OiL Prices too! : 2007 update

Quick I told you so!


Look HERE

I Said (4/17/06) OIL would be $89-$95 per barrel by December 31st 2006.

So I was off by a year....

Hmmm...

Look at the rest of the top 10 predictions:

1 True
2 True
3 True
4 true
5 True
6 True
7 False (so far)
8 True
9 False (vista did go out, much to our frustration!)
10 False
11 (bonus) Half true. He did the Surge thing and brought 10% of 500,000 troops in!


Wow. I scare myself sometimes, now included

Haiku -- For Democracy & NANCY & Alberto

Alberto's Gone!

Impeach Cheney

Pelosi Pardons

DEMOCRACY RESUMES

BusH: The Liar in CHIEF: does it again!

OKAY.

Today on NPR/All things considered:

The Bush Administration war Tzar (Lt. General Douglas Lute) in an interview with NPR
said,

A Draft has always been an option

Sounds (to me) like they are STARTING to float the (Mandatory) DRAFT trial balloon

That means it will become an ISSUE in the 2008 Presidential CAMPAIGN.

DiRty DoGs!

TecH: RFID Passports HACKED again! (2nd yr in row)

I've really gotta hand it to this overweight, German hacker (eats too much western junk food too!)

Lukas Grunwald, an RFID expert who has served as an e-passport consultant to the German parliament, says a security flaw with his German RFID enabled passport can allow him to CRASH the passport reader.

In "Geekspeak",

The security flaws allow someone to seize and clone the fingerprint image stored on the biometric e-passport, and to create a specially coded chip that attacks e-passport readers that attempt to scan it.

Grunwald says he's succeeded in sabotaging two passport readers made by different vendors by cloning a passport chip, then modifying the JPEG2000 image file containing the passport photo. Reading the modified image crashed the readers, which suggests they could be vulnerable to a code-injection exploit that might, for example, reprogram a reader to approve expired or forged passports.

"If you're able to crash something you are most likely able to exploit it," says Grunwald, who's scheduled to discuss the vulnerabilities this weekend at the annual DefCon hacker conference in Las Vegas.

Last year at the BlackHat security conference he showed how he could extract the data on a read-only passport chip and clone it to a read-write chip that appears the same to an e-passport reader. Now Grunwald says he was able to add data to the cloned chip that would allow someone to attack the passport reader.

Buffer-overrun vulnerabilities occur when coding errors in software allow an attacker to overflow a section of memory dedicated to storing a fixed amount of data. Carefully exploited, they often permit the hacker to execute his own instructions on the vulnerable computer, essentially taking over the device.

Now HERE's the scary part!
If a (rfid-passport) reader could be compromised using Grunwald's technique, it might be reprogrammed to misreport an expired passport as a valid one, or even -- theoretically -- to attempt a compromise of the Windows-based border-screening computer to which it is connected.


Or even worse, take over the computer, infect a brand new unknown virus into the network
AND SHUT DOWN THE ENTIRE AIRPORT
*** WHICH FOR STUPID COMPETITIVE REASONS all RUNS Microsoft WINDOZE!
Now it's time to be AFRAID.
Be REALLY afraid

Scenario one:
Al Queida:
Terrorist network hacker develops new virus/worm (see the Morris worm Here)
which will use the RFID reader to insert code allowing the terrorists into the country, and (say) 1/2 hour later take down the entire AIRPORT, then take down the
internet (the MICROSQUISH internet that is...) a section at a time

Remember " we presume that the terrorists have written a brand new, never before seen virus, that has NEVER been seen, so that ALL virus programs DONT recognize it to stop it!"
SO EVERY single darn WINDOWS box in the WORLD gets infected, and taken down...

(oh and the terrorists are NOW in the country, but their information was also erased from the network before it was blown away (erased).


AUGH... I can't even continue to a use attacking the food supply...

BTW, I AM available for hire... for the right price!!!

PolicS: it's CHENEY again folks (update 7-2-07)

Cheney Claims that as Vice President and PRESIDENT of the Senate he is NO longer in the EXECUTIVE BRANCH

(update: link to the COMIX: Thanks to Darrin Bell/Gary Trudeau )

I don't make this up folks.

Our great dictator and Puppet Master in Washington has NOW said he will NOT submit the REQUIRED Documents that are requested of ALL people in the WHITE House discussing CLASSIFIED TOP Secret documents that they are withholding.

Now that is a sentence in itself, BUT Essentially our Dictator in Chief has said that he doesnt believe in publicizing things, he likes secrecy, and he will NOT submit ONE more document to the VERY office he is attempting to SHUT DOWN.

Last time I checked, NSPD51 (NSPD-51) has NOT been declared effective yet, so WE STiLL have a valid constitution, and can thus say this.

I really DONT think it (our freedom) has ANYTHING to do with Dick Cheney.



Cheers

The dissident MarkB in NJ

MidEasT: Sick to my stomach

Congratulation to the HAMAS victors!

You beat the PLO in Gaza. Now what?

I've attached a video that is ALMOST sickening.

The voice over is by the KIDNAPPED BBC reporter Alan Johnston. He was kidnapped, by ARAB gunmen, and has been missing for almost three months


This was put on you-tube on may 23rd.

What's especially interesting, is at 2:53 seconds in the video when one of the {arab} victims (bystanders) says,
Oh, I wish we could have the Israelis again.

And below this I am including the comments on the video, including the discussion from the
Hey. I am not modifying this one iota. This is the verbatim comments from this video.

To summarize: a Palestinian who "went abroad" for his education,(aka "bailing out of the sinking ship of GAZA and the REFUGEE camps")
Says (from 5,000 miles away)

and I quote (and reformat the paragraph, but dont change a word!!):

As a Palestinian Muslim :
one must fight for all of Palestine ---
from the river Jordan to the Medditarean sea, (he should learn to spell (heh heh)
Israel can not have a grain of our soil!!
And Hamas recognises this well --
that is why they recieve so much support of the Palestinian people.

Long Live HAMAS!! Long Live Palestine!! Death to Israel!!

And he continues...

Excuse me. Mark here again. The United Nations (the VERY same people who run YOUR refugee camps inside of Gaza) declared that ISRAEL has a right to be a state in 1948!
(see my original post here...)

...Continues here...

Israel does not exist.
{oh right...}
You will not get a grain of our soil.
{see above- where the UN declared a TWO state solution to this STUPID mess THAT YOU and YOUR brothers caused to US almost 70 years ago}

Our leaders are ordinary Palestinian people,
who's kids attend the same Hamas funded schools i attended.

{Yeah, that's the party line, they provide food, education, and brainwashing. Did any of your schoolbooks ever have a space for Israel in them? I doubt it. Israeli's DO show the ARAB countries in THEIR textbooks though!}

They drive ordinary cars like us,
{Yeah, like the Mercedes convertibles I saw on the news as you destroyed the PLO palaces...}
we love and honour and are loyal to such our beautiful leaders.


{Yeah, well ISRAEL made two HUGE mistakes. One, they did NOT expel EVERY single arab who lived in the west bank in 1967, and two; they stupidly thought that by INTEGRATING the ARABs in the west bank/Gaza into Israel's economy that the ARABS would ENJOY a better lifestyle, and have $$$$ money, and thus support ISRAEL.}
{YOU are right. WE were the stupid ones.

• We did NOT massacre you like YOUR leaders claimed they would do to US in 1948.
• We Did NOT isolate you and put BORDERS up UNTIL the last few years after the SECOND infatah.
• We SHOULD have put barbed wire up the DAY we took over Jerusalem and the west bank and Gaza, and THROWN your stupid bodies up in LEBANON and the Jordanian REFUGEE camps.
• We should NEVER have allowed YOU (actually your PARENTS) to work in Israel and make a decent wage.
• We gave you Power, Light, TV, clean water and sewers, and EVEN internet. WHAT a mistake. We should have just bombed you into the TOTAL dark ages like you are trying to do to US.
• We are your brothers. We didn't DESTROY YOUR cemetaries, and build HOTELS and roads through OUR cemetaries.
• We SHOULD have blown up the dome of the Rock MOSQUE the SECOND we controlled the old city of Jerusalem. It would have NEVER ever been rebuilt.
• And what a shame that in the FIRST Gulf war, Saadam's Missles MISSED the dome of the rock. What a funny thing that would have been... Watching Saadam destroy the third holiest site in Islam... Heh Heh
  
• 
  

It is you people that steal millions of dollars from us.

• Right. Why would you want your SWORN enemy to GIVE you even ONE kopek, to keep you alive?
• The money is in SAFEKEEPING, and when a GOVERNMENT that is NOT sworn to the TOTAL destruction of the state of ISRAEL comes back, you'll get it.
• It REALLY wasn't THAT hard to say... OK, Israel has a RIGHT to exist, was it??? WHEN YOU say that, we will NOT BELIEVE it, based on your CURRENT and past performances. BUT we will WAIT until you FINALLY say it before you get ONE darn ruble from US, the US of A, or ANY other country... YOU BROUGHT this on yourself!
  

Your people have crippled our economy, and continue to steal.

• As I said above. YOU crippled your OWN economy. I guess your dad DOESNT miss his old job in "OPRESSOR Israel?" tough shit. Eat dirt now. YOU MADE your BED, now you can lie in it.

Wallahi we will expel you thieves from our Glorious Nation of Palestine.

• Yeah right. As soon as IRAN gets their NUKES, and gives it to HIZBOLLAH, or to YOU, and you try and nuke us, WE will retaliate and wipe out EVERY single FRIGGING ARAB country, as well as EVERY SINGLE nation on earth. It won't matter if you've already wiped us out. We have our ways, and we will SCORCH THE ENTIRE EARTH (remember GOG vs. MaGOG?) and WE will win, since EVERYONE and EVERYTHING at that point will be dead. ESPECIALLY YOU you jerk!
  
• YOU want Scorched earth, NO PROBLEM, the 780MILLION muslims on the earth will ALL say "WHAT THE F#$^&K did you go and blow up our brothers for----
• AND you and your STUPID assed HAMAS brothers will ROAST in the ISLAMIC equivalent of HELL.
• NO 99 virgins, NO praise, NO death money for your poor parents.
• YOU will have SCORCHED earth. NOT a one damned arab, or HUMAN will survive.
  

We love and honour and are loyal to such our beautiful leaders.
{Yeah, the ones that have millions of dollars in THEIR Swiss numbered bank accounts.}

And the fun continues:

Every thing that Palestinian soldier said is truth and every Palestinian Muslim must embrace that Fatah is co-operating with our enemies-------> Israel and America. As a Palestinian Muslim one must fight for all of Palestine from the river Jordan to the Medditarean sea, Israel can not have a grain of our soil!! And Hamas recognises this well, that is why they recieve so much support of the Palestinian people. Long Live HAMAS!! Long Live Palestine!! Death to Israel!!

and someone else who catches the irony says:
Says the guy who's living it up in Australia while his "people" are suffering.

I move to Australia a year ago for further education,
{Yeah, learn proper english too!-- I MOVED to Australia...}
and here for three more years, like many Palestinians,
{bullshit---I know There are more so called Palestinians OUTSIDE of ISRAEL, then INSIDE the camps!!!}
I go back to Palestine and fight for my beautiful people and extract the jewish thiefs from our homes.
{See my comments above about "you and what army?"}
You tried to EXTERMINATE us in 1919, 1929, 1937, (before we had the state), and then again in 1948, 1956, 1967, 1973, and 1980

When oh When dear brother Ishamel, will you learn that we ARE brothers, and WE CAN live in peace. }

My people have suffered enough and Hamas will liberate kullu Falistiin, Inshallah.
Yeah, but HAMAS will destroy the entire land... Look at your brothers being killed in LEBANON with Hizbollah... HEh heh. make me laugh again..

Long Live Hamas!! Long Live Palestine!! Death to Israel!!

AND I leave you with a question...

Why is it EVEN when the ARABS (palestinians) are KILLING fellow ARABS (palestinians)
THEY STILL BLAME the jews, EVEN though it is a palestinian KILLING them??

Answer: because they haven't yet realized that in 1948 there was a declaration that there were to be TWO states in the BRITISH mandate of Palestine, NOT ONE.

WHEN HAMAS, the PLO and EVERY SINGLE arab state accepts the 1948 UN two state solution, then THERE WILL BE ETERNAL peace between ISRAEL, and her brother ARABS.

SHALOM/Saalam

TecH: Porn Kings vs. Newspapers

Heh Heh. I like this. InfoWorld discusses an article in the NY-Times comparing "Traditional" XXX DVD movie producers and how they are being hurt by the internet, just like Newspapers.

Alexander Wolfe in infoweek says:

What do purveyors of dirty pictures have in common with journalists? Answer: They're both getting screwed by the Internet.

In a nutshell, he says

At fault is the same effect the Times cites as operative in the porn industry: The abundant availability of free content online.

Kudos to Darrin BELL!(Candor) NSPD-51

HEY someone else is paying attention TOO!

AND they see EXACTLY what WE see too!!!!

Kudos, and acknowledgements to Mr. Bell for being one of the FIRST mainstream cartoonists
(besides Doonsbury- Gary Trudeau) to say we are being HEISTED.

DICTATOR BUSH: lookie at latest BULLTURDS-update

Thanks to SKIPPY for catching this BULLSHIT from our PRESIDENT.

Thanks to Darrin Bell (cartoonist of CANDORVILLE) for this cartoon!



What SKIPPY CAUGHT!
The original is apparently HERE

The ORIGINAL Press release from WHITE HOUSE

WHAT it MEANS

Billy Joel said:
Say GoodBye to HollyWOOD Say goodbye my baby.

I say
Say goodbye to Democracy Say Hello Dictator BUSH

OK. As USUAL a paragraph by paragraph analysis:
Captioning for the brain impaired!

President Bush, without so much as issuing a press statement,on May 9 signed a directive that granted near dictatorial powers to the office of the president in the event of a national emergency declared by the president.

President Bush, without so much as issuing a press statement,
BUSH TRIED to slip this one past by WITHOUT COMMENT

>>>on May 9
15 Days ago!

>>>signed a directive
A LAW that was NOT voted or even LOOKED at by CONGRESS

>>>that granted near dictatorial powers

dic·ta·tor:
a person exercising absolute power, esp. a ruler who has absolute, unrestricted control in a government without hereditary succession.
SO our PRESIDENT can now create a DICTATOR

>>>to the office of the president
THAT is TO HIMSELF (and his OFFICE)

>>>in the event of a national emergency

Hmmm,THE press release says:
...snip...national emergency..
..snip..."Catastrophic Emergency" means any incident, regardless of location, that results in extraordinary levels of mass casualties, damage, or disruption severely affecting the U.S. population, infrastructure, environment, economy, or government functions;
...So, if we have EXTRAordinary disruption...

>>>declared by the president.

so HE can declare himself, the OFFICE of the DICTATOR!

Hey we finished a paragraph!!

The "National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive," with the dual designation of NSPD-51, as a National Security Presidential Directive, and HSPD-20, as a Homeland Security Presidential Directive, establishes under the office of president a new National Continuity Coordinator.

>>>The "National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive
Fancy talk for LAW implemented by HIMSELF, rather then by CONGRESS

>>>with the dual designation of NSPD-51, as a National Security Presidential Directive, and HSPD-20, as a Homeland Security Presidential Directive
So important, he issues the same thing TWICE!

>>>establishes under the office of president a new National Continuity Coordinator
Ah, A new bureaucratic title,the NCC.

That job, as the document describes, is to make plans for "National Essential Functions" of all federal, state, local, territorial, and tribal governments, as well as private sector organizations to continue functioning under the president's directives in the event of a national emergency.

>>>to make plans for "National Essential Functions"

The Job ...snip...makes Plans (MS-PROJECT!) for National Essential Functions"

>>> of all federal, state, local, territorial, and tribal governments,
...{review: Makes plans for} all {federal, state, local, territorial, and tribal} governments

>>> as well as private sector organizations
...and... {also plans for}private sector organizations.

>>>to continue functioning
{review: PLANS for take overs of ALL government AND private groups} so they continue to work

>>>under the president's directives
under the president's ORDERS!!!!

>>>in the event of a national emergency.
{or in case he declares an EMERGENCY!}

The executive order loosely defines "catastrophic emergency" as "any incident, regardless of location, that results in extraordinary levels of mass casualties, damage, or disruption severely affecting the U.S. population, infrastructure, environment, economy, or government functions."

>>> doy, already covered this above..
See ABOVE, where it says "The press release"

When the president determines a catastrophic emergency has occurred, the president can take over all government functions and direct all private sector activities to ensure we will emerge from the emergency with an "enduring constitutional government."

>>>When the president determines a catastrophic emergency has occurred,
or, when he decides he wants to stay in power... after 2008 (because giving in to democrats would be giving in to TERRORISTS...

>>>the president can take over all government functions
Yeah, we get it...Like a...hmmm D*I*C*T*A*T*O*R

>>> and direct all private sector activities
Yeah, LIKE A DICTATOR...

>>>to ensure we will emerge from the emergency with an "enduring constitutional government.
Yeah RIGHT! IF the emergency EVER ends. EGYPT has been under emergency for over 27 years

And in the IRONY is Still here category

Ironically, the executive order sees no contradiction in the assumption of dictatorial powers by the president with the goal of maintaining constitutional continuity through an emergency.

>>>
No comment needed.

The directive specifies that the assistant to the president for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism will be designated as the National Continuity Coordinator.

...snip...specifies that ...snip...the assistant to the president for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism will be designated THE NEW DICTATOR of the UNITED states!
{under the instructions of the first dictator (bush the first)}

>>> Currently, the Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism is Frances Fragos Townsend.

Townsend spent 13 years at the Justice Department before moving to the U.S. Coast Guard where she served as Assistant Commandant for Intelligence.
So we can technically say, MADAME dictator!

SORRY I can't finish this, I am too sick

Please forward this post to your local news agency and ask why they aren't covering this??

This has been NEWS for the short attention span!

NewS: A stalker! I have a Stalker..

Geee. Now I know I have a life. After readership in the low tens, I always figured that I write this blog Just for myself

But I've just discovered I've been diss'ed as a jerk on someone else's blog by someone who said they;ve seen and dismissed my blog.

That's nice.

But... If you happen to be reading this I have THREE different BLOGS.

1. This original one (An Eclectic's view of life)
2. My main poetry blog where I've committed to writing a poem a day for at least a year.
3. The Automated Poetry Machine where I invite people to help me write a poem, by supplying a name, a topic, and a feeling and I will write a poem for them.

So, gee I have a stalker... Be still my heart...
just kidding.

If I ever thought I wrote a word in these blogs for anyone else, I'd need to have my head examined.
But I don't mind sharing with others.

PoliticS: WolfoWITZ is GONE!!!!

OK.. lets see:

RUMsfeld: GONE
WOLFOWITZ : GOING G*O*N*E* !!!


BUSH: Still STUBBORN and HERE
Dick Cheney: Still STUBBORN and HERE
Alberto: NEXT victim... NO CONFIDENCE vote in Senate NEXT WEEK!


IMPEACH the rest!

Ohh... Wait....
This doesn't work... They aren't *D*E*A*D* YET!
(or would the words "hint, hint Cheney first!" be totally inappropriate?)

Tech/Food : Now I KNOW I'm crazy.

OH. or Oy...

I dont know whether to laugh or cry.

I was updating my del.icio.us bookmarks when I came across this.

You may have heard of CAD (computer Aided Design) used by architects.
This link tells us of a CAM project (takes a CAD design and actually MANUFACTURES it in 3-D

However, THIS project is a homemade CAM machine which creates it's models in SUGAR!

That's right! the screw is made of SUGAR...


This is a picture of the SCREW being taken out of the bed of sugar, before it is dug out of the sugar!

Visible on the bottom right, is the "print head", or a heat gun!

In this project, the heat "melts" a 2-Dimensional picture (just like a printer) onto the layer of sugar.

In this specific case, instead of dots, being laid down on the paper, the layer of sugar (in certain spots) is FUSED to the previous layer of sugar, , or the first layer.


this is what the sugar looks like when first melted! Note again you can see the "print head" or heater element here, as it is heating the sugar.

Notice the shallow lines?? the Author says, "Because the hot air gun blows air continuously, it leaves a shallow trail wherever it goes, indicating the toolpath of the heater over the sugar surface."


Here is the finished version of the coil pictured in the above two pictures:

And here is the screw in partial fabrication..

Now I need to make a donut run!

IRAQ: Gen Anthony Zinny (Ret). My hero

Got an HOUR? Listen to the LATEST US general to TRASH the current administration

Damning without ANY praise...

Listen here: Sorry, it's in "REAL Audio" (Yecch!)

Don Imus-- my 2 cents

OK. I am a native (and now old/ex) New Yourker (yes, that is the correct spelling for the accent)

As such, I was lucky enough to listen to DON Imus 40+ years ago, when he first came on the air
.

He was on WNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNBBBBBBBBBCCC -Am (now WFAN)
(as imortalized in the Howard Stern, "private parts" movie....

Don Imus became old history when Howard Stern Hit the PM airwaves (yes, after the Soupy Sales Show) 27 years ago.

He was history. He was damaged goods, He was no longer state of the art.

Just like Howard Stern became old history when O&A (Opie and Anthony) came into NY, about 10 years ago.

I said then (try googling it on slashdot... id was very interesting... melksuckz)
Howard SHOULD have RETIRED the DAY they came into NYC..

'Nuff said. except that I've been there. I was listening the day that Howard was fired from WNBC, and the day that O&A got canned from WNEW for being "insensitive" to the feelings of Catholics when they ran a listener contest titled, "Sex for Sam" which encouraged listeners to
go to St. Patricks Cathederal.


IT was a STUNT. GET over it.

DONT like it? DONT listen

WHAT about when JESSIE Jackson called ALL of NY City "HYMIE TOWN"????

I could give 30-40 examples.

It is ALL blown out of proportion...


And by the way.
IMUS (or Howard either) DOESNT need the money.

So Imus will go back west to his ranch, and continue to raise money for CHARITY.


WE (as listeners) all lose because of CENSORSHIP and inappropriate condemnation.

After all The REV. AL SHARPTON DID support the original HYPOCRISY of
his SUPPORT for TAWANA Brawley....


So... We get closer to BIG BROTHER seizing the microphone....
OY vey!!!

Censorship: Death of A President (A mock documentary)

I am flabergasted. I feel so "DIRTY"

Thank you mainstream media for TOTALLY ignoring this, and PROTECTING me (not) from
a fantasy dream come true...

From an article that ran last fall when it was released LAST YEAR!!

Held up by a secret service bodyguard in his dying moments after being shot in the stomach, this is President Bush being assassinated.

Surrounded by a crowd of panicking onlookers, the American leader is pictured just seconds after being gunned down by a sniper following an anti-war demonstration.

Death Of A President, which at the Toronto Film Festival in AUGUST month, and was then shown on Channel 4's satellite channel More4 in October, the assassination is a starting point for a retrospective fictional documentary about what happened next. (modified article to correct the date--mb)

This scene, which was created by putting the President's face onto an actor with digital wizardry, shows him being gunned down just hours after driving past an anti-war demonstration while doing a talk in Chicago.

The two hour drama, in which events are 're-created' by the use of footage and interviews, shows the media storm around the War on Terror as Muslims are fingered as the culprits before there is any evidence.

In the wake of the assassination, authorities focus on a Syrian-born man in the search for the culprit.

'In the hunt for the killer, this will show how America has been affected by the War on Terror,' said a spokesman. 'It is about the polarisation of America in all the events post 9/11.'

IN OTHER WORDS, essentially a great deal of the damage that's been dealt to our country, and how the USA Patriot act has affected our freedom, is told in this
MOCK-u-mentary about our freedom


I am ASTOUNDED by the fact that this MOVIE was TOTALLY surpressed in this country!

AMAZING!!!

Markbnj

Tech: Google-owns the world (Revised) a year later

So tell me, why is my favorite (all time) technology prognosticator STILL saying that Google is getting ready to OWN the world again?

In an article a few weeks ago, bob discusses the VOLUME of fiber that Google now controls essentially means they win the fight before its started!

Remember my distillation of Bob's columns last year:

• Google's Data center in a tractor trailer (now avail commercially from Sun)
• Google's Dark FIBER
  
• Google's Video ads

Or in other words,

1. A Way to transmit the data (dark fiber)
   
2. Someplace locally to transmit the data to (your local C.O.)
   
3. Buy in from YOU (The google PC) giving them permission to customize your commercials
4. An application: serving PERSONALIZED tv commercials for your cable company.
   

OR Just look HERE, at a Post I wrote almost ONE year ago about GOOGLE-WORLD.

DemocracY: Resume for Mid Term Elections.

Just got this in. Source Unknown, but true

Resume of George W. Bush

BY: GEORGE W. BUSH

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Washington , DC 20520

EDUCATION:
I graduated from Yale University with a low C average.

I was a cheerleader.

LAW ENFORCEMENT:
I was arrested in Kennebunkport , Maine , in 1976 for driving under the influence of alcohol. I pled guilty, paid a fine, and had my driver's license suspended for 30 days. My Texas driving record has been "lost" and is not available.

MILITARY:
I joined the Texas Air National Guard and went AWOL. I refused to take a drug test or answer any questions about my drug use.

By joining the Texas Air National Guard, I was able to avoid combat duty in Vietnam

PAST WORK EXPERIENCE:
I ran for U.S. Congress and lost. I began my career in the oil business in Midland , Texas , in 1975. I bought an oil company, but couldn't find any oil in Texas . The company went bankrupt shortly after I sold all my stock.

I bought the Texas Rangers baseball team in a sweetheart deal that took land using taxpayer money.

With the help of my father and our friends in the oil industry, including Enron CEO Ken Lay, I was elected governor of Texas

ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS GOVERNOR OF TEXAS :
I changed Texas pollution laws to favor power and oil companies,
making Texas the most polluted state in the Union. Houston replaced Los Angeles as the most smog-ridden city in America

I cut taxes and bankrupted the Texas treasury to the tune of billions in borrowed money.

I set the record for the most executions by any governor in American history.

With the help of my brother, the governor of Florida , and my father's appointments to the Supreme Court, I became President after losing by over 500,000 votes.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS PRESIDENT :
I am the first President in U.S. history to enter office

with a criminal record.

I invaded and occupied two countries at a continuing cost of over one billion dollars per week.

I spent the U.S. surplus and effectively bankrupted

the U.S . Treasury.

I shattered the record for the largest annual deficit in U.S. history.

I set an economic record for most private bankruptcies

filed in any 12-month period.

I set the all-time record for most foreclosures

in a 12-month period.

I set the all-time record for the biggest drop in the history

of the U.S. stock market.

In my first year in office, over 2 million Americans lost their jobs
and that trend continues every month.

I'm proud that the members of my cabinet are the richest of any
administration in U.S. history. My "poorest millionaire," Condoleeza Rice, had a Chevron oil tanker named after her.

I set the record for most campaign fund-raising trips by a U.S.
President. I am the all-time U.S. and world record-holder for receiving the most corporate campaign donations.

My largest lifetime campaign contributor, and one of my best friends, Kenneth Lay, presided over the largest corporate bankruptcy fraud in U.S. History, Enron.

My political party used Enron private jets and corporate attorneys to assure my success with theU.S. Supreme Court

during my election decision.

I have protected my friends at Enron and Halliburton against
investigation or prosecution.

More time and money was spent investigating the Monica Lewinsky affair than has been spent investigating one of the biggest corporate rip-offs in history.

I presided over the biggest energy crisis in U.S. history and refused to intervene when corruption involving the oil industry was revealed.

I presided over the highest gasoline prices in U.S. history.

I changed the U.S. policy to allow convicted criminals to be awarded government contracts.

I appointed more convicted criminals to my administration

than any President in U.S. history.

I created the Ministry of Homeland Security, the largest bureaucracy in the history of the United States government.

I've broken more international treaties

than any President in U.S. history.

I am the first President in U.S. history to have the United Nations
remove the U.S. from the Human Rights Commission.

I withdrew the U.S. from the World Court of Law. I refused to allow inspectors access to U.S . "prisoners of war" detainees and thereby have refused to abide by the Geneva Convention.

I am the first President in history to refuse United Nations

election inspectors (during the 2002 U.S. election).

I set the record for fewest numbers of press conferences

of any President since the advent of television.

I set the all-time record for most days on vacation in any

one-year period. After taking off the entire month of August,

I presided over the worst security failure in U.S. history.

I garnered the most sympathy for the U.S. after the World Trade Center attacks and less than a year later made the U.S. the most hated country in the world, the largest failure of diplomacy in world history.

I have set the all-time record for most people worldwide to
simultaneously protest me in public venues (15 million people),
shattering the record for protests against any person

in the history of mankind.

I am the first President in U.S. history to order an unprovoked,
pre-emptive attack and the military occupation

of a sovereign nation.

I did so against the will of the United Nations, the majority of U.S. citizens, and the world community.

I have cut health care benefits for war veterans

and support a cut in duty benefits for active duty troops

and their families-in-wartime.

In my State of the Union Address, I lied about our reasons for
attacking Iraq and then blamed the lies on our British friends.

I am the first President in history to have a majority of Europeans
(71%) view my presidency as the biggest threat

to world peace and security.

I am supporting development of a nuclear "Tactical Bunker Buster," a WMD. I have so far failed to fulfill my pledge

to bring Osama Bin Laden [sic] to justice.

RECORDS AND REFERENCES:
All records of my tenure as governor of Texas are now in my father's library, sealed and unavailable for public view.

All records of SEC investigations into my insider trading

and my bankrupt companies are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view.

All records or minutes from meetings that I,

or my Vice-President, attended regarding public

energy policy are sealed in secrecy and
unavailable for public review.

I am a member of the Republican Party.

PLEASE CONSIDER MY EXPERIENCE WHEN VOTING IN THE 2006 MIDTERM ELECTIONS. PLEASE SEND THIS TO EVERY VOTER YOU KNOW.