It's Make-your-Mind-up Time

"I do wonder... who I shall electionise tomorrow..."

"Maybe it's O'Cain... or should I go for McBama?"

"Or can I stay in bed and have another banana?"

Thanks George, you've fucked us all!

In November 2000 George W. Bush (better known as Dubya) was not elected President.

In December 2000 the US Supreme Court, most of whose members were appointed by Dubya's father George Herbert Walker Bush, decided with a 5:4 vote that Dubya should be President.

In January 2001 Dubya was inaugurated as President, and in his speech he said that he had to come to Washington to "demand a refund" for too much taxes he had paid apparently.

Until September 10th, 2001 Dubya was a 'lame duck' President, who could not get one single law he proposed passed in Congress.

On September 11th, 2001 he sat in a primary school in Florida, land of the 'hanging chads', to read simple sentences with real seven-year-olds. All leading members of his administration - except Dick Cheney, who sat in the bunker of the National Defense Center - were doing similar 'important' things outside Washington.
Meanwhile some nutters crashed two airliners into the World Trade Center in New York. Later that day Dubya declared that this was the work of one Osama bin Laden, whose name no-one else had ever heard before. But Dubya knew him well, as his family is doing business with the Laden family for more than 40 years. (It turned out that Osama bin Laden had been a CIA agent, organising radical Muslims in Pakistan, to fight against the Russians in Afghanistan.)

• On September 12th, 2001 Dubya declared war on 'terror'. Suddenly Congress became a flock of lame sheep, just bleating and nodding to everything Dubya wanted. And the US media became quaint as well, becoming the complacent unofficial propaganda instrument of a criminal regime.
• On October 7th, 2001 Dubya began the illegal invasion of Afghanistan, a country that had never done any harm to the USA.
• On March 20th, 2003 Dubya began the illegal invasion of Iraq, another country that had never done any harm to the USA.

Both countries are still occupied, with US and Allied forces waging a dirty war against the civilian population, under the lame excuse to "hunt down terrorists".

Both wars have cost the US taxpayers meanwhile more than $ 600 billion - and counting.

About $ 100 billion - including $ 20 billion in cash - have disappeared in Iraq without trace.

In November 2004 Dubya won the presidential election - yes, this time he actually was elected - with a majority of 50.7% (to 48.3% for John Kerry) after an odious campaign full of lies, scaremongering and religious hype.
Bush's campaign manager was the Nazi sympatiser Karl Rove, grandson of Karl Röver, one of Hitler's Gauleiters (party area governors).

In January 2005, at his second inauguration ceremony, Dubya declared that he had now gained "political credit" and that he was "going to spend it".
And spending he did, especially on his friends in Wall Street and political cronies, who pocketed billions.

During 2008 one by one the big Wall Street banks and finance houses crashed with huge debts, of a size never seen before in history. They all were bailed out - with the sole exception of Lehman Bros. - with hundreds of billions of US taxpayers' money. Their bosses walked away with a smile and large pay-offs or 'golden handshakes', between $ 15 million and $ 300 million per person.

Nevertheless the 'markets' remain in turmoil, share prices are in free-fall and the world is facing a total financial meltdown.

Today Dubya made another of his meaningless speeches. He said that "many of our citizens are worried about their savings and pensions". Oh yes, they are. But not he, of course, and none of his cronies. They have creamed off their millions and even billions already and are sitting pretty, no matter what will happen to the rest of us.

Offering no new remedies, he then said: "We are a prosperous nation with immense resources and a wide range of tools at our disposal. We are using these tools aggressively."

Indeed, aggressively is the only way America is using its 'tools' - and fools - since Dubya came to power. The people of Afghanistan and Iraq can vouch for that. More than a million civilians in Iraq are dead by now - with new killings happening every day.
In Afghanistan the number is now close to 100,000 - and counting.

But not only did Dubya attack and devastate Afghanistan and Iraq, he did the same to his own country, the world's financial system and the economies of all western countries.

In fact, the USA have declared war against the rest of the world!

And what is he offering now to get out of the crisis?
More aggressive tools.

Thank's a lot, George! You've managed to fuck us all!

In three months' time you will walk away from it all, with extra billions in your private pocket, a big smile on your face and another 'Mission accomplished' sign over your door.

Damn you, you spineless criminal! Damn you for all times!
And since you pretend to be a 'Christian', I hope you'll burn in Hell for all eternity!

America is running out of 000000000000

Today someone on the radio said that "America is running out of zeros".

Wait a minute, I thought... they still have Dubya, Cheney, "Condi" Rice, Paulson, Bernanke and McCain, not to mention at least a dozen others whose names no-one even remembers. So there are plenty of zeros... and they found Sarah Palin as well.

Looking around on the internet I think that a country so full of morons as the USA will never be short of zeros.

But after listening a bit closer I realised that the radio reporter was actually talking about real zeros, as in 0, the number without individual value.
The US government's debts have meanwhile ballooned so badly - he said - that the "National Debt Clock" in New York - yes, such a thing exists, no joke - has run out of digits to record the spiralling figure.

The digital counter marks the national debt level of the entire USA and is updated constantly and electronically through a connected computer.
But when the national debt - thanks to robber baron Bush and his gang - passed the $ 10 trillion (10,000,000,000,000) point last month, the sign could no longer display the full amount. It has simply not enough digit fields!

The board was placed on a wall at New York's famous Times Square in 1989, to highlight the then $ 2.7 trillion level of national debt under the rule of another Bush, the current incumbent's father (and former CIA director) George Herbert Walker Bush.

The clock's owners have said that they will now add two more zeros to the display, allowing it to record even a quadrillion Dollars of debt. (Should McCain be the next President, that is quite a realistic figure to expect...)

Douglas Durst, son of the late Seymour Durst who invented the clock, hopes to have a longer replacement ready early next year. For the time being, the counter's electronic Dollar sign has been replaced with the extra digit required.

Economists believe the $ 700 billion bail-out plan for ailing financial institutions will send the national debt level of the USA to $ 11 trillion soon.

Now, isn't that just the right kind of thing to remember Dubya for...?

The Bush Doctrine

Still guiding US politics after 7 1/2 years of blunder.

The new Dollar Bill

After the US Senate passed an amended version of George W. Bush's scandalous bill to acquire the toxic loans and bad debts of Wall Street's scoundrels and gamblers yesterday, the (lower) House of Representatives, which had rejected the first version of the bill, accepted it also today.

This means that now nearly $ 800 billion (substantially more than the originally proposed $ 700 billion) of US taxpayers' money is handed over to super-rich Wall Street gangsters, in exchange for their worthless 'derivatives' which caused the current world financial crisis in the first place.

Shortly after Bush signed the biggest legal theft in history into law, a new One-Dollar bill (see below) was issued by the Federal Reserve. Further new designs of the higher denominations are to follow soon.

Well done, Dubya. Now you managed to rob the ordinary American people of their last shirt, in order to hand billions over to your rich friends and backers.

The Democrats, who foolishly supported the bill, will deeply regret their stupid mistake as soon as the real consequences will become clear. Should Barack Obama win the election in November (and all signs say that he will), he will become the President of a bankrupt country, deeply in hock to the Chinese, who are lending the bail-out money.