant in a state senator’s lawsuit is accused of causing untold death and horror and threatening to cause more still. He can be sued in Douglas County, the legislator claims, because He’s everywhere.
State Sen. Ernie Chambers sued God last week. Angered by another lawsuit he considers frivolous, Chambers says he’s trying to make the point that anybody can file a lawsuit against anybody.
Chambers says in his lawsuit that God has made terroristic threats against the senator and his constituents, inspired fear and caused “widespread death, destruction and terrorization of millions upon millions of the Earth’s inhabitants.”
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July 10th, 2007
Posted by Alex Payson at 6:22 pm
I think the title really says it all.
Those of you who are familiar with the Darwin Awards may have heard of something similar a few years ago when someone flew their lawn chair into the flight path of LAX, evidently it still holds an appeal to some…
Kent Couch decided to go flying last weekend. In his lawn chair.
Read the article here.
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April 1st, 2007
Posted by Drew at 9:41 am
It seems that Karl Rove can get away with anything these days: firing U.S. attorneys for political reasons, revealing the identity of a covert CIA operative, and even rapping at the Radio and Television Correspondents’ Association Dinner.
The balding, bespectacled Rove was given a standing ovation at an annual broadcast journalists’ awards dinner on Wednesday night when he danced and posed with his Blackberry during an improvised rap skit.
As boss President George W. Bush looked on, Rove gamely flapped about the stage as comedian Brad Sherwood described his favourite pastimes: “Listen up suckas, don’t get the jitters, but MC Rove tears the heads off of critters.”
See this hilarious video here.
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March 10th, 2007
Posted by Drew at 12:46 am
Too funny:
Mayan priests will purify a sacred archaeological site to eliminate “bad spirits” after President Bush visits next week, an official with close ties to the group said Thursday.
“That a person like (Bush), with the persecution of our migrant brothers in the United States, with the wars he has provoked, is going to walk in our sacred lands, is an offense for the Mayan people and their culture,” Juan Tiney, the director of a Mayan nongovernmental organization with close ties to Mayan religious and political leaders, said Thursday.
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November 29th, 2006
Posted by Drew at 8:47 pm
In a novel effort targeting the lifestyle of North Korea’s eccentric president, the Bush administration wants to make it tougher for him to buy iPods, plasma televisions, Segway electric scooters and more.
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