We missed the fire sale
-Not President Smartypants-
President Bush surrounded himself with school kids in New York yesterday. If there's one thing I've learned, it's that when Bush surrounds himself with a group for a photo op, it's generally bad news for that group. Veterans, for example.
Bush's big photo op was to support his No Child Left Behind scheme, which is soon to be up for re-authorization. Bush, who promised to be the Education President (this was before "War President" sounded cool to him), had this to say; "As yesterday's positive report card shows, childrens do learn when standards are high and results are measured."
Although the White House cleaned up the language on its website, history records his dumbassery. (Reuters)
-Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!-
For a long time, I've been a fan of Don Asmussen's Bad Reporter strip, which mixes up news stories and presents them as frontpage headlines (motto: The LIES behind the TRUTH, and the TRUTH behind those LIES that are behind that TRUTH). Take this one that combines iranian President Ahmadinejad's appearance at Columbia University and a story revealing that two stars of The Brady Bunch had a lesbian affair.
Click the image for the full strip -- which also brings in Not Gay Sen. Larry Craig, the Brady opening credits, iranian nukes, and Ahmadinejad's insistence that there aren't any gays in Iran. I'm not sure whether Asmussen's brilliant, crazy, or both, but these things are funny. (San Francisco Gate)
-Dang, I was right!-
Way back in February, I wrote a post titled, War Could Cost Over $2 Trillion -- Wouldn't it Have Been Cheaper Just to Buy Iraq? -- turns out that, yeah, it would've been. One helluva lot cheaper.
Reuters is reporting that Saddam was willing to basically sell us Iraq for the rock-bottom price on $1 billion in the months before the invasion. Hussein apparently told the US he was willing to "go into exile if he's allowed to take $1 billion and all the information he wants about weapons of mass destruction."
Congress is poised to vote on a $50 billion supplemental for the war. $1 billion sure seems like a deal now, doesn't it? (Reuters)
