Gee Dubya Bush (Idiot): "Is Our Children Learning?"

The answer is no and neither did Bush. Perhaps he was educated by David Paszkiewicz of New Jersey.

This New Jersey high school teacher was tape-recorded telling non-Christian students that they were going to hell. He also told them that the Big Bang and global warming are myths.

You'd think the school would either fire or discipline the teacher, wouldn't you? Well, you'd be wrong. Their solution was to protect the teacher's "privacy" by not allowing students to record his lectures.

The students can no longer produce proof that their teacher is an idiot.

Who will protect the rights of the students to get a quality education? Anyone?

Bush's "Balanced" Budget

Bush sent Congress a $2.9 trillion budget for 2008 that includes a large increase in defense spending and cuts in domestic programs.The goal, according to the White House, is to balance the federal budget by 2012 without raising taxes.

From an editorial in the Washington Post, "Bush's balance is more illusory than real," based on assumptions about future revenues that nonpartisan analysts consider laughable. Worse, Bush grasps for this balance by targeting the poor and elderly "while extending tax cuts for the millionaires."

He plans cuts to Medicare and Medicaid.

I don't think the Democratic controlled Congress will play along like the GOP sheep did in the past.

Gimme That Old Time Religion

Last month, Neo-pagans held a ceremony in honor of Zeus at an ancient temple in Athens. It was probably the first openly pagan ceremony there since the 4th century when the Romans banned the worship of Greek gods and goddesses.

A group called Ellinais won a lawsuit last year forcing the state to recognize ancient religions.

Dressed in ancient costumes, worshippers standing near the temple's imposing Corinthian columns recited hymns calling on the Olympian Zeus, "King of the gods and the mover of things," to bring peace to the world.

"Our message is world peace and an ecological way of life in which everyone has the right to education," said Kostas Stathopoulos, one of three "high priests" overseeing the event, which celebrated the nuptials of Zeus and Hera, the goddess of love and marriage.

To the Greeks, ecological awareness was fundamental, Stathopoulos
said after a priestess, with arms raised to the sky, called on Zeus "to bring rain to the planet."

A herald holding a metal staff topped with two snake heads proclaimed the beginning of the ceremony before priests in blue and red robes released two white doves as symbols of peace. A priest poured libations of wine and incense burned on a tiny copper tripod while a choir of men and women chanted hymns.

"Our hymns stress the brotherhood of man and do not single out
nations," said priest Giorgos Alexelis.

More here.

The Bully-in-Chief

The retarded cowboy who currently resides in the White House, manages to have a little fun at the expense of others (as usual):

Touring a Caterpillar factory in Peoria, Ill., the Commander in Chief got behind the wheel of a giant tractor and played chicken with a few wayward reporters...

"I would suggest moving back," Bush said as he climbed into the cab of a massive D-10 tractor. "I'm about to crank this sucker up."

As the engine roared to life, White House staffers tried to steer the press corps to safety, but when the tractor lurched forward, they too were forced to scramble for safety.

"Get out of the way!" a news photographer yelled.

"I think he might run us over!" said another.

White House aides tried to herd the reporters the right way without getting run over themselves. Even the Secret Service got involved, as one agent began yelling at reporters to get clear of the tractor.

Watching the chaos below, Bush looked out the tractor's window and laughed, steering the massive machine into the spot where most of the press corps had been positioned.

The episode lasted about a minute, and Bush was still laughing when he pulled to a stop. -Newsweek