Oh, The Humanity!

Wait, that was an actual building? In front of a Federal Department?
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How did I never hear of this?
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And you’re right, it shouldn’t have been torn down, it should have been kept as a neatly encapsulated symbol of the Bush philosophy of government.

They should take a bunch of hundred dollar bills to it, duct tape some real American like Lindsey Graham (who lied to the Supreme Court) to it, and set in the middle of the National Mall and let us all smash it with sledgehammers.

I was with you until the hamhanded attempt at snark at the end. I don’t know if removing the shed is anything more than a symbolic move but I do know it was phucking idiotic that the Bush administration thought it was some kind of a bold statement.

I’m with Cliff, that was an actual structure in front of a Federal Dept? WTF!?
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As disappointed as I am with Obama’s domestic policies, at least they are mostly acting like grown ups.
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They should ship it to the Bush Library. It symbolizes modern Republicanism, which is defined as the worship of a simulacrum of US history. For a bunch of people who claim to hate the French, their ability to disconnect commonly understood words and phrases from their most commonly understood meanings is a triumph of deconstructionism.
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Even in this example they are taking the symbol of the one-room school house, the symbol of how America in the 1800 educated its children, and using it to sell Americans in the year 2000 a bill of goods.

No Symbols Left Behind, sure – but as with present-day religion, the symbol has little if anything to do with the substance. Try reporting the latter for a change.

Btw, right now would not seem to be the best time in DC for this use of that particular headline. Just sayin’.

As pre-fabbed garages go, it looks pretty nice. Perhaps it could repurposed as a prop in a production of the Wizard of Oz. Call casting. We need a flying house!

Get over this story and your inherent anti-Obama bias!

http://www.political-buzz.com/

Amy, never say hoe-down and mention the White House in the same sentence. It makes us all think of Monica Lewinsky on her knees in the Oval Office.

It just occurred to me that I havn’t seen a Amy posting lately, and this posting is proof positive that I was better off as a result.

Maybe Obama is just going along with the Republicans in a continuing spate of bipartisanship.
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By removing all traces of the former regime, he is reinforcing their idea that absulartly, posilutely nothing happened during the Bush administration and it really was all Clinton’s fault.

She’s drunk?

“The Obama administration considers its dismantling a symbol of policy changes to come and a break from the No Child Left Behind era.”
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Why this is just simply a fascinating and very interesting blog post, I wonder how Amy knows what the Obama adminisration considers this as. Is it mind reading or did some from the administration express those thoughts? There is no link to a more detail story and no one is quoted.

Maybe this is the start of something like the ancient Egyptians used to do. When they had a terrible, disgraced Pharaoh, they chiselled his likeness off of all the monuments, pillars, etc. and just erased them from history.

Well it weren’t takin’ long fer Amy t’ be havin’ a relaps fr’m all tha’ rehab th’ Vatican were providin’ ‘er…kind o’ gives me hope should they ever be gettin’ their clutches in me, an’ sacred be havin’ used up th’ emergency super secret sacred rum rescue an’ evacuation kit…
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Th’ headline be nearly criminal t’day on such a silly piece o’ fluff, lass – get yer head out o’ th’ gin vat!
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Spongy, go f yerself!
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YARR!

OT 0 it be after 10 of a mornin’ on th’ other coast an’ this is all TIME be managin’ t’ come up wi’ fer new threads???
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Spongy, go f yerself!
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Arrgh!

pirate wench: Both of us being in the Vatican might be considered sacrilege. I’m game if you are. I missed having a “1000 Words” this week. I’m half tempted to use the photo above as one.

sacred:
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That is actually a very good idea. That photo positively reeks of potential…

That’s all the encouragement I needed. Thanks 53_3.

The republican version of an ideal schoolhouse is being dismantled. No teachers, no desks, no students, no books…just an empty space.

Karl Rove’s outhouse…

The Bush Presidential Library nears completion. The book will be placed on display later this week.

Dismanling the building where GWB learned the three R’s
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Readin’ ‘Ritin’ and Retribution…

The new building for housing the prisoners at Gitmo came under attack today by house republicans as being “too luxurious and having inadequate torture facilities”.

Ye fellas be ri’ full o’ p*ss an’ vinegar, t’day!
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I s’ppose I should be thankin’ Amy after all fer providin’ ye wi’ such a fine trim platform fer’ launchin’ from…at ease, me boys, at ease !
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Spongy, go F yerself!
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Arrgh!

sacred –
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Whilst I were livin’ in It’ly, I were makin’ it a point t’ visit th’ Vatican open an’ often, so’s they’d be gettin’ used t’ me presence thar a’ th’ security screenin’.
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So even tho’ it be a sacrilege, I be thinkin’ we mi’ be pullin’ it off, me hearty! Dress inconspicuous, just in case their sin’dar be workin’!
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Arrgh!
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Oh, an’ Spongy…

Lost Katrina shelter located – homeless family stunned at sudden turn in their fortunes.
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Spongy…
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Arrgh!

I was just getting ready to post a Katrina comment. You beat me to it.

George Bush Memorial Privatization Monument
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A schoolhouse/carwish facility where we can at least git some work out of ‘em afore we make ‘em stupider.

Maybe it can become John McCain’s 8th home? Judging by his desire to make every day “Charge of the Light Brigade Day”, he needs some sort of remedial schooling.

A new facility is being built to house the second in a series of republican rebranding events. The new party will be named the Republican Outreach Foundation Launches Middle American Objectives. They will go by the acronym ROFLMAO.

Hehe, I remember walking by that construction when I visited D.C. in 2007. Now I finally know what it was.

ATTENTION! If you’re easily offended, please scan by this post and read no further.
pirate wench: It moved downhill before we even got out of the house. I had three rum and cokes and a pain pill in me. I went upstairs a few minutes before we had to leave and my wife told me she wanted me to shave first. Being slightly lit, I told her to go to hell, I wasn’t doing that for anybody. She said “Your FACE you idiot!”. I shaved. I sheepishly got in the passenger side and sat in silence until we pulled into the parking lot. I signed in, got a magazine and read for a few minutes before they called me back. After I got up my wife called my name, made a circle with her left index finger and thumb and then moved her right index finger in and out of the circle. She told the other three people in the waiting room I was having a prostate exam. They were having a nice laugh as I walked down the hall. The mrs takes no prisoners. Have you ever seen Young Frankenstein? When the big moment came, I started singing “Sweet mystery of life at last I’ve found you”. My doctor didn’t even know who Mel Brooks was. I could hear them laughing in the waiting room from my examining room. Other than that, all went well. My back is another matter. I got pain patches, pain pills and a few visits with a physical therapist.

Sacred, thank ye, thank ye, thank ye!
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Ah, sweet mystery o’ life, indeed, me hearty!
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An’ I be likin’ th’ sound o’ yer missus, too! She be soundin’ like a ri’ kindred spirit!
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Arrgh!

pirate wench. The mrs is my soulmate. I used to think that stuff was BS until we got married (her 3rd, my 2nd). Every year just seems to get better. As sarcastic as I am, she’s the master. She can see BS a mile away. I don’t care what I’ve done, if I think I screwed up, I tell her right away. If she’s not telepathic, telepathy isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. I’ve seen her grab a woman by the hair and punch her until the woman dropped…for insulting ME! She doesn’t even come up to my shoulders, but she puts the fear of God in me…and I’m an atheist.

Ye be ri’ fortunate t’ve found each other!
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Sarcastic, an’ not afraid t’ be steppin’ into th’ fray – qualities t’ treasure!
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I be feelin’ th’ same fer th’ cap’n, tho’ I must be admittin’ ‘e be such an accomodatin’ an’ easygoin’ sort, it be me tha’ draws most o’ th’ insults (can ye imagine!!!).
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‘e knows bettern’ t’ get b’twixt me an’ me vengeance, tho’ – I’m not th’ sort o’ wench who be needin’ any help in tha’ area – I gets it from me own dear mum, God rest ‘er lovin’ bu’ grudge-clutchin’ soul .
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Bu’ now sacred, don’t be goin’ all maudlin’ now in yer addled state! No one ‘ere wants t’ be seein’ much o’ yer softer side, mate!
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Arrgh!

pirate wench: The mrs is the only one who brings it out in me. Just in case you think we’re all lovey dovey all the time, when we first got back together 13 years ago and I was showing her around the house I’d just bought, I showed her the master bedroom and there was a cat-o-nine tails hanging over the bed (a gift from an old girlfriend as a joke). She took one look and said “On your knees worm”. She’d been divorced from her ex (the minister) for five months. I used to be a sound sleeper. One night she shaved half of my handlebar mustache off. Reset the alarm clock for 5 minutes before I had to leave the house and I wound up going to work with half a mustache. Just her idea of a joke.

the most insulting part of that schoolhouse was the “no child left behind” message on the top of it. bush really let america down.