"“We have lent a huge amount of money to the U.S. Of course we are concerned about the safety of our assets. To be honest, I am definitely a little worried.” "


Chinese premier Wen Jiabao 12th March 2009


""We have a financial system that is run by private shareholders, managed by private institutions, and we'd like to do our best to preserve that system."


Timothy Geithner US Secretary of the Treasury, previously President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.1/3/2009

Wednesday, August 16, 2006

Magazines from the Top Shelf

Of the many things to like about America are their wonderful magazines - Rolling Stone brings us the picture of when President Bush cut short his meeting with Prime Minister Yo Blair to meet the American Idol winners en bloc. They didn't have the scoop that CNN could call on, that the Fox program winner Taylor Hicks, “has a personal connection inside the White House: Susan Whitson, Laura Bush’s press secretary, who taught him 9th grade English at Hoover High School in Birmingham, Ala,”

In September Vanity Fair (which seems to have been given over to boosting cocaine snorting Kate Moss's career), Graydon Carter rounds of his Editorial with a provocative, novel but challenging thought (and we don't just mean the grammar).

On this fifth anniversary of 9/11 perhaps it's time to review the administration's assertion that that was the day the world changed. It really wasn't ; 9/12 was. That was the day the neocons in the White House began using this devastating attack on American soil to further their own dreams of taking over Iraq. That was the day the administration began plotting to remove a dictator over there and to create one here.


Which just makes us wonder ... what are Dubya's musical tastes ?

Stiff Little Fingers ... "Suspect Device" maybe ? Click for the lyrics here. Posted by Picasa

1 comment:

FaulknA said...

Yep, 9/11 was what started it all. Mark my words, Iran is next on the hit list. Bush doesn't have anything to lose and starting a war before we vote the Democrats into power will set the stage for some real constitutional fireworks. I'll bet he thinks that it'll prevent him from going to jail after the Democrats come into power. We're in for interesting times to say the least.

(C) Very Seriously Disorganised Criminals 2002/3/4/5/6/7/8/9 - copy anything you wish