"“We have lent a huge amount of money to the U.S. Of course we are concerned about the safety of our assets. To be honest, I am definitely a little worried.” "


Chinese premier Wen Jiabao 12th March 2009


""We have a financial system that is run by private shareholders, managed by private institutions, and we'd like to do our best to preserve that system."


Timothy Geithner US Secretary of the Treasury, previously President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.1/3/2009

Thursday, August 04, 2005

Dubya's thoughts still evolving


Dubya is having a well earned rest at his ranch in Crawford – clearing more bush no doubt – AP tells us he took time off to shoot the breeze with some not very inquisitive journo’s from the local Bush Boosting frat house - San Antonio Express-News, the Houston Chronicle, The Dallas Morning News, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and The Austin American-Statesman.

Asked about “intelligent design”, his first response was that it was something to do with making cup holders in the ’06 GM SUV’s so they took a whole 32 oz. Cola cup, but finally grasped it was to do with teaching evolution in public schools.. “I think that part of education is to expose people to different schools of thought,” Bush (educated at BOTH Yale and Harvard) said. “You’re asking me whether or not people ought to be exposed to different ideas, the answer is ...er...yes.”

Christian conservatives — a substantial part of Bush’s voting base — have been pushing for the teaching in public schools of “intelligent design” – a wing-nut philosophy that believes life on earth is too complex to have developed through evolution, implying that a higher power must have had a hand in creation – and no doubt in creating a totally bogus paleontological record around the world.

Bush also refused to discuss the Plame leak but supported Texas Turd Blossom Rove, “Karl’s got my complete confidence. He’s a valuable member of my team,”

He claimed that Roe v Wade didn’t crop up in talks he had with his Supreme Court nominee John Roberts - “I just made sure he was full square behind that Spic, Alberto at the Attorney General’s office on Torture and that was fine.”

2 comments:

Stef said...

Personally I find this entire subject quite tricky given that I'm not a practicing Christian or neocon, hold a BSc and Msc in geological sciences but don't actually, erm, believe that evolution works...

Both sides of the evolution v. design debate are pretty dogmatic and inflexible, each being thought Nazis in their own uniquely lovable way.

What pisses me off most is the politicisation of what should be an apolitical issue. Why should belief in the possibility of design be associated with right wing politics?

Come to think of it, why should Christianity be associated with right wing politics? Jesus was clearly left of centre and I doubt if he would vote Republican or New Labour if he decided to manifest himself right now.

Bush and Blair's Christianity is a much of a lie as any of the other junk they've come out with

Anonymous said...

pmp - "and no doubt in creating a totally bogus paleontological record around the world." is really funny.

apparently, the Flying Dead Guy was trying to hide his tracks, and convince us that he didnt really exist - but he made us so frankensteinianly clever that we eventually found him out...

(C) Very Seriously Disorganised Criminals 2002/3/4/5/6/7/8/9 - copy anything you wish