this moran would if he could would wish for a brain stem!kevin allmighty

He traded Sammy Sosa too…

Why does he hate baseball so much?

Does this guy just scream “big L on the forehead”? I was rewatching the movie set in the depression era, They shoot horses, don’t they? and Gig Young’s character says to Jane Fonda’s character: “I may not be able to spot a winner, but I sure can spot a loser.” I think the same thing applies here.

His face makes me sick. It always did.

The only lesson he took from this is that it is much better when others make their arguments to you, then go down in flames. Being the decider is kick ass!

WHO is this History, and what has he got on him?

Also note the certainty. “History will prove me right”. No humility whatsoever. Just plain, pig headed, I’m right, they are wrong, watch and see assholes!

Bush is the perfect Wrongway Righter; A loser to the Nth degree.

If I were fighting a war I’d want Bush leading the other guys!

Hell…no wonder America lost two wars at the same time! Wow.

I blame the citizens.

Little known fact during Dumbya’s years as baseball owner: He sent the Rangers into Montreal because he suspected the Canadian’s were hiding WMD in their dugout.

Sammy Sosa. . . ‘nuf said.

LibertyLover @ 2:

He traded Sammy Sosa too…

leslie @ 11:

Sammy Sosa. . . ‘nuf said.

sorry LL,
I commented before reading the comments.

To be doomed, or not to be doomed: That is the question… after watching this video.

http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/4000

Truely scary and sickening video full of wrong and misguided people.

I opposed the wild card and expansion of divisions as well. I am not a fan of Bush and did not know he voted on that decision. I liked baseball better when there were two division winners from the East and West who played for the Pennant in each league. Baseball as we have seen it has been watered down with talent, team expansion to the extent that having four quality starting pitchers is so 1970s now.

Sportswriter Dave Zirin talks a lot about this in his writings as well. There are more reasons for loads of homeruns in baseball besides the steroids issue with the lack of good pitching being one of those reasons not to mention the new stadiums being built with closer lines to hit homers in.

The unfettered expansion of teams in sports kind of reminds me of unregulated capitalism. Pro Sports have declined in the age of expansion and new sports stadiums being built on the taxpayers dollars as in the case of the Texas Rangers while Bush was part owner.

Baseball was better when the two best teams from the National and American Leagues played one another for the World Series. The wild card may be good for public relations, TV, corporate sponsors, and revenue, but it has cheapened the game of baseball for all-time!

I still think he looks like Alfred E. Newman ..the guy from the cover of Mad Magazine.

show some titty george!

Is there anything this moron has been successful at in his life besides coke and alcohol?

I’ve never taken to the wild-card either, and confess in the late-90s I sorta respected Dubya for his stance.

While I’ve never been a Bud Selig supporter, I’d rather live with Selig as president and Dubya as baseball commish.

EMPY @ 8:

Also note the certainty. “History will prove me right”. No humility whatsoever. Just plain, pig headed, I’m right, they are wrong, watch and see assholes!

I met a traveler from an antique land
Who said: “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert… Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal these words appear:
My name is Ozymandius, King of Kings,
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

If I had some writing talent I’d update the poem for Bush. Something to repeat any time uses the “history will prove me right” self delusion.

Texas Rangers owner George W. Bush? He only had a $600,000 stake with borrowed money and was given a 10% stake as a bonus for being George Bush Jr. right when daddy became President. He was such an owner he was not allowed to make any material actions without the express consent of real owner/partner Rusty Rose.

To paraphrase Paul Simon….GWB…”still dimwitted after all these years”.

The Competent Neocons…

Iraq War - check
Multigenerational War on Terror
3800+ US Iraq War fatalities, 1000+ Afghanistan War, 1.5 million Innocent Iraqi deaths
Escaping justice for numerous domestic and International War crimes - check
Escaping impeachment - check
Enriched war machine - check
gutted Habeas Corpus - Check
rationalized torture - check
“Misplaced” Trillions (Sept 10th, 2001) and later Billions of dollars in Iraq - check
“Misplaced” weapons cache in Iraq - enabling “insurgency” to be well armed - check
Reestablished record breaking opium production in Afghanistan - check
Implemented Extraordinary Rendition and secret torture camps - check
Manipulated - Stole 2000 and 2004 elections - check
Lied about Iraqi WMD’s - check
Lied about Jessica Lynch-Pat Tillman - check
Working on reigniting Russian-American Cold War (Russian bomber flights, etc) - check
Gutted independent officer corps - check
Christianization of the military - check
Massive expenditures for Star Wars, exotic non-lethal electromagetic Weapons, Internet cybercorps - check
Intimidation (or cooperation) of Media - check
Permanent military bases in Iraq - check
Passed Patriot Act after convenient Anthrax and Manchurian Sniper attacks - check
Passed Military Commissions Act - check
Massive debt to break government (and public) - check
Electronic surveillance - check
warrantless wiretaps and internet - check
First-rate mercenary force enriched and empowered - check
Blinding of America to Iranian nuclear program - check
Billions budgeted for favorable media coverage - Check
Billions budgeted to silence the shill-for-hire 501c3 Churches
Decimated New Orleans post-Katrina (dry-run for martial law) - check
Coopted Justice Department for 2008 election-rigging - check
Stacked Supreme Court with Neocons with a cake-walk confirmation - check
Turned over regulatory agencies to the wolves of industry (ex. Mining, Forestry) - check
Freed Scooter Libby with no political cost - check
Bankruptcy “reform” - check
No Child Left Behind and other Orwellian named govt initiatives- check
Garnered cooperation of Democrats to enable agenda - check
Unending blank checks from Congress - check
Convenient benefiting from a “New Pearl Harbor” - check
Pulled a sham Investigation on 9-11 over on the public for a paltry $15 million - check

Conning the American public that they are incompetent - mucho grande check

What more do you want to qualify them as a success? Most people think they are incompetent because they are operating according to a different game-plan, or paradigm, than the normal person. Normal people wouldn’t operate at this level of corruption and genuine evil. These people are expert Machiavellian psychopaths (with a strong dose of Straussian Noble Lie telling) and to attempt to associate normal behaviors to them is an exercise in futility. By focusing on the Mouthpiece-in-Chief for the real elite power-structure that makes policy for this defacto enslaved nation - (do you really think you’re Free as the Founders fought, bled, and died for?) you are diverted from noticing - and moving against - the men behind the curtain.

History will point to him when the worst criminal president is named. People in the future will damn him and all the enablers, including those who voted for him. And he may end up before an international tribunal for all his crimes.

Prabhata @ 23:

History will point to him when the worst criminal president is named. People in the future will damn him and all the enablers, including those who voted for him. And he may end up before an international tribunal for all his crimes.

Now THAT is something Pelosi can pray for!!!!!!!

Does anyone remember Female Trouble starring the divine Divine? Remember when Dawn Davenport tells her daughter Taffy that she was “most definitely retarded and that the doctor even said so.” I always play that scene out in my head with the marieantoinette-babs-hag and little george whenever I read another priceless gem from lil’ george’s black hole. I know “retarded” is not PC, but if the foo sh*ts you must wear it.

pickles @ 25:

Does anyone remember Female Trouble starring the divine Divine? Remember when Dawn Davenport tells her daughter Taffy that she was “most definitely retarded and that the doctor even said so.” I always play that scene out in my head with the marieantoinette-babs-hag and little george whenever I read another priceless gem from lil’ george’s black hole. I know “retarded” is not PC, but if the foo sh*ts you must wear it.

Hahahaha……..now be nice…George isn’t retarded…he’s “special”

barbara bush at birth on the street, dropped gw bush right on his head and then she stepped on the birthcord. gw started as a moron and has lived in a downward spiral always. this is one time an abortion would have been best for humanity.

CensoredFan @ 17:

Is there anything this moron has been successful at in his life besides coke and alcohol?

More Shrub: “Rehab is for quitters.”

Bob-in-Northern-Thailand @ 15:

I still think he looks like Alfred E. Newman ..the guy from the cover of Mad Magazine.

stop insulting Alfred E. Newman

Yep, still further proof that GWB is intellectually challenged. He hasn’t been able to really manage during his whole career, but there are still people who think he is smart. His demeanor is nothing more than a typical school bully, whom, by the way, usually had dumb hanger-ons also.

19 Thingfish….

right on.

Boosh Confirms: Iran Attack Imminent!

Bush says possible US Iran attack ‘empty propaganda’
John Byrne and David Edwards
Published: Sunday October 7, 2007

In an interview with the Arab language broadcasting network al-Arabiya Friday, U.S. President George Bush called reports of a planned attack on Iran “empty propaganda” and “baseless gossip.”

The al-Arabiya questioned asks Bush about reports in the Arabic press which have alleged the United States has detailed plans to strike military sites in Iran.

“There are some leaking to the press and particularly the Arabic press,” the questioner asks. “Is it true that you’ve issued orders Mr President to your senior generals in the American military to prepare for a major and precise strike that could happen in the middle of January or February.”

“Empty propaganda,” Bush replied. “Ah, evidently there is a lot of gossip in parts of the country… the world, that’s trying to scare people about me personally, my country, and what we stand for. That kind of gossip is just what it is. It’s gossip. It’s, uh, baseless gossip.”

well. john must be feeling better tonite, as the evil empire staves off elimination and there were no signs of gnats anywhere in yankee stadium

here is reason number 152 why i hate selig

bush wanted to be baseball commish….selig got the votes instead

would bush have totally effed up baseball? probably…he was wrong about the wc

but no one wouldve died

I’ve hated realignment myself. I gotta agree with Georgie on that one. Although, “History will prove me right.”??? This guy has a serious Napoleon Complex. Get him to a shrink right away!!

On baseball - The strike in the 80’s, Giamatti’s death and the owners playing with the commissioner’s seat by leaving it vacant for too long, then installing Selig as Temp. Commish while doubling as a voting owner of the Brewers was a terrible, terrible time for pro-baseball and pro-sports. That Selig is still there makes the sport a non-entity. The MLB is rotting and has been for a long time. Each decision the owners and commissioners office makes steers it more along this path.

Once, a sport worth watching - now it is ignored with growing expressions of “Who really cares?”

CensoredFan @ 17:

Is there anything this moron has been successful at in his life besides coke and alcohol?

No, not one thing, which Molly Ivans tried to tell all Americans in 2000. But, of course, Republicans don’t read except for the Left Behind series.

The really sad thing is, he did all this crap in TX and then people still voted for him for prez.

kaT @ 35:

CensoredFan @ 17:

Is there anything this moron has been successful at in his life besides coke and alcohol?

No, not one thing, which Molly Ivans tried to tell all Americans in 2000. But, of course, Republicans don’t read except for the Left Behind series.

The really sad thing is, he did all this crap in TX and then people still voted for him for prez.

Twice. Some people must really be hanging their heads in shame. Or drooling alot. Or both.

Thing Fish @ 19:

EMPY @ 8:

Also note the certainty. “History will prove me right”. No humility whatsoever. Just plain, pig headed, I’m right, they are wrong, watch and see assholes!

I met a traveler from an antique land
Who said: “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert… Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal these words appear:
My name is Ozymandius, King of Kings,
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

If I had some writing talent I’d update the poem for Bush. Something to repeat any time uses the “history will prove me right” self delusion.

I am a Shelley fan too Thingfish. A wonderful message for megalomaniacs everywhere.With regard to baseball I think George’s opinion on the matter is entirely consistent with his attitude as expressed by the author of his recent biography (whose name , for the moment, escapes me). Apparently he has always preferred games and politics where power can be used to shift the rules in his favour. Win at all cost, fair play be damned. The new rules make it much harder, if not impossible, to buy a World Series. I am sure he would be against that on general principles.

kaT @ 35:

CensoredFan @ 17:

Is there anything this moron has been successful at in his life besides coke and alcohol?

No, not one thing, which Molly Ivans tried to tell all Americans in 2000. But, of course, Republicans don’t read except for the Left Behind series.

The really sad thing is, he did all this crap in TX and then people still voted for him for prez.

That’s not sad–that’s Texass.

Mr. XXXX @ 14:

I opposed the wild card and expansion of divisions as well. I am not a fan of Bush and did not know he voted on that decision. I liked baseball better when there were two division winners from the East and West who played for the Pennant in each league. Baseball as we have seen it has been watered down with talent, team expansion to the extent that having four quality starting pitchers is so 1970s now.

Sportswriter Dave Zirin talks a lot about this in his writings as well. There are more reasons for loads of homeruns in baseball besides the steroids issue with the lack of good pitching being one of those reasons not to mention the new stadiums being built with closer lines to hit homers in.

The unfettered expansion of teams in sports kind of reminds me of unregulated capitalism. Pro Sports have declined in the age of expansion and new sports stadiums being built on the taxpayers dollars as in the case of the Texas Rangers while Bush was part owner.

Baseball was better when the two best teams from the National and American Leagues played one another for the World Series. The wild card may be good for public relations, TV, corporate sponsors, and revenue, but it has cheapened the game of baseball for all-time!

baseball is a biz, and as a biz, its main goal is to make money

before the wc was instituted most teams were out of the running come late august, early sept.

that meant meaningless baseball for a month for most teams…which led to decreased revenue

with the wc…most teams stay in contention up to a week, sometimes up to the last day (this year, there was the possibility of a 4 team tie for the wc)

this has led to increased revenue and increased interest in the game.

you may cry about the watered down talent, but that has led to more parity among the clubs, so a club like the rox can spend 55mil and compete with a team like the yanks, who i believe are now at the 1 billion dollar mark in spending.

the fact is, the wc has been good for the game.

oh, and with the increased interest in the mlb, so too has there been an increase in interest and revenue for minor league clubs

baseball is still america’s number one pasttime

any doubt at all that bush would try to eff that up too?

Long time lurker, first time commentor. I’ve been sitting on this for five years, but it’s still a worthwhile link. The Beeb didn’t catapult the propaganda too far, but at least someone over there made this a story.

You’ll notice that this never, ever came up in the U.S., just sayin’.

basea ball been very good to dat asshola!

Indeed, Good thing is that the idiot left baseball for politics or he might have fucked up baseball completely.

Anyway, the start of the decline of the American Empire historically will be traced one day to the institution of the DH in the American League in 1973.

Please read “A Line in the Sand” at ;

http://willyloman.wordpress.com/

(shameless plug, I know, but I have no self respect. I am immune.)

Had I been an owner back then, that vote would have been 26-2. I am an arch reactionary where monkeying around with baseball is concerned. For example, it took 4 or 5 exciting playoff series for me to approve of the respective leagues having split into conferences in ‘69. It didn’t take me nearly as long to acknowledge the 3 conference & wildcard arrangement was a good idea, though. I may have even approved by season’s end, I can’t recall. I do know that if it had been the law of the land a year or two before, the Giants would have made the playoffs. Instead, after winning 103 games, they went home because the Braves won 104 (”Damn you, Fred McGriff”).

My contempt for the DH remains unadulterated. If MLB ever introduces cameras into the game, I’ll probably write it off for good.

God — was Bush’s entire sum of life experience circa 1993 MANAGING A BASEBALL TEAM? REALLY? Jesus. Just seven years later this lightweight dimwit was on the verge of assuming the Presidency!!! I cannot believe more people didn’t think this one through before pulling that lever in 2000!

jane @ 31:

19 Thingfish….

right on.

Thanks. But just once I’d like to hear someone point this out to our fearless leader whenever he makes that idiotic “history will prove me right”.

Peter G. @ 37:

I am a Shelley fan too Thingfish. A wonderful message for megalomaniacs everywhere.

More of a history buff myself. Always hurts my brain when some idiot rants like that. The “Great Man” theory behind history I view as crap.

Baseball; I got nothing. Except that the Phillies did what they do best. Make it to the playoffs and then lose. At least this time it was quick.