7 posts tagged “bush”
My farewell Bush cartoon is now up. Let the shoes fly
To mark the final day of George W. Bush in the White House, I'm premiering a unique work of art on Monday, January 19.
"Legacy" is a black and silver monoprint of Bush which will be installed on a construction dumpster outside the Venable Center in Durham. When Bush leaves office the next day, the print will be stripped off and tossed in with the rest of the debris.
This piece will only exist for 24 hours (if that), so come on down to the corner of Roxboro and Pettigrew Streets -- and bring extra shoes in case you get the urge throw something at Bush's "Legacy."
JP Trostle: "Legacy", 2009
Black toner on adhesive foil, 11" x 5"
on the south end of a metal dumpster, 7' x 20'
(The construction bin is located in between the two buildings that make up the Venable Center, and just outside of the offices of The Independent Weekly. Parking is available at a a small lot off of Roxboro or a larger lot off of Pettigrew.)
Well, for Turkish shoe manufacturers that is...
Turns out sales for the brand that was thrown at Bush are going through the roof and the company has hired a hundred people to help make more:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601085&sid=auI050ptHyPg
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/14/bush-visits-iraq-for-fina_n_150832.html
Not exactly the flowers Bush was expecting to be strewn with during his
victory parade ...
If you haven't noticed yet, I believe the Onion has raised that pastime known as the 'revenge fantasy' to new and sublime heights with a quiet little series of painful briefs they'redoing on Bush.
Wow.
Well, one can dream can't one ...
http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/bushs_eyelid_accidentally
http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/bush_dragged_behind
http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/bush_passes_three_pound
My personal favorite:
http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/bush_tumbles_wildly_down
And if any of those things happen (oh please! oh please), I'll come back to political blogging.
Now, back to your "regularly scheduled" pop culture missives ...
I guess Bush doesn't feel he's done enough damage to the country in 7+ years -- he will now apparently try and destroy what's left of it in the remaining 75 days of his administration:
Bush’s aides have been scrambling to change rules and regulations on the environment, civil liberties and abortion rights, among others — few for the good. Most presidents put on a last-minute policy stamp, but in Mr. Bush’s case it is more like a wrecking ball
The New York Times article goes on:
Mr. Bush, or more to the point, Vice President Dick Cheney, came to office determined to dismantle Bill Clinton’s environmental legacy, undo decades of environmental law and keep their friends in industry happy. ...
The administration has taken other disturbing steps in recent weeks. In late September, the I.R.S. restored tax breaks for banks that take big losses on bad loans inherited through acquisitions. Now we learn that JPMorgan Chase and others are planning to use their bailout funds for mergers and acquisitions, transactions that will be greatly enhanced by the new tax subsidy.
In other words, take our tax-funded bailout, use it to buy up other banks with bad debt, and then dump the loss on you and me while keeping the assets -- all without having to 'inject liquidity' back into the market as the bailout was intended. Weeeeee
If you haven't voted yet, this will put the election tomorrow in perspective.
Just like most high school classes, we had a foreign exchange student our senior year. Ours was a smart, fun girl from Belgium named Hilde (she was also my prom date, but that's another story). Around the time of the last presidential election -- and one of our high school reunions -- she got back in contact with a number of classmates, and she and I still keep in touch.
She wrote the following to me over the weekend about how important the rest of the world feels about this presidential race:
On the elections -- I think lots of people here will stay awake all night to watch the news. Just bought two of our main newspapers this weekend ... completely dedicated to the U.S. (You even get a free donut with one of them...)
One of our friends lives in Boston and works as a correspondent for one of the papers. He wrote, I think, a very good analysis: Europe has always seen the States as 'the good guy'. You were, indeed, the country that freed us from Nazism some 60 years ago. We've always expected a lot of you. But right now you are letting us down. You wage wars no one understands. The crisis in your economy dragged us with you (yes, it DID all start "over there!"). And so on.
It's like having a real smart kid and being real proud of it as parents, to find out he's on drugs and a secret alcoholic and once in a while bashing other kids around. Basically, we feel like you've all let us down. We are very disappointed in you.
The thing is, we still like America over here. Most of our friends have traveled your beautiful country and were amazed. The way those national parks are handled -- amazing. Your nature -- amazing. Your drive to always stand up again and go on -- amazing. And we still watch American movies, listen to American music, play American games...
My son is completely crazy about the U.S. We wanted him to go somewhere 'exotic' for a year, but I guess he'll choose the States nevertheless. Even maybe Lubbock, Texas.... The most conservative, boring place in the world, but SO appealing to him. It's "the American way" to him and even our younger generation that knows nothing of the war is still in awe... ...
Even though our country is going through one hell of an economical and financial crisis, the U.S. elections are still very high on the list... And I'm sure Belgium is not the only European country where that is so. We have groups "Europeans for Obama," some people even have posters...
I'm just telling you -- this election is important to us! Please don't let us down.
I don't know about you, but I'm sick and tired of having to apologize for the criminals currently 'in charge' of our country, and electing Obama will go a long way in repairing our image on the rest of the planet. It would certainly convince a lot of people around the world that we are not, in fact, bat-shit stupid and deserving of the contempt that has been our lot since 2004.
