Bush & Company

Those willing to help in the effort to save wildlife caught in the BP Gulf Coast oil spill may mail any of the following items to the coast:

Rubber gloves (as for dishwashing, any size)
Surgical or examination gloves (any size) (local vets may be willing to donate)
Paper towels
Towels (any size)
Rags
Soft brushes (as for babies' hair)

Send these items to the following:
Patti Hall, Director
Alabama Gulf Coast Zoo
1204 Gulf Shores Parkway
Gulf Shores, AL
36542

Hand-held GPS Units
Cheap digital cameras

Send these items to the following:
Casi Callaway, Director
Mobile Baykeeper
300 Dauphin Street
Suite 200
Mobile, AL
36602

These supplies are sorely needed and will make a difference.
Your donation could save a wildlife victim of the spill.

Those willing to help in the effort to save wildlife caught in the BP Gulf Coast oil spill may mail any of the following items to the coast:

Rubber gloves (as for dishwashing, any size)
Surgical or examination gloves (any size) (local vets may be willing to donate)
Paper towels
Towels (any size)
Rags
Soft brushes (as for babies' hair)

Send these items to the following:
Patti Hall, Director
Alabama Gulf Coast Zoo
1204 Gulf Shores Parkway
Gulf Shores, AL
36542

Hand-held GPS Units
Cheap digital cameras

Send these items to the following:
Casi Callaway, Director
Mobile Baykeeper
300 Dauphin Street
Suite 200
Mobile, AL
36602

These supplies are sorely needed and will make a difference.
Your donation could save a wildlife victim of the spill.

It's finally happened. Two events have struck stunning and seemingly insoluble blows to our already weakened democracy, January 19 and 21, 2010, respectively: the special election in Massachusetts to fill the Senate seat vacated by fighting liberal Ted Kennedy won by ultra-conservative Scott Brown and the 5 to 4 Supreme Court decision to uncap the limit on campaign contributions.

The former prevents Democrats in the House from sending a modified health care reform bill to the Senate, thus obliging them to pass the diluted but better-than-nothing Senate bill for the president to sign into law, one that can be improved upon later.

The latter will negatively affect every current and future issue---including global warming, wildlife, the national parks, outsourcing and health care reform---to be voted on by lawmakers, allowing corporations, including foreign companies abroad, to use their endless funds to lure and intimidate candidates and manipulate elections.

Not above the politicall fray, as the nation's highest court is expected to be, while erroneously applying the First Amendment, the five nonimpartial conservative justices are no better than bullies and thugs, daring any individual or group to cross them, expressly predetermining the consequences of their vote, thereby casting to the errant winds common sense and justice for the many. In the president's words, the decision is "a major victory for big oil, Wall Street banks, health insurance companies and the other powerful interests that marshal their power every day in Washington. . ."

There are possible solutions, if the uncorrupted and truly civic-minded members of the legislative branch have the brain power, patience and fortitude to set them in motion.

(We can't expect the likes of senators Joe Lieberman and Evan Bayh who, with their spouses Hadassah and Susan, have mightily profited from their strong pharma/insurance industry affiliations or former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, also with ties to the private health insurance business and whose wife Linda is a high-powered Washington corporate lobbyist, to participate in any rectifying process.) What has finally been achieved by aggravated debate and negotiation must be enacted so that health care reform can begin. The president's comments on this subject in his January 27 State of the Union address suggest an unshakable determination similar to that of past presidents FDR and LBJ, whose Social Security and Medicare acts, feared by many as socialist, are of such benefit to Americans today.

Democrats Sen.. Chuck Schumer of New York and Rep. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, anticipating the Court's 5 to 4 vote, have been working out possible ways to neutralize it: a ban on corporate political ads; stricter rules on campaigns and outside groups working together; and shareholder approval of political spending. Democrat Rep. Alan Grayson of Florida is urging Americans to sign his petition, saveourdemocracy.org.

Without serious redress of these unfortunate circumstances, our United States of America, already halfway there, will surely be transformed into the Corporate States of America.

On Tuesday, October 27, 2009, George W. Bush joined other famous speakers at a "Get Motivated" seminar in Fort Worth, Texas. He's to repeat his performance December 2.

Although the event was said in advance by its organizers to deliver "more inspirational firepower than a stick of dynamite," one wonders how Dick Cheney's tool, more concerned with recreation and personal fitness than with governance, could galvanize others to action. His numerous vacation days at the Bush family compound in Kennebunkport, Maine, Camp David, his Prairie Chapel Ranch in Crawford, Texas and elsewhere, as well as his hours-long morning exercise ritual in the White House gym, are well documented.

Talk about a whopping goof,
Unless it actually was a spoof,
Fitness freak, vacationing
Former president George two
Was a speaker in October
At that motivational thing.

For some really good advice,
Who knows why they didn't pick
Super-motivated Dick,
Powerful past president of vice?

Dick Cheney and Scooter Libby were award recipients, Wednesday, October 21, 2009, at a Bush administration reunion at the neoconservative Center for Security Policy dinner ---Libby, for the "Service Before Self" award (for being a fall guy) and Cheney, for the "Keeper of the Flame" (for enhancing American security).

Scooter and Dick, felonious dudes,
By all rights should be royally screwed,
Justifiable sitting ducks;
Instead of that, each in his tux,
Is glorified for telling lies
And gets a highfalutin prize.

Though infamous malfeasants these,
Guests warmly toast those honorees.