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The Bush Debacle. It is finally over.

The Derelict — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 15:09:21 +0000

As much fun as it has been, I am glad to say it is finally over. Future Presidents may not be perfect, but at least they won’t be you.

Now that is classy!

The Derelict — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:27:02 +0000

I was just over on fox.com, which I consider more entertainment than news. Anyway I saw this article where some patriarch of a huge family in the West Bank was quite impressed with the reporter who threw his shoes at President Bush. So impressed in fact that he has offered one his daughters to him as a bride with a dowry of $30,000.

The daughter 20 had this to say:

“This is something that would honor me. I would like to live in Iraq, especially if I were attached to this hero.”

Check out the article on: Reuters, Fox

I’m The Derelict, you stay classy West Bank!

US Auto Makers please take note

The Derelict — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:36:15 +0000

How come every other car company in the world seems to be able to re-tool for electric and hybrid vehicles except for the US ones? I didn’t even know they had an electric Mini Cooper in the works, but there it is, ready to sell right now in 2008. The Chevy Volt will be lucky to see the light of day in 2010, if it ever does at all. Talk about too little too late.

The way things are looking we may not have too many US automakers by then anyway, once our bailout for them fails to change anything. You can’t plug up a hole in a glass by pouring more water in it, so how can you fix companies that are hemorrhaging money by throwing more money at them?

Unless they change their ‘business as usual’ nothing will change…

Cool Mini Cooper though…

I think The Onion has the right idea!

The Derelict — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 18:08:54 +0000

Well there you go, the election is finally over! I don’t know about you guys, but I couldn’t take another minute of political talking heads or hateful commercials. The Onion has felt our pain, and has released this video to give us all a laugh in this hyper-serious time. Take a look!

Voting Machines Elect One Of Their Own As President

The Great Schlep

The Derelict — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 20:05:19 +0000

Yeah that’s right, blame the jews.
Oh and my new favorite phrase: Douche Nozzle

Wait a minute, what did he say?

The Derelict — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 22:01:43 +0000

“Anybody toting guns and stripping moose don’t care too much about what they do with Jews and blacks.”

Yeah just checking. This fucker is crazy. I can assure you that even people who are not gun toting moose strippers don’t care what they do with Jews and blacks. That is kind of how it has always been. Incidentally, I am Jewish and I think this guy is a fucking nutbar. What’s more is he used to be a federal judge, who was convicted of corruption and accepting bribes in 1989. He was of course removed from the bench and then pardoned by Clinton. The best part is that is we elected him to congress in 1992.

Nice one people.

A Jewish man warns a black man of the evils of moose strippers like Palin

I can’t make this stuff up. Check out this article on Fox.com

The definition of grandstanding…

The Derelict — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:06:25 +0000

Just a thought, but I think that the future president of the United States should be able to multitask. However John McCain has dropped everything to run back to Washington to save the day! But really all this is, is some good old fashioned grandstanding. It all can be traced back to 2005 with Hurricane Katrina. The perception is that the government really dropped the ball and was unresponsive for days and weeks after the disaster. You can see the difference in their handling of disasters when they considered canceling the RNC this year because of hurricane whatever it was called.

Apparently we are in a ‘financial crisis’ and no one wants to be the the “too little too late” candidate. So now we get a bunch of “I’m here and making a difference, see me? I am right here! HERE!, and yes I care about the little people.”

So John McCain is off to Washington to fix the economy make Obama look inept! He wants to postpone all debates and campaigning for now. Obviously he doesn’t want sound bites from that overshadowing the sound bites of him fixing our economy.

I don’t see how one has to do with the other though. He should still be able to do his ‘day job’ with plenty of time left over to have a debate in the evening. Honestly I don’t think McCain cares about the financial crisis. I think he cares about looking like he cares…more than Obama.

I was just reading this article on CNN that states that Obama contacted McCain before his ‘drop everything’ announcement, wanting to put out a bi-partisan statement defining what needs to be done to resolve the crisis. McCain saw this as an opportunity to look like the proactive hero, and he took it. Too bad for him that most people can see right through it.

Anyway, I think David Letterman sums it up really nicely. The economy is about to explode!

Here we go again.

The Derelict — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 19:00:02 +0000

John McCain is telling us what his true feelings are on stem cell research.

We could be looking at 4-8 more years of set backs in embryonic stem cell research…

Under President Bush’s policy, SCNT is denied federal funding, but still legal. McCain would make it “a federal crime for researchers to use cells or fetal tissue from an embryo created for research purposes.”

Republican presidential nominee John McCain would criminalize a promising branch of stem cell research, according to a statement issued by the candidate’s campaign. Though such legislation would probably not survive Congress, he might extend President Bush’s much-criticized limitation of embryonic stem cell research.

“He cannot be trusted to be a supporter of embryonic stem cell research,” said University of Pennsylvania bioethicist Art Caplan. “He is moving toward a straight pro-life stance and this sort of answer can only be read as such.”