Rev. Erudite Redneck, B.S., B.S., M.A., M.Div.

I agree Austin is not a good fit for his "library". Dallas is much better. Put it on one of the sub-campuses of UT off in a corner behind a hill. You can devote one whole section to the Doonsbury saga of GWB. Another to other political Cartoonist. Of course we will need a reproduction of the Skull and Bones house in the "library". Oh yes, a complete section on Saudia Arabia before it annexed Texas. After a while, the University will be able to find other uses for the building perhaps, storage and such. And undoubtably, after a few years they will re-name it after a current doner to the school.
 

Hey, can anyone tell me if the Clinton Lie-brary has a cigar store?
 

Maybe so. It probably should -- as a monument to what happens when the country is in such good shape economically and in the eyes of the rest of the world that it can let something like a BJ become National News and an impeachable offense.

But then, that's old news now. What seven years ago? Bush's intellectual indiscretions -- which also take place IN THE OVAL OFFICE! Shame! -- are ongoing and of greater and much more lasting import.

Hell's bells. Bill Clinton read more on the john as an undergrad than Dubya has his whole life.

Clinton made himself a dirty joke, granted. Bush started out as a lame joke. And every time he tells himself it gets lamer and lamer. Pretty soon he'll be a nursery rhyme.

--ER
 

No, but I hear you'll be able to get a coke at the Scoop-n-Toot by GWB's.
 

I bet you losers have an altar with a dictionary on it to pray to. HAIL THE WRITTEN WORD, HAIL THE WRITTEN WORD! Continue to sit on your butts and wear your fingers to the bone and see where it gets you. Bush has gone all the way to the top and he won’t be the last.
 

Yes. Yes, we do.

Don't look now, but Bush STARTED at the top of life, and rode others' accomplishments -- and the apathy of the public -- into the White House.

--ER
 

Bill Moyers recently NAILED the reason I DESPISE the ones in power. All of 'em. Bush hisself is harmless, on his lonesome. Just give 'im a Fischer-Price chainsaw and turn him loose on his spread to clear brush.

"Who are they? I mean the people obsessed with control using the government to threaten and intimidate; I mean the people who are hollowing out middle class security even as they enlist the sons and daughters of the working class to make sure Ahmad Chalabi winds up controlling Iraq’s oil; I mean the people who turn faith-based initiatives into Karl Rove’s slush fund; who encourage the pious to look heavenward and pray so as not to see the long arm of privilege and power picking their pockets; I mean the people who squelch free speech in an effort to obliterate dissent and consolidate their orthodoxy into the official view of reality from which any deviation becomes unpatriotic heresy."

--ER
 

As the Cajun General told a reporter today that still wanted to talk about what happened three weeks ago, “You Sir are Stuck on Stupid”.
 

Well, for HIM to be talking about it wouold be stupid. For anyone to be ASKING him about it is stupid.

For the rest of us, it's the American way.

I did not vote for Bush in 2000. I did not vote for him in 2004 (but it wasn't even close in Oklahoma, and I would have voted for him if he had appeared to need my vote).

Katrina and the aftermath -- not just the arguing over who did what when, and who didn't -- reminded me of why I'm a Dem in the first place. And I am retroactively disgusted with myself for buying into Bush's "patriotism" rhetoric and his "continual state of war" BS and his black-and-white world view. DISGUSTED with my SELF.

I. Was. A. Moron.

Forget scorned women.

Hell hath no fury like a Southern conservative Democrat redneck hornswaggled by a rich, white fratboy sissy.

Never. Again.

--ER
 

Didn't Moyers work for Lyndon Johnson and have a show on PBS? And you're using him as a source on a Repub President?
 

I'm using him as a source of bile, yes.

--ER
 

I mean, this ain't a news blog. And unlike the White House -- and the p.o.s. White House "press corps" -- I know fact from opinion and spin from Shinola.

This is spin. Mine.

--ER
 

re, "Bush has gone all the way to the top and he won’t be the last."

Yes. Bush has scaled the Mountains of Shame.

--ER
 

Conservative Christian, right-wing Republican, straight, white, American males

Gay-bashin', black-fearin', poor-fightin’, tree-killin’ regional leaders of sales.

Frat-housin’, keg-tappin’, shirt-tuckin’, back-slappin’, haters of hippies like me

Tree-huggin’, peace-lovin’, pot-smokin’, porn-watchin’, lazy-ass hippies like me.

Tree-huggin’, love-makin’, pro-choice and gay weddin’, wide-spread-diggin’ hippies like me.

Skin-color-blinded, conspiracy-minded, protestors of corporate greed,

We who have nothing and most likely will ‘til we all end up locked up in jails

By conservative Christian, right-wing republican, straight, white, American males.

Diamonds and dogs, boys and girls
Living together in two separate worlds

Following leaders up mountains of shame

Lookin’ for someone to blame

Diamonds and dogs, boys and girls
Living together in two separate worlds

Following leaders up mountains of shame

Lookin’ for someone to blame

I know who I like to blame

Conservative Christian, right-wing Republican, straight, white American males

Soul-savin’, flag-wavin’, Rush-lovin’, land-pavin’ personal friends to the Quayles

Quite diligently, working so hard to keep the free reigns of this democracy

From tree-huggin’, peace-lovin’, pot-smokin’, bare-footin’, folk-singin’ hippies like me.

Tree-huggin’, peace-lovin’, pot-smokin’, porn-watchin’ lazy-ass hippies like me.

--Todd Snider
 

You're going to blow a gasket WHEN the (R)'s beat the (D)'s in 2008
 

In our plutocracy the president is a hired hand. So Bush is no more on top than was when he was as manager of that baseball team and worked for the plutocrat that owned it.
Old Bill Moyers was a Southern Baptist True Believer when he start with LBJ. He had along trip to get to where he is now. So listen to him without rancor.
You know this Democracy was getting out of hand in the late 1790's. Why, people were democratically voting themselves out of debt and other nefarious things. So our founding fathers
went to great lengths to save their concepts of property, debt, and profit. Thus our Plutocaracy, is disguised as a Democracy encased in a Republic. Trouble with ole GW is that he don't know that, and Carl can't tell him cause he don't know it either. Now ole Lee Atwater knew all of this. Carl and GW used learned what they know from Lee, but he didn't teach them all that he knew. Now Lee is long dead, but he knew, he was at the heart of the Regan Revolution,...he knew that there was no truth out there.
Read about Lee:

http://soul-patrol.com/funk/lee_at.htm
 

Re, "You're going to blow a gasket WHEN the (R)'s beat the (D)'s in 2008."

Oh, yeah? Well, we've got spirit, yes we do, we've got spirit, how 'bout you?

Drivel for drivel.

--ER
 

Er, I can't believe you still think the impeachment of Clinton had to do with sex. He commited perjury before a grand jury! That, as you know, qualifies as one of the high crimes and musdemeanors which is all that is required to bring an article of impeachment.
Bit the amount of corruption and lies in the Clinton administration was only the tip of the iceberg that Bush couldn't hope to match.
 

This is utter fantasy:

" ... the amount of corruption and lies in the Clinton administration was only the tip of the iceberg that Bush couldn't hope to match."

And I honestly don't know what else to say about it, so I'll hush. It's like me claiming black is white and you claiming white is black.

Oh, and no, Clinton's impeachment wasn't just about sex. It was about the rabid right wing not being to accept that one of their own, Perot, handed the presidency to a Democrat. The sex and perjury were just excuses.

The lies that will ultimately undo Bush are the ones he told us eye to eye, with all our hearts ripped open, looking in the camera, reading words from a TelePrompter written by someone even more dangerous than himself: someone who DOES read news, and books, and history, and policy, and STILL chooses bad over good.

--ER
 

Durn it E.R. if you didn't get them talking again.
The impeachment of Clinton was payback for the destruction of Nixon and the Iran/Contra hearings. That's how History will eventually understand it, after it digest it, compresses it, and puts it down in a paragraph in a high school text book. The real question is what payback will the Democrats extract next time. Oh yes, they will, sooner or later they will. In formal historical terms these are called "Turnings". In Tillman County terms, it is called, "What goes around comes around."
 

Nope. No anti-Bush agenda here...
None whatsoever.

ER, because I value our friendship, I am going to take a break from reading your blog for a couple of days.

See you in a week or two.
 

Tug, I wish you wouldn't be a wuss. Hell, if I only read your blog when I agreed with it, I'd only read about 1 in 10 of your posts.

I don't know why you act surprised, either. I have made it pretty clear that as of about three weeks ago I repented of all tolerance for Bush's masquerade. ??

--ER
 

Clinton didn't lie. He said there "is" no relationship. And by the time he said that, there wasn't. It was all in the past. Everybody thought he was just being cute, but I'd take him for my lawyer any day.

The Supreme Court was at fault for letting a sex-nolies-novideotape issue involving -- CAN YOU PEOPLE NOT REMEMBER THIS????? -- Paula Jones go forward (from before his presidency) while he was a sitting president. It was the Paula Jones cabal that came up with Monica Lewinsky. The whole issue started out with that ugly Paula Jones -- WHO ADMITTED SHE DIDN'T LET HIM TOUCH HER!!!!! -- and got "discoveried" into Monica and whoever else wanted on that bandwagon, ugly fat women all.

It is NO WONDER Clinton is bitter about this. As he told somebody in a TV interview: "It was a bogus, phony deal...."
 

SCIENTISTS WARN OF CLIMATE CHANGES -- ON MARS!...

Damn that Bush !!! If only he'd have signed Kyoto.
 

SCREW Kyoto. Mager "entangling alliance" there.

--ER
 

Dedicated to ER

row, row, row your boat
right through new orleans
scarily, scarily, scarily, scarily
this hell is Bush's dream


There was a crooked man
who had a crooked smile
he headed a crooked office
that ruled with deceipt and guile
he wed a clueless women
who bore to crooked girls,
and they all lived together
in their crooked little world
 

But I guess it goes without saying that I meant:
two crooked girls.
 

:-) good one, stiil.

--ER
 

Dear mr or ms Anonymous:
For those of you who actually believe what is said by GW's administration (and those who don't) take time to read at least the summary of this Federal Government report on global warming and its impact on the arctic.

http://amap.no/workdocs/index.cfm?dirsub=%2FACIA%2Foverview

The sad truth is, the world will be what it will be, whether we belive it or not will make no difference what so ever.
 

And for those with a religious bent, you can know from reading the New Testament (Paul's writings) that nature itself labors under sin, just as humanity does. So forget thinking that nature is perfect and everything that screws it up is caused by man.
 

Yes. But forget also, then, the idea that that means we should just except the apparently inevitable.

Parts of Scripture suggest that most people will go to hell. The Great Commission remains, however: Go, and tell.

The physical world may also, as part of fallen creation, be destined to decay. The counterintuitive message from God remains: Be a steward.

--ER
 

dang it, "just except the apparently inevitable" should be "just accept the apparently inevitable"

--er