Maybe We Deserve to Be Ripped Off By Bush's Billionaires

Maybe We Deserve to Be Ripped Off By Bush's Billionaires

By Matt Taibbi, RollingStone.com
Posted on February 20, 2007
http://www.alternet.org/story/48278/

"Now, after she shaved her head in a bizarre episode that culminates a months-long saga of controversial behavior, it's the question being asked by her fans, her foes and the general public: What was she thinking?"-- Bald and Broken: Inside Britney's Shaved Head, Sheila Marikar, ABC.com, Feb. 19

What was she thinking? How about nothing? How about who gives a shit? How's that for an answer, Sheila Marikar of ABC news, you pinhead?( read more behind the cut )

On the same day that Britney was shaving her head, a guy I know who works in the office of Senator Bernie Sanders sent me an email. He was trying very hard to get news organizations interested in some research his office had done about George Bush's proposed 2008 budget, which was unveiled two weeks ago and received relatively little press, mainly because of the controversy over the Iraq war resolution. All the same, the Bush budget is an amazing document. It would be hard to imagine a document that more clearly articulates the priorities of our current political elite.

( the rest of the story )

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And you thought the Neocons and the media weren't looking out for our best interests! Turns out they are... as long as you're a star-whore or billionaire.

I wanna be a billionaire.

Chris

Maybe We Deserve to Be Ripped Off By Bush's Billionaires

Maybe We Deserve to Be Ripped Off By Bush's Billionaires

By Matt Taibbi, RollingStone.com
Posted on February 20, 2007
http://www.alternet.org/story/48278/

"Now, after she shaved her head in a bizarre episode that culminates a months-long saga of controversial behavior, it's the question being asked by her fans, her foes and the general public: What was she thinking?"-- Bald and Broken: Inside Britney's Shaved Head, Sheila Marikar, ABC.com, Feb. 19

What was she thinking? How about nothing? How about who gives a shit? How's that for an answer, Sheila Marikar of ABC news, you pinhead?( read more behind the cut )

On the same day that Britney was shaving her head, a guy I know who works in the office of Senator Bernie Sanders sent me an email. He was trying very hard to get news organizations interested in some research his office had done about George Bush's proposed 2008 budget, which was unveiled two weeks ago and received relatively little press, mainly because of the controversy over the Iraq war resolution. All the same, the Bush budget is an amazing document. It would be hard to imagine a document that more clearly articulates the priorities of our current political elite.

( the rest of the story )

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And you thought the Neocons and the media weren't looking out for our best interests! Turns out they are... as long as you're a star-whore or billionaire.

I wanna be a billionaire.

Chris

NASA goes deep

This is a great article. Yes, it begins tragically with the idiotic death of the Saturn V program, but it ends hopefully with the rise of the new Ares program.

Hope! Alas, hope for the future of deep-space exploration.

NASA goes deep

This is a great article. Yes, it begins tragically with the idiotic death of the Saturn V program, but it ends hopefully with the rise of the new Ares program.

Hope! Alas, hope for the future of deep-space exploration.