Deputy Prime Minster John Prescott has announced he is to give up his grace-and-favour home, Dorneywood although I imagine he has decided to hold on to the £133,000 a year salary.
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President George W. Bush was scheduled to visit the Episcopal Church outside Washington as part of his campaign to restore his poll standings. Bush’s campaign manager made a visit to the Bishop, and said to him “We’ve been getting a lot of bad publicity because of the president’s position on stem cell research, the Iraq war, Katrina, and the like. We’d gladly make a contribution to the church of $100,000 if during your sermon you’d say the President is a saint.” The Bishop thought it over for a few moments and finally said, “The Church is in desperate need of funds and I will agree to do it.” Bush showed up for the sermon and the Bishop began:
“I’d like to speak to you all this morning about our President. George Bush is a liar, a cheat, and a low-intelligence weasel. He took the tragedy of September 11 and used it to frighten and manipulate the American people. He lied about WMDs and invaded Iraq for oil and money, causing the deaths of tens of thousands and making the United States the most hated country on earth. He appointed cronies to positions of power and influence, leading to widespread death and destruction during Hurricane Katrina. He awarded contracts and tax cuts to his rich friends so that we now have more poverty in this country, and a greater gap between rich and poor, than we’ve had since the Depression. He instituted illegal wiretaps when getting a warrant from a secret court would have been a mere administrative detail, had his henchmen lie to Congress about it, then claimed he is above the law.”
“But compared to Dick Cheney and Karl Rove; George Bush is a saint.”
John Prescott (or should I say Two Shags), is in trouble yet again. This time for pulling a sicky and playing croquet when he should have been running the country.
Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | In a worse pickle than Alice
From Guardian Unlimited Politics | Special Reports | Blair and Bush – an extract
Bush: The decision to remove Saddam Hussein from power was controversial. We did not find the weapons of mass destruction that we all believed were there, and that’s raised questions about whether the sacrifice in Iraq has been worth it. Despite setbacks and missteps, I strongly believe we did and are doing the right thing. Saddam Hussein was a menace to his people; he was a state sponsor of terror; he invaded his neighbours. Investigations proved he was systematically gaming the oil-for-food programme in an effort to undermine sanctions, with the intent of restarting his weapons programmes once the sanctions collapsed and the world looked away.
- If by all, he means he, B-Lair and his Neo-con cronies believed it, then I suppose he is right.
- I wonder if Dubya can remember who actually put Sadam into power and sold him weapons to invade his neighbours. Here’s a clue, its an anagram of ICA.
In 1962, Marilyn Monroe sang “Happy Birthday, Mr President … “ to John F Kennedy. This year Stephen Colbert came up with something a little different for Dubya at the White House Correspondents Dinner.
I didn’t register to vote for these local elections, I’d normally vote Labour but I’m not doing that again till Blair goes! I did watch the election coverage though! So far 126 councils out of 176 have declared. Conservatives have 988 councillors which is a gain of 137, Labour are on 636 (-133) and Liberal Democrats 466 (+6). Labour seem to be doing badly but its not the complete meltdown that was predicted! Worryingly, the BNP have gained 12 councillors!
The Tories have lost a seat on the length of a pencil!
After three recounts in Wheathampstead in St Albans, the Lib Dems and the Tories both had 1132. The result was decided by whoever picked the longest pencil – and the Lib Dems picked a longer one, taking it from the Tories.
But they won Crawley won on the strength of picking an envelope.
To quote Churchill: Democracy is the worst form of Government except [for] all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. Hurrah for democracy!
