I shouldn’t really joke about this one. peak oil actually is a real concern, but this beautifully cynical essay on Y2K, peak oil and a horrible sense of deja vu did leave me chuckling (in a cynical, we’re-all-going-to-die kind of way).
Very nice music video of a song sung by one George W. Bush. You need the sound on, and you need to be listening…
After a while of keeping offmessage relatively unpolitical I find the impending US election feeding my ire as only an election can. For those who can vote in this election and have decided to vote Bush this will make no difference - for everyone else its contents are self evident. Depressing reading.
New research shows that 64% of people called George Bush will be voting for Kerry, while only 45% of people called John Kerry will…
Found at Waxy.org.
Have your say in the US election (even if you’re not American) at globalvote2004 (you need to give them a valid email address to vote)…
Found at Daily Reasons to Dispatch Bush… Reason 127:
One-third of the tax cuts created by President Bush in the last three years have gone to the richest 1 percent of Americans, who earned an average of $1.2 million annually, according to a report by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. That 1 percent received an average tax cut of $78,460; those in the middle 20 percent got only $1,090 on average. The average after-tax income for the top 1 percent climbed 10.1 percent; that of those in the middle 20 percent climbed 2.3 percent�and their share of the overall tax burden went from 18.5 percent to 19.5 percent. The after-tax income of the bottom fifth rose only 1.6 percent. Independent analysts have argued in the past that Bush’s tax cuts favored the wealthy, but the CBO, run by the former chief of Bush’s own Council of Economic Advisers, is considered authoritative.
For this election’s October surprise?
…but it’s nice to hear Colin Powell say it… Apparently in phone conversations with Jack Straw (his son sells draw) he referred to Vice-President Dick Cheney, Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and his deputy, Paul Wolfowitz as “fucking crazies“. Apparently the phrase will appear on the cover of James Naughtie’s new book. Mint!
You get the feeling that this sort of thing is happening all the more frequently…